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1 i SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED AGE. August 14, 1875. '1 J-: tinuous labor and ? temperate habits have "strung his nerves and purine his blood." In his habits he is simpl and abstemious, lie lias never use y tobacco, and he seldom drinks ardent spirits, and then never to exce Hs moral and social traits are exce lent. So amiable is he by nature, a so regardful of the rights of otherk that he has never tad a personal difh- i culty in his life, though it may we be conceived that.ijn ascending as he has done jfrom obscurity to eminence t he must have had many a rough cori- Hest with 'his opponents?. Charitable and kind-hearted, be jis rather dis- - posed to excuse than to assail or ceil sure.'Always accessible; to his Mends, hud glad to see them, Ire; has a fund of quaint humor, bubbling up from a cheerful heart, wiich ' invariably .pleases and "sets, the tableau aroar-j" He never loses hi temper, never puts on airs as a Sir Oracle, never at tempts ito play a ', large part5 in the " eyes of men because the people have honored him, but is '-the same iplain; , unassuming, modest1 man, he was when "he handed his gun to his friend and male that first public spee;h of his in Wavnesborough. 1 . Commencing life poor, j he has by r' industry and .. economy acquired a , ' handsome fortune, '.notwithstanding- , his havy Josses by the war. Of the people, rou the people, andinVA, the , people in all that concerns their" best ? linterestsvwith sdch a record of set vice as we , have . feebly sketched, it may reasonably be assumed that the 11 ' measure of- his fame is' not yet full, ' i -but that the country" lias in store for ; himstill further and higher honors. .SOUTHERN: ILLUSTRATED AGS, 1 40 Faykttkvjllk fT., R.iyf;ii, N. C. Ji. T.,FUJL0HU .Editor. - TEEMS TO SUBSCRIBERS : pm1 copy, cfte yf'r, (postage paid,) - , One copy, six month, (postajji? paUl,) -f 82 00 i ' 4 ; The SO UT1IERX ILL USTR'ATE-D A GE is ihe only Illustrated Sewxpapef ii the Southern States. The admirobhj'icritteh Serial Stoty by ETHEL,, oft (J., will be. coutimieif. in ne.rt rmrnber of the & '0 UTILE IIS ILL VSTRA TED A GE. tfrf" A netff tih'j'rt Story of intent interest, froiu t''r'-jtru if 3IISS JJfCKSOof S.j(1.,tntitled '. y Vrw ICE 1) E CEIVEDV in the next number of th SOUTHERN lUSTilA TED AGE SOUnmilN ILLUSTRATED AGE . Tliifi issue introduces to the Dub lie the first number of the So:f n-r EiiN Illustkatet? Age: W e do not propose to employ the bombastic rhetoric usual in such introductions, but content oursclveff"witlt simply -tati!ijr the claims- which the Age ir.s to the consideration of the read- i)ublic. In confirmation .of ivhat is Siiid -;t he paper., wil Wpeak for itself -: At' the fneeptio'n ot this enter prise yjiTtet with no hing but woi-xisor discouragement, but iover- ex'minir all lobtacles Hve beirm our work under most favorable aus pices No uiicertainj.msecilTei basis i scours, for we- start wjth . a capital 'and tronage sivfficrit :tP inake success certain. ' ;, ' V;:;iV: V The Age supplies a deficiency in. Southern ; journalism long felt and deplored, and - w-e veiiter jnto the untried but inviting field feeling sanguine that' ' the people of . the South will extend, to the Southern ILixsTRATED Ige as hearty a sup: port as the Northern people do to their illustrated papers. . We pro pose to give. to the public a weekly laper which-will be an exponent of the-literature;of the South." It will be an illustrated record of the times. It will treat of everv topic polit ical, historical, literary and scien tificwhich is ot interest, and give tlie best4- illustrations that -can be ' obtain eot original and foreign. . In . the list of contributors are the "names of the best known and most ' talented writer! ofr fhe' South.' Se rial arid short; stories, poems and sketches, and well and carefully conducted editorial departments, giving the la-test litcrrypersonal, scientilic, political, religious, and corAmercial intelligence, will be. the pfdmtn-e'nt featurcc of the AgeJ Partisanship in polities will- be eschewed, y "Independent in all -. things and neutral in'1 nothing" is : the motto which we have adopted. mi t' i i : n i . ' : -j . j i -i ineitignt win ue coinmenueu, ici it.emaiiate from wjiat source it may,. tina tne w rong uenouncea let u come in whatever garo it will. We are at the beck of no party, association, ci-igregatipn, corpora tion or clique. The issues of the May will be discussed fearlessly but fairly Aand fce'mperatelv. alwavs VX .... I mf 7 : : m , g in' view the best interests jcjjinmoiijeountry. .... tins brief introduction the ekn' Illustrated. , Age is n to the public with the hope that its merit will recommend it to all classes and'conditions of soeiet DEA TH OF HQX. W. A. GRAHAM. Again' is Xpf tlr Carolina' be reaved. Death hasbroken one of the few remaining links in the chain which bound, her to a bright and glorious past On. Wed nesday last at C A. m.. at Saratoga, b.; 1., lion. W. A. -Grali am de- parted tjhis life after air' il in ess p'f tour dayr The harvest indeed vas ripe Ipr jthe sickle, for he was not only a great but a good rnan. Tlie pen f)f eulogy . is hardlr cometent to the task of adequately portray ing lifd mental and moral adorn merits of character. It is a work of suj)ereroga;tidn to speak Jiere pi h is d e voti oif toM uty. and t he m any and , substantial services he has rendered to his native State: and the whole country. That lias be come an imperishable- part of -history. ::y: f : : - VV; Little did we think that when the sketch pf the life of this statesman and christian gentleman, vnich appears in ithis issue, was prepared that the coffin lid was .so -.sooii. to close . on hirri. True he died (far aay'ifrom his home, but his fame matle hi in known and respected by all, and the grave wherein is laid all ot his mortality will le pointed out tounrgenerations as the last resting place ofVfrtrmn w lip was .as pure in character as he was great in intellect. 1 ' r ' Sometime last year Gov. Gra ham yaS: appointed by the Legisla ture of Virginia one of the Board of Arbitration to settle the bound ary lines between that State and Maryland, and to attend the. iinal meeting., of that Board, (ijov. Gra l)am repaired to Saratoga Though in, rather feeble and tailing health; it Xvas Loped that he xoald ;bb o'i Awed 'to liie y.fi :ien da 101 1 cars 10 5 come, arid espeaWlyrthat the State youia nave ti.,peneut ot iiis large experienC'e ami Rapacity in the en- suing. CohstiJit-0.nar Convention to whiqh lie hjideen elected troni' Orange county . But it ws otherwise-decreed and thonj'h the" in stincts ot nature will not jcrniit tlie pangs of grief to 'be st illed yet the tho.ught thatiiiis spotless and oright record on earth will : secure liim a home in heaven should e6tnTdn..So.if rowing relatives, and mends: i ,' ; In another; place the dreader w iii find ( a full biographical sketch of theJKfe and serviqes of this lamented patriot-and statesman. : Q : i DlliTH OF 'GEX. GEORGE y PICKETT. : ' 3 i It is our painful duty to announce the death of one of the few Major Generals; jvhich our - sister State Virginia furnished to the Confede-rate-cause who have survived up to this time. . General Pickett breatlieddiia last at the. hospital of St. incentde Taul, on the 30th ult.; after a' brief, but painful illness,-;. , . y ; ' y . : ,'r.'.' t . The General- had been in Nor folk for some weeks, and .was sMek-: en with, the illness which caused his death. Ho had rooms at the Atlantic Hotel , from which he-was removed to the hospital, ''wherei". :,,,..u,. . i .. .:n more sperfect quiet could be Becured, andrwhere he received the very : best possible attention,- the membets of his family beingi with ?him during his latter hours; . v . '. i y Is tiiere any laSv iii" this State forbidding the conviction! and. pun ishment of an v official who has stolen more than $1,000 of the public money ? We should like to be enlightened on this point. We are well ayare of the fact that be who steaU an vthing under five dol lars is a wretched rosrue. The brtv-fbuUh ammal Fair of the American "institute, New York,-wili be fbrmallv opened tb the nublic :ntz. i p. m., on Wednesday, Scptcmljer 8. X C. USURY LAW. ! As an evidence of the evil wrought by the usury act X have closed "The Wilmington Trust Company and Savings Bank' paid offj tho'depositprs and retired from the banking business. L ... 'The class which must suffer worse tlmn any other, and i m me diatelj-, is the, debtor class. Those who have borrowed at 12 percent.' or more on mortgage, must see their property sacrih'ced, because loans cannot vc. obtained at eight per cent '1 I see just as good reason for reg ulating the price of pork or corn, as money. , True, people may. suffer in many cases from the high price of money, so they do . from high prjice of bread. and meat. I All mer chandize is governed by demand and siivply. Monej- is. not an ex ception to the universal rule. ' In Engl an d , Fran ce, II oil and and . Germany money is cheaper than .in' the United States-T proba bly iiot averaging one half the cost, and; the rate of interest is' regu lated by contract, money is free. What is good for ; the majority of the wealth, commerce and. trade of the world ought to be good for Xorth Carolina. , , 1 J The effect of the passage of the usury law by our last General As sembly cannot be estimated. Ibc 1 i e ve t h e i n j u ry a m o u n t s to mi 1 1 i o n s of dollars-in money, but . the moral effect is to prevent the payment ' of debts,, to stdp their, collection, to create distrust, to undermine the value of all. transactions, to invent methods ot . evasfpn, giving ike money lender more jwvier ovvt the, borrower to extorr high interest. I1 anvgiad to know that wc are to'.' have a -newspaper that wilMiscuss the - question 'Pf ti nance aria usfury. It. is. badly needed. The General Assembly of the State needs iufor m ation. The present system of taxation and the usury act would ruin any State.' - . . ; . -, Silas JSr. Maetix. . Wilmington, j7r C' "J .remarks."' The foreiroiu-r letter co n tains sub- stantially oui'views on the subject ot" t " - 1 - ??y" "n " mm' IVoITovm ; it aj ' t - -i: i j Ti'.. i 'in. j- the question coTt Id oe submitted, it would be found, to be the Views of a large majority of the pe'opld of the State. . That our capitahis be ing rapidly '.transferred beyond the borders, where security . is equally i r ood and better interest-is obtained !-5 is. a tact too- patent to admit ot doubt. ' The plain truth is that ..cap-' talists w ill aiot loan- money at six and eight percent., when they can in ak ' : t.h ei r o w n .lmucii..'u terms, If tl.pro iSn nnv -virfi-io w investments on If there lie any virtue whatever in the late Usury act it . consists in its prbhibitcty effect. If borrow ing be prohibited by law, (and such would :secm;to be effect of the act,) t-hen our citizens cannot run into debt upon that score, and if borrow ing were the only means' of incur ring debt, we might gather from its bushel of chaff a grain of wheat, but there 'are a thousan d ways and meaus-of incurring debt other than that of borrowing, and by; these the provisions of the act wi):i be eva ded, and its object defeated. We venture the' broad jfesertion that no stringent usury; law can ever be. successfully enforced) and itsi failure operates to Iieayily in crease the cost of its use -for the , . . . . reasPn that . the risk, real or pre- tended, as made, a large nart ot tne consideration, and th-e more strin gent the law and the more severe , A y . nn nf Ur use. -;;"... . ; It is w:ell known that the striiiT gent usury law of New York is in effect .a dead letter upon th e s tatute "books, and its bare existence keeps money au iiigner rates than the sup ply justifies Upon reading, the commercial report of the great New lork' daiues, we see money is quoted at 3, 4 and 5 cents, spme times lower, sometimes higher: This looks promising, but suppose you w ant to borrow $5,000, what then ? You go to your banker with your collaterals, and offer your note and security at six inonths. You are ' referred to a broker he will tell you lie can .only loan, on call, an d 3'OiK m ifst gi ye him a hon as, say. $50 or 8100, for negotiating the loan, Hiid it collaterals yare United States 5-20 bonds, yon (nay get the 5,000 shorn, one way and another, by hook and by crook, of twelve to twenty per cent. If collaterals are other than "Governments" there is no "guessing"" what you may have to pay, and if you fail at maturity, me coi laterals are thrown, upon tne market instanier. New York has nearly as severe a ortsu y law as North Carolina, and .lor that reason It costs.more to borrow there than in aiy tate not blessed withusiiry laws. I The usury law must be eva ded to accomplish whic l the curb stone bill-broker must be used, and perhaps other vade .mecmns, all of whom mtist be paid, and who di vide with the bank at last. Now, if .' the banks' culd have charged vou the marked value, as tor any other produce, you-would have saved all the commissions to the broker, -all the charges on ac count of risks, and a mpiety beside, because there would be a .competi tion jn the market, whereas under stringent usurydaws th'e transaction is done in. a secret corner, when you are fleeced unmercifully , without remedy; We therefore 'say., that stringent ' usui-y rlaws . operatci' to their owir defeat, and increase ten fold the evils .they are intended to remedy. We demand for tlie bor rower, as. for - all other traders, a FKEEAjSD OPEjr If ARRET. ' : . ' ; THE LATE aXTDRE IF JOHNSON. VI II i 1 .1 1 lie .was in thb strictest sense of the term a self-made- man. Born in llaleigh, X. C, December 29th, 1S0S, of poor? parents, he earlf had to encounter all the difficulties of poverty.' J lis lather died . in 1S12, and his mother was too ppor to give him any advantages of. education. At the age of ten he was appren ticed to a tailorf ' lie removed to Tennessee in 1S26, taking with him his moth er, who was dependent up on him fc r support. He settled at Green ville, where he married. Up to this time his: education had' Been limited to acquiring the art ot reading ; but now, under his wife cipher. Taking an interest in pol itics, he wTas in 1828 electedAldef man. lie was re-elected in each-pt the two following years, and in 1830 was chosen Mayor, which of fice he held three years. In 1835 he was elected a member of the Legislature, and served in both branches, being elected to the State Senate in 18-li.' lie was elected to Congress in 1843, took his seat in December,' of that year, and held it by successive re elections, tor ten years.. -His next position was that of Governor of Tennessee- to which he was ' elected in 1853, and' re elected in 1855. On December 7th, 1857, lie took his seat iri the U. S. Seriate for a fuH term. He h did liis seat at the time of the breaking out of the. late war, and, although; .t r ' . .'!.': m . :i. j' tlie JLegisiature.oi, xennessee voieu the State out of the Upion, he .re mained in the Senate, and his vig orous speeches for the Union won the .admiration of the loyal people in- all parts of the Country, but br on ght down u pon him the enmity of - the , Confederates. In nearly every city7 in tlie State of .Tennessee he was burned in effigy, and his life was threatened on several occasions. On March .4th,vl8G2,- President Lincoln nominated Andrew. John son to be Military Governor of Tennessee. His energetic 'admin istration of this office broughthim conspicuously' before' the public as one of the most ardent supporters of the Union cause. In June, 1864, the Republican- Convention at Bal timore "nominated him tor Vice President on the ticket with, Lin coln, and he was elected by a large m i ajority in November. He was inaugurated March 4th, 1865, as Yice-President, and by the assassi nation of President Lincoln, April j 14th,. was called upon to take the position of Chief Magistrate. His administration was a stormy one, his policy in regard to reconstruc tion meeting with strong opposi tion from the majority in .Congress. The conflict z between the Chief Magistrate and Congress leulmina ted in articles of . impeachment against him , being agreed to by the -House on March 3d, IS 68. Ater a long and tedious trial ,by the Sen- ': ate, the President 'was formally ac quitted of all the charges, May 26th, by a vte ot guilt, 35 ; not guilt, 19 a two-third vote being required to convict: On March 1 4th, IS 69, lie was succeeded in the' Presidential office .; by General Grant. Since his retirement he had lived quietly at his hojne in Grecii ville, .Tenn., occasionally giving; expression to Ins ppinron on matters and. on one occasion run ning as aii independent candidate for Congressman-at-large, dividing the Democratic vote with the Con- :f federate General B. F. Cheatham, which caused the election of Ho race May nard, the Republican can didate. ,;' . , '' ' 'T ;y-- y .-'..' - Upon-the assembling of tlie Leg islature of 1874 he was elected by ' a heavy tmvjbrity to the United Staesj Senate, and took his seat for the long term on the 4th of March last. Political curiosity wag grqatly excited over his probable course iir debating public measures ; but du ring the extra session of the Sen- ate he made only one speech on the ; situr.tion, and thi's received various . criticistns; the larger part oF which expressed a belief thatalthough he had enunciated several' bold ideas; he was holding himself in reserve for. the regulafession of next win1 ter. , ":,:: :'., - ' .',, ; ; On Wednesday evening, July 28th, while visitingthis daughterin 1 " Carter county, Tenn.,'he was strickp ! oh with paralysis1, through his left kide. Physicians were immediately - summoned, and . the customary coin sc of treatment applied .The next day he appeared somewhat . better and conversed coherently with those . about hitn. At the same time feeling was partially ; restored to the stricken side., TThis rallyyiioweveras but temporary, lie soon sank into .a state of insen sibility, and remained so until, his death, which occurred about two o'clock on the morning of the 31st of July ; THE PAR TIN M URLfER. We vVubliBli to-dav a 3lotoirarb w jiiifiyiiu u uiuwu" i arun, anas Scott Partin, together wdth the de- tails of the murcjer of his wife and child. This is the most awful case of murder, all things considered, that ever occurred in North Caro ls nn Tt. is enonp-li to "turn thr ini? that Scett Partin is Lruiltv. and every one seems to believe that he is, here is the case of ' a husband and tatlier wnp. deiioerateiy mnr- ; ders his wife and child, then cuts , them up with a butcher V knife, at- ' , tempts to burn the remains, and failing in that, buries, them in a . hole, and then appears in the pres ence of human beings as if nothing of an iinusuaVcharacteri had taken place. Verily, it wbnid seem that, even as in the days of the Saviour 'ou'earth, some mpn are as much Kssesse4: of devils as liey werp " then. '" y ' ' . ' ?.y:r: True it rk that ."mu rder will out." As Mr. Webster said, in the cele brated Knapp; case in Saleiri, Mas-' sachusetts, "tliere is no' hale or cor ner in creation where ther murjdereiv'i can hide his secret,' and say' it-is1 safe." Discovery in this Partin: case' was swift and sure. The hand' of Providence seems to have point- ea tome lotjaucy w nere'ine uacKcu remains of the wife and child'had been hid, as the murderer thought ' forever. lut tney w-ere lound and brought up, to be witnesses against -the wretched , murderer at some coming day. . v We have thought it to be our kduty to publish his photograph with the details of this horrid crime. We believe the publication Will do good. It will warn others, already in paths pf violence and dissipation siinuar to luobe-Avuicu ul last icu Scott Partin to the commission of v this drea'dful y deed ;. and it will : gratify the virtuous and tho good to see the public press omitting-no pains to expose vice and crime in their true colors to the world. "The Romance of a Winter. Evening," by Mrs. M. E. Tabb, is . a charming little story which wer publish in this issue. ' J : .:..'. --;;'- y
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