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THE RE P ORTER. J. PEPPER, SR., | J. T. DA KI.INGTON, Editor, Afoeialt Editor. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3,1878 TUB NEW YEAR. Ah, not in heaven, bnt upon earth, Are signs of change exprest ; The closing year has left its mark On human brow and breast. There is no change upon the air, No record in the sky . No pall-like storm comes forth to shroud The year about to die. A few light clouds are in tie heaven, A few far stars are bright; And the ]>ale tnoon shinrs HS she shinrs On many a common niqht. —[ Hist L. E. London. The wheel of Tiuie has again per formed its revolution, and we have been permitted to witness the completion of another year. To many, the oo urnence ment of the new yoar is the occasion for forming plans fur their material and moral improvement ; intentions, which ia some instances may bo realized, and in many instances may fail for lack of resolution on their part. Time is an unerring recorder of our intentions, as actions are ot our thoughts; that they may be good is our sincere wish to our readers upon tLe outset of the new year. We would here givo expre sion to some thoughts that this occasion sug gests to our mind ; and, first, as to the doty of every one to so form his inten tions and order his lite as to effectuate some good end. It is the duty of every one to take some active part as un actor on the stage of life. Some seem to think they can vegetate, as it wete, without bein& anything in particular. Man was not made to so rust out his life. It is ex pected he should ' : act well his part." He should be something lie has a work to perform, which it is his duty to attend to. He should so order bis time and opportunities as to try to act out his part well, however humble may be the sphere of action allotted to him, and when he •dies leave the world the better for his having lived. We are not placed here to grow up, pass through the various stages of life, and then die, without hav ing dona anythiug for the benefit of the human race. It is a most pleasing sight to witness a man venerable in years, who, by tbe fortunate retention of unimpai-ed faculties, is enabled to die in harness. The instances are but too numerous of those who envy the lot of the ex cepted few possessed of rsnk, tilents or wealth, under the mistaken idea that the life of such is one of duily uninterrupted luxury and ease—a sort of passive exist ence or hot-houso vegetating upon a bed of roses. We have only to assure suoh persons that the ri ad to usefulness, or eminence, even when aided by the pos session of rank, talents, or wealth, is only attained through a well-directed use of time. When Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, attended the Centennial In ternational Exhibition, His Majesty sel dom retired till the small hours of morning, ordering bieakfast at seven, afltr having passed the day in uninter rupted activity. Baron Humbolt gave few hours to sleep ; and Byron, noble of birth and genius, while residing atVenice either read or wrote till two or three in the morning; and Mr. Lake, one of his biographers, states that tbe luxury of his living at the time his lordship was veeiding in Greece, "may be seen from the following order, which he gave his superintendent of the household, for the daily expenses of his own table. It Mounts to no more than one piastre, [about 80 cents ] Paras. Bread, a pound and a half, 15 Wine, - - - 7 Fish, .... 15 Olives, • - 3 40-80 c. This was his dinners; his breakfast oonsisted of a single disb of tea, without milk or sugar." This leads us to say a word upon the valuo of economizing small portions, or intervals, of time for whioh many make no special provisions, and so lose them entirely. Says an author, "a good econ omist of time, which is money, and to many their only capital, will always have something to fill up these spaces. Put together, they make days, and months, and years, and are worth saving. Some persons are so constituted that it is next to impossible for them to be systematic, methodical, and steadily and continu ously diligent. They can work only by fits and starts; and the; work best when the spirit moves them, comp?nsating by the earnestness and cocrpy with which tjiey labor for the seasons during whioh they idly lounge. A good many lazy persons imagine (hey have no right to be talked to, first for their idleness, and, secondly, for their ioipudiinoc in trying to exouse their drone-like propensities, by pretending to like the few eccentric great men, ! who are, in respectta the way in whioh they do things, a law unto themselves. Most people, to accomplish anything, neei to be constantly industrious: and for them, it ia wiser never to have 'fif teen minutes to spare,' and always to have some little matter to which they can turn their hand " A certain mathematician is said to have co'i.posed an elaborate work, when I visiting with his wife, during the inter ' val of time between the moment when | she first started to take leaye of their friends, and the moment »he had fairly finished her last words. So, too, we have somewhere read of an English no bleman who, a few years ago, had com : pletcd a bunlc to which he had devoted the interval of time between the moment j when dinner was announced, and the moment his lady was seated at the table. The author from whom we have al ready quoted remarks: "No eiouse is more common for ignorance, than a want of time to learn ; and no excuse is more frequently false. It is not always false. Unoonsciously one may get en grossed in business and entangled with engagements, so that he can not well release himself. But it is bad to do this ; and against it one should be on bis guard. In most cases, however, suoh entire occupation of time is not the fact, it is only imagined to be the fact.— Everybody, every day, wastes moments, if not hours, which might be devoted to useful ends. "Where there is « will, there is always a way,' says the proverb. A systematic arrangement of business, habits of rigid punctuality, and a de termination to gather up the fragments, will enable a man to make wonderful additions to his stock of knowledge.— The small stones which fill up the cre vices have almost as much to do with making the fair and firm wall as the great rocks ; so the right and wise use of sparo moments contributes not a little to the building up, in good proportions and with strength, a man's mind. Be cause we are merchants and mechanics, we need not be ignorant of all that lies without the boundaries ot the counting room or tho shop. Because the good woman looketh well to her household, she need not to abstain entirely from looking into books. If, to make money, or get a dinner, the mind must be en tirely neglected, it were better to be poor and starve. But there is no such ne cessity as this, as any one may discover who will, with justifiable avarioc, make good use of every "fifteen minutes he has to spare." In considering economy of small in tervals of time, there is another subject srggested to our mind, to which we will briefly allude : the growth of small be ginning* A thousand anecdotes might be cited of as many different men, who, from small beginnings roso to great stations and influence; and shows the importance of not despising the day of small things, in any condition or circum stance of life. Indeed, the most casus) and superficial observer of nature cannot fail to notice her fullness of instructive lessons on this point, which it would be well for us more thoroughly to study and appreciate. The liver, rolling onward its accumu lated waters to the was, in its small beginning, but an oozing spring, trickling down some moss-covered rock, and winding, like the trail of a meteor, between the green banks to which it im parted verdure. The modest spring may supply us with water for our domestic wants, and the graoeful oreek may be utilised fur running our mills, while the meandering river, swelling as it rolls onward from the accum ilated outpouring of its tributaries, may carry our freighted barks to tbe seaport. Everything around us is a lesson that tells us not to despise small beginnings; for they are the lower rounds of a lad der that reaches to great results, and we must step upon these before we can as cend higher. "Despise not," writes an author, "small beginnings of wealth- The Rothschilds, Oirard, Astor, and most of the richest men, began with small means From cents they proceed ed to dollars ; from hundreds to thou sands, from thousands to millions. Had they negleoted thise first earnings; had they said, "What is tbe use of saving these few cents? they are not of much value, and I will just spend them, and ei joy myself as I go"—they would not have risen °to be the wealthiest among their fellows It is only by the econo mic I husbanding of small means that then increase to large sums It in the hardest part of success to gaio a little; that little once gained, mure will easily lollow. John Gryg, a wealthy publisher of Philadelphia, use to iwy, that the hardest gained part of his fortune was the ac cumulation of the first ten thousand dol lars. Despise not small beginnings of edu- Frank lin bad but little early educa tion ; yet look, at what he became, and how be is BOW revernced. Ferguson, feeding his sbeep on tbe hills of Soot land, p'eked up merely the rudiments of learning, but subsequently rose to be one of the first astronomers in Europe. Hers chel, also, tbe great astronomer, was in hi* youth, a drumnwrboy to a murohing regiment and recoived but little more than a drummer-boy's education , but his name is now associated with the brightest discoveries of soienee, and is borne by the planet which his seal dis covered. A host of instances rise up to testifv that, by properly improving the small and perhaps imperfect beginnings of knowledge, they may become as foun dation stones ol a temple of learning, which the future shall gaze upon and admire. A man can scarcely be too avaricious in the acquisition of knowledge; he should hoard up his intellectual gains with the utmost assiduity and diligence bat, unlike the lucre seeking must put out his knowledge of usury, and by lending out bis stock to increase by this commerce ot thought his capital, until his one talent shall have been five, and his five have gained them other five. Despise not the small beginnings of fame or honor. The fame which springs on a sudden, like a mushroom plant, ia seldom lasting. Truth, fame, and honor, are of slow but generally sure growth, ascending by de grees from the lower offices to the higher stations—from the regard of a few to the applause of a nation. But he who despises the lower steps of honor because they are few, will seldom reach the higher; and he who spurns at the commendation of his own circle, as tco small a thing to seek after, will never se cure the esteem and renown of a state or kingdom. Despise not the small beginnings of error The wallb of a castle have been unde termined by tbe burrowing of small and despised animals; and the beginnings of error, though at first unheeded, will soon, if not checkad, sap the founda tions of truth, atd build np its own wretched douias on its ruins All bis first errors are small; despise them not: they will soon increase to great ones, and perhaps devastate society." We are now acting a part in life's drama, tho roles (of which will, soomrt or later, bo filled by others; though the sun and earth, guided by creation's rule, will continue to measure time—though the clustered stars that mark the north will maintain their rightly appointed places in the spots they now illumine though the pale moon will continuously shine on as on other nights. What Hampton Says. We have watched Gov. Hampton's career, both military and political, and we have never beon able to find anything in him that was not worthy of admir ation. His political course has beea marked throughout with wisdom, dignity firmness and honor. He has stead fastly pursued the line of action that bis judgment and sense of right dic tated, and he has won the respeot and confidence of the best poople in our oountry. We could not, therefore, eredit the statements we saw repeated time again and again, that he was party to a bargain with Patterson, the eorrnpt ras cal who for the nonce holds a seat in tbe United Slate* Senate, by which tbe latter was to escape punishment and the firmer to become the secccssor iu the Senate. We did not see how tbie oonld be. It did not look like Hampton to be bargaining with a ftiminal. And yet it was repented often, and we saw denial. At last one come, and the bearing of Hampton in the matter is precisely what bis friends and admirets supposed it would be. Tbe Now York Tribune contains s special from Colum bia, S C , to the effect, that on Wednes day, last Gov. Hampton declared him self firmly opposed to any bargain with Senator Patterson, whereby the prosecu tion of the latter should be abandoned. The dispatch represents Governor Hampton as saying that "since the proof of Patterson's guilt has been made ap parent to the public authoritioa, to the State and the country, it would be a disgrace to South Carolina if criminal proceedings, based upon such overwhelm ing testimony were not earneetly and eneigetically pressed to an iasue." Tne New York Timet also state* that Gov- Hampton is diametrically oppoaed to the compromise programme with Patterson, the penitentiary thief.— Wilmington Star. > Charlotte Obtrrvrr : If Suiith and Lowrunee are hanged hereon the 11th of January, tn-y will make eight per ■oiia who U*T« been executed in Char loitc since the war. The Old Whine. It will surprise no one to hear that "the general feeling among Republican circles in the national capital touching the angry passage between Senators Gordon and Conkling is one of exultant hope that it may result in some event j which will give the jackals of the party | of hate a ohance to stir the dyiog embers ;of sectionalism." So telegraphs our i Washington correspondent. Already the Radioal press makes haste to seize the occasion and turn it to the old partisan account. Tbe Inter-Ocean, especially, I is happy, and biases out in a wild glare jof big type. Thus : "My honah, sah ; Southern bluster making itself offensivo in tbe national oapital; The crack of the slave-whip again heard in the land; Gordon goes too fur, and is combed down nicely by Conkling; He will demand satisfaction, and is informed that he can have it." Beneath this burst of vulgar and silly bombast appears an aocount of the affair, which, upon its face, shows I Conkling to be, what everybody who knows him at all knows bim to te, a H pompous and insolent peacock. Ordinarily, it would be nobody's busi ness except that of tbe principal* and their immediate friends. But the inter ' me Idling nose of tbe sectionalism sticks iiself everywhere. High words between two sueb men as Gordon and Conkliog furnish an opportunity too rare to be ; missed. During his last days in the f-iluuse Mr. Blaine did what he could to provoke some one to lay violent hands upon him. Other Radical incendiaries have tried the same unworthy gam'.*. — But no personal collisions have occurred This present case is the nearest approach 4o one in character and in quality which has eulivened the proceedings of Con gress, and oi course the bloody-minded prigs of the gory press are in ecstasy. It is a sweet morsel to such oracles as the later-Ocean and is rolled over and over in months belouled by degrading epithets, rotten teeth and venomous bad 'breath. There is a deal ot exultation among tbe roaring, Bengal dry-goods clerks. We shall be treated to homilies upon "plantation manners" by oritics whose personality would disgrace the overseer's lodge. We shall have dis courses upon breeding and culture after the pecular English of the scullion and the fish-wile. Your long-haired, hooked nose saint has only to whittle the nio ot .. I\iß,pencil. The dull lead goes of itself, containing its own momentum and jar gon. The Inter-Ooean is fuddled. Indeed, all the propagators of perpetual hate have conveuieut memories. They forget the rumpus between Butler and Bingham; the dispute between Washbume and Donnelly ; the scrimmage between Blaine and Conkliog ; the affair between Julian and Wadswortb. They forget the low bred Boutwell and the blackguard Chan dler. Why, there was more discourtesy, and that of the lewdest kind, between the Republicans themselves during the six or seven yesrs when not a Southern member sat in Congress than had been known in those halls during tbe whole of their preceding experience We do not pretend to say that, by and large, there is more of tbe sense of decorum in one part of the country than in another. But in tbe South we send our best men into public life. In the north the worst men are often put in office. It would be difficult to find a more quiet, a more peaceably-disposed citizen than (ien. Gordon, of Geogia. By na ture an unassuming man, be has been a life-long member of a religious society, doing, if we mistake not, ministerial duty at one time He is essentially of a coo ciliatory, compromising disposition. In opinions the most liberal of oonserva tives, hie anxiety for reconciliation and peace has made him almost a partisan defender of the President's policy and motives. Mr. Conklirg, on the other hand, is universally recognized us a brow-beating bully If he was bom a gentleman, he does not show his origin either in his speech or manner. His in solence to his own colleagues is I he source of much party aud personal difficulty. His braggadoeio style to all men is in sufferable. It is he who plumes himself on "bis honsh, sah who craoks the whip of the slave driver, and who would lord it over his peers. But the penny trumpets toot the old whine They have learned ouly one piece, aud they pipe that incessantly. Fortunately for the oountry, and hsp pily for the people, such influence do not prevsil. The adaptability of tbe Ameri can character and the common sense and good-humor of the Ameriosn common ality defy the efforts sod counsels of the malignants who would convert our fair republie into a bowliog wilderness. The misunderstsnding between Messrs. Gor don snd Conkling, given over to tbe care and ad-isoment of discreet fiiends is ended. There will be neither a scene nor a tragedy to rejoice the hearts of the bellowing followers of Bellona and ena ble them to stir up bitter sectional strife. But tbe circumstance is not without its suggestion. It ought to show sensible Republicans the black side of their party spirit. It ought to disclose to them a fact, which many of them do not believe, that it is the Republican party wb eh refuses to be pacified and is full of wrath. It* victory was great enough, and its tenure of power has been loog enough, to give it reasons to be magnan imous. But it has improved nono of these. It prefeas to be malignant to the end, and will go to its doom at last the most execrated political organization that ever ruled the country.— Courier Jour nal. The Qordon-Conkling Difficulty The sensation of the week has been the difficulty between Senators Gordon and Conkling in the Executive session on Friday the loth, au account of which can be found in another column. From a timely editorial commenting on this difficulty published in the Raleigh Ob server, we extract the following : Senator Conkling, like Senator Blaine belongs to the ultra school of the Radi cal party, and they both base their hopes of future preferment upon their success in fomenting discord between the peo pie of the North. To this end these Senators, having no fear of personal chastisement, or sense of personal ac countability, seek public occasion to air their insolence and impertinence to Southern Congressmen. The baggart and the bully is the role they now affect and nothing, we doubt not, would make either of them so happy as a sound thrashing from a prominent Southern leader, in which for the personal dis honor done them they would find abun dant compensation in the changes that would be rung upon every stump and in every newspaper about "plantation mau ners," and the tule of the "Southern brigadiers." Already the Washington correspon dents have been busy plying their pcus slandering Senator Gordon especially, and the South generally, because ho be comingly resented the insolence of tbe arrogant and impertinent New York Senator We admire prudence in speech aud discretion in action as much as any one, and we well know too the evils to be apprehended from the. effect on the Northern mind of a personal collision between Congressmen from the two sec tions, but there are evils even greater than these, and one would be the pur chase of Northern toleration by South ern submission to Northern senatorial I insolence. And if Messrs. Blaine and Conkling are bent on running their sche dule through to the end, we devoutly trust that our Southern Senators and others will promptly choose lbs lesser of the two evil*. Oppression of the Scftith. Senator Lamar Bays, and says with evident regret, that "tbe credit of a gov ernment which cares nothing for them will be of little consequence" to the peo ple of the South. Northern men who are started and alarmed by such words as these will do well to consider how it has come to pass that an American Sen ator like Mr. Lamar, of unstained per sonal reputation and of conspicuous ability, fiuds himself forced to utter such words by bis respect for truth and by bis desire to look facts fully in tbe face. When Americans read iu the British pres-8 bitter denunciations of the Irish people tor their indifference to imperial interests, they usually interpret these denunciations not ss a valid indictment of the Irish people but as an unwilling confession by the oppressors of Ireland of the failure of the bigoted and brutal system of administration wbich for ages prevailed in Ireland. It is 10 news to Americans that Hungary never lent foreign polioy of Austria while the statesmen oi Vienna persisted In ex cluding Hungarians from the control ol public affairs within the du >1 empire.— England misgoverned Ireland and Aus tria misgoverned Hungary for longer periods than that during which the Southern States were misgoverned by the North. But nothing that England ever did in Irel.od since tbe Uuiou, nothiug that Austria ever did in Hun gary since 1848, can be truly said to have been more soaudalous or more mis chievous than the mi*role of the South by the creatures of tbe Republican party majority at the North * * * When tbe civil war came to an end, * * * in stead of conciliating l he people of the great producing regions of the South and helping them to get productively at work again as soon ss possible, the Re publican legislators at Washington in sisted on griuding them under the heel of military power, while they wrung from them every sixpence which a reck less fiscal administration could levy. NEWS OF THE WEEK. STATE NEWS. Com in said to be worth only 11.50 per barrel in one psrt ol Caswell county. A lady in Salom had one cf her fin gers out off recently wnile grinding sau sage meat. Even the negroes in South Carolina are celebrating Gen. Butler's admission to his seat in the Senate One Isaac Green, recently divorced in Colorado, returned to North Caro'ioa, went to see a widow, and married her two drys after the first meeting. Mr Jehu Simmons, one of the oldest and most worthy citizens of Sarry conn ty, died at his residence, near Hollow Springs, on Thursday night last, at the advanced ago of 104 years.— Mt. Airy Watchman. Goldsboro Mcssrntjer : A bi zzard iritb a bell on his neck has been hovering over this town the past week, and the bell wus distinctly seen and beard by several of our citizens. "Who belled the buzzard ?" is now the question to be answered. A subscriber to the Robesonian teld us last week that when he first com menced taking the paper, bis wife could not read a word He has been taking it 13 months oulj, and now he »aya, she can read everything in it. If there is not benefit to be derived by taking a newspaper, we would like to know the reason.— Rubes^nian. Mr. John Shute, of Monroe, killed that large hog of his on Tuesday. Its gross weight was 933j pounds; after being cleaned it weighed 560 pounds. This is, we believe, the largest hog that has been killed in the State this year. The fat from the hog yielded 200 pounds ol lard. GENERAL NEWS. Current item in all Tesas papers: Texas, is gaining in wealth ut the rate of 8100,000,000 per annum. The Russians have captured in their war with the Turks 29 Pashas, 73,128 officers and men, and 794 cannon. In a wedding in Athol, Mass., the groom was 76 years old, and had been previously married four timty. The bride wus 17. The European powers to whom the Turkish government sent a circular ask ing mediation in the interest of peace, > have replied declining to interfere. J VV. Daniels was sentenced to be lunged in Sedalia, Mo . last week. His response was that he "Cuul 1 stand hang ing as well as any d—d man in the State " Sitting Hull has taken up his hatchet and scalping knife again and crossed the lino from Canada, where he haa been recruiting for some time, with a strong baud of Sioux and Nez Perces. Shreveport (La.) Timet : A malady among hogs has, the past few weeks, been prevailing in this parish, and is aH most as fatal to them as the freedmen are It effects the head, has the ap pearance of quinsy, and kilh in a sur prisingly short timt. Mr Foj lost oYer a hundred head from this novel disease. The Russian losses in the battl* pre ceding the Gill of Plevna are reported at 10 officers and 182 men killed, and 45 officers and 1,207 men wounded The Turks lost 4,000 killep and wounded The prisoners include 10 Pashas, 128 staff officers, 2,000 officers, 3&,000 in fantry. and 1,200 cavalry. Seventy seven cannon were taken. POLITICAL NEWS. It is reported that Karl Schurx will resign bis place in tbe cabinet. A New Yoik journal says Senator Patterson, of South Carolina, "sold hia soul for nothing." Then, be sold it for every cent it was worth. Ex Governor Rullock has returned to Atlanta, where he will be tried this week lor "cheating and swiadhng" while rul ing over the Empire Stat*. The nffical vote of Miisissstppi on 1 State officers is at last announced It shows a majority for all the Democratic candidates of nearly 100,000. The ma jorities are probably the Itrgest ever giv en for any candidate for Governor in thia , country. Senators Blaine and Conkling have hoc* ied the hatchet, shaken hands, and form ed an alliance against Hayes. They , hated each other like "pizen" and had not spoken for a di.ieu years or so. DANBUKY Female Institute. MISS M. E. DARLINGTON. Principal. ICPKSIMTRNDItHTtI, A. H. JOVCE, KSQ., N. M. PEPPER. Rates of Tuition per Seaaion. Primury English Studies, • - 9 7 BO Advanced " " 10 OO French, at reasonable rates. Mnsic, Piano, Guitar, etc., per month, S OO Use ol instrument $3 per session. THE SECOND SESSION OK THIS INSTT TITTK will commence on MONDAY, the 7th of January, and. will continue for Twenty weeki tliereatter, the Scholastic year being divided into Two Session?. Every braui h or Study adopted by the prin cipal Female Colleges of the Sooth, will ha taught in this institution. Aithongh essentially a Female School, small hoys of (food character and behavior, will be received as pupils. Parents residing at a distance can lad bo bolter School, or more healthy location, at which to educate their daughters The School, with all its interests, will ba under the special supervision of the Superin tendents, who will also transact all busiaesa connrctcd with the same.