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3 Til RC OMHOWWKALTH TUB 4' OMlttONWC A t.TE3a Scotland Neck. - - 1 Scotland Heck, D. a An nncornnromisine Democratic Jour HE WE ALT nal. Published every Thursday morning. Advertisine; Dates s J. B. NEA L, Manager. 1 inch 1 week, 1 1 month, $1.0. 11.69. Subscription iSaies; E. E. HILLIARD, Editor. "THE LAND WE LOVE." Terms : $2 Q0 per yeai In Advance. Contracts for any space or time my be made at the office of The CoatMOJU WEALTH. Transient advertisements must be paid ot 111 advance. 1 Copy 1 Year. $2 00. $1.00. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1883. J " 6 juonms, VOL. I. NO. 32. DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet and Typhoid Fevers, IHptUherla, Sali vation. CTcerated Sore Throat, Small g2S5 Vaji, Measles, auJ all Contagions Iiseas. Persons waiting o the Sick should use it freely. Scarlot Fever has never beeu known to spread wnere tne rmia w. used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it aftef black vomit had taken place. 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Pastor Services every third Saturday and Sunday morning. Methodist Rev. C. W. Byrd, Pastor. Services at 3 o'clock, P. M on the second and fourth Sundays. Sunday School on Sabbath morning. Episcopal Kev. II. G. Hilton, Rector Services every lirst. second and third Sundays at 10. o'clock, A. M. Sunday School every feabbath morning. Meeting of Fible class on Thursday night at the residence of Mr. P. E. Smith. Baptist (colored.) George Norwood, Pastor. Services every second Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M., and 7, P. M. Sun day School on Sabbath morning. o COUNTY. Superior Court Clerk and Probate Judge John T. Gregory, fnferior Court-Geo. T. Simmons. Register of Deeds J. M. Grizzard. Solicitor A. J. Burton. Sheriff R. J. Lewis. Coroner J II Jenkins. Treasurer E. D. Browning. Co. Supt. Pub. Instruction D C Clark. Keeper of the Poor House John Ponton. Commissioners Chairman, Aaron Pres- cott, Sterling Johnson, Dr. "W. R. Wood, John A. MorHeet, and M. Whitehead. Superior Court Every third Monday in March and September. Inferior Court Every third Monday in February, May. August and November. Judge of Tuferior Court T. N. Hill. NOTICE. WE have one hundred town lots for sale in this town. Some of them are very desirable. This is a rapidly growing town, and persons wishing to secure good places for residences and bus iness stands, and to make good invest ments, will do well to call on us. KITCHI & DUNN. July 5th, 1882. as I'StnXAttTlCLES,- Beautiful Floral Uhromo Cards. Size til, and ma lllatrat4 Bok, to aU wb seat twm packta. Mention taU paper. E. t. RI0I0UT 4 CO., UW TOIL CUES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough By ru p. Tastes good. Use in lime. Sold by druggists. 1 Seiiu to NOORF.fl BUSINESS VNiyEHSITY I Atlanta Ca For IllustruWd C Kor Illustrated drPTilftr A llwmtnal Itnaf Eradicates N HALAEIA. I 11 els Sr1 Si 2 TEACHING SCHOOL AND BOARDING AROUND. My thoughts go back to the rosy prime , And memory paints anew the scenes Afar in the bluaK New England clime, Though half a century intervenes. On a highway corner the school house stands, Under an elm tree broad and tall. And rollicking children in laughing bands, Come at the master's warning call, lhey pile togettier their sleds and skates, Haug hats and hoods in the entry-way, And gathering pencils, books and slatesf Diligent study succeeds to play. A mounrain stream turns a gray stone mill, That runs with a slow and slumberous sound, And there I fancy I wander still, Teaching school and boarding around. Near by is a farm-house large and square, With doors and basements of faded red, A stoop that shades from the Summer giare. And wood well piled in the sheltering shed ; There's ah ancient barn with swallow holes IIi h in the cable, three in a line ; ' The lithe ba coli in the deep snow rolls; ! From racks of hay feed the docile kmc; Closely are huddled the timorous sheep : As the Hails resound from the thresn- ing tioor, ! The pilfering poultry stealthily creep And silently watch at the open door For each stray kernel of tne shelling grain. Full of content was the lot I found Among the farm folk, honest and plain, Teaching school and boarding around. The farmer's table has lavish supplies : Chicken and sausage ot Ha vor rare, Crullers and cookies, and puddings and pies. Are items rich in the bill of fare. The teacher sleeps in a wide, soft bed. Kept clean for guests, in the greac spare room, I With gav chintz curtains over his head, I And blankets woven in the old hand j loom. ! The thrifty wife ere the break of day Springs from her rest though the morn t is cool, i And, break ta-it cnled, we haste away i O'er the shining crust to the district ! school. ; tlere morals are pure, and manners sin cere, ! And men in the Church and State re nowned Here make the first step in a grand career, Teaching school and boarding around. In the moonlight evening long and and still The youth assemble from many a farm; Though the air withflut is crisp and chill, There's a bright wood tire and a wel come warm. Nuts and apples are passed around. The hands of the clock get a backward turn, Innocent frolic and mirth abound Till ltM7 ii-i t hull- capL tit trio nanrllAu j burn ; Young men and maidens of artless ways I Are drawn together in groups like this: D i Their hands are joined in the rura! plays, j And sweet lips meet in the guileless J kiss ; j Their hearts are linked with a golden i chain, ! And love with marriage is earlv crown ; ed. How oft I dream I am there again, Teaching school and boarding around. Stltcted. LORD BEACONSFIELD. M object is to call the attention of young men to so r.eof the elements of the late Lord Beaconsfied's great ness and some of the high qualities by which lie achieved his memor-ible career. As a rule, the character of English statesmen "in the last two or three generations has been a lofty character. As a rule, it has main tained, in all regions of public life, the stand of, English honor and Eng hsh disinterestedness. We think with admiration of Chatham s splendid vehemence, of Pitt's inextinguishable hope, of Per rival's sincere religion, of Burke's phiosophic genius, of Fox's burning enthusiasm, of Wilber force's hallow ed philanthropy, of Grattan's un daunted patriotism, of Canning's brilliant gaiety, of Peel's pure life, of Palmerston'8 genial kinduess, ot Russell's high toned magnanimity, of the great soldier "whose grey haired virtue was a grander thing than even Waterloo." Lord Ellenborough says in his diary, "The more I know of the in terior of politics, the more shabby and personal the motives of men ap pear." But the poorness of the mo tive may be due to the fault of the observer ; antt although I should be far from representing -the character of Lord Leaconsfield as beinu in any seiifcc an ideal character, or his career as an ideal career, yet 1 think that it is a noble instinct which vmakes us desire to make men's virtues live in brass while jre write their evil manners m water. However serious may have been the l'aalts of Benjamin Disraeli, Envy herself will, I think, admit that he h:id qualities which leave large room for honest praise. It is about one or two of these qualities that I now propose to write. 1. Notice, for instance, the courage with which lie stood by his race. He never sin auk from the name of Jew. He met with dpen scorn the sneer of those who seoti'ed at what he claimed as a distinction. Ho felt that it must indeed be a great race of which alone it could be said that it gave u Prime Minister to Pharaoh in Egypt four thousand years ago, and a Prime Minister to Darius iu Persia two. thousand five hundred years ago, and a Prime Minister to Queen Victoria in the England of 1879. While man' a man is meanly ashamed of his poor relations, let it be recorded to the honor of Benjamin Disraeli, that, throughout a lonj? career, he never blushed to own brotherhood with an insulted nation. 2. Again, mav we uot admire the reticence of his later 3'ears, and the almost unbroken silence and self control with which, during his pre miership, he endured a storm of ob loquy ? At more than onfc period of his life he was subject to attacks of tne most envnbmed bitterness, and to accusitions of which some might have been rebutted by a word. But in the closing period of his career he generally left the word unspoken, and trusted that 'his countrymen would, in the long run, judge with fairness of his acts and motives. The Kight Honorable geiuiemen," I once heant t.iin say, after a severe attack from Mr. liobert Lowe (now Lord Sherbrook) in the House of Commons, "was extremely exuberant in his comments upon my character and career. I have sat in the House more than thirty years, and can truly say that, during that time, comments upon my character and career hav been tolerably frree. But the House has been the jury of my life, and it allows me here to address it, and, therefore, here is not the place in which 1 think it necessary to justify myself." And I think that this power of re maining silent under attacks arose from his superiority to transient pop ularity. "They say. What say they ? Let them say !' is a motto suited hi- which would well have strong self-reliance. In one of his latest speeches he ex pressed his contempt for that inces sant babblement of crude condem nations, that "weak, washy, everlast ing flood" of dogmatism upon mat ters of which the writers are pro foundly ignorant, which -in one of his characteristic phrases, he called "the harebrained chatter of irrespon sible frivolity." He might have fairly said with the great Lord Alausheld, "I will do my duty unawed. What am I to far ? Is it that mendux infamia from the press which daily coins false facts and false motives? The lies of calumny farry no terror to me. J wish popularity, but it is that popu larity, which sooner or later never fails to do justice to the pursuit ol noble ends by noble means." I am sure that not one of his con temporaries surpassed Lord Beacons field in his indifference to that "mushroom popularity which is raised without merit and lost without a crime; that present, passing, evan escent popularity which is but the "echo of folly and the shadow 01 re nown." and which often falls for a brief season to the meanest of man kind. 3 Again, it was the clearly defined individuality of Lord Beaeonsfield which deeoened the ad niration of his contemporaries. And in days like these this isolation, this aloof ness, this markedness of character. are the more valuable, because they are so rare. V e are all getting more and more apt to run in grooves ; to say ; the same thjusrs in the same phrases ; to do the same things in the same waj'S ; to echo the same current cries ; to adont the same foolish fashions; to shout in chorus against the unpopu lar man or the unpopular opinion" ol the hour ; to pride ourselves on being at the dead level ol conventionalism and mediocrity ; to take the dictum of the majority for an oracle and the shout of the noisiest for truths. Let us hail a cedar here and there among the fir trees much more amid these wind-shaken reeds of the wil derness, these Quivering grasses of the plain. We are all such echoes and reflections of one another, such repeaters of mechanical shibboleths. and slaves of general traditions, that it 19 a gain to national life when we find a man who amid the jostlings of U) in ion will believe in himse f, his own genius? his own determination who looks tor the star 01 destiny in his own bosom ; who, knowing that the view of the multitude dots but represent the opinion of the collet tive mediocrity, dares to be in the right with two or three. Honor to the man who feels the dignity of seperate manhood ; who can hold bis own in silence among angry opposite, and whether sue cessful or unsuccessful can still be true to, can still fall back upon, him self. 4. In this marked individuality nothing was more remarkable than Lord Beaeonsfield' s strength of will He has set to many a generation an example of what steadfastness can do. ; Young men.may learn from him bow invincible is the spirit which has the strength to say, "I will.' Nothing is more deplorable than the feebleness, the placidity, the limpness of purpose, of many of our youths. Thy live at haphazard ; they live from hand to mouth, with out reverence, without purpose, with out self denial, without-force. . lhey are all straw; they have no iron in them. They would like distinction 1 very well if it dropped into their mouths, but they lack the manly fibre, the stern self- ontrol, the never wearied patience, the inflexible de termination, the unwavering adapta tion of means to ends, by which sue cess is won. Still more do too many of vhem lack the strenuous wisdom which takes the measure of earthly success, and despises it, and sees "the most eternal and magnificent of all suc cesses in the" beatitude of poverty bravely borne for a noble cause, and in the anguish of that. -martyrdom which is virtue fighting to the dpath for truth. But even for earthly success, much more for the divine success, energy is indispensable. It is only to tli energetic man that the blessed im mortals are swift, whild the youth who chooi-es indolence, and selfish pleasures, and vulgar comfort, will alas ! give back to his Creator at the last perhaps not even his one talent in a napkin ; perhaps, alas ! nothing but "the du i of his body and theshipwreck of his soul." 5. Another admir:tble feature of his life was that this fine power of will, this battle-brunt and manhood of his nature, was undaunted diffi culties. Truly if he had feared diffltnlties. he wou.d not have died an acknowl edged leader of men. A Jew, the son of an author of limited means, without rank, without connection. without public-school training, with out university education, not even baptized till he was about fourteen, beginning life as an articled clerk, long hamperrd by debts, wit.i no ad vantages of person, with no over whelming power of. oratory, with some disadvantages of manner, he yet determined to become the leader of the proudest aristocracy in the world. Bv steady perseverance, by genius, by patience, by watchfulness, by inextinguishable resolve and daring. he burst his way through all these thorny obstacles, and die-1 an Earl, knight of the Garter, a man who had swayed cabinets and parliaments and foreign congresses, the friend o' s sovereign and the favorite of the nation. And I think that one reason wliy the people of England admired and loved him. whatever may have been his laults, was because of this reso lution, wnich ploughed its way through so many rude detraction, and would not be subdued even bv failures. Youth's Compun ion. GRAY. THE LAST OF THE RESTORA- BY D. SHERMAN, D.D. In the galaxy of English poets the name 01 1 nomas v-ray mimes mm hrilli:int and stead v- luster. If not a star of the fiist magnitude, is posi tion in the poetic heavens and the cheerful pensive light he emits have made him an object ot attraction to all classes of readers. Indeed it may be doubted whether the name of any other poet of the age is so familiar to the public of to-day. ltamsey, run lips, Armstrong, bhenslone, ano Akenside fade in tho dim distance, aud even Thomson. Y'ung, and Col lins appear to recede with each year, while Gi ay, like a fixed star, holds his original position in t ur literature. Even Pope and Johnson, those great er lights of the eighteenth cenlun, are felt tobelong to a comparatively dead past; but Gray remains our contemporary ; he is of our century, as really as of the past. How few or dinarv readers of our literature know any thing of the -'Dunoiad," the "Rape of the Lock," or the "Essay on man ;" but who is not familar with the "Elegy in a Country Church yard ?" To those who esLimate literary n and riroduction by material bulk, the continued hold of our poet on popular favor is an insoluble mystery: In the view of Dickens, no poet ever gained a place amoiii the immortals with so small a volume under his arm as Gray. The entire list of his poems would not fill a de cent sized vest pocket volume; and even of these only a part remain vital. In fact, when the problem is reduced to its lowest terms, the lame of the poet rests on the elegy. Pieciotis as are some other passages in his writ ings, this masterpiece, inestimaole jewel, remains the best expression of his genius. Minute and elegant, it has from the first won the favor of the common as well as the cultured reader. Whether any addition to its bulk could enhance the fame of it s author may be doubted. Compact ness is a great elem-nt of permanent popularity. Many a genius who would have shone in an'ode of lyric lies sumptuously entombed in folios.. which are carefully packed away iih.e so many mummy casss, never to be reopened until the roll-call of Rhada manthus Posterity is a severe judge of literary merit and a rigid econo mist of time, demanding that wisdom be passed ' along . in homceophatic packages. If you would address that great and unimpassioned audience, it must be in few and dosn words.A " But our interest in Gray is derived largely from another s,ii'ce. He marks an important transition in the liistrry of English poutrv The age of fame an 1 fashion was passing away ; that of reality, of nature, of human sentiment, was alvancbig to take its place. Dryden and Pope, who had so long held sway in the realm of letters, were to pass the scepter to Goldsmith. Cowper, and Wordsworth. Gray s'anls on the line separating thest movements. He holds much in common with each. If his sympathies move warmly toward the culture the elegance, the classisin of the past, he also gives in prophet ic glances into the new era In this mediator of ,ur literature, as in the image seen by the prophe., were min gled gold, silver, iron, and clay. The baser materials were to perish, while the gold would brighten in the ordeal. Let us glance first at this poetic past, with which Gray was sointimatt iy aseccisud. '1 he L sto ation Perio l here to be considered, extends from 1660 to 1744. The great names in it are Dryden an 1 Pote 1 1 its gener al character tl e movement is a violent reaction against ihe oue-sidediiess of Puritanism. The great Puritan outbrea I forms a kind 01 drift period in our litera ture. While it did so much to quick en the national lite and to tultivate in the people a sense of liberty, it was destructive of all the more ele gant forms of literature and art. In place of them, cant phrases, uncouth wrds, and unwieldy sentences.which Butler stigmatized as ":. Baisyloiiisli dialect.a party-colored dress of patch e l and piebald languages," over spread the land like rough boulders, dry sand-reaches, and hard gravel beds. With Oliver and his Parlia ment men, a rude barbarism, unmind ful of the amenities of literature or the deei logue -f aesthetics, had taken possession of the soil. In a period of intense eai uesstness, when the gravest questions were in debate, and human liberty was at stake, strength and di rectness, rather than beauty and ele gance, were coveted. The tenderness, sweetness, aud homehkeness of the old English was abandoned for an "English cut on Greek and Latin." The only type, retailing tne root and sweetness of our mother tongue, which survived the catastrophe was King James' Bible, "a book," as Macaulay says, "which, if every thing else in our language should perna, would alone sutlict U show the whole extent of its beauty and power." This mar velous work, the product in part of the genius ot Wicbt and fyndale, was the seed Irom winch was 10 spring, 111 course of time, our vulgar English. But while the divine seed lay in the soil awaiting germination, a rank and foreign growth was to overspread the ground. At the fall of the commonwealth Charles II. and his gaj and dissolute lords and courtiers came to occupy the foremost place in thj English na tion. They hated Puritanism, and held it to be an act of piety, as well as of prudence, to exterminate the last vestiges of the iconoclast ic fanat icism from the couutiy. To avoid the seriousness of these sectaries, they verged upon the extreme of license. England was given up 10 revelry and debauch; the Couit formed a grand tournament, and the ruling classes wereiatoxieated with their success. In the height of their exultation they gloried in their shame, hastening, as it were, to fill up the measure of their iniquity, and to convince the nation. by unmistakable evidence, how total ly unfit they were to rule. Kepudi atin the manners and morals of their native country, they imitated the Court of Louis XIV. They trick ed themselves out in gay attire, put ting h "satin doublets with slashed sleeves, rich point laea collars, ashoit cloak carelessly thrown over one shoulder, and a low.erowued Flemish beaver hat with graceful plumes on j their heads;" they opened the thea- teis, long ago closed by the Puritans, and introduced upon the boards the most dissolute females, who exposed their shame, and jeered at virtue, truth, and m desty ' in a word, they feasted, drank, and reveled more like maniacs or demons, than men intrusted with the government of a great and serious people. The Court impressed its peculiar ities upon literature. In place of the old, idiomatic English, it gave us a stilted and flippant st le, an elegant form, an affected manner, entirely one of harmony with the character and genius of the people. It was a foreign idiom engrafted on the native stock, but never destined to pe ma nently flourish, inasmuch as its juice-i were not drawn from the great cur rents at the root. Alien from the hea t of the people, could not last ; and as a usurper, it wa destined to yield, in course of time, to legitimate authority But the -ursurper could not be instantly depo3d. His reign extends on far beyond the date at which the Stuarts ieft England. Of the Restoration poets, Dryden easily holds place at the head. A master of sterling E.-glish. he would, j iMirn a half century earlier or later, 'have developed our literature from the native root; but coming upon the stage when conoeit an I affecta . tioa heU 6way amog the literary classes, he yielded to the curreufj made, instead of inaugurating a thorough revolution. But,, in spite of these defects. Dryden remains the one conspicuous figure among tne poets of his age. His defects are thos? of the period: his excel-; lences are his own. If he failed to reopen the springs of English, he lid much to clarify and render healthful the miserable adulteration imported from France. Kiom Dryden the scepter passed to Pope, who has not inappropriate ly oeen recognize 1 as "the prince of the artificial school of English joetry." He inl erited the traditions ind taste of the Restoration. In him the movements culminated. In his voluminous writings, also, its excelleuces ana defects became con spicuous. Form and style usurped the piace of substance. He was elegant, but cold. In the new liter ature there was no brawn, no blood : the rully iSaon countenance was replaced by a wan and faded visage. strange to those islands. The Eng lish nation had come to feel how alien was this growth, ar.d to long or something more in harmony with its constitutions and tastes. Gray had sympathies with the exotic literature of the outgoing age; he was scholarly, elegant, and a devotee of the classics ; but he felt a still leeper interest in the beauties of nature an 1 the fortunes of the race to which he belonged. By the lat ter he became the interpreter of the rising sentiment of the people, the earliest prophet of the new litera ture springing from, the still vital root ot native English. New York Christian Adooctite. ELOUUENT MEN. BY A LAWYER, Eloquence is incense from the Gods. It can neither be defined nor described. I account Mirabeau the most eloque it man who has lived since toe birth of Christ. He died at the age of forty -two consumed by the fires of genius and debauchery. Barnave eharasterized him as "the Shakspeare of eloquence." After his famous interview .with Maria Autoiiittte, in which he undertook to save the monarchy, he hastened to the btates General. Ihe streets of Paris resounded to the cries of the news boys as offering the daily papers "or sale they shouted "The Great Treason of the Count Mira beau." As he passed down the as sembly he was greeted with storms of hisses. Ascending the tribune began his address with the celebrated utterance,-"Silence ye thirty voices." When he finished he was borne in triumph upon the shoulders of his fellow" members along the streets ol Paris to his home. America has produced but one orator. The author of the famous sentiment, "give me liberty or give me death," was, like Mirabeau.evoke I from obscurity by the upheaval of a giant revolution. Tyranny is th- parent of genius. The late war between the States developed but one man of genius on the Southern side ; and he was not an orator, but a stldier, Stonewall Jackson. No great orator appeared although the occasion was eminently adapted to a display of elo;pi.nce. While it is not eloquence, Grays Elegy is the most complete and soothing expression of ambition and regret ever penned. There is nothing ia language that equals the eloquence of Niagara. Nothing more heroic has been said than the Great Napoleon's utter ance, "Soldeirs from yonder pyra mids forty centuries look down upon you." Erskines Simile of the Indian casting his tomahawk into the ground canuot be excelled. Men like Mirabeau, Henry, and Erskine appear once in a century. Nortn Carolina has produced some speakers w!;ose fume is likely to survive for many years. My father has told me that George E. Badger and James Allen of t ertie were the strongest debaters he ever hfard in this Stte. My friend James Bond of Bertie, who was a member of the Secession C&nven 1011 told me he heard Judge -Badger speak :ii that body at length on the proper hour to dine. So realistic was his style that Mr. Bond added, "I could almost hear the dislfes rat tle and the glases gingle while my m mth watered for the feast." Any mm in Eastern North Caro lina who is fifty years old will tell ou there never was such an -raior as Kenneth Ray nor. I heard Henry W. Miller speak at Oxford in 1860." He advocated the election of Judge Douglas in speech which for matter, manner and voice, I have never heard equalled in this State.. Badger and - Clingmun also spoke at the same time.' Very few sentiments are eloquent in and of themselves. There is more tii the manner of saving a thing than in the matter. The voiec, the gesture, the look these are the levers that move the souls of men to action. All speakers are plagiarists. The audience oares nothing for -the source of a speakers sentences ; what s wanted is a graceful delivery and a voice distinct and attractive. Eloquence, genuine eloquence can not be acquired. It must be in born : and then it is only develoned under certain conditions and pecu liar circumstances. Farmer and Mechanic. LEARN YOUR CHILDREN TO WORK AND TAKE CARE. How many parents make a sad mis take in raising their children up in idleness, because they have wealth sufficient to indulge' them without needing their labor ? The experience of time speaks in audible words, "that idleness breeds mischief" in a very prolifiic manner. Would it not be better for parents, regardless of estate, to early instill into te minds of their children strict obedience, industry and economy. The day has been when men depen ded oh slave labor and did not need the help of their children ; thev could indulge them in idle whims and pleasures and did not. feel tne weight pecuniarily, but it was not long be fore the nursed habit of idleness, re- -bounded back immorally, with doubls force against the parents and the community. And these is some of that dissipatedness lurking in the veins of society yet; and will be till parents learn their children, in a firm hut mild way, to abstain fr nn . the corrupting, demoralizing elements of degraded society, by early throwing around them the restraints of train ing them in an honorable avocation of life. A child cries and begs for things many times that would prove instant death to it. So does, the youth, at a premature age, want and persist in indulging in idle habits, that are bold steps in the direction of temporal and eternal ruin. Think for a moment of the hundreds of men that have risen to great eminence from very limited circums'ances- in Jife, and others, rocked in the cradle of luxu ry, raised in pomp and splendor, have degraded themselves to the low est degree in society and made per fect shipwrecks of superior advan tages. ' - We contend that more men are ruined by idle, indulgent advantages rjian c have been for the want .of such opportunities. It is be3t for man not to have too much of any thing at once. Moore Gazetted - BAYARD TAYLOR. Ba3'ard Taylor, an American author- and celebrated traveler, was horn.Jan. 11, 1825,atKennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania. During his boyhood he received a common school education, and was apprentice at the age of seventeen years in a printing office. During his stay at this place he began his poeti cal contributions to various periodi cals. In 1844 he published a volume of poems under the title of "Kiinena,". and soon after started on a pedes trian tour of Europe, and in 1846 published the volume, "Views Afoot, or. Europe Seen with a Knapsack and Staff." Upon his return he edited for a time a country newspaper ; then went to New York and wrote for the Liter ary iVorld and Tribune. Soon after he became assistant editor of this paper, and devoted much of his time to traveling in California and Mexico, an account of his travels being writ ten by hi:n for the paper with which he was associated. , . In after years he spent much of hi3 time abroad, residing some time in Germany. In 1878 he was appoint ed United States Ambassador in Berlin, where he died in the month of December, same year. During the last twelve years of his life he was engaged in writing the life of Faust. In certajn particulars he was une qualed by any of onr poets. His writings were distinguished by his power" in producing clear, distinct pictures of life and nature. Amon? his various waitings we wcinld notice "Poems of the Orient,' Poems of Home and Travel," " he Masque of the Gods." "The Prophet," and "Home Ballads." Educational Journal. Whilst von 100k too much on others gardens; you vill neglect your own. T KEEP A FIRST-CLASS RBSTAIT JL rant at my old stand on Mam St . near. the Brick M;U. Loclping can a ho behad, Meals al all hour. The best the market affords w;Il bo given you served up ma -well as in any sim Jar house m. .North;. Carolina, and at as reasonable ratek. v Beef. Fish, Oyst-rs, &c, always onj hand at the lowest figures. Meals-.: may r also be had at all hours at my oiiie?., ,i ,ut ,i.mr South of K. Alsbrook's. Restaurant I cordially invite and ask the patron . Feb. 8. 23 tf. . ; ; L.