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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.
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irrw!iaiK tf i .: . .
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lJui tinrr'j qul-'!i . a . '.
Wrfisr au I ml i-i :'. : 4
Tri-'k flrtr VtMr 'i -.i.Mii-.l.-iurv rii j
T!i fearful war-!i -n oVr r!! wol.l;
Tlirir flftr y;tr "ui" chlf and j
Were athcreil to the council tire; j
And scarce, sweet U'.k-imiiuv, a trace, j
Ha. time left of thy ancient rare. j
N(tvgonp.l!kf with.Tcd oak leaves h en
To'cvery hrcatli and wlud of heaven I j
Thtt.thu hate pa-d away thy brave.
I tred upon their ilcnt pravef.
But Fancy'rf torch jdiall ll-ht the gloom
Which -athetvd or their early. doom.
And Memory' taper flnrrer trace
Dim ntUue of their fated rv-r.
3linc. mlno tho plealn ta-k ?hall be
To Illustrate their hUory.
And spread upon th pa?e of tnrj-.
An ()m-a! love, a WokowV lr .
A lake hi (!uml't r."ujt v. X. C.
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.
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- 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. "
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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
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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,
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V six months, - 15.00
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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.