Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1868-10-15

TIN PURITY OF HoRATIo SEYMoUR's PRI-
vATE L1EE.-A lady furnishes The Repub-
lican (Mrs. Cady Stanton) the following
in relation TO tie private worth and char
ac.er OF Horatio Seymour:
III private conversation Governor Sey-
nour is instructive and inieresting, aud
is. if possible, more remarkable for his
elegance of manner and graceful courtesy
in tire drawing room than for his match
less eloQuence aud magnetic power as
pnblc speaker. Although thus most cap
tivating in private life, he is in no sense
mar of forms or fashion. In his presence
the painest persons are placed at their
ease, and feel at once thar they are with
a kiad and good man. Democratic IN all
his instincts, principles, and purposes;
| simple and nnostentatious; strictly tenn
! perate-he uses neither strong nor spiritu-
ons liqnors, nor tobacco of the most re-
! fined tastes and elevated morals. 1t is
| said of him by those who have known
him from his early youth that lie was new
er under the influence of strong drink
| never known TO tell an untruth or utter
protane oath---to indulge in vulg sto-
ry, coarse anecdote, OF an obscene Jest;
nnr did he ever violate the proprietias Of
/ the Sabbath, sit at the gamblers table,
| or cros7 the threshold of more fashionable
vice Purity of life is with him marked
! characteristic Educated in the Episcopal
! Church. he has ever remained faithful to
| It's communion. adorning its doctrines by
! a hiame!ess life and multiplied deeds OF
charity vet free from eectariansm. he
has Contributed literally TO the erection
! and maintenance OF every other church
and place of public worship in the city
| of Utica aud its vicinity. An active tr,s-
] Z IL ~ #
! institution he has been made by it LII.
! D., as we'll as by Methodist University
| in another State The children of the or
phan ASYLUM in Utica have been guests
| at his house. (Which is house of prayer.1
and it was noticeable that when the news
| of his nomination for the Presidency
reached Utica, these children spontaneous
| " turned out in procession, and manifes-
| ted their Joy in many pleasant ways pecu-
liar tn the irnocence Of .childh"nd
AN OUTRAGE on WHITE MEN.-Over
thousand Negro Troops arc kept in, or
near, Goldsboro, n. C.-notwithstanding
! the Radicals have complete control of
that State through the negro, in Govern
or" Holden. their overseer, and master
and owner. Even the white officers over
these soldiers own mp they can do nothing
with them, when white men appeal TO
them Tor redress for negro soldier ontrages.
The wh:te people OF Colorado, Montana,
New Mexico, Nebra ,ka, aud Dacotah, are
suffering frightfnlly from Indiana OUT
RACES We read TO, day of terrible siege
OF SO white soldiers by about 100 Indians,
and other Indian outrages Why keep
these negro soldiers in the now cf0a2Lv
org anized State Of North Carolina p
Why not send them ont on the Western
Psairies to fight Indians?-H. r Eapress.
THE WAY THE TAXES Co." The sta
tionery OF the Senate for the year 1850
cost $3.50, though every State was rep
resented the stationery for tall House
that year was $50, 637 But for the last
year the amount actually appropriated
was $25 900 for the one body, and S27.-
600 for the other, and deficiency bill of
! $4,000 for the Senate, and SIS, 900 for
the House has since passed, making the
aggregate $4,000. or three times as
much as it was eight years ago Shall
the peop'e renew the lease OF power of
rner who thus squander the public mon
! cy on their own persons2 For remember
the question is not so much, who shall be
the Chief Magistrate, as who shall control
the legislation Of the country for the next
/ Presidential term"
/ One Of The Radical candidates for the