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Year: 1867

some hope that by judicious management a


healthy reaction may take place after time


and the patient may be saved. From the polit-
ical symptoms of the day We are d isposed TO


infer that some of our professed loyalists are SO
fearful that there may De fatal exudation of
| the vital current of Federal patronage and Fed
eral funds from their lovely persons and friends


that they have taken a most alarming political
coDgestive chill They and their attendants


have for some months past been dancing about
before the darkies with their styptics and as


tringents to ensure no fatal hemorrhage while in


the recommendation of registers Care has been
given to notice the pulse of the congestive pa


tients. aud upon the slightest indication that
any artery was pusating in the wrong direction,
which would indicate danger to the congestive
patients, that artery has been taken up and
secured by a lgature, hoping that if they can
only keep the vital current futtering around tho
heart until the next elections, by the judicious
application of mustard and any amount of good
brandy, healthy reaction may take place and
the patients may come forth new men without
the slightest apprehension of danger afterwards.
But without judicious change of treatment we
fear that before the light shall eminate from the
election ballot those patients will be politically
as dead as was the little case to which we have
referred as an illustrative before the dawn of
morn.


3. But the last consideration to which I will
refer, which may have conduced to the sent-
ment that very few of the loyalists are fit to hold
Office is the difidence of the loyal class in pre-
senting themselves to the military officials


That we have been represented by the Con-
feds as green and mean we know. What in
fuencc those representations may have had upon
the military authorities we know not. That we
have been denounced by some of the copper
head Journals as the men of the South
we know, but we know not what influence those
dennnciations may have had upon those officials
now in command in the South and we know
not but similar representations may have been
made by some of the professed loyalists who
have the confidence Of the military authorities.
In consideration Of these facts we know not but
when present ourselves before those military
officials and announce that We are of the loyal
class they may regard one Of the mean men
of the South. Considerations of this character
are superlatively depressing to any one of intel
ligence and refinement.


The result of the call for registers trust may
satisfy the public that whenever there is a call
for persons to fill Offices with good pay there
will be cheerful response upon the part of the
people, and that by judicious selection from
among the applicants, all the Offices necessary
to the administration of the Government may
be creditaby filed by those who can take the
required oath. SEXTUs.
Year: 1867

The use Of this kind of manure has grown so
rapidly within short time as to threaten the
more material interest Of the farmer with injury.
[ do not disapprove Of the use of them as aux


llaries and under proper conditions, but l do
believe that the practice of dosing lard repeat
edly with these powerful stimulants, has a ton
dcncy to jure it permanently. Some writer
in your paper few weeks back, was regreting
the impossibility Of farmers analyzing their own
soils, and being thereby able to select just what
his soil needed, with even more accuracy than
doctor would tell his patient what medicines
and what diet would give him strength. This
would simplify matters wonderfully; but the
fact is that all this knowledge is unnecessary;
and for the best interest of the farmer the fer
tilizcrs are equally SO.


Practically all the soil of this region of North
Carolina is Of the same chemca! composition


1t is all deficient in one element which is essen
tial to productiveness, and that element is lime.
Il We supply this the soil is permanently i'm
proved with proper culture. Geologist5 have
long noticed the difference in the two sections
which they have named respectively the noun
tain and tidewater districts, and they ind their
dividing line at the rocky falls in the rivers.
The region above presents throughout features
of uniformity but differing from the region be-
low. There VIC fud a broken country, hills In
creasing in height till we reach the mount tains.
The growth is of such trees as yield the great
est amount of potash, oak, hickory, dogwood,
&c. The soil is greatly mixed with rock.


This land is generally more fertile than ours,
for the reason that from the gradual disintegra-
tion of the rocks, all containing certain per
cent of lime, through the agency of frost this
essential clement is supplied to the soil. The
soil Of the lower region is altogether different
Here there is no rock ofany consequence. The
son is sandy, the face of the country level, and
the growth almost entirely Of pine. This soii
as acid. Whoever will taste the pine leaf y i'll
readily test its acid quality. A thousand cords
of pine wood will not yield as many grains Of
potash. This is true of the gum, bay, laurel
| and sasafras See the great fertility of locali


ties where there is an outcropping of mari as al
Rocky Point in this county. Lime as NO
manure. All that can be hoped from its use il
to correct the acid Of the soil and allow the ma
tural strength to be applied to the production
Of valuable crops. And if this can be done
| where under the sun is there fncr soiR Ger


tainly, if We can control the pine producing
power and direct it to the production of prof
table crops, we have the very best Of land.
| have much that | would like to communicate
, on this subject, but have already extended
this paper too long. If this meets your ap
! proVal, more anon.
Year: 1867

One Of the most difhcult things connect
cd with the publication Of newspaper Is
to establish the amount Of It's circulation
in q community. In our own city 80 many
declarations have been made respecting
the circulation Of various newspapers, both
dead and living, that the community have
learned to look with distrust upon the
statements Of the papers themselves.


One of our aims has been to avoid say,
ing anything that would weaken the infu
ence Of any journal in our midst, and we
do not propose to do SO now. We shall
content ourselves with saying that we be.
lieve that we have the largest bona fde
circulation within the District of Colum-
bia Of any morning daily published here.
If any Of our morning contemporaries
doubt this statement and desire to test the
question we are ready to investigate it
upon any fair basis that may be estab-
lished.
Year: 1867

Mission home for orphan children Some OF the little
ones Gang with very good effect and good feenY
toward Themselves and their benefactors. pIeasan1
evening enjoyed by all who were present
Year: 1867

IlIarper's Weekly has a letter purpOrt-
ing TO be written from Russian America,
which Is slightly sarcastic and decidedly
funny, We regret that we cannot give
the Illustrations, which are quite rich.
but tie imagination of the reader will
have 10 supply them
Year: 1867

The New York Herald proposes Grant
for President and Lee for Vice Presi-
dent We copy the article


The proposition OF the Herald TO unite
the North and South in solid bond Of
practical union by electing General
Grant President and General Lee Vice
President in 1868 has created a great
deal of excitement, amounting, among
The extreme Radicals, to a panic. One
of this class writes the following letter
from, the city of Brotherly Love;


PHILADELPHIA. March Q, 1867.
]. q. BENNETT. ESQ.,;


DEAR SIR-You require every once
and while somebody to talk plainly TO
you, and in this connection | am con-
strained to say that you made d
fool of yourself by proposing in today s
Herald to run Generals Grant and Lee
on the same ticket for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency in 1868. This would be
an insult TO the loyal people North and
South, and Will never be tolerated, to
connect traitor with loyal man.


Gen. Grant possesses the affection and
veneration of all the people of the North
and the respect of all the people at the
South. Gen. Lee enjoys the affection
and veneration of the South and the re-
spect of the North. Gen. Grant is q
patriot who served and saved his country
in the field. Gen. Lee was rebel, but
confesses now that he was all wrong,
and repents of his former acts. 1t is
one of the principles of Christian charity
to forgive repentant sinner. The
election Of these two soldiers wouli in
sure to the country union and fraternity
at home, respect and influence abroad.


We do not desire to compliment our
correspondent as he compliments us, but
we will say to him that it would be to his
advantage to take few lessons of some
of his Quaker neighbors in good language
and decent manners, and that if we can
succeed in uniting the North and South
and restoring peace, good will and pros
perity to every part of the Union, we
shall be content to allow him and all his
degraded associates to call us "a d
fool as long as we live, and to engrave
the title upon our tombstone when we die:
Year: 1867

THE PROvISCE OF NEwsPAPERS.-Iti Is
unreasonable to expect that the public
press will always publish only such things
as We, individually. shall like. A person
of strictly religious habits and tastes will!
be offended il he sees in newspaper the
account of prize fight. or of something
obscene and sinful. He iorgets that the
newspaper is hut the reflection OF the world
at large and if he is SO fastidious. he
should retire altogether from life. for in a
single street he will find, at any given hour
of the day, what will offend almost all his
senses. He need not read what he consid-
ers to be objectionable in like manner
he need not eat at a table d'hote any high


IT, seasoned dish. He may not like vem-
sou and game, high. Let him order sone-
thing to his taste-a veal outlet without
sauce. But my Lady Gndiva may like
few Of the in delicacies Of the season. and
Lord Coventry may have stomach for
ANYTHING. A newspaper would have few
readers were its dishes of news to consist
solely of pous pastry and tlimsy pu.fs,-


While the tone of newspaper Is moral,
the public cannot complain. The music
of an organ may be of the purest charac-
ter. though the organ itself, and the organ
grinder likewise, may sometimes show
symptoms of the mud aud filth that art
picked up by or scattered upon then


throughout the ramhlngs of the day. Ia
the pure all things are pure, and To tind
fault with newspaper for every mice nj


f,nse" is to display the hypocrisy of !
prudc, or the Stiffness of an ignoramns.


- London Examiner.
Year: 1867

The attempt of the " bastard Republicans
"so-callcd' Of Sebastian county to magnify a
meeting at Greenwood short time since, into
a great gathering, is magnificent humbug.
y gentleman who was present, says there
were not over ten radicals there, and that it
was n Hat stale affair.
Year: 1867




HISTs.-We have probably all of us met with
instances in which a word needlessly spoken
against the reputation of female has become
dark enough to overshadow her whole existence.
To those who are accustomed-not necessarily
from bad motive, but from thoughtessness-tO
speak lightly Of females, we recommend these
hints as worthy Of consideration:


Never use lady's name in an improper place,
at improper time, or in mixed company.


Never make assertions about her that you
think are untrue, or>allusions that you feel she
herself would blush to tear.


When you meet with men who do not scruple
to make use of a woman's name in reckless aud
unprincipled manner, shun them, for they are
the very worst members of the community-men
lost to every sense of honor-every feeling of
humanity.


Many good and worthy woman's character
has been forever ruined, and her heart broken
by lie, manufactured by some villain, aud res
peated where it should not have been, and in
the presence of those whose little judgment
could not deter them from circulating the foul
and Dragging report.


A slander is soon pJ Jopagated and the small
est thing derogrte<Esfo a woman's character will
fly on the wings of the wind; and magnify, as it
circulates, until its monstrous weight crushes its
victim down,
Year: 1867

Like the leaf, life has its fading. We
speak and think of it with sadness. lust as
We think of the asfumn season. But there
should be no sadness at the fading of a life
that has done well its work. If We rejoice
at the advent off new life; if we welcome
the coming of new pilgrim to the uncer.
tainty Of this worlds way,>why should there
be so much gloom when all the uncertainties
are past, and life at its waning wears the
glory Of a complete tasky Beautiful as child
hood is 10 its freshness and innocence, its
beiuty is that of untried life 1t is the
beauty of promise, of spring, Of the bud. A
holler and rarer beauty, is the beauty which
the waning life of faith aed d.ty- -..,.ass.


1t is the duty of thing completed and
as men come together when some great work
Is achieved, and see in its concluding nothing
but gladness, SO ought we to feel when the
setting sun filings back its beams upon a life
that has answered well its purposes. When
the bud drops are blighted, and there goes
all hope of the harvest one may well be sad;
but when the ripened year sinks amid the
garniture of autumn flowers aud leaves. why
should we regret or murmur? And so a life
that is ready and waiting to hear the swell
done" of God whose latest virtues arc its
nobleSt, should be given back to God in un>
complaining reverence, we rejoicing that
earth is capable of so much gadness, aud
Is PERMITTED such virtue.
Year: 1867

Do METALS Grow ?-The question as to
whether metals are in process of formation
has long been mooted, but never satisfacto-
riIy determined. Many hold to the theory
that gold, silver, and other metals, are grow
ing at the present time, or perhaps more
properly, are being collected from minutely
fine particles existing in the atmosphere or
in the earth, in manner to render them
available and if the facts bearing on the
subject were gathered up and presented in
proper shape they would 60 far to establish
The theory. The copper mines of Lake Su-
perior were worked quite extensively by a
race now extinct. In the recent opening Of
some of these mines, it is said that copper
ore, and even masses Of native copper, have
been found in such positions as to lead to
the conclusion that the ore or metal had
grown or formed subsequent to the ancient
working of the mines.


Among the silver mines of Mexico and
Peru there are traditions of the finding of ma
tive silver and ores that formed subsequent
to the opening and working of the mines by
the aborigines.


Some time ago, in reopening silver mine
in the Hartz mountains that had been closed
for several centuries, the timbers used by the
former workers were found incrusted with
silver ore.


In gravel claim in Australia, masses of
iron pyrites containing gold in sufficient
quantities to pay for extracting, have been
found imbedded 10 the cavities of petried
trees, showing the formation of the pyrites
and collection of the gold therein to have
been subsequent to the growth Of the wood.


The fact that we are ignorant of the pro-
cess by which metals are collected in GER
tain localities is no argument against the
theory. We know that plants are formed OF
materials existing in the atmosphere; and
metals may be formed in manner some>
what analogous, though their growth is much
slower.
Year: 1867

If our readers, says the Raleigh Progress,
do not think that it requires nerve to edit a
newspaper, let them read this the experience
OF zone Of them fellows


"One evening-it was moonlight in the
summer time-we sat alone on the porch by
the cottage door, holding that little white
hand in gentle pressure; one arm had stolen
round her waist, and a silent song of joy,
like the music of the night, was on our soul.
Our lips met in sweet, delicious kiss, and
in bending softly to her ear, we whispered
a tale of passionate devotion-we propose l..
In moment she tore her hand from ours
and with look of inefAble scorn, said, "what.
marry an editor? You get out!'
Year: 1867

AS weary traveller was winding his way
through the mud in far west region Of the
country, he discovered young maiden seated
in front of the door of small log house
He rode up in front of the cabin. and asked
The girl for drink of water. He drank it,
and she being the first woman he had seen
for several days, offered her dime for kiss.
The young maiden accepted the,offer, and
received both the kiss aud the dime The
traveller Was about to resume his journey,
but The girl. never before having seen dime
a.ked: "What am to do with the dime?"
"You may use it any way you WISH" said
he, st is yours If that's the case"
said she, "I'll give you back the dime and
take another kiss"
Year: 1867

To MEND CHINA.-Take a very thick so
luton of gum arabic in water, and stir into
plaster of Paris until the mixture becomes
the proper consistency. Apply it with a
brush to the fractured edges of the china,
and stick them together In three days the
article cannot be broken in the same place.
The whiteness of the cement renders it
doubly valuable.
Year: 1867

DURING the war a lady passing from cot
to cot through the wards of hospital, was
shocked to hour a soldier laughing at her.
She stopped to reprove the wretcbed fellow.
"Why, look here, ana am" says he, "you
have given me tract on the sin Of dancing
when I've both legs shot off,
Year: 1867

THE education that does not prepare for
successful living is unworthy the name. A
child should be SO trained that when he
drops into the world he will fall like the cat,
RIGHT side up. and ready for run.
Year: 1867

The latest sensation in Chicago is the discoE-
cry of an honest man, who returned pocket
book containing eighty dollars to its owner. He
did not come from Boston, and i. is not known
what made him settle in Chicago.
Year: 1867

THE VALUE OF ACCURACY is the result
of every days experience, that steady at
tention to matters of detail lies at the root Of
human progress, and diligence above all, is
the mother of good luck. Accuracy is also
of much Importance, and an invariable mark
of good training observation,
accuracy in speech, accuracy in the transac-
tion of affairs. What is done in business,
must be well done for it is better to ac-
complish perfectly . small amount of work,
than half do ten times as much. A wise
man used to say--''Stay a little, that we
may make an end the sooncr.." Too little
attention, however, is paid to this highly
important quality of accuracy. As man,
eminent in practical science, lately observed,
ut is astonishing how few people have
met in the course ofmy experience who can
define fact accurately. Yet in business
affairs, it is the manner in which small mat
ters are transacted, that often decide mer
for or against you. With virtue, capacity
and good conduct in other respects, the per
SOP who is habitually inaccurate cannot be
trusted; his work has to be done over again
and he thus causes endless annoyance, vexa-
ton and trouble"
Year: 1867

In his Preface TO . The Marble Faun,
the author, addressing himself to the pub
lie after silence ofseven years, whimsically
doubts the existence of that sgentle reader
whom he was wont to apostrophize in the
old days. This shadowy person, he says,
"did once exist for me, and Gn spite of the
infinite chances against a letters reaching
its destination without definite address,
duly received the scrolls which flung upon
whatever wind was blowing, in the faith
that they would find him out. But Is he
cxtant now2 In these many years since he
last heard from me, may he not have deem
ed his earthly task accomplished, and have
Withdrawn to the paradise of gentle readers,
wherever it may be, to the enjoyments of
which his kindly charity on my behalf must
surely have entitled him l have sad fore
boiling that this may be the truth. The
Gentle Reader, in the case of any individ-
ial author, is apt to be extremely shortlived; /;
he seldom outlasts a literary fashion, and,
except in very rare instances, closes his
weary eyes before the writer has half done
with him. I'll find him at all, 1t will pro-
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badly be under some mossy gravestone,
inscribed Win ahali-opliterated name which
shall never recognize" But when "lhe
Marble Fauny was published, the day had
long gone by when a line from Hawthornes
pen received anything but the deepest ap-
probation; and II the mystical gentle read
er had indeed died, during his l'rotege's
sojourn abroad, he had, apparently, lett a
very large family behind him to look out
for themselves.


THOSE VINO now lead the "lwice-Ioia
Tales, by Nathaniei hawthorne can scarce
yrealize the TACT that there was time when
this remarkable series was SO comparatively
unknown that the author was more tlan nan
in earnest when he saluted the gentle read
Year: 1867

"A gentleman in New England town
buried his sixth wife last week. Shortly
after the funeral he met the minister who
ofiiciated, and offered him three dollar
greenback. The minister declined to take
ii, saying he was not accustomed to accept
pay for such services. The gentleman coolly
replied, "Just as you say but that's what
I've been in the habit of paying"
Year: 1867

NEGRO TESTIMONY IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Judge an, in his charge to the grand Jury
OF Charleston. a few days ago, said: sFrom
tho character of one of the witnesses to be
brought before you, you will realize the great
change in our laws. The black man is now a
United States and the legislation of our own
State. You will accept his testimony and
give that credit to il to " hich the Intelligence
and character OF the party entitle il. As tar
as color is concerned, there is no distinc ction
as TO the competency Of testimony
Year: 1867

BEWARE OF FAST HoRsYs.-FasI horses and
fast women are two things to be feared. The
Rural New Yorker tells Of q we'll TO dc farmer
In western New York who, when he went
into the fast-horse business, owned q farm OF
hve hundred acres Of as fine land as could be
found in the State, well stocked, valued az the
lowest calculation at five hundred thousand
dollars. He is now poor sot Beware of fast
horses. We never knew q man who had ar
infirmity fer blood horses that did not come to
grief