Carolina Watchman

              mil 1 4t^m w m mm stnff w ui%lr .. iv tu iud series salisbury n.c november 14 1872 no 9 whole no s40 i't it i . i s 1 1 k ! » weekly . j j bru n er pr.ijii ietor mul editor j j si e w a rt a ite editor rates of si bckiption tkk v e ui pay»ble m advance 2.00 ; jion : " " loo -, ;, ides to one address 10.00 j ** f loxeiests fisjjjh m tombs k head & foot ston es &( '. john h.bu33 rf^endeus his compliments to bis friends l and the public and in this method would biug to tbeir attention bis extended facilities for meeting demands in his line or business he is now prepared lo furnish all kinds grave stun from the cheap - ! head stones u the costliest nn rhose prefertug tries an verv costly works not on hand i br irt-fiiiiino.i.i il on short time strictly in ac cordance with specification ind the terms of the contract satisfactioi guaran teed hf will not be undersold noith or smith orders solicted address j7;tf john ii ihis salisbury w a hats e l'.kvt i sill si firm hays & sill druggist &. apothecaries salisbury 17 c having jmrchiisetl ihe contents of the drug store formerly occupied by dr edward sill we resp ctfully call thr at tention of the citizens of salisbury and the surrounding country to the new ar rungenieiit and inform tin in that we will continue to carry on the business at the mine place and the pamc excellenl way we will endeavor to keep on hand all the various goods the people may need per taining lo our line and therefore hope by dtricl attention to business to receive n liberal patronage physician's orders prompt ly attended to prescriptions acenrately and ■ artfully compounded by reliable ml competent druggists tlmj or titjht i : y triumphant pianos w " fl upwards of fifty first pre i uiumsai silver medals were awarded to ! hales m s rieff for ihe besl pianos in competition wilh all the leading mannfactur eis of the country office and new warcrooms y '< north y st baltimore " '. the stiefl . pi mo contain all the latest im : proveinent md in a first-class piano j with a einents of his own in iti"ii nt . in other instruments . the tone tt nch and finish nl tl eir instru mentu . ur ed i a large o nrtment of second-hand pianos lw - m ;,, s.ii.o parlor . .-,:-.-. some twenty dif ; fer,-:u i ..: 1 upwards \ seitj lor illustrated catalogue containing | barnes of over twelve hundred southerners five hundred of whieh are virginians two i red north caroliniai u oi •- i mdred nnd j liit fast te lines i others throughout the south who have bought the stieff piano nui c the i lose nf i j allen p.rown agent 22:4qt salisbury n c thr cfceifrst ix not ulwuyx tlir uest until ilkstisiilw.iys llie cheapest jvsure in georgia home insurance co of columbus ga i porated 1s50 c\i'!t 350,000 j rhodes browne president d v willcox secretary all losses equitably adjusted and promptly paid in full pn perty owners i!i>l;-i to obtain reliable in ■ will do will to protect themselves hy wiring i policy in " < n r_.-i.-i home insurance a-jencies a prominent points in all the .:. sl iti -. j allen brown agent office no 2 granite row april 25 78 ly salisbury n c urriage certificates for kale here a secret it is your secret and mine love ! ah me ! how the dreary rain w illi a slow persistence all day long dripped mi the window pane ! the chamber was weird with shadows and dark with the deepening alot.ni \\ here you in your royal womanhood lay waiting for the tomb ! they had robed you all in white love iu your hair was a sin le rose ; a marble rose it n igbt well have been in its cold ami still repose ! o paler than yonder cai ven saint and calm as the ang is are you seemed so near me my beloved yet wen alas so tar ! i do not know if i wept love but my soul rose up aud said ; my hear shall speak unto her heart though here she is lying — dead i will give her a last love-token that shall be to her a sign in the dark grav — or beyond it ! — ofthis deathless love of mine so i sought me a little scroll love and thereon in eager haste lest au titer's eye should r ad them some mystic words i trated then close in your clasped lingers close in your waxen hand i placed the scroll as au amulet sure you would understand ! the secret is yotir's and mine love only we iwuniaj know what words shone cl?ar in the darkness of your grave so green ami low but if when we meet hereafter in the dawn of a failure day you whimper those mystical words love it is all i would have you say ! — from ablinc for november ■ ivin baby his sceptre is a rattle his throne is mother's arms he reigus t liny tyrant in all his dimpled charms ! yet round hi royal presence our loving hearts entwine dictator of the cradle and king by right divine whatever be his mandates no courties dare rebel ; his mother's chief of the household prime minister as well ! in yon pi rambutar his downy car of state exacting rosy monarch what triumphs on him wait ! in purple ease and splendor loug long he seeks to reign ; all hints of noise disjointed he smiles at with disdain ! alas ! that royal arreatness shuold ever lu disowned ; here comes a tiny stranger — king baby is dethroned — from the albinc for november song of the mystic by fatiikk ryan i walked the valley of silenec — down the dim voiceless valley — alone and 1 heard not the fall ofa footstep around ine save foil's and mv own and the hush of mv heart is as holy as hovers when angels have tlown long ago — i was weary of voires whose iniisie iii heart could not wiu ; long ago — 1 was weary of uoi.es tnat fretted my soul with their din ; long ago — i was weary of daces where i met but the human — and sin i walked thro the world with the wordlj ; i craved what the world never gave and i said ; i the world each idea that shines like a star on life's wave is tossed ou the shines of the real and sleeps like a tin ai in the grave and still did i pi e for the perfect and still found he false with the true ; 1 sought mid the muman i'i r hea en llii i caught a mere glimpse of ita blue a nl i went when the clouds of mortal veiled even the glimpse from my view and i toiled mi heart-tired of the human ; ami i moaned mid the masses of me.i ; till i knelt long at an altar and heard a voice call me — since then i walked down the valley of silence that lies far beyond mortal ken do ymi ask w at i found in the valley ! i'is my trysting plate with the divine aud i fell at the feet of the holy and above me a voice said : betnine and then rose from the depths of my spirit an echo — my heart shall be thine do you ask how i live in the valley ? i went ami i dream — and i pray — but my tear is as sweet as the dew drops tint fail on the roses of may : ami my pray'r like a perfume from cansors asceudeth to god night and day in the hush iu the valley ofsilence 1 dream of 11 the snugs that i sinir and the music una's down the dim valley till each finds a word e-r a wring that to man like the dove of the deluge tin m ssage of peace they may bring but far on the deep tin re are billows that never shall break on the beach ; and i have heard soncs in the silence that i.t-ver shall float into speech : ami 1 have had deans in the valley j'oo ioi'ti for language to reach and i have seen thoughts in the valley — ah ! me how my spirit was stirred ; and ihey wear the holy veils on their faces and their footsteps ean scarcely be heard they pass through the valley like virgins too pure for the touch ofa word do you ask n e the place ofthe valley "_'".- in-aits that are harrowed by cause ? jt lieth faraway between mountains and g"d aud his angels are t1 ere a.'.ol one is tlm dark mount of borrow and one the dark mountain of prayer of all consolations work is the most fortifying and the most healthy because il solaces a man not by bringing hiuj eaj»e but requiring efforts gen hampton in frederick maryland the false education ofthe times the recent address of tlir great caval ry leader is full nf grand and noble thoughts we give nn extract on the subject of education whieh in the addicts was prefatory to bis plea for agricultural colleges in which our youth should be admitted to become practiced and intelli gent farmers : of ihe three pressing wants tho lack of proper education among our people especially among the great body of our fanners and planters il lias been specified as the first and most serious i am not one of ihose who measure the virtue and intelligence ofa people by their ability to read and to write there is as much truth as poetry in the aphorism a little learning is a dangerous thing the fatal mistake of the age at least in some portions of ihis country springs rum the prevalent belief that mere intel lectual training is of iir'clf sufficient for all the purposes ol this lite without that better education of the moral sense which can alone teach man his duty to his neigh bor and to his god in the ceaseless and unseemly struggle for place and riches which is debauching the moral tone of so large a part of the population of this country ali true education is neglected and many young men are launched on the sea of life with intellects sharpened at the expense ofall higher faculties which are left undeveloped and uneducated the wild pursuit of wealth as the only object of life — the cursed greed of gold — leaves no time for the proper training of heart and soul and too much of what is falsely called education has for its whole end to impart only such knowledge as will quality its possessor to enter the mad race tor power wealth and other mere temporal blessings the caustic words ol the roman satirist describing that ed ucation which teaches that money is the chief good arc sadly applicable to many of our youth who are taught iu the same school : make money ; honestly if you can but if not honestly make money by any means it is this pernicious teaching that is making so many of the people lose their ancient and hardy virtues and it is against this abuse ofall high and true education that i now protest not against education itself it is undoubtedly a good thing to know h : w to read and write but the mere possession of these rudiments of ed ucation profit a man but little unless his nobler faculties are directed in the proper way ; and it js a mistake to suppose that beiaise he can read and write he is a better man or more intelligent citizen the atheniens it may safely be assumed though the great body of tbem were with out these acquirements were quite as well versed iu literature science polities and the polite arts as the people of new eiiglai d whose boast it is ihat their sys tem of free schools has diffused education ! more generally among the people than in any other country ; and the experience of every thinking man in the south will j bear me oiu iu the assertion that in all i the elements which go to make up hue manhood •— honesty truth honor faith i courage and intelligence onr own people ' all unlettered as many of them are have proved tlicin.-c res in war as in peace at least the equals of those who pride them selves on their superior education bul while these are facts which cannot be successfully controvt rted ii does not fal low that a proper education a development ot ths full powers of body of mind and of ; heart should be neglected and it is in j behalf of this higher and nobler cduca ' tion that i now appeal to you and through you to the people of the south tile dipporhinorrhcea as tin tenible horse malady that has ! so excited the minds ofthe northern pen j pie for the last week is spreading so ith ami the probability is lhat it will s ton break out in our state we publish wiih pleasure the following valuable sugges tions handed us by mr s j fall one of i our recent english settlers mr fall | has seen much ofthis disesse in england j and lost several valuable horses before he obtained the remedy he now kindly of fers to the renders oi the neirs capt e d woodson city editor daily neirs sir having noticed the acconnts of ' the fearful disease now ravaging among the horses ofthe north and having lost five horses myself from ii i thought perhaps the relation of my experience and obser vations might possibly be < f some service should it unfortunately reach as far as ] r ileigh or this neighborhood j precisely the same disease first appear ■ ed in the locality in which i resided iu england at the same period of tlie year i.i 1870 iis spread was peculiarly rapid and scarce a stable within a large radius escaped whilst its di gnosis and develop ment being so entirely without precedent completely b id d the skill of the local | veterna y si rgeons thr first thing uoticable was a sudden weakness manifesting itself whilst the horse was at work ; then in the course of un hours or so iheir eyes and notsiils be came affected precisely in the same wa i as in influenza ; then a hollow cough and in a few hours a great swelling of one two and sometimes all he legs from the thigh to the knee affecting also ihe lo mm parts of the body and likewise a great di ileal t y in taking any food or nourish ment in those which recovered it seem ed to run its course in about three weeks ; but it wiis a long lime before they regain e l iheir wbol sin bgtb ; and in this lay the greater danger as if put to work too soon they relapsed and either died at once or the disease set'.led in some particular part or limb for instances i had a valuable one rising 6 years a very heavy and pow erful draught horse which seemed to get quite well was sent to work but in three days the disease returned and settled in one of its hind legs and no remedy nor care could overcome it ; he lived eating heartily for five months quite unable to work and eventually dropped down from sheer wet kuess and never ra llii d al first tlie surgeons bled most horses and tbe condition of the blood seemed to warrant it ; but invariably the one bled died ; seemingly from loss of strength and with mine those only which were not bled escaped ; this was observed all round the following hints deducted from my own observation though i should be sor ry to place it in contradiction to the opin ion-ol any veterinary surgeon may be f und to be useful let the stable be thoroughly ventilated but kept thoroughly free from draught and be wtll lime washed ; cover the ani mals over as close as possible with warm rugs place straw in the stall instead of saw-dust if possible ; but if not clean it out entirely ever day hang a hag of hot bran mash up to its nostrils twice a day give it all the nourishing and stimulating tuod it can lake ; such as gruel wilh eggs and a little wine beaten up in it as a drench if it will not take it otherwise and let it have a little gentle exercise in the run once a day as soon as it can walk immediatt ly upon the appearance of the disease let every horse be put into a sta ble as far off from the others as possible the best plain is to let it remain its own and remove all the rest if this is practica ble ; and remember do not be in a hurry at however great inconvenience and loss of time you may be placed to put it tj woik too early trusting however that from its non appearance in this district mv note will be valueless 1 am sir yours sec samuel j fall bloodicorth street raleigh n c , nov 1st 1872 — . n comfort for men who want to leave nor 111 carolina two young men of catawba counly n c john and james mallard were not satisfied with their native state and went out west to montana territory to try their fortunes they are now satisfied and want to get back home they write about the new country as follows : we hive been out here ever since the 1 6 i i of may from that time up to the 1st of august we had very cold weather with ii heavy snow storm in july during llie month of august the days were pleasant something like the days of march and april in north carolina but the nights were coo and some of ihem frosty and the weather of this month so far has been colder than lhat of august ; one night last week was freezing the farms are situated along the creeks and rivers the soil ofa dark mud like character the product ion of which iu small grain such as wheat oats ban ly and irish potatoes but owing to the short s iisoii ihis year the small grain crops hav'nt had time to mature before it had to be cut the average yield of wheat per acre is from thirty four to forty bushels ; aud the hiring expenses are s.0o and sco per month during the summer season ; and ibe diivs are long enongh to enable them * k r ihe farmers j to work 15 and is hours ! hai o:ily gives them about six hours to ns am sleep in it requires a great deal of capital for a man lo farm successfully here i beard one of the oldest farmers in montana say llie other day that he hadn't made any money off of his farm ; and ifit had not been for his business oui side his farm he wouldn't more ihkn make a living there is move money made off of stock than anything else but they are so dear a poor man can't afford to bey much ofa siart the price of good milk cows are from 57 5 to 200 ; and inferior stock cau be bought for 50 and g0 butter is worth 50 cents during the summer and in the latter part of winter and first of spring it is worth from 75 cents to 81.25 hogs are very scarce pigs two weeks s2 50 and s3 tbe most important thing for a man to consider is this : lhat whilst you can get good wages 30 and g0 dollars per month during the summer in the winter its so cold that not more than onesfifth of the laborers can get employ ment and it takes pretty near all tl.ey can make in summer to board them in winter during the winter you can see men going around offering to work for their board the societv gencrallv is bad no voung v r _. *. t ladies to associate with we hav'nt had the pleasure of a lady's company since we left good old north carolina we don't expect to remain out here very long be fore we return home for we can live bt t ter and make more money raising wheat in western n ('., than we can here — wood and timber is bard to get at here corn meal is worth 87 per bushel the seisoi 8 are too short o a;sc it ben charlotte democrat o the latest in suicide the latest novelty in suicides comes from cleveland o where an individual who had drawn a blank in a lottery went to his death after the following unique and elaborate pre parations he first procured a loaded revolver and connected it with clock work so that it should be fired off at a certain time he then got into bed aud after placing the pistol behind his ear took a dose ol chloroform i nder the influence of the narcotic he then went asleep at the given time the clock work pressed the trigger discharging the pistol and launch ing the sltimberer into eternity this device is an accession to the plain self shootings and hinging of ordinary suicide and in its mechanical merits seems neater if not quieter than the guillotine i a menagerie on a strike a terrific scene described by a titusville reporter i all the wild lens's loose and on the rampage - fight men killed from the titusvide keening press the muss was originated by the efforts ; of the proprietor of the show to train a i hippopotamus to run around the ring and , jump through hoops and banners after the manner of trained ponies the boss j hoping if successful to make all rival establishments take a back seat for several days the training had been going : on whenever the exhibition stopped long enough in one place to afford a few leis j ure hours but up to the occasion referred to the bippotamus had only been allow ed to perform in private with his limbs pinioned by log-chains and a large force of i employees on hand wilh red-hot pitch , foiks pickaxes crowbars and bricks to : i subdue him and keep him within hounds should any symptoms of a rebellious spiti be manifested everything was lovely however the behemoth struck his gait admirably and with such seeming good nature that his owners detei mined to unshackle him for a short time aud make him jump through paper balloons the assistants stationed themselves around the ring a mammoth balloon was placed in position and at the word go the shackles weie unloosed and sure enough they did go allowing his under lip to drop down like that of a steal ca nal dredge when it expectorates a mouth ful of mud the bippotamus gave a snort that reverberated through the balloon wrecking it in a very handsome manner but unfortunately killing the two men that held it and upsetting the lion's cage which contained four lions of uiuisal fierceness the moment the overturned lion's cage eonghl the eye of the liipno potamus in bounded at it aud bit out a mouthful of woodwork and iron bars leaving an apperture through which the lions escaped and at once began to add tin ir roars to fhe tumult that raged on ail sides the big elephant horacecree ley who had been quietly lot king on all this time instead of keeping a check on iris trunk began to waive in the air and after a moment's trumpeting broke his fastenings and picking up the cardiff giant which lay upon the ground near by threw this unfortunate being across the tent killing another man iu its pas sage and knocking in the end of tbe_cage that contained a willi rltinoseros who at once came out and running his horn into ihe gronnd gave the now af frighted showmen some specimens of ploughing that were never equalled by human or steam power the four lions now began to lash their tails in fury and walk in circles around the centre pole up wliich seventeen of the showmen as cended tho moim nt the hippopotamus first bellowed the latter animal was in the mt antime diverting himself by a set to with a couple of grizzly bears that he had liberated horace greeley seemed to grow infuriated at this juncture and after killing a couple of camels turned his at tent itin to tbe olher cages and with one sweep of his trunk demolished each the iiiiii cents following behind and com pleting the work fortunately the canvass teas new and without a flaw and ail of the libera ted animals were roaming about the en closure hyenas sneaked around under the seats bears growled from the upper benches monkeys shrieked and chattered from the ropes and supporters the air was filled with living coekatoes parrots ea gles owls aud other birds while ostri ches roamed at will below and heard above ail this uproar were the pitiful calls ' from the seventeen men who hung for . dear life to the centre-pole which was new and slipoery and difficult to cling to ■ the only animal that retained its pres ence of mind was blarneyum's gorila his cage had escaped being upset and he stood inside beating bis breast at d roaring iu that half dog bark and h if leonine roar that du i haillu describes as ! curdling the very hair on your bend in an african forest by this time ! however voices were heard on the out i side tin entire neighborhood bavins be come aroused by the pandemonium and the moment the gorrilla heard these voices he changed his tactics and shriek ed for ihe love of the st patrick help me out of this bloody scrape and i'll never hire out for a gorilla again as long as i live we will leave this unhappy animal to his late and return to the aiifid stene going on around us and among the oilier wild beasts who had now madi their way to that portion of the tent used by the pro prietors as a museum excited by rage and hunger a bengal tiger was tbe first to attack the contents of the museum i and he commenced by killing the tern ' pei ate man and his family after which i be sprang upon the sleeping beauty and bt-ea i to devour her the hyenas who aie uot so pariicular i:i regard to . their diet sprang upon the drunkard ai;d his w;fe and were oon feasting on them the lions reveled in blood in the i cage contains the bell ringers while elephant amused himself by knocking the sniffing out of the egyptian mum mies and also destroying several promi nent generals of the war but while these horrible scenes were being enacted here others more alarming were coins on in the main portion of the tent where ; nearly every animal which had not suc ceeded in getting a taste of the wax figures stood with distei d d jans around the centre pole awaiting life mos ment when ihe hold of some of the nn j fortunates above should become loosened ami the victims come tumbling down — ' the first man to drop was the ringmas i ter who was the lowest mi tin pole lit j struck squarely in the jaws of an ni!;^.t ' tor that swallowed bim whole and with out choking this sight so frightened a canvass man that be ft 11 and the alli gator snapped at him hut too quickly and the victim bounded from the tip of crocodile's mouth into ihe arms ofa hear who hugged him fondly and carried him ' off under the seats to eat at leisure the elephant now reached out with his trunk and shook the centre pole as a boy shakes an apple tree for fruit and this caused seven more victims including two very plump aud juicy ac robats to drop off the man on top however had by this time sneceeded in gnawing a hole through the roof of ihe tent through which he crawled and slid down the canvass to the ground the re mainder ol the f lightened men following his example a hook and ladder com pany and two leise companies had ar rived and holes being cut in the canvass several streams of chloroform were thrown upon the squirming mass of animal life within and in ten minutes the employees of the show had entered ami beg in se curing their charges lt took several hours to repair all the cages and gi t the occupants back in their old quarters but it was at last accomplished and prepara tions for the burial of the dead began — the killed were all doing well most of them having died regularly every season ever since they entered int.i the show business one man in particular who was swallowed hy ihe alligator re covered more rapidly than any of the others his name is john smith and our readers will remember him as one ol the baud that was devoured by lions down in mississippi in is71 he was killed previously at chicago by the mad ele phant romeo and also had his heat crushed into a shapeless mass by a lion which he was rawhiding while doing the liontaming scene at joliet iii , in 1s70 he was destroyed again at philadelphia in the spring of lb"/2 when forepangh's animals broke loose and his last death previous to the one just related occur red when a rhinoceros stepped on him a red bud illinois in august 1872 mr suiiili is still on deck with blarneyum's ereat show and can be seen with the o'h er fossils and petrifications at this place next week remember these are the same animal that broke loose and killed so many people this fact alone should indue every husband to procure tickets for his wife and mother in-law and neigh bor's children the indiana murder-the darkest of murders mys teries i henry h armstrong a well known citizen of this place and one ol t!.t pro prietors ofthe madison marine railways came to his death abont eleven o'clock last night under circumstances that riv tl in mystery tbe celebrated nathan murder case of new york the evidence before the coroner's jury discloses the following facts : mr armstrong had not been liv ing amicably with tis wife for some time past daring ihe lasi two weeks he has berii at new albany nnd noi long ago his partner in this city h clay jones received a letter from him asking for in formation regarding his famly mr j tm . informed him that his wife was selling off and preparing to move to new orleans mr armstrong unexpectedly returned home la.-t night and went to his wife's room up stairs where mrs armstroi g says he btal her abused her in ever ni inner and finally dragged her tlown stairs at the foot ofthe stairs she scream ed and he released her she went up stairs immediately crying into a room occupied by her sister and her two daugh ters when presently they heard a pistol shot the daughters remarking it but no further attention was paid to it mrs armstrong then wanted her sister to go down stairs wilh her while she fastened the door through which her husband had gone out and a she supposed had k-t open tbis her sister was afraid to do and mrs armstrong called andrew mc manaman who occupies the house next door to come mr mcmauamananswer ed the summons and coming into ihe yard found the body of mr armstrong lying across the walk wilh a bullet hole just at the corner of the left eye upon examining tin body the forehead was found to be covered with bruses and one of his hands was somewhat cut and torn these injuries dr collins testifi ed from their appearance bad been inflict i ed immediatt ly before death showing that j the deceased had heen engaged in a vio lent struggle in reference to the proba bility being self-inflicted witness observ \ eti lhat there was but a possibility that ; such was the case to inflict the wound j himself mr armstrong wot 11 have been ; obliged o use the left hand and hold the pistol in a very unnatnral manner in addition to this were the wound self-in flicted powder marks would have been found on his face and ihe weapon on or j near the spot neither of which facts v\e e : ihe case the most mysterious part of the affair is how mr armstrong got in the house that he was inside is proved by the fact that tbe body was found without boots and the boots were f-m:id in the parlor — mr mcmananiiin states that when he ar rived all the doors were fast mrs arra strong says that she thought he bad en tered through the cellar but the jury niter examining the premises think he did not that the case is one of minder aud not one of suicide there can he no reasonable ionbt madison ind courier oct is women and slang there is a lengthy article in the sat urday review coi the women ■ ■! england and those of other nations which promises to attract no little atten lion in ihe outset it hints at the exis r ace ofa state oi affairs in good english society thai has no \ irallel here simply because onr best society is at once neith er so good nor so bad there was a lime iiitl within the memory ol the ma jority of ihese who lead this when the english partician girl was the very typo of modesty and sweetness compared with whom the fiench girl was a for ward subtle thing but according to the writer referred to above al that has been changed and a comparison of the two ladies redounds to the disadvantage of the fair young britain slang it seems is al the bottom ol it for tho last ten ye us the fairer half ol english patrician society seems to have been gradually cankered by the introduction of slang phrases according to the satur day review ladies in england are lit.ik ing out into strange oaths and adopting the used up expletives of roughs and rowdies this is a sufficiently startling asseition but the writer evidently knows whereof be speaks aud gives some lear tul i samples withal it is the character istic of the publication referred to that it is prescriptively entitled to speak for and of the higher classes of english society among that soeiety its circulation is al most universal and the plain inference is lhat no statements would appear in its columns whose falsity could be speedi ly exposed that english society there fore has become vitiated by the prevalence of fashionable slang may be accepted aa a fact ; and unfortunately this slang ap pears to be ofthe worst description the writei even goes so far to charge th eng lish ladies with little ventures into tho region ofblasphi my an accusation winch clearly indicates that sling is allied to ir reverence and that its effects may not he exp.-cted tt stop at the mere corrup tion ol speech american society it is feared if weigh ed in the balance will be found by no means free from tbis social weight upon good bleeding — slang in one form or an other is almost universal here but we aro happy to believe it a stringer to the houdoir at all events if american wo men — certainly if southern women — use slang and widely separated fiom the sort to which the english writer refers tho worst that they are guilty of and it is uot a trivial fault ia the assumption of nick names which has changed all our marys and sarahs and harriets and margarets into mollies and sallies and ha lies and maggies but slang is objectionable in any form and no one who has under his control the moral ofa household should negleet to suppress its first exhibition ib a dangerous laxity which brings immod esty and irreligion iu its train i he tree of cortez an act of infamous vandalism from the san francisco bulletin one of the great historic trees of the world has jn-r disappeared through an act of vandalism the motive for which it is utterly impossible to discover every student ol history will remember the story ofthe neche trieste or night of grief when the aztecs infuriated at tha fell designs of the spaniards under her nando cortez the representative filibuster of all time ..-- tilt d his force with an in discrib j le fury cut it to pieces and 1 is s;,cc < •! in cutting ofl the few from the city of mexico by i sinj ■ the caust way « inch i ,: ne ui - the sh ill w waters of the lake to il e ui ii liand in the din ction of cha pultepec ihe spaniards hemmed in on all sides and fighting hand to hand with the eneigy ot desperation forced their way along the causeway step t<y step and by throwing the bodies of the dead into the gaps of the causeway pucceedt d at last in dragg ing their artillery over tin mand reaching ihe solid land — cortez wounded dis heartened aud exhausted halted under a great cypress tree near where the girata de sancosmo within the walls of ths city was subsequently located and thers rallied the remi ant of his forces for ths retreat toward tlazcala where he found the allies who subsequently enabled him to reduce the city to capitulation — i nis tree was held in great reverence by the mexicans both of spanish and indian descent aud a church was erected by it in commemoration of the event which occui red there the tree of cortez stood green and flourishing though large sections of ita gigantic trunk were decayed until last month wh.-n some vandal filled the cavi ty with rags saturated with coal oil set them on fire in the night and at dawn 1,-,,'y a heap f sm iking coals marked the spot where th - . at historic landmark eto id private letters received from ths cily of mexico say that the greatest in diguiition was awakened there by ths ird iy outrage and the jovernment and the historic society had offered rewards for the discovery of the perpe trator of it wr learn tint a serionsdtfficnl.yoccur red at moss neck on last monday night between a number of the c pper colored inhabitants id scnfhetown the result of which was that two of the oxendinea were verv badly wounded one of ihem having been pretty well cut up with a knife we could learn no further par ticulars — wilmington journal