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Year: 1859

The September number Of this periodical has been
dress delivered at the opening of the sessions of the
Educational Association at Newbern, by the Pres-
dent, Rev. Baxter Clegg and the Report on Mixed
Schools, read before the Association at the same
place, by Rev. j. II. Brent


We are gratfed to learn that the Address deliver
ed by Gov Swain in Newbern, will also be published
in the Journal The Resident Editor says:


1--WE have the pleasure of announcing that Gov.
Swain will prepare and furnish for publication in
the Journal, an, article on the early historty of
North Carolina embodying the substance of the ad-
dress delivered by him at the meeting of the Asso-
citation in Newborn. This article will appear in the
October or November number. should nothing occur
to prevent; and while it will probably occupy the
greater part of one Number we feel sure that our
readers will consider it treat. All who had the
pleasure of hearing the address will agree with us
in saying, that this alone will be worth a years
subscription to the Journal


We think that too little attention has been given
to the collection Of interesting facts in carly
history, and We hope to give hereafter other articles
of the same character, from the pen of Gov Swain.


1t may be said that this is going beyond the ordi-
nary range of such Journal but we feel that no
apology is needed, for such information is important
to the teacher, as a tencher and within the range
of such articles there is much that relates to the
history of education.


= Will not others aid US in making the Journal
more interesting and useful, by contributing to its
pages! And now that the County Boards are be-
ginning to circulate the Journal among the school
districts we hope that many Of our contributors
will write with special reference to the wants Of
Common Schools"


We trust that every friend of education in the
State, who can spare the means to do so, will sub.
scribe to the North Carolina Journalct Education.
Friends of education, "show your faith by your
works" The price is only one dollar per annum,
in advance Address J. D. Campbell, Resident Ed
tor, Greensborough, N. G.
Year: 1859

The NEXT ELECTORAL CoLLEGE-If Kansas be
admitted next Winter, the number of votes to be
cast in the Presidential Election will be 3OG. Of
these, the Free States will give the following pro-
Year: 1859

FooLs-The travelling correspondents who
are at present enlightening the Philadelphia
Press and Boston Journal in regard to the
Indians west Of Arkansas and Missouri write
like a couple of full grown idiots They
learn nothing by observation, and misrepre
sent everything, for the very good realon, we
suppose, that they hav'nt sense enough to
know what is true and what is not We
knOw that the letters they writesr complete
humbugs 1t may be, however and we
think it very likely. that they are afraid to
travel in the Irdian country, and SO relate
by hearsay what some misehievous frontier.
man tells them about Indian life and customs.
Such misleading scribblers are u nuisance.
Year: 1859

LONDON correspondent of the New York
Herald says that the Great Eastern is a stu
pehdous humbug. He says it is hard to
manage, and liable TO blow up, and when it
does blow up. the vast quantity of steam en-
gendered will knock hole through the ship
as big as n meeting house
Year: 1859

AT Wilmington, Delaware, the City Gas
Company lately invited a large party to wit
ness the manufacture of gas from water, as
substitute for coal gas The demonstration
was in every way satisfactory, the light be-
ing very pure and brilliant
Year: 1859

tEDr. S. W. Gold of Cornwall, the Republican nominee for Senator in the 17th District is gentle man for whom the electors of that district may be proud to vote He was democrat before that par ty sold out to the slave power, and such has been elected to the Senate but when the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise and other pro-slavery measures were made test of party orthodoxy, he bolted and united in the organization of the Repub lican Party. and in 1856 was chosen Presidential Elector on the Fremont Ticket Although the 17th is of the close districts trust that by proper exertons for SO worthy candidate there can be no reasonable doubt of his election by handsome ma. jority.
Year: 1859



 A PROCLAMATION. Our dependence upon Divine Providence and our knowledge that the hand of God is upon all them for good that seek him, and his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him, is now, as it ever has been, reason why we should affict our selves before our God, to seek of him right way for us for our little ones and for all our substance.

 That the good of this commonwealth may have an Opportunity to seek such way, would, in ac- cordance with long established usage, appoint Fri day. tho twenty second day of April next to be ob- served as day of humiliation fasting and prayer and invite all citizens of this State to unite in a proper observance of that day, by humbly and peni- enty confessing their seere: sins in the presence of him who searches the heart, and by assembling in their usual places for religious worship and confes sing the sins of the people,

 And let us remember that our individual sins, such as intemperance, profanity, and Sabbath b; eaking our disregard for just human laws our sympathy with the criminal to an extent that haz. ards the rights and safety of the obedent citizen our low estimate of the value of intelligence and public virtue; disregard of the teachings oi Gods providences, of his Spirit and his Word; and or willingness to rush into the dark and forbidden paths of ntdelity and vice have become the sins o the State and the nation by of which we are justly exposed to the dispeasu,e of Holy God. Let us with heartfelt sorrow and sincere turning from sins, pray that God will avert from us his righteous judgments that he will preserve Free Government and prosper our institutions of educa tion, humanity, and Christianity that he will cir cumscribe every system of oppression, and open way for the deiverance of the unlawful captive tha he will put to confusion the evil designs of wicked men that he will give grace and wisdom to those who minister in his name to declare such doctrine and enforce such practices only of divine au thority that he will visit us with his Holy Spirit renew our hearts, and lead to love and serve him that he will give all who are in authority, wisdom ard courage to discharge their duties in his fear with reference to the rights of all men that State and National Governments may be administer ed upon those principles of righteousness which l alt the Nation and honor God.

 Given under my hand and the seal of thu ~@ State, at the city of Norwich. this tentl day of March, in the year of our Lord L.s ! one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine. and of the Independence of the Uni 1 @- ted States the eighty third. | VIM. A. BUCKINGHAM. 1 By his Excellency,

 JOHN BOYD, Secretary of State.
Year: 1859

SECRETARY TeucEY's LErTER.-The Register pub fishes Secretary Touceys defence, addressed to the Congressional Committee appointed to investigate the corrnptons in his department as if it was re- ply to the report of that Committee The fact is it was sent to the Committee, in reply to the invita- tlon to him to make defence or explanation of the dark transactions in which he was apparently in volved. It was written and handed in, two weeks before the Report was made The Committee gave it careful consideration, and notwithstanding its assertions and excuses made the Report which is be-

 fore the country, with the erdence developed by the examination. We do not ask anybody to accept eli ther the report of the majority or minority, or the defence of MT. TOucey as true. We wish them to read the ertdence which is given at length in the large city papers, Upon that evidence the public will form it's own conclusions and no ingenuity of pettifogging no subtle attempt to crawl away from |the effect of that evidence will avail anything It

 is appal ent that gross frauds and corruptons exist in the Navy Department it is apparent that men employed at Navy Yards who utterly unfit for the places because they the political 'srikers of Democratic Congressmen it is apparent that hundreds of men were engaged in the Yards atelett ion time, when there work for them to do ;

 it is apparent that conscientious Naval officers were removed from the Yards because they would not courage such things: it is apparent that large tracts were given to men who were not the lowest bidders, because they could control the most votes on election day it is apparent that men were ap pointed coal agents who knew nothing about and did not attend to the duties of the ofce but divided their pay with other hungry ofice-seekers with the knowledge of Ire President; it is apparent that Isaac Toucey knew about all these corruptoos, and gave them his sanntion it is hardly left doubtful that even the President himself knew all about them.

 With such facts these appearing on the record, with the evidence and correspondence of the parties concerned to sustain them, Mr. Toucey may write all the lawyers pleas he chooses, but the public will believe the evidence. It is very evident that Con gress believe it. for it has down to very small figure the appropriations Mir Toucey asked for. for the Navy Yards, in spite o his earnest endeavors to get more. This would never have been done, did not Congress believe that the proofs implicated the Head of the Navy Department in the frauds. The feeling at Washington, among all parties, was that Mr. Toucey compromised by the report and tiat his political fo1 tunes are lost forever in deed, his personal adherens bitterly blame the ma jo,ity of the Committee for not screening so con- spcuous member of the Government from the ex- posure.-Ne,r Harcn Courier.
Year: 1859

6g- AIiko Walsh, heretofore leading democratic politician in New York, was found dead at the foot of flight of stone steps at No 1s6 Eighth Avenue. and from his well known habits it was supposed he fell down the steps in fit of intoxcation and broke his neck but from the fact that his gold watch and chain were taken from him, the coroncrs jury ex. pressed the opinion that his death was occasioned by violence from some persons unknown.
Year: 1859

GS The 17th Senatorial Convention was not as fully attended it would have been if proper notice had been given of the time and place ofholdiug it. the committee of the district having failed to send their notice to the paper having most extensive cir cuaton in several of the towns of the district The nominee however will be entirely acceptable to the Republicans in the towns partially or entirely un- represented.
Year: 1859

fg'T The Fifteenth Senatorial Convention have placed an excellent candidate in nomination. Shell don Osborne is of the most intelligent Republi cans of the town of Harwinton, and eminently wor thy of the Freemen of the District Of his election by very large majority there can be no doubt.
Year: 1859

gY@The rains of last week raised all the streams and flooded the low lands. The Connecticut was raised twenty feet and covered the river streets in Hartford The bridge at Northampton was part ly carried off, and considerable damage done to the railroad tracks
Year: 1859

To skate the Gross Rolln the ska.
ter stands as in learning the outside
edge, and starting on the right foot,
crosses the left over it. But instead
of repectng the movement, and SO
forming a circle, he Immediately
crosses the right foot over the left
and SO on.


Then, instead of making one large
circle, he forms succession of arcs
of circles, by which he is carried for.
ward. The legs should be crossed
over each other as far as possible, anG
the skater should not be content unit
he can even cross the knees,
Year: 1859

may make it pay; if you do. it's
pretty heavy speculation, to say tho
least"


But, Charley, you're really too
hard. You can't say there are not
honest and wholc.soulcd men, too.
that are wealthy"


NO l don't say any such thing.
only say, they must have paid, in one
way or another, for their success--if
not iu health or a good conscience, at
least in time that could have been
used for other purposes. 1t wouldn't
be honest, you know, to get the thing
without paying for it. Isn't that SO,
Cousin F--T' he continued, as the
eavesdropper now appeared honestly
at the window ---


1T certainly is, Charley; and
whether the things worth having, de-
pends of course on the price you have
to pay. If you would rather have
good education than great fortune.
and choose to give your time in ex-
change for the one, you will not COM
plain of lacking the other. If Jack
chooses the great fortune and gets it,
you and will not envy him what we
had not the will or the industry to
acquire for ourselves. In this busy
age there are q thousand ways by
which you can acquire wealth and
wealth honorably gained is certainly
not to be dispised. 1t is a vast pow
cr in the world, and we are to believe
that all the powers that be are or
dained of God The only danger is
of sacrificing treasures more precious
than gold in the basty pursuit. If
you can gain the goal, and not lose
the pure freshness of heart with which
you began the race aud if you can
use the power attained for culture to
yourselves and blessing TO others, as
good stewards of the manifold gifts of
God, then | think IL ,rW pay. But if
your souls have to shrivel away in the
process, blighted by selfishness or
surrounded by crime, and you must
change from healthy and happy boys
to little withered, croaking old men.
nominal owners Of some earth, brick
and mortar, and quantity of musty
paper, but completely spoiled for the
enjoyment of the free sunlight and
sweet air and beautiful earth, then
you will certainly make bad bar
gain Well may we ask "What is
Il man proii,ed, if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul ?''
Year: 1859

KEEP IouR EYES on YOUR NEIGH
noRs.-Takc care of them. Don't let
them stir without watching. They
may do something wrong if you do.
TO be sure you never knew them to
do anything very bad, but it may be
on your account they have not. Per-
haps if it had not been for your kind
Year: 1859

selves and families, long time


Therefore don't relax any effort To-
keep them where they ought to be ;
never mind your own business, that
will take care of itself. There is
man passing along-he is looking
over the fence--be suspicious of him.
perhaps he contemplates stealing
some of these dark nights there's no
knowing what queer fancies he may
have got into his head. If you SEQ
any symptoms of any one passing out
of the path Of duty, tell every one else
that you can see, and be particular to
see great many. 1t is good way
to circulate such things, and though
it may not benefit yourself, or any ono
else particularly, it will be something
important about some one else. Do
keep something going-silence is Il
dreadful thing; though it is said
there was silence in Heaven for the
space of half an hour, don't let any
such thing occur on earth +; it would
be too much like Heaven for the in
habitants of this mundane sphere. IF
after all your watchful care, you can't
see anything out of the usual way in
any one, you may be sure it is not be-
cause they have not done anything
bad perhaps, in an ungarded mo-
ment, you lost sight of them--throw
out hints, they are no better than they
should bc-that you should not won-
der if people found out what they
were after a while, and then they may
not carry their heads SO high. Keep


it a going, and some one will take the
hint and begin to help you after a
while-then there will be music, and
everything will work like charm.
Year: 1859

GS-We have to thank the clerk Of the
weather for another refreshing shower on
Tuesday last. Fire-places wear a cheer
ful appearance now, and the falling of the
leaves indicate the near approach Of winter.
Year: 1859

The contemplations Of a sick room to
person of religious habits are certainly |
among the most refined and spiritual ex-
periences of life. Nowhere else in life |
does the soul so clearly vindicate its su-
periority TO everything else From the
sick mans window, the whole prospect
has a spiritual hue. All things take their
places in a new and higher order. Intel
ectual and moral qualities seem to invest
the rommonest objects. The delicacies
which delight bis tender senses are mira.
cles of goodness; and he wonders how he
could have ever lived and not seen it be-
fore. The. scale Of being sesms TO be
pitched higher, and more delicately bal
anced. 1t is one of the remarkable
qualities OF the sick room experiences of
a religious mind, to weave everything in
to the plan of goodness. And it is good
it is not an effort of half consenting
mind trying to think that it is the quality
discerned, and so completely does it trans
cend everything else through his high af-
Gnities that it is good. l have never
known of such one as we refer to now,
who did not discern that goodness prevail
ed that it was the ascendant in every



thing and that the minging of relations
in which the eye Of sense sees SO much
that it calls evil, is in reality good. One
who has now passed from mortal sight
said to me, few days before her death,
as from her bed she looked out upon the
few objects that could be seen from her
window Every thing is so beautiful,
| wonder how it Is. These flowers (tur-
ming her eyes to bouquet upon the ta-
ble) fill me with delight" And" said
she, lifting her finger from the pillow and
pointing to the window with a smile,
" there is that cold dead tree it seems to
me the most beautiful thing in the world
/ lie here hour after hour, and look at it,
and think of Gods goodness and love in
putting it there; and then | think of the
goodness of those who bring me these
flowers. Every thing and every body
seems good to me. | never knew that
there was so much goodness in the world
before" Now, whence arises this quick
affinity with all that is kind and beautiful
and benevolent? Why do the little kind
nesses, which spring from the common
ympathies of our nature, enlarge into
great acts of love? Why does nature, in
her very desolation, put on garments Of
beauty and glory filling the weary spirit
with every new delight; The sick room
contemplations Of a religions mind weave
all life's meaning and mystery into the
fabric of goodness and love. Sickness, a,
we commonly esteem it is calamity. Ii
is a calamity, according to our measure Of
evil. No one in his right mind would
pray to be laid PROSTATE with disease
But there are many who from the paths
Of a blessed experience, can thank Coo
that they have been. You may tall
about health as you please, you may ex
tol it as the richest blessing which des
cends upon our mortal lot, and justly


But l ask any one who has ever had {


profound experience of sickness, of sick


ness exalted by the holy influences of re


ligion, if he would exchange those exper


fences for the health which they cost him
Year: 1859

REsIGNATIoN.-Ad deaf and dumb child
was asked if she knew why she was born
thus. The tears rapidly filed the eyes of
the afflicted child, but in moment or two
she dashed them away and with sweet
smile playing upon her thoughtful coun-
tenance, wrote upon her little slate
Even so, Father for so it seemed good
in Thy sight."
Year: 1859

How HE DID III gave her a rose and
gave her a ring, and l asked her to marry
me then; but she sent them all back, in
sensible thing, and said she'd no notion of
men. / told her I'd oceans of money and
goods, tried to frighten her with growl
but she answered that she wasn't brought
up in the woods to be scared by the
screech of an owl, | called her beggar,
and everything bad | slighted her fea-
lures and form till at length | succeeded
in getting her mad, and she ragged like the
sea in storm. And then in moment
| turned and smiled, and called her my
angel and all she fell in my arms like
wearisome child, exclaiming, We will
marry this fall
Year: 1859

The VALUE OF A BIT OF KNowLEDGE.-In
the Plaza before st. Peters at Rome, stands
the most beautiful obelisk in the world. 1t
was brought from the circus of Nero where it
had lain buried for many ages. 1t was one
entire piece of Egyptian marble, y feet high,
Y feet square at the base, and feet square at
the top, and is computed to weigh above 40
tons, and it is supposed to be 5000 years old.
much engineering skill was required to remove
and erect this piece of art; and the celebrated
architect, Dominica, Fontane, was selected
and engaged by Pope Sextus V. to carry out
the operation. A pedestal, 50 feet high, was
built for its reception, and the Obelisk brought
to its base. Many were the ingenious contriy-
ances prepared for the raising Of it to its last
resting place, all of which excited the deepest
interest among the people.


AT length everything was in readiness, and
a day appointed for the great event. A great
multitude assembled to witness the ceremony
and the Pope, afraid that the clamor of the
people might distract the attention of the ar
chitect issued an edict containing regulations
to be kept, and imposing the seyerest penalties
on any one who should, during the lifting of
the gigantic stone, utter single word. Amidst
suppressed excitement of feelings and breath
less silence, the splendid monument was grad
ually raised to within a few inches of the top
of the pedestal, when its upward motion ceas-
ed ; it hung suspended, and could not be got
further; the tackle was too slack, and there
seemed 10 be no other way than to undo the
great work already accomplished. The annoy
ed architect, in his perplexity, hardly knew
how to act, while the silent people were anx-
iously watching every motion of his features
to discover how the problem would be solved.


In the crowd was an old British sailor-he
saw the difficulty and how to overcome it, and
with stentorian lungs shouted, "Wet the
ropes" The yigant police pounced on the
culprit and lodged him in prison the archi-
tect caught the magic words, he put this prop
ositon in force, and the cheers of the people
proclaimed the success of the great undertake
ing. Next day the British criminal was SOL
emnly arraigned before his Holiness his
crime was undeniably proved, and the Pope in
solemn language pronounced his sentence to
be-that he should receive pension annually
during his lifetime.
Year: 1859

The MANIAc's ALLEGoRY.-There is a
man in an asylum in one of the neighboring
States, who became insane in consequence of
failure in business He explains the reason
Of his incarceration as follows q am here
because of mere mistake in business. was
engaged during the Winter in making mos
quitoes' wings, which l expected to sell in the
Summer. | had ten thousand OF them on
hand when the season opened, but unfortu-
They were all left-hand wings, and conse-
quently / lost the sale of them, and was COM
PEELED to suspend paymentP He relates this
story with gravity and earnestness which
testifies to the sincerity of his own belief in
the explanation.
Year: 1859

SUTToN.-A few weeks since a young lady
in Sutton challenged musical gentleman of
that town to plowing match in field near
by. The gentleman accepted the challenge,
not thinking he would be called upon to fulfill
the conditions but Thursday last the young
lady called him out, and he was obliged to
hold the plow for an hour or two while the
young lady rode the horse, to the admiration
of large number who collected to witness the
sport.


A concert held in the Congregational church
last Wednesday was fully attended and gave
great satisfaction. Mr. Lucius MerrifieId of
this city presided at the organ, and his efforts
were received with great favor as usual
Year: 1859

The BosroN BEE does not pretend that it
has any authority for denying that Governor
Banks is unfriendly to the proposed Two
Years Amendment; neither has it made any
attempt whatever to prove that he ever has
favored the measure on the gronnd of its own
intrinsic merits.
Year: 1859

The LOVERS OF GOOD LIVING have their attention par
tculariy attracted towards the well flsnhed saloon of
Messrs. LEWIS TRATER at No. 232 Main street. where
every imaginable variety OF articles calculated afford
substantial aliment to q hungry man, ard crafty the
taste be constantly found Their bill of
day and this evening is admirable. Give them call.