the carolina watchman vol xi third series salisbury b ft october 30 1879 no 2 for the watchman sleepy hollow 1!t . rr w;»k hi van winkle imirn | u . v.d and plowed iok corn ; be plied hu hoe and rake j sprelieatcliisj-dimiy-cake sire li courted married iheel • sir he rf-«ps fin-ever iwsule keep walking children who vanning iu lh,il ilmxvs - v ,; "' weetr these molten s •" mm-ii iiawr . :., 1,.,,-t ki.ow*-a..d"l d..o:t caie ,.„ | am ami 111 1m here x le'il take all *.«-£..*>• uhui.ie-suinetei.hiid an entry round to ii our class utatmow pown down in bleep hollow wlie-ii they're horn themselves they r|;lllll : yvbea they're spliced why die-k and fanny rrtpehiiwhtr-nuthcr get together ; wijrtitliej'ieoiitstlie cum the weather when ihev'ie in they're last ualeep air ; winn thej p the-y haie-h creep nil ; when thej die themselves the-y bury ; when they're dead straight to old ha ry pi iik-v ntniighter than a swallow n h old rakes froin sleepy hollow '"*' k p ii forthe watchman wings hcbl w iii mifi nd mellow horn ami then presents his bill it noon nl night t earlj morn with pcircvering will l uni jn-4 . reelitor nnd he the ivaj 1 ii-»i things i r unisquitei vei ily in nil except the wings r f leive-lipht in her eye is heaven hei teeth the pearly gate her i/oie-e celestial music given tn < in-cr our lonely fate a wnin.-in ik lutiful sml she the waj 1 figure things * s » good ing i verily in nil except the wings il a , nts afar i fcandal's stink an i gulps the horror down thi-n ipues as quick us you can wink his tale all over town the gossip-gatherer and he the ay 1 figure iliiiil-s is mi old imzzarel verily in all except the wings shi culls for hini tin dainty meal r'nin out ln labor's store ind builds his home ami makes hiin feel all r'mht when toil is o'er the husband man's rood wile and she the way 1 figure things a working bee is verily in all except the wings flisli fish or fowl that's fresh must pay a duty to the de'il in fairest ni thai wise men lay he sticks lii meddling bill the doughty dcimigotrui and he the way i ti arc tilings iejust i green dy verily in ill except the wings the baby hirelie in lii nest liei cikiing soil and warm her lullabies soothe him to re~t — sin shelters him from harm the baby's tender parent she tin way i li-ure things a mother bird i verily in nil except the wings ogwt 1879 e p ii trip lightly trip lightly over trouble trip lightly over wrong nvewly make grief double i'j duelling ou i 1 11-r wli clasp woe a hand si tightl ? vsigli o'er blosoiin dead f ' y cliug to foi ms uii.-dgl.tlv i by not neekjeiy instead j nplislitly i.vei sorrow i hii;!i all theday-j he laik ma may m.iue to-morrow , ali !' «•«'•> wug te la.k t«ir m . |, ls h „ ,| r ,. mrcre4 | ( migh nnee nmv | iavc , 1 . ( - . jmwvw lie down hearted 1,ui ok fo jay inst t j lightly over aad nesn jauil not to rail at doom ( e j e l h mo string of gladneaa nu mile eif the tu.„l tstarsare nightly shining p ai l heaven ise.verhead e 2^g«'i»t.epi,,i„g f i^kforjoj iuslead no iod i-v aits soi!-no god ! v the simplest flow er ' ' e.felew ltre..ible i t,|.,.s l l yj mied echo cries u ? w her eavem hoar ' ti*rc«d atheist lore jj-wbuforeat lift ite head i ) 7 kl mi itseryst.,1 urn ) i|ir " m to grave his name ; h ,,','* {] "' t,ee p *-»»! vengeful sea ft*wnowy track tn i ' f v|lls pes his month jh 1 '" 1 he falsehood back ll hla amsmaa-a--------b^h^ah-b--a----a---------a h « j is pitying and forbearing ' l ' t s he pitying ami h»r bearing 10 our r„n men this is the lesson [: en gravej in golden letters on !, t a,-t all experience t at l ' :, ". ( - l,1 « soul of man proves l '*-€ is iiosatisfaeiidii in indu'g spirit and that uotli grief and wretchedness is to pw from the taking of venge that comet was the flood universal correspondent c presbyterian it is suggested as matter for thought that eden with its garden of delights was probably obliterated by th fl oel few subjects have been such trouble : to the antiquary a the search ibrl'ar adise i he traveler wlw^i-oivs sm limental over some traditional orsup posed site of the garden iihhvs about a-s ridiculous as mark twain weeping at the grave of adam ! the eoitjeci ureof mr guion that eden s-!uotbers beneath the waves of the pacific ocean is hardly more unreasonable tliau sev eral other conjectures concerning its whereaheuits the river that went out of eden to wilier the garden aud from thence was parted ami l-ccame into four heads is an enigma ihe solution of which might identify the site but nobodv has been able to solve it and i pre sume never will be noah and his family of course talk ed iu the same language after as be fore the flood after landing from the ark and beholding the new and i . strange phase ot creation it was nat ural that they fit-mid bestow old names upon objects bearing real or i faue-ird resemblance to those familiar to them before thus the name of some of these ante eleluvian river heads may have obtained their coun terparts as the euphrates for instance while other names iis i'lson gihem exre in iv not have been applied to any of their new streau s at all events there is no river system now which answers to the description iu gene-is the theory of a partial fl mm con fi es it to a comparatively small spot of earth east ed the mediterranean sea as sufficient for the destruction of the then worhl of mankind this is very unsatisfactory the increase of population iu the aute-dj invian epoch must have be-*n in far greater ratio as to time than at present ; for the average life of man was then over five hundred years instead of le<s then one hundred years as it has been sine-e it was two thousand yiars froni adam to the deluge it was about the same length ot time from the establishment of the poinan em pire or the birth of christ thus the race of noah having so nearly an equal start it is reasonable to presume that the increase from ailani in that undoubtedly prolific period was at least as rapid as the increase from xoah the population ofthe roman em pire about the time of c'h ist was one liuudred ami twenty millions the empire theuoecup ed the territory on all sieles of the mediteraneati sea ex tending from the atlantic to the en pit rates three thousand miles iu length and from dacia on the mirth to the atlas mountains on the south two thousanel miles in breaelth though so important in the written history of the world it was but a small portion of the globe of the earth and we know not what multitudes of barba rians liveel outside the limits of the empire — in the farther east in afri ca perhaps also iu america so far ! fremi being an extravagant supposi tion that the numbers outside approx ' filiated the numbers inside the em ■ pi re the probability is they were greater in such case the population lot the earth could not have been less ithan two hu wired and forty millions at a period two thousanel years after ! the flood is it reasonable to suppose ; that the population was less at the deluge two thousand years after man's creation ? and could a flood confined to the valley of the euphrates or even to as large territory as the whole ro man empire have wrought the de ist ruction ofthe human race 1 trow ! not ! it is hard to bring the mind up to an adequate idea ofthe magnitude of this wonderful event in its purpose ami effect ; the teudeney of our poor faculties is stop far short of a true con ception ofthe awful reality jf the universality of the deluge be admitted the premises of the com et do not seem so unreasonable how ever grotesque some of its minor ele ductions may appear on a subject so grand and so fascinating the author of lively imagination may uncota i sciously permit fancy to interfere somewhat with the slow process of in vestigation a universal flood may be consider ed as at once cause and cnnseqiiece of the changes which result in the pres ent status of the crust and surface of the earth how came the old sea shells upon i our highest mountains mr onion's theory as i apprehend it does not re ! quire that t he waters of the flood should have risen to the tops of the mountains at their present altitude lint that the mountains with all their fossil wealth were heaved lip aliove the surface of the waters in the ' convulsions attending the deluge i xo matter how long the times occu pied in the great perieie.s ed creation ; no mutter how numerous and varied the produci ions vegetable animal and mineral oi each successive layer or strut u m of the earth — when all the fountain of the great deep were broken up by the almighty hat ; that is when i i lie internal lories of fire or water e»r | both were set in terrible com motion ami the solid frame of the globe con vulsed and torn by the shocks thereof llie.j tiie tr.ita ol the ld earth above the waters and below the waters down to their deep foundations were shaken anil mi.iklcd iike sheets of ohi parch ment — heaved from the abyss into rounded hill ami lidgy height — or j spread out in plain or vale or riven into horrible fissures with their edges 1 tinned up o the skies iu millions of ] splintered crags the mountain sum : in is of our earth to the superficial observer and po ■ sibly to some profound investigated the great geohrgieal phenomena of ! earth suggests the idea of violence — i of such an earthquake as shook the globe from centre to circumference — i he facts attest that from its depths to it scarred surface our planet has suffered violence at the hand of the maker the tearful convulsions at lisbon at uarraceas and other earth quakes at divers places the eruptions of etna and vesuvius and strotuboli of cotopaxi llecla manua loa aud others may he considered as linger ing echoes of the grand calasthrophe when the primeval nations were sud denly destroyed with their sins upon their heads let not man object that the result of the flood in the destruction of man kind was more than commensurate with the cause to-wit the corruption of mankind in the divine economy moral government is parauiont ami the physical creation in the hands of god subservient witness the flood t e destruction of the cities of the plain ; the plagues of egypt tiie razing of jerusalem and a thousand either in stances iu profane history if we could read them in the light which inspira tion lemls to its records what dignity almost divine — what disgrace almost inferual—docs the mor al power of ohe-ice bestow upon man ! i*>v his own consent the imagination the purpose and desires of his heart became only evil continually ; conse quently his overt sins so abominable that in the strong language of the ea-t it repeuteel the lord that he i had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart hence the hood before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou had-t fe»rmed the earth and the worhl even from ever lasting to everlasting thou art god pa xc 2 this is from a psalm entitled a prayer of moses the man of god — the man skilled iu all the learning of the egyptians acquainted with all the traditions of his own people reach ing directly back to noah ; with whom | the angel of the lord had communed at the flashing bush in the plain of midian and the lord on the thund 1 rous brow of sinai ; whose hand wrote or compiled the b.iok of genesis who knew whereof he spake i trust this paraphrase may not be ' considered an irreverent speculation : before the mountains were brought forth — before the crust of the earth j was rent by the breaking up of all the i fountains of the great deep and the mountains brought forth from the ' abyss of waters and then away back before that or ever thou hadst form ed the earth — the adam laud before 1 the flood where dwelt the first crei tion of man ; and the world that is the earth and the surrounding heavens the system of created things even from everlasting to everlasting thou art god even from before each of these wondrous acts of omnipotence away down into the mysterious future the self existent the eternal he fills his own eternal now and sees oor ages waste timu art god these three wortls have an awful emphasis over whelming to the understanding and imagination of man because connect ed with these specific exhibitions of almighty power now if the reader has not found out that i have writteu nothing new it is not my fault i have merely set forth with little regard to order some prominent thoughts gathered in sup port of a position which i am inclin ed to regard as mainly true the reason for the faith that is in the writer may not satisfy others i wish i could turu on the light ;" but alas what e-an the flicker of my pour taper shew where torches have blazed iu vain s when are women lovely i loveliness in women though it may vary in its character anel mani fest at ions at different period of life is not the property of youth only there is a great ami undeniable charm in a fresh beauty of eighteen to which in experienee and early romance lends perhaps adelitioual fascination a pretty gir ul that age who has been untouched b e-.ire and who knows of ihe world through imagination on ly is a very delightful object ; and ma y men wish they might take cap tive her 6 ist affections between eighteen and twenty-two the changes in a girl se far as the charms e.f her person go are not likely to be great ' but iu that time by longer intercourse with society and by natural develop ment she may get more companie lia ble tor men of maturity and her car riage ami self control become better and greater those are important years in a 3'oung woman's life the years during which in our climate the majority of the sex are married and yet from twenty-two to tweuty tive or tweiny-six a maiden may and generally does still further advance iu attractiveness and add to the store of her charms she is still young but she has outlived some of the youthful fancies and feels some ofthe dignity of womanhood no better ages than those in a maiden's life and never is she lovelier i'lit why stop at twenty-six what fairer women are to be foiin i than many of the.se between twenty-six and thirty and even older girls of eighteen may look ou thciii as unsought old maids aud yet they are in their womanly prime and may capture the hearts that have been steeled against girlish fa sei na tions oftentimes they make the best of wives and men find a solace and companionship in their society which immaturity canned give they have the advantage of experience and they have learned the lesson taught by longer contact with the world while still they may not be averse to falling in love — baltimo rean keep riik mouth shut — the influence of nasal respiration on the ear is illustrated by mr george cat tin is his history of north america indians among two million in dians he found not one who was deaf or breathed through the mouth ex cept three or four deaf-mutes ; and in the memory ofthe chiefs of 150 tribes not one ease of deafness could be re membered to have occurred this is explained by the mother always clos ing the mouth ofthe child whenever it attempted to breathe through it moonshine — gastouu oct 17.—rev enue agent u h blocker assisteel by deputy collector gyles have unearthed gross frauds in gaston county n ('., car ried on by registered grain distillers iu eolusiou willi government officers seiz ures e.f over five hundred gallons of coin whiskey abstracted from the distilleries secreteel by the distillers have already been made and revelations point to more important results the plans of the ring have been exposed mid large seizures of spi.its and important events may be look ed for the f.au.ls to a great e-vtcnt have been penetrated through the sale anel shipment e»f ceirn whisky in kegs tilleel from unstamped packages tiie citizens pr lise the skill ofthe revenue ot hers who have discovered these startling frauds planting trees in autumn spring is the time when planting seems most natural and it is there-fore the time when this weirk is mostly done yet most farmers are less hurried in the fall and can do their work better and at less cost if well de.ne as good results or rather better can be had tram tall plant ing the time should be eaiiy ene.u'-b to have the roots firmly fixeel iu the selil before winter sets in do not water the roots you do not wish te start the trees into growth have the dry se.il nmele as tine as peissibh and closely packed be tween and around the roots and the soil will have all the moisture it needs theu pile up the earth iu a little mound around the trees and they are ready for the wiu ter what remains of this mound should be hoed down in the spring every leaf must he picked eiff and by doing this it is safe te phmt by the first of october or evem earlier if de-si eel the chief cause of failure in tall planting is from hav ing the work poorly done and leaving the trees in a hollow for the water to settle around the roots all winter this is hard usage even for trees firmly established while the tree is not growing its rjots are dormant any excess of wet tends to lot them and with newly transdanted trees » there is not vigor and vitality e gl to resist this tendency hence if the land that you intend to plant on is cold and wet it is advisable to defer plaining till spring so as to give the trees a chance te grow at least one season be fore standiug with wet feet during the i mo ths when they ha ve least vitality to ie-.si.-t disease the better way however oe such laud is to defer planting until the the soil is thoroughly unde-i drained in other words where land is too wet for fall planting it is unlit for planting and growing trees at all willi fall planting on such land the trees die th lirst winter if planted in spring they delude their owner with oue season's growth only to elisappoint him more grievously by dying in becoming so stunted and puny as to be less than nothing j f in country gentleman queen bees and how their vacancies are supplied in a taper read to the qnekett micro scopical club mr hunter states that a fertile queen bee will in four years lay a million eggs twenty-one days are re quirod for the production of a worker bee but the tame egg that produced the worker in twenty-one days could had he bees been so minded have been bred up to a queeu in sixteen days 1 the bees continues mr hunter only rears queens when necessity calls for them either from loss of their old mon arch en apprehended swarming if i remove a queeu from a hive the first of these contingencies occurs and after u few he ins commotion the bees select : certain of the worker eggs or even young larvae two or three days old the cell is enlarged to five or six times its ordinary capacity a superabundance of totally different food is supplied and the result | is that in five days less than would have i been required for a worker a queen is j hatched the marvel is inexplicable i how a mere change ami greater abun dance of food and a more roomy lodging ' should sei transform the internal anel ex ; tenia l organs of any living creature the case is without parallel iu till the animal creation it is not a mere superficial change that has been effceted but one j that penetrates below form and structure to the very fountain of life itself it is a traiisfor ation alike of function of struc ture aud of instinct to make yourself attractive study your style of face and figure and and dress in such a manner that they w ill gain beauty rather than lose it do not j throw yourself into unpictuiesque posi tions do not permit yourself to b call ed by a ridiculous nick-name expressive e.f your peculiar defects aroid mannei isms do not wear masculine looking carmen ts do not stride like a man in i your walk do not mince your steps do not place your arms akimbo if your bads are large and red do not wear rings ii you have red hair do not be ashamed of it remember it was tho hair soum of the greatest painters loved to paint if you ate fat don't loll ou the tables and chairs dou't be sulky and resent inju ries forever implacability injures beau ty more than any other bad passions do not romp ; lioydens'aie never attractive though they may he amusing if you have line teeth do not laugh and grin to show them if vou have tine eyes do not roll them never indulge iu a horse laugh don't be sb.venly ; don't be prim avoid indulgence of bad passions of ev ery kind cultivate cheerfulness take care e.f your health a farmer's wife desired a news paper she oft asi'l'j i lieu carefully saved her eggs and set them raising a fine brood d chickens which more than brought the price oflter favorite paper dr rush pays the smovwg and chewing of tobacco by rendering water and other simple liquids insi pid to the taste dispose very miil-li to the use of brandy and water as a common driuk georgia the nmim tate fair and the ifacox uoxlmevt lsvehvg macon october 17 the georgia state fait will begin on the 29d instant aud ! ceoiiiiim throughout the week the proapeeta are that there will be the larg est agricultural and stock diaplav ever seen here and that the attendance will be imineiise many tine horses are now on the grouuds there will be raciug every day good parses are off ered for all classes during me fair the-re will be a re union of cook's bri aile on the 29th instant the confwlerete niomuneiit here will be unveiled with imposing ceremonies several military companies have been invited to be pre sent a distinguished neater has been selected aud there will be a grand pa rade telernonk talk be very careful what you say to the telephone a tradesman who has a telephone in his residence and at his store received a call at his store recent ly from an out-of-town acquaintance after the customary salutations had passed our friend whom we will designate as mr b . extended to his visitor mr c . a cordial invitation to dine which was readily ac ccpted stepping to the telephone he sig nalled to his wife at home to inform her that c was to dine with them that dav and on c s remarking that he had nev er een the instrument in use he remarked | just step here and tell her yourself he j did so aad said in the hlandest tone our friend mr c , will dine with us to-day i judge of his amazement when promptly there came back to him over the wire the following cheerful response now fred | erick what do you want to bring that fool up here again for when you know i hate the sight of him f it is perhaps needless ' to add that it suddenly occured to mr c — , ; thst on aecount of another engagement he should be unable to accept mr and mrs b's hospitality alter all so sorry "' the onto election and the presi dency.—the republican victory in ohio has an important influence upon presiden tial candidates and prospects it disposes of thurman and ewing and clears the wa for tilden or bayard it will sober the democratic party among the republicans it will give new p o ninence to mr hayes and in the event of his observing his pledge ! not again to be a candidate as we believe he will to sherman on the other hand it is clearly not necessary to nominate an ohio man to carry the state for the repub licans it does not change the aspect ma terially as regards grant but it will be well for the republican part if they get such a sobering in new york as the demo crats have in ohio for the republicans to carry ohio beat butler and to lose new york will be the best possible political for tune lor both parties and most likely to in duce a healthy solicitude for 18(50 — spring field ind republican and even northern malignants fail to make much impression on the colored people of this state the exejdus move ment doesn't bubble to any extent as in iy be seen by the subjoiuded paragraph copied from the organ of the race in north carolina the journal of industry : the exodus fever has broken out in several localities in this state but we do not the think that it will become an epi demic as in other sections a hegira is anticipated by some as soon as the crops are off but we e:an see no indication of any such thing a friend now living iu fe-xas and formerly from new york in writing to as says that neirth carolina is the best state in the union tor the color eel man and he has an idea e»f coming here to live and this is not simply an indi vidual but it is the prevailing opinion among all who know anything about her passenger and the other a member of the crew the men were washed overboard and drowned an account furnished by one of the passengers states that the posi tion ofthe ship when the storm was at its heiiiht was latitude 45 degrees 24 minutes longitude 50 degrees o-i minutes the name of the passenger who was washed overboard is said to bee simpson the gale was from the northeast tiie re union north carolina ready to clasp hands across the mythical chasm the demonstration at salisbury on last thursday in the practical illustration of a desire to heal the wounds between the peo ple ofthe different sections ofthe union made by the late war was a grand success while the celebration was held in salisbury and local to that extent it was participated in by the governor ofthe state one of our united states senators several congressmen and quite a number of other prominent gen tlemen who could not afford if they would to utter words of peace harmony and recon ciliation unless there was an underlying . current of popular opinion in the same di . rection indeed the demonstration with its . large crowd of old confederate soldiers was only the legitimate outgrowth of that sentiment the right hand of peace and fellowship was extended to the north by the celebration not less than by the utter ances of the distinguished speakers in no idle or unmeaning terms and showed un mistakably that the desire to perpetuate ill feeling between the people of the different '! sections of the union to-day — indeed if it i ever had — has no place in the hearts ofthe people of north carolina in desiring to ' i allay any feeling of sectional strife let us ! i not be understood to say that there is or i ever can be any wish to forget the memories i of that struggle the courage the endur ance the ability and the zeal which the peo ple of north carolina displayed in tha struggle are ami ought to be a diadem in the coronet which we will leave as a legacy ■ i to our children these will be treasured up i and only grow brighter as they are burnish i cd up by the coming historian they mark nur nationality our civilization for all time • to come iml will yet become a bright inetn 1 ento in the history ofthe anglo-american ! people the celebration 1 ' the people of salisbury at which place ' n is generally knwwu is a large feieral cemetery and at which pe.int also daring the war were confined large numbers of prisoners captured in battle conceived tbe the idea that tor these very reasons where the embers of hostility were supposed to ex ist in the lanrest deeree that city would be a proper place to give it the first oflicial de nial and the gran 1 success which marked the culmination ofthe idea ought to lie sat isfactory to their highest ambition the weather for several days had been unpropi ttous and many fears were entertained that rain would break up the celebration but dame nature gave the people a beautiful day and as early as 7 o'clock the lowering murky clouds which marked the earlier hours of the morning where dispelled by a magnifi cent autumnal sun and at sunrise the boom ing of cannon announced the beginning of the celebration e\ery arriving train brought hundreds of people from the sur rounding counties while the country folks came pouring in from every direction tne rnogramile at ten o'clock all the visiting and local bands of miwic and their name is legion — assembled on the public square and enter tained the crowd with music at eleven o'clock a procession was form ed and the column proceeded to harrison's grove in tbe western suburbs of the town under the leaek-r~hip of gen root ransom as chief and cant jas r crawford w g mcxeely benj allen knox jacob h fish er ii c bo-t c r barker john c.foard h g miller of rowan robt gil-son of concord maj w b clement of davie dr j f beal and capt p c bobbins of da vid-on capt j graham of alamance col c a cilley of lenoir capt w s ball of greensboro col thos b long of bun combe and capt ii y reid of guilford as assistants among the list of marshals were men of prominence in both the federal and confed erate armies and we will take occasion just here to remark that all the deliberations of the celebration were non-sectional ami abso lutely non-political as is indicated bv the selection ofthe marshals the stores and many private houses were decorated with national bunting and if the loyalty of the people of salisbury can be estimated by the number of united states flags that were dis played it ought to be satisfactory to both messrs conger and chandler of michigan or any other bloody shirt waver the procession being formed moved to harrison's grove where a stand had been erected for the accommodation of both the speakers and the audience in which were many ladies gathered around it in a quiet and orderly manner os the stand were his excellency gov t j jarvis non alfred m scales hon d g fowle hon w m bobbins col w l saunders hon j m leach gen robt ransom hon f c robbins gen rufus barringer col wm johnston col w ii h cowles col paul b means major c e merril major w f halleck of the united states army and other distinguished gentleman to capt chas price had been assigned the duty of introducing he speakers and to say that ho acquitted himself handsomely is only say ing what everybody would concur in o n he stand were the following representatives of the ckkss j i mcree raleigh obscrrcr john wooel house concord register r d gourlcy concord sun j j bruoner carolina watch man j j quantz salisbury daily netes james robinson winston leader j r bir.key lenoir topic w ii deaver ashe ville jon mai and has r jones charlotte observer the management are entitled to the hearty thanks of the members of the press present for preparations which had been made for them in lhe matter of loca tion chairs and tables as this little fore thought is so uncommon at the south we desire to make this recognition of the favors extended in the hope that it is tho begin ning of a reformation in this particuh-t which will distinguish future occasioi ' this kind the vast audience had scarcely assembl around the speakers stand when within close proximity a battery of artillery under a well trained impromptu company was turned loose there was a general under standing that the cannon were londed with blank cartridges and while the deep inton ations ofthe black mouthed monsters re called to ninny a mind the scenes of carn age and incident ofthe actual battle-field the marked absence ofthe sound of the hurtling shell with its unearthly shriek gave every face the expression of safety at least tiik kpeakixo as has been stated the stage had been handsomely decorated with national flag and emblematic ofthe relations existing be tween the united states and the statu ot north carolina it was peculiarity appro priate that the governor of the state should be the 6rst speaker and mr pri<*e intro duced hon thos 1 jarvis he commenced his remarks by a pleasant allusion to his services in the confederate army as the aimless right arm which hung listlessly by his side abundantly testified with them lie has tramped fought suffered and starved they had fought for a cause which was lost and a flag which was furled forever and while no shaft now marked tho resting place ot the hundreds of his com rades who today slept in unknown graves their memory would be green in the affec tions of i is people he did not oty-ct to