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Year: 1860

1t will be an Immense ADVANTAGE
when the day 'mes for boys and girls
learning and play ing together, as child.
rem of several foreign countries do.
Climbing trees is admirable exercise
for everybody; and so is cricket, and
trap-ball, and ball play of all kinds;
and racing and jumping. Instead of
this, we see not few schools where
the girls after sitting and standing all
day, are taken out for a walk in the
twilight, to save lighting candles.
They seldom feel the sun; they have
chilblains and other ailments from bad
circulation; and in such schools nearly
every girl has more or less distortion
of the spine, when she has been there
more than two years. In the last CEN
tury people knew no better. Little
girls were put upon hard benches with
ont backs, and so high that the feet
hung in the air; and SO perched. they
were required to sit bolt upright, and
sew for hours together, the humpback,
the weary, aching spine, which many
thousands of English women have car
ried to the grave. There is no more
reason for women being crooked than
any other creature born with proper
backbone; and this is better under
stood than it used to be. We see that
the seats in school houses are often ac-
commodated to the height of children:
and if leaning back is not countenanc-
ed, there is more frequent change of
posture and of occupation. CaIisthenic
exercises, and even the inclined place
for the relief of the backs Of fast-grow-
ing girls, are common sights in our day.


The Improvement is marked; but the
condition of school girls needs more
consideration than has yet been given
to it. Their average of health is far
below that of boys; more of them will
languish in invalidism; fewer will have
genuine, robust health more, i'm par
ticular, will die of consumption within


ten years. The main cause of this is the
unequal developments of the faculties.


There is too much intellectual acqnisi-
tion, though not too much mental exer-
cise,. if it were more general; and
there is an almost total absence of
physical education. II the muscles
were called upon as strenuously as the
memory, to show what they could do,
the long train of school girls who in
stitute the romance of the coming gen
Grafton would flock merrily into ten
thousand homes, instead Of parting cff
some to gladden. their home certain
ly, but too many to the languid lot of
invalidism, or to the actual sick room;


while an interminable procession Of
them is forever on their way to the
cemetry-the foremost dropping into
the grave, while the number is kept up
from behind. Many survivor will
still be wondering with grandchildren
round the fire, that this and that, and
the other pretty or clever schoolfellow
should have died so early. TI' ia1-sii
Year: 1860

CURE FOR CANcER.-Mr. Thomas Anderson
gives the following recipe for cancer, which he
says, has been of great service in several danger
Gus cases


''Bo fine Turkey figs in new milk. which
they will thicken when they are tender, split
and apply them as warm as they can be borne
to the part affected, whether broken or not; the
part must be washed every time the poultice liz
changed with some of the milk use fresh
poultice night and morning, and at least once
during the day, and drink a quarter of pint
of the milk the figs are boiled in twice in the
twenty-four hours. If the stomach will bearit,
this must be persevered in for three or four
months at least. A man aged 105 was cured,
about six years before his death, with only six
pounds of figs. The cancer which began at the
corner of his mouth, had eaten through his jaw,
cheek, and half way down his throat; yet he
was so perfectly cured as never to show any
tendency to return. Should it ever do SO, the
figs should again be applied. The first appli-
cation gives a great deal of pain, but afterwards
each dressing gives relief. A woman cured by
this remedy had been afflicted ten years; her
breast blcd excessively; ten pounds cured. her.
London Paper. as
Year: 1860

HOLD OS.-Hold on to your tongue when
you are just ready to swear, lie, or speak harsh
Iy or use any improper word. Hold on to your
hand when you are about ready to strike, pinch,
scratch, steal, or do any improper act. Hold
on to your foot when you are on the point of
kicking, running away from study, or pursuing
the path of error, shame, or crime. Hold on to
your temper when you are angry, excited, or
imposed upon, or others are angry about you.
Hold on to your heart when evil associates seek
your company, and invite you to join in their
games, mirth, and revelry. Hold on to your
good name at all times, for it is more valuable
to you than gold, high places, or fashionable
attire. Hold on to the truth, for it will serve
we'll, and do you good throughout eternity
Hold on to your virtue-t is above all price to.
you, in all times and places Hold on to your
good character, for it is, and ever will be, your
best wealth.
Year: 1860

An affray took place on Tuesday evening last, in
the Southwestern part Of the City, between Green
j. Maynard and Burwell Mangum, which resulted
in the death Of the latter at about 8 o'clock We'd
nesday morning It seems that there had been
previous difficulty between the parties. Mangum
went to the house of Maynard, and, calling him by
name, asked him to come out of the garden, where
upon Maynard came out with a hoe with which he
had been working in his hand, and struck the de-
ceased very severe blow with his fist, knocking
him down. After he was down Maynard dealt upon
him many severe blows with the hoe which he held
in his hand. The object Of Maynard seems to have
been to mutilate and murder the deceased on the
spot, and would have succeeded but for the inter-
ference of bystanders.


On the examination by the jury Of inquest We'd
nesday morning of the body it found to be sad
" mutilated and bruised.


Dr. Dupree testified that the wound on the head
and those. on the left breast would have caused
death but there were marks of violence in many
other parts. .,.-


The verdict of the jury was that Burwel Man
gum came to his death by blows inflicted on his
head and left breast with o hoe by Green J. May
nard The deceased leaves a widow and eleven
children.


Maynard was sent to Jail by Mayor Harrison
Tuesday night to await further process.
Year: 1860

DEATH OF Ma E. A. DoueLAs-We regret to
have to announce the death of this gentleman, for
merly Chief Engineer Of the Cape Fear and Deep
River Navigation Company, in this State. He died
suddenly in Philadelphia, on the Esd of December
last Of disease Of the heart. At the time Of his
death he was the Superintendent and Engineer Of
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The
Mauch Chunk Gazette Of recent date contains .
lengthy and truthful tribute to his numerous virtues
as man. and his learning and skill as an Engineer
Year: 1860

Hr We have been so much engaged for the last
two days in attending the Convention and in meet
ing and greeting friends from all parts Of the State
that have had but little time to devote to the Edito-
rial or news department Of to-day's paper.
Year: 1860

DEFECTIVE RELIGnS.-A religion ,ha,
never suiiices 10 govern man, will never
suffice TO save HIM; that which does no,
sufficiently distinguish him from a wicked
world, will never distinguish him from a
perishing world.
Year: 1860

has won for itself such q rencwn for the cure of
every variety Of Throat and Lung Complaint, that
Il is entirely unnecessary for us to recount the
evidence OF its virtues, wherever it has been en-
ployed. As it has long been in constant use
throughout this section, We need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept up the best
Il ever has been, and that it may be relied on to
do for their relief all it has ever been found TO do
Year: 1860

The majority of the candidates for admission to
was on account of their incorrect spelling. Many
of them were we'll versed in the knowledge of the
sciences belleslettres and the cognate studies, but
could not spell a simple word correctly.
Year: 1860

WHAT TO Do WITH THE GREAT EAsTERN.-The
New York Herald says:


There is q great deal of discussion going on as to
how the big snip can be made to pay, and we would
suggest an entirely original idea on the subject -
Let get together all the pestilentia political
hacks of all parties dsunonists and fanatics, peo-
pie who attempt to buy and sell thousands OF voters
if they were many sheep-in fact, all the par
ty sharpers and Peter Funks-and send them of on
voyage to Europe there to remain until after the
election is over.
Year: 1860

A steam passenger car nearly similar to those
already described, has been built for the Boston
and Worcester Railroad. 1t is said that for short
roads and to run short distances they are very
desirable addition to the motive power of the road.
Year: 1860

AMERICAN PoLYTECHNIC AssoCIATION-Lights on
Vessels-This association met in New York on
Thursday evening, Professor Mason in the chair.
Lieut.. Bartlett called attention to the fact that the
committee appointed to examine the Great Eastern
had been unable to fulfil their duty on account of
the discourtesy of the managers, and that, there
fore, the association had no reliable information
respecting her, except what was furnished by the
newspapers. He also stated that it was mistake
to suppose that vessels should carry lights in direct
proportion to their size. The reverse should be the
rule, which, if it had been adopted, would have
prevented the loss of the Lady Egin: After de
sutory discussion ON this subject, the ASSOCIATION
adjourned.
Year: 1860

GEN HARYEY AND THE SAN JUAN AFFAIR.-A
Washington correspondent states that a long cabi-
net session held Friday. All the Secretaries,
the Postmaster General and the Acknowledgement
addressed to the War Department, in reference to
the San Juan affair, was under consideration, but
no decision in regard to it was come to. General
llarney persists in the opinion that the mission of
General Scott was grave error, and that the
island would now be ours had he not been inter
fered with. The General treats diplomatic comfy
and our agreement for temporary joint occupancy
as of small account The President reserves the
whole case for deliberate Judgment. General Har-
ney says he was not apprised by Lieutenant Gene
raj Scott of the nature of the atters report nor of
the ground of complaint against him until he ar
rived in Washington.
Year: 1860

1t has been stated as historical fact that the
first export of cotton from the United states TO
England was in l7s4, when vessel arrived at Liv-
erpool with eight bags of cotton part of the
cargo, and that it was seized by the Custom House
officers, under the conviction that it could not have
been the growth of America.
Year: 1860

ARMTNG OF TUE PoLoE.-In consequence of cer-
tain demonstrations the Marshal of Police addressed
the following communication to the Board of Police
which has induced them to provide every man in
the force, not previously armed, with the most
effective repeating pistol now known, being of the
Dean Adams patent:
Year: 1860

The subscribers respectfully Inform their customers
furnish them with NEGRO CLOTHING of the very best ma
terals and at NEST reasonable prices


The large patronage they receive from this and neghboe
States has induced them to extend their establishment as t
meet any of business and in order to be able to supply
their patrons always with The and best descriptions of
teas they with several of the
manufactures in the South and shall henceforth be ab
to supply Planters with goods of uniform quality.


They feel confident that they will give entire satisfaction
all who may parone their emnently Southern enterprise
and solicit their orders which shall receive immediate attention


ialS 6rn HEBRARD h CO.
Year: 1860

HIS medicine unequalled for DiarrheS Dysenterry
other disorders OF like nature In cases Of Bloody
EIuX, 1t unequalied The Board Of Health OF New York
and the Imperial Hospital St. Peersburk, both
most reliable agent in all the early stages Of Cholera No
family sheus be without it. in the hour where young children
liable to suffer from the effects Of eating fruit
dy must then be appledno time to wait tor tho Doctor


This medicine be relied the price only so
enough to take Of whole family for whole


may7 MACKENZIE 4 MINCHIE.
Year: 1860




nURsUANT notice regularly given according TO the prov


sions OF the Of this Bank, general neeng Of its
held this day st their Banking house IN Nash
Vile for the purpose taking into consideration the question OF
acceptance charter for banking privileges granted 10 them
by A. act Of the General Assembly OF Tennessee passed March
l. 1861 ana for doing such other bus-es might be necessary
and proper resolved that book be spened Immediately
Al the Banking House Nashville for the subscription OF the
additional provided for in said act and that said book be
kept open that purpose until the first day OF OctObr lebO


and shall be paid in full az the
subscription 1naccodanee with the resolution the book
IL open, &C D. WEAVER,


fnlva II, Cashier.
Year: 1860

Hs5" Thursday night there was a hard
storm at Rockport, and the lightning struck
a frame dwelling house. The house was
not damaged much no person was injured,
but German and his wife living in the
house were badly frightened. The wind
was very violent.
Year: 1860

Bsa- Waugh's Mirror Of Italy attracted a
crowded house last night. 1t increases in
popularity day by day, and is worthy of all
the admiration it excites.


This afternoon it will be unrolled again
for the benefit Of the ladies and Children
Tonight it will be exhibited for the last
time here. Now is your chance if you wish
TO see it.
Year: 1860

The above is only part Of the amount
Which has to be paid between this and the
above date. What succsss our city ofic-
iAls will have in raising the money. is for the
future to decide. We pray they may be sue
eessful
Year: 1860

The Ladies' Washington Monument Society are
now busily engaged in making arrangements to
have national ballot-box collection for the
ment. The contributions will be made at the polls
on the Presidential election day.
Year: 1860

MAGAZINE FOR THE BLTND.-The proposition to
establish magazine for the blind is made by E.
W. Whelan, late principal of the Missouri Iustitu
ton for the education Of this unfortunate class
The circular of Mr. W. states that the cos of stand
ard works, prepared with raised letters is such as
10 prevent them from coming into to the extent
desired. The establishment of a magazine it is he
heved, would meet this difficulty, and place
wholesome literature within the reach of those who
especially require it. The originator of the scheme
appeals to those interested in the blind to aid the
project by their contributions.
Year: 1860

DAGUERREorYPE BY LTGHTSING.-On the 10th of
August last flash of lightning struck a windmill
at Lappion, in France, in which there was female
who was killed by the electric fluid, and on whose
BODY there was left the picture of a neighboring
tree, with all its branches and leaves complete
This singular tatOong by the lightning was seen
and attested by medical examiners and the munich
pal authorities of the place.
Year: 1860

1t is said to be understoo in Washington that
treasury notes will be receiyed from Riggs & Co.,
in payment for their bid of three millions of the
Government loan. or course all other bidders wi II
have the privilege to pay in the same way. The
money market will doubtless be relieve by this
considerate and judicious allowance by the Secre-
tarY Of the Treasury
Year: 1860

Any Director being about absent himself period OF ST
months less may substitute his stead provide
said substitute sha in his right than twenty
1--WE shares Of the cap stock of the Company and provided
aso that said substitute be elected by the of Director
fof the time being.
Year: 1860

Tie Board of Directors shall appoint Secretary and all
clerks and agents. and the pleasure and
shall M the salaries Of ali officers co poraon and the
and agents.


Said Board may ae delegate such power the transaction OF
the ordinary business of the Company Committees Of their
own body their officers agents. they deem exped
BRd also appoint within without this Sate
under such conditions them shall proper And they
shah have TO make by Jaws rules regulations and 10
amend ater the whenever the
may require y and shall also have supply
caad of DEATH resignation want Of the feone
number Of shares insolvency. without leave for three
successive months,
Year: 1860

pS There is no dissimultation so i'm
penetrable as that which apparently leaves
nothing to penetrate. 1t is art without ar
ti6ce, concealment without disguise, and
frankness without sincerity. He who can
successfully practice these may escape ex-
posure here, but must inevitably be detec-
ted in that day when the heart will be re-
quired to give up its secrets, and the grave
surrender its dead.
Year: 1860

Senator Chase has introduced bill for the
repeal of the act concerning roads and high
ways in the county of Nevada, which was
passed last year, and will go into effect the
first of February unless repealed. Consid-
erable objection was made to the act at the
time of its passage, and we hope Mr.. Chase
more simplicity and efficiency. Since writ
ing the above we learn that the bill of Mr..
Chase has passed the Senate.
Year: 1860

FRENCH CORRAL Post Master Black ha.
made n contract with the California Stage
Company to carry daily mail from the En-
pire Ranch to French Corral and Sweetland


Water is plentiful and the miners are all
busy. with profitable results.


Messrs Pollard, Alger and Caswell are
surrounding their picturesque cottages with
tasteful gardens and orchards. The spirit
of permanence is developing itself here, as
elsewhere in the mountains


The dwelling house of Samuel Hyatt was
burned down early yesterday morning, caus-
ing loss of about 81 900. A little son of
the owner, while holding a candle under a
bed in search of some article, set fire to The
hangings, and ran away frightened. His
parents went in search of him without know
ing what had happened until too late to save
anything. A generous subscription in aid
of the family was taken up Immediately.
Year: 1860

HE Boy THOMAS MiCAULAY-Two unnub-
1lshed letters of Hannah Moore in which the
boy. VINO became historian and statesman. is
most Interestingly described, have been pro-
duced and it is truly said, ''there never was a
better instance of the truth that the child is
father to the man, and cit is curious to OBJ
serve how the mind Of the little Macaulay is
full of exactly the subjects on which tho grown
man was never weary Of laboring, and ON
which his fame rests" While the bow is STAY
ing Mt Barley Wood, Hannah More writes thus
TO his father:


The quantity of reading that Tom has
poured in, and the quantity of writing he has
poured out, is astonishing. 1t is in vain
have tried TO make him subscribe 70 Sir Henry
Savlles notion that the poets are the b ,st
writers next to those who write i'm prose We
have poetry for breakfast, dinner and supper.
L sometimes fancy l observe daily progress
In the growth OF his mental powers. His fine
promise of mind expands more and more. and.
what Is extraordinary, he has RS much accu-
racy In his expression as spirit and vivacity in
his imagination. | like too that he takes a
lively interest in all passing events and that
the ohfIa is still preserved; like to see-him
rs boyish as he Is studious, and that he is as
much amused with making pat Of butter as a
poem Though loquaciOuS, he is very do:ile
and L don't remember a single instance in
which he has persisted in doing anything when
he saw we did not approve it. Several men of
sense and learning have been struck with the
union of gaiety and nationality in his conver-
sation. Sometimes we converse in ballad
rhymes, sometimes in JOhnsonian sesquipedal-
isns; at tea we condescend to riddles and cha
rades. He rises early, walks an hour or two
before breakfast, generally composing verses,
A new poem is produced, less Incorrect than
its predecessors-it is an excellent satire on
radical reform. under the title of .sCIodpole
and the Quack Doctor" 1t is really good. I
am glad to see that they are thrown by as soon
as they have been once read, and he thinks no
more about them. He has very quick percep-
tions of the beautiful and the defective in COM
position"
Year: 1860

EE State Prison McCauley has sign ed
his intention to the Controller of State Of
APPLYING to the Sixth District Court for a
mandamus to compel him to draw warrant
on the State Treasury in his favor for 1915
900. The reason of this is the late decision
of the Supreme Court favorable TO McCauley
in the State Prison business.


We do not know what the Controller will
do, but we will 60 our last peso that State
Treasurer Fndley won't come out with a
single silver until they can show him an Act
of the Legislature appropriating the money
for that purpose.
Year: 1860

DRowSEp.-Patrick Hoy was drowned in
the North Fork Of the American river, at
Manhattan Bar, on the 18th of March last,
and we learn the body has not yet been re-
covered. Mr.. Hoy had on at the time a
pair of overalls, and n strong leather belt.
lie was a native Of the county Louth, Ire
land, and has sister living in the vicinity
Of the city of New York.
Year: 1860

WEATHER AND CRoPs.-It is cool again this week,
but no frost, and we have the April new moon and
no frost The fruit uninjured may now, according
to past experience, be considered safe There will
be but sorry crop of peaches in Wake county, but
in some places learn enough are left to give good
size Apples and pears and plums are in abundance.
Strawberries ale just now ripening and promise an
abundant yield.


Corn is coming up we'll; we have heard Of no
cotton up yet; the wheat we have seen looks only
medium, but we hear in the west it gives goodly
token of bountiful harvest
Year: 1860

We publish in our issue to day the first half of an
interesting letter on the South but more especially
on the Lone Star sister of our confederacy the lovely
Texas 1t is from the pen of Maj John T. Gilmore,
of Cumberland county, an intelligent planter of our
State Our readers will find many things of interest
in his letter, and highly instructive comments on
that beautiful country. b..


We return our thanks to Maj. Gilmore for the
Texas seed of various sorts sent US. placed them
in the hands of a gardener, and they are already
sown we will inform him of their growth hereafter.
Year: 1860

PosT OFFICE PRoCEEDs.-We arrange table Of
the Post Offices in this country, the net proceeds of
which amount to $14 900 and upwards, in the order
according to the official returns. Some remarkable
Year: 1860

Footsteps on the Other Side.
Sitting in my humble doorway,


Gazing out into the night,
Listening to the stormy tumult


With kind of sad delight
Wait for the loved who comes not,
One whose step long to hear:
One who though he fingers from me,
Soft he comes-now heart be quick
Leaping intriumphant pride,


Oh it is a stranger footstep
Gone by on the other side.
All the night seems filled with weeping,
Winds are wailing mournfnlly
And the rain and tears together


Journey to a restless sea,
can fancy, sea, you murmur,


As they with your waters flow,
Like the grief Of single beings,


Making up a nations woe
Branches bid your guests be silent:
Hush q moment fretful rain
Breeze, stop sighing-let me listen,
God grant not again in vain.
In my cheek the blood is rosy,


Like the bushes of a bride,
Joy Alas a stranger footsep -
Goes by ON the other side.
All how many wait forever,


For the steps that do not come!
Wait until the plying angels


Bear them to a peaceful home
Many in the still of midnight.


In the streets have lain and died.
While the sound eff human footsteps
Went by on the other side.