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jr V ,f it; . Tin: (A ' -J" STATESMAN. 'Published every Saturday, In the Mc Intyrc Building, rerson Street, : ' PATETTEVILLE, X. C. ,li ' -' ; A or auwcnirTipH : Oa .Tear, Jn advance, - - $2.00 tilx Month, la advance, - - - - 1.00 Three IotUhs, In advance, - - 73 I OETKY. V1CC1311F BT HQ0.UIGUT. BY HON. WARHKK W. WIXSl OW. Moonlight on Waccunaw ! tbi breeze Scarce makes a ripjde on the; lake ; The lingering u:nbM:n "mid the tree Loiters a loth hU leave to take. And deeper dyej the autumnal hue Of leaved already bathed In dews. , Underneath yoo &ed trco , A fountain bubbles merrily, ""Whoc crystal watr r cent to fill That aweepetli murmuring along, I Like broken note of dlilant soug, More sluggUh oj it o award goe, Lulling iUclfiuto rrpoe. 'Ti& moonlight! what on earth to fair As moonlight on tho waten there t !Vhcu all fair things commingling, move The soul of man to kindly love ; And o'er tho soul wlmte'cr hath power Like beauty In the moonlit hour, Where the closed Up hath been unhealed And the heart' myrterle revealed. And love triumphant-dares defy flavplclon, fear, and jealouy. A little word, a tiny word. But faintly upokcn, falutly heard, . A stolen glance, a smothered lgh, A blushing look, a downnut eye, 'Will touch a chord, and rail to life Feeling with which the h-art U ri:V. Upon thy boHom. Wacciro iw, 1$ mirrored every lintrotM t.ir; Ajid looking down upon thy stream. On little curia:!. mlHt ! in -The--? aru thy own bright Lir- b j"--. An J trhief thj fillers riti.:lc-. Ai Iffrota IC.-vea t!i'V 1 I'l-.h To t!ii'. tlj l.vll-t ok r;;ih ; In the vain lwy thy U -i "r:!h: Their love I mi I lou,; I l i f-. Ah ! u vil .wct?; W'.i ' .uu i v A U'Jvv t!i Kl r lit ;: Or tim- vaIi ;i . in. '' It; ant . 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News has been received from Mr. Hf.n'iit Klliott, who has been engaged for two years past in making explorations and obser vations In the fur-seal Inlands in the Bchring Sea, to the date of May I. lie announces the continued prosecution of his labors, the results of which were transmitted to the National Museum in the summer of 1872. He has especially devoted himself to an investigation of the hab its of the fur-seal, walrus and sea lion, and has made a topographical survey of the rookeries upon a portion of the Islands on which these animals come" to bring forth their young. f His work In 1872 was devoted main ly to St. Vaul Island, but he expec ted very soon after the date of his rlettcr, to visit St. George and the other islands of the group, there to prosecute similar inquiries. '. j - I One of the editors of a certain pv pcr.which bhall bo nameless, soon aCtcr beginning to learn the printing business, went to court a preacher's daughter. The next time he attend cd niectintr he was taken down at hearing the minister announce in his text: M V daughter w grievouiy tormented with a 'devil. " FT 1 H VOL 1. FAYETTEVILLE, From the Home, (Ga.) Commercial. Bill Arj on tlio Xtnin. Everybody Ort to Do the very JJest lie Cm. Jfr. A"tc Sl ii' In thffc trv in times I think every xnrm ort to do tho very best ho can. - George Wyatt axd for my views upon the situation and thaU czaktly what I told him. Says I, George, do you go homo to your hash house and do the very bast yu " c-ui."7 r George ficcmed to understand me and made tracks for his tavern. He'll cum out all right George will. When pos sums gets scarce he can live on koon: The main itsshoo in thin crisis eerns to Vc a little difhkulty in exchangtn the produktsof the country. Every body says there is a plenty of every thing where theres no money to keep it movin. Sum foaks who- used to credit right smart are now runnin the ca.h skedule; which amounts to a reinilar blockade. I should thinks a luniak would know that its the worst time in the world to begin a cnh system, when there ayit no cash. If everybody would swap round what they have got to spare it would soot most of us mity well. Any body is welcum to swap with me for anything in my line of busine, and it my price don't soot ein 'I'll cum luwn to theres rather than break a rrade, for you know the margin on my &lde is bid enufl to allow right .tmart room for dodgin. At all e vcuts I intend to do the very best I ran. The credit system is good enuf for ih, anil in my nplnyun it is a highly harmonious and friendly institution, it mnkes people respectful and rc pcktablc. When I . owe a good carted man he feels kindly towards i.e because he has licfriendcd me. If feels forterlikc I was one of his ict lams. When he reads over the arable of the good Samaritan he ;;!i!:on!ciously hays to himself "that's :nc. I helped Arp and his luvly ofT prin when imbodv cl.c wouhlcnt.r I think it would be a good thing ii cvrvlK)dy owd one another all round. It improves the tone of ociety. It enlarges the heart and has a good oflektion on the liver. It settles ones dinner, and hence Mr. Solomon writes bowels of mercy and bowels of compassion. I never kno wed one of these corked-up cash men but what was dispeptikal. I never know- ed a man who paid cash for every- more stratCgy to keeptho little Arps thing v,Jio had any cash to lend a ( in viule8 aatl ciotncg tuan Uonypart poor feller without sekurity. A cash J Splayed in his retreat from Mos man is always an independent man, ' cou j tell you that's a solmn fakt and your ran t joke with him to do a uj10; p:l5sei of children oi all sizes ayy good. I don't like tlt -u tui t ir0m a saddle tack up, will sharpen :uu.:h.. They think their tr.rney is a a poor manV wits iuickcr than any little better than anybody tin mon- tjling jn tjl0 AVorld espeshually il cy. They live at home and board th(J oM lieu keCpS up a rep-ktable at the same place, but the latcli-string Xvl in the rear- KKeep a movin don't hang on the outside much- olll man Fays g)lc .tcep a ra0vin Tliey don't w ant anybody to borrer their wheel-barrcr nor get water out of their well. Still I suppose they aretryintodo the very best they I like a man who cant refuse a poor feller credit when he needs it anil is trym to pay. Uu lakt u s bet- ter to credit him and lose it than to be dodgin round tho truth to keep from it, or to die lrom ossifikashun of the heart and pek rocks in the next world for a living. I knowd a poor shoemaker onst to ax a store keeper to trust him for a pair of shoe pinchers. The store-keeper told him he would do so, but that he dident hae a puir in the houe. The poor K'.I'i a looked around hadly and happene 1 to . tf cm upon the top shelf, with :;. ,a;r outside the rap per. "Why, there mm, Mr. Mack nay he. Mack wilted for a moment but he rallied and say, ' them up therere steel pineher, and are worth just two dollars and a half. Joe knowd they was iron and was worth '17 cents, but he inerscntly remarked that he had never had a steel pair and he believed he would try em. Mack always declared them pinchers was mily well sold, tho ho never got the money. I think, however, that very man ort to do thevery best he can. . . But of all times in the world I look upon the credit system as just the the thiug for a pauic not that the panik is any thing pertikler to me. By no means. I've been right in the j middle of one-alLmydifwSr-rvo- nev er seed the time that there wasent a crisis at my house. I was born in a strain, and its followed me up like a shadder ever sense. I've got akkli mated to it, as the doctors say. It's part of my daily entertainment to contrive for future supplies. It keeps me lively and polite and amiable. I hear these merchants tawkin about "bridgin over'1 and tkhedgin in" and diggin a holo to day to bo filled up to-morrow. Well, every man and woman in these times ort to do the very best he or she can. but as for hedgin and bridgin could hav got a patent right for all that sort of bis ness 20 years ago, and had it renew ed for improvements every year6ince No, sur, I've no idea of jinin the cash system at my time of life, and esphually just at this partikler peri od. My konstitution wouldent stand it. It's goin So be just all that a fel. ler can do to git through this squeeze on a credit, and as for me I would perish to deth in two days if my ex istence depended on the cash. Its goin to take a doublo team to pull through this mud hole, shore, and right smart pushin behind. We've all got the breechin on at my house, and we'll go through if the hame strings don't break and the durned thing don't last too long. ' One of these long-winded paniks would strain my credit system powerfully, but everybody must do the very best he, she or it can and trust to Provi dence for the sequel. Mr. Nevin, Sur Now is tho time for foaks to show what metal they are made of. Now is the time for ; foaks to holJ thcir lQ am hav -nnf.lpnr Tf nvorviloliv who has , t a gundUs will lend it to them wj bent (one of whom I am which) things will git equalised and regulated in no time. There is a plenty of money and plenty of truck for everybody if it was divided out right. I've always managed to get my sheer, tho at times it's required and never ray die. Bull run's shoes are out. at the toes, Chickahominy bascnt got a whole coat to his back, and you know he's beginnin to no- tico the girls a little, and wants to go tieccnt; Shenandoah must have a . mcrincr dros lor the winter, and lhu liaiiv is nh!igL.d to have a pair of little blankets for his crib. Five or six of the others want shoes and ttockens jest as soon as you are able to get cm. The shugar is out, and the coflfee is low, and last week's washin aint paid for, and you must send a man to fix that leak in the roof to-morrow." My good wife is a thought full oman, an I when she tell un ?he wants any thing as sooti as I g'.t able, I know exactly what that mean: It means he wants it by to-morrow night if not sooner. andI tell you I always display my finest taktiks in such emergencies. In fact, I do the very bet I can. It's the comfort of my life to look back and say I've almost always worked up to her schedule. If the future looks dark I shut my ESMAN. 3ST, O.; OSrOV. 22, eyi and dream over the past. I likt Id Newton bekaus he keep his epi: up, He's a drummer in New Ye , r nd he Baid that in all this tre- mr " c 113 crisis which have shuk the nat t front center to circumfrence th. v.- York drummers had stood j lin 1 solid as the rock of gibraw- 1:. liesed they xyere all a doin tl ; best they could. Sid Hughes i . ..vious man, I recon. for he s t '..'XL-.r York drummers was . ' .11 .v l ...1 . to bust on. That they owed about as much as they dident owe and did ent keer a darn. Well. I know that Ed is mity clever for he gives me a l,at which hat, however, hav excit ed some invidious and random re marks seme I got home.' Sich re marks are jv cry natural when a man goes to wirin new clothes before he pnys for ttc old ones. Mv motto hav alwavs been to do the very bestVou can,and keep 1 eye open to the bright side. The moun tains most always disappear jest be fore you get to 'em, and if you hav to climb over okasionally, you are shore to find a few flowers on tho way up, if you look for cm. A ches- nut bur has got a sweet nut hid away in the middle of it. Ther s a heap of good things with burrs over 'cm, and he's a sensible man who knows how to get the goodies out without sticking his fingers. I'm not a goin crazy about a panik or loss of money,, or busted banks or any oth er transitory sercumstance. A little m?al and a few potatoes will do my family till times get better, and I know a dozen clever farmers who wilt i trust mo for that. Farewell sirkus faro well old clown I . Therl bo a big gap in your aujience this time, shore. Me and tho boys can mike up a rcspck'table ring and play at home if we want to, and Mrs. Arp an 1 the girls can set around and hol ier and whoope. At any rate we are bound to do the very best we ca.i. It's every man's duty these times so be keerful and prudent. Para dice wasent made for fools. I went a chestnut huntin one day with a fel ler, and he got out on a limb and cut it oflf betwixt him and the tree. Hi broke his arm, and had like to have broke his neck. I heard a poor carpenter say yesterday that he'd be doged his cats if he wouldent lay down and die before he'd work for less than two dollars a day, panik or no panik. I don't feel responsible for no sich. They may go to heaven in their own balloon, if they want to. M? and Josh Billings was a lookin at the Grnfiik billoon the other day and after it was gone ho heaved a sigh ami, says he, "Arp, I don't like balloons. . About IS years ago I tuk around a hat to raise Jo dollars to hire a icller to go up in one, and he went up as straight as an arrow. It was a calm, still day in June, and I gaced at him and mv him go up, tip, until he went clean out of sight. No body has ever seed that billoon or that man from that day to this, and my hope is that he went ded strait to heaven; tho I aint a warrantin that line to nobody at this time.'' Well. I don't like em either, but I will advise them who aspire to go that wav to heaven to do the very best they can. Lastly Mr. Nevin, I want to re mark that these paniks, these collap ses, these bust nps, these "top nots cum down" are just as an emetik is to an overcharged stummak. Man ny to be helthy must be skattered a round so that everybody can git sum. When its most all piled up in a few pyramids the least jostle will dumble it to the ground. If I was King I'd fix a remedy for bloated fortunes mity juick. I'd tax a man nuthin on an incum of 5 thousan dol lars and under. Fd tax 10 per ct. on all between 10 and 20 thousan, and 1873 1STO. 23 so on doublin up to 50 thousan. A bove that I'd take it all, every dollar I tell you that will git 'em. That will keep down these Wall street rinrs. It will let I till! for all decent and respectable rmr- poses, and after that he must do his sheer for them who W M4A Cll. All have'nt been as smart or as; mean or as lucky as himself. It will put a limit upon a mans avarice and keen munny in better employment han payin. 00,000 for hfoicCjtrJL&l thousand for a diamond pin. When this law is passed, Mr. evin, our family supplies will be so cheap that the likes of me and yoti and our I wives and children can frolik hall our time. I think vour tkrhpr W would grow out and the back on the top of my hair cum head, the place where the hair ort td irrow, Until that glorious timb let ift all do tho very best we can. Yours, Bill Akiy Iis23ingr Goes lyy JPjia oi-. At the last session of the Lens lature of North Carolina, a commit tee was appointed to take into con sideration the finances of the State and to incubate and present to that body some plan for the arrangement of the public debt. For years the bonds of the State of North Carolina have been hawked about on Wall Street, offered to pur chasers at astonishingly low prices ; and, even sunk to such depreciation as they have reached, tempting no buyers. In one way or another, not to put too fine a point upon it, the credit of this commonwealth has been utterly ruined. In a financial point of view North Carolina has a vile reputation. In 1868, when the Republican par ty came, into power, it found the State loaded down with a fearful bur den of bonded and floating debt. It endeavored to establish a new re spect for the State credit by incor porating into the State Constitution a provision forbidding repudiation) and exacting the punctual- payment of interest and principal when due. The Democratic party however, resolved simplv for the sake of stripping the Republican' party of any honor which might attach to it from an able and successful adminis tration of the finances of the Statei to break the force of these solemn constitutional assurances in the mon ( ey marts of the world. And, there fore, the Democratic press of North Carolina teemed with warnings and cautions to capitalists not their money in North Carol to invest ina bonds ; with menaces of repudiation : and with mendacious denunciations of the characters of the officials of the State, and its works of improvement, whose duty it was to negotiate its bonds. The result was all that these selfish and time-servinc: de ma accrues could have desired. They were suc cessful, and the credit of North Car olina was destroyed. This is not the time, nor place, to speak of the possibilities .hat were dissipated in this way. This is not the occasion to lay the failure to complete the Western N. C R. R., the Fayetteville fc Coal Fields R. R. the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford li. R., the North Wes tern North Carolina R. R., and the Chatham R. R. to the Democratic party; or, to speak. more exactly, to its press. This is not the moment to advert to the fact that the develop ment ofour. material resources, which was dependent upon immigration, which was dependent upon the com pletion of a thorough system of in ternal improvements, .which was de pendent upon the untarnish credit of the State and a consequent sale of bonds, was preverted by the Demo cratic party its leaders; and its newspapers. Nor is it necessary to show now, as can be done easily, THE STATESMAN. RATES OF ADVERTISING : One Square, one time. - , - 1 00 " one mouth. - - 3."oo V six months, - 15.00 one year, - - 25.00 Yearly contracts with large advertisers made on very liberal terms. - ! The circulation of The Statesm jr at present good, and rapidly increasing fully justifies advertising in'its columns that if this development of material resources, resulting from immigra tion, this resulting from perfected internal improvements, and this re sulting from undoubted State credit, had not been frustrated bv the Dem ocratic press politicians. North Car olina would have been to-day fully able to meet its interest on its bonds; and to provide for -a sinking fund adequate to the ultimatepnyment of tho principaf of thSid bonds'. Our obieA iz to direct r.ttr-tirn - - - thing else, something tliat haS"occaf--- red more recently. ; x Through the machinations of tho Democratic party, its leaders and its presSj by preventing the: perfection of the intenial improvement system and 'by encouraging the midnight assassinations and arsons of the Ku Klnx, and by consequently prevent ing immigration anjl 'the develop ment of wealth and resources that would have inevitably1 -followed, North Carolina is not only unable to pay the interest on its debt, but is unable to pay the taxes absolutely necessary to carry on the govern ment, except with the utmost diffi culty. The DemocraticVnembers'of the Legislature knew, this to be the case as well as, or better than any oue else. They knew last Winter further than this; that the State Debt . could be compromised withease for . twenty or twenty -five per cent of its face, and thatthis payment could bo made in bonds, provided the Demo cratic Party, as the Republican Par ty in the Constitution had already done, would pledge itself against any further repudiation. Yet knowing all this, the Democrats of the Legis lative Committee,"charged Jwith tho duty of reporting some means of re lieving the State of its indebtedness, preferred to keep silent. They were afraid to advocate the repudiation of the whole debt, and they were afraid to advocate a compromise. If it be admissible, we should like to inquire why this cowardice exist ed. Will some Democratic member of that Committee oblige us by "ans wering the subjoined questions ? 1. Were you not, as Democrats, afraid to advocate the payment of the entire debt from the belief that yout party would consign you to the oblivion of private life, if you made such a recommendation? 2. Were you not, as Democrats, and, consequently, the minions of Ex-Gov. Graham and the Hillisboro clique, afraid to urge either repudia tion in toto, or compromise i. e. consolidation of the bonds, 'from the belief that, as Graham, the Iluffin estate, and other leading and con: trolling Democratic family influences in the State owned "bonds amount ing to many thousands of dollars of value, your action would give offense to these individuals. Shame the devil and speak no lie gentlemen of the committee. Ans wer if you were not acting in the in- -terest of certain consequential per sons, instead of acting in the interest, of the people of North Carolina. Tell the truth, and admit that, in the Democratic Party kissing goes, by favor. -Era. Of all cereal grains, rice is the most extensively cultivated, and feeds the greatest number of human mouths. If we were to classify the human 'inhabitants of J the earth according to their preference for par ticular cereal grains, the rice eaters. would hold the first place. Tho second would be disputed by the consumers of maize and of wheat. The. population whose staple grains are rye, oats or barley would occupy the fourth place. Returntd. We are informed that fifteen young men have returned . within the past week to their homes in Alamance and Davidson counties. having tried the West tp'their entire scl Ir faction. 'Gccnsboro Patriot.
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