ADVERTISING RATES: ITime IMo. 3Ma 6Uo. ti&i SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER JtNHSTON’S r i Defence of Chareston Harbor.* sftiU'B and ObapyatY, § We have often taken occasion to 'fay that the developsment of the the South Ts almost exclusively the work of her own sons, whose energy, j|')telligence’ and capabilities are E[Sal to the successful solution of !.v practical problem. In a str’Ic way that was exemplified during, Ae. war.; t Untrained ■ in industrial; .■natters we speedly utilized every ^source known to us that was capa 'j*o of being used to advantage, and •playing remarkable inventive ge os, we grappled with and over came many difficulties that seemed be unsurmountable. . *An agricultural people, unprepar for war, the opening of the con t found us without munitions of kind. At first private shops :re turned from the works of ,ce to. meet the demands of war, then arsenals arose at which •y article needed was manufact Su’ch fertility/ of resource never displayed by any other iple of the world. ' t o are lea to recall this' general ;eot by a perusal of Maj. John Defence of Carleston , Harbor,* eh affords many exemplifications bis phase of Southern talent. A able incident of this kind men j'lped by Maj. Johnson was tjie re kry of l he 11 in. guns of the Hokuk. •■•In^fche attack of April 7, ! §63, this iron-clad came within :j|se range. of Fort -Sumpter and #s so thoroughly battered that the xt morning she sank off the iouthern extremity -pf Morris and, about two-thirds of a ’ mile om the beach. There in the lin ed iate ppiseuee of the Federal set, a squad - of* men visiting the1 reek by stealth ; at night, cut rough the heavy iron turrets and if ted out two great guns, each thir diameter at . the breech and eighing sixteen thousand pounds, hey were a week in cutting rough the roof and two ? weeks ore in cutting though the turrets, o guns were successf ully removed in under the nose of the Federal iuiml and afterwards were the heaviest effective ordinance used in £pe defence of the city. For enter prise, hardihood and capability, this ffeat is unsurpassed in the annals of War. Maj. Johnson’s account of it is very interesting and entertain-* ?e The construction of our land bat teries, such for "instance as Battery Wagner, Batteries Bee, Beauregard, Marshal), etc.,' around Charleston, Snd of Fort Fisher, and other works j5n the Cape Fear, in like manner at estu the industrial skill of Southern The construction of iron clads, the ildiug of rams, and the invention torpedoes were all innovations, w projects, the result of Southern iius and illustrative of Southern Rapacity to deal with industrial mat ters. Immediately after- the loui laeak of hostilities, a machine was invented to rifle by liflud tie smooth bore guns found in the forts, and at ^gharleston the method of reinforc g them by banding was success illy adopted by that very capable id efficient ordnance officer, Col. L. Childs. It fell to the lot of h writer to determine the shape of |§jp projectile to be used in them. As an illustration of how boldly such ings were essayed, it was in .non implation to erect at Fort Sumter uriiace to cast cannon .ball to be ed while the interior -was still >lton metal. The feasibility of w. low charges being used, was agreed to; but Major Wagner, who as-the very life and soul of the lifence at that period, being unhap ily killed,him project fell through; id indeed as against the Federal 'on clads 'afterwards built, such rojectiles would have been lvalue-. loss. ...... .- . | The expedients resorted to in ■strengthening Fort Sumter, after jlbat /urtresr had been jittered t down, also in a most remarkable manner illustrate . the fertility of Southern genius and the highest in dustrial capacity. In this paper we can give no adequate idea of the vast labor that was performed within that dismanted fortification. That it was done at night, under a bom bardment, lasting, with some, inter vals, more than a year only makes it the more wonderful. That is the story of Sumter—a story that savors ;indie of the " elements of romance than of stern, practical reality. There were three great bombard ments of Sumter, the last one con tinuing sixty consecutive days and nights, and there were eight minor bombardments, Jthe whole covering 157 days and 116 nights; and there were 123 additional days and nights during which the firing wa3 irregu lar. ; . ::r .During those days 4o,000 projec tiles, weighing 7,000,000 pounds, were fired against the devoted fort ress, These shot converted into sixty pound rails would have laid a railroad track thirty-five miles long. The life of the garrison under such a bombardment, and their wonder ful reconstruction of the fort, using in the operation probably half a mil lion sand bags of material are mat ters of absorbing interest. No other men but Southerners have ever en dured such hardships and accom plished such feats under similar difficulties. = It will stand on f the : pages of history incomparably be yond the endurance and construc tive energy of any other garrison known to fame. One cannot* read the pages in which these things are told without a glowing pride of race and a bur ning patriotic ardor; without lively emotions of sympathy and an exalt JdnppTBf.iattoiLof.4he iieroisiujwtd constancy and skill which the. de fenders of Fort Sumter displayed. But, as we have said, Maj. Jphn .son .does not confine his narrative to Fort Sumter alone,* for he gives it cleap and admirable account of all the operations around . Charleston, and he does so in a style that reflects great crcdit on him as a writer of history. < A Mad World. Durham Globe. A business engagement kept this pale-faced student in his office last night, and he Could - not hear Mr. Dixon talk upon the subject which, was fools. But just before leaving the print-shop with its papers, it pens and scissors—the pale faced student before mentioned, unwound these few thoughts and placed them on the hook to keep the devil’s cry for copy a little longer in the distance this morning. ■- A man talks of fools-—but from what perfection or what develop ment does he make his comparison? It' was the sublime Shakespeare who remarked in a most casual way that most all mortals were fools. Yet that was but an opinion. It will not do for one man to succeed and say -that another is a fool because he failed. It will not do for, one, man to imagine-that he is smart aun»or i-5 a foot because he does not happen to know what the other man does or do what the other man does. There are degrees, of idiocy and stages of utter foolish ness—sappy, grinning, giggling foolishness—and the unfortunate wretch thus afflicted is at best sim ple minded. We talk ^bout,fools— and like the withered, cringing sin ner, who prays to God and imagines God looks like he looks—think, in our conceit and vanity that because the' architectural construction of our neighbor is not like ours’ that our neighbor may be a fool. But did you ever step over in his back yard and hear what your neighbor thinks of you? The raw and untanned truth is simply this: No man with a sound mind is a fool. If his mind is ; dis eased he may be a fool, a lunatic oi • simpleton—and he is not. respon sible. The world applies the nam< of fool to those whose ideas do no dovetail with it; those who are a variance with the general thoughts oi the vulgar mob—but unless u man is a dunce—with *r mind un balanced and diseased, be is no more a fool than any other of his fellow men. Minds are no more alike than features. We ar§ art to measure other people by four own warped yard-stick and view ourselves in the mirror of vanity aud exclaim that so and so is a fool—only because he does do what we think the .proper Cbjier. Our lameuted friend Hothacker— conceded to be one of the most brilliant journalists of the country, Pne night wrote this and handed it to the writer. It is a sermon. “What is the word of a human worth, Be it praise or be it blame ? Be it either, it is of earth just the echo of a name. For after all, when all are through, “ 7 Praise or blame or bitter tongue: Crime of age or vice of young, I am I and you are you. . Does it matter? Not at all, *" f Words are. nothing, Judgement worse, Bad lines written in ragged verse— • Conscience hardly worth a call— But after it’s over Uod will *now! - ’ ■ Or in other words: We may all be fools, \ye max all be rascals, we may all be first-class chumps. We were turned loose originally and we had no general orders. The central idea was that we be good—but there is nothing in, history to show ns that we should pass judgements on our neighbor; nothing which com manded us to embark , in business and worry out our scattered brains; nothing which said that we should flatter our friend when we knew we were jesting and expected hjm to accept it in sincerity. - This the ological student knows that Adam was not sent here to run a newspa per—and the theological student could be easily convinced by Dr. Dixon that be is a fool for trying it—but that is as far as the foois ex tend sp far as we have observed or wish to remark' - —_ .. GORDON ON THE STUMP; The Governor’ Illustrates a Speeech With a War Reminiscence. The governor began by saying that ho left, as if ho were coming to bis kindred. In the adjoining coun ty his'eyes first opened to the balmy skies which a benignent God still bends above "08. “I lfive this peo ple," said he,“and I know that they have loved me. I know, too, that when the light of truth shall fall upon the record they will love me still.” f Applause. ] He then re plied to the Alliance resolution as follows: “When I read that statement of my brethren made in all the solem nity. of a resolution “that the said John B. Gordon is no longer worthy of trust,’I was forcibly remined of my last interview on the battlefield with one of the grandest men who has appeared in all the tide of time. As f rode back from Appomattox Court House, after having met the conquering generals, by the side of Gen. Lee, he said to me with his heart swelling and breaking, ‘1, wish general that I had fallen in one ot the last battles.* ,r j . , v “Why, general?” said I. y “Becauso .-my countrymen will mis-judge mo.” - Wow F” said I. ' “They will imagine that with eight or ten thousand veterans I ought still to have continued the warfare ip the. mountains with a possibility of final success for the Confederate cause.’ ' “I endeavored to turn his thoughts on other lines, but Gen. Lee’s heart was broken at the very thought that his countrymen might misjudge him. “I confess my friends, that, while I had entirely recovered from that shock yet when I first read those words, coming in a solemn resolu tion from honest, upright, honora ble men, deliberately penned, delib erately enacted, as their judgement of myself, I felt for the moment as Gen.: Lee felt. ’ ' ~ ; “But my friends, I know yet. I have never hid a moment of anger. I have had several 'of anguish, but as truth shall finally triumph, my name will be vindicated and I shall live again m the hearts of these my brethren." [Applause.] DR, PRITCHARD bn Rev. Sam Jones—His' Criticisms, Etc., Etc. Below tve give some dippings from Dr. Pritchard's criticism on Bam Jones, as published in Charity and Children, \ Dr. Pritchard is pretty severe in his criticisms, jjnt he seems to be sincere. He speaks highly of the work Mr. Pearson did in Wilmington. Of course, while this is Dr. Pritchard’s opinion, there ; are thousands who are strong believ ers in Sam Jones. After a few preparatory remraks and an admission of Jones’ natural ability, Dr. Pritchard remarks: To call him a great man would be to revolutionize my conception of human greatness. There may have! been great men with an egotism* as stupendous as his,“but there never was one in which this~ quality was transparent. Certainly, in all the calendar of saints, history shows not one whose self-appreciation was so colossal. The truth is, the man is badly spoiled; his great success and the unstinted adulation he has received have turned liis head. He assumes the role of dictator at times; on one occasion, turning to the preachers he said: “You fat lazy, rascals! why were you not here at the early prayer meeting, trying to save souls, instead of taking your moring nap?” On another, occasion he , said: “I expect to be at the judgemen and to hear tire excuses oi some of the pas-1 tors of this city for not helping in this meeting.” The intimation seemed to be that he not only ex pected to be at the general judge ment, but to be a sort of associate justice with the Almighty, in pro nouncing sentence and would enjoy the condemnation of those of us who did not see fit to join,in his meeting. Such arrogance would be unbecom ing in the Apostle Paul, much more in Sam Jones. * * ' * * * * * ! ,Iwas soundly abnsed and vilified in some papers and by private cor respondence for styling Sam Jones a vulgarian and a blackguard. Even the distinguished son of North Car olina, Dr. John E. Edwards, shot an -arrow at me from away over in Vir ginia. After a -fuller acquaintance with him, I am sorry to say I cannot! withdraw those charges; on the con trary, I must add to them one still more serious, that of profapity, and if the utterances I submit below do not make good each of these char ges, I am ready to be branded a "landercr of my brethren. , “If you jump on your Unde Jones you have got a government job on h'and.” “I love to see a man that stands independent of rules, etymol ogy,- seed, ticks, and ’possum skins.’’ “Get up on your hind feet.” “Shoot off your little mouth,’' “you oldfool,” “you old liar,” “you old flop-eared hound,” you contemptible puppies,” “You lousy cakes," “whining pigs;” “I heard it was likely I would be arrested for slandering that damna ble club,” Damnable seemed to be quite a favorite with him, as he used it often. “Tf you get between me and that club I will knock the filling out of you." “Get up and tell God you did not approve of Sam Jones —you little blear-eyed fool.” Oh, shucks, I have got the dead wood on these things," meaning by thingB, the doctrines of grace. “The pastor that allows his members to sell whis key is not worthy to be the pastor of a litter of puppies." He called some of the most respectable gentle ,men of Wilmington “Pusillanimous pole cats of hell." “Pole cats of belli” a brand new style of swearing, be used certainly as many as three times, and Of some of-our citizens he said that if a buzzard should get scent of them he, would fly straight up half a mile to get away from the smell. . These are samples of the elegant utterances of Sam Jones in the pul pit, and thoy ,are by no means the worst things he said. The Messen ger, one of our city papers, promised the public full stenographic reports On two occasions I asked the ed itor why he left out gome of his ut terances-—once when he preached to nu n Only, and once when he had SuO ladies before him. - Jlis reply was aa.' follows: “Doctor, I "just cmhln’f doit.. My paper goes into families where there are women and children.,” ." mat,. ti.T what it .costs. f’JaJ r,mi ilia rti u t a tin in. r-. I believe that Mint the scntimen^ of the best people of the State wilt sustain me—Nay more—l. believe that it won’t be long bektffi these very men who now are angry with me will see that I have been fight ing the cause of truth and right eousness, I believe that _rnany Methodists agree with me, and I know that one of the most distinguised of the younger .preachers of that church, lately a popular pastor in Wilmington, N. C., proposes at an early day to pubish stricures in the Christian Advocate on the pulpit manners gf Jam Jones. .. Dr. Paul Whitehead, whom I know personal ly to be one of the ablest and most honered of Methodist ministers of Virginia, said of Sam Jones’ reflect ions on him: “I would rather he would love the Lord Jesus Christ enough not to wound him in the house of his friends by .such impru dent knd uncharitable remarks about ministers.” EXTRACT FROM REY. DR. CREECY’s RE PLY IN WILMINGTON MESSENGRR TO REV. DR. PRITCHARD. I have noticed some of the strange statements you have made and which I cannot reconcile in refer ence to Brother Sain Jones. Take for example what he says in one ar ticle, “That he does not doubt- his piety or impugn his motives.” In this last article he says, “I charged him with being a vulgarian, a blackguard and; a •profane swearer, (italics mine) and what is more, I proved each of the charges true from his pulpit utterances.” The Doctor of course, being the Judge. The Doctor’s seems to seejthings that ma ny of his brethren and other Chris tians do not in reference to Sam Jones. Many of the good people of Wilmington, wives, mothers and daughters—chaste, pure, refined, at tended the meetings, many of the Doctor own congregation. They did not consider that they were lis tening to a vulgarian, blackguard and profane swearer, and when ask-' ed if they had been benefited by the meeting as conducted by Broth er Jones almost unanimously stood up in testimony of th& fact. They heard more, a great deal more and saw more of Jones’ pulpit manners than the Doctor and yet that was their vote. Take this statement from the daily Advertiser of Mont gomery, Ala., under date of 28th instant: - “After the conclusion of the ser vice, Dr. Wharton, pastor of the Baptist church, Dr. Burkehead, of the Presbyterian chuch, Dr. Moore, of the Court Street Methodist church, Mr. Cummings, of the Dexter Avenue church and Mr. Thompson, of the Adams Street Baptist church, made short talks endorsing Mr. Jones and expressing sincere thinks for the great work he had done in Montgomery. Dr. Moore took a vote to see how many people in the audience wanted Mr. Jones to. visit Montgomery again in the next'twelve months, and eve rynoay stood up. , - There word these men of God, pure, ehaste, refined.mothers, wives and daughters, all voting forithe return of this man of God. Doctor, his pulpit manners certainly did not impress them as they did you. You say I have not touched the issue. Let the verdict come from the peo ple and I will be content. — Thieves steal seed-cotton by ' the light of the moon in Cabarrus. The IF"nfcmujrtells it that a lady of Greensboro who was monstrated with for her persistency in hard work beyond her strength, remarked thnt she had rather die trying to live than to live trying to die, .,J“_ J, B. Wilson carrried a fine hor net’s nest to the editor .of the Greensboro Patriot. That pencil pusher quickly , vacated his office when he found a hornet in the nest. EDUCAIIONAL INSTITUTE. Public! Speaking. Prof. E. A. Alderman will, dur ing the week beginuing Nov. 17th, 1800, h'old an Institute in Carthoee.' N. C. ' ' : This Institute is riot for teachers only, but for the people as well. Its . efficiency, therefore, will depend largely upon whether or not the people attend, let as many ns pos sible attend the daily exercises. * Friday of that week will be devot ed to special exercises that will be of interest and profit to all who will attend. Addresses will, on that ' day, be made by Prof. E. A. Aler- ' man and others, which will do much good to the cause of education if ; the people will go and hear them. In Virginia there is spent for pub lic education on each child, white and black, an average of about two and one-half tirpes as much money as is spent in North Carolina, and the average length of annual session in Virginia' is about twice that of ours. Not only so, but we •re behind almost all the other Southern States. Except in a few of the cities, our . public schools do not satisfy either their friends or their opponents. We levy only 12$ cents on $100 of property (one and a quarter mills.). The, fact is, that with so sinall a levy it is impossible to have an efficient and creditable system of schools. Count and see how little it amounts r to on the assessed valuation of your property. ‘ The great hulk >of our people are farmers and laborers in other avoca tions, who are solely dependent upon, the public schoWafor the education of their children.vEven of the white children, perhaps as many as 11 out of 12 in this State have no other schools. Perhaps you object to dfvidirtg^ with the negroes. As a rule, the tax of 12$ cents on $100 of property raises more money to each child, T white and black, ip the counties where there are many 'groes than - in those counties where 'ere are few or none. It is the lab_ of a county that makes its wealt.. If we did not have the negroes we -would have some other poor people whose children whould have to be educated in the public shoots. > But, whatever may be said about educating the negroes, we cannot afford not to improve our education al facilities, whether we consider our financial condition and progress or the perpetuation of our civil and religions liberties. The matter is within the power of the people, and when they come duly to consider this great question, and see it as it is, they will willingly tax themselves more, and give more attention to the education of their children. If you say we are too poor, then I reply that the way to get ■ richer is to educate our own people Intel- J leetually and industrially, so that they may be able successfully to ap ply labor, to the development of our many resources. The history of the world points out this way, and we cannot fail if we walk in it With good schools in the country districts there will be less incentive for the country people to crowd into the cities and towns to educate their children, much of the discontent and restlessness will disappear, and bet ter success will attend their labors. 8. M. Finger, Sup’t, and Sec’y State Board of Education. ' Local Application*. The new tariff law puts higher taxes on the material! used by— Every stove manufacturer. Every carriage manufacturer. Every initiator. - - - . Every cigar manufacturer. Every roofer and tinsmith. Every marble dealer and cutter. Every plumber. Every photographer. Every house painter. Every awning maker.. stone Every blank book manufacturer, ^ Every dressmaker. Every tailor. Every printer pud publisher. V V Aud even every undertaker. "t. Albany