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By employing your spare time to form elubs and sending us oiders, you can oh'aiu the most liberal commimdon, either in Cash or Merchandise) and all goods sent by us will h.- as represented, and we guarantee satiidactlon to every one dealing withourbou.e. A the Holidays are approaching we are making scral arrangements to supply crery one who read our advertisement, with the most handsome and useful Holiday presents that can be thought of or . wished for, and to enable them Jo procure them cheaply and exeditioudy, we will give to any one who will become our Agent, On Hundred Free TieieU, enumerating some of the many different articles from which you make your te lection of Holiday presents. For returning full clubs from these Free Tickets, accompanied by the cash, we will give the same extra premiumns that we now give, the same as if you bad paid 10 cents for each one of your ticket. 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SICK-HEADACHE, BR0S0H1TI8, ASTHMA, COLDS & COUGH, , NEURALGIA, GENERAL DEBILITY Diseases of Kidneys, Gravel, &c., and every Disease requiring a general Tonic impression J8T" For Diseases peculiar to Females it almost a specific MT In convalescence from Typhoid and other low foruis ol Fever it is too very best Tonic that can be used. The. Compound Gentian Bitters meet with universal favor, add have received the strong est testimonials ever given 10 any roeuiciue, few of which we append below: This is to certify that I have used Dr. God din's Compound Gentian Bitters and cheerful ly recommend it a t be very best Bitters that can bo used for ordinary debility, sick stomaci Ac. J. M. HULT, M. V. Lipscomb, 0-ange co, N. C, May 15, '69 I hereby certify tlat I have been using Dr. Goddiu's "Comuouml Gentiau Sitters," for Coi.gh, General Dvhility. Ac., and I am fully satisfied that tbev are-the bet Bitters of which f have any know leer, and -the best Tonwot fcred to i ue Aineric:.ii people. BOB'T. Y. SLATER. Henrico county. Va-. June 25, 18C9. Da. Gonimr: Drar Sir: I have been suffer ing for twenty yea with an affection of the kjdneys, prostrate g and and stricture of the urethra : bave been under the treatment of the best physicians in the country, one of whom is now a professor ic a medical college. All failed to relieve me. I finally tried youi Com pound Gentian Bitter : the effect was like i charm one bottle g.ie me complete relief. I behove it to be the best medicine I nave ever used. Very resjtectfully, J AS A. FAULCON, Litlle'on, N. C, Jan. 7th, 1869. Prepared only by Dr. Goddin. JAMES T. WIGGINS, Pronrielarv Wholesale Aaent. NORFOLK, VA VW For sale by Dr. G. B. Poulson, Salis bury, N. C. ' 38 If connissioNS. Agents will bo paid ten per cent, in Cash or Merchandise, wheu they tilt up tin ir entire club, for which below we give a partial List of Commissions: For an order of (30, from a club of Thirty, we will pay the Agent, as commission, 28 yds. Brown or Blenched Sheeting, Good Dress Pattern, Wool Square Shawl, French Cassimere Pants and Vest Pattern, Kine large White Counterpane, etCr- etc., or $1 00 in enah. Tor an order of 980, from a club of Fifty, we will pay the Agent, as OuHfuristUna, 45 yds. sheeting, one pair of heavy wool blnn kets, poplin dies. putteru, handsome wool square shawl silver-case watch, etc.t etc., or 5,00 lU TOSB. For ao order of 9X00. from a elub of One Hundred, we will pay tb,u agent, as com mission, 10U yds. of good yard-wide Sheeting, Coin-Silver limiting Case Watch, Rich Lour Wool Shawl, Suit of all Wool French Cusk mere, etc.tc, or $10 in cash. We do not employ my travelling agents, and customers should not pay mom y to persons purporting to be our agents, unlc's permmaU'j aequainted. Send Affsney always by Register ed Letters. For further particular sehd fur Catalogues, FATA ICR R CO., OS d 100 Sumner St., fioshn, Ala. Oct. 15, I Miff. - 41-Hr llVfrCARRAWAY and Scaler in roecries PROVISIONS. HARDWARE, Glass and Crockery Wsre, Wall Piper, Win dow Milium, kt., 4e. I KttM PT attention given to orders, and to the sale of Cotton. Grain. Xsval Stores, Tobac co,' Dried Fruit, Ac , on Commission. COURT HOUSE BUILDING. aprilS U ly KEWJtBKK, N. 0. Ijc ID N I'l 111 lSIIIK i -w i m Editor ami ntTB or niArHirr Owa Ybam, payable 8tx Montus, 5 Conies to "uc add 10 Copie to one saMi Hale JANUARY 7, 1870. ctl) State icV-- pit NO. 1 fULT nr fa Jk, jst WVfriator. r.i State of Worth Carolina, UUNTGOMKKY COUNTY Superior Court. Wilburn Lassiter, adniimsttator of Thomas J, Bright, against George D. Bright, Daniel II. Bright, Daniel B MuLeod and wife Cora, Hutie J. Bright, James Bright, Potto Bright, Sarah Bright, .blizabetli liright ami Catherine Bright. Petition to make Real Estate Anets. To Paniei H. Bright, one of the defendants above named, a non-resident. You are hereby not i tied, that a summons, iu the alxjve entitled case, lias issued against you, nml the complaint therein was filed in the su perior Court of Montgomery County, on the j 15th day of October 1869. I on are alo not Bled, that the summons in . the e.i-e is reiurna de to the next terra of the ' Superior Court afore-aid, to be held at the , Court llouse iu Troy, on the 25th day i of February next, when and where you are hereby rerpiircd to sppesr and answer tlie complaint in default wheieof the plaintiff will apply to sa d court for the relief demand ed in the complaint. - Witne-o, C. C. VVade, Clerk of the said Superior Court at ofiice, in the town of Troy, this 10:h day of December, 18G9 CO. WADE, Clerk 8uperiofCoqrt Montgomery County 51 iwpr fee $10 pd) - M.H.PINNIX, attorneV at Law. LKXISG TOS, X C ILL PRACTICE in the courts of David son, Forsythe. Guilford, Aiaiuance and Han do'ph noanties: BKTKRKIfCK. Hon. M. Pearson, C. i. of N. 0., Raleigh. " K. O. Reaie,Ass.iate Justice, " " rhomas Settle, " " R. P. Dirk, " " " " Bedford BrowB,1 Yancey vi!le, H. C. " Hon. J.dm Kerr, " ' if " J. IL McL.-r, Oreeosboro', N. O. wTfiOrnn il'iffin. Jr., 1 J. M. Cloud. D..bafto, W C. January 29; ISO. 4-tt Pore Rye and pnr Whiskler, Distilled in tb Old Style, Pare and Un adulterated at the Old North State Distillery, GRQ0T,;KUCK, & C0.,i(Prop's. ALSO, Want to purchase 50tVorlH bead' of Cajtln, and pay the highest Gash Friees for (fern and Rye. ' jiily 2 2SGm WILLIAM VALENTINE, THE QARBHR, RBTTRNB HIS Tff.VVKS to hi OLD FKi:SlS and the Public for the lilieral patronage heretofnte extended to him. Zlenow informs them that he has lifted up a new and commodious Shop, in Dr. Henderson s Brick , Building Room No- 3, where he would be pleaded to see them. He guarantee- to give satisfaction in every ease. lie has in his employ of the hei-t Hair I)nsers iu We-teni North Carohoa, He request a eall from nJfr ' Saliibury, C , Dee IT, 19. vOU r BurKRioa Court, Fall Term, 18(30. I Petition For Dower. Worth Carolina, Ik'KKB CoDSTT Christena Britain, rtguins't Heirs at Ijiw of VV in Bhttain, uee'd. In this ease it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that tho defendant Moses Fry aud wife Sallte Fry are noa residents of this Btte : It i ordered that pnklfi atten be made in the 'Old North State," a aeWspspcr published in Salisbury, X. ('., for six week notifying the defendant to appear it the next term of tlw Superior fowl for the. county of Burke, at tb Oe:rt Hons in Morganton, on h Ittth Monday after the SA Monday in March next, then and there to answer or plead to the Plaintiff petillna, otherwise :',e same will be beard ex parte and judgment rndied pre confeaeo to them. Wiim-.s. F. D. lrvia, clerk of ear ald coort at offlec in MorgantoD, th 10th Monday after Iks 3rd TltAKK D. mVlN, c s. o. 51 aw.prfee S. for Burke Cooaty. 4 h v S ta te of rTorth Carolina, I " i Stash Couktt. j Superior Court Joseph Marshall, Aiim'r of Jas. Smith, dee d. Kainst John P. Lisk and Sophia, Joseph Haskell and wife Marpartt A., Charlie Austin and, wife Francis, Sarkh Ilyrd, heirs at Uw ol Jaiims inilhdcal 1 advance. ertuinq. .3.00 . 1.90 12.60 20.00 For eaehTlditional IsserlffiW. Special notice will be charged 50 per cent higher abau the above rates. Court aud Justice's Orders will be publish ed at the $ame rates with other advertisement-.. Obituary notices, over six lines, charged a advertisement. CONTRACT HATES. PACK. 5 i c 4 - m i c c CO M K c a 9 s ; . .I'LUlLl which Central Enrope relic for iu grain, united, wonld not ezeeed in area a single county tn Minnesota. The fine lands of Prussia hare a thin 'H, while the wheat field ot Franco have been cultivated for centuries, and are only 'kept in heart by constant application of fertilisers, but here the soil is In its virgin state, yielding such return aa are not obtained In any other lands, unless it be In the San Joaquin and Santa Clara aleys of California. llie most fertile acre ol the Ganges Valley in India will not yield a greater matu lliau these of tbe Northwest. The newer! by cad ....u.,. ailllllHI IKRBW iim ,i ,h with tho uplands of Minnesota, bnl there arc sections along tins Hod Itiver of tbe North along the Cheyenne and Mouse rivers of Dacotah, which are not surpass ed by the richest in tbe heart of China or on the Delta oi the It lie ! 1 Square. iAi50,:i75 .r(J) 1100 i Squares. i 50 li iir t) 50,13 00, 22.00 3 Squares. I G 00' i) (Ml 1.' 00 20 00' :K00 4 Squads. 1 8 00 11(10 i:0l)25 00i 37,50 i c.i,. ii nn nam -0 1111 in iui i.vnn 4 V oi win ri . , . w v. " - . ,.,.o ,. t t Column. 18 00 24 00 : 00l45 IW 75.00 , of tte, reaching on and on in 1 Column. 2 00,40 00 51) 00,rf0 00, 130.IMI ODB I Ml Klin AVK- I know that many of those who will read this letter ere accustoined to look in to the future and to takeenl. rged views of what our country i to be in coming years; but I am confident there is no man even him of the most comprehensive mind that has taken a just measure of tbe fu ture greatness of thia region. Many oi those who, pi reliance may read there lines bave visited Illinois and seen the wheat and corn fields and cultivated You mav ao on 600 miles further to the oorth branch of the Saskatchewan before reaching the northwestern bondary ot ae wheat field. TBI MOUNT A tVeV All this territory lies north and east of the Muwonii, and thia aide of the Rocky mountains. We have snokeo of it as a wheat field, and have said nothing of lit other resources, but here are the supplies of Umber from which the people of more soathern section are to receive their ru tare building materials. Looking out from my Lent toward the nortbeas; I emu sec, an A laborer or mechanic has no difficulty In getting married for his wire takes ber share of work. Iu such a case, matrimo ny ia a joint stock association. The working man spends less when married than single His clothes being made and kept in repair at bome, and the more wholesome and less expensive nourish ment more than compensates for any ad ditional expense of having another person to provide for. This, we need not say, alludes io France and may be more or leas true, aa we hope It is iu our own country . Among tbe rich, especially, where the ing the head waters of the Mississippi. If class bow doniEf" w can it ho n some dow but ill t nowadays T marrt- - All the we travel west we shall find vxhaiistless young girls are brought up in the ssmo supplies of coal. Between tbe Red River way. Each oho Is so exclusively adopted of North aud the Rocky mountains lies for the great pise that there are none Bui- It Petition iotU to appearing court that Johu are nou-residonts of That publication be sive weeks in the "Old published in Salisbor ot said defendants to I the eieik ol lite S County.on the loth, ' there to answer or de the same will be take ni l maks a met. '.'nt satisfaction of the Lisk and wife Sophia, s State, it IS Ordeir i '.o weekly, for six gucces- I tf-th State,' a newspaper N. U., summoning each and appear at the office -nor Agouti ot btan'v January 1870, 1 hen and ir to said petition, or ro eonfeuo and beard r r nartr as to their. VVIfnessv James M . IvhIvv lfJey"'-derk of oor said court at office, M !3d day of November, 1809. . M. teDWlKB, p. a c. ew:pi.icesiu l OUR GREAT COUNTRY. THE aftl-D AM) HE.VfrirCL NOttTHWKST. The lolloaiug is well worth reading : Ran River ok thk Noam, I July 1869. ) To (he hditorof the Boston Journals I want to hold n familiar talk this morn ing with the great multitude of people in the Hast about this country of the North west. WHEHE WI ARE. Spread out before you, my friends, the map ot XVorth America--not ot tue i m tcd States alone, but a map which will how you the Hriiish possessions of the Northwest Let it be a school atlas if you have nothing better. Lay a ruler up on it and draw a line northwest from Chi- .1 1 r . i i 1 .1 I eago, running through at. ruui or ttirougii Minnesota. At the western boundary, on the bai k of the. Red River of ihe North, yon will find our camp. I look out from my teut and see Ihe water gliding past, to pour iis ever-in creasing flood into the frozen ocean of the North through Hudson's Ray. Here the river is perhaps one hundred and fifty feet wide, and six to ten feet deep, 'inning through tbe Iuvel prairies. Kank grass grows upon its banks ; wild fowl build their nests alonp its reedy shorts ; bobolinks urc pouring forlh their rollick ing songs ; the spui row sends up lit cheer ful chirp ; the swallows are twittering merrily ; insects are humming in the air ; the sun shines through a mellow linze, while all around as u' as the eye can see there is sueli a richness of verdure, such wealth ,uf greenness and display of flow ers that the language descriptive of tho Elysiiin fields and the choici st and best of poesy is too forceless and feeble to con vey an idea of the richness and beauty of this fair region oi the world. i:IKNT Of THE UOUAIV. Follow in imagination the line which you have drawn from Chicago. Here you are 600 miles dhrfant from that city. Fol low on the tract which orae of our party are to takfr and von will find just such verdure, such soil such ciiiuate, such flow ers in bloom, even thon'rh yon travel one thousand miles from I his point to the north west. Fifteen hundred miles from Chica go, in the tur Northwest, you will bear tue Doooiink pouring out his love song; you will find the soil as fertile there, the climate as mild, snmmer and winter, as on the praties around Lake Michigan. Ihe nelds ol wheat on the plains of the northwest are as luxuriant further ad vanced to-day than, in New England. Fifteen days hence Nth reapers will be cutting the wheat, and the harvest will go on here just as it does in New Eugland. CLIUATULOOT. One of the most wonderful features of this region is its climate. Here we are in latitude 46 several degrees further north than Boston, but the summers are longer than in Massachusetts, and the .winters, though colder, are less severe than in that Skate. The air is dry, the days calm, nnd the hundreds of men that I meet, who have come hither from Maine aud New Hampshire, Selecting this as their home, say that this climate is far preferable to that of New England. Yesterday I saw a Scotchman, who ives fivo hundred miles north of this point in a line, on tue shore ol Lake Winnepeg. The winter there, he says is not so severe aa st Chicago. Scientific men have spec ulated on I his phenomena, but we have eretina satisfactry explanation. Doubt less it is duo to a combination of causes the influence of the great lakes on the one tub- und the Rocky mountains on theoth rr to the Missouri aud Mississippi and Red rivers, to the currents of air sweeping up tbe M issnuri valley from the dry plains of Nebraska. B the canse what it may, the fact remains that here reaching from Chicago northwest over a territory embra cing Wisconsin, Minnesota, Decatoh, Nor thern Montana, and a vast region in .the British Possessions lie the wheat lands of North America. boundless expanse have heard the mnsic ol the reader gathering the ripened grain havu beheld tbe harvest field" in all their glory. Think now of those fields extended as far as it is from Boston to Omaha, over a tract aa wide as from Mon treal to Philadelphia, and you have the area of the wheat field lying northwest of Chicago. It is a region presenting feature difler- cnt from the country along the highway opened lo San Francisco by the Union Pacific road. The plains ol Nebraska and Kaneati mnguificcnt iu extent are tra versed by no water courses. The streams are few and when the snmmer heats pre vail, thcr dwindle to rivulets, and become wholly dry; hut here there are ever-flowing streams and lakes of pure water, fed by never failing springs. Ride where you will over this vast territory and yon are always in sight of a river, a creek, or a lake of purest water, where the waves break on pebbly beaches, and where thousands of water-fowl rear their young beneath tho oaks and maples that fringe the rippling streams. Beautiful as are (he praiiics of Illinois and Iowa, nature has been even more gen erous in her adornment of the Northwest. The larger lakes are bordered by parks and grores, presenting landscapes of inde scribable beauty. Many a pioneer on this Northwestern verge of civilization may look out from the door of his log cabin dn scenery as enchanting as any in Old Erg land. True, there is no background of mountains, no rocky crag, or deep and tori no is defiles, but there are in id ul.it ions sunny slopes, gentle swflls, rounded wood crowned summits, looking down upon lakes and ponds dotted with emerald is lands, or clear waters dancing in the sun light, or reflecting from the glassy surface the transcendau: beauty of the landscape. The region is attractive not only because it has a productive soil and genial clime not because there is grr-at. prospect of material wealth-' but here nature has. done much to promote that without Which ft cotumuuiry never Can reach (he highest plane of cultivation. Here, in coming years, on the borders of the lakes, costly mansions will be reared. the great coal fields of this granary of the Coutiuent. On the st ream that find their way into Lake Superior and on the Mis sissippi are sites for manufactories, where, in coining years, tho hum of machinery, the clatter of the shuttle, and boxsing of mill wheel will break tbe stillness of the primeval solitude. Go qn to the dividing ridge of the con tinent to Montana with its gol, its sil ver, its won and coal, fertile Valleys and timbered hills ; take a look of what lies beyond in Oregon, Washington and Van couver at the water power of tbe Colum bia and its tributaries the forest of pine, so dense that tbe brightest sunlight Of mid-da v does not dispel its darkness and gloom to the water falls, tho pasture lands to the arable lands and the mines of Idaho, the coal of Fuget sound, the harbors unequalled in tho world, fronting China and Japan ; and over the shortest line between tho Orient and Occident wiih a climate as mild as that of Virginia to a half dozen mountain passes where the altitude does not exceed hve thousand feet to a region where less snow fall than last winter fell npon the hills of Berkshire; to a region h.ch is yet to be the New Kng land of the I'ucinc Coast ; take in th boundaries of this inheritance not all as yet beneath our country's flag, but ere long to be; think of tbe immediate future, if you wonld obtain an Idea of tbe mate rial wealth of the Northwest, waiting-on ly the apMarance of tbe husbandman. Ho will soon be here Carietux. Miserable Conjugal Subterfuges. It seems as natural for bored husbands to play truant as school boys. The delight of the j ii venial element is completed when, with the comfortable assurance that he is supposed te be at school, he steals off and goes fi-hing. But the torpitude of tbe ur chin, full b!on in after years, is seen when Augustus will, under the plea of be ing detained at Mic oince or the lodge or his clnb or the library, deprive his anx ions and mawkishly affectionate wifs ot his delightful society evening after even ing. Shall the mask be tore from Angus tus' face ? Shall he stand before hrs in jured Celestina in the black duplicity of bis own hideous equivocation T lie shall. Must the two-confiding heart learn that the wily and insidious barkeepers now call their dead falls "The Office," 'The Store,' "The. Library," "The Lodge," aud "My Sick Friend," with the view toetiable the artful Augustus to tell you with a show of apparent truth that he has been to pla ces with these names, where the wine is not red, in short where there is no wine at esthetic culture, j all, and thus gloat over his pusillauimus deception of his own "little cap nt-lite s Iwpnittess sweetouer ?" Shade of Abcl arrl I how we men do abuse the confidcuce of the ti inline-, clinging, confiding; tender, Where now the pioneer feeds his pigs will 1 loving, forgiving, constant beings heaven be seen parks and lawns ; wliere now the j has sent us to kef p us from relapsing into ground is encumbered with wrecks of carts and sleds, or is heaped with manure from the stable, will stand by and by works of art chiseled from finest marble. WHITS UKAR LA.KK. Would that you could look down upon White Bear lake, end see it as 1 saw it comparison; wiTn othih laxds. No other eountrv has such a domain The jd ai us of Bavaria and Hnngtry, upon day before yesterdoy from our camping ground on a hill overlooking its northern shore. It stretches southward a distance of twelve miles, indented hero and there by a wooded promoutory with sandy eachesb sweeping in magnificent curves ; with a wide patch on tbe eastern shore overspreading the slope; with a green fringe of stately oaks and elms and limit less fields, whose verdure changes in va rying hues with every passing cloud wanting only a background of highlands to make it as lovely as VYiiidermote the most enchanting of all the lakes of Old England. You sec at your feet the little village of Glenarood, which in coming years will be the resort of tuminte, .arliau and seekers auer pleasure. If you are fond of fishing go out upon this sheet of water, With the same strong armed Norwegian who pulled the boat tor me yesterday morning There are pick eral in these ponds of Minnesota such as we are not accustomed to catch iu New England. A four-ponuder is a large fish to pull from the waters of NVinnipesankce, but I hauled' up a fifteen pouuder yester day, and the people here say tli.iv they catch them weighing twenty-five pounds ! I dare say that the vory thought of catch 'ntr snch fresh water sharks will quicken the pulse of many a boy, and perhaps some of tbe old folk would like to drop a j line in these waters. But to return to the subject from which we have strayed 'and it w not -the first lime we have, play id truant by going" a fishing. We liave said that this inheri tance of the American people reaches 1400 miles northwest of Chicago it is that far to tie mountains in British America, and thai carries as only to the isothermal line of 65 degree mean summer temperature. barbarism aud cannibalism? If onlv those men married who deserved a good wife, how inanv of us wretches would have to "go it alone," and never be "ordered-up' to the altar except to be "turned down.' Life, like euchre, caunot always be play ed wcll naleas "assisted" -by-a-partaer. MAURI AGE TIIE PHILOJOPHY OF UNION. V In ollen times, says a Frenchman, who with the usual assurauce of his country men, pretends to know something about women, female beauty was so fascinating tl at it was a certain means of securing a husband. Nowadays, be adds, men have reflected upon the subjects, and it is sel dom that a girl is married for her person al attractions, whatever they maybe ; so she runs a great risk of always keeping her honorable title of maid if her parents are not rich enough to pay a handsome sum to-some gallant other t change ft into that of Wife. It is an accident, or in fact a sort of prodigy, when a man marries a woman solely for ber beauty, a quality which has singttlariy fallen in value iu our mercena ry days. If it ever should take a rise, it might be well to adopt-the Persian mode of reducing the number of old maids. This consisted in sclliug the beautiful girls to those who were willing to try then', and giving ihe amount to the ugly; so that the handsomest endowed the ug liest, the second IU beauty, tbe second in ugliness, et cetera. But this plan, would be, we fear, inap plicable in our days, for there would be but few bidders tor tne n antit ai women, and the ugly, if the money waa to go with them, would be the only ones to find ta kers. Seriously, continues our French man, who it must be borne in mind is speaking of France and not of the Uuited States, marriage is tending to disappear frosn our social habits. Tbe number of old maids, especially ut the middle class, f inarching d i y. i.iuit- mi iu inie nor ones, nnat are . now called the necessaries are. -far more than what were formerly considered the luxuries of life. All kinds of equality have been tried at various times ; but one only has been retained, and tbe most dan gerous and fatal of all the equality ot express. Every girl ia brought up with the idea that she will draw in the lottery of mar riage a first prise. It ia Imagined that style and accomplishments wil make up fur want of fortune. It Is a mistake; they ill only make it more necessary, in fact, absolutely indispensable Marriage is the greatest luxury a man can indulge in. When we reflect that all tho women of the middle class are now a- days brought up lo shine in society, that there are no longer any marked distinc tions as fsr as expense is concerned, and that the standard of necessary living is fixed according to that of the richest, a man must be indeed greatly in love if he does not hesitate before the "mountain of velvet, silks and jewelry," that tie must consume all his days u accomplishing, in order that his wife may be properly dress ed. For men of this class woman is not a companion to take a share, in proportion to her strength, of the common cares and labors of life, but an idol that be mast pass bis days in adorning for the admira tion of others. A poor man marrying snch a woman without a dowry wonld be capable of buying a horse that had to ba fed upon topazes and emeralds instead of oats: So it is now rare to find a husband of this kind, aud soon it will be impossi ble. This is what they are coming to in France, according to a very good author- Death of a Remarkable Woman. Tho Philadelphia Pott announces the death in that city of Harriet Miller, mnlatto. aged 65, who leaves an estate valued tlOO.000. and says she was born in one of tbe Soath ern States of slave parents. While liv ing in South Carolina she became the pro perty of Mr. Purves, to whom she was most faithful. Purves was a single man and at one time a conspiracy was formed among a band of desperadoes to take his life. His faithful slave got an inkling of the conspiracy, and she advised her mas ter of the plot, and by so doing saved his life. He shortly afterward gave her ber freedom and made her his wife. Four children were the result of the marriage, Robert Purves being of the number. They lived happily together for many years, and were finally separated by tho death ot Mr. t'urves. I luring his life time he amassed a large estate, of which hi, wife inherited a portion, her children re ceiving their share. Mrs. Purves remov ed to this city some forty years ago, and purchased the house on Seventh street, in which her spirit took flight. She after ward -married the Rev. Mr. Miller, a col ored clergyman, who died a few years ago. They never had any children born them. A snort time since she went to Charleston, S. C, to see an sged Bister, and as she was returning te Philadelphia, was seised with paralysis on the cars. A Convention. Our whole State gov ernment has been managed with such cor ruption and blunders, and the ends of Justice have been so perverted, and our State credit has been so abused and injur ed by dishonest officials, our taxes so heavy, and nnr ennrts so incompetent ari l , partisan, that the ouly step towards relief and safety, is to get a general Convention of tbe people.; C Risen of all classes and parties agree to the necessity of this. We are glad to see a strong disposition in tho Legiblatute to call a Convention for re form. We are for a Convention as soon aa we can get it. 1 he present odious sys tem is not the ehoice ot the people. It was a bargain Arreted on us by necessity ' and now the people demand modifica tion and reform, and wo must have it, or our best interests are ruined. He shall speak more at Icugth on this again. Fatfetteville Eagle. . Tbe St. Lonis Democrat hits tbe nail exactly on the head, when it says: "As a rule, it may be said that if a husband and wife have once lived happily together, there can never be a separation without misconduct by three persons, the hus band, tbe wife, and somebody else. The husband who never neglect his wife will not, aa a "rule, ever have to buy a pistol to shoot her seducer. The wife who uev er fails iu her duly lo her husband, will net, as a rule, have to seek protection from some other man. Andthe man who . - k l'J never interferes tieiwecn unsoana ana wife, who never makes himself to the wifa a narvr friend than her husband, who never seeks Iter love on the one hand, or draw too near if she invites, on the oth er, will never, as a rule, get shot by an l i a lutunatiKf nut! (Mull
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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