Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-02-15

which has been issued. The Editors deserve much
credit for the zealand ability which they eyince and
we trust this periodical may continue to Improve I'M
til it takes and holds rank among the best in the
country
We make the following extract from the Editorial
Table in relation to Gen. Tighman A. Howard,
once resident of North Carolina:
WESTERN DEMocRATIc REVIEW Pol 1, No. /,
January, 1854. Contents: The Administration of
franklin Pierce; Poetry, Woman, and the Anglo
Saxon; the Russo Turkish Question; Alexander
Smiths Life-C rama The War against the President;
The American Bar; Biographical sketch of Gen
Tilghman A. Howard The Trolls Daughter; Edit
ors Table; General Intelligence; Commercial and FL
nancial Review.
We are indebted to the kindness of a friend. for
the initial number of this and promising enter
prise in periodical literature 1t is published In
dianapolis, by George P. Buell. in monthly numbers
of 96 pages, each number embellished with por-
trait engraved on Steel at the very reasonable price
of So 90 per annum. With its politics have
nothing to do; of its literary merits may take
casion to speak more discriminatory hereafter We
have to regret that patronage will not justify our
attempt even to initiate it in this respect.
The most attractive article to u.s. is the biographi-
cal sketch of General Howard. He was born in the
neighborhood of Pickensvle, S. c., the border
of the chain of mountains which separates the two
Carolinas on the 18th November 1897. From some
unexplained cause, his father, who was respectable
clergyman of the Baptist denomination, committed
him in infancy to the care of halfbrother, Major
John McElroy, at present an aged and respectable
citizen of the county of Yancy. His father removed
to the west, and we believe never his again
until the latter had attained to mans estate, and
made him visit at his residence in Illinois. About
1901, Maj McEroy crossed the ridge and settled i'll
the county of Buncombe. Tilghman was then about
four years old, and thereafter indebted, under
Providence exclusively to fraternal kindness and
training for the germs of learning and piey, which
subsequently yielded such precious fruits. He
tinued with his brother member of his family,
and in common with his patron, who was farmer
in moderate circumstances, and owned no slaves,
dependent upon his daily labor for his daily bread
Apart from the instruction he received at the fire.
side his opportunities for improving his mind, were
occasional attendance during the winter months in
the old field schools which the county supported in
the infancy of its settlement. He learned to read
and write and CIPHER and at the age of twenty,
qualified to teach these clements of learning and
discharge the duties of clerk in country store.
His earliest engagement in the latter capacity, was
in the employment fthe late James Patton, of AShc-
Vile At the close of short term of service with
him, Smith & Sler of the same village entrusted him
with stock of goods, and committed to his care the
entire management of their establishment at Newport
Tennessee. He spent about three years in their SER
vice. discharged his duties to their entire satisfaction
and in the meantime attained such knowledge of
the common law justified his admission to the
bar He entered upon the practice OF his profession
the obscure village where lie resided, rose rapidly
in public estimation and at the time of his re-
moval to Indiana, in 1880, both as a lawyer and
politician, of the most prominent men in Ten
ncsSee.
His subsequent career in Indiana, at the bar as
member of Congress, in the well remembered /
canvass for Governor in 1910, and in the walks of
private life satisfactorily debated in the article
before In June, 1874 he was without solicita- |
ton appointed, by President Tyler, Charge dAffars
to the Republic of Texas He died while engaged |
in discharging the duties of this mission at Wash
ington, then the Texan seat of government on the |
9th of August in the same year, in the 4Ith year
of his age.
General Howard was a remarkable man, remark |
able for natural ability for the extent of attachments
made under circumstances of extraordinary difficult
ty and not less remarkable for the blamclessncss OF
his private life and the purity of his christian walk
and conversation. He deserves, and may receive |
hereafter, a extended notice, than our pre-oc-
cupied pages will admit at present. |
His removal to, and settlement in Buncombe, in
1901 has already been rcferredto. Gen. Joseph Lane,
of Oregon was born in the county, in the same
year. 1t is somewhat singular, that two individuals
born nearly together In point OF time and place,
should, about the same period, have attained such
eminent distinction in the State of Indiana"
The February number also contains an interesting
article devoted to the history of Printing in this
State which shall take occasion to transfer
TO our columns 1t is from the pen, doubtless
We take the article about Gen. Howard to be-of the
Hon. D. L. SWAIN President of the University, whose
und of information upon all points, and especially
With regard to the history of the State and its public
men, is full, valuable, and highly interesting
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS We publish to-day the
proceedings of Democratic meetings in Moore, Stokes
ind Yancy, and shall give in our next the proceed
ngs of the Rowan meeting The Democracy are
moving off finely and in the best spirit in the great
work of maintaining and perpetuating their noble
principles.
We hope Wake friends generally will bear in
mind that meeting will be held in the Town Hall,
Raleigh, Monday next for the purpose of appoint
ng delegates to the State Convention.
az" Mr.. Gales, of the Register, has procured
Montague and Boardman Power Press to print his
PAPER 1t throws off from five to eight hundred per
,our This is another evidence of improvement in
he press of the State. We wish Mr.. Gales all Pc
uniary success There three other Power Presses
n the State-one owned by Messrs. Fulton & Price,
by Mr.. Cooke, of this place, and
me by Messrs E. j. Hale & Son, of Fayetteville.
kY- The Tri-Weekly Star" appears to be quite
ure that the Wings will carry this State at the next
ecton" if they will but exert themselves to enhgh-
en- the people and keep them sceU informed upon
he issues between the two parties" The Star had
Is we'll move to appoint guardians for the people at
nee /; but this is Federalism-"to enlighten the
,eople and keep them sceU into'Hned."! That will
In for our twin