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Year: 1873

Among the greatest curses to the
South are the National Currency sys-
tenn and the laws regulating it. The
principle upon which the system is
based is bad enough, but the manner
in which it has been regulated is far
worse.


Even if it be lawful, under the
"power to coin money!" it certainly is
not expedient, for the Federal Gov
ernment to decide for the people of
North Carolina what and how much
currency they shall use in the transac-
ton Of their business. Until we re-
turn to the principle of free banking,
regulated only by the law of supply
and demand in the volume of currency,
we will continue to be ground to the
earth Just as we now are.


During the war the free banking
system was supplanted by the National
Currency system. That currency was
limited in amount and restricted also
in the manner of its distribution. The
Government, having assumed that a
certain amount of currency was suffi-
cient for the uses of the country,
ordered it to be distributed according
to representative population. Subse-
unent amendments changed this rule
of distribution.


We well remember an incident that
occurred not very long after the close
of the war; A New Yorker, who had
called to see us on business, gave as a
reason for Il speedy return home that
he was Interested in the formation of a
new bank. On being reminded of the
fact that his State had already received
more than its share, his response was
that prominent politician had been
made director and given a certain
amount of stock, and that through hil
influence at Washington City, it was
intended to secure "a slice from the
Southern loaf"


How uneaually the currency was
distributed will be seen when it is
stated that, in order to equalize its
distribution among the several States
upon the basis of wealth and popula-
ton, an increase of ninety-four mil
lions of dollars was required. Fifty.
Year: 1873

mean anything at all, they mean to


pave the way to amalgamation and
misceccnation of the black and the
white races. And the motive for this


great crime against nature is the hope
that the white people will get onc-half
of the offices i'll the State of Louisiana.


The crime of the act is eGIallcd only
by it's folly, and ought to be denounced
Throughout the whole country III the
1iainest possible terms. There is no


middle ground to take in such Il mat
ter, no halting between condemnation
and approval Of these Bea,lrcgard resO-
lutions. Nor can amy nope of party
success justify any one IN withholding
his condemnation Of them. Any at
tempt to build mp n party upon the
Issue or by the means proposed i'll the
Beauregard resolutions will fail, as it
ont to fail, more certainly and far
more deservedly than did the attempt
to elect Horace Greeley by the aid of
Southern votes.


We trust no such attempt will be
made. We trust that the people of
Louisiana will repudiate the propo-
sition of General Beauregartl and his
Committee. We trust that General
Beauregard himself viii retrace his
one false step, and employ the remain
der of his life in seeking to cleanse
his pro1ld escutcheon from its one foul
damning blot. We would not have
his name go down to eternal infamy
with those of Longstreet and Benedict
Arnold
Year: 1873




Dear JOur;aaI One Of the main
attractions which the little village of
Enfield offers to a visitor who remain
over Sunday, is the opportunity of
spending a few hours with The
Shakers" From my earliest rocol-
lection, I had heard and read much Of
the habits, religion and mode of living
of that peculiar sect, and yesterday,
for the first time, l had the good for-
tune to be an eye witness to those
strangest of strange ceremonies which
characterize their sabbath worship.


Tie Shaker settlement is situa-
ted on the western border of Masonry
Lake, a broad and beautiful sheet of
water, over which a magnificent bridge
has been erected. The morning was
bright and sunsLiny, the air was full
of the perfume of wild woodland flow
ers, and feathered choir sang praise
anthems in the tree tops. The road
leading from the hotel to the rustic
church is one affording Il sense of
varied beauty and picturesque sweet
ness rarely equalled out OF the Granite
State. On one side Il circular range of
high, detached hills. crowned with
soft, aerial vapors, and clothed in yer
dure, and long line of highly cutiva-
ted fields; on 1.-THE other, the smooth
crystal mirror in which man may see
reflected the image of his imperfect
nature, the defective and sin-detiled
parts showing all the more plainly be-
cause of the immaculate surroundings.
Musing on the lessons to be deduced
from a contemplation of the landscape,
I came, after short and most enjoy
able ride, to number of snowwhite
houses, prettily grouped around a
long, flat building with a broad plat
form in front and tall maple on either
side. This I learned was the church.
Vehicles innumerable were before and
behind me, and by following the move
ments of the former, [ soon found my
self in grassy square, enclosed by a
substantial board fence, to which, at
the proper distances apart, iron rings
] were attached for the accommodations
| of those visitors ''having horses to
hitch" Being one of those fortunates,
I secured ring and having fastened
| the ''Princess" to it. looked around to
| see where L should make the next
move. Crowds OF people We're
pouring into the church i'll two
lines. and I innocently fell in with
the one nearest me. A half srnothered
laugh in my rear, when we reached the
church door, made me think something
was amiss, and Just then a little
s'piece of pink and white tyranny
whispered in my ear, ."Ehey will not
allow you to pass here, sir. The males
go in at one door, the females the
other" Sure enough And was SO
absent-minded that had not noticed
this separation of the sexes. L ex-
tracted myself, though not without
difficulty, from the female train, and
went over to my proper place. Thus
Year: 1873

The following are the eight proposed
amendments to the State Constitution,
to be voted on the first Thursday in
August, and which We're agreed to at
the last session of the General Assem-
bIy
Year: 1873

Amend section six of the first article
by striking out the first clause thereof,
down to and including the word "but, -
this being the clause relating to the
State debt.


Strike out section four of the fifth
article relating to taxation to pay the
State debt and interest.
Year: 1873

the coast of Martinique. The persons
who saw It gave n, precise description
of it before a notary. They affirm that
they saw it wipe its hands over its face,
and even heard it blow its nose.


Some naturalists have pointed out
characteristics in marine animals which
afford a very probable groundwork for
many of the current mermaid-stories.
Witness Sir J. E. Tennent's account of
the dugong tsThe rude approach to
the humane outline, observed in the
shape of the head of the creature, and
the attitude Of the mother while suck
ling her young, holding it to her breast
with one hipper, while swimming with
the other, holding the heads of both
above wafer and, when disturbed, sud-
denly diving and displaying her fish
like tail, these, together with her habit
ual demonstrations of strong maternal
affection, probably gave rise to the fable
of the mermaid" Woman or fish,
normal or abnormal, the mermaid has
taken good hold of poets and COM
posers, interlude writer's and farce
writer's and the mermaid IN Fleet
Street was one of the famous old taverns
of past days. The orthodox mermaid
has Of course, a comely maiden's face,
with beautiful hair, which she is comb
ing with one hand, while IL the other
she holds a looking-glass.
Year: 1873

What we call 60 turning point is
simply an occasion which sums up and
brings to result previous training.
Accidental circumstances are nothing
except to men who have beer, trained to
take advantage of them. Erskine made
himself famous when the chance came
to him of making a great forensic dis
play; but unless he had trained him
self for the chance, the chance would
only have made him ridiculous. There
is the story told of some gentleman,
who, on battlefield, happend to bow
with much grace to some officer VIII ad-
dressed him, q cannon-ban Just went
through his hair, and took off the head
of one behind him. The officer, when
he saw the marvellous escape, Justly
observed that no man ever lost by po-
hteness. There is a man in Berk-
shire, England, who has park with
walled frontage of seven miles, and he
tells of a beautiful little operation which
made nice Istle addition to his for
tune. He was in Australia when the
first discoveries of gold were made.
The miners brought in there nuggets,
End took them to the local banks. The
bankers were a little nervous about the
business, uncertain about the quality of
the gold, and waited to see its character
established. This man had taste for
natural sciences and knew something
about metallugy. He tried each test,
solid and fluid, satisfied himself of the
quality of the gold, and then, with all
the money he had or could borrow, he
bought as much gold as might be, and
showed profit of a hundred thousand
pounds in the course of day or two.
His "luck" was observation and knowl-
edge, and happy tact in applying them.
The late JOsephy Hume went out to
India, and while he was still young man
he accumulated considerable fortune
He applied himself to the hard work of
mastering the native languages, and
turned the knowledge to most profitable
account. On one occasion, when all
the gunpowder had failed the British
army, he succeeded in scraping to-
gether large amount of the necessary
materials, and manufactured it for the
troops. When he returned to England
he canvassed with so much ability and
earnestness for seat in the East India
directorate, that he might carry out his
scheme of reform, that, though he failed
to get the vote of a certain large propri-
etor of stock, he won his daughters
heart, and made a prosperous marriage.
And marriage is, after all, the Quickest
bit of luck, when it is all it should be.
There is, then, in life, moments, critical
moments, that are worth more than
years !; nevertheless a great occasion is
only worth to a man what his antece-
dents have enabled him of it, and our
business in life is to prepare for these
supreme moments, these hours when
life depends on the decision of the in
slant. Whatever of truth is yelled
under thepopular idea ofluck and chance
is, rightly consldred, an incentive to the
busiest industry, not an excuse for
folded hands and idle dreams.- Fred
eTicE arnold.
Year: 1873

A Mr., Peck had long entertained the
idea that he could invent self-acting
sewing and he did. he pro-
cured a s. eel ribbon spring about twenty
feet long, and of sufficient power to run
a horse-car. This he rugged on his
wifes sewing-machine with a lot of
clockwork. and it appeared to him,
when he finished the Job that evening,
that he had realized his hopes. If any
sewing-machine ever woald go that one
would, so he wound it up ready for use
in the morning, and went to bed. At
At four o'clock Mrs. Peck aroused him
and told him to listen to the burglars In
the house. He listened and heard a
most terrific racket in the sitting-room.
1t appeared to him that there must be a
million burglars refreshing themselves
with a prize-fght. So he loaded his
gun, crept softly over, and peeped
through a crack in the door. It was not
barglars, it was Mrs Peck's sewing
machine. The peg had slipped out and
that spring was having full play. 1t
would rear the machine up on one end
and charge it three or four times ike a
battering-ram against the glass front of
the bookcase then it would wheel
around and suddenly tear across the
room, and butt up against the mantel-
piece, and it would lie down and roll
over the floor, and hammer the sofa,
tear up the carpet, and boost the center
table and try and Jam a hole through
the wall, and then endeayor to leap up
on the chandelier. Then as Peck en-
tered the room, it few at him, and tore
in and out between his legs, the wheel
revolving like lightning all the time,
and the spring gradually unwinding.
1 And then Peck retreated and the family
all got up and got a mattress of the
bed, with which they coyered the ma
chine, and sat on it for n while, but
finally pushed it out Of the window into
the yard, where Peck piled boxes and
ash barrels and slop-buckets and fence
! pailings and wagon-wheels on to it 70
keep it still. But all night under the
heap it kept up a continual buzz and
snort and hum, so that one of Mr.. Bird
sails boarders fred at it sixteen times
with the impression that it was cats.
! Peck has presented his better half with
a new sewing machine, and he is salts
fed for her to run it with her feet. He
is taking a short vacation in the study
/ of mechanics at present. Nelps.
Year: 1873

One of the most frequent errors we
all make in life is the valuing the thing
accordingto the difficulty of obtaining
it, and this error is universal. We do
not believe anybody is free from it.


No doubt the desire of overcoming a
difficulty was implanted in the human
breast for very good reasons, but we
have carried this desire to an extreme,
and it mostly renders us blind as to the
real value of the object we pursue. In
love, for instance, the easiest conquest
is the best. We know that this is a
very daring remark, but we are pur-
suaded that tits true one. The love
which soonest responds to love, even
what we call love at first sight, is the
surest love, and for this reason, that it
does mot depend upon any one merit or
quality, but embraces in its view the
whole being. That is the love which is
likely to last, incomprehensible, unde-
Unable, unarguable about. But this
love often fails to satisfy man or woman,
and he or she pursues that which is
difficult to obtain, but which, from that
very circumstance, is not the best for
him or her. The same thing occurs IN
friendship. The friends that are the
easiest made are the best friends and
the most lasting. But often an i'll
conditioned or even cant,snkerous
man offers some attraction, by reason of
difficulty to other men to gain his friend
ship. After much effort, what friend
ship this man can give is perhaps gained.
and is ultimately found out to be worth
but little. AS an additional argument
for not being led away by the difficulty
of the pursuit, let us remember how
very short life is. In material things
the folly of pursuing them eagerly,
merely because the pursuit is difficult,
is very apparent. A man Will seek af-
ter some almost hopeless honor, or
some station in society which he never
attains, or finds worthless when at
tanned, ahd all the time he neglects the
I pleasant things IN life which are around
him, and within reach Of his hand The
daisies and the primroses and the vio-
lets he passes with an unheeding eye,
caring only for some plant that bios
SONS once in a hundred wears. We re-
peat our belief that the most frequent
error in life, is the placing an inordi-
Hate value, merely on account Of its
difficulty, upon that which it is dificult
to attain; and we would have for a
motto one that has never yes been Sc
Iected by mortal man, and which should
run thus Choose the easiest" We
are not afraid of quelling mems efforts
in high endeavsr by this motto. They
win always be prone enough to run af-
ter what is difficult. Arthur Helps
Year: 1873

The immense increase OF writer's in
this age accounts in some degree for the
falling-off of good takers. In the cir
cles where we look for examples in this
subject we shall frequently find some
busy intellect that needs rest and quiet
after the labor of his pen, and TO whom
the necessity Of talking would be an
iniurious strain on overtasked powers.
Writing has become a recognized pro-
fession only within the past century.
The tone toward the press before that
time indicates how little share 1t had in
the distinctions Of society; and lodies,
bospitable TO all besides, can derido
"hireiing scribblers" as a hungry
crew." without thought Of satisfying
natures cravings at their own tables.
If n friend is criticised by the journals,
Il is explained that "the scribblers get
n dinner by il. ''It would be cruel to
prudRe them their morsel, and an un-
popular or political leader is expected
to "fatten many starving authors"
When good talking would at least get n
man dinner in good company, nobody
would throw himself on his pen for
meager support till he had failed orprov-
ed himself unfit for social successes, IN
Guiding a patron and the chance OF pen
sion. Things are changed SINCE the
time when it was the boast ct Bulstrode
that the paper used 70 remain unopened
day after day. Those who have enter
tanned the world by their talk in the
eighteenth century now mirror society
10 as Of the nineteenth, and through
different medium. We do no not deny
that it is some compensation for the old
fash or flow Of wit, but It is very far
from being all again, if it helps as to
do without each others company.
Looking throughth country sa a whole,
We doubt if ever, since society framed
itself, soeiability was 50 much out OF
fashion as it is now and there are
causes at work which seem more likely
TO extend the breach than to solder Il
up. For there is growing resentment
Of patronage, an assumption OF equal
term in all familiar contact, which
threatens 10 convert every invitation 70
dinner into an act OF humiliation or Of
self-assertion. It is pleasant enough to
entertain interiors ~ such, but pride
takes the alarm when advantage is taken
Of its condeseensions and the more
grades multiply and the scale Of preeo-
dence rehnes itself, the more contracted
VIII be even the possibilities Of GO
NAL social intercoarse.-L London Satlir-
day Revfes0.
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you SEQ around tkis
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
You are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and PATRONS,
but cash alone win pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to g strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


ET We enter no new names on our
books without tho nlonev in adv1' &c.
Year: 1873

One of the yealthiest corporations
on the face Of the earth is the New
River company, which supplies a large
part Of London with water. One-quar-
ter of q share was sold, the other day,
for &c, 600 sterling, while the face
value Of an entire share Is one pound
only Yet the protector Of this corpora
ton, scores Of years ago, lost kis for
tune In the concern, and died IN the
work house and several companies
which took up the business successfully
failed.
Year: 1873

On. ANDERSON of Edinburgh. Scot
land, has proved by actual analysis
that the last gill Of milk drawn from
the udder Of the COW contains sixteen
times the amount Of cream incident 10
the first one, the separation Of tho
cream from tho milk taking Plsco
part in the udder, particularly in IN
stances where the aninaI IS suffered TO
stand at rest for somesime before milk
ing.
Year: 1873

unspeakable gratitude of such women
as viii pledge themselves to make re-
turn In teaching, by giving the meager
opportunities of a normal school, they
will give her nothing more. visited a
normal school last summer, and I think
the small case Of philosophical appar
atus which I saw was its all, while its
art gallery and cabinet of natural his
tory consisted of a plaster Clyte on
shelf in one corner, balanced by a hor-
nets nest on corresponding shelf in
another. If man. can soothe women by
launding with his lips the divine inhu-
ence of motherhood while he abuses
his power to defraud her of the owner
ship of her children, we have the testi-
mony of the past that such viii be the
price Of exchange in the future. Mary
q Elgef,7702
Year: 1873

4 QUAKER PRINrER's Proverbs. Thou
. shouldst never send an article for publication
without giving the editor thy name; it often
times secures publication to worthless articles


Thou shouldst not rap at the door of print
lug office, for he that answcreth the rap loses
time.


Never do thou loaf about, and ask questions
or knock down type, or the boys will love you
like they do shade trees-when thou leavest.


Thou shouldst never read the copy on the
printers case, or the sharp hook containing
thereof, or he may knock thee down.


Never inquire thou of the editor for the
news, tor behold it is his business at the ap-
pointed time to give it to thee without asking.


1t is not right that thou shouldst ask him
who Is the author of articles, for it is his
duty to keep such things unto himself


When thou dOst enter his Office, take heed
unto thyself that thou dost not look at what
may be laying open or concerneth thee not,
Tor that is not meet in sight of good breeding.
Neither examine thou the proof sheet, for
1t Is not ready to meet thine eyes, that thou
mayest understand.


Prefer thine own town paper to any other,
and subscribe for it Immediately.


Pay for it in advance it shall be well
with thee and thine.


Gut the above out and but it 10 your hat fol
future reference
Year: 1873

REAL EsTAR-A SALE OF so LOTS in a hand
some parI of this city will take place on the 17tb
Of April. Those who want to buy good lots thai
will soon be In demand for building purposes,
should consult the advertisement of NJ. NJ. Child
& Co., in another column. These lots will be
sold without reserve TO the highest bidder, and
should be looked alter by such wish TO
double their money by an Investment within a
very short time,
Year: 1873

The proprietor of this celebrated medicine, trstlv
claims for it a superiority over all remedies
ever offered to the public for the safe certain
ny and permanent cHre of Ague and Fever. or
thiiis and Fever, whether of short or long stand
ing. lie reiers to the entire Western and south
ern country to bear him testimony to the truth Of
the assertion that IN whatever will it fan
10 cure If the directions are strictly followed and
carried ont In great many cases single dose
has been sufficient for i cure, and whole families
nave been cured by single bottle, with perfect
restoration Of the general health II is. however.
prudent and in every case more certain of cnre II
its nse is continued in smaller doses for week or
two after the disease has been checked, more es-
pecialy in dificult and long standing cases. Usu-
ally this medicine viii not require any aid to keen
the bowels In good order. Should the patient.
however, require cathartic medicine. after having
taken three or four doses of the tonic. a single
dose Of Bulls Vegetable Family Pills will be sufli
Cient,
Year: 1873

Our citizens will be delighted to know that it is the intention of mayor and council to have the earth now laying alongside those man-traps of the plaza, commonly known as 4'ditches," removed and used for filling in end leveling low places in our streets. On learning this, many, we know, will say +can't remove it any too fast to suit we us and company"
Year: 1873

Glorious hop at Headquarters, Tuesday evening last, in honor of promotion of Gen Crook. Beautiful ladies, brave men, excel lent music, and everything good to eat and drink. Sorry our epizootic kept us from go- ing down, pitching into the good things pro vided by the Generals excellent wife, keep ing step to the music and adniring the fair
Year: 1873

The 'fattest mule we have in many days laid eyes upon was one recently brought here from the mountains, by Charley Fay Tor, and its fat came of eating good Arizona grass, without animal pepper or salt, known here as corn and barley.
Year: 1873

CURE FOR EPIzooTIc There is in Peoples Valley spring, the water of which, when drank, has cured many an animal of the epizootic. So we are informed by reliable gentlemen. The next thing in order is to test it's curative powers on man. If it cen tres him, lots of us will go down there.