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. r,,,rril, - f r r i . v,. : : , 77S , . A i ' . THE - , , Terms of Mtettistng. :rATic preoo, AjBLI8ITED WEEKLY One squire,(14 lines or less,) first insertion, ftl 00""" n Tif i - , . - i Each subsequent insertion, 25 e" 1 wee ITOR AND PROPRIETOR,' - 31 LEIGH; N. C. j . . 9 Contracts will be made with persons wishing tt jlea advertie at the above regular rates for tbrte, six, or twelve months j a liberal deduction will be made in the case of such contracts. . A person advertising for twelve months will be enitled to the "Press" rrotw for the time. $f- All money sent at the risk of the Editor. ms of Subscription. 1 : i f IS J 1 . I 11,; :kr J - iJauUKATIC.-TRKSS wOI be sent t Ascribew at the following rates : jingle subscriber, one year, in advance, $2 00 o a Club of Three ' ". 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An 'Authorized Work. UNDERTAKEN under the approbation of his family, with an unreserved access to, and use of all the private papers of Mr. Jef rrasoN in their possession, and has received F the benefit of their recollections and opinions at every step, 1 , Price of the Work. Per Set 3 Vols. Neat Cloth Octa-, Cash, $7 00 ."''. " Library Sheep, " 9 00 . Half calf, or gilt antique, " 12 00 W. L. POMEROY, Agent for this Work. Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 11. 26 ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. Queen's Second Jtlessage f'Who firstwent to New York this season, bought his goods on the. best terms, rpturned home is how open and Teady for exhibition, , and ready to sell them at the lowest-prices?" President's Second Reply. "ALEXANDER CREECH. - Cheap Place. No. 27, Fayeitevile street." HAS now received hia large and complete stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods -. for Fa!l and Winter trade embracing almost every variety, of styles of Ladies Dress Goods, from the lowest price to the finest qualities. Also a large assortment of Goods suitable for Men and BoyVwear. HATS. ' CArf), BOOTS, SHOES, With a very good assortment of Men's "Ready Made . ClolhingL Come along Customers with your money and get the Goods. A Occupying the enviable position fhat I do before the American people, if 1 were to puff and blow, it would look like I were stepping aside from the dignity of the Presiaential chair, but truth justifies me in saying that cus tomers can get as good Goods, and as cheap Goods, and as many Goods, for as little money from Alexander Creech's House, as from any other establishment in the City of Raleigh. . A stands for article, fancy and rare, B stand"-: for buyers, with mony to spare; and - D stands fr Dealer, w'10 is after your Gold. G stan for Gentry, who never should fail To examine the Goods which I offer for sale : J stands for Jests, of which many are true, But don't think I'm jesting when lalkingtoyou. O s-tands for open your Wallets and trade, and Q .-tands for Quarters which lam ready to take; R stands for Rattles for the Babies to shake. II-,. ALEXANDER CREECH. Raleigh, N. C. Oct. 7, 1858. 21 6t. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, INCLUDING A SKETCH OF SIX TEEN Years' re' "1 .e in the Interior of . Africa.; and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zam besi to the Eastern Ocean ; bv David Living stone, L. L., D. D.; C. L., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons.Glasgow, ' Correspondins Members of the Geographical and Statistical Society of New York, Gold Medalist and Corresponding Member of the Royal Geographical Societies of London and Pari3. For sale bv j W. L. POMEROY. Raleigh, April 15,1858 . 46 tf 1 GROVER 4 BAKER'S CELEBRATED . FAMILY SEWING RIAflllNES. A New Stvle. Price $50. 495 Broadway, New Yorkr These Machines sew from two spools, and form a seam of unequalled strength, beauty, and elasticity, which will not rip, even if ev ery fourth stitch be cut. They are unques tionab'y the best in the market for family use. fjej- SEND FOR A CIRCULAR. -DO Lvman & Arrinsrtnn. Affent. Warremon; J.B. Holt, Agent, Yancyville; R. P. Ridh ardson, Agent, Reidsville ; C. B. Rft, Ag't Saleiah ; G; H. Kelly, Agent, Wilmington; J. R. & J- Stnwe, Agent, Greensborongh, November" 4, 1858. 44 tf. Blockersville Academy.' Male aud Female. " S B. B. CULBRETH, A. B. PRINCIPAL. Mrs. B. B. CclbAeth in charge of the Fe male Department. The Spring session ommftnoR Fehrua of this institution will commence February 16th, 1859, and con ' t'miivfivA months. Thi. Kphnnl U located on the Stag-Road .leading from Fayetteville lo .Warsaw .twelve miles East of the former place It is very j easy of access, as the stage passes twice daily l; TERMS PER SESSION. . . Primary branches, fl'51 ! : Higher English, ' 10,00 to 12,50 - Languages, (Greek and Latin,) itoard can be had in the neighborhood at $7, per month exclusive of lights. Pupils charged from the time of entrance, and no deductions made only for protracted : sickness. . . For further particulars address the Principal 1 or G. IF. Bullard at Blockers, N. C. 4-3m. Jan. 18th. 1859. i From the Virginia News. AN INTERESTING BRIDAL TRIP. The train from Grafton, due here at, 1 T40, A. M. , under the management . or that gentlemanly, amiable, popular and efficient conductor. Captain Scott, a few days since stopped at one (of the way sta tions, to take on a couple newly married. Both were young, and both were verdant; having been raise in. the wUds oLWeslern Virginia, neither of them had ever been fifty miles away from home. They had heard of railways, locomotives, steamboats, and hotels, but had never experienced the comforts of any of the afore-mentioned in stitutions. J eems and Lize had determined on this, the most important event in their lives, to-visit the city and see the world, particularly that portion of it known as Parkersburg. No wonder that they were amazed and delighted when the locomotive steaming and snorting, with the train of beautiful crimson cars following it in sight. " These your trunks," said the baggage master. r "Well, 1 1 sorter calkilate them's em," said Jeems. ! . The trunks (a spotted hair trunk and a very old fashioned valise) were soon in the baggage car followed by Lize and Jeems. " I'll e darn'd ef railroads aint k fine thing," said Jeems, seating hinself on his luggage and carefully holding up the tails of his light bodied blue, adorned with re splendent metal buttons, out of the dust. "Lize set here by me." " Come out of that," said the baggage man ; youare in the wrong car." " The h-1 1 am ! D'ye 'spose I dont know what I'm 'bout? These is my traps, and I calkilate to stay where I ar. Keep quiet, Lize ; they say we'v got to fight our way through the world anyhow, and if that chap with the the cap on wants anything, ;why, I'm his man. Don't want any yer foolin' 'round me J " Here the captain interposed and explain ed matters, insomuch that Jeems consented to leave his traps and follow the Captain. What was his delight when he surveyed lli(5 OWgniCvtuw f -4l? fire - Jb l mm 1 nw: ger car, into which he was ushered. His imagination had never, in its wildest flights, pictured anything half so gorgeous!. He was aroused from the contemplation of the splendor around him, by the shriek of the iron horse. " Jee-whilikins, what in the thunder is that?" exclaimed Jeems. " That's the horse squealing when they punch him in the ribs with a pitchfork to make him go aloug," said a sleepy looking individual just behind him. " Look here, stranger'," said Jeems, " I ow you think I am a durn'd fool, 'may be fam, but there's some thing I know, and one of 'em is, you will get your mouth broke ef you don't keep it shet. I don't say much" just at this moment they found themselves in Egyptian darkness, and then was heard a scream, almost equal to that of the engine, from Lize, as she threw her arms around the neck of Jeems. " I know it ! I know it," exclaimed the sleepy looking individual, "we are all lost, every mother's son , of us. We can just prepare now to make the acquaintance of the gentleman in black, who tends the big fire below.'1 " Oh, Lord ! Jeems what will become ofrus? I felt 6keery about gettin' on the outlandish thing, at fust." " Keep quiet, Lize ! hollerin' won't do any good now. Ef you know any prayer, nbw's your time to say it for both of us." ' What's the matter here, said the as tonished conductor, coming up as the train emerged once mote into the flight." j "That's just what I'd like to know," said Jeems, when he saw that Lize and himself were both alive. We've just passed through Eaton's tun nel," replied our polite Captain. "How far are you going ?" " Wall, reckon we'll stop at Parkers burg." " Show you? tickets if you please." " Certainly; Lize, you got some with you ? Let this gent look at 'em." Lize drew a piece of white paper from her reticule, and. with a smile, handed it to our friend, the Captain, who read : ' The itieavure of your company is respectfully solicited. What's this said" the Captain. " Whv. thafsone of the tickets to our J ' ; . weddin', that's what you asked forshaint ic ?n asked the somewhat surprised Jeerns?3 ""Whaw! haw! haw! haw! hawP was the discordant sound that arose from the seat of the sleepy looking individual. A bland smile passed ,over the face of the Captain as he explained his meaning to our verdant friend. He had no ticket, but willingly paid his fare, and the train sped on towards its destination. But wan ders did not cease here presently our pert newsboy, Billy, entered the car, and, step ping up to Jeems, he asked " Have a Sun,' bit?" " Wal, if I have my way about it, the fust one will be a son, sartin' said Jeems. Lize blushed. ' ' Don't count your chickens afore they're hatched !" said Billy, as he hastened on to the next car. In due time the train stopped at the big depot, in this city. Amidst confusion of strange noisel and a babel of discordant voices, ohr mends mmreu Dtt-fcc'pwnnr Buss, sah ? Buss, sab. free for the United States ?" said the sable porter of our uptown house. " Lady, take a buss, sah ?" "Wal, I rather 'spose she won t from anybody but me reckon I'm able to do all in that lin3 she wants, and more too.'' "Goto the Swan House, sah? right cross de street best house in de city. This way sah ! any baggage ? have it sent to you room in a few minutes." In a short time Jeems and his bride found themselves in one of those comforta ble rooms on the second floor of that well ordered establishment, the Swann House. The baggage was sent up with the usual promptness, and our friends were soon making their toilet for dinner. Jeems had his coat and boots off in a jiffy, and Lize's hair fell gracefully over her shoul ders. " That's a duced purty torselV said Jeems, eyeing the bell-cord, "wonder what it is fur ?" catching hold of it ; look, it works up there on some sort of thingum bob. I'd like to have that torsel to put on my horse's head on next muster day ; see how it works,' vn a Pu' Presently the door opened, and the sa ble face of one of Afric's sons was thrust into the room with inquiry of, "Ring, sah?" " Ring ring what ? you black ape ! ef you do not quit looking at my wife and make yourself scarce, I'll tcring your head off."' " Stop a minit." said Lize. "What's the name of the man that keeps this tavern?" " Well, tell his lady she needn't go to any extra fixins on our account, for we're plain people," said the amiable bride. " As they used to say in our debatin' society," interrupted Jeems, " I'll amend that motion, by sayin' you can tell 'em to give us the best they've got " I'm able to pay for it, and don't keer for expenses." " Tee hee ! Tee hee !" was the only au dible reply from the sable gent, as he hurried down stairs. Dinner came, and was dispatched with a relish. Jeems and his bride took a stroll over the city, seeing the lions and other sights until supper time, which being over, they retired to their room. The gas was lit by the servant, who received a bright quarter for his services. Jeems was the last in bed, and accordingly to the rule in such cases, had to put out the light, which he did with ,a blast from his lungs. The noise in the street had died away, and quiet reigned in the Swann House. The young man on the watch dozed in his chair. The clerk (rather corpulent) was about to retire, when he thought he smelt gas. Some one came down stairs and said he smelt gas. Thoguests (some of them) woke up and smelt gas. Much ' against his will, the clerk proceeded to find where the leak was. It seemed stronger in the neighborhood of the room occupied by the bride and groom. Clerk concluded to knock at the door of their room. . ' ' Who's there ?' came from .inside. ' Open the door, the gas is escaping.' ' Gas ! what gas ?' said Jeems, opening the door. Why , here in this room. How did you put your light out ?' ' Blew it out, of course.' Yon played h .' Our amiable clerk came very near saying a bad word, but re membering that there was a lady in the case, or rather in the bed, he checked his rising temper, and having lit the gas, pro ceeded to show Jeems the mystery of its burning as follows Youseo this little thing here? well. when you want to put it out, you give a turn thi s way, and when you want to make it lighter you give it a turn this way. Se rious consequences -might have resulted if it had pet been discovered. Now be care ful next .time.' Much obliged. But how the devil did I know the durned. stuff, was escaping? responded Jeejas. ' Dihdn'tyou smell it ? asked the clerk. ' 'Pears, to me I did smell,' said Jeems. JRut Lize, I'll be durned ef I didn't think it wasroirfckase I never slent with a wo- man afore.' Well, Jeems, IMhought it was you smelt that way all the time. I was jest a wonderin1 ef all men smelt that way. It 'peared strange, but then I didn't know nothing about it,' Was the response of Lize, as she turned over foraTiap.T The red in our clerics face grew smilling ly redder, as it reflected the light from the burning jet, and a roguish twinkle lurked in the eorner of his eyes,a he turned off the gas and all waa darkif and our friends were left alone in thei glory. . A sound of suppressed mirth was heard in the. reading room for a few minutes and all was still. . - --; V--- The Devil and St.JBeatns. A Story for Church Sleepers fin the read ing of which they may Learn Something v St Beatus (aecordtng to a Swiss legend) was a native of Britain, a convert from Druidism, a pupil of Bomabas, and espec ially commissioned by St. Peter to convert the Helvetians and with for Christ that most desirable land and that proud race of man. Redundant miracles attended his preaching. He journeyed on the lake without a boat, buoyed up by his miracu lous cloak, imperious to water and woven by angels. The adventure of this holy man with the Devil- was on this wise : Achates, the companion of Beatus, had charge of a church of. converted idolaters on the other shore of the lake. One Eas ter day Beatus went on in his miraculous cloak to join in the service ; but arriving a little late, and finding the temple full of worshipers, he was afraid of interrupting the sermon, and set down on one of the farthest seats. The heat was intense, the audience dull, and the good Saint was scandalized at seeing all the members of the congregation gradually fall asleep, one after another. While he was sadly musing on this culpable indifference, he spied Satan under the pulpit, horns, tusks, clavs, and all, his (left foot on his right knee, a crow-quill -jta his hand, busily writing down on a skin the names of the unlqcky sleepers, who were thus uncon scioiisly endangering the salvation of their souls. , Anxious as ho""Was to wake them, he feared to commit the (mortal sin of in terrupting the sermon. "The . Devil kept on writing, filled his register full, and had more names yet which he hadnot room to put down. He then triedf to stretch the skin on which he waa writing and get more room, pulling it with his teeth and claws, but in ma saiu-iux, ; i,cti ue pauc-a so naru 1 that he knocked his head against the pul pit. At this mishap Beatus could not con tain himself. He burst mt laughing ; the laugh waked up the people, and they all had time to say Amen to the sermon. The Devil was foiled ; and took himself off. But Beatus lost his boaty for the magic property of his cloak was now abstracted, to punish him for interrupting public wor ship, lhat laugh saved tneeopie, but it compelled the Saint to go on foot ever after. He lived, says thd legend; to the age of ninety." When the sons of Godcame to present themselves before the Lord; Satan, doubt less, comes also among them now-a-days, as in former times. In winter's cold, as well as in summer's heat, he will find enough to keep him busy iunong the dull and sleepy hearers of the Gospel, if indeed the dull and sleepy can be called hearers. We think we know ofjtsome churches where he will be obliged fotretch his skin considerably, in order to put down the names of all whom he can claim as his own. And it is not always that the - fortunate laugh of a St. Beatus wakes up the incon siderate transgressors, in time to 6ave them from their imminent peril. Some are so dull that they cannot tell theez, and if any Amen has been pronounced, they do not know it. Perhaps they pronounce it to themselves on their way homewards, as a quietus to conscience, or as expressive of their confidence in the orthodoxy and faith fulness of the minister. What! their doom will be, we will not undertake to say. Poor St. Beatus ! His sentecca'was a severe one. It would have been!;ard even for a Saint, not to have laughed under the'eir cumstances. Yet, his laugh saved .i the sleepers from the clutches of the adversary. But had there been no sleeping, there would have been no laughing, and the Devil's skin would have been useless, and his Satanic Majesty would have saved his head that hard knock against the pulpit ! Moral " Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready. to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil." MONITOR. Rev. Phillip , Brcc e. Mr. Editor: You gave us to under stand recently, that likely a biographical sketch of this faithful and laborious advo cate of Methodism, in its earlier days, would be iriven to the public, and I feel inclined to give your readers an incident in his life that very impressively shows the estimate that he placed upon prayer. I had the incident from Rev. A.- J. Crawford, a su perannuated member of the Alabama Con ference. He and Brother Bruce spent a night together, during which there fell a heavy snow. Next morning, there being no place in the house for private devotion, they retired to the woods for secret prayer. When they had got out of sight, although the snow was about knee deep, the venerable Bruce bowed himself before God, the snow almost coveriag him, and poured out his soul in fervent supplications at the throne of the heavenly mercy. His earnest pleadings with his Heavenly Father, with uplifted eyes, while the morning breezes were fan ning his hoary' locks, made salutary and lasting impressions upon the mind of his companion. It was truly edifying to hear Brother Crawford relate the incident as he er and success as et preacher.1 My mind instantly recurred to Jesus when " he went up into a mountain to pray" and also when at Gethseinane he ' ' fell on his face and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be pos sible, let this cup pass from me : neverthe less, not as I will, but as thou wilt." ' J. W. S. May 4, 1859. How the old North State was done out of her Copper mines. Looking along the boundary, between North Carolina and Tennessee, it will be seen that the line, after pursuing a gene ral southwest course for nearly the whole way, suddenly bends directly south as it approaches the Georgia border. Now this line should have kept on southwest, as it started, but the boundary commissioners being so near the close of their labors, re solved, it is said, to indulge in a general ' ' spree," in the course of which the Caro linians got gloriously inebriated, and their Tennesse confreres amused themselves by changing the line, and cheating them out of a small corner. It was considered a cap ital joke at the time, on both sides, for the land " stands on its edge," and appears to be of that description that makes a man poorer the more he has of it. But it has lately been found to be no joke, as far as 'Old Rip" is concerned, at any rate, for this very corner has within it the great copper deposit of Ducktown, which con tains immense and inexhaustible beds of that valuable metal. Mining is in its infancy there, yet the valley already pours out its ores by mil lions, worth, and constantly increasing ev ery year In ten years, probably, the be not less than a hundred millions. The line was run about fifty years ago, and North Carolina is barred by the statute of limitation from reclamation. The "moun tain dew " was decidedly unwholesome that time for the good old State. Receipe for Despondency. At the close of the New England Con ference, just before reading the appoint ments, Bishop Ames said he was sadden ed by the thought that the announcement might, in some instances cause pain. " But, he added, " if you ever find any tendency to despondency, let me give you a recipe Jret a little nearer the cross, a little more intimate with Jesus. And how ever poor or good your station.be it yours, under God. to make it better." More religion and harder work will cer tainly effect the cure of any curable ten dency to lowness of spirits. Olin High School. The examination in this school came off last Tuesday and Wednesday, the 2nd and J r 1 v . t 1 .1.1.1 ora inst. 1 was present ana witnessed toe exercises with much interest, and can most sincerely state that I have rarely, if ever, seen a more thorough and satisfactory tes ting of the knowledge acquired by classes, in the different studies they have pursued. Public examinations are generally regard ed as no tests of scholarship ; this, howev er, was an exception to the general rule ; made so by the method adopted in conduct ing the examination. The students in both departments, showed that they had been well and thoroughly taught and trained in their studies. On Tuesday night the audience was en tertained with declamations by young men selected from the two Literary societies. They acquitted themselves with credit, giving us a very pleasing entertainment. On Wednesday at 11 o'clock, Rev. H. T. Hudson, of Salisbury, by invitation, preached a sermon to the students. It was, as a whole, a good sermon, appropriate to the occasion, containing many very fine passages. All, 1 tninK, were pleased and. profited. The afternoon was devoted to the reading of compositions. The exercises throughout were interspersed with music and song. At night, the young and the fair, the old and the gravo mingled in a nice, pleasant " social party" given by the young men of the Institution. Everything passed off very pleasantly indeed. Now a word about the teachers and the future prospects ofthe school. Rev. B. Clegg, the Principal, of his own accord, retires from the Institution. His renuta- tion, made by twenty .years laborious and successful teaching, is well known. He ranks amongst the best instructors of our State. Mr. A. H. Merritt, his associate for the past two years, will succeed him. I think: the Institution very fortunate in re taining the services of Mr:7 Merritt, and : having him placed in charge as Principa of the school. He is a graduate of out University is a fine scholar, and has prov yen himself to be a capital instructor. Miss Tucker, who had charge of the fei male department, has fully sustained the reputation she brought with her to the in stitution. The school has been, for years, embar rassed with debt. Arrangements have re cently been consummated,. by which the entire property has been passed into the hands of Messrs. O. G. & J. F. Foard, gentlemen well known for their business talent and energy. With such men to H Merritt, to conducythe literary depart ment, the public can now be assured of a permanent, successful school, in every way worthy of patronage. May Olin High School long live to bless our church and State with the benefits of a liberal, chris tian education. N. F. REID. Olin, N. C, May 30, 1859. meeting of Trustees. The Trustees and Visitors of Trinity College are requested to meet at 9 o'clock on Tuesday June 28. A larg amount of important business must receive attention, and this time at least, it is desirable that the whole Board should be present. B. CRAVEN. June 1, 1856. Literary Notice. The commencement exercises of the Som erville Female Institute, Leasburg N. C. will take place at Bethany church near Leasburg the last Thursday in June. John W. Graves Esq., of Yancey ville will deliver the literary address to the young Ladies, and Rev. TheophilusW Moore of Person, will preach the annual sermon in Leasburg the Wednesday before. SOLOMON LEA. June 1859. Oxford Female College. The annual commencement took place last week. Under the able and judicious manage ment of President Mills, this institution is entitled to the patronage of our Baptist ral support. A correspondent of the Biblical Record' er speaks in complimentary terms of Pres ident Craven's address. Camels on an Alabama Plantation. The Selma (Ala.,) Sentinel, 20th inst:, says : The camels purchased by Mr. Woolsey from Capt. Machado, last week, seem to answer many useful purposes. The othe day one of the animals, with rider, brought twelve bushels of shelled corn to town to mill. So one camel, in milling alone, will answer the purposes of a wagon and two mules, will travel over the ground four times as quick as the mules. We under stand that they have been tried to the plough, and answer the purpose admirably, being docile, and easily managed. The Foreign Press. The German pa pers are full of war news and correspon dence from the seat of war to day. The Staats Zietung of the city of New York, warns the political refugees here against getting up organizations to take an' active 1 ' il . . . 1? it- - a i il pari in me war ; ior me present war mus I 7. ! .Ti W. ' J. far, it consideres not a war of Italian inde pendence, but a fight simply between the two Imperial eagles of the Danube and Seine. " The Christian's Home A little Hot tentot girl when very sick said to her teacher, "I want to go home." Here plied, " You are at Jhome, my dear ; this is your home ;" but still she repeated, " I want to go home ;I want to go home." Her teacher then asked " What home is it you want to go to?" when she replied The home of the narrow way.". , ' Last Words. The sun shone brilliant ly into the room where Humboldt died, and it is reported that his . last words, ad dressed, to his niece, were: " Wie herr- lich diess Strahlen ; sic scheinen die ErdO zumHimrael zu ru fen ? (How glorious these rays ; they seem to call Earth to Heaven !") 7" A Transcendentalist. A gentleman of Boston, who takes a business view of most things when recently asked respect- ing a person of quite a poetic temperament, -replied, " Oh, he is one of those men who have soarings after the infinite, and divings after the unfathomable, but who never pays cash." Postmaster at Petersburg. Wm. E. Bass, Esq., has been appointed postmaster at Petersburg, in place of the late Wm. N. Friend. Mr. Bass has for nineteen years faithfully discharged the duties of a clerk in the office. Our Country. The land we from our fathers had in trust, And to our children will transmit.or die: This is our maxim, this our piety ; And God and Nature say that it is just. We read the dictate in the infant's eye, In the wife's smile, and in the placid sky ; xluu an uui iced, "inia IMG allKuu OUBb Of them tnat went before us ! Wordsworth. The Dauphin of France. A Marvel lous Story. The following statement ap peared in the London Herald, of May 17 th: There are stranger things than fiction, eTen in modern times, but people will hard ly be prepared foi the startling announce ment which was asserted at a, coroner's in quiry held yesterday, before Mr. Wakley, Coroner for West Middlesex, that the Dauphin of France, the nnfortunate son of Louis XVI :did not, as history states, die 'on the 9th June, 1795. in the prison of the Temple, after a miserable confinement of three years,' but that he expired in a London; street cab but a few days since, and that -the deceased upon whom the in quest was being held was no other than Such was the marvellous story made puDlId yesterday at an inquest held at the Lord Wellington, University street, upon a per son who, under the name of Augustus Menes, has for some time past resided with his family 35 University street, Tottenham court road, where he followed the advoca tion of a professor of music. It appeared that the deceased, who was in his seventy-fifth year, was suddenly taken 'ill when near his own residence, and as medi cal assistance could not be immediatly pro cured, he was conveyed, without delay, in a cab to the University Hospital close by, but he was dead before arriving at that institution, the cause of the death being, as the post mortem examination distinctly proved, disease of the heart. The jury returned a verdict accordingly, and so far the judical part of the proceedings termi nated; but upon inquiring further into the peculiar statements that had been made by the deceased's family, and the rumors that have got about in the neighborhood, caus ing no little excitement, it seems that ' the deceased's conversation for the last .thirty years, when he first made his family acquainted with the strange story, has been to the effect that he was the Dauphin who was supposed to have died in the temple, and while the deceased bore a strong like ness in the face of the Bourbon family J of France, his family futher assert that he had certain marks on his person which the hapless infant King had. He had always himself desired to keep the matter secret from the wold, but his family have now expressed their determination to publish the whole facts connected with his marvel lous history. A New Candidate. George WilkinJlliiiJf Kendall is announced as a candidate for the office of Governor of Texas. Remains of a mastodon. -The McKin ney, (Tex.) Messenger states that the skeleton remains of wmasto0n,Jiatv-J?ggg "r tt:.i n 1. 1 1. ic :i v iL r vi xncKury awui xo umuts nvim ui that place. A tusk 9 feet in length and' ten inches at the base has been dug up7, also a part of the jaw bone, weighing 20 pounds. . In a New Field. The Petersburg' Ex press says that at the Washington Street M. E. Church in that city on Sunday fore noon last, after the regular services, a col lection was taken up for the benefit of the Missionary Society, and a number of life members were elected. The name of Wil liam L. Goggin was proposed and imme diately after, that of John Letcher. The requisite $20 for each candidate was made up in short order, and they can now each congratulate themselves that whatever be the result of their political contest, they . are both elected for life to a place among the faithful. . : " To Him give all,the Prophets Wit ness." The Jewish rabbis in Algeria confine the attentionof the young people to the Pentateuch and the Talmud, refu-T sing to let the voices of the prophets be heard, and cursing inquirers who seek an explanation of their writings. In conse quence of thisa number of the youthful Jews have applied to a Christian missiona ry to teach them the prophets, and to in struct then in the Hebrew language, so that they may be the better able to read and understand the Bible for themselves, and see if the Messiah has already come. Resist the Beg innings. The Arabs have a fable of a miller, who was one day start led by a camel's nose thurst in the window of the room in which he was sleeping. "It is very cold outside." said the camel. "I only want to get my nose in." The nose was let in, then the neck, and finally the whole body; presently the miller began to be extremely inconvenienced at the un gainly companion he had obtained, in a room certainly not large enough for both. "If you are inconvenienced, you may leave," sand the camel : " as for myself, I shall stay where I am." The moral of the fable concerns all. When temptation oc curs, we must not yield to it. We must not allow so much in. as its " nose to come What will they Say. Mankind arc s governed, more than many are willing to confess, by the silent self-queries, " what will people think," and " what will people say." Think of it, readers, if these be not among your own perpetual inward ques tionings. Is it not every day, perchance, that you halt in some purpose or pursuit, and suffer the imagined verdict of the out side world of your friends, acquaintances, the community ? There are thousands who fancy themselves independent, but who are daily and hourly servitors of those tyrant queries; "What will people think what will they sayt" Never mind what they'll think or say,, so long as you outrage no duty or decency ; but only do what your own judgment dictates as best or right and proper for yourself. This is the kind of independence that will sooner or later command respect. Mason. Not Dead. The Texas Advocate, from which the notice of tha death of Prof. Fobte of Souie University wa condensed for this .paper last week, has been hoaxed. He is not dead.
The Democratic Press (Raleigh, N.C.)
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