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CHILD'S FAITH.
JtEV. FBAXUIS L. HAWKS.
knew a widow, Terr poor,
f Who four email children had ;
A gentle, modest lad. ,.
And very hard this widow toiled
To feed her children four ;
An honest pride the woman felt.
Though she was yery poor.
To labor she would leave her home
For children must be fed ;
And glad was she when she could buy
A shilling's worth of bread.
And this "was all the children had :
On any day to eat ;
They drank their water, ate their bread.
But never tasted meat.
One day when snow was falling fast.
And piercing was the air,
I thought that I would go and see
How these poor children were.
Ere long I reached4heir cheerless home ;
'Twas searched by every breeze ;
When going in, the eldest child ;
I saw upon its knees.
I paused to listen to the boy
He never raised his head :
But still went on and said "Give us
This day our daily bread."
I waited till the child was done,
Still listening as he prayed .
And when he rose, I asked him why
The Lord's Prayer he had said ?
"Why, sir," said he, "this morning, when
Mother went awaj,
She wept becaupf" vr'fclshehad
No bread f l.ne
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prayer begins,
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"And then
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taineeivwhat made me pray."
jJTTHjjJlc that wretched room.
And went with fleeting feet;
And very soon was back again,
With food enough to eat.
"I thought God heard me, said the boy;
I answered with a nod 4
I could not speak, but much I thought
Of that child's faith in God. v
STATE CAPITOL.
The present lino stone building iras
erected at a cost of half million dollars in
rold. The wooden structure which occu
pied the same site was burned in 1831,
and all of the records being saved, I be
lieve, only the destruction of the celebra-
wr ctntnp nf Washinrton bv Conova
caused serious and Lasting regret. Pieces
of the marble from the pedestal of this
great work of art were being flung around
the new building from room to room for
several years before the war, but we be
lieve they have all entirely disappeared,
n ni pee Rftmp. one of them may now be in
the Geological Museum here in Raleigh,
or in the University at Chapel Hill. The
city of Raleigh first owed its importance
to the location of the Capitol building
here. Six or seven of the large places in
the State then, such as Edenton, New
bern, Kinston, Fayetteville, Wilmington
llillsboro, Charlotte and Salisbury, be
sides Asheville, we suppose, were con-
tpndino- for this honor. Amid these
conflicting interests, the Legislature fin
ally voted the seat of government here,
but the vote was scarcely deemed final, so
' the place grew slowly, capital sought in
vestment elsewhere, prejudice was cre
ated as well as fostered against the future
metropolis ; and the village had a rough
road to travel before it numbered 5,000
inhabitant?, including: the suburbs, which
was the case only just preceding!! late
war. The old Capitol. building took fire
on the roof. Jno. Bragg, Esq., the father
of the late Governor, a builder and archi
tect, had secured the job of repairing the
roof. Owing to the negligence of some
of the workmen ' fire was. transmitted to
the wood work of that portion of the
building in b road day light from a solder
in"' fumacei and the entire; "pile rwas
consumed! f No .blame attached, to Mr
Bragg, however,and the result has been
all that Raleigh could have then hoped
for.
The Legislature met in the succeeding
year at the present old Governor's palace
and after a protracted struggle, owing to
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the influence of the late Judge Sea well,
$75,000 were first appropriated to com
mence the building of a new State ITouse
at Raleigh. It is also a matter of history,
we believe, that the vote of Hon. Burton
Craige then decided this question in favor
of Raleigh over its strongest opponent at
that day, the city of Fayetteville. The
small appropriation, however, while not
enough, rendered Judge Seawell im
menselypopular in this county, where
his memory has still retained its influence,
and also' gave a moral weight to the claims
of Raleigh over all other aspirants, which
culminated in future liberal appropria
tions, and at that era in our National
history in the erection of one of the finest
buildings then in the United States of
America. '-'
The corner-stone, at the north-east
corner, was laid by Governor Swain, July
4th, 1833. The first contractor was re
lieved and the second employed. And
we believe some changes in the outward
appearance of the dome and roof was
also effected. In 1840, seven years after
ward, the building was open for occupa
tion, and Governor Morehead was inau
gurated in Commons' Hall, on January
1st, 1841. Since that date, imperfections
in the stone-work, except along the south
ern basement corridor, have never oc
curred, and the pile so securely cemented
seems destined to defy the tooth of time
for thousands of years to come. However,
with the growth of our State, the build
ing has at length become too small. Ev
ery department of government is cramped
for room; Changes must be made' here
after for the 'accommodation of public
busines.?, and we would suggest the sur
render of the present building in that case
to the Legislature and Judicial Depart
ment. a'sV thft Pflnitnl -nf IVoslitunH.-.
an Executive buikhnsr elsewhere m the!
city.
The old square was surrounded at first
with a rail fence. In those days deer
were plentiful in this vicinity,-' and fine
buck was killed early one morninaraDO
1812. irrazin'r in the square just J
of the present residence of Mrs. Badger.
The iron fence now surrounding the park
was voted in 1846, we believe, and its
final passage was determined at that time
by the vote of Col. Fagg, of Buncombe.
Silas Burns was the contractor, and then
had his foundry at the site of Tucker's
mill, on the Fayetteville road. Next
came the ornamental work inside, and the
erection of the bronze statue of Washing
ton. This work was dedicated in a speech
by the late Judge Romulus M. Saunders
on the 4th of July, 1857.
There are other'1 little facts connected
with the Capitol building, which are of
interest, but one only will suffice to be
mentioned. The venerable William
White, our lormer postmaster, is au
thority for the statement. The location
of the building was never surveyed with
an instrument, but six straight poles were
cut and skinned, three " set in the centre
of llillsboro street, about one hundred
yards westward, and three on Fayette
ville, about the same distance apart
southward. The line was drawn from
each of them, and where they crossed on
CapitollSquare is now marked the centre
of the State Capitol The method being:
necessarily inaccurate, the surveys of the
city evf r since, - dating from this exact
'point Hitherto, have been imperfect and
full oftribulations our business popu-
n : and it is believed in the future
nothing short of a series of law suits and
a volume of Supreme Court reports will
cut the gordlan knot of the disputed
inches of boundary lines on our principal
thoroughfares. -
. Since the war Raleigh has made vast
strides towards commercial importance.
At one time cramped and oppressed, with
all her sister cities vieing in assaults upon
her prosperity, she can now rely upon
the exertions . of her own citizens,' in
whose hands her most glorious future is
placed. Loving her as a child does its
good and beautiful mother, we can all
say : 'City of Oaks, esto perpetua "
race institute, itaieign, opened on
the 23d inst., with' 80 lady students, the
largest number ever in attendance at the
beginning of a session.
BOUVER1E AND IIIS BRA YES.
In ancient Gaul, as Sir Henry Sumner
Maine reminds us in his " Early nistory
of Institutions," when a husband died un
der suspicious circumstances his wives
were treated with the same cruelty as a
body of household slaves at Rome whose
master had been killed by an unknown
hand.' This is a glimpse of the position
of women in an older society, when the
sound conservative doctrine that the wo
man should be subject to the pan was in
full force. The notion that a woman is
entitled, as a human being, to the same
freedom of will and opportunity of de
velopment as a man is modern, and, of
course, must be counted among the
melancholy signs of the decadence of so
ciety. But society shall not la e injo
anarchy and the chaos ofnatui al laws
and Divine intentions if Mr. 5uverie,
Sir Henry James, Mr. Childers, aVid.otlier
British Curtii can, by leaping into the
gulf, save their race and sex. These
worthy Britons have formed a society to
pTotect men from women. They are re
solved that female encroachment shall
cease, and the ballot-box shall be kept
sacred from the touch of woman, and
that she shall be taught forcibly her proper
place. Hence, virago, to the nursey !
"Such is the battle-cry of Bouverie and his
braves.
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7 ) i 3 II i i i t 1 fc f-r i i s .
CAPITOL OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The British Association for the Protec-
- - a . j Tl
tion of the Franchise against tne Ji.n-
croachment of Women has its origin in
the conviction that we remember to have
heard stated with a great deal of unction,
that the duties of a woman are those of
the wife and mother. This assertion has
at least the fortification of one great
truth, which is that nobody but a woman
can be a wife and mother. This is a car
dinal fact, upon which Mr. Bouverie is
immovably planted. From that position
he cannot be driven byt "argument nor se
duced by blandishment; And what, then,
is his next step ? Simply that a woman
ought to be a wife and mother, and noth
ing else. What could be more logical ?
See how clear it is by applying the same
logic elsewhere. The truth that woman
only can be wife and, mother is no more
evident or incontrovertible than that man
alone can be husband and father. Conse
quently meu ought to be husbands and
fathers, and- nothing, else. It is their
Heaven-appointed sphere, as is beauti
fully remarked in the ..case of women.
When Miss Smith says that she owns
property, and ought to be consulted in its
public disposition, thjreply of the British
Association for the P. of the F. against
the E. of W. is that her true sphere is not
politics, but that of " wife ; and mother.
And how if the shameless woman should
say in the- town-meeting -which frowns
sorrowfully at her encroachments and
struggled against nature, that the meet
ing was composed of men, and that their
true sphere .w'as not politics, but that of
husband and father ?
. It must be inferred from the diligent
exhortation which the ; Mr.' Bouveries of
every village and social circle address to
women upon tfcfeir sphere and duty that
they are peculiarly mnnindful of them.
Indeed, it is a truly pathetic spectacle,
that of the innocent and docile male sex,
I so sedulously and exclusively devoted to
its duties of husband and lathery sud
denly invaded and thrown Into peril of
permanent derangement by the belliger
ent and tyrannical female, which every
where deserts its wifely and motherly
duties for predatory incursions upon man.
Ho ! Bouverie to the rescue? The la
mentable disregard of their duties by
women, and the faithful discharge of
theirs by men, are so obvious that it is a
subject of general congratulation that
Bouverie and his friends propose to recall
women to their sphere. With the wise
Japanese, they would return to the " dic
tates of nature," which teach that Miss
Smith, of Glastonbury, ought to be Mrs.
Somebody, and that if she owns property
her neighbors who are not women ought
to take as much of it as they choose for
their own purposes, and without consult
ing her. To ask her, as Dr. Bushuell con
clusively asserts, is to outrage nature.
Geo- Win. Curtis in Harper's Magazine.
A ST OR Y OF THE TEXAS STORM
.1 GALLANT CREW SAVES
TWENTY LIVES.
A telegram dated Galveston, 25th Sep
tember, says : Relief for the destitute
people at Ihdianola and along the coast
is coming forward every day from New
Orleans, New York, Boston, Detroit and
many, other; cities. There has been noth-
ing later from the West. It is expected
a steamer will return Sunday or Monday
with additional particulars. Thesloop
Eugenia Cox, Captain John Cox, from
East Bay, arrived here yesterday. Capt.
Cox, with his
GALLANT CKEW, .
succeeded in saving the lives of all the resi
dents in that neighborhood, twenty-one
in all. Everything was lost but then-
lives, and Captain Cox comes to Gal
veston in their behalf for provisions and
clothing. The names of the persons saved
on the Eugenia Cox are Captain Bunch,
Mrs. Bunch, G. W. Bunch, Mrs. Cicero,
T. D. Lindiner, wife and child, W. B.
Perkins, wife and two children, W. J.
Davis, Jesse Williams, wife and chil
dren, Miss Ilattie Perry and Mrs. Cox
and two children. Captain Williams
carried his wife, and two chudren a dis
tance of two miles on a horse, the noble
animal swioming part of the time. The
sloop iivas only saved by cutting away the
mast and rigging, aiul allowing her to
drift with the tide. Captain Cox reports
that the whole country was alive with
snakes, and it was with "great difficulty
they were kept out of the houses after the
water had risen high enough to drive
them from their usual places of conceal
ment. The water was covered with
them, the sloop being 'driven through
them for ten miles. It was a difficult
matter to keep them off the sloop. Cap
tain Bunch was bitten, but has recovered.
Woman's Capacity. Some people
will doubt this assertion of Prof . BlacMe
in a recent lecture : "A woman is natur
ally as different from a man as a flower
from a tree ; she has more beauty and
more fragrance, but less strength. She
will be fitted for the rough' and thorny
walk of the masculine professions when
she lias got a rough beard, a brazen front,
and hard skin, but not sooner."
TO THE P UZSLIC.
This issue of our paper should have pre
sented the portraits of Hon. Ed. Ransom,.
President of the N. C. Constitutional
Convention, and Rev. Charles F. Deems
of New York. The engraving of Mr.
Ransom reached us in time, but that of
Dr. Deems will not be in hand before-,
next week. The next Issue will cer
tainly contain the portraits of these gen
tlemen ; also others, which must "prove
interesting to our people.
The enormous expense attending the?
publication of this paper renders it neces
sary that our friends should help us byv'
prompt payment of subscriptions. If not
convenient to send all, remit part, aud
thereby aid us in building up this great
Southern enterprise. .
PERSONAL.
One member of the Alabama Constitu
tional Convention js 8G years old.
Carl Schurz is stumping 01ii for thc
Republicans at the rate of $1,000 a .
speech, :.-' - t .
Col. Mosby, of Virginia, proposes to
open a law office in Washington City at
an early day.
Dr. Columbus Mills, Master of the State
Grange, was in the city on Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
J acob Benjamin, a wealthy pawnbroker
of Baltimore died from erysipelas, recent
ly, produced by the use of hair dye '
A Miss Packer of London fs said recent
ly to have 7 mXles - Jn"' 1 1 hour. 3T
Walter II. Snuth,wTftnt Attorney-
j -w -r I t-i
General, heretofore on duty at "the Inte
rior Department, Washington, has ten
dered his resignation. .
Dr. William J. Hawkins, late Presi
dent of the Raleigh and Gaston and Ral
eigh and Augusta Air-Line Railway, will
visit the Hot Springs in Arkansas at an
early day.
We learn that the worthy President oF
the N. C. Agricultural Society, Col. T.
M. Holt, will be the recipient of a hand
some cane from his friends during the?:
approaching Fair.
The Convention has declined to pass?
the ordinance granting pardon to Gov.
Holden ; the Republicans generally voting-
for the measure, and the Democrats gen
erally voting against the passage of the;
ordinance.
Major Sharon, proprietor of the Palace-
Hotel, San Francisco, -has tendered to
Mrs. Ralstonf widow of his late partner
in the hotel enterprise, a suit of seven
rooms in the Palacenotel, with" private
servants, a private coach and coachman fc
so lovg as she may see fit to use thenu
Just the large-hearted Calif ornian that
he is. ', '' " - ; ': ;-v..-;
The Rt. Rev. J. T. Holly, col., who
was consecrated Missionary Bishop for
HaytivW L, at the last General Conven
tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church,,
is expected to arrive in Raleigh on,the 1st
of October, bringing with him his two
sons and another Haytien youth, whom
he intends to place at the St." Augustine.
Normal School in this city. '
lie wul preach in St. Augustine's Chapel,
next Sunday.
William M. Tweed, in Ludlow Street
Jail, sees nobody but his family, his phy
sician and his lawy ers. Mrs. Tweed visits,
him daily, and hU counsel about as of ten.
It is customary at the jail when, for con--venience,
a prisoner wishes to be out in
the pure air for a few hours in the com-,
pany of an officer, to grant him that priv
ilage for a fee not fixed, but assessed ac--cording
to the amount of the bail, in de
fault of which he is held a kind of dis
counting of the risk involved. Mr
Tweed's bail is fixed at $3,000,000, and
half a davi! libertv in hia pasp. would ho.
scheduled at about $100. . lie has : only
availed himself of this license once, how
ever, having no money, as one of the
Order of Arrest officers says, for anybody
but bis lawyers.