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Published by Roanoke Publishing Co, kiF0R COD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH:1 "W. FLETC'flEn AUSROX,KniTon. t-V V. V", ALSUCN, EudiNtts AIajiageb. VOL. III. PLYMOUTH, N.C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891.-- KO. 25. CZAR AND GRAND DUKES. THE AUTOCRAT QF RUSSIA AND HIS TWO BRbTHERS. A Patriotic Tyrant The Crenel Dnk Vladimir and the Enchelor Duke AlcxU Meik Whose Name Moy Shine In Bloody Aniinli The Czarnt Home. "The eyes of.all the world ar8 turned on Russia. ... The strange, strong, silent man who is absolute dictator over 100,000,000 . Of people now holds the destinies of Eu rope for war or peace in his grasp. Not a move will be made on the chessboard of European politics that is' uot dictated by fear of the tremendous power of the Russian empire. Europe stands trem - bling on the verge of war, and the one ihlncv n-tavA.nfa rsit t Vivai !r sP Vine- tilities is doubt as to the ulterior pur poses of the Czar of Russia. V Alexander III : is intensely patriotic, lie regrets to find the influence of the west still so potent on many points in a country which, with its civilization and progress, could well stand alone. He does not aee why cultivated Russians thould not speak their own language habitually, and insist on its being substi tuted for French at court. ; He takes a lively interest in his navy, and travels in his dominions aa much and as freely as the knife and the dynamite of the Nihilists will allow him. With the imperial family he starts for Den mark on his new yacht, the Polar Star, constructed by Russian builders with Russian materials. It is a magnificently appointed vessel, measuring 848 feet by 46, and its average epsed is IS knots an hour. - It is lighted by electricity; the dining saloon can seat 80 guests; a long passage carpeted in red leads to the chapel, in which is a superb icouostaae, or lanctuary for the holy images, without which no good orthodox Christian ever thinks his habitation complete. The czar is a devout but not a bigoted man, . and those who have had the privilege of leeing him when he can relax the tension ' Df his official life in R issia wii,h the hor rible dread of occult dangers incessantly threatening him and those dear to him, can assert hciiestly that there' is. no kinder or more amiable man than Alex ander III. The .Grand Dukes Via limir and .Alexia are both brothers of the emperor, Vlad- r imir is the eldw of the t vo. . If not qviii so tall as his br there, h is yet a well ijrown man and lies a fla figure, the gen? tie expression tf iuuti:iiand eyo com mon to;' strong--characters, and bodily force, which are -essentially Ilia clisliue- Jive features of ;( the splendidly, f rained race : of the "Romanoffs. With Princo " Vladimir groat energy is" tempered by squally great refinement. IIj is the most cultured and artistic of the whole family. : A soldier who has proved what fond of literature, loves music, has a taste tor collecting curios, antiquities, and works of arts, miniatures and ivor ies, old fans and engravings, and pursues his researches himself with the gusto of a connoisseur in the dingiest bricabrac shops of all the cities he visits. He is presi dent of the Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg stakes an active interest in the intellectual movement of the capital ; deserving literary men and artists rind in him an intelligent patron and a generous protector, all the more so that there is something in the grand duke's nature secretly akin to theirs. He has the gift of assimilating himself readily to almost every situation in which he may happen to find himself, while remaining ever a perfect grand seigneur. The second brother lof the czar, Alexis, is one of the handsomest men in Russia. He has .been compared to the Emrwri r Nicholas, of whom it was said that he realized the ideal of a demi-god ; and some find a likeness in him to Jean do Reske, the ; fashionable Hungarian, tenor, v He is great admiral of the Rus sian f ft." He is unmarried, and will in all liW-tihood always remain so. This is the more strange that hi, manner and disposition do not seem to imply eternal celibacy ; but probably his resolution tq renrain single dates from an early lovo episode that left an indelible, impression. jThe empress, his mother, had two beau- iful maids of hi nor; one. Mile, do flaucke, was much admired by the Prince " of Hesse, brother of the empress ami aide da? camp to the czar, who, disregarding the' strong displeasure of all his relatives, married the young girl morgaualically. Before the excitement caused by his con duct had subsided the emperor -was in formed that his son Alexis had fallen madly in1ove with the" other maid of honor. Stroojs measures were rt sorted ; to. The youngSdy was seut away from court and her lover was ordered off on a vessel around . tho world. There was aothingleffc for the sailor but to obey orders, and his roniauca was thus cut ihortl It was then that he determined never to marry, and he has kept his word.- Yet the Grand Duke Alexia is neither a hermit nor misanthrope. ZIo seems to unjoy life. He.is fond of the society of ladies and of bona vivarits. . Tho grand dukes are on excellent terms with the emporer. Alexander is, in tho finest acceptation of tho term, a fanuly man; whenever he can enjoy homo life, us he does only at Fcrdeusborg, in Den mark, ho U perfectly happy. No ono knows, probably no one etiu guos, what ne thiuks, what hi intends to do, what lie will do. The most perspicacious of , Icreii-n UWo'isaU ?t hto court r;n only nonjecture vaguely ; he has no certainty. The czar is reticent,", silent, self con tained ; he shows no preference for any one ; loves to be with the empress better than with all others; he is seriously affected by any illness or misfortune happening to his children ; he discount enances extravagance in his courtiers; will not hear of immorality at his court; prizes respectability, expects all those who surround him to conform to his j standard, and is intolerant ,of scandal. Under ms reign the Kussian court has as jloan a record as any in Europe. India ink is made from fine lampblack compacted ancLfcmented with glue. The ' finest black is derived from pork fat, Tho j slue is made from buffalo hide. DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND. v FRESH CHAPTER THAT CAPS THE CLIMAX OF WONDERS. "he DentU Valley Explored Glaring tVliit.ee and Dead Klr.clts A C'hnsm 110 Mile Iionjj A Laud as Hot a Tophct. Lik3 a cap for tho Sea of Salt climax monies , the following world's wondei hapter from the San Francisco Chron de: "Dr. C. Hart Merriam, chief of the Tniled States Biological Survey, has just irrived frcm Death Valley. Last night ta told the story of his adventures. Said ie : ' "Death Valley and its towering black walls ; of barren rock - are " weird and alrangely sublime in their desolation, ifor miles and miles the curious mount ains may b3 seen outlined against tho c l:ar vky From the top of Telescope Peak one may look down a dizzy black precipice 12.000 feet to the level of tho vr.lley as dazzling white as snow. . " Stretching from tne mountain's foot are the glistening fields of salt. Here and there are running streams of salt and mineral waters. To 0 ink of them is to die. Tho scene is one of violent con trasts, of glaring whites and dead bheks. "Tho valley is the most barren and the lowest of a series in eastern California" and south western Nevada. At a rough Rstimato it is about 150 feet below the level of the sea. It ru i generally north and south, although its - worst region turns to the northwest. This portion has been named Mesquito Valley. It is a region far worse than Death Valley proper. The valley may be compared to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. It is rather an immense chasm than a valley. It is about 140 miles long, and at its broadest part is only 18 miles wide. In some parts it is no more than 15 miles in width. ' "0;i either side of the valtey, stretch ing a most its en tiro length,, is a range of mountains absolutely barren of animal and vege'.-iMe life. The western range is she Panamint, averaging in ht'ight about 3,000 feet. The eastern range is the Fu neral, a suggestive and not unfit name. Tho Funeral Mountains rise fully 7,000 feetabo.e the level of the sea. These mountains are black, with the exception of curious patches of red rock. Away to v.he north is Mount Magruder. Beyond i t tho distance rise the heights of tho Sierras. Almost at the southern limit . of the valley is Mount Ivanwatch. Be hind it ia the 'Devil's Playground,' a region of absolute barrenness. - "Down the valley a hot, suffocating wind blows with terrific velocity. In its course through the stricken region it gathers a black cloud of hot, shifting Band that has blinded many an unwary horse and rider. Under the glistening beds of crystalized salt in places are lim ning Btreams of salt water. Beneath there is still another bed of salt "In other parts of the valley are wastes of hot sand drawn in, some plapes into high mounds by the whirling blasts that sweep down the canyon. There, too, is the most curious earth I have ever seen self rising earth it has been called." As far as the eye can see it appears in curv ing outline, up and down, as if puffed by a natural yeast. Tho unfortunate auimal that steps upon the little hill will crash through, for they are not much more than fragile crusts. "Still stranger is that section of the valley which, for want of a better name, is called salt earth. Innumerable pin nacles tapering to points - as fine aa needles, and over a foot long, rise in close array from the ground. They are athard as stone and as dangerous aa shai)ened steel. Bsneath and hidden bythem are pitfalls, a tumble into which means a broken leg or arm. . There, toor are tha rich fields of borax, which have lured many a man to death. "Dreadful as is Death Valley, its northwestern arm, Mesquite Vallej, is ' worse. All of the water on its surface is poison. Tho wind has thrown the sand into immense mounds, one of which is three miles long and 300 feet high. It was in this valley that the immigrants lost their lives. "Professor Merriam's party is working for the Department of Agriculture, which proposes to mark off into Eones all the great Western country. Tho idea is to inform settlers as to what will grow in each zone, and as to what will not grow. " 'We have found,' said Professor M. f 'that in --rtain zones certain flora and fauna flourish. ' Each uono luw ita pecul iar species which will not flourish iu others. These zones are both horizontal and vertical. The pmtv clioso ilu dv.n- late region ot ueatti. vauey ior its moors, for from it and not far. distant can bo craced the seven zones we have estab lished. "'Death Valley, he continued, ' 'not withstanding its barren elements, has many phases of life. . It has 30 or . 40 species of animals and fully as many of vegetable growth. " "'Many. theories Jiave been advanced to account for tho formation of Death Valley. I think it quite pwhable that it was orce the siuk of the Hojuvo River.'" Jftft Took a Champagne Itatli, Very i'requintl a champagne haf hbns been referred to in illustrating some freak of profligacy. Less than a half a dozen years ago a Louisville man took a genu ine champagne bath in Rufer's Hotel. His name was and is, for he is living Crow, and he was a sporty man. A relative died near Lexington and left him a big lump of property. Ha bought snough champagne to fill a bath tub at Rufer's, and plunged into it. On the side he had champagne to drink and a dozen companions to drink it. ' Two yoars later be was o i his uppers and hadn a nickel. Louisville Commercial. A TEIUUBLE INFANT. I recollect a nureo call'd Ann. Wlio'carriod me about the grass: And one fine day a flno younn man "Came up, and kissed tho pretty Iusk; She did not make the least objection) Thiuks I, "Alrnl When I can talk I'll tell mamma , " Jind that's my earliest recollection. Frtdiirlck Locker. . Fresn Witter Commerce. Probably there are few people whoso attention has not been specially directed to the subject who are aware of the mag nitude of the commerce upon the great lakes. It has been asserted that more tons of , freight pass through the Detroit River in a year than the total imports and exports . of the United States' fd"r the same period. The commerce of the great lakes is car ried upon more than 2,000 vessels, of which more than lialf are propelled by steam. i About COO schooners, some of them ' great four masted craft, ply on the lakes during the five or six months when tho straits and ports are not closed by ice. . Many more are small schooners,1; and 'of these a large number, on the upper lakes, are owned and manned by hardy Norwe Vgian sailors, who have emigrated to this country, "? i - Steam is gradually displacing the wind as the motive power of the lake traffic,, and 6teel is displacing wood asaniate i rial. The steam vessel, too, are con stantly increasing in size. In 1S83 thera were but six steel vessels on tha great , lakes ; in 1890 there were 6s. At the same time that these changes in the size and material of vessels are tak- ! ing place, a change is going on in their ownership. There' is a "smaller propor tion of vessels owned by individuals or small partnerships. Tha traffic of the lakes is rapidly coming under the con trol of corporations possessing large cap ital. The two great Items of freight in the vast traffic of the frida-t lakes are ore and grain. ""Many millions of tons of ore are yearly brought though the Sault Sta. Maria Canal down the lakes. Seventy million' bushels of wheat and 4,000,003 bushels of flour go. aunuaKy by water to Buffalo. The corn tonnage is still larger. Yet the great lakes ar closed to navi gation during at least six niontlis of the year, and winters have been known when lakes Superior and Michigan wera frozen from shore to shore. i a tale: from. tub table. The Story of a Wrecked Life aad Its Trr.gle Ending?- "Some years ago," said the gambler aa he lay back talking to a Philadelphia Press man, "I was in California and while there I frequented a very fashion able placo. There came to that placo every night a young man. ' Wje all iiked him, because he Beemed rather innocent, and many of us gave him the advice to 6tay away, but he only smiled aud said he would some day. - "One night he came, looking rathoi pale, for lately he had lost very heavily. He sat down and commenced to play in an excited manner; but game after ga mo he lost. He took out hi3 pocketbook and placed all the contents oa tho table and lost. Then I saw him turn pale and take a package from his pocket and stako that it belonged to his firm aud he lost it. " "After that he passed In his watch" and received the cash, staked that and lost. Two of his rings followed and were lost. We all felt sorry for him and heartily wished he would win. At last all he had left was a thin gold ring, not worth much. He looked at tt, and the expression that camo over Ids face is one that I shall never forget. - "He passed in the ring, and although it was worth about $1 tho casino ad vaned $50. He played, and the loys put up all his money, the firm's money, hia watch, aud rings against his $10, and ho won. Then, when success camp, he laid his head on his arm. We waited five minutes for him to get up, but, he did not, aud then we lif tod his head up r.n J eaw that he was dead, "We fouud out afterward that tho rinr; which changed his luck wps hU dead mother's ring. I often tried to Uii:J: what agonies he must h:ive sufrVrvd ; what recollections must hivo ... pnnaid b: MEN AND .WOMEN. Miss Asenath Philpott, of- Gainesville, Tex., has hair 10 feet 7 . inches, long. This growth is since 18S4, when her head was shaved after brain fever. . A. J. Drexcl heads the list of Phila delphia rich men w ich $25,000,000. The city has 1G0 milli naires, whose' total holdings foot up over $103,000,000. The Eiu press Carlotta has recovered her reason, but her whole life since' the timew23 years ago, when her husband was shot has been a blank, of which no memory lingers. '. - President Diaz, cf Mezico, has a strain of Indian blood in his veins, as Bad hia predecessors, Juarez and' Hidalgo. The Congress of Mexico is largely composed of descendants of the ancient Aztecs. - Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's energy of mind can not be better illustrated than, by the fact that she began the study of Greek when she was nearly 70 years old. Now, at 72, she has' just read the plays of Sophocles in the origiujd. Sir William Whitney, the Newfound land premier, whose defiance of British control has made hhn famous, has long had a reputation for able statesmanship. He is a man of middle life, stout and well preserved, with expansive tride whiskers and a military mustache. Prince Albert Victor, who is now nearly 30, is said to give no indication of succeeding liis'sportive father, the. Prince of Wales, as the leader of fashion and frivolity in England. He has an awk ward physique, an aversion to society, and Ts a lamentable failure as a speech maker. - Charles W. Van Vleet, of Rochester, is the owner of the medal presented by Andrew Jackson- to the warrior Black JIawk. It is of solid silver, and bears tho legended Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, A. D. 1820." On the reverse side are the words "Peace and Friendship. " Ex-Senator George W. Jones, now liv ing in retirement at an advanced age in Dubuque, Iowa, had the distinction of giving the States of Iowa and Wisconsin their names. He is a neat, precise, and couiteous old gentleman, and though now B6 years old shows no sign of mental r physical decay. The young Chinese emperor has just picked out the second of the seven wives Celestial law allows him. The fact that she has tho smallest foot in Pekin, whero the cruel custom of pedal dwarfing is Bupposod to have reached its highest per fection, is mentioned as one of her quali fications for the position she is to fill. Mr. Spurgeon was onco asked to lash the then prevailing folly the invisi ble bonnet. This he did in the following words : "I have been requested to rebuke the bonnets of the day,," All faces wero immediately upturned, and scanning the ladies of the congregation he added; "Really, I see none!" a more bitter re buke than any other words could have waveved.- HOLMES OS LOWELL'S DEATH, Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem on tha death of James Russoll Lowell, in the Atlantic for October, contains the fol lowing lines: This singer whom we long have held so dear Was Nature's darling, shapely, fetroxig, and fair; . " Of keenest wit, of judgment crystal clear. Easy of converse, courteous, debonair. Fit for the loftiest or the lowliest lot. Self rolsed. imperial, yet of simplest ways; At home alike in castle or in cot. True to hia aim, let others blame or praise. Freedom he found anheiroom from his sires; Song, letters, statecraft, shared hia years in turn; All went to feed the Xai ion's altar flres Whose mourning children wreathe his fun eral urn. LTe loved New England people. lanjnage. soil Unweancd by exile from Iwr arid breast. Farewell awhile, whtte-haDded son of toil. Go with her brown-armed laborers to thy . rest. " . Peace to thy slumber la the forest ebade! Poet and patriot, every tclft was thine; Thy name shall live while Summers bloom and fade. And grateful memory guard thy leafy ebriue. SAFETY IN EXPLOSIVES. Terrific Energy lit Forma That Can Ee Handled Without D.inger. '." Nitroglycerine has served as the basis of most of the modern explosives of high power, but the transition from the un stable liquid that exploded on the slight est provocation to tho present solid com pounds, that can b subjected to thu roughest usage without fear of explosion, has been no less remarkable than advan tageous. ' For example, here is a, new English explosive called ammonite, which has recently boon subjected to Borne surprising tests. Tested in a mortar a charge of 70. 5 grains eant a 29 pound projectile a din suice of 320 feet, aa compared with 3 feet for dynamite and 133 feet for gun powder. A weight of 59 pouuds dropped from a height of five feet upon a cart ridge of ammonite foiled to cause an ex plosiou, and the same result followed tha ignition of a canister of gunpowder iu the midst of n lot of ammonite cartridges. When a cartridge of the new explosivo was thrown in a blazing fire it merely burned slowly with a black smoke. Appare ntly the only means -by which ammonite could be exploded was the usa of small detonators o!: fulmiualu ot mor- DIVERSIFICATION OP CROPS. TUE nOPa OF NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS. North Carolina. - - The farmers of North Carolina should at Once turn their attention to the diverHifioa tiob of farm prod acts. The continual prac tice of onb citop farming is leading . our agriculttval oonimnuities every year nearer the merciless hammer of the auctioneer. Its a rare occurence that all crops fail or fall short the same year. Ihe farmer who con formes his lands aDd labor to the cultivation of one staple, no matter how systematic and economical hU farm government, must eventually awaken to find Lis laud depleted and his farm, lessened iu value as a oouse. quence. , , In North Carolina to day there are bnt two staples grown for export. Cotton aud Tobacco. ;. These constitute Iho soorce of revenue for the agricnlturar communities of the State. With cotton and tobacco the State must pay for the vabt anioaut of food aud clolhhig imported luto her midst. To bacco i3 a sourco of greater income to the State from tho fict that a large portion'of the crop raintd here, and much imported here in crude form U manufactured within her borders, thus giving her people the increased dividen uccruur'ng from this man, lpuliuion. Tho uianaincture of. cotton is on the increase but not proportionately with tobacco. The cultivators of these staples not only fail to produoe the food stuffs for those engaged in the mauipulation but in very many instances their own farmx are importers of such articles, instead of ex.. porters. How many towus or cities in Norih CaroliDa are supported off the direct proceeds of the agricultural d'suicta bur. rouadiag them ? There la not one towu in the Stale of oae thousand inhabitants but what buyes the greater portion of its bread and that is the manufacture of grain rais ed outside its borders North Carolina cured meat is almost an uuVnorn article ou the town markets. What niUrit bu th revenno of the State to other couimnniiies for this one article?. There is uo leason why we should buy one pound of m at or one Back of flour, and yet even the farm hand in many sections of the State knows -the taste of none other than western pork from new year to new year. Why is this the case? van't our firmers produoe food? Yes, as readily and as cheaply as any, it is the oat. come of habit au accepted custom cotton or tobacco. The result has been -vora out farms, heavily mortgaged homes aud badly fed families. ; Let tho farmers change aud at leant cultivate a sufficient portion ofhis farm iu grain to feed his family and stock and raise his meat- The cotiou or tobacco would then ba a surplus and when ia cade of a failure iu that crop he would uot be forced to increase his mortgage to feed his lauiiiv. The tsnrplna from fai.- crops thus diversifiel would soon eu:ible the farmer to pay Lff all encumbrances, and pro ide bet ter accomodations and luxuiii s for his home Let the change come, and from tho old one crop sybteiu I t it be am radical aud as full of diversity as practicable. The out. look forthe grain market for tho next, two seasons is brighter than iu many yetus The demand is i qimlly eveu to the iucreascd supply at much dearer value thau bireio fore. No farmer iu North Caroliu can afford to raise cotton or tobacco solc'y ' au.i rely on that crop to buy hi i bre ad aijd meat The demand for fot)d h is out grown iu comparison the demand toe cotton and to bacco .The civilized communities of the world to-day le-ok to America to ouppiy the shortage iu food that may occur iu auy dlstiict' Few othr countries can furniub. much beyoud thir owu consumption and thus the American rami pay what the European w willing to give it American products. . Let every fatmer iu the Htate ai akcu to the Ltcesity of food production. Iu this lies the mort practical solution of tho per. plexing problem THE SOUTHETIN PEOPLE- PUISB KSQL1S1I Oil SCOTCH IltlfcH bTwCK - N. Y. Ledger. Th:re arw two cogei.t reasons why all Americans should vk-w with sympathy tho Btriitiug outcome of the utlorU of tha South at eelf-regeneration. Ooe is the ethnologi cal charaCter't'f tha wlito --iahabitaul."o th Southern States. Tue olhtr is the uu paraUeti d difficulty of the social problem imposadou the ernancip.ttiou ef th blndi. NowLere else wtthiu tho bouiid. uf thu Union are tuti whi c pep e e hoj..gHiions end so dihtinctiv! j Amtiriota as thty ave in tha States which were fuiiuo.lj' LiUvc uxd. TbU lioruogene.-i'y and iutense American ism w.is tihtired by Now EngUud rlfly years agobut miico tho swerjing migration cf New Eiightu Jiirs to the West aud tho ucou. nation of tho yucattd . places by jf'rouch Canadians there hta hirgs and growing ad. mixturs of alien nd una&fiiMliattd elements iu tha New F.aglaud population.. Suutti of lLo rototnac, on tie t'tber baud, the o'.hno- Uiijl-jid c ti.d'.Li j: s n u.als subfeUuti-tlly what lh y were at tha bi.-ginDiig of the century. If we except a faw descendants of French Protestants ia South Carolina and cf Catho lics in Louisiana, all of the white people ot els are off shoots of that S( clch-Iriah stock to which we owe Patrick Ileury, John C. Calhoun, A ndrew Jackson &nd, let ua dd, . Henry V. Grady. It shoulel be remember ed the English aLd Scotch-Irish emigrants, from whom the Southern whites are descou ded, reached this country almost to a man before the revolutionary war, a vtry small flood of emigration having fcince that period been directed. south of Alatou and Dixon's uc, j uo ic.-.uii in iuui 11 wu wuuu nee iuu so. called native American, tha typical , msrican, the man who beat repiesents the conjoint effect of English or Scotch-Irish hcredit.ry aptitadds of trans-Atlantic envi rou meat,-va aro now curtaiu to find him ; in the South, Whatever triumphs, "there. Cre, ia the evolution cf natural resources or iu the social problems, are achieved by anA !mnnr?aiirA fnr trArminA A mpr.fi na fill s c . . -. ----. .i.:.. t, A . - , - It 13 too . often overlooked that, in the black mau problem with which the South, ' ern whites have to de there are elements of difSotuiy uuparalleliid in hibtory.'" When " the slaves were Bet free iu Jamaica aud the smaller posstsbions of Great Brittaia in the . West Indies, the sum of $100,000,000 was voted by Parliament to CJtnpensate the planters for the loss if their capital, which in reliance on cxisling laws, had been iu- veiled In negro labor. If the holding of -human beings in servitude was a sen, it was argued, that it was a eiu in which the Brit. ieh government hid been for centuries an accouiDlice. aud it was deemed unjust to make a single generation of Blave owuers " nav th whn'.H ripnn.lt v fm the accumulated wrongs of ages, " " Again. wh?n many millions of Russian serf were libe-rated by Alezandfr II., they we-re not cast adrift upon the world to prey ; upuu iy, uui were piunueu uu iuuuo - whicu were purchasca leom inesr loruier mabteia with funds advanced by the State. liy this equitable arrangement the flr-mntu ters were Khielded from impovishmoat aud tho ex-s'.avts from destitution. A tremend ous social revolution was thus accomplished with bturctriy any frictioo. I' No such attempts to lighten the hardship of a social cataclysm wero mado iiwttff United States. Neither were the masters " partial y iudemn'.tiei as they were in Ja. innicH riiir wrM tint u!hva.4 Kiinnnfel with i -x-'i-1 - the means of earning a livelihood. At onv stroke the mas era were tlepriViVl of the labor with which a.'u.ie they could turn. lUeir lamia to account, wuue tue staves re. -. ceived oiily tie liberty to btarve.' " We do L-ot Jies.tate to say that if the emancipation problem bad been presented . ou these terms :u Kiisbia. its solution would- 1 . T . .... '.... nave ueen nipoKu;e. rsootaer raco out the Anglo Saxou, as it has been tempered v aud tonghened ou this side of the Atlantic,. could deal with a problem of such etupeud ous difficulty. That tho southern' whites . . hare grappled with it Soberly, yet fearlessly with the full appreciation of its magnitude. yet with an uusv t-rviug resolv to solva itt ' is a fact that reflects singular credit ou tha American character, aud of which all of U3 may woJ be proud, ' THE PRESIDENT PAID THUS. Tho Sali bury Watchman, has found out "... that the Pictidtut is paid thus: . ," . The Pritilcn;'s km -try i paid to him ia moulblv icstiiihnents of $l,U!G 67, The . warrant is brought to tho While House by a special mct.sciigor from the Treasury Del . parUutiut, aud after tho president has en - dorscd it, as he would an ordinary draft, his private secretary deposits it at the Columbia 13auk. W hen the president is out of town theeiraft is mailed to him." . HORTICULTURE. Wilmington Star, Within the past quarter of a century horticulture, a an cstub.ished industry has atitiuiued large propci lions iu this country. ACuonlh'.g to a Cct'sati bulletin just issaed iu-Yt are fllo niiiPe-rics devoted to raising tre e aud shrubbery. They aro valuedat -141,978 830, aud contain an aggregate ef 172.S0G acres of laud with au invested enpi. lal of 423,00'.). Thpy employ 4j,65r men, 2,'.'7'J women, 14.200 animals and f:)'.)0,(i0i; worth of ituplimeuts. There are iu the southern States 672, Florid.i leading with 137, TexLS follow ing with 97, Arkansas with C8, Te-ULicc ai.d Virginia with 54 each, tha othi r Soutbe.u nlates with saiolicr numbers, North Carolina being credited with !2, containing !)Uv) ucren, valued at $111,200. North Ciiio.ina oughMo inalif , better showing than ibK as uhe was tha pioueer hurntry Kta'o of the Mouth 'jheu lue industry was csiSuli.ihcJ in Guilrd count y, ove r haif a Century ago by Joshua Liiuhry, ol h'nioica memory. The pdJU.ls ( f llnstoii Lave a union. s Th'? Uui ed Staica Nay has a p.tpcr boat. '1 ho d.l-cK'J do let permit tiicir women tO I'O I It .t'l:.:i-.ipi!i!..l.