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Year: 1869

THE MODERN STYLE OF PUNISHMENT. -
Even the gallows, around which the ribald
crowd roars and surges, has become to GER
tain class of individuals simplya stage on which
is to be enacted a euthanaSy of sublime and
glorious character. Not content with attend
ing the dying outlaw in his hour of final agony
and confirming, as far as man may, the hope
which the penitent may have learned to cher
ish, there are too many clergymen who are not
satisfied unless every doomed sinner leaves the
world radiant and jubilant in tho assurance
that his end is rather that of martyr than OF
malefactor. His brain, as in the case Cars
well who was hanged day or two ago, is
wrought into such divine ecstacy that he
thinks he hears the songs of Heaven and sees
the angelic throng waiting to watt him to the
realms above, and when the sight OF the scaffold
disturbs this happy vision his tremor is dulled
by the administration of chlorOform, in order
that he may pass from earth without fear or
dOubtl-Bal. Gazette.
Year: 1869

CASUALTY NoTIcEs-In newspaper reports
OF deaths we often read that such man was
unfortunately drowned; such house was burnt
and, sad to relate, the inmates perished In the
flames. These and similar expressions are as
natural, perhaps, as pity or sigh, but we
hardly use them verbally in speaking OF such
casualties, aud they seem superhuous In type
| read in French paper the other day that a
distinguished man had "serious" attack OF
apoplexy, which he never came out OF. The
following is almost ludicrouS: Capt OF
the schooner, was drowned on such a day,
on his passage through the sound. He was in
the act of putting on his roundabout in that
very inconvenient, very awkward, and in this
in2tance, fatal way, OF thrustiug his arms into
it and throwing it over his head, when the yes
sci lurched and he fell overheard. He could
swim, but his arms were pinioned in his
sleeves"
Year: 1869

THE ADVANTAGE OF ADvERTIsING.-"T "The
New York Tribune" has the following upon
the value OF advertising, and every practical
business man will confirm what it says OF the
present state of business. Prudence and econ
omy, of course, are the two great lessons to be
learned but there is one part of these lessons,
which, in dull times, especially not to be for
gotten. BE sure Of one thing: whatever you
have to sell, there are many people ready to
buy, even in the most depressed seasons Find
them OUT show them your wares persuade
them to buy of you rather than another
When buyers are reluctant, sellers must be
active. 1t is neither cheap nor sensible to sit
behind your counter, and wait for the hustle
of trade to revive. When business is dull,
that is the very time when you most need to
advertise and In the second, that is when
people devote most time to reading the news
papers, and when your advertisement, coDse-
quently, is generally most seen. A few dol
lars thus invested will do more to revive a
sluggish business than anything else in the
world.
Year: 1869

reflect that a sound mind and body arc the rsosL
necessary requisites TO promote connubial hap
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage; the
prospC ct hourly darkens to the view, the mimi
becomes shedowed with despair and filled VIII
the melancholy reflection that the happiness O.
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1869

Ten THOUSAND SoHooL CHILDREN sang in
the chorus on the last day of the Great Peace
Jubilee at Boston, and achieved marked
and brilliant success. What would be likely
to be the result at a similar attempt with
difficult music by proportionale number oil
our Wilmington children? We doubt if any
leader would he bold enough to make the
attempt? Yet, that there is no rea.
son why our children should moi
be as proficient in music as any
Others, the result of the careful M isica
training in few of our Sunday schools
sufficiently demonstrates. The reason OF
the more general proficiency on the part Of
the Boston children is that vocal music is
taught by skilled and competent teachers in
the public schools,as it is in nearly all other
large cities in our country. Besides the
great advantage to the children Of thus gain
ing instruction in music, this system when
ever il has been tried has been attended with
other good results. The children take an
enthusiastic interests in this branch of in
slruction and it relieves the monotony OF the
school room and infuses life and spirit in
10 the children which makes itself felt in
their other studies.
Year: 1869

THE CUBANs AND SpANIARDs are fighting
with new kind of tactics. The former
send word to the world that the yellow fever
is making terrible havoc with the Spanish
troops; whereupon the latter telegraph from
Havana that the Cuban filibusters are being
swept away in regiments, by the cholera
BY the united efforts of the Spaniards and
the cholera, not less than several million
fiiibusters have already been put out of the
way. So sanguinary war is not upon the
pages Of history.
Year: 1869

MR.SAMuEL TOWNSEND prays-though not
SO reverently as we should like to see-for
Divine help, II ever we have such another
Legislature as the last. We don't think we
ever will certainly not for while.
Year: 1869

iouity of such a proposal out of the question,
considering only its cost, and 1t must be real
ized that the sending to Congress of villains so
shameless is a luxury which deeply indebted
people cannot afford.


The morality of Davis's proposition is on
mar with its expediency. Our country has re-
noatedly been in such trouble that she was
very clad to borrow money on terms which
nroffered the lender a payment Of more than
he advanced, provided she should ever
bo able to pay him at all. lie was asked
70 spare his money when he would have
nreferred to keep it, and proflered terms
designed to induce him to take the risk
involved for the sake of the probable or posi-
BILE profit. Mr.. Davis proposes that we should
rcpndiate such contracts already made and
tbns depriye our country of the ability to raise
money whenever she shall be in trouble here
after. He says in effect to capitalists, Never
" again lend the United States when they shallbe
struggling desperately and dubiously for ex-
I" istence if you do they will cheat you when
"they shall have, by your aid, surmounted their
"dinicultiesr This is an effort to render easy
the success of the next Rebellion, which those
who have already had enough of civil wal
cannot afford to encourage. 1t must recoh on
the heads of its author and his allies.
Year: 1869

The District Court has adjourned for some
weeks, and with it has gone the last chance
for any further prosecution of tie WHISKY
trials, under the administration OF the Attor-
ney-General by whose order they were post
poned. We do not say that this was the
purpose Mr.. Evarts had in view; but we
may be permitted to say that we should like
to see what explanation his letters and orders
give of the purpose he did have. The Senate
tried to find out, but our shrewd New YORK
Cabinet officer preferred to mcC


"Compound for deeds he was inclined TO


BY damning those he had no MIND TO;


and so, with elaborate pOIteness, he answered
all the questions the Senate didn't ask and
gracefully ignored the one they did ask. We
are not disposed to say that the pOstponements
ordered by Mr.. Eyarts have been wrong;
but the action is important and unexpected
enough to warrant further efforts to have the
reasons of it revealed We are in favor OF hay-
ing all the whisky cases tried. If the accused
parties are guilty, we want them punished; II
innocent we want to see their names
cleared from stain. We have no
reason to doubt that the Attorney Generals
wishes lie in the same direction. Yet, acting
as ye are bound to believe, in what he thought
the interests of justice and of the Government
he has chosen to take different course. The
public want to know the reason why. Let us
have the correspondence between the District
Attorney and the Attorney-General
Year: 1869

The substance of Mr.. BrOOmalls long report
about the expenses Of the House is that they
are great deal too high, but not after all as
bad as they might be, Mr.. BroOmal evidently
goes on the principle that we ought 10 oe
thankful for small favors, wherever the econ
omv of this House is concerned. lie
docs, however make one comparison which,
although often made before, can never DC
exhibited too often, until the scandal Is cor
rected The expenses of the House, with Its
929 mombers, are so far below those OF the
Senate, with its Ga members, as to show either
that the House is iDsuflieiently supplied, or
that the squandermg Of the Senate ON matters
concerning its personal comfort is shameful
At the next session the Senate could probably
further the cause of reform by instructlng
committee to look into this matter
Year: 1869

We read in Richmond paper the other day
of the death by convulsions of blind child
who had been for some time on exhibition as
a musical prodigy" For aught we know the
little creature would have died just as young
had he been tonderly nursed at home, as ho
ought to have been, instead of being exposed
to the glare, and heat, and foul air, and late
hours of the concert room at the baby-age-
the story is almost Incredible but so it is told
Of three years bat w. parents who expose an
infant TO the DANCE. of such an unnatural
lifo empt death to take the child under n
kinder guardianship than theirs. The infant
prodigy systom is not only bore but a hor-
rible cruelty. 1t is hard enough to rear child
rem oven under tho most favorable circum-
stances; there are dangers enough to life Eand
health and character which must besct tho
young, however careful and tender their train
ing, Forcin" the buds before nat 10 Is ready
Year: 1869

for them to open, exposing the tender flowers
10 rude blasts and scorching heats, is
an offense which sooner, or Later Will
surely find its punishment. If the public who
are invited to pay their money to witness
these mournful exhibitions Of precocity, would
reflect what pain and tears must have gone TO
the making of the proficiency they applaud
what danger turks in the unnatural display
how health is often ruined, and the future
blighted, that avariciOus parents may MAKE
80, ont ~ yIe life and brain of their child,
tbov would turn from every infant prodigy
with loathing. The system mas not ono
feature to redeem or excuse it. IL is "lckeo
throughout. 4.g Al
Year: 1869

1t is not good sign for the Pacific Railroad
that, in spite of our remarkably open Winter,
the SHOWS on the mountains have completely
blocked it up for over half Of the present
month. There has not been q single train
through since the 12th. The experience of this
Winter will be sure to give an impetus to the
Southern routes, and, when the Government
can afford it, they will certainly receive
assistance in some form.
Year: 1869

Did you ever hear of an active, earnest mem
Der of the Democratic party who even seemed
to want efficient measures taken to prevent IL
legal YotingY Aud can you imagine that the
wire-workers of that party do MT know which
side profits by illegal voting, and how 1t is
ocFocfnd9
Year: 1869

Can't some negro be induced to apply for a
ticket to the Grant Inauguration Ball Must
the Democratic party go into bankruptcy for
the lack of one nOgrOH Won't some one per-
suade, or incite, or cOerce, a negro to apply
for q ticket to the Inauguration Ballf q
Year: 1869

The remarkable bill for the construction of
steam underground or elevated railways in
New York, under the authority of Board of
Commissioners. which is now before the Leg
islature at Albany, is printed in full elsewhere
Year: 1869

GENERAL GRANT ANB THE REVENUES


Gen. Grant has plainly expressed his inten-
ton to appoint civilians TO civil Offices, but
this general rule does not preclude resort to
these military men who have left the service,
or even to those disposed TO leave it. in cases
where they may bc specially required. Among
OtLer Of his givings-out is this noteworthy one,
that the Internal Revenue can and shall be fully
and fairly collected. His thorough knowledge of
the men under his command is well proved.
For instance, he knew the stuff, and tact, and
strength Of Sherman and Sheridan, and he
knew how to take out the last tuck Of force
and faculty there was in them. In his own
appointments and assignments to special and
difficult duty no never made a mistake These
points have clearly this bearing upon tho col
lection of the whisky tax at least-if civilians
fail him, he has enough of army officers in
reserves whom he knowS, to supply tho infected
districts with Assessors and Collectors that
will answer as with their lives for the full
performance Of their duties without fear, favor,
or affection. The thievesmay as well take notice.
In the year 1866, when the tax upon distilled
spirits was 81 per gallon, and the amount col
lected was twenty nine millions of dollars, one
of tho largest of our commission merchants,
who had Mt the time thousands of barrels of
whisky in his storehouse, said that if the Gov
ernment would give him the right to collect
the tax, he would engage to pay the whole in
terest upon tho public debt. Now this interest
for that year was one hundred and thIty-thTee
millions, and the gentleman referred to was at
once thoroughly acquainted with the trade and
cminently capable of estimating its amount and
the amount of tax honestly due upon it. The
presumption in favor of his opinion is clear
from tho fact that only sixty millions of
gallons should have paid the interest, which
would have left him at least eighty millions of
dollars to pay the expense Of collection and
give his profit.


IL President Grant puts his resolution into
full force, at the present rate of duty he will
squeeze half the interest on our debt out of tho
manufacturers and dealers in Intoxicating
liquors. We expect him to do it, and to use all
the means, ordinary and extraordinary, in his
noWpr
Year: 1869

What we have from time to time had to say
of gross mismanagement in our army and
navy ordnance affairs has affected in the
main other parties rather than the present
head OF the Ordnance Bureau in the
War Department. This gentleman, we
see, has been acquitted by the Military Court
before which an investigation of his conduct
has for some months been dragging
its slow length along Other official
proceedings, however, quite as well entitled
to influence careful Judgment as those
of this Court, make it perfectly clear that
grave wrong-doing does exist and has existed
in our ordnance management. Some of It has
been brought to light; there is too much
reason to fear that more yet remains latent
Year: 1869

Brigham Young breaks ground for the little
branch road that is to run southerly from the
Pacific Railway to Salt Lake City as bayey
rs if it were not sealing the fate of his pecu-
liar community. There have not been wanting
hot heads who sought to have the Government
settle the Mormon problem by war, but tho
authorities have wisely seen that passenger
cars were better than battles. When the flood
of railway travel across the continent is once
fairly poured into the SaltILake basin, whatever
dangers the isolated Mormon community may
have threatened are at an end.
Year: 1869

Mr.. Boutwell, will have to pay to-day the
highest price ever paid in Wall-st. for Govern
ment bonds. If he had bought last week
with the Gold then and now lying idle
in the Treasury-the million of bonds that
he then intended to buy to-day he would have
saved to the Government thirty thousand dol
lars, besides the stoppage of interest. The
Gold he has to sell will also bring HIM
more, and we hope lie may be per
suaded to profit by the fact. Let the
Gold-gambers push up the premium as high
as they please-and let him take advantage oil
1T Give them plenty of Gold, at yesterdays
nrepostcrous figures Make the premium for
the Government while you can
Year: 1869

st. Louis reports the receipt of an invoice
of teas, only thirty days from Yokohama
This begins to bring the realities OF the
Pacific Railway before us. What changes II
may make in the currents of our trade
and in what near future, the public
even yet has scarcely begun to real
ize. The directors of the Pacific Railroad have
it in their power greatly to hasten and stlmu-
late the business that is sure to pour over their
line, or to repel it in such manner as greatly
to retard their own prosperity. What they
need is to show shippers that their
road is now and is to be kept in con-
dition for the safe and prompt transac-
action of all business that may offer. Do this,
and point of vanta ge will be gained, from
which the litigation of enemies may be re-
garded with equable and serene philosophy.
Year: 1869

Whatever may be Judge Cardozos lau,'s'
getting frightened easily in the course OF his
judicial work is not one of them. We take 1t
that the silly performance of sending him
threatening letters, about the case of the young
women of bad repute whom he keeps shut up
in the TombS, will not swerye him hairs
breadth from what seems to be the plain line
of his duty.
Year: 1869

The story of more fighting with the Indians
on the frontier is discouraging. The dispatch
does not show that the savages were
the aggressors, although we have had ru-
mors that the Chcyennes were again about
to take the war-path. We have great fears
that the men of the sword will be ahead OF
the Qualers in settling the terms of our inter
cOurse for the Summer with these Indians.
Year: 1869

The report from Berlin that Mrs. Lincoln
is to repair the damage done to her by
Booth, by taking the name and title Of Count
Schmidt8wil, has not yet been confirmed.
Without wishing the Count any bad luck,
the people of this country would generally
thank him to take and provide for the
owner of "those clothes"
Year: 1869

There nre now on file at the office of the
Superintendent of Police, in New York, de.
scriptions of "a persons who have recently
disappeared in a mysterious manner. The
supposition is that the greater number Of
these have been foully dealt with.
Year: 1869

There are four determined and confident
candidates for the Republican nomination
for Governor of Wisconsin, and the returns
are Just beginning to come in from the
patriots who find it not incompatible with
their private interests to serve the state in
that capacity.
Year: 1869

4 negro named Clark is said to have
made the best speech at the Republican
Convention of Iowa, but it failed to secure
for him that equality before the lava Re.
publican nomination which the people Of
that state recently declared him entitled to.
According to the Republican theory, the
negro is entitled to everything according
to their practice he is entitled to vote the
Republican ticket and get his bread and
butter by the free use of lis muscle, The
party had four or five Offices to bestow, but
sighted the brains Of the convention be.
cause they were contained in a woolly head.
Year: 1869

Correspondence ofthe Greensboro Patriot.l
a ing Town its Present and Future.
: I have just returned from a visit to Mt.
AIRY and should you wish, will give you a
short account of what is gong on in that
picturesque region. I found the town i'm
proving very fast, the people f1ourishing-
farmers, mechanics, merchants all doing
well. Several fine store houses have lately
heen erected, large and elegant buildings,
one with granite front, the stone, the pretti-
est of the kind ever saw, is quarried with
in mile of town Doubtless your town
will some day be adorned with houses made
of this very rock, when the railroad is finish
ed to Mt. Airy There are also in the inn
mediate vicinity two new Cotton and Wool
en- mills going up. The trade that is carried
on there wonld surprise any one not aceuain-
ted with the back country. One hundred
Thousand dollars worth of dried apples, 1
learned, was sold there last year. One firm
happen to know sold for cash and barter
100000 worth of goods last year Week
before last 100 mules were sold in the town
and $57 900 worth was sold since October
last A furniture maker, Mr.. Aired, las
made, by hard labor, money enough to buy
him a sixteen hundred dollar iarm and has
$500 worth of furniture on hand He makes
nice furniture and will, perhaps, become
rich one day Honor To the industrious
and honest mechanic. He creates home
market for the farmers products. ard when
the farmer flourishes in his business all class
cs do well.


Let the manufacturers of everything we
need come from the North and show us how
to work Let them be encouraged. Let
tile laborious and thrifty farmers come down
too, and buy our surplus lands and set an
example of honest and thrifty labor. Let
the large land holders sell off some Of their
idle lands and not wait for somehody else
to build rail roads through them and i'm
prove their fortunes gratis. This is the
curse of the South. Too few mechanics and
too much land. There is a great deal of
good land around Mt. Airy some of it being
graLitc formation and sandy is said to he
well suited for the cultivation of The grape.
Tie region North of the town toward the
Blue Ridge is well known to be unsurpassed
for the growth Of the apple. Everybody
has heard of the beautiful mountain views.
The Siamese Twins having peregrinated near
iy the whole of the civilized world chose
this as the most pleasant place to live IN
they could find. When the Norfolk and
Great Western Railroad meets the road from
your town at or near this place we may ex-
pect to see this the most hourishing and
interesting portion of the State Seekers of
health and seekers of manufacturing sites
! will throng this favored region and many a
busy hive of industry will spring up on the
banks of our never failing streams and, in
all seriousness. We expect to see Mt, Airy
one of the most important inland towns in
the State. $3.50 r
ss..a - ~ .i.a''-f Da,,,ootf,,nr
Year: 1869

1t will be seen by a reference to our report
of the House proceedings in to-day's issue,
that the Supreme Court has decided that it
is not encumbent upon them to give their
opinion to the Legislature upon Constitu-
tional questions, except through the decision
of cases regularly brought before them.
This is important, because it will oblige the
Legislature to proceed upon their own in
depreciation of the homestead exemption,
or to wait until a case in point is decided by
the Supreme Court, which we hope will be
at no distant day, as we receive letters
daily from different parts of the State, ask
ing for the information which can only come.
from such decision. sIa lf
Year: 1869

w . diS OIoNiAK Sil
We are growing old-how the thought will rise


When glance is backward cast
On some long-remembered spot that lies
In the silence of the past:
1t may be the shrine of our early vows,
Or the tomb of early tears
But it seems like far-otf isle to US,
In the stormy sea of years.
Oh wide and wild are the waves that part


Our steps from its greenness now,
And we miss the joy of many heart,


And the light of many brow;
For deep DER many stately bark


Have the whelming pillows rolled
That steered with us from that early mark


Oh, friends! we are growing old
Old in the dmness of the dust


Of our daily tolls and cares
Old in the wrecks Of love and trust


Which our burthened memory bears.
Each form may wear to the passing gaze


The bloom of life's freshness yet,
And beams may brighten our latter days


Which the morning never met.
But oh the changes we have seen,


In the far and winding way
The graves in our paths that have grown green
~, And the locks that have grown gray
The winters still on our own may spare


The sable or the gold
But we see their SHOWS upon brighter hair,


And, friends, we are growing old
We have gained the world cold wisdom now,


We have learned to pause and fear,
But where are living founts whose flow


Was a joy Of heart to hear?
We have won the wealth of many cline,
And the lore of many page;
But where is the hope that saw in time


But its boundless heritage?
Will it come again when the violet wakes


And the woods their youth renew?
We have stood in the light of sunny brakes


Where the bloom is deep and blue;
And our souls might joy in the spring time then


Int 10 Mt nd
For it never could give us the youth again


OF hearts that are growing old!