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THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOTOS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Habit is one of the strongest forces with which men have to do, both in the social and business world. For in stance, the consignee of general goods who always made a reduction of a cer tain per cent, for "ratage," may have been perfectly honest when he made the usual deduction for "ratage" on a consignment of scrap-iron. We may not always ndge a man's intentions by one particular act. Of course there was not much possibility for the scrap iron to suffer "ratage" in shipping or being stored ; but the man may have forgotten just once, as we all do some times. """""" It is a statement which we have made over and over again, but so firmly do we believe it that we make it once more : The habit 01 protane swearing is the most inexcusable evil aud sin that otherwise decent men are guilty of. The man who blatantly utters un guarded oaths and talks profanity re gardless of the presence of strangers or those upon whose ears he knows his profanity grates, is guilty of a breach of politeness that is inexcusable in a gentleman ; and the degree of the fla grancy of the breach of politeness may be measured according to hia intelli gence. A lew men do not Know any better, but most men do. Those who do not know better are pretty low down In the scale and should be pitied rather than censured. One of the strongest moral forces that has ever been set to work in this coun try, is the movement of the yonng peo ple in their various organizations. The different religious denominations have their yqung people organized as aux iliaries ; and they are becoming a power that is being ielt in a tremendous up lift for the world.' They are helpful to both Church and State ; for along with their religious and moral training they carry an educa tional training that must be felt. And so the Church is helped through their distinctively moral influence ; and the State, through their educational in fluence. It is, therefore, easy to see that in the process of the years to come, our country must feel this two-fold in fluence for good ; and we may confid ently expect a better and a higher standard of thought and action in every department of government. There are some phases of our free school system in North Carolina., that have not been studied carefully, or at east have not been discussed by the papers, no man oi intelligence can m- m m 11? afford to feel even indifferent to the cause of education, for it is necessarily the hope of our land ; but the glittering generalities with which some enthusi asts speak and write on the matter of free schools are not quite so glittering when they are brought down face to face with the men through whose hands and from whose sweat the money comes to run the free schools. We have thought much over the school system in North Carolina, and have never given expression before ; but we believe that the lree school money for this State ought to come from the poll tax and not from property tax. There are many things by which we may judge of the trend ot thought and action among the people generally. And taking these as an index different nfirsons have different opinions about the progress of the times, and so on For instance one thinks the world is cettiner better and rives hig reasons. Recently a man of many years' experi ence as a commission merchant said to us that he does not find th9 indications of dishonest tricks that he did former ly. He related how years, ago it was necessary for a commission merchant who handled cotton to jometimes bore into the middle of a bale of cotton to see if it had been packed honestly. And he related, how he had found the bales of cotton white and pretty on the out side but yellow, fall ot sand, scrap-iron and wet on the inside. But he said now cotton is shipped right along wi thout investigating so closely ; for that sort ot dishonesty is a rare occurrence, Co SCOTLAND TO YOUNG MEN. BRIGHT NUGGETS OF GOLD. BE MEN, DEAR FELLOWS. Some Rambling Thoughts. BY NEMO. (Copyrighted.) To Young Men : Remember how small a place money ought to have in your calculations ; at any rate that you should never reckon your success by the amount of money you make. Even granting that you are toiling in order to win a wife, if money is your sole standard you will lay at her feet the least valuable gift if yoa bring not to her a clean mind, an upright life, and a soul above robbery. And he that maketh haste to be rich runs in danger of stooping to things so mean and so contemptible that he is not fit to be the husband of any wife or the possible father of any living children, though he be wealthy as most golden dream can fancy. Remember that courage the quality you so much admire and about which you possibly use such false estimates is not measured by the strength of the arnf-nor a readiness to die. Bodily courage is sometimes only the mark of a coarse-grained nature mere insensi bility to danger, like the mad frenzy of a bull. Real courage, is that of the mind that will keep you working on in tne iace ot aeteat, or that enables you to dare great purposes, when the way to their accomplishment is like the way to an Alpine summit, only attain ed by cheerful self-denial and the con stant crying to that inner purpose, .Excelsior ! .Excelsior ! !" it requires more than a broad chest to stand a sneer, more than a fearless eye to turn from the pleading glances of a pleasure- loving woman, more than mere muscle to keep on doing those things that are ot good report, when all the companions of your youth call you a fool. Remember that disappointments build the muscles of our character, much as walking strengthens our bodies. It is the things we have to struggle with that make us men. Some few geniuses seem able at a leap to ac complish whatever their hearts are set upon, but the vast majority of us at tain our ambitions only by stern pur pose and unwavering. If a tide just drags us along we are as dead things or Sticks ; if we swim against it, we grow more and more in power. Welcome the north wind, my beloved ; it is cruel to be kind ; it would seem to wrest thy all from thee only to make thee hold on the faster. "Here's to the men who lose ! The touchstone ot true worth is not success ; There is a higher test Though fate may darkly frown, onward to press, And bravely do one's best. Here's to the men who lose ! If triumph's easy smile our struggles greet, Courage is easy then ; The king is he who, alter fierce defeat, Can up and fight again. Remember that mistakes are not necessarily fatal. Show me a man who has never made a mistake, and I will show you a lazy good-for-nothing who has escaped errors of judgment and conduct by being too indolent to at tempt anything. Mistakes are good school-masters ; they show us that we know not, in order that we may be better able to know. A mistake is a danger signal that warns into new, more careful and more thoughtful ways. And I do not limit the utility of a mistake merely to the range of studies and business, I refer even to awful mistakes in morals, to social sins that are sweet to the taste and bitter in effects. These may teach and purify, it we will but drag ourselves away from them and think them over at a dis tance. Remember that he who goeth to ac complish great things for himself or for the world, needs not to be known to be weak and immoral in order to lose his power of accomplishment ; a wrong thing done need have no witnesses in order to undo a man. Yielding to a darling sin takes away the ability to be all you might be ; not . because your friends know you to be a doer of evil, but because you know yourself to be so, and the traitor within the citadel of your honor and purpose does not re main undiscovered, for the traitor is BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. 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We talk of dissipation for the body ; there is a dissipation of the mind, and that is found in letting the thoughts run unchecked, particularly it they are of an unclean character. . Remember in following that last thought that there is a dissipation of the mind, even apart from filthy mus ings ; it is found in being insufficiently severe with yourself. Remember also thai there may even be spiritual dis sipation, when, in the higher regions of thought that affect men's souls and future destinies, you let your spiritual desires run riot until all who fail to be lieve with you are believed to be in the wrong. Remember too the common fault of bodily dissipation. I beg of you to remember as sensible beings that the powers you in your overflow ing youth regard as solely given for your pleasure, are merely an inherit ance from your parents to be passed on spotless and undefiled to your children. Remember that a spider dipped in ink can make scrawls across paper, that a dog can scratch earth, that a monkey can daub paint, but that the intelli gence of a human being is needed to gain meaning and profit and fame from any or all of these acts. Your sheep is a follower of instincts equally as much when mature as it was when it frisked its restless tail and fled af- righted from moving objects. Neither honor nor dishonor attaches to its life, save that it has been all it could be. But you are a man ; born a creature of instinct yet capable of becoming a creature of thought, whose use of life has within it the possibilities of shame or of esteem. If you merely follow your instincts, you are less worthy than an animal, for it has done all it could, and you have not. Be a man, dear fellow, and venerate yourself ; then no matter how humble your lot in life, you will be a worthy comrade of those who through the patient ages have led us away from mere animalism. Speak Kindly. 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After Burnside had captured Roanoke Island and tasen control of the salt wa ter region of North Carolina, our Gov- eminent, encouraged by the destructive work of the Merrimac, devised to get afloat two iron clad vessels to send out into the Sounds, and in concert with the Army, to rescue that whole region from the enemy. Experience "had taught that to put a gun on an old steamboat and call it by the high sounding name of gun boat did not an swer in contending with the U. S. Na vy. In 1862 the Confederate Govern ment entered into contract with citi zens of North Carolina for the construc tion of two iron clad vessels, one on the Roanoke and one on the Neuse river. One of the foremost and most enter prising citizens who devoted his energy and business talent towards the con struction of the "Albemarle" was Gil bert Elliott, brother of our comrade, Capt. Chas. G. Elliott. These patriot ic citizens had never built anything but flat boats, but with the aid and ad vice of an intelligent Naval officer, they worked ahead. The "Albemarle" was built in a corn field, from the timber growing near by ana witn a black smith shop for a manufacturing plant, while the engine of a large saw mill w?.a altered and made to serve for her propelling power. Capt. Cooke was in defatigable in urging on the work and ransacked the country for the iron from the Tredegar works as far down as Wilmington, unui ne usea to oe called "Capt. Ironmonger." To vamp up anything to convert it into a boat or a bar afforded him infinite delight. I happened to be ordered to com mand the ship building on the Neuse river sometime after the career ot the Albemarle." To give you some idea of the difficulties in the way of getting a ship ot war built and ready for ser vice, General Hoke, who had few equals j for daiing and dash and military skill, was so deeply interested in the comple- j tion of my little vessel, that he made two trips to Richmond and brought back with him in his trunk certain au gers and other tools necessary to carry on the work. Not long after I had got-! ten the crew on board, it was about the middle of June, one day 1 received an application, in the form of a round robin, from twenty odd of the crew to go home and harvest. It was some thing new to me and not in my power to grant, but the next day the boat swain the only seaman I had in the crew came to me with his hat off and asked in the most respectful and inter- j ested manner, if it was true that a lot of the men had applied for leave to go home to harvest. I told him they had applied. He said nothing, put on his hat, went forward and I never saw him again, lie aesertea tnac mgnt anu went away to join the enemy. He could not stand the hay makers. His name was Donnard, an Englishman, a valuable seaman, full of fight, and my main reliance. One of the many difficulties in the way of getting a con federate ship ready for good service in the war, was the scarcity ot trained of ficers. Capt. Parker, in his ".Recollec tion of a Naval Officer", said that a Lieutenant on board one of the gun boats made the following entry in the Log Book : "The moon was on the port bow and the wind had a starboard." What became of that iron clad vessel on the Neuse is another story and of little interest. Capt. Cooke had been in command of one of those terrible little gun boats at the battle of Roanoke Island and when all his ammunition was exhaust- Ayer's Pills are recommended by leading physicians and druggists, as the most prompt and efficient remedy for biliousness, Nausea, costi veness, indiges tion, sluggishness of the hyer, Jaundice and sick headache ; also, to relieve cold fevers, neuralgia and rheumatism. TTrTr.Tr SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. jqq ed, got a supply from the "Curlew" which had been disabled and sunk, and he fought on until they were all driven back to Elizabeth City, where the over whelming rush of the Federal Fleet destroyed everything afloat that they 1 J 1 . . coma reacn ana uapt. uooke gave or ders to blow up his vessel and all hands save themselves as best they could. In this engagement he displayed desperate gallantry, was severely wounded, and captured, and Capt. Renshaw of the U. S. Navy told me that Cooke never did surrender, was simply borne down by numbers. After he was exchanged he was selected to superintend the build ing of one ot the iron clads before met tioned at Edward's Ferry on the farm of Peter E. Smith. - After overcoming every obstacle, she was launched, moved down to Halifax, and later to Hamilton for fear of low water. In April 1864 General Hoke, who was determined to recapture Ply mouth, visited the Albemarle" and though she was far from being finished her heroic commander promised the General he would co-operate with him in the attack on Plymouth. The dis tinguished part he took in that gallant affair will now be seen. Naval history affords no more remarkable evidence ot patriotic zeal and individual persever ance. His ship was one of shreds and patches and with her he went down towards Plymouth to keep his tryst with General Hoke. As soon as he heard the dull concussion that, to the practical ear, J?notes a heavy bombard ment, he moved down upon the scene at Plymouth. Capt. Flussed, an old shipmate of mine from Kentucky, a man of brilliant promise and full of grit, commanded the Federal force afloat, that -guarded the water front where there was no other defence. It was after midnight on the 19th of April, 1864. Immediately grasping the situ ation, Cooke made for the enemy's ships that were chained together to meet the shock, dashed his prow into the "Southfield" and delivered the fire of his guns into the "Miami," killing and wounding many of her crew. Among the Killed was her commander, my brave young comrade of former days. In the meantime the "South field" was at the bottom and the Bombshell" sunk by Hoke's Artillery, and the "Miami" fleeing down the riv er. This brilliant success insure:! the triumph of General Hoke. The de fences of Fort Williams were powerful on the land side and had repulsed"ov eral assaults of our troops. Ou the riv er side the fortification was defective, its open works depending on guz: boats for defence. These having been driven away, Cooke opened upon the valuable part of the Fort, rendering it unable, and General Ransom's command en tered the town on that hank. The re sult was the capture of 1,500 men and five pieces of artillery. Below the town of Plymouth, near the mouth of the river in the waters of the sound were six United States gun boats. They .were iully prepared to meet the "Albemarle" they carried 40 guns, ten ot which were 100 per rifles. Captain Cooke did not heed the odds against him with the little ship carry ing two guns and propelled by a feeble engine, ms idea and hope was to clear the sound of the enemy's ships and tow boats over to Hatteras with men enough to recapture the Fort and shut out the United States vessels from the sound. He steamed slowly down the Roanoke on the morning of the 5th of May. The enemy approached in two columns of attack and then ensued a melee and storm ot shot and shell, poured into this little ship that seemed so unfortunate. Capt. Cooke handled his ship with perfect coolness and great skill, feeling his ship so often strained by the fearful blows from the gunboats that surround ed her. She was the centre of an ir regular circle the periphery of which was six staunch ships trying to destroy her. At one time the "Sassacus" struck the "Albemarle" at right angles with the tremendous force of ten knots speed, making her reel and stagger and at the same time she received three solid shots from 100 per rifles that started her plates, but the "Albemarle" righted herself and sent a shell through the "Sassacus" which filled her with steam and drove her out of the fight. At 7 :30 m., Commodore Smith, baffled in ev ery attack and knowing that his vessels were getting the worst of it, hoisted the signal to retire the "Sassacus" out of the fight and the 'Walusing" in a sinking condition. 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One ot the Federal ships saw the "Al bemarle," fired a shell -from afar and got out of her way. A short time after this the health of her heroic commander broke down and be was placed in a hospital and never fully recovered from the strain he had endured. His little ship "Albemarle" lay at Plymouth in accountable inac tivity, but the enemy still had reason to dread her coming out again and de termined, if possible to destroy her. In this they succeeded by a daring and brilliant exploit of Lieutenant Cushing of the U. S. Navy, who, on the night of the 27th of October, 1864, managed to run a torpedo into her, while lying at the wharf at Plymouth, where she sunk into her native waters, never to be seen again. And so the good chip "Albemarle" goes out of sight, but not out of memory, for as long as men ad mire professional ambition, patriotism, and that spirited kind of courage in war that makes men seeK out an ene my, and fight him to an issue, so long will the "Albemarle" with Cant. 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