Carolina Watchman

              y the carolina watchman vol viii third series salisbuby v c jtoe 17 1877 no 34 shoemaker and naturalist in an article with the above title ln harper's maimzine for april mr s s qnsust thus describes the adventures of thomas edward the subject ot mr smlless recent biography : when twenty years old edward went to banff to work at his trade three years later he fell in love with a comely bright and cheerful lass and after a short court ship married her and began housekeep ing on about two dollars and a half a week poor as they were they were content and happy edward at once liegan to make collections of the objects gathered in his walks he had acquired the art of pre serving birds as well as insects unfor tunately he kuew almost nothing of the books and was unable to write he did not possess a single work on natural his tory and did not know the name of the birds aud animals he caught nd whose habits he was familiar with all his knowledge had been gathered by himself and was his own to assist him iu procuring specimens of birds and animals edward bought an old gun it was so rickety that he had to tie the barrel tothestock with a piece of thick twine he carried his powder iu a horn and measured out his charges in the bowl of a tobacco-pipe his 6hot was contain ed in a brown paper bag a few insect bot tles some boxes for moths and butterflies and a botanical book for plants constitu ted the rest of his equipment as he did not cease work until nine o'clock at night nearly all his researches were made after that hour he had to be back to his work in the morning at six his wages were so small that he could not venture to abridge bis working hours he never speut a moment idly nor a penny uselessly as soon as his work was done he would set out with his supper stowed away in his pocket to lo§e no time and so long as it was light he scoured the country looking for moths beetles birds or any other living thing that came iu bis way when it became so dark that he could no longer observe be dropped down by the side of a bank or bush or a tree whichever came handiest and there he dozed or slept un til the light returned theu he got up and again began his observations which he continued till it was time to go to work sunday was his only day of rest by twelve o'clock sunday night however he was up and away his neighbors used to say of him it's a stormy night that keeps that man edward in the house in fact he never staid at home except sundays weather never daunted him when it rained be would look out for a hole in the bank and thrust himself into it feet foremost he kept his head and his gun out watching and waiting for any cas ualties that might happen lie knew of two such holes both iu sand banks and both in woods which he occasionally fre quented they were foxes or badger's dens if any of these gentry were inside when he took up his position they did not venture to disturb him if they were out they did the same except on one oc cassion when a badger endeavored to dis lodge him showing its teeth he was ob liged to shotit it he could often have shot dears and hares which came close up to where he was but they were forbiden animals and he resisted the temptation he shot owls and polecats from his am buscades number of moths came danc ing about him and many of these he secured and boxed sending them to their long sleep with a little drop of chloroform sometimes he would take up his quar ters in a barn a ruined castle or a church yard his objection to these places was the gieateriiiiinbers of unpleasant visitors than elsewhere — polecats weasels bats rats and mice not to speak of hosts of night-wandering insects moll asks beetles 6laters centipedes and snails think of having a polecat or a weasel sniff-sniffing at your face while asleep or two or three big rats tiig-tuging at your pockets and attempting to steal away your larder boyndie church-yard a most uncanny place after dark was frequently his lodg ing place greatly to the amazement of his superstitious neighbors he sometimes had severe encounters with nocturnal roamers one night while sleeping in the ruined castle of the boyne about five miles west of banff he was attacked by a large and ferocious polecat edward could have shot the creature but he never wast ed powder and shot upon any thing he could take with his hands the animal leaped upon him as he lay ou the floor and was seized by the throat by the watch ful naturalist i thought says edward that be would have torn my hands to pieces with his claws i endeavored to get him turned round so as to get my hand to the back of his neck how he screamed and yelled !. . and then what an awful stench he emitted during his struggles after struggling with the brute nearly two hours edward bethought him ofhischlorform bottle and with adose from that ended the fight he was quite exhausted with the long contest but as he had secured a large and valuable spe cimen for his collection he felt repaid for all it had cost him in this manner edward passed several years working at his trade by day and making his rounds as a naturalist by night in four years he had made a collection of nearly a thousand insects secured in twen ty boxes which were piled one upon an other face downward to keep out the dust on looking at them one day he found that rats or mico had destroyed the j whole collection this was a heavy mis ! fortune for a man in edward's position ; his wife seeing the empty cases asked i him what he would do well said he ' it's an awfu disappointment but i think [ the best thing to do will be to set to work i and fill them again he did so and in ! another four years he had as large a eol ■ lection as the first by the year 1645 he i had preserved nearly two thousand speei . mens of living creatures found in the : neighborhood of banff about half the | number consisted of quadrupeds birds | reptiles fishes crustacea star-fish zoo i phytes corals sponges and other objects | he had also collected an immense num j ber of plants some of the specimens j were in bottles but the greater number were in eases with glass fronts he could not'afford to have the cases made 1 y a joiner ; so he made the whole of j them himself with the aid of his shoe i maker's knife a saw and a hammer : there were about three hundred cases in , all an exhibition of this collection at a ! fair held at banff yielded him a small sum of j money and encouraged him to try the same ! experiment at aberdeen in the hope that he might be able to give up his trade and de vote all his time to natural history but he was doomed to a sad disappointment few people went to see the collection and he was obliged to part with it to de fray the debt incurred in moving it to aberdeen the sale brought only 20 10s the collection went into the hands ofa private gentleman who suffered it to go to ruin edward went back to banff j disappointed but neither soured nor dis heartened aud resumed his trade and his researches sacrifice of a hindoo widow 7 . news of the widow's intentions having spread a great concourse of people of both sexes the women clad in their gala costumes assembled round the pyre in a short time after their arrival the fated victim appeared accompanied by the brahmins her relatives and the body of the deceased the spectators showered chaplets of mogree on her head and greet ed her appearance with laudatory excla mations at her constancy and virtue the women especially pressed forward to touch her garments — an act which is considered meritorious and highly desirable for ab solution aud protection from the evil | eye ■ the widow was a remarkably handsome i woman apparently about thirty and | most superbly attired her manner was marked by great apathy to all around her and by a complete indifference to the preparations which for the first time met 1 her eye from this circumstance an im i pression was given that she might be un der the influence of opium ; and in eon ! fortuity with the declared intention of the european officers present to interfere . should any coercive measures be adopted t by the brahmins or relatives two tnedi ! cal officers were requested to give their [ opinion on the subject they both agreed j that she was quite free from any influence j calculated to induce torpor or intoxica tion captain barnes then addressed the wo man desiring to know whether the act i she was about to perform were voluntary i or enforced and assuring her that should | she entertain the slightest reluctance tti j the fulfillment of her vow he on the part ofthe british government would guaran | ty the protection of her life and property j her answer was calm heroic and constant ■ to her purpose : i die of my own tree j will ; give nie back my husband and i j will consent to live ; if i die not with him | the souls of seven husbands will condemn me * * ere the renewal of tho horrid ceremon ies of death were permitted again the voice of mercy of expostulation and ev en of entreaty was heard but the trial was vain and tho cool and collected man ner with which the woman still declared her determination unalterable chilled and startled the most courageous physical pangs evidently excited no fears iu her ; her singular creed the customs of her country and her sene of conjugal duty excluded from her mind the natural emo tions of personal dread ; and never did martyr to a true cause go to the stake with more constancy and firmuess than did this delicate and gentle woman pre pare to become the victim of a deliberate sacrifice to tho demoniacal tenets of her heathen creed accompanied by the officiating brah min the widow walked seven times round the pyre repeating the usual mautras or prayers strewing rice and cooties on the ground and spriukling water from her hand over the bystauders who believe this to be efficacious in preventing dis ease and in expiating committed sins she then removed her jewels and pre sented them to her relations saying a few words to each with a calm soft smile of encouragement aud hope the brahmins then presented her with ber lighted torch bearing which fresh as a flower just bloira and warm witb llle her youtlixiu pulses playttg she stepped through the fatal door and sat within the pile the body of her hus band wrapped in rich kiukaub was then carried seven times round the pile and finally laid across her knees thorns and grass were piled over the door ; and again it was insisted that free space should be left a it was honed the poor victim might chaptek vi rtt-iou not bv io soothe at eve to lav n.s gently in the grave to close tue weary eye and hush the parting breath over tin wa joy at coming home tberc iiiii a cloud wl.icli was deepening • ( . r v day and which no sunshine could drive awav it was the approaching le fh of rhoda the sunday after thanks bad been given for tom the prayers of that church were asked for rhoda grant ' tom had heard nothing ofthe return of ber illness and had expected to find her up and about not strong indeed but aa well as she nas when he left home it was a grief to him to tind her lying in bed spain looking thinner and more wasted than he had ever seen her before and • fflj weak at times even to speak to iiim after she bad got over the ibock of seeing him the joy seemed to revive her for a day or two but it was | jnly a brief improvement it was beau . liil to sec her patient submission to god's ; fill and the bright smile of hope which : lighted her face as she spoke of heavenly j thiiif the more she saw of tom the • ul ore thankful she was to god for having ' nnt him to be a real comfort to her poor j untlier when she was gone it had been one of lier cares that after her death tliere voaldbc no one to say a good word or remind her family of keeping god's day l,olv rut she felt now that by god's race tom would be able to do this and juihaps be more to them thau skc had been tom did not seek any work at first in tin doctor's advice but lived on his tarings for two or three weeks till he i stronger he was a great comfort to 1 - dear sister in her last days he read god'i word to her and sat up with her at night dividing the nursing with his moth er rhoda often dropped asleep holding his hand and when she woke it seemed to loothe her to see him sitting beside her l before she died she received the holy communion and tom though not yet a partaker was present at the sacred and • touching service when it was over and mr morscll gone she called to tom to take a seat near her and putting her thin wasted hand into his she said tom dear it has been such comfort and strength to nie i am sure you will ind it go loo such a help in trying to lend a tiati life i hope dear brother that ■ ou will be confirmed next time and that afterwards you will go regularly to the ' holy communion : you will find it such a 1 help and comfort it is so tine that it is tbe strengthening and refreshing of our souls with the body and blood of christ ! arnloli tom dear when i'm gone promise dm to he very good to dear father and mother and all of them and try to lead tin-in in the right way and speak a good * wcid when you can for my sake prom j be thin and she looked into his face his >?«• were full of tears and he could not peak ; but he pressed her hand and she knew that the promise was made and i m lu intended to keep it a day or j two after this she passed quietly away in • lie early dawn when her mother and turn were watching beside her a sweet smile on her face just before her spirit took its high t and they kuew that she usafe beyond all the pain and suffer g of this borrowing world yet relent and rush from a fiery prison to the protection so freely offered the command was readily obeyed the strength ofa child would have sufficed to burst the frail barrier which confined her and a breathless pause succeeded ; but the wo man's constancy was faithful to the last not a sigh broke the death-like silence of the crowd until a light smoke curling from the summit of the pyre and then a tongue of flame darting with bright and lightning-like rapidity into the clear blue sky told us that the sacrifice was com pleted fearlessly had this courageous woman fired the pile and not a groan had betrayed to us the moment when her spirit fled at sight of the flame a fiend ish shout of exultation rent the air the tomtoms sounded the people clapped their hands with delight as the evidence of their murderous work burst on their view whilst the english spectators of this sad scene withdrew bearing deep com passion in their hearts to philosophize as best they might on a cumtom so fraught with horror so incompatible with reason and so revolting to human sympathy the pile continued to burn for three hours but from its form it is supposed that al most immediate suffocation must have terminated the sufferings of the unhappy victim — mrs postan msm———————————mmmamtmmi^mt^mmmmmm miscellaneous the three southern heroes john esteu cooke furnishes the follow ing for the columns of the philadelphia weekly times : the death of the famous cavalry man produced a deep and painful sensation in some degree akiu to that produced by the death of jackson the southern people had indeed become accustomed to couple together the three great names lee jackson and stuart valuing each for his peculiar qualities no comparison is intended to be made between these three distinguished soldiers but it is interest ing to notice how sharply contrasted they were in character and how peculiarly each was fitted for the sphere in which he moved and his special functions lee the head and front of the struggle was the born commander-in-chief fitted for the conception of great campaigns ever wide awake a man of august dignity by nature calm suave grave taking good and evil fortune with the same imposing serenity ; in person one of the most noble and graceful men of his epoch and the finest rider in the southern army ; in character simple pure patient binding to himself both the love and respect of men jackson was the infantry leader the right arm to execute what lee con ceived ; in person not graceful in manner silent reserved and often abrupt ; cautious council but rapid and terrible in exe cution going to the battle witb muttering prayers on his lips leaving all to provi dence but striking with all the power of his arm to do his part and in many ways resembling the ironsides of cromwell stuart on the contrary was the cavalier essentially belonging to the class of men who followed the fortunes of charles i ardent impetuous brimming over with ' the wine of life and youth with the head long courage of a high-spirited boy fond of bright colors of rippling hags of mar tial music and the clash of sabres — in all the warp and woof of his character an e in bod i ment of all the best traits of the english cavaliers — not of their bad traits although his utter carelessness as to the impression he produced subjected him to many calumnies it is here placed on rec ord by one who knew his private life thoroughly and was with him day and night for years that he was in morals among the purest of men a faithful hus band absolutely without vices of any de scription and if not demonstrative in his religious views an earnest and exemplary christian his love for his wife was deep and devoted and on the death of his little daughter flora he said to me with tears in his eyes i shall never get over it supreme court this tribunal yesterday concluded the examination of candidate for licenses to practice law two were rejected aud the following is an alphabetical list of those to whom licenses were granted : julius cassius black randolph county washington bryan craven u bennehan cameron orange ** william goodell carson henderson " louis henry clement davie '• robert paine felton chowan *• robt brodnax glenn rockingham " marshall alliert gray lenoir " alfred williams haywood wake '- thomas butler justice rutherford -*• heurv gilliam latham washington " william latimer new hanover " frederick bectou loftin lenoir " thos williams mason northamton " william edwin murchison harnett " frank nash edgecombe " john ycwell phillips stokes ■■ nathan stedmau poe cumberland " thomas settle reid rockingham " william hagan reid iredell " hugh reid scott rockingham " wilferd dent turner iredell " james land uni webb cleaveland " this was the only business transacted during the day court will meet this moruiug at 9 o'clock when the first dis trict will be called peremptorily — raleigh new june 6th from tbe charlotte obeeiver jcdoe black's opixiox as to mie ju risdiction ofthe federal court.—in asmuch as there is much difference of opinion in regard to the jurisdiction of the united states conrts in certain cases the following will probably throw some light on the subject : in the case of the united states rs bly ews reported in 13 wallace u s reports p 585 judge jeremiah s black of penn sylvania who is pre-eminently the great est lawyer of this country in discussing the question of a removal of an indict ment for murder ray's case exactly from the state court of kentucky to the circuit courts of the united states uses this pun gent and forcible language we quote from the report ofthe case judge black after remarking that this murder was committed on the soil of kentucky and withiu her limits that it was an insult to her dignity and an out rage on the peace of a community which by the organic law of the land was plac ed under her sole protection that her laws were offended by it and that none but she had a right to enter into judg inent with the perpetrators of it that no other state sovereignty prince or poten tate on earth had made or could make any law which would punish that offence at that place that the united states had never pretended that a murder within the limits of a state was an offence against them and that it was no more an offence against the united states than it was against the republic of france or the empire of germany contended that the circuit court had no jurisdiction because ; whether the act of congress did or did not embrace this case it was a sheer u lat breach ofthe constitutions 1 official tyranny 77ic outrages of revenue officers by cruelty to men and women and a wanton de struction ef property stills hogs dc the people and the press do denounce this form of official outrage and tyranny whenever they properly understand it but denunciation seems to have little effect the outrages go on the same as ever the true remedy for the gross evils complained of is four-fold in its nature : 1 protest from the people and the press protests long aud loud and deep 2 protests on the floor of congress by our representatives and stern demands there for remedial legislation il a stern demand upon the president of the united states for the removal of bad revenue officers and the supplying of their places with men who are neither brutes nor bullies 4 the persistent unwavering deter mination on the part of our state courts to catch and punish every revenue officer who goes beyond the line of his official duties to trespass upon the rights of north carolina citizeus or to violate north car olina law let the remedy be applied in this four fold way and the tyrannical and bloody proceedings of marshal douglass gang of roughs will be stopped — ral news «-%-» the louisville courier journal on president hayes nobody who knows the president has ever doubted his partisan integrity he is an out-and-out republican the poli ticians of this generation have before them two eye-openers — john tyler and andrew johnson mr hayes need not be either a very sagacious or a very sin cere politician to avoid the pits which bis two unfortunate predecessors dug for themselves he has never dreamed of going back on the party that failing to elect him contrived to play on the stu pidity ofthe party that defeated him as to make it his inductor into office it was uatural therefore that taking a low estimate of democratic intelligence he should thiuk he could burst the w hole concern by a few favors judiciously scat tered here and there joined to a liberal and just policy circumstances favored this intention the honorable and patri otic conduct of the southern men who seeing no fight in their northern allies accepted the electoral commission snare and who haviug accepted it stood by the bond with the fidelity which has always marked the better class of southern polit ical leaders was very naturally mistaken by trading republicans aud for the mat ter of that by trading democrats for a flag of truce emancipation of political society white and black from sectional thraldom that is their little game and nothing else it oaght to be clearly understood and in the beginning so that if in the end mr hayes and the people about him find themselves disappointed in making republicans out democrats and dividing the south by a transaction which upright people cannot approve they will have only themselves to thank for their mistake with this explicit understanding rhey can turn as radical as they please and flaunt the bloody shirt to their heart's de sire on that issue we shall beat them worse than ever the good men of amer ica north and south want peace this generation is not responsible for the last it is responsible for itself and with its re sponsibilities upon it it's purpose is to make a nation which shall be national not a huddle of discordant sections and states the rule being pitch or toss which shall cheat and persecute the other the railroad we interviewed our worthy fellow cit izen maj j w wilson the railroad president and learned from him that he had iron on the way to lay some more track buncombe-ward the road bed is being fixed up ready for it so as to go up as far as the round knob with the rail — say three miles here a heavy piece of work will delay them some time when they can again go forward several miles in the torturous ascent of the mountains major wilson thinks the work is progressing satisfactorily and be knows he seems to be confident that next year he can make more noise iu buncombe with his engines than has ever been made there about a railroad — blade from the raleigh news address of tiie board of edu cation tiie university normal school at the meeting of the state board of education held in this city thursday af ternoon the following address to the teachers ofthe state was adopted to tlte teachers ofthe state and those wish ing to become teachers .* the general assmbly having authoriz ed the board of education to establish a normal school for white males in connec tion with the university in execution of this power and to accomplish the great est good to the greatest number this board of education with the concurrnece ofthe trustees and faculty of the univer sity conclude to adopt the following scheme : 1 the school will be open not only to those desiring to become teachers but to all those now engaged in teaching fe males are invited to attend also 2 the session will be during the sum mer vacation of the university it will begin on tuesday the 3d of duly next and will continued for at least six weeks the school will be held iu one of more of the university recitation rooms or labor atories normal teaching being not only a sci ence but an art it has been determined to place the conduct of the school in the hands id trained experts — men who have for years made normal methods a study and have bad large experience in their practical working accordingly profes sor john i ladd superintendent of the public schools of stanton va and pro lessor l ii owens of tuscttmbia ala have been chosen as two of ihe professors of the university norma schoo . at least one other professor will be chosen who will probably be a resident of the state professors ladd and owens are distinguished as peculiarly skillful and accomplished normal instructors as men powerful in inspiring vigor and interest in normal school exercises 4 regular exercises will be had daily in the following branches arithmetic written and mental grammar analy sis geography reading orthography pho netics penmanship instruction will be given practically on school discipline methods organization qualifications le gal relation of teacher parent and child a daily drill in vocal music will be had iu adit-ion to the regular daily exercises eminent men of this and other states will deliver lectors occasionally at night for the instruction ofthe students 5 the trustees and faculty ofthe uni versity will allow the use of their recita tion rooms laboratories libraries muse um c and the professors have at the request ofthe board of education agreed to cordially co-operate when desired iu furthering the objects ofthe school o there will be no charge for tuition dormitories in the university buildings will be furnished free so that those who bring their own bedding will be at no ex pense on this account table board not exceeding 10 per mouth can be had in private families arrangements have been made by which those wishing to mess to gether can live still more cheaply than this facilities for cooking will be fur nished to those who bring their own pro visions and cooking utensils the railroad companies will grant half fare transportation can be had from durham to chapel hill at from fifty cents to oue dollar the people of chapel hill promise to endeavor to make the sojourn among them pleasant 7 rev dr sears agent of the peabody fund so highly approves the establish ment of the school that he has placed at the disposal of the board 3u0 tle board adds to this 500 more making a fund of 1,000 which will be used in de fraying the necessary expeuses of regular attendents ou the school who are unable to pay being applied tirst towards paying their traveling expenses aud then towards the expenses of the board the object is to : put those living far from chapel hill on j an equality witii those living near 6 the foregoing otters arc unparalleled in this state for liberality ali'ording op portunities which will not be met with in a life-tir , are offered tx al white males who are teachers now or expect to become teachers female although the law requires that the moneys paid by the state shall he devot ed to the use of males yet females are cordially invited to attend all the exer cises ofthe school free of charge all those wishing to become regular at teudeuts on the school will send their names to hon kemp p battle at chap el hill ou or before the 20th of june next attendants on the school will plense bring the text-books tlu-y may have re lating to the studies above named defi ciencies will be supplied by the board prompt attendance is greatly desired but pupils will be received at any time it has been the aim of the board to ex pend this gift of the legislature iu the manner best calculated to lienefit that large but humble class f teachers whose noble calling it is to instruct the bulk of our people to give them as far as possi ble all advantages to be derived from the university making it the common proper ty of rich and poor and to inspire a more general interest in the great cause of edu cation we earnestly appeal to every teacher and every man ami woman in the state who desires to teach to come forward and attend this school should it prove successful the legisla ture will no doubt increase tin appropri ation and with experience and enlarged means we may well hope to do a great work for north carolina z il vance governor and chairman board of educa tion kemp 1 battle president ofthe university 1 17 scarborough superintendent of public instruction and secretary of hoard of education a north carolinian abroad dr eugene grissom makes a hit at st louis fst louis times may 31 % the second day's proceedings of the association of superintendents of insane asylums were begun at 10 o'clock yester day morning dr e grissom of north carolina read a lengthy and able paper entiiled me chanical protection for the violent in sane the paper seems to have been called out by reason of an attack upon american institutions made by john charles bucknill m ix f r s and a commissioner of lunacy in england dr bucknill visited america abont years ago and while here cursorily examined a num ber of insane institutions and npon the information thus hastily gained commenc ed an indiscriminate slaughter in the lon don lancet his attack was particularly violent upon the restraint sometimes exer cised in america to prevent patients in juring themselves and others as for in stance the padded room into which the most violent are sometimes placed during paroxysms to prevent homicide and sui cide dr grissom'a paper set forth from official reports from the various institu tions of america and england that there are fully as many superintendents in eng land favorable to necessary restraint as there arc in america though under pre sent british laws they seem to he denied in this respect what seems necessary to successful treatment in proof of the im proved system of american institutions the doctor's paper set forth the mortality in our home institutions to be only seven per cent while iu england it is 11.36 per cent annually with scotland und ire land added the mortality must necessarily be greater as in some ofthe irish institu tions under english protection there is complaint that patients have neither beds nor bedding the doctor's paper showed that the mortality of the north carolina hospital has of late been only four per cent and that while the institutions of great britain have annual reports of sui cides aud homicides there has not been a single one in the north carolina institu tion in the treatment of 1,200 insance since its foundation dr grissom's paper was received with hearty applause and other expressions of delight and approbation it seems that dr bucknill was very severe in liis criti cism and even went beyond the bounds of truth his paper was arrogant in tone and very offensive to the association dr grissom's reply was couched in the most courteous language and its dignified tone added much to its power lie was sur rounded by the members of the associa tion and compliments showered upon him some of the oldest members remarked that they had never heard a paper read that was so unanimously endorsed and so gen erally complimented developing ouk resources mr r e waddell superintendent of chadwick & co's barytes mines near black's station on the air line railroad is in the city and states that the company who arc largo manufacturers and dealers in white lead paints c in philadelphia are making experiments with the view of locating ex tensive machinery at these mines for the purpose of preparing the barytes lor use there formerly the mineral has been used solely for the adulteration of white lead but the mineral now obtained is of such superior quality that it can tako the place of white lead in the manufacture of cheap paints chadwick &, co state that the mineral is found near black's in larg er quantities and ofa better quality than anywhere else in this country or europe mr waddell now employs a lirje num l>er cf workmen — charlotte observer * • » • • tom kept the promise he had made to flying sister and became a real com mit and help his strength soon return 1 in the fresh country air and he was roto take farm work and earn good gw thus supporting himself aud help j h iis family blithe helped them still ore by his good example rhode's life *$ illness and death had had their effect w nun kept up her memory and show iohuown conduct that by god's j p the example of her christian life d not heen thrown away on bim the t-ililrpn now went regularly to the sunday - j*ool with tom who in time persuaded liaril to accompany him there too ; and degress the whole family except grant itne church goers graut was oue of men so confirmed by the bad prac of a lifetime in the neglect of god's j ai l god's house that the difficulty of wing a phuc of worship seemed too ft t to be overcome he however gave " '"'• sunday expeditions with idle and dogs and would even sit 1 and attend to a chapter out of the lead aloud and tom who cou "*•% prayed for his father was not ,' out hope that he might become an l ' kt i man , ' ex * year not only tom was confirmed jjjwi mother aud richard and they all 11011 together at the lord's table and cai e constant communicants after ar -'-- and as they joined in the thanks j d s to god for all his servants depart 111 his fait hand fear their hearts return joy to their dear rhoda now e f god's saints whose suffering life 4 y e:inh had wn such a blessing to them the end essor p r0ct01 . the earth j8 y s '!'>' hir e ei * we are g'ad to hear it w _ 1)unbur y ne **' lor al estate ihr fcarlull y "■■ the past three meanwhile there were south carolina and louisiana to be liberated the repose of an excited people to be secured the pacification of the country to be obtained and seeing mr hayes take a better view of these than general grant had taken southern men of every shade of opinion united in saying — what they say to-day — that asking nothing for themselves and seeking no change in their political rela tions they stand ready to discount all questions touching the president's advent to power as well as affecting his personal rectitude and give him a full aud fair trial thus it was and thus it ia they do not propose to change their party for him they do not propose to get up a new party for him they do not pro pose to join the republican party in any event they propose aa democrats but also as patriots to sustain him in every meas ure which truly involves the dissemina tion and enlargement of natural ideas j the solidification of the national credit the irification of the public service the