The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-10-10

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thanks was also rendered.
Mr.. Leary. was next introduced. His adj
dress was eloquent, advocating equality be-
fore the law. He was greatly applauded.
z After singing the meeting adjourned.
j. .. O'HARA,
Convention Reporter.
Correspondence of the Montgomery ADVERTISER
A Heart.rendering Recitai-Mother and
Two Daughters in Alabama Die from
Actual Starvation.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. Is.
Messrs. Editors Will you please publish
the following statement of facts, which the
people of Montgomery ought to know
About two or three weeks ago, IN house
near the fair grounds, woman was found
dead on the floor. She had fallen from the
led and must have died during the night.
Around her lay four little daughters, the old
est one about twelve years or age. Day.
break revealed to them their mothers dead
body lying on the floor. But this was not
all these ia.tle girls lying around her were
dying, yes, dying for the want of bread and
attention. In this fix they were found and
brought by some one, in little cart, to Bish-
op Copp's Home for Orphans. They were
brought there on Friday. When these little
girls came to the Home they were the pic
ture of misery and want, and not scarcely a
rag on to hide their nakedness emaciated
and sallow, they looked like living skeletons,
and they were crying for bread. The baby
about three years of age, died on Saturday.
The poor little thing was too near gone for
any human aid to do her any good She
bofrrroI for broob ,nfi1 che f1iad
Another one named Lizzie, about seven or
eight years of age, died on Wednesday,
She was pretty little girl, but reduced to
mere skeleton. She begged those around
her to give her some meat and bread to the
last. The other two are still at the Home
1t was thought at first that they would die
too, but the oldest one, bright, sweet little
girl, is improving. Her account of the suf-
ferings they underwent is enough to melt the
hardest heart to tears-how they cried for
bread and could not get it-that they had
been drawing rations, but when they all got
down sick they sent their ticket by negro
woman, but that the ticket was torn up and
the answer was mo more rations"-and how
their poor sick mother the evening before she
died, with tears streaming down her cheeks,
pressed them to her bosom-and much more
which this little girl told me in straight
forward manner, and which had truth stamp
ed upon what she said.
The other little girl, named Mary, about
nine years of age, is still very low, and it is
doubtful if she will ever get well, though she
has improved some since she has been at
the Home. She at first begged every one
that came near her to give her some meat
and bread, as she had been literally starving.
These are the plain facts as they are. They
need no establishment,
Thirty-two years ago, remarks the New
York Tribune, when Douglas left his Green
Mountain home for Illinois, his great rival,
Lincoln, was keeping post-office, fresh from
the glories of the Black Hawk war; Andrew
johnson was mayor of little mountain town
in Tennessee; Jefferson Davis. a lieutenant
of dragons, was chasing the Indians Sew
ard was grieving over his defeat as govern
or ; Breckenridge was studying the orations
of Cicero against Catalina at Kentucky
college Chase was endeavoring to gain a
law practice in Cincinnati Sumner was en-
tering Boston bar; Broderick was cutting
stone Grant was schoolboy in his teens
Farragut was watching the honor of his flag
on the torrid coast of Brazil.
LOST ARrs.-In regard to colors we
are far behind the ancients. None of
the colors in the Egyptian paintings OF
thousands of years ago are in the least
faded, except the green. The Tyrian
purple of the entombed city of Pompeii
is as fresh to-day as it was those thou
sand years ago. Some of the stucco,
painted ages before the Christian era,
broken up and mixed, reverted to its
original lustre. And yet we pity the
ignorance of the dark-skinned children
Of the ancient Egypt. The colors upon
the walls of Nero's festal vault are as
as if painted yesterday. So is the
cheek of the Egyptian prince who was
contemporaneous with Solomon, and
Cleopatra, at whose feet Caesar laid
the riches of his empire.
And in regard to metals. The edges
of the statues of the obelisks of Egypt
and of the ancient walls of Rome, are
as sharp as if but hewn yesterday
And the stones still remain so closely
fitted that their seams, laid with mortar
cannot be penetrated with the edge of 9
penknife. And their surface is exceed
dinghy hard, SO hard that when the
French artists engraved two lines upon
the obelisk brought from Egypt, they
destroyed, in the tedious task, many o.
the best tools which can be manufac
tured. And yet these ancient monu
ments are traced all over with inscrip
tons placed upon them in the olden time
This, with other facts of striking char
acter, prove that they were far more skill
ed in metals than We are. Quite recently
it is recorded that when an American
vessel was on the shores of Africa sor
of that benighted region made from al
iron hoop knife superior to any OF
board of the vessel, and another made
piece of iron.
Fiction is very old; Scott had hi
counterpart two thousand years ago
A story is told of a warrior who hat
no time to wait for the proper forging
of his weapon, but seized it red hot
rushed forward, but found to his surpris
that the cool air had tempered his irol
into an excellent steel weapon. Tn
tempering of steel, therefore, which wa
new to us centuryssince, was old tw'
thousand years ago.
Ventilation is deemed very moderl
art. But this is not the fact, for aper
lures, unquestionably made for tn
purpose of ventilation, are found in tn
pyramid tombs Of Egypt. Yet thou