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uOR G0D FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." , W. FLKTCIIKIt ATJSBON, Editor. ' C. Y. W. AISBON, tfBiNsta Misaobr. VOL. Ill- PLYMOUTH, N- C, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1891. KO.ll. PUBLISHED BY ltoANOKK PUBLISHING CO, STRENGTH Off THE HILLS. Mr though U go home to that old brown house. With Ita low roof sloping down to the east, -And iU garden fragrant with rosea and thynio, That blossom no longer, except in rhyme, Where the honey-bees used to feast. Afar In the west the great hilla rose. Silent, and steadfast, and gloomy, and gray; I tfeoi !; t they Were giants, and doomed to keep Thfir wtch. while the world should wake or . . sUtA - .' .' Till the trumpet should sound on the Judg- ; meat day, . . i - I used to wonder of what they dreamed As they brooded there in the silent night, While March winds smote them or June rains fell. . , Or the snows of winter their ghostly spell , Wrought in the long and lonesome night. They remembered a younger world than ours, Before the trees on their tops were born. When the old brown house was itself a tree, And wast were the fields where now you boo The winds astir la the taeecled corn. Andl was as young as tho hills were old, -, And the world was warm with the breath ol spring. . - - - ,. . .. And the rosea red and the lilies white Itadded and bloomed for cay heart's delight, ", And the birds la my heart began to sing. Put calm In the distance the great hills rose, Deaf unto raptures and dumb unto pain. Since they knew that Joy is the mother of Grief, And remember a butterfly's life is brief , And the sun sets only to rise again. . They will brood, and dream, and be silent as i , -now...' . ..... .. , .- ; s. - .v- When the youngest children alive to-day iTare grown to be women and men, grown old. And gone from the world like a tale that Li y- told. . , . ; j,. ,And even these echoes forget to stay . . .Louise Chandler Moulton. : :. ..ILl) MIHCY. BY MRS. M. A. POISON. Such a wild thing!" sighed Miss Blif kins, "and yet so pretty! So much good in hert What will she grow uptof" . This problem puzzled the little woman's . head, night and day. She had no one to live for but herself. Stitching, stitching, . right through the week, people said she would work herself into consumption, yet some way she kept well. ; ' The little cooking stove was always bright, the tables and chairs never showed .'. a speck of dust, the carpetless floor shono 0 jually with the tiny cracked mirror upon Jthe wall, and "someway "Miss Blifkins 'often said "providence seemed to pro ' Tide." . .-, -. Not that she told the neighbors this ; such' i Godless .set a3 tjiey were! She ,Ji never would have lived in the bid tene- ment house, but it was so hard to get a room with three windows," and the sun pouring in all day, that she put up with the surroundings, which were none of the best - . . "s "What with being waked up out of her soundest slumber by a drunken tailor overhead, tormented by the constant ' smell of soapsuds from across the entry, and subject to the visits of wild Nancy,' r whom she could not civilize, yet whoso . . welfare she felt conscientiously interested in, she had enough petty annoyances to constitute a good sized cross, which sho ' - carried with becoming resignation. ' "Oh Miss Blif, may I come in?" eounded a high, nasal tone. ; " In a minute, " said the little woman, driving the cloud from . her brow, and making an end of a big buttonhole with three energetic pulls, and then she put ' her work; a black satin vest, on the chair, and opened the door. "Oh Miss-Blif, how nice you do always look! Don't I wish . ours .was a three ' flight front, instead of a four flight back! And the stairs is broke, so horrid!, Oh ' Hiss BUf, what a pretty weskit!" i i ( : " Don't touch it! n cried the little woman, . rushing back to the window, - "La! I shan't pi3en it, " snaps back . . wild Nancy, and then Looks round tha . I room for spoils., Wild Nancy is something worth glanc ing at, as she stands there dirty but pict uresque. Out from many a tangle of lustrous brown hair shine a pair of very dark bright tyres. Her complexion, what one can see of it for the dirt, is remark ably clear, and a tawny, healthy red gives a dash of the gypsy to her count- - nance.' - Her apron Is torn clear across, and hangs down in an unmistakable rag, that trails to the floor. Her shoes are what ; she calls new, that is, they have been 'worn for five or six months by some bet-.; ter fed, and better housed mortal, and it is evident that the girl fa unused to re- Btraint, and cares very f little for tlioso who are called her eiiperiors. - I "I thought you promised me you would . wash your, hands and comb your hail before you came here ttgain, " said Jlisa Blifkins. .V - "Yes, I know; but dad broke tho . - comb, and we ain'lr got no wash basin, and the bath room is nailed up." j What bath room?" oked Miss Cif fins innocently. "The bath room that ought to be up in the sky parlor. Oh Miss Blif I where'd jou git that T" "" ": . "It's an old picture my mother had, " years ago. :: I couldn't get a frame and so I ticked it up yesterday. " . My gracious!" cried Nancy, drawing out every vowel to its fullest . extent. Ain't that the devil?" ' '-''.W ' tit certainly is," said Miss Blifkins,...-. "and those people there ere supposed to ' Vve been very wicked. The fruits on " those trees are sins; if you could read you could understand tLern, but as you can't sometime wl. a X Uls busy I'll c x plain to you." "Oh Miss Blif! ain't .-vin cm ia? Oh I should liket l 1 '-I Dow dowa tlicio f v L ',. ' .1 p it oil a venter. day, and I'd rake JSam In for telling lies on me. There's lots of people I'd push down that hole, and then I'd holler and ask them how they felt " - "And suppose somebody 'Bhould want to rake you down there?" queried Mwa Blifkins. "Couldn't catch this child, " sho laughed back, "but Ivsay, don't I like picters ? Ain't a day but what I go up street and ,'look in the windows. Oh don't I like pretty things? Don't I? But I shan't never have none, " . sha added reflectively. ' "Seems to me you might mend that tear in your apron," said Miss Blifkins. "Ain't got " nothin' but a darning 'needle, and that's broke, "was the re- V1 , "I'll give you a needla, . : Ain't got any cotton. "And some cotton." . , "Nor no thimble. 1 Oh, what's the UBe!" end Miss Blifkins, looking up, saw her dash the tears from her bright, dark eyes. That was something new, but before the astonished woman could learn the reason the girl had bounded out of the room. The tone of voice in which the child liad said tt Oh, don't I like pretty things! " had penetrated Miss Blifkins's heart and touched her feelings; She slowly rose, . unlocked an "unused box," and fumbling i there a moment, brought forth a thimble case, a needle case, and a box of cotton. Now the thimble case was a work of art, a little velvet box with gold edges, to im itate the bible? The thimble was spotless silver, the needle case was quite as artis tic, and the box as pretty and bright as tny child might desire. v ; ' ' "They're all I've got to remind me that he lived and loved me, "murmured the thin little spinster, " but then, he was . studying for the ministry, what wouldn't he have done to save a poor soul? Be sides it ought to be a sacrifice, or it wouldn't be good for much. I will, ? and she went back to her sewing with a tender, beautiful smile upon her face which if he saw must have been , beautiful in his sight. , ",VjC ' '. Two days after that wild Nancy came again. She had sedulously mended her rags, but oh such mending ! ' ' ' . "See here, Nancy," said Miss Blifkins, and she displayed her treasures. . "Oh ain't they lovely 1" cried the girl, with rapturous emphasis. " I should think you would ' be so happy to ' have such beautiful things!" ; '; r: . ; : ? They 'axe for you, Nancy," said Mis3 Blifkins softly, looking away into the , distance, even beyond the walls that bounded the ordinary vision i " For me ? For me?" and the girl drew a long breath. It seemed as if she could not believe it Her fingers . trembled as Miss Blifkins forced the- pretty little ' bible into her hand, and the needle case, and the box. ' ; .: .1 "Oh! oh! oh!" and her eyes, filled with delight, flashed back and forth from the humble little Beamstress to the treasures that seemed so precious to her beauty e tarred souL And then she flung both arms about the woman's neck, and sobbed and laughed together and promised ah me, many more things than in all likeli hood 'she weald ever be able to per form. - But then, Miss Blifkins believed in her, and of the two human' souls in the presence "of God and the angels I dare not undertake to say which was the hap piest . .. .. ... Mualcal Kugenff Tbayer Saggests. The best lessons cost but a trifle more than cheap or poor lessons ; but the good lessons will save you years of time, and you enter upon your success, and get your money back,'' many years sooner. Out of the two millions of young people, there are less than a dozen a year who make any noticeable mark. What is tho reason? .;. . ', " ' " ' ; -.' ': In an experience of 80 years I havo had all possible kinds of pupils ; good and poor, diligent and ; lazy, talented and etupid ; and also ' many very successful ' ones. J have watched 'them all very I closely, and I think I can tell you why come failed and others succeeded. The prime requisites are : 1. tTho lovo of music. 2. The best instruction. 8. How to study, 4. When to study. 5. Where, to study. 6. A good instrument. 7. How to make it all successful It will be quite useless for you to go into music unless you have an absorbing love for it ; a mere admiration for it will count for little or nothing. - A love for it shows the talent for it Let me prove this to you. Suppose you like red better than any other color. This is evidence that there is something within you more strongly allied to the color of . red than any other color; if it were not so you would , like some other , color equally well or better Do you not see that this is a self evident proposition? Now instead of the red color, let us sup pose it is music you like best the con elusion is inevitable that you have a talent I for music American Musician. What Is Civilization i What is a high state of civilization ? It "consists of a knovledge of nature's laws and of obedience rendered to them, and incidentally, of a - recognition that there ia a duty which man owes to his fellow: man ; it is a state of civilization in which the mind has become con vinced that the cardinal virtues of bensvcufetice, justice,, truth, purity, and obedience to ordvr are laws- of nature mi mil 1 1 ' 1 ' ' r- n voul 1 rii'i i. I ' i t i, ill i iiih't j cacn man w ue jusc, irue, ana pure, as civilization grows higher, morality and intelligence go hand in hand with it they are, all three, dependent one upon the other. lArther Dudley Vinton, in tne Arena. Hope for II Ins. How often do we hear a parent say of a mischievous boy : "I would not mind bo much if I could only believe him.' Whatever his other traits, truth is essen tially the touchstone of a boy's' charac ter. The following case in point appears in the G7trifian Leader: " "I don't know that you will be able to do much with him, " said a father to the principal of a school, to whom e had brought his son as a pupil, "he is so full of mischief." - : x v : "Does ho tell the truth?" asked the principal. ."Can I. always depend upon his worar" . ..... . . , .. "Oh, yes," said the father, "he is hon est, he. will tell the truth, evenwhen it is against, himself; you may depend upon that" . , . - . . "Then we can manage him," said the principal "He will make . a reliable, manly man. " i ,.' . . '.. . . . Mrs. Stokeham.'of Townville, S. C, is said to be cutting her third set of teeth. She is " 103 years ' old, and is hale and hearty, lookiuggood for many years ylst " There is a constantly growing demand that other people be good-fAtchison Globe,' -.vf .. ' BITS ' OF INFORMATION., Europe's population, 880,200,000. Great Britain's debt, $3,492,000,000. The Teutonic (565.08 feet long) is the longest steamship. ' . The big ocean steamships use 486 pounds of coal a minute. . . Paris has 600 miles of streets, 200 miles being bordered with trees. There are now 19,873 newspapers in the United States and Canada. . Private 1 houses of more than 72 feet high are prohibited in Berlin since 1887. According to the bast census there are over 50,000 houses in the city of Boston. In the city of Berlin,' with a" popula tion of 1,815,G00, there ' are ' but 26,800 dwelling houses. y . . . ' The fire proof safe is not a very old in stitution. The first one was made in 1829 by a type founder. . Sixty years ago the aggregate wealth of the United States was only $1,000,000, 000 ; now it is $55,200,000,000. , , - Statistics show; that eight times as many murders are committed in Italy as in any other European country. At Woolwich Arsenal is the largest anvil. It weighs COO tons, and the block upon which it rests weighs 103 tons. There are 20 monarchies and 25 repub lics in the civilized world to-day. , Six teen republics are in South. America. Tho people of., this country use three times as much writing paper as those - of any other nation, in proportion to their number. Within the Antarctic Circle there has never been found a flowering plant In the Arctic regions there are 762 different . species of flowers. :". . Statistics show that 500,000,000 of the human race wear clothing, 250,000,000 habitually go without clothes, and 700, 000,000 only cover portions of the body. The States which in 1892 will take part in a Presidential election for the first time are North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyo ming. , It is a mistake to suppose that polar re search lias cost enormously " in human life. Despite all .the great disasters 97 out of every 100 explorers have returned alive. - ' . . e More than 65,000 families of Berlin live in dwellings of one room. About one tenth of the population of the city ar.i driven to take up their abode in cellars underground. Statistics now show that OTO.OOO.OOO of tho human race wear clothing, 250, 000,000 , habitually go. without clothes, and 700,000,000 only cover portions of tho body. . '. v;. --' Tti first census of the United States was taken in 1790, a. year after the foun dation of , the Government . under the Constitution, when the aggregate popu lation was 8,929,214. The Brooklyn Bridge took 11 years to build, cost $15,000,000, and was the first joint investment of Brooklyn and New York. It has been, from every point of 1 view, a great success. : .. . . William L. Marcy, in a speech in the United States Senate, January, 1883, said.j "They see nothing wrong in the doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils. " Ha didn't express approval of the doctrine. .. When 'the mosque of St" Sophia, in Constantinople, waff built more than a thousand years ago, the stones and brick were laid in mortar mixed with a solu tion of musk, and the building has been fragrant with the odor ever since. The Census Bureau has issued a state ment of the debt of nations, whkhlhows that the total indebtedness of foreign na tinns is over $25,000,000,000, that of Urn United States $915,000,000, and of the. E-tt and Territories $223,000,000. The island of Hawaii, the largest in t.-:: uidwich Island group, is constantly ; : -.-aing in eiza; owing to the ever fiow , of lh va which run out to sja- ; THEN AND NOW. WHAT A QUARTER OF A CEN TURY IX AS BROUGHT ABOUT WE ARB AH.0JTB. N.T.Horsld. . The death ol llarmibd Hamlin is another reminder that the old war times are grad uai'y siDKing below the norlz tn. - . We have talked a great deal about the New South as one result of the great tstrag gle, bat we have a" New North as well. Oar whole outlook has changed since the days when slavery set oor teeth on edge We have become, what at one time seemed impossible, an entirely homogeneous peo pie, with net a BiLgle subject for excited oontroversey wuliiu the range of debate. Before Appomattox: North and South were two different nationa'itits, bound to gether by the force of circumstances but struggliDg to get apart and seeking some excuse for taking the first step toward a divorce. We were the political Siamese twins, united by a constitutional ligament which it might . be fatal to out, bat with such deverse temperaments and modes of thought that oor life was passed in mutual criminations. ' The two sections were in a state of con stant exasperation they challoaeed and defied each other, nurSf a their animosities with such zeal the prophets trembled for our future, and predicted that the whole experiment of popular government would be swallowed up lit the vortex of hatred. Tooms boldly declared his desire to call a slave roll beneath the shadow of Banker Hill, or was so reported, and all New Eng land was ablaze with horror. Wendell Phillips, whoi6 eloqusnce was as sharp as the sword of baladin, and Garrison, who rhetorically swung the battle axe ofluchard, retorted iu language which was firs of gan-powder. VV heu iiamlin was in his prime at.d one of thnt group ofgiauts in which Lincoln stood bead and tsboulders. above the rest the whole country, North as well as South, suffered the pangs of measureless agony, Both armies fought with a desperate cour age never before exhibited on the, planet i ue irresistible and the immovable avpa. rently came into collision. ... . . . ... . . What a magnificent spectacle that long series of battles presented 1 . A tragedy bi' with the fate of this nation and or repubh canism the wide world over. A million men, and brothers at that, digging trenches tor the dead who fell by thonsauds until there was hardly ft home in the land that did not suffer bereavement Five years of mortal terror, impoverishing one-half of the coantry and almost exbaunting the material resources of the other half. But all this geeuas ancient history now, Most ' of the - great generals ' who led the armies have passed over to the majority. The statesmen who won for themselves a placo on the historic page lie in the dutst where mortality rest ; in dreamless sleep. The ranks of the veterans are being rapidly thinned.. .They have left their riddled banners to their heirs, and a new genera tion have bent their shoulders to the burden of political responsibility . ' i ; v Less than thirty years have been counted off, and yet so rapid baa been oar progress thatthe old wouuds have healed and the roar of the cannon has : become a distant echo, Our hatreds have been washed away by tho incoming 4ide of national prosperity. Once iu a while the cry comes from Borne Northern stump speaker in search of. office or from some unreconstruc ted and nnregenerate Southerner, bat it rouses no response." TLe people beyond the Potomac re diving into irou and coal mines, building factories and felling for' esu. .The people or the &ast and west are demanding a larger market for their pro ducts, and are contented, prosperous and happy. As one . by one the great souls or lang yne take their departure, . we recall the stirring sceree in which they were actors, the hairbreadth escape of the nation during the perils of war and the hard earned victory which at last crowned our efforts. We also congratulate onrseive; that when the great itwue was settled forever. It left no remnant behind which can breed dig cord iu the years to come. MO OLD MAIDS HERE. A LAST HAS BUT TO NAME HER CHOICE, AND 115 IS REUS. A strange sect has come to public notice in Madrid. It has its headquarters in the Calle del Sombrcrete, a poor but central portion of the town. " There tre about 1,000 members in Madrid, and the mem bershipiu the provinces is increasing dy spite the united efforts of the government and the clericals to check its gronh. The largest branch is at Valencia.. , , The leading doctrines of the sect are the propagation of the human race and the banishment ol disease. X be leader is - a former workman named Jiminit, who in called "The Great Pontiff," and at whose house the members nisei. After prayers and singing at theso meetings the pontiff blesses the sick and administers holy water to them. Crowds of tick people flock to him to be healed, aud there seeius to be a particular desire to submit sick children to bis ministrations. 1 he gathering lake plaeo at night The strictest morality is enforced as a part of the tenets of the propagation of the race is carried in lo effect in this wise. ..';. rAny woman is entitled to rise in meet ing and cry out; I wish to marry" so and bo, naming the favored mun. 'lhe man apm whom her choice has fallen is doom ed to bcoie a husband. It is useless for him to pretest prior ; engagements - The pontiff marries the couplo tiieu and the e. Over 3''0 such marringes have been carried nut, ud lhe popularity of the poutiff among women dosiriug matrimonial part" Mrs is nu bOondeL Their benelach r is jest now under cloud, having been thrust into prison on a charge of practicing medi cine without legal authority. Scores of weiiunslow thtir devotir-n to the pene f rtc-.l p n tiff by f,'it!:crii!$ . outside the j. .i hi d n't"r.i j i - '..;,'. ns and CARTE Thee years had elapsed since the cohorts of Home had encamptd without the walls of Carthage, laid seige to that ancient and affluent city, whose sou, Ilanibal, with his invinciaoie leagons naa oat seventy years previous caasea ina very gates or Koine to tremble, and her consuls to quake with fear and to doubt for the safety of their city. Duriug these' three years nearly all the strongholds of Africa had surrendered to the Roman conquorers and left Carthage to her own fate, without the means to sustain a protracted seize. Ueiog thus reduced to her own resources, and brought to the last extremity, she fought with tne courage of despair. (Jato, one of Some's . most pro. found senators had often repeated these words in the Roman senate, "And I con. elude that Carthage ought to be destroyed." tuners become lufatnated with the prmcl. pals ofCato, and the contagion spread un til, all Komo cried far blood, and clamored for the destruction of the Carthageniaus. Nothing bnt the total annihilation of that powerful and dreaded rival ol Rome could gratify their spirits of revenge, insure the safety of their republic or queuch their thirst for human blood. This was the object the Romans had in view i when Scipeo, their new made consul, marshalled his forces be fore the walls of .Carthage and began the work of destruction which culminated in the extermination of that city whioh for seven hundred years had cUzzled the world by her magniflcance and wealth, and bid defiance to all the allied powers of Koine. But alas her end was nigh. No more O Canluge 2 thou once proud mistress of the sea. snail thy ships of the Meditarranean bear -the commerce of the world, ho more will thy Ilammilears dis turb the peace of Spain, nor thy Uannibals scale the lofty Alps and dare to invade the very dominions of Rome. Thy doom ia sealed, the death sentence has gone forth, signed by the senate of Borne, and it must now bo sealed with the blood of tne uann ageniana. Even now the work of carntge has begun on the walls of Carthage Harbor and "the legions of lioiue are swarming in the great square of the city," and marching toward the citadel. And now O Carthage ! thou bloody and inhumane city S Borne is in tby midst and she will never quit thy shores until thy walls crumble iuto duit, thy temples are demolished and thrown down and the crim son tides of thy life's blood flow through the streets into your harbor as a mighty river flows Into the sea. l he sua oi tny pros-1 penty snan soon go uown iu aamuew u blood, never more to illuminate with his warm and cental rays the sad cold heart .f the Door Carthagenians. r or six uays sua niguis uio wumui ucm went on in the midst of the city. The in n a 3 . ! -.t 1 1 J ...ll. habitants focght desparately.from the tops of the houses, and annoyed the Komans with such a continued shower oi darts that they too hsd to take refugd upon the tops of the houses. The streets were so enect- nally blocked up with the dead, dying and wounded Oarthagenlans, that the iiomans, in order to effect a passage for their troops, dragged the still panting bodies off with hooks and threw them in pita When all had surrendered to the JKomans with the exception of about 900 deserters, together with Asdrabal his wife and two children whose lives Scipio would not agree to spare, they took refn?e in the temple or Asculaniar where they might have held out a good while had not Asdrabal, tho Carth- agoniau General, deserted them and gone over to the Romans. The deserters were so transported with rage at sight of their General that they immediately set fire to the buifdiug they were in. While the fire was kindling, the wild of Asdrao.d drcscd herself in her most splendid apparel aud advanced in sight of the liomaa Army and thus addressed their Gei.eral: . T call not down curses upon tby head O, Roman, for thou only takest the privilege allowed by the Uws ol war, but may tne gods of Carthago and thou in concert with thenv pucibh, according to his jut deserts, the false wretch who has betrayed his coun try, hi3 wiTo, his children !" Then taming to her bnsbaod she said: "Perfidious wretch, thou basest of men ! this fire will presently consume both me and my children bnt as to thee, unworthy General of Carth. age, to adorn the gay triumph of the con qnorer, suffer in the sight of all Rome, the tortures thou so justly deser vest. May the tortures which Regular 6nffered in the streets of Carthage be multiplied tenfold upon thee in Uome. In addition to having the eyelids severed from thy face, as his were, and thy defenceless balls exposed to the vertical rays of a burning sun at noon, day, may the flesh be harrowed from thy bones with teeth of barbed iron tipped with plain, and tby body torn asundar inch by inch, While that base, false and cowardly heart Of thiue is sdd putsatiDg with hie, may bo lire Roman, ns cruel as thyself, snatch it from thy breast, expus-e h to all the in. dignities of the Roman populace, and then hurl it in thy face aud place his heel upon it and grind both it and thou in the dust of the streets, of Uome, U thou vuunous traitor of CsrthHgo," No soonor bad sLe uttered those words, than she took both her children, cut their throats, threw them into the dimes and then sprang in herself, Thus ended that Republic which was so famous for her wealth, the extent of ber dominions and hr knowledge of war. She is even now fu:ams tts t!;e mother of 11 lum bal, the gr atesi Wtwrriof perhaps that ever lived. ' Curliiag. otvi the historian. iBigh1 h'iv b-en Gftmnrd with the most powerful tuipircih of antiquity. But not. withstanding her power, bur riches ana the glory of her arum. Buo full as Rome and Asyria afterward Ml, victim to her own vices, ambition and pride. The above U republished by request, it was first published some years ago in the Washington Progress. El Ueacok j THE NEW PER CENT BONDS. Newt Jk Observer lijth, lin-i. - Our readers will remtwbor, several diys ag'), we StatJ Uj I'-o SoCrttary of the TrfttM.iry had i 'i - t on accoaat t,f tb,e dc;'Ielai a4Sjot ol the Irctwury ta S THE LAST DATS OF . '. AGE. . BY D. D. BAILEY. as indulgence from the creditors oi the government on the 4J per cent bonds ma. taring on September 1st, which had been granted, aud that, in lieu of those matu. ring, bonds would be issned bearing 2 per cent Interest. The first lot Of 4$ per cnt bonds to be continued at 2 per cent was checked off on the books of the Secretary of the Treasury at' -Washington last ' Mon day, aud the bonds have been referred to the register of the treasury. . The mod as operandi is thus described by tho Spring field Republican: When that office issues the new bonds they will be numbered consecutively from one upward, and the owner of lot No 1 will receive bonds whose numbers will begin with No 1, - The order in which the perfected cases are received by the secre tary determines in which the new bonds wilt be issued and as '.be law requires taut the bonds last issued shall be first redeemed, there is a distinct advantage in obtaining those bearing the lowest numbers. It is said at the department that this advantage, however, is bjidg thrown away by many of the holders through their carlessuess iu preparing and forwarding bonds and tho accompanying papers, llach owner who desires the contmuauce of his bonds should carefully follow the instructions printed on the blanks famished by the department. National bunks, particularly, fchould atlix the bank's seal to all documents aud for ward the treasurer's receipts representing the bonds. A few days' delay, tsauseJ -is, errors or omissions which must be correc ted, may make a difference of .tpany mon ths in the date of maturity of the iw bonds. About 25 per cent in number cf the national banks holding 41 per cent bonds have already sent in tneir papers. but for the reasons above stated less tbau 100 perlect cases have been passed. - - ' JUST CRITICISM. Norfolk Virginian. " One of the corses of tho South nioroliv and politically, if not socially is the n! . erabie deterence to Northern opinion aad ' Northern habits which make of a Lire, . class of her people' mere puppets. This -todyism and deference has been extremely - pernicious, too, in crushing Bouthera literary effort and in benumbing local pnde. There is great demand for emanei-; nation from this slavery of mind, and l!i2 battle in each behalf should begin at once, that mental, manufacturing and commer. cial freedom may be promptly and dcis- i i : . i . j. . l ; ,. iviy acuieveu wuuuui uivisioa ait iu Lime. A conspicuous delusion of the avarfcce Southerner has been the practice of gii preference to foreign over local journal- i i30u - The Bwic City Advance pointod out in a recent article the folly and stupidily of this course, and 'the injury inflicted cu home enterprise and local prosperity.- The points, made by . our contemporary vrtt timely as truthful, and The Virginian's readers cannot fail to acknowledge their value and correctness.. Thepf&jJa studied and reformation be began at puce The Advance says ; '. The New York paper, which costs so little and is so full of trial of aldermauic boodlers and biood-eardling crime, will, daring the twelve mouths that you take it, seldom If ever mention the name of a sin gle individual with whom you are acqaaiiit ed. It will never call attention to tho town or county ia which' you reside; its product;, its manufacturing facilities, its advantages for new comers, or its special adaptation to trade or commerce. The local paper does all thia and more too. It mentions every product in detail and challenges compar ison.. It Shows the families for manulao taring, and by its influence causes the erection of factories and : the employment of home labor, and from time to time it famishes these manufacturing enterprises m,u gratuitous Kuyerusiog ooiamed.no where else. THE SOUTH. . N. Y. Journalist. The South is a field for h&w men with new ideas, aud new energy. Some prVUy' lively boomers have already drifted in thr. direction, but there ia room for more. Thu man who goos Sioath and grows up with the conn try has a fur better Canute and ws great an opportunity as in the West. 11 has another advantage he is not coin" .t a new coantry. ,He will find men finauc. ally -solid; men of. ability and culim?: men who make warm friends and generom rivals. - He will find the climntn Hi;,Ttuf,ii living very cheap, and badness of all kituN on the boom. He will bo anions neoti n who, ii he is a gentleman, he wilT-fiud t be courteous, hospitable and aDDreciaiivt beyond anything he ever experienced iu the .North. With its natural advantage, it will one day, and that before lomz. be- come one of the richest and most proapt r ons Sections of the United States. Ti who go early and avoid the rush will be the firot to share in the prosperity. A MATRIMONIAL DISAP POINTMENT I Chb-ago Herald. . The Hon. Stephen A. Douglas addressed the banqueters as follows : 'Thia ceremony to-night makes me think of a story, a real eh-enmstance, that hap pened in North Carolina some years ago. A r.egro man and woman went to & Jn ic: of the Peaco to get married. Two or V-r-n weeks after the man came back and said : 'Marse Justice, you must unniarry u.-.." I can't unmarry you,' was the reply. 'You mast 1' 1 cauV Bat you must. I can't. Yoa have got to go b;, . court and get a divorce. Boss, jou got me into all thist tr .' ; and yon must get me cut of it,' 1 can t do It. Yon took that wc- - f better or worse.' 'I know that, but she is ad J .' worse than I took her for '" Tue Verdict (f ti son's Chill and To remedy fur .,.' TOnlavial ti'i ' S :t.i.. u y. is t! . !C U t' 1 If. 1