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y t l 4 : THE WEEKLY SOUTHERNER. - ; r- - f - 3 PUBLISHED feYERY THt'BSDAV BY CHARLES, HEARNE AND BIGGS TERMS OF ADVERTISING r ; ' "' "t u -vy; .1' if TRAXSIEST RATES , . s r. ,ff,r One square inch space 1 timS, ' $1 Each subsequent insertionr -. y . f v 6Q ' CONTRACT BATES. 1'; . ; One square one year, - - $15 00,, One:fourth column; - V". 50 00, f Ono-half column V " " -" ' 00 -One columnj, . . - -; - 150 00 Coolness Card totapyfcig1 AqnSrt 4r less Inserted for Twenty Dollars at yeari' ; TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIOM .7: : On copy one year, - - - $3 00 One copy six months, . - T- , " 2 00 One copy' three months''1 '-r - 1 00 , Twenty-Five per cent, is added to the afcove rates when paid at the end of the yean "MY COUNTRY : RIGHT ORWRONG : MY COUNTRY.'!. - TARBORO', EDGECOMBE COUNTY, NORTH jCAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1867. VOL. XLIII. NO. 14. Monthly changes allowed. ; :7 ay - - v - - .... t-.!: - - . ,. - . .1- . , . . - -1 " . 1 Professional Cards. WM. F. BEASLEY, "Attorney & Counsellor at Law, TarboroVN. C. v PARTICULAR ' ATTENTION Giv en to the collection of claims, both at home . and abroad Office for the present at tho'Eegecombe Bouse jan. 24. 8-tf ?XO. L. BRIDGEKS. X. P. PENDER BRIDGE RS & PENDER ATTORNEYS AT LAW, TARBORO', N. C. OFFICE one door below Post Office, and one abate. ihcBto0' & Tirr easiness intrusted to their care Trill promptly and strictly attended to, Sept. 25; 1866. ' ; , 12-tf WILL. B. RODMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will attend the Superior Courts of Edge combe. feb 21, 1867. 12-tf DEN TIST, TARBORO', N. C. Office Opposite the Edgecombe House May 12, 1866. .. 24 tf DR. EDWARD, WARREN, HAS RESUMED THE Practice vf Medicine A Surgery, IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, Office, 48 Courtland Street, 2d Door from Mulbery, Not. 25. 1-tf NOTICE. A! E. RICKS, D. D. L , would respect fully say to the Citizens of Tarboro' and its Ticinity, that he is again in the practice of his Piofession and will in the future as in the past endeavor to discharge his duty faithfully for all those who require his service. , Address, Rocky Mount, N. C. Feb. 3, 1866. 10 -tf J. J. LAWRENCE, M. D., -DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST, Wilson, N. C. A large stock of Medicines, waueested ruEE, constantly on bJ A,OT' r" Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window GLASS. PERFUMERY. And all other articles usually kept in a first class Drug Store. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, day or night. TERMS CASH. Jan. 31, 1867. 9 3m Baltimore Cards. . CUAS. II. MYERS St BRO , IMPORTERS OP Brandy, Wine, Gin, Cigars, Olive Oil, Lon donJStout, &c. 72 Exchange place, BALTIMORE, MD. ' Not. 25 . 1-tf " N. C. ROBERTSON, Jr., WITH . It. T. BANKS, Importers and Dealers in Cldna, Glass & Qucensivare, And Manufacturer of No. 53 South Street, je 23-30-tf. BALTIMORE, MD. JOHN C. MASON & CO., Monumental Steam Cake and Cracker Bakery, Not. 45 and 47 TF. Pratt Street, 2d Door from Spear's Wharf BALTIMORE, MD. : Not. 25. . ' , 1-tf J. L. DICKEN, of No. Ca., WITH -HARTMAN & STRAUS, CLOTHIERS, Nos. 321 and 323, Baltimore Street, . Aug I.l-37-tf. BALTIMORE. WARNER & BR0., "WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SEIOES, No. 246 Baltimore St.., up Stairs, , . BALTIMORE, MD. December 2. -tf Cht. Spilker.' r Chr. Rogge CUAS. SPILKER & CO., ? : IMPORTERS OF ' '' ' Fancy Goods & Toys, Nos- 10 & 12 Hanover St., ' - BALTIMORE, MD. Not. 24, " "f ' ' : 1-tf Jt,.F. Phillipt. Burguine Maitland. PHILLIPS & MAITLAND, General Commission 4 Forward ing Merchants, BALTIMORE, MD. Not, 52.f ' . 1-tf WIESENFELD & CO., . CL O THIERS, Noi 25' Hanover Street, ; BALTIMORE, MD. Not. 25. 1-tf Norfolk Cards. New Wholesale Grocery House. SMITH, ELLIOTT & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, NO. 12 ROANOKE SQUARE, Norfolk, Va. TnE UNDERSIGNED HAVE Es tablished at 12 Roanoke Square, Nor folk, Va., as Wholesale Dealers in GROCERIES, PROVISIONS . AND , DOMESTIC LIQUORS, Orders promptly and carefully attended Consignments of goods in the Grocery line solicited, and prompt returns made. WM. H. SMITH, Scotland Neck, N. C. CHAS. G. ELLIOTT, 'T, IT, Late of N. C. GILBERT ELLIOT jan. 17, 1867. 6-2ra WILLIAM LAMB, COMMISSION MERCHANT, Norfolk, Virginia. WILL ADVANCE TWO-THIRDS CURRENT LIVERPOOL PRICE OF COTTOX, in gold or its equivalent, on all consignments to his friends in Liver pool, and forward free of commission, by Norfolk and Liverpool steamers. Refers to the Banks and Bankers of Wilmington, N. C, and Norfolk, Va. jan. 21, 1807. 8-3m 2?e !S. a SOSTSb COTTON FACTORS AND Gen, Commission Merchants WILLS' WHARF, Norfolk, Virginia. .. REFER TO W. G. Lamb, jr., Esq., Messrs. Rhodes & Bro., Williamston ; Messrs. Cooper Bro., Jaraesviilc ; Col. W. F. Martin, Eliz abeth City ; Henry Butler, Esq., New l'ork; Exchange Nat. Bank, Abrfolf, Va. Sept 15 ' 42-Cra FREER & NEAL, Gen. Commission Merchants, NORFOLK, VA. LIBERAL ADVANCES ON CONSIGNMENTS Geo. II. Freer, John B. Ncal, of X. C. of X. C. Ji. IT. Smith, Jr., Scotland Neck, X. C. May 19, 1806. " 25 tf KICKS,- COTTOX AND Gen. Commission Merchants NORFOLK, VA. BAG G IXC and ROPE 1'iirnishod pay able iu Cotton. Libor?l advances made. scp 1 10-tt' JA3IES CORDON & CO., Comm ission Merchants, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. PROMPT rERSONAL ATTENTION givyn to the sale of Produce of every kind, and to the purchase of all supplies for Farmers, Merchants, and others in the country. nov 29, 1-tf U.W.Grand i, C.R.Grandy, CW.Grandy.jr C. W. C RANDY & SONS, House Established 1845, FACTORS, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION ME R GIIA NTS, Mcintosh's Wharf, NORFOLK, VA. SOR THE SALE OF COTTON, Grain, Naval Stores and Country Pro duce generally, and purchasers of General Merchandise. Sept 15 42-tf KADER BIGGS. J. J. BIGGS KADER BIGGS & CO., GENERAL Commission Merchants, AND COTTON FACTORS, McPhails Wharf, NORFOLK, VA. Shipments made to Liverpool free of forwarding Commissions, and the usual advances made. 15?" Special? attention paid to the sale of Cotton, and all kinds of Country Pro duce, june 2 27 ly LIVERPOOL & NORFOLK, - DIRECT TRADE. "If AMES GORDON & CO., GEXEKAL Jl Commission and Forwarding Merch ants, Norfolk, Va., would announce to their friends in North Carolina, that a line of first class Steamers, are now running between the port of Norfolk and Liver pool, thus affording an opportunity to those desirious of sustaining the enter prise of Elii'cct Soailhci'ii 'J-pjUlC, seldom offered. ' In view of the need of a mass of South ern planters for an immediate realisation on their crops, we would state that to such as wish to ship their produce to Liverpool through us, we will advance on all con signments, two-thirds of the market value of such produce, taking the Liverpool quotations. Such advance to be made in Gold or Currency, as the parties may de sire. . JAMES GORDON & CO. Norfolk. Jan. 24, 1S07. 8 tf KIEE FOR SALE-a very superior article. Apply to Bcpl 40-tf GEO. C. SUGG. New York Cards. JOHN S. DANCY, JOHN II. TIYMAN, of Tarboro', N. C. of Scotland Neck, N. C. JOSEPH H. HYMAN, late of Tarboro', N. C. oahsv, hVman a eo.f - GENERAL Commission Merchants, for the Sale of all kinds of S O U T II E tt If P RO D U CE, and purchase of General Merchandise, -. fie?W YORK. au-g. 24, 39-tf A. T. BRUCE & CO., Cotton Factors AND General Commission Merchants, For the Sale of Cotton and other Southern Produce. No. 166 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. PARTIES Shipping Cotton to us can be accommodated with funds to pay Tax by calling on Messrs. Brown & Pippea or Mr. II. D. Teel, Tarboro'. Property covered by Insurance as soon as ftarted. oct 13-46-tf Rich'd J. Cornier. Chas. II. Richardson JAS. II. McCLUER, of N. C, WITH R. J. CONNER & CO., Manufacturers and Dealers iu Hats, Caps, Furs, Straw Goods. 254 & 256 CANAL STREET, Nearly opposite Earle's Hotel, NEW YOIIK. July 28 35-tf If. P. HOKNE of Washington, N. C., with Chichester & to., TV'holesale Dealers in Foreign $ Domestic Hardware, No. 55 Beekman & 85 Ann Street, Second Floor, NEW YORK. E2f All orders promptly attended to. Feb. 10 11-tf C. C. WHITE HURST, of North Carolina, with TUFTS, BURTIS & CO., -vwmm - UUM. Dealers iu Foreign and Doineslis Fancy Goods and Yankee Notions. 400 & 402 Broadway, Cor. Walker Street, NEW Y O 11 K . Nov. 25. 1-tf Wm, Bryce & Co., COTTON FACTORS, 29 CHAMBER STREET, June 16. 29-tf TANNAIIILL, McILWALNE k CO., GENERAL Commission Merchants, No. 79 Front Street, NEW YORK. Q! FECIAL attention given to the sale of k9 Cotton. The following parties are authorized to receive and pay Revenue Tax on all Cotton intendend for consignment to us: D. Tender & Co., Tarboro', N. C. Matthew Weddell, " " W. W. Parker, Rocky Mount, N. C. Vick, Mebane & Co, Wilmington, N C G H Brown & Co., Washington, N C Our open Policy covers all Produce con signed to us from moment shipment is made nov 3-49-6m J. E. VE2JABLE, J. P. WILLIAMSON J. E. VENABLE & CO., Commission Merch an ts, PETERSBURG, VA. ELL and buy on Commission, Cotton, Tobacco, Snuff, Wheat, Flour, Corn, Provisions and General Merchandise. Bagging and Rope on hand and for sale. M. T. Sweeney, Traveling Agent. REFER TO Thomas Wallace, Pies. Exchange Bank, T. T. Broocks, President Virginia Bank, R. Rutland, President City Bank, John Kcvju, President Farmers Bank, Frick and Ball, Baltimore, Md. Sept. 1 40-tf ROBT. A. MARTIN. EOBT. TANNAIIILL MARTIN & TANNAHILL GUOCEItS AND C OM MISSION MER C HANTS 129 Sycamore Street, PETERSBURG, VA. Feb. 17 12-tf ATILWA1NE & CO., Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants, J9, 81 atfd 83 Sycamore 'Street, PETERSBURG, VA. R. D. Mtflwiane. Frank Potts. S. S. Bridgers. Nov. 25. 1-tf SITUATION WANTED. A YOUNG LADY WHO HAS CON siderable experience as a teacher, de sires a sitution to teach a faiuly or a neigh borhood school. Address, K.T.EXUM, jan. 31, 1S67. 9-6t Battleboro', N. C. THE WEEKLY SOUTHERNER THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1867 Taking (he . nineteenth Century Down The Rev. Hugh Stwell Brown, of Liv erpool, gave a lecture in Dumfries last month, on 4 The Uod Old Times." We extract the- following passage : "Men did as wonderful intellectual feats 2,000 and 3,000 years ago as are done in the presenttitne. If it be true that man was only Wl improved gorilla, we jipn't d-tfirev usrater resembhnc! to it tuen than now ; for his own part, he believed there were more monkeys now than thtn, ani possibly the gorilla rnfghf not so much represent the race from which we sprang 33 the destiny to which we are hastening. Abraham, he believed, to be as thoroughbred a gentleman as any in the nineteenth ceh tury ; Jacob as good a man of busines as the could find on the Liverpool Exchange ; while Joseph was a etfkesman, and Moses a legislator, wrorth a great deal more in their time than all our lords, commons, and town councils put iogether. 'Ve think we do all things on a grand scale, and a ccckney will boast that the; largest theatre in London will hold four thousand people ; thirty thousand would have scarcely filled thefcoliseum at Rome St. George's Hall Liverpool, is justly re garded ns a very ma.ificent building, but it was onlf a reprcduction of a very little bit of the paths of Diocletian, which were nearly of quarter of a mile square, the whole structure being a very grait deal larger than our houses of Parliament. Some m derns said if ther people of the ancient times should revisit the earth, they would be very much astonished. He had no doubt tbey would, but he rould be very sorry if they did in case they on ly laughed at us. Possib'y our grand fathers who lived in that stupidiest of ali centuries, the eighteenth, would be as tonished, but not the men of two thou sand years ago. 'We thought we had made great pro gress in military science, but believed we were at a disadvantage compared with the ancients. In Rome alone there were 800,000 public baths, and it never had more than half the population of London. They had hot, cold and vapor baths, and something like our turkish baths ; and what was better stul, the people constants ly used them. We boasted of our civil engineering, but it was questionable if it had advanced much since the time when the Romans built their acqueducts, which were carried over valleys, support on thousands of arches, or tunnelled for miles through the solid rock, while the greatest scientific skill was required to give tha supply a proper grade. "There was a greal ieal of talk about that wondeiful triumph of genius, bring ing the water of Loch Katrine to Glaa gow, but the q-nnty of water delivered to every inhabitant of Rome was ten times the water supplied to Londou. An abundant supply of water a special char acteristic of ancient cities. We often read of the inhabitants of a beseiged city suffering from hunger, but rarely, if ever, from thirst. And there was no over crowding. Nineveh contained 600,000 inhabitants, but the popu ation of London was, for its area, five titties as dense as that of Nineveh. The ancients did not allow the dead to be buried within the walh of their cities a practice only be ginning to be abolished with us. In point of cleanliness, also, they were more careful than we are. He read the other day of some people taking cholera from washing the clothes of persons who had died from that malauy. According to the Mosaic law these clothes should have been buried. Moses "would not allow people to live in houses that were un healty, but it was no use taming the peo. pie out and allowing the house to stand ; he knew people wotld live in it, if it remained, and so he said : 'Down with every stick and stone of it." "In the matter of sewerage, the Ro mans were superior to us. The city was built on arches for the purpose of com plete sewerage, and there yet remains a sewer in Rome so wide that a cart loaded with hay might pass through it. Excel lent and well contrived drains had been discovered in Nineveh and other towns. The refuse of the cities was burned in the open plains. The hand boms of thirty thousand years ago produced cloth of as fine quality, in pofnt of texture, color and style, as we can produce ; and the Hin doos, and some of the Africans, knew the process of manufacturing iron and steel, which led them to look wi h contempt, and to reject as rotten, the specimens of those metals which we sent them. In all these points the past compared favorably with the present. 'No doubt the present had its achieves nients. It had the printing-press and rail roads, telegraphs and extensive manufac tories. Hts believed that its superiority cons'sjjed more in the greater power of production, nd in the wider diffusion of wealth and knowledge than obtained in the past, rather than in the intrinsic ex cellence, or beauty, or brilliancy, or depth of what it d:d or achieved.'' The Family Newspaper. Dr. Franks lin remarks that a man as often gets two dollars for the one he spends in forming his mind, as he does for a dollar he lays out in any other way. A mm eats a pound of sugar and it is gone, and the pleasure he has enjoyed U ended, but the information he gets from a newspaper is ticasured up to be erjoved anew, and to be used;whenever occasion or inclination calls for it. A newspaper is not the wis dom of one man or two men ; it is the wisdom of the age, and of past ages, too. A family without a newspaper i3 always a year behind the times in general infor mation ; besides they can never think much nor find much to think about. And then there are the little ones growing up without a taste for reading. Who, then, would be without a newspaper and who would read one regularly without paying for it?" The Homestead let. , AN ACT TO BE ENTITLED " AN ACT TO ESTABLISH FREEHOLD HOME STEADS FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE." " Sec. 1. Be it enacted by tii General Assembly of the State of jforth Carolina, and it is hereby tuacted by the authority of the same, Thai it shall be lawtui ior any cit:zen of the State, who is possessed of a freehold of lands within the same, to file his petition in the . Court of Please and Quarter Sessions of the County where the land lies, praying for the allotment of a homestead therefrom not exceeding one hundred acre3 if in the county, or one acre ifia the' ci(y 6i t62,-sh ..alkt mentmay include a sinzle dwelling and the neccss&ry outhouses, and therefore it shall be th duty of the Court to appoint five freeholders to lay oS and allot to the petitioner said homestead, by metes and bounds according to their discretion, make a descriptive account of the same under their hands and seals, and return it to the Court at the next session. Provided, That if any building, other than the recessary outhouses or houses belonging to the cartilege shall be erected on any part of said homestead in a' town or city, then so much of the lands as is covered by said buildings, shall not be exempt longer from execution under the provisions of this act. Sec. 2. That upon the return, as afore said, it shall be the duty of the Clerk to record it upon the minutes, and to : make out and deliver to the Register, of the county, a copy thereof, who shall register the same in his books, .making a memoran dum of the time when it is done at the foot of the registration, for which services, these officers shall be entitled the fees fixed by law in similar cases. Sec. 3. That the homestead, so laid off and registered, shall not be subject to ex ecution for any debt contracted, or cause of action, or o her liability, save taxes ac cruing, after the same is registered. Pro vided, said homestead shall not bo ex empt from execution, for any debt or cause of action arising upon any penal bond or covenant previously executed, al though the sams may accrue after the re gistra;ion aforesaid. Sf.c. 4. That if any person be taken under a capias ad sail "faciendum, sued out upon any judgment founded, or cause of action accrued subsequnt to the regis tntion aforesaid, it shall not be required of him to put the allotted homestead in his schedule of effects, or to surrender the same, Provided, This exemption shall not apply as aforesaid to process on judg ment, founded on penal bonds or coven ants previously executed, although the causes of action did not accrue till after the registration. Sec. 5. That no male person in lawful wedlock have power to sell or dispose of a homestead so eet apart without the con currence of his wift, evidenced by deed, executed and verified v.ith the same for malities that may he required by law to comey the lands of femes covert. Sec. G. That iu ail cases where a home stead freehold is laid off under the provis sions of this act, from an estate descenda ble to heirs, and the wife survives, she shall be entitled to the said homestead for dower, if she shall so elect, to be allotted to her in the manner now provided by law ; subject nevertheless to the condi tion thai if she marry again, there being a child or children of the issue of her first husband, she shall take one third of the same only, including the dwelling. Pro tided, That the homestead provided for in the foregoing sections shall not be ex empt from debts incurred for making im provements thereon or cultivating the same. Provided further, That such ex emption shall continue after the death of such householder or housholders, for the benefit of the children, as a home, until the youngest child shall become twenty, one years of age. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the following property of each head of a fami ly, or housekeeper, shall be exempt from execution, except for taxes after the rati-1 fication of this act, to wit: all necessary J larming and mechanical tools, one wort norse, one yoke or oxen, one cart or wa?- on, one milk cow ani calf, fifteen head of hogs, five hundred pounds of pork or ba con, fifty bushels of corn, t ween ty bushels of wheat or rice, and household and kitch en furniture not to exceed in value two hundred dollars. Provided, That the lis braries of licensed attorneys at law, prac ticing physicians and ministers of the Gospel, also the instruments of surgeons and dentists used in their professions. Sec. 8. That all laws and clauses of laws coming with in the meaning and purview of this act are hereby repealed. In General Afsembly, read three times and ratified, 25 Feb. 1867. R. Y. McAdek, Speaker House of Commons. M. E. Manly, Speaker of the Senate. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 26, 1S67. 1 I, It. W. Best, Secretary of State, do hereby certify that the foregiong is a true copy of original on file in this office. Given m.der my hand, this 26th day of February 1867. R. W. BEST, Secretary of State. It appears to us that Sherman's bill, as amended and passed, still leaves much radical work unaccomplished. Taking into consideration the large conservative element among the ne groes, it is certain that the South can not, even under a government recon structed after the new rule, cast a Re publican vote. Is there no way of so amending the imperfect measure as to let black males vote twice ? An error of a single letter is the only one that has been detected in upward of sixty different editions of the New Testament printed at Oxford. Sayings of Josh. Billings. I hold that a man haz jist az much rite to spell a word as it is pronounsed as he haz to pronounse it the way it aiu't spelt. Sticking up our noze don't prove eny thbg, for the most sensitiff person in the world iz when he iz away from biz kittles iz a bone-biler. : ' Doctors differ" That's so ; I alwns thought thare waz a grate difference in them. . - But fu sights, in this life, are more sub lime and pathetic than to see a poor, but virtuous yung man, full ov christian fors titude, struggling with a mustach. Common sense iz most generally dis pize by those who hain't got it. " If I Wrtfi-sked which waz the best wav, in theze days ov tmytnehun- tew bring up a boy, i should say bring him up the back way. - It don't require any ednkashun tew tell the truth, but tew tell licz well duz. We are told "that an honest man iz the noblest work of, God" but the demand for the work has been so li anted, that i hav thought a large share ov the fust edi shun must still be in the author's hands. Men don't seem never tew git tired of talking about themselfs, but i hav heard them when i thought they showed signs of weekness. Sum folks are alwuz tricing tew see thru a mi estqn edgeways, when, ef they would only turn it over on the flat 8ide, they could look rito thru the hole. Buty iz like a ranebow full ov prom is, but short-lived. It ain't best tu swap with yure rela shuns, unless you kan afford tew give them the but end ov the trade. Amung the blu laws of Kunnecticut (which are now obsulute,) are this: "No man shall chaw lerbakker on Sunday, un less he swallers the spit." "Giv me liberty or give me deth" but ov the 2 i prefer the liberty. What iias Become of the Cotton Crop of 1866 ? The Augusta Constitu tionalist contains an article under the above caption, copied from the Federal Union. The cotton crop of 18CC, it says, must have brought in market nearly two hundred . million dollars, and then gives the subjoined extract from the Federal Union, which we transfer to our coU umns : "What has become of th'13 vast amount of money ? It has rot gone to pay old debts ; if it had, the money would still be in the country, and money would be plenty. But there does not appear to be any more money now in the Cotton States than at this timo last year. It is all gone, all passed away, and gone to enrich other people : all gone into the pockets of our oppressors. A large pertion of it has 1 gone to buy provisions, which the Souths ern planter could have made, and saved the money he got for cotton. Will the Southern people never learn wisdom, from experience ? If they wish to be come rich and independent, let them learn, first of all, to make their own pro visions, and after that, make what cotton they can. A short cotton crop is gener ally more profitable to the cultivator than a large one, because when the crop is small the price will be large, besides when the planter divides his labor3 and makes provisions as well as cotton, the money he gets for his cotton is his to keep, and does not go to the North to buy proviss ions. If, in addition to raising their own provisions, the Southern people would manulacture their own cotton, they would soon become the richest people on earth, but as long as they depend alone upon the cotton crop, they must be content to work for a bare living, and a poor one at that, whilst all the profits of their labor goes to enrich some Northern manufacs urer or some Western speculator in pros visions. No people that depend on others for their victuals and clothes can ever be rich or prosperous or independent. Cot ion is not king, though many persons make themselves slaves to cotton. We say to every planter who desires to make money and be independent, first be sure you are right about provisions, atd then go ahead with you cotton.". Forgot to Look Up. I have somes where seen the story of a man who went one evening to steal corn from his neigh bor's field. He took his little boy with him to sit on the fence and keep a look out, so as to give warning in case any one should come along. Ihe man jumped over the fence with a large bag on his arm, and, before commencing to take the corn, he looked all around, first one way and then the other, and not seeing any per son, he was just about to fill his bag. Then the little fellow, his son a good little fel low he was, too cried out 1 " Father, there is one way you haven't looked yet !" The father was startled, and supposed that some one was coming. He asked his son which way he meant. "Why," said the little boy. " you for got to look up 1" The father was conscience stricken ; he came back over the fence, took his little boy by the hand, and hurried quietly home without the corn which he had designed to take. The little boy had reminded him that the eyes of God were upon him. " The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good." Gen. Speed S. Fry, who killed Zollicoffer, Captain Harlan, who first raised a company in Kentucky for the Union army, the officers of the Fred men's Bureau, and several Tjrominent Unionists resident in Boyle county ,Ky., have been notified " by the rebels to leave there on penalty of death. Gen. Thomas has been applied to for pro tection. . A little girl, happening to hear her motherspeak. of going into half mourning, said, VWhy are you going into half mourning, mamma? Are any of our re lations Half dead ?" Sarratt His Betrayer What the Latter ' Say. . '.,J.v-,,!--,ii-r The New York Times of Saturday has tie following: ; " : '''..'''."' Hemy St. Marie, the witnea by whose evidence the identity of Surratt, the air leged accomplice of llojth, Afzarodt and 1 Paine, was determined, arrived at this ? port yesterday, in the steamer Sjt. Lau. reate, and went direct to Washington by evening train. St. Marie; i$ a French Ca nadian, of fair appearance, quick, ' keafv black eye, and general ''look -of intelUS gence. He states that he went to Europo and entered the Papal Guard as a Zousi ' ave. Shortly after he entered the" service-,' A he recognized the validity, of the Italian v Pjoycrd, which says: "Rome once seen the : milh ts reaL-Taud forsakins his eafiv be- - lief, embraced that of the Prbtfjst'ants.- ! While attending a -festival," St'.'1 Marie1 met Surratt, who approached and asked him if he was not an American. He " applied that he was, and whispering, said ; You remind me of an American named ' Surratt ; are you he 1" ''Oh, no," replied 1 Surratt. "All the better for vou." res joined St. Marie. Subsequently, when excited wnh wine, Surratt confessed thjit he was the man of whom St. Marie spokej ' and at various times indulged in bragga 1 docio concerning the Canadian raids, thd.r assassination plot, and other cognate mat- . ters, greatly to the astonishraentof St. , Marie and the delig'U of his associates, many of whom were Canadian refugees and raiders like himself. J-' From the narrative it seems that St. Marie became quite intimate with Surratt,?, who, though only a private in the Guard,, " was well supplied with funds, and gatei ' the impression of perfect serenity a se- f renity and security that could only ben procured by absolute protection. Avail- ing himself of the constant indiscretion of. hid comrade, St. Marie thoroughly informed himself of matters of great significance, which can properly be brought out only upon the trial of Surratt. - These matters he laid before General King, our minister ' at Rome, who reported them to Mr. Sew- ' ard. By direction of the State Depart1-, mont; General King took such prompt : stcp3 with the Roman Government as se cured the immediate arrest of Surratt, who was identified upon the oath of St, Marie. . ( If the revelations made by Surratt can " bs confirmed by credible corroborative testimony, his arrest will prove the most 5 important link, in the chain of "consJiiraV' cy evidence' yet produced. " ' ' f -' m ' The Great Eastern. Sir James An ! derson, commander of the Bhip, writes to ' a friend in New York city that the Great : Eastern would positively sail from Liv erpool on the 20th of'MrcHi: She had. been placed on a gridiron, so that they could get unaer her, ana ner DOitora was found to be sound and tight. He says: ' - 'The condition of the great ship is in all respects superior to my best auticipas tions. She is a magnificent, great, strong fabric, and will go to sea stronger, better equipped, in better steaming order, and with more steaming power than she ever yet started with since she was launched, I venture to say that she will be recog- nized, when she arrives in America, as the finest ocean pallace that ever floated, with every convenience for two thousand. : passengers, without crowding or anything to cauie discomfort. We are fitted with. 2,700 bed-places, but are only furnishing 2,000 beds. I have taken away or left out every bed that would spoil the comfort of a cabin. She will, I think, this year prove whether a great principle is to be inaugus rated at once or indefinitely postponed ; whether great steamers connecting Eu rope and America aVe yet to become a feature as marked on the ocean, as your Fall River steamers are, of what Ameris cans will have when they can command it.! ; Of one thing I feel convinced, that Ihero is no other nation and no other port but : your own, that can make her, succecsful, and we shall soon see whether she will be so much preferred. as to make her1', profitab'e and give to Americans, so fond, ; of travelling, a great ferry boat in which, ; sea-sickness must be tha exception, and all other risks than in any other ocean steamer. . . . ' Agricultural Reports Prices op Farm Labor. Tha report of Agriculture, for January contains an elaborate compi lation of the statistics of wages for farm, labor throughout the country..- It is based on original returns from every state, in the Union, almost every county being represented in a portion of ihem. It also, includes the territories. The average rate for white labor, without board, is ; made 28 per month, and $15 50 per month. The average rate of freemen' , labor is $16 ; with board furnished, $9 85., The highest rate for the states is in California. about $45 ; Massachusetts ' pays the next highest, $38. . The average, i rate for eastern states i 833 30 ; in the. middle states $30 7; in the western states $28 90 ; iu the southern states for . freedmen $16. , ' ; , ' The increase in the rate of labor, -slnco ' 1860, is about 50 per cent.; since 1835, upon Carey's estimate, 70 per cent. f , The rate of wages, with board, of the ' states forming the belt between PennsyK ' vania anc lowa, vanes nut zi ranging from $18 72 to $18 06.' cents, The Revenue Fraud Committea'' closes their report saying that thcro ; may be some meritorious officers Ja ' New York, Philadelphia aud Brooklyn, 7 but nevertheless . the frauds , are 4o universal and gigantic and the morals' of the manufacturers so tainted, and ' confidence in the local officers has be come so shaken, that a. thorough, , re-organization is deemed, necessary. ,, , . Commander Cooper, of the Winoost ki, cruising in the West Indies, reports no slave landing effected, or expedition fitted out within the year. The impoj tation of Coolies readers the slajQ trade unprofitable.
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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