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A-1 : 1 ! i 1 u TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: i ' (CASH IX AJDYAXGTY ' tVne Copy tjne tear. " 1 . . ?1 GO. W.IG. BURKHEAD. .. Editor, NOTICE TO iCOKltESPONUEXTS All correspondents are heuliy notified that to insure tie insertion vof their com luunications thtjy" must furnish us With llirtE bona JiJe naiue and address, vhicfi-wr obligate to keep in strict confidence. - Hrfe iiy on one side oj tlie sheet. ' . The Plant is ill no wise responsible-for the views ot its correspondents -: -r Address all communications to THE TOBACCO PLANT, j - Durham, N. C. TIIK VILLAXii: BLACKSMITH.! I'ndtT a pj"rf!idiiff olicstnut-Tnc ' i Ti . ..:u...i :.i i r f j j i in- niagv siuniiv sumus; fv ; jl'lie sijuhli, aj mighty niiiii is lie. 1 MWith large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his braw ny arms Are strong as iron bands. . - i : i i ' '. . V- i i !. His hair is cHsp and black and Ions;; i His ;ux is like the tan; - Iii brow is vet with honest sweat - ' lie earns hate'er he c:in - " j Vnd lookstlje whole world in tlie fine, " . Kor he owes not any man. - Week in, wek out, from niorn till nirhtfc You can hear his bellows blow; jVi iu can hear him swing his heavy slfdire. n -.i J i i . . i . - e ' , o uu iiieaMireu ucai ajiu slow, Like a sextoh ringing the villageK'H,- : .When thejevening sun is lovv. And children coming home from school, l,ook in ai the open, door; , . -; They love td see the flaming forge, ' i And hear the bellows roar, i . And catch the burning sparks that flv J Like ihafl from the threshing-floor. " ! He cocs on Sundav to the church, , ' 1 He hears the parson pray and preach; 'J lie hears his daughter's voire ; , Singing in the village choir, . -I, : : And it makes his heart rejoice.1 1 I tj sounds to jiim like her mother' s-voicej Sinking id l!aradie! '. f He needs m(ist think of her oncv Ujon-j fllow in the grave she lies';,' A nd witli his hard, rough hand he wjpes A tear out of his eves". . s ? J . .1 -. . - " '- 5 Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, . j- j I Onward through life lie gK-s; - ! i Each morniiig sees some ftt-k lienin. L I Eai-h evening sees it close; . ' Somethniif tt-mnUd. sonietlinig lotn-, ; J Has earned a night's reixse. : : 1 ; Thanks, thanks to th-c-, my worthy friend; I For the lekson thou liast taught ! : Thus at .the :fiaming forge of lite i Our fortuties must lie wnuight ; Thus on its Wmnding anvil shain-d Each lmrping deed ami thought . IIkSUY WaHSWoRTH LllNfil KI.lJ'W T ! ! 1 i OS TKIAI.. l)rl Talinafrft's Sri'iion. Irt'a'liMl Suiulay Alnminjf, I'. ltnii, ; hi-- -. '- - We Iinvtfaw Atvoeute with the Hniier-iJMiS ChristitUe rightes." i.Joux -:!. .. 1 Stamliniz iii a (ourt-ntom.vou say fo yikirsclf, ;utKt this bar. crime. ha:? often lefii:fritai:nt'il; at this witsst st.iinl tin- oath has. ot'ton lu n taki-n t at tins jurorst W nch th- rlict lias litrii! rt'iiihrotl: at this unities 3sk sentence has jn-i n inmouirci l."" tlUit I have to tel liihjer than voi 1 to-lav ol a trial . . - . ... iuiv 111 over aim ii-r- miner, or Cirj uit. or Sujircnu- C or.rt. It is the trial of i-verv or fjianeeiy. ( hrikian man for the life of his soul. Thisj trial is different from any t4hei in Hie fact that it ,is hoth civilrfand eriniinal. The" issues at-staRtjarir tn leiulous, find 1 shah m. njyser mon 8liow ym, ii-rat, what are:thc griiumls of cm plaint ; then wh!an Ui4 witnesses in the caliPej atul latl v. who are the advocates. : ": Vhen a trial is called on, thK.ltirsi Ahing is to have I - TIip IXIHCTMKNT ; ; , read. Stand up,' then, oh Chfwtiafi man, and hefir the indictment itth court of ldjli heaven againsf thy soul '. It is lan iiHlictitient o ti n counts, lor thou hast (Ihvctly of iu: directly hroktn all the ten comiimiKl mehts. You know how it thunf&-n$ 'on! Sinai, and when God camethiwn how the mountain rocket!, anu tlu sinioice ascended as from a s?inoi3deij- "hi' i furnace, and the darkness gathered thick, and the loud Jleep trumpet uttred the words: 5ThV soultthat sinjieth, it shall die ! Are vob ruiltvi or not truiltv ? not put in a negfitive plea too ipiick, fqi I ljiilve- to announce that 'a)J:havj sinned and (ome- short of the Vlorv of (iod: Thlre is none that tfoetli "ood : no.-not one. . -WhosocvenShajl kii n the wliolelaw, vetoll'eml iivom noint. he is kuiltv of all.-' J)inot, therefore, lejtoo"hasty in prontunc infj'VOursclf:not guilty. '. ' This lawsuit hefore us also char y"oiij with the hreakin W I I A SOLEMN COXTKACT. . I M.my a time; did we promise he thej liords. We pot down oU -our knes and said. u0 lrd. l am Uiine now' and forever." Did vou kein thej prom isei? Have you stootl 1 to: t)ie contract ? I go hack" to Join irf t'nmiinihiiin. Vou reniemljer it as well as if it were yesterday-. You kndw how tlie vision 01 the cros? ros . hefore vou. You remeniher how from ilie;head, and the hands, ami ih s'de. and th4 feet, there came Ii6ved- ingilhrth these twawords: 'iJciaiem- ler me !"' Ytiu recall how tht':cui ot" communion trembled 111 your haiid when Vou first took it : and, a I iii. a sea-shell you may hear, or tMnk vdudiear. the roaring of the surfpveh 'altt-r the shell has Wexi taken from the beach, : st vou lifted the" clip ol communion and vou heard in it the. surging of the great " ocean of . A Sa viour's agonv ; and vou came torth from that dommunion-service Nvitli face shininslas though vou had been ; -on i the Mount of Transfiguration ; and the. very air sieemed tremulous -n ith the lovp of Jom, and the iKxis and the leaves and the gras and tlie birds were j brighter and swtjeter , voiced thanjever before, and you: said down in the very depths of your soul, 'Krd, ThoU knowest , all things ; ThoiTknowest that I l0Vje.Thee.j4 ; j HAVE YOC KEPT TIIK I?A6fiArJf; 1 oh Chri-tiau man? .Have you not sometime tittered when-'you ought to have been true? Have you not been proud when you ought to Wave been humble ? Have you not played the coward when you ought to feaye been the hero ?, "I charge it Upon you, and I charge; it upon myslf Ave have broken the contract, f ' ' Still further, this lawsuit claims' damage at your hands. The greatest slander on the Christian . religion is. an inconsistent professor, , The Bible savs religion is one thing j we h' our I i xxcoxsistexcv . -; say religion: is some other thing, and what is more deplorable about it is, that people can' see faults" in others while thev cannot see-any in them selves. If you shall at any J time In : . ; '; ,. . - if: I VOL. XVI. NO. 1. fin( some miserable old'Lrossin. with lmjierfi'ctions from tlie crown of her head to the sole of her loot, a perfect ; hlotch of sin herself-she will go tat- 1 tlin, tattling, tattling all tl ie vi iirs i oi her life, about the inconsistencies ' of otliers, having no idea that she is ! inconsistent hemdf. God save the i world from tlie gossip, female and ! male! 1 think tlie malf-s are the; worst! Now the chariot of Clirist"s ; salvation goes on tli rough tlie world but it is our inconsistencies, mv : brethren, that bloek up the wheels, i while all along the line there ought to have been cast nothing but palm branches, and the shout should have ; been lifted "Hosanna to the Son of ! David." i Now you have heard tlie. indict-j ment read. Are you ready to plead guilty or nol guilty ?. Perhaps Vou !. are not ready yet "to' plead. Then' j tlie trial will go on. 1 THE WITNESSES will be called, and we shall have tlie ; matter decided. In the name of (iod I I now ..make "proclamation : u()yez'! Oyez! Oyez! Whosoever liath any- I thing to oiler in this trial in which f (Iod Lsthe plaintifi'and the Christian : soul tiie defendant, let him now step j forth -and -give testimony in this solemn trial." j The first witness that 1 'call upon the stand iii behalf of tlie iirosi.ru- f tion, is the World all critical and bsi rvant of Christian character. lou know that there are neonle iround you who perpetually banquet ! .. ll 1'.' 'h . i ! 111 ' ' inuieiraiiuesoiiioii sciiiKinn. 1 on 1 mav know, if vou have lived in tlie countrv.thata crow cares fornothing o much as carrion. There are those who imagine that .'out. 01 Uie faults of Christians thev can make abridge of boats across the stream of death. mil thev are going to trv it; but. alas, lor the mistake! hen thev iret amid-strim away- will go the bridge and down will go their soul to perdition. Oh World, of the greed v eye and the hard heart, come on the tand now. and testify IN" rsKHALF or THE PlUiSKi i'Tfi N against tliis Christian soul on trial. What do you know about this Chris tian man? "Oh.' savs: the World. 'I know a great deal about him. He. talks about putting his treasures in heaven. .but h is the sharpest man in a trade I ever knew. He seems to want us to believe that he is a child of (iod. but he just full of imperfections. 1 ilo not know but I am a great deal. better than he is now. Oftentimes he is verv earthlv, and lie tiiiks so little about Christ and so much about himself, T -am Very glad to testify that this is a" bad man.'' Stop, oh World, with tlie greedy eye ana tne tiara heart, 1 iear you are ' TOO MICH INTECESrEK in this trial to give impartial evi dence. Let all those who hear the testimony of this witness know that there is an old family quarrel be tween these two parties. There al ways has been a variance between the World and the Church, and while the World on the witness-vstand to-day has told a great deal of truth aboui this Christian man, you must take it all witl some allowance, re membering that they still keep the old grudge good. Oh World, of the greedy eye and the hard heart, that will do. " You may sit down. The second witness I call in this case is CONSCIENCE. Who art thou, oh, Conscience? What is vour business? Where were 'you born? What are you doing here? "Oh," says Conscience. '"I was born in heaven ! I came down to befriend this man. 1 have lived with him. I have instructed him. I have warned him. I showed him the right and the wrong, advising him to take the one and eschew the other. I have kindled "a great light in his soul. With a whip of scorpions I have scourged his wickedness; and I have tried to cheer him when do ing right; and yet I am compelled to testify on the stand torday that he has sometimes rejected my mis sion. Oil, how many cups of life have I pressed to his lips that he dashed down, and how often has he stood with his hard heel on the bleed ing heart of the Son of God ! It pains me very much that 1 have to testify against this Christian 111:111, and yet 1 must, in behalf of Him .who "will in no wise clear the guilty, sav that this Christian man has done wrong. lie has been worldly, lit -lias been neglectful. He has dolie "a thousand, things Jie ought not to have done, and left undone a thou sand things he ought to have done." That will do. Conscience. You can sit down. The third witness I call in the case, is AN ANGEL of God. Bright and Shining One, what doest thou here ?. What hast thou to say against this man on trial ? "Oh," says the angel, "I have been a messenger to him ! I have guarded him. I have watched him. With this wing I have defended him. and oftentimes when lie knew it not I led him into the green pastures and beside the still waters. I snatched from him the poisoned chalices. When bad spirits came upon him to destroy him I fought them back with infinite fierceness ; and yet I have to testify to-day that he has rejected my (mission. He has not done as he ought to have done. Though I came, from the sky he drove me back. Though with this wing I defended him, and though with this voice I wooed him, I have to announce his multiplied imper fections. I dare not keep back the testimony, for then I should not dare to appear again anion" the sinless ones before the great white throne." Thepe is only one more witness to be called on , behalf of the prose cution, and that is the great, the holy, the august lie ''HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE OMNIPOTENT SI'IHIT . of God. We bow dow n before Him. ! Holy Spirit, knowest Thou th is intin ? "Oil", yes," says the Holy One,, "I j know him. I have striven with him j ten thousand times, and though j sometimes he did seem to repent, he ! fell back again as often from his first estate. Ten thousand times ten j thousand has he grieved Me, al- ! though the P.ible warned him, say- ; ing: "Grieve not the Holy Ghost.; Quench not the Spirit.' Yes, lie has driven Me back. Though I am the j Third Person of the Trinity he has j trampled on My- mission, anV.l the j blood of the Atonement that I brought with which to cleanse his j soul, he sometimes despised. I came 1 from the throne of God to convert ! and comfort and sanctify, and yet j loot at, that man, and see what he is I compared with what, unresisted. I would have made him." XO DEFENCE. j The evidence on the part of the! prosecution- has closet!. Now let the '' defence bring on the rebuttal testi- 1 mony. What have you, oh Chris- tian soul, to bring, in reply to this j evidence of the world, of the con- j science, of the angel, and of the Holy Ghost? No evidence? Are all 'j things true?' "Yes. unclean, tin-! clean," says every Christian; soul. ; What? Do you not begin to trem- ' ble a, the thought of e ndemn;i- j tion? ! We have now come to the most in- j tei-esting part of this great trial. The j evidence all in, ' THE ADVOCATES SPEAK The profession of an advocate is full of responsibility. In .England and i the T'nited States there have arisen ! men who in this calling have been honored bv their nice, Tand thrown i contempt upon those 'who in the profession have been guilt v of a great many meannesses. That profession will be honorable as long as it lias attached to it such names as Mans field and Marshall and Story and Kent and Southard' and William j Wirt. The court-room has some- ! times been the scene of very marvel- j lous and thrilling things. Some of you. remember the famous j Girard will case, where one of our ' advocates pleaded the cause of the; Ihhle and Christianity in masterly ! Anglo-Saxon, every paragraph, a j thunderlKilt. Some of you have read j of the famous trial in Westminster Hail, of Warren Hasting, the de spoiler of India. That great man had conquered India by splendid talents, by courage, by bribes, by gi gantic dishonesty. Tjie whole world . had-rung-with applause or condem nation. ( iathered in Westminster Hall was' one' of the most famous audiences ever gathered. Foreign ministers ami" princes sat there. Peers marched in clad in ermine and gold. Mighty men and women from all lands looked down upon the scene. Amid all that pomp and splendor, and amid an excitement such as has seldom been seen in any court-room, Edmund. Burke deliv ered a speech which will last as long as the English language, concluding with this burning charge, which made Waren Hastings writhe and shrink: '"I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parlia ment, whose, trust he lias betrayed.' I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. 1 impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trampled on, and whose' country he has turned into a desert. Ami, lastly, in the name of human nature, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age and rank 1 impeach him as the common .enemv and oppressrr of all." But I turn from the recital of those memorable occasions Sor a grander trial, and I have to tell you that in this trial of the Christian for the life of his soul, the advocates are mightier, wiser, ami more eloquent. The evidence all being in. JUSTICE rises on behalf of the prosecution to make his plea-. With the Bible open in his hand, he reads the law, stern and inflexible, and the penalty: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Then he says : " O Thou, Judge and Lawgiver, this is Thine own statute, and all the evidence in earth and heaven agrees in stating that this man has sinned against, all these enactments. Now let the sword leap from its scabbard. Shall a man go through the very flames of Sinai un singed ? Let the law be executed.. Let judgment be pronounced. Let him die. I demand that he diet" Oh, Christian, does it not look very dark for thee ? Who will plead on thy side in so forlorn a cause? 1 bometimes a . man will be brought imo a.eouii ji , lit: tniuiit: no friends, and no money, and the judge will look over the bar ami say ; "Is there any one " WHO WILL VOLUNTEER to take this man's case, and defend him ?' and some young man rises up and says, "I will be his counsel," perhaps starting on from that very point to a great and brilliant career. Now, in this matter of the soul, as you have nothing to pay for counsel, do j-ou think that any one will vol unteer? Yes. yes; I see One rising. He is a young man, only thirty-three years of age. I see His countenance suffused w ith tears and covered with blood, and all the galleries of heaven are thrilled with the spectacle. Thanks be unto God! "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." . Oh. Christian soul, vour case be gins to look better. ( I think, per- j haps, after all, you may not have fo die. . ! ' TIIE BEST ADVOCATE ( in all the universe has taken your side. No one was so qualified to de fend a man as the Advocate is quali THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 188T, fied to defend you. He knows all the law, all its'demands, all its pen alties. He is. always ready. No new turn of the ease can surprise Him, and. He will plead for you for nothing as earnestly as though you brought a world of treasures to His feet. P.esides that, Ile.has underta ken the case of thousands who wore as forlorn as you, and He has never lost a case. Courage, oh Christian soul! I think that after all there may be some chance for you, for the great Advocate rises to make His plea. He says : " I admit all that has been proved against My client. I admit all these sins. ay. more; but look at that wounded hand of Mine. and look at that other wounded j hand, and at My right foot and My left foot. By all those wounds I plead for his clearance. Count all the tlrops of My tears. Count all the drops of My blood. By the hu miliation of Bethlehem, by the sweat of Gethscmane, by the sufferings of the cross;! demand that he go free. On this arm he hath leaned ; on this heart he 'hath flown ; in My tears lie hath washed ; on My righteousness he hath depended. Let him no free. 1 AM Till: RANSOM." Let him escape the lash. I took the scourgings. Let the cup pass from him, I drank it to the dregs. I'it on him the crown of life; for i have worn the crown of thorns. ver against my cross of shame set his throne of triumph." Well, the counsel on both sides have spoken, and there is only one more thing now remaining, and that is the awarding of the judgment. If you have ever been in a court -room you know the silence and the'soh-m-nity when the verdict is about to be rendered, or the judgment about to be given. About this soul on trial, shall it be saved or shall it be lost? Attention! above, ad-omul, beneath. All the universe cries: "Hear! Hear!" . TIIK .H IM.K rises ami gives His decision, never to be clianged. never to bo revoked. "There is therefore no condemna tion to them which are in Christ lesus." "Tlie soul that mi Jesus hath h-aned f.ir r- 1 'os', I will not, I will not That soul, though a iloert to hi f(H.s : hell shmtld endravor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake." I nt, my friends, there is coining a day of trial in which not only the saint, but the, sinner must appear. That day of trial wiH"eonic very sud denly. The farmer will he at the' plough, the mcrejiant will bo in the counting-room, the woodman will be ringing his axe on the hickories, the weaver will have-his foot on the treadle, the manufacturer will he walking amid the buzz of looms and the clack of flying machinery, the counsel may be standing at the bar pleading tin; law, the minister may lie in the pulpit pleading the Gospel, the drunkard may b reeling amid his cups, and the blasphemer with the oath caught between his teeth. 1.0 ! TIIK SL'N 1IIPKS. Night comes down at mid-noon. A wave of darkness rolls over the earth. The stars appear at noon-day. The earth shudders and throbs. There an earthquake opens and a city sinks as crockodile would crunch a child. Mountains roll in their sock ets and send down their granite cliffs in - an avalanche of rock. Rivers pause in their chase for the sea., and ocean, uprearing, cries to Hying Alps and Himalaya. Beasts bellow and moan, and snuff up the 'darkness. Clouds fly like flocks of swift eagles. Great thunders beat and boom and burst. Stars shoot 'and fall. The Almighty, rising on His throne, de clares that time shall be no longer, and the archangel's trump repeats it till all the living hear, and the con tinents of dead spring to their feet, crying: "Time shall be no longer!" I Oh, on that day, WILL VOL" I?K READY? I have shown you how well the Christian will get off in his trial. Will you get off as well in your trial?" Will Christ plead on your sitle or will He plead against you? Oh, what will you do in the last great assize, if your conscience is against you, and the world is against you. and the angels of heaven are against you, and the Holy Spirit is against you, and the Lord God Almighty is against you ? Better this day secure an Advocate. Needs of The ifisane. News i Observer. The state treasurer reports that there was paid in 1885 and 188(5 for the support of the penitentiary, 8121, 90(3; the institution for the deaf, dumb and the blind, 836,000; the North Carolina insane asylum (at Raleigh), SoLOOO; the Western North Carolina insane asylum, $4vr00; and the Eastern North Carolina insane asv lum, $25,000; total 8280,400. The asvlum at Raleigh asks now for S5G, 000; the western asylum for 880,000; and the institution for the deaf, dumb and the blind for 840,000. The treasurer's estimates are: for the North Carolina insane asylum, Ral eigh, 851,000; western insane asylum, 880,000; eastern insane asylum, 825, 000; institution for the deaf, dumb and the blind, 83(,000; penitentiary, 8121,900; total, 8313,900. These es timates are based on previous ap propriations, the increased appro priation recommended for the wes ters asylum being on account of the doubled capacity in that case and the increased number of patients, Rutler and the People. San Francisco Aita. Ben Butler denounces civil service reform as antagonistic to the genius of our people. Ben is suspected of being antagonistic to that same genius. ---9- WASHINGTON WRIT. Latest from tlie National Capital Funeral of Senator Lmrail ! Tariff Talk The Surplus Will lrolablv lit Itediiee!, lwit tlie Tobacco Tax AVill Not IJe Abol ished Representative I Reid The Plant's Position Kndorsed. Sji-ial to The Tlast-j f Washington,, D. C, Jan. .'V The fvinend of thel late Senator Logan, , wincii occurred in tlie feenate cliam- ! her On last Friday, was a most im- j pressive ceremony, and maiiy ot the , leading men from all sections of the country were present to testily their respect for the deceased. The hotly was temporarily placed in a receiving vault at Rock Creek ceme tery,, near this city, where' it will !at.? lie removed to Illinois: for per manent burial. I.Ut UK KOI! MI1S. I.cmi.W", , , j , A subscription lor the widow of , "i 1 General. Logan was started hist week, ami contributions have since been pouring in from all over the country. Some fifteen or twenty gentlemen have subscribed 8 1 . H M i each, and it is estimated that before tle books are closed at least 82iH),(Oj will be contributed. In addition to this, it is believed that Congress yih vote her a handsome pension tliis week, (leneral Logan died a comparatively poor man. hut his widow will soon he a wealthy woman. Mrs. Logan is one of the most brillianf aixT ad mirable ladies in the eountrv. and IT . .11 . 1 i much of the assiduity with Wlnel! ' the public is testnymg its syamj m so substantial a manner is di rectlv due to In r .own individual : popularity. ! : liKNKWAI. ol" I I!!: IWiMKi"! I'll.;!'. ( (ingress reassembles to-jhiorrow. : (Tucsdav). but both houses will j probably adjourn. o:; of respect to the memory ol' Senator Logim. with- out transacting any business of im i porta noo. A renewal of tjie taritl ! tight in the House will be precipita j ted in a few days, however, ami the outlook is more encouraging than it ! has been fur some legislation on the j subject. If a bill passes it will be a : compromise measure, which' will in 1 elude a reduction ijf both .cirstoms I duties and internal taxes. 1 A Con : gressnian. well tjualified to speak on ; the subject, told Tin: Plant reprc I sentative to-dav that there Were two items which would undoubtedly be included in the bill: Ther internal revenue tax on home-distilled fruit j brandy will be reduced to a nominal sum, which will enable thousands of North Carolina farmers to utilize their "surplus" stock of orchard pro ducts. The tax will not Ivj entirely removed because it is deemed advis able 'to continue governmental su pervision , of the distillation -of fruity but it will be reduced to the mini mum amount a mere trifle. The other item ' includes tlie coarser grades of wool, such as is. used in the manufacture of rough clothing, woolen hats and blankets. The.Ohio "protectionists"' will agree to this with.the understanding that the duty on the finer grades of wool shall he continued. TIIK TOBACCO TAX is not likely to be either abolished or materially reduced. There appears-to be no good reason why it should be done, while so jmany of the necessaries of life are so heavily taxed. The tobacco manufacturers of North Carolina, Virginia and Ken tucky, in which three States" more than one-half of the crop is grown and manufactured into a (state for consumption, do not ask it, and as the tobacco would not be affected a single centime either way;, they do not care anything about; it. The consumers, the chewing and smo king public, pay thitax, and they will probably continue to do so for many years to come. The , Virginia antt North Carolina Congressmen are committed to the repeal of the inter nal revenue, but the balance of the southern members, all tlik? eastern ami western tariff reformer?!, and not a few Republicans, will oppose the repeal or reduction of tht fax on whiskey and tobacco, and any prop osition looking to that end will he voted tlown by a majority lof thirty or forty votes. Tiik Plant ca'n an nounce to it's readers " right now," that the virtual abolition of the tax on fruit brandy will be the only sub ject of internal taxes affected by leg islation during the present session of Congress. j CIIEAPKK CLOTIIINGL Tlie removal of the custojns duties on wool is one of the principle things the tariff reformers have been striving for. They will not get all they want, but half a loaf is much better than no breal at all, And if the tax on low-grade wool is taken off, the clothing-of workingmeh wili.be reduced more than thirty-three per cent., their hats will cost but little more than half what they !how pay for them, and the blankets; on their beds will be reduced ahoutj fifty per cent, of their present cost, i That is something. ! RKPHKSKN'TATIVE uElf. Hon. James W. Reid hak not yet made his appearance in Washington and the other North Carojina Con gressmen are not informed of his whereabouts. Indeed, no One here seems to know where he jis. Mr. Turner Reid, his brother and private secretary, receives his mail, but he tloes not say when the Congressman is expected to resume his seat. ' The continued and unexplained absence , ot this gentleman is having a baa I ' effect on his friends who hkve here- j ! tofore steadfastly refused to believe ! the stories set afloat about him and unless he appears in his seat this week, they will not knowj what to think. Some of the North Carolina newspapers, I see, have "seryednotice on his family that unless h0 resumes his duties ver?v soon some ! one else i : If. 1 ll " AND VNBRIRED BY GAIN. will be elected n his place." Well, 1 as the House ok' Representatives is I thtij sole judge of its members, and as 1 noibtbW iimvor 1 sn vp Ida own nvsitr ' :(, ----- j - r " 7: ' - - - - fs ! nation, can declare his seat vacant, it ylu ue interesting to learn now theesuperserviceableetlitorspropose . j in the hands of any other than K:i to olect the "new CongremjL? ; phael, produced a result which could IT1IE PLANT S rOSIIJjO, , "jdewxam,"' "fhe Washington xor- reshoudent of flip NorfolV lkiilu Yir- f4-(,,; having prosecuted enquiries intnfl,,. cnl jHP" tj,at tie toiaccomanufacturers j an(f a ar .J centage of tobacco ! ambers 0f Ymdnia .North Carolina i and Kentucky fare opposed to the : reifof lb ;ndirn.jl f..,v rm tr.Un ! Writing of Diirliam, "Llewxani" publishes the'.- following in last Thursday's Virginian: The town of Durham, N. C, in emnhatie- ally j'a 'tobacco towji.' Tlie manufacture of tobacco is its 'stock?! in trade,' and tlie Ihir- : ...v.. 1... I iiinic :;iiuiiim nindaii ii i i n hi iii- it-ii- i llt:11;(;v ti r;,-J;; rw,n.i..t .L ! . .-' -., IearBo tlirongli interviews and correspond-enee-that the llurliam nianiifactiirers are oj jmischI tii the. abolition of the tax. This state ment nmy le a stfiirise. to some oT your readers,' but if thevi will take the trouble to prosecute similar ignquiries tlirouijhout tlie 'tobijcci towns' of Yirjrinia they will tind a similar 'state of opitjion ainonj;, not only the nianiifactiirers, liut.w itli the growers as well. TheU urham maniijacturers say tliat the ab olition of the tax vyould not afiect them or the Fibavo-:rowt-r!i;a single centime, liecause thcy;dojnot pay the tax. It comes out of the poclcets of the conMjiners, and the tax' is not compulsorv, for nojman is comiH-lled to usi- it, and until the customs dutv is removed i iVomj the nei-essarii-s of life they are ojijiox.il ' to the removal bf the internal tax on anv- tiiin' nbw on thi- list cxii-nt fruit Kr:mik- ; Tlii-.-t i .-iii Mt'rw iLimniil lu-mIuiIUIhvI ' lili- laMisueot lli: lon.vceo l'l.ANT,the zl ul euein male oeatliy. h-ailinv; pain-riof jj lurhain, (nines out Hat- "The child Jesus among the Ioe footeM iu oi-itiij to the repeal of any of ; tors in the Temple," painted bv I'ro thejiniseiit ii.lenll.1 taxes, exeept that on I ft.ssor H(llm;mn. f th(. Koval'Aca.l fruit' liramlv. 1 itjk. Plant ai knowiedires i . . . . . . thafitheK-inor-railiq party in Ni.rth Carolina i S,n-V t,Al'.t ln i;l'esleU, IS a beautl is eojim'iitied to llui repeal of the internal till work in many ways. The face revenue laws," lmt-.it 'dpuhts the wisdom of of the IJoV Christ is the most liel'fect Mieii;a move, aiKt -savs' ii is noi .aione in holding these views.' It characterizes Mr. Kaixjalj's attempt i;n that direction as simply a mqvei to 'stake and rider his protective fencij;' and express surjirise that men eon-sitlerx.-il ahle enough to send to Conj;res -ihoidd fuller themselves to he hoodwinked hy any such schemd '"J-helproprietor (if Tin: Plant, Julian S. t arrj Ks., is one othe alJesl :md mot im yreViiVts men in the'State, and is hein-r promi ... i i: - . i . i nently spoken of iitlconnection with the next ! hen-. Venus under all 1 iciiii.KTittir ( inU-rii.ilorial nomination. He! J(i fnrolia HvJ'culcs is also the president of the Pdackwcll Hull ; ' . ' , 'i ', i, i i- ?'-r i , Ous Jbors, am I scores o largest nianufacf.irei-s of smokin-tohac'co in tlie World, and which pavs to theHovern-j ineni over cioojinmior revenue stamps every iar; .iHf. I i-ai; eiiiiori:u nil inisipies- : i" 'it (i hi, o i'ki i.i ii;t; "in Vi t;i.i:yKi..v.M) .rsu tiik l is now gencrallv coNTiiiKss. understood ;un6ng public u)en that unless Con gn ss passes a revenue-reduction bill at tjte present sjession the I 'resident will call the ncvlly elected oOth Con gress ih extra sqssion before the end of the -fiscal year. July 1st, ISsT.and kee;j the national Legislature (! ) here until -fheV do pass a satisfactory bill on jtive suliject. f Mvsta Goon:. ovii i:ukopi:an letti:ij. i Tlie Dresden Art iallery. Who has not heard of tliis won derful' collection of the masterpieces of iiirt? Here- are paintings on woojd, on brassy on canvass. Some woiiders. rif beauty and sanctity; and; others horrible, but irrcsistabjc in tlieir attractiveness. Names which have, been familiar to us from child hood are here vividly recalled by the glottious creations ascribed to them. Ontj cannot but feel a sensation of awc,.as if he wrc .on holy ground, as' lie paces ujnnd tlown the corri dors of this noble temjde of art. Ili'aM arrivetl in Dresden late the night before, and had stood for a long time at my window, in the Ho tel jiehevue, before retiring, think ingcif the great jcity of which 1 had hcad and read so much, and in which I was then preparing for re pose. Outside the lights of the streets ami the bright avenue of gas jets on the bride, were; reflected in the swift current of the historic Kibe, which flows through the beautiful city, and it was long before I could persuade myself to sleep:! The sun was nhining brightly the next-morning a,s I crossed the street fronv-the hotel tb the new museum, passing close to: the opera house on my way. In the new museum is the famous gallery, small in extent, but- containing! "many of the most valuable works of the artists of every school and age.' Ascending a short stairway I found myself in the midst of the gallery, but my eyes were closed to every thing till I had; found my way down a narrow passage which led me to a small corner rooms in which was only one picture the finest in the world the celebrated Sixtine Ma donna of Raphael. The entrance is on the same side of the room as the picture, so it is impossible for the visitor to get the first glimpse of the painting until; he has crossed the room ami turned. It is difficult to describe the sensation the visitor feels on seeing this gem of the gal lery for the. first time. Suffice it to say that he involuntarily removes his hat and walks on tiptoe. In deed it is. easily conceivable how the simple peasantkof Italy carried their admiration inter adoration, and wor shiped the creation of genius as they worshiped; the real mother of (iod. . 1 The naintins- is not hunsr. but stands in a richly carved gilt frame several: feet from tlie wall. In size it is colossal, ts dimensions being probably fifteen feet by ten. The Madonna stands on a cloud with the ! blessed infant in her arms, while St. Sixtus kneels ai her riffht and St Barbara on her! left. From the top two green curfains seem to hang ; and in the background a .multitude of angel faces eer through a soft, blue sky. At ibe bottom of the pic- turethe two wrjd-renowned cherubs, resting on theit plump little arms, gaze up in chilfish adoration. The face of this Mf donna is absolutely $1.50 PER ANNUM. perfect in its contour and expres- ! sion of divine love. The infant Je- I sua is also the impersonation of all j th.it i rvwl nii.l b,ioio;tiil Tl.n s - j?-i v ' ' "v .nuuuiui. 1 nv ; wealth of coloring used in this paint- ! ingns remarkable, and would have not have been otherwise" than gaudv. Aot far from this room, close to gether in an alcove, arc the three "Ecce Homos" of Guido IJeni. Two of these are companion pictures, one Fli'd on copper and the other on canva -Ihe third is tlie celebrated one' colJie of aJI over,tnv worll- '"is painting is on WOOd, aild IS Small 111 S1ZC. It is hung very low ami bears close ex amination. The face appears sallow and bloodless, and the expression of mingled agony and resignation which it wears is never fully conveyed fn copies and engravings. I'nlike most of the paintings in the gallery, this is covered with glass 'to protect it from injury. One of the most attractive of a different class of pictures is that of the three quaint little children of Charles I. by Van Dvek. At the side of this is a similar one bv Ru bens, representing in pleasant colors his two sons. In a conspicuous place, at no great distance, hangs the life size portrait of Napoleon J. as Emperor, in his imperial robes. Tliis painting was presented to the ( ia!lervbv- Napoleon himself. The artist, Francesco Gerard, has idealized his suhjeet un- ... ., !tu man ol i roii has a Ulilctl . , . lavi- ever seen, excepting of course. that of Raphael's Madonna. Rut why attempt to. describe any thing more? On every side and at every turn new beauties confronted me. Madonnas, LYoe Homos, altar pieces and bible pictures filled the walls of many rooms, while sei nes from heathen mvtholoirv -were not her names, at his vari otlicr famil i;u' ubjects greeted meat (Very turn, -t length tin d and somewhat daz- .led i p:iss-! out. lausimr on I V 111 t,c ,,:lstl collection to see tlie cele brated "Vienna Chocolate Girl." which is the gem of the collection, This beautiful nicture is in 1'iLrlit colors ;uid is so skillfully done that the water in the glass a-fid the choco late in the.cup are as natural in ap peranee ;is if they were real. The picture is bv Jean Ftieime Liotard. and was purchased for the gallery in j 174"). It is interesting to know that ; the real name of "La I!-iie Choeo- j latiere" was Raldauf and that she ! afterwards became the princess . I)iotriehstein. i With this picture I bade farewell i to the gallery for the time and with ! a pretty little American girl who had j accompanied me, hurried back to the ! hotel to meet a partv of friends-at ! table d'hote. j J If the reader ever visits Dresileu. . he will do well to make the hotel j Bellevue his headquarters; ami I: would advise him to take the earliest ! and every other opportunity of j spending an hour or two among the I beautiful picturesof the new museum, j Democratic Negroes. New York llernUl j The Republicans are niakinga wry j face over the fact that the colored j official, Mr. Matthew, has proven j both competent and honest. They 1 have carefully vivisected his record ; and can find nothing to object to ex cept that he is a Democrat. I As a sign of the times the promi- j nence of a Democratic colored man is ; portent ions to the republican party. ; Suppose it should become known j throughout the South that the lie- ' publicans are not the sole political j tiepenueiice ot the negroes; that the pleasant little fables which were freely circulated in the South in 1S1 to the effect that if the Democrats came mto power slavery would be on ce irmre established and negro children served up on the half shell to satisfy the ogreish appetite of the Democracy, are shown to be false, what then? And suppose that the colored people who are not as easily j duped as they were ten years ago I should get the fatal notion into their j heads that a Democratic administra- j tion will look after their rights, and, j as in the Freedman's Rank swindle, help them to get back the money which Republicans stole from them and which the Republican party re fused to make good, what then? Well, it would be a sad blow to j the party of great moral ideas in the I Presidential campaign of l-V-i.S and i materially change it.s Southern out- I look. It has banked on the negro , vote so long that it would hardly know how to do business without it. .Still, d'mjMjra mutaiitur very consid erably since the wac, and the negroes are likely to divide themselves pretty j equally between the Republicans and j the Democrats. Why not ?. The old j issues are dead and the champion ship of. a race is no longer necessary. South, North, East and West are i equally interested in educating the ! black man and" fitting him for the re- sponsibilities of citizenship, because the eountrv can t anord to have an ignorant class witha vote in its fist, j It is the negroes' right to have opin- j ions, and if half of them join the Democrats and the other halt remain ' with the Republicans, well and good j for all of us. President Cleveland j gave them very wise advise on one I occasion when he told a delegation j that the first thing for the negro to ao is to nave convictions, anu uie second to express those convictions by acting with the part which best represented them. RATES FOR ADVERTISING i 1 inch, one insertion, 75 1 inch, one month. ji.... 2 CO 1-inch, three months, ". .'. i.W 1 inch, six months, ( 40 1 inch, one year. '. 1. ". ! ". 6.C0 t column, three months,. J. 10 CO . i column, six months, 170 i column, one year " " jhxoO column, three mouths, 17.60 column, six months, . , .. 3o.00 column, one year, ..."." 55.00 Column. tlirPA TiiiATiOia on nit 1 column, six months 65.00 1 column, cne year, m 100U 0 1 column, one insertion. . , . 6. 0 2 columns, one insertion, , . . 10.C0 Space to suit advertiser charged for in accordance with above rates. PKOPMi TALKED ABOIT. Charles Francis Adams leaves SI -'.!(,( Ml, " The President is said to receive nearlv ru(XK letters a tlav! I Mine. Patti is to be paid SloO.M" for her six months' singin T. The Boston lh-mJd favors Robt. T. Lincoln aj Senator Logan's succes sor. Kate Field is giving elaborate din ner parties at the Arlington, in Wash ington. President Cleveland's rheumatism is improving, but he is not yet able to resume his work. ill-.ani W. Corcoran, the gener ous, has celebrated his X-Sth birthday. May he celebrate many more. Ji-sse ( irant lias I wen appointed superintend, nt of the proposed To polobainbd railroad in Mexico. Queen Victoria' lias ordered a tea set of fifty pi.-ees of Rurniese ware to lie made for her by a New Bedford. Al iss.. manufacturer. Mine. Roucieauit. of the Bon Man-he. Paris, lias pensioned her employes royally, and distributed her bounty like a princess. Mr. Powilerlv seems to have lost Ids wonted zeal ami vigor, lie has been attacked and still is silent. "Art the Knights disintegrating? ; ;.-orge M. B-irtholoiiiew. the Hart-!fc-d defaulter, is spending the winter in Quebec Some of Ids victims are spending the winter in poverty. Tlie Prince of Wales amuses him self by playing on. the banjo. The amusement, by the way. is perhaps not confined wholly to his highness. Within the last .twenty years, Mr. Ceorgc Washington Chillis', A. M., of Philadelphia,. has presented -over 200 big and valuable Bibles to churches, schools ami societies. !cn. W. W. Loring. the " hero of four wars,"" is dead, lie was a gal lant soidi.-r and fought on as many fields' and against as many foes as any man of modern times. Tlii- widely circulated item to the effect tiiat Mark Twain is worth 1, oiMMMKi is not true. . Mr. Clemens is a wealthy man, but his fortune does not nearly reaeh that figure. Cen. Logan's widow will be placed beVond want by privatesubscriptions and by recijipts from the sale of the (ieneral's book. The subscriptions now reach -S'io.O! x . enough for a North Carolina widow to live on. Sarah Bernhardt has been pre sented with a tract of land ten iifiles square in the -Argentine Republic. Whether valuable or .not we can't say. It siiows, however, that her South American admirers did not forgot her. Hon. Warrn-r Miller seems to have tin- inside track in the New York Senatorial race. ,.At least it is evi dent he is tlie people's, choice. Whether Levi P. Morton's purse will overbalance Miller's popularity re mains to lie seen. Oh ! the trials of office ! Mr. Hew itt has had the vials of wrath turned on him" already, although he is hard ly warm in his chair. He was in strumental in securing an appoint ment for one Walsh, as warden of the Tt in ibs, a n d it didn't pi ease every -body. Lord Randolph Churchill defends his resignation upon the ground that he would be required to vote away millions of money without any guar rantee that it would be spent effec tively or honestly. The New York 7V)i.-s suggests that if Lord "Randy" desires to "show up"' the admiralty and war department lie can get ample material, and says that Churchill's talent for making himself disagree able may be of service to his country. Horatio Potter, sixth Bishop of the diocese ot -New 1 ork, died at twenty minutes past six o'clock yesterday morning at his' residence, No. 'M East Twenty-second street. He would have been eighty-five years old on the 9th of next February. The death of Bishop Potter has taken the community by surjirise. Ripe in years anil scholarship, with a re cord of good works running through two ordinary generations, a godly churchman and a noble illustration of tlie christian charity of which lie preached, his life formed an impor tant chapter in the ecclesiastical his tory of the city. Mayor Hewitt has taken the reins of office into his hands. Now the work begins. He received many callers whose congratulations and kind words were cheering and hearty. The New York World says of him : "Mr. Hewitt enters office -without a solitary pledge, bargain or dicker with any organization or any politi cian. Of which of his predecessors for years past can this be said ? He is wholly and emphatically indepen dent. Yet he represents the domi nant political party in the city and is their united representative. Mr. Hewitt now- has the greatest oppor tunity of his life to render public service." We publish some excellent ex tracts to-day from Mr. Grady's elo quent speech in New York. When we wrote our first notice we had not seen the full text which we have since read. It contains a little too much "gush" in places for the stom ach of a Southern man who is not too anxious to placate Northern sen timent. The sure way to make friends among Northern editors is to give the South some digs for what it did and to shout pceans to some of the many "idols" of the North. AH who have tried it have been reward ed. But in the extracts we give the J reader will find only manly, patriotic and eloquent sentiment. Wilming ton Star.' J
The Tobacco Plant [1872-1889] (Durham, N.C.)
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