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simfw 1 if t stf ip h i j hlflll vol iv third series salisbury n.c december 2(5,1872 no 15 whole no 855 pcblishbo weekly ; official return ofthe vote foi governor at the election held on the first day of august 1s72 governor president timely remarks we copy with pleasure the following paragraphs from a recent letter of col w l saunders one of„the editors ot tho wilmington journal to his paper raleigh december 9lh : orable by the press the tendency in this country is to have some title ; every man wishes to be a squire or sheriff or colonel or judge or professor or doc tor or honorable dickens was struck with this over-running fondness for titles and has not failed to satirize it in his american notes but it ia too late to make a successful war upon such crying evils the tendency of things is towards titular distinctions under giantism ; and giantism disguise it who may is only another name for imperialism we expect before a decade to see a royal court held at st washing to us when american dukes and earls and duchesses whose grand father and fathers were yankee cheese mongers green-grocers ostlers oystermen and captains of fishing smacks will be aping the cast-off manners of the lordly iolk of england and france it is to be hoped however that it will be a long time in the south before plain mister is lost in other less noble titles — sentinel women as they were dreadful disasters ox lake superior senator sckurs and the administra j j br u neb a court lady's life in the time of char les ii was a r uud of amuflem-'iit and dissipation iu the morning she would drink her cup of chocolate in her bedroom and receive her visitors she would not always rise from her couch to go through the ceremony but wiih a dainty cap set upon her head and leaning on her elbow would receive the homage of her adorers listen to the recital of a few verses by a starving poet or discuss the latest scandal with perfect simplicity and decorum in the summer a water-party might follow in those days picnics commenced early in the day — and seated in a gaily decorated barge music playing and steamers flying surrounded by rickly-dressed beaux our beauty might journey as far as chelsea then a pretty country village or drop down quietly wuh the tide to greenwich and frolic amongst the deer under the greenwood tree the theatres would be open later on and my lady wonld show herself to the beau morale from a private box but the most fashionable spots which beaux and belles delighted to honor with their presence was the park and spring gardens to promenade the park in the evening was considered the mode and many sequestered spo'.s therein be came celebrated for gallantry and dueling barn elms neurits southwest corner was a well-known rendezvous and rosamond's pond surrounded as it was with trees was notorious as t lover's haunt as well as lor the place where many disappointed ladies committed suicide — loudon so ciety wholesale destruction of life and frofitrty a despatch from marquette mich in the chicago inter-ocean gives a harrow ing account of the most terrible disasters ever known on lake superior involving the most fearful destruction of life and property two new barges whicli lift marquette in tow of the steamer dix were cut loose from the latter in a high sea and foundered with all ou board the dix nar rowly escaping the schooners griswold and urown are also lost with all on board the bark golden rule alter being near ly dashed to pieces drifted ashore finally with her captain and crew all badly froz en a schooner supposed to be the m id dlesex is ashore at point au pins and the spars of an unknown vessel are seen off cross cape the snow and ice in the canal is nine feet thick and whole fl ets of vessels are either frozen in or disabled at the sault ami mu.le like grand is land and other places ition — senator cail schurz of missouri has written a letter to senator thurman defining his political position which is substantially that assumed by hit wheu he assumed a portion of the leadership of the movement against grant's adminis tration mr schuiz ral her declines to ba as a democrat to which we do not ob ject it matters utile what he calls him self so that he adheres to the principles of the cincinnati baltimore conventions mr schurz says : the programme adopted last winter in missouri upon the basis of which the cincinnati convention was called reprc sent a subsubstantially my political faith it includes the recognition and mainten ance of the great and legitimate results of the war as embodied in the constitution as it t ids — a policy of reconciliation with regard o tie south ; honest and cconomi cai administration and thorough reform of the civil service and ot th revenue sys tem ; opposition to centralization and a dangerous assumption of powers ; a re turn to sound constitutional principles and the government of laws for the realization ofthe principles laid down and the measures of policy advocated in that platform 1 shall faithfully work without permitting myself to be diverted by other considerations if the administration dees anything to promote those ends i shall then support it ; in whatever the administration may do in the opposite di rection i shall earnestly oppose it i shall therefore not make opposition to the administration under any and all cir cumstances and my support as well a such opposition shall be governed by my sense of duty without considering myself bound bv party interest proprietor aad editor j j stewart associate editor bates of sibikil'tioiv one of tlie greatest evils of the present constitution is the provision that compels the legislature to meet every year no people were ever cursed with too much legislation to a greater extent than are the people ot north carolina to-day with first one reconstruction conven tion and then another and special and an nual sessions of the legislature it has been scarcely possible to print and pub lish a law before a new law making body was in session and hard at work repealing or changing it to such magnitude has the evilgrown that a new compilation of the lajpthas become a necessity not only to eliecjji but to lawyers and judges as well but if these annual sessions con tinue even this new compilation will af ford only temporary relict twelvemonths will not pass over our heads before there will be enacted hills to be entitled acts to amend an act c ad infinitum in view ofthe crying evils consequent upon compulsory suggestion made by senator flemming on saturday that the first ses sion ofevery legislature ought to be as short as possible leaving to the second ses sion the bulk of the work when the mem bers will have had lime to consider and ma ture their views osk ykak payable in advance 2.00 six months " '• 1.00 copies to one address ln.ih ho.mhexts 6 * i counties s s £ 1 i 5 fc i t t ft * *- r j -< w 3 k 55 s d o o alamance 1270 1015 soo 9-2o alexander 54-i 3:i'j 370 313 alleghaney 3 9 184 220 149 anson 1191 1019 970 1017 ashe 7">2 761 312 542 ilea ii fort 1331 1565 1019 1459 bertie 949 1514 0.-.3 1517 bladen 12ns 1448 758 1409 brunswick 711 708 490 857 buncombe 1538 1114 1109 970 burke 852 683 544 5g5 cabarrus lltil 811 796 946 caldwell 827 332 521 319 camden 562 554 234 111 carteret 1662 739 744 652 caswell 1415 1459 1261 1554 catawba 1261 422 1252 441 chatham 1774 1683 1300 1586 cherokee 486 433 284 372 chowan 576 742 430 767 clav 252 142 204 125 cleaveland 1099 547 351 553 columbus 1045 693 730 777 craven 1146 2780 954 2759 cumberland 1890 1883 1442 1846 currituck 763 349 0 00 0 00 dare 232 270 144 217 davidson 1334 1516 713 1454 davie 826 662 510 637 duplin 1750 1035 1211 1039 edgecombe 1474 3552 1221 3436 forsvthe 1033 1115 758 1100 franklin 1475 1560 1197 1543 < iaston 927 688 808 640 gates 754 512 618 479 granville 1976 2655 1690 2653 greene 783 947 1362 172i guilford 1849 1s31 1485 3719 halifax 1673 3630 1485 3794 harnett 795 695 668 341 haywood 749 420 068 341 henderson 565 719 399 536 hertford 874 983 52s 420 hyde 816 610 528 420 iredell 1738 994 1159 890 jackson 554 166 425 138 johnston 1481 1374 s09 1368 jones 559 639 375 654 lenoir 944 1270 707 1304 lincoln 903 706 375 65-1 macon 655 130 493 159 madison 635 641 380 417 martin 1035 1048 959 1291 mcdowell 706 519 0 0 0 0 mecklenburg 2511 2261 2202 2181 mitchell 105 628 64 468 montgomery 475 653 241 620 mu ore 1055 881 714 731 nash 1284 1293 1003 1215 new hanover 2261 3614 64 468 northampton 1095 1990 752 1997 onslow 892 493 720 529 orange 1945 1321 1483 1265 pamlico 410 358 291 358 i'.isijuotank 657 1033 351 1049 perquimans 042 910 397 892 person llol 819 934 800 pitt 1782 1775 1429 1734 polk 224 342 99 264 randolph 1364 1389 983 1291 richmond 1016 1304 730 1186 robeson 1631 1583 1051 1503 rockingham 2653 1301 141 01370 rowan 1055 1118 902 976 rutherford 727 1013 400 928 sampson 1097 1464 889 1470 stanly 646 366 4s>7 383 stokes 905 830 839 825 surrv 9s9 838 6s1 887 swain 332 20 203 35 transvlvania 379 203 200 150 tyrrell 391 347 235 321 union 1022 031 782 544 wake 3269 3s43 2107 3705 warren 1107 23s0 1054 2428 washington 492 917 390 935 watauga 405 353 197 1-7 wavne 1749 1039 1308 1934 wilkes 1034 1294 639 1178 wilson 1319 1152 1053 1124 yadkin 759 800 518 818 yancey 503 582 835 307 90,731 98,630 96,731 1,899 tombs john h buis ri^enders his compliments t his friends a and the public and in this method would bring to their attention his extended facilities for meeting demand in his line of business — ■he is now prepared t furnish all kinds of grave stum from the cheapest head stones to the costliest monuments those prefering stvb-s ami very costlj w orks not on hand can be accommodated on short time strictly in ac cordance with specifications drafts and the terms of the contract satisfaction guaran teed he will not be undersold north or south orders solicted address i7;tf lulix ii ili'ls salisbury young ladies a3 they were young ladies of the time of edward iv were brought up with greater strict ness than their descendants under victor ia mammas in those days kept their daughters a greater part of the day at hard woik exacted almost slavish d.-fference from them and even as an able antiquar ian states counted upon their earnings after they had attained a certain age it was the custom for the young of both sex es to be sent to tb<3 houses of powerful nobles to finish their education by learn ing minneia and thus a noble lady was often surrounded by a bevy of faces from the owners of which she did not sciuple to receive payment for their living let us follow a lady of gentle blood through her occupations of a day she rises early — at seven or half past — listens to matins and then dresses ; breakfast fol lows ; and this is her costume a silk gown richly embroidered with fur open from the neck to the waist in front and having a turn-over collar of darker color ; a broad gitdle with a rich gold clasp skirts so long as to oblige the wearer to cany them over the arm ; shoes long and pointed ; a gold chain round the neck and to crown all the st2eple-cap with its pendant gossamer veil after regaling herself with broiled beef and beer she will possibly if religiously inclined go to chapel ; if not to the garden and weave garlands this occupation enlivened by gossip witb her friends will tak her un til noon when dinner is served after which an hour or so will be spent with the dis taff or the spinning-wheel at six o'clock supper is served alter which perhaps follow gam's of cards or dice or possibly a dance < if the latter our young lady is i extremely fond and and has been known once er twice when agreeable company is iu the house to commence dancing after dinner aud to continue until supper when after a short respite she began again she has grown tired of the old carolc and now dotes upon those merry jugs import ed from france ■later on another meal is served called the rere-supper or ban quet alter which she may drink a glass ; ol wanned ale or a cup of wine it she be '. so inclined and then retire for the night ' another day in the proper season she ! may go a hawking or ride on horseback i or hunt the stag or shoots rabbits with i bow and ai rows or witness bear-baiting j or some olher such refined amusement young ladies of this age are cautioned j by a m de motitaiglon who appears to ' be somewhat of a poet and a social re ■former against being too quick to fall in ! love from talking scaudai from chalter j ing at table they are enjoined to prac | tice habits of industry to respect the aged j to icfrain from quarrels and above all never to allow gentlemen to kiss in secret ! london society social equality ix new y'ouk — a new ot k correspondent has made a discovery ihat is dreadfully shocking to m j d old prejudices as well as a singular in dication of some notable men a differences between the sexes he says that in can vassing the eighth ward where nearly all the negroes of new york live he found more than 3,000 negro men married to white women and but one white man married to a negro woman among the females many are claimed to be young and handsome wh'ie most of them are repre sented to be contented attd even cheerful the correspond nt who has made this discovery says that he inquired of several of the white women how thev came to many negroes and that the answer waa that it was better to be the wife ol a black man than a white man's mistress if these answers aie true it seems that the alliances are justified mote on the score of morals than on that of lethetics if theie is snch a disproportion between while men and while women it would also indicate lhat the women are the more susceptible though the obstacles iu the way of the marriage or the self support of women in the lower classes of life un doubtedly influence them in the choice between a colored husband or none at all millersburg fuhioj farmer w a rats e buyce sill 217 new firm if however those who think it impos sible to complete before the 31st decem ber all the work that ought to be done at this session ofthe legislature be correct it is good policy to take a long recess and to begin it at an early day in order to en able members to be at home on cristmas and new year to attend to the business that necessarily must be transacted in set tling up the affairs of the out going year and cutting out the work for the incom ing otic it is nothing but simple justice to the western members if a recess be taken at all that it should give them time to go to their homes and return as otherwise they would be kept in raleigh upon their own expense as members draw neither per diem nor mileage during recess indeed so far as the cost of the state is concerned it matters not whether a recess be taken or not m-am death oj a remarkable adventurer — john franklin recently died in new or leans having run a career such as few men would care to be debtors he was born in albany in the year 1s26 and was called john murray but soon took his stepfather's name he was compact ly built handsome and a thorough sport i ing man to whom cincinnati new or i leans and st louis have been indebted for some of their most notorious prize fights before he arrived of age he be came a professional gambler and adven turer forced to leave buffalo when only eighteen on account ofa tight with a ne gro whose skull he fractured he went through central america to california embarking thence on the schooner game cock for a filibustering adventurer in ho nolulu his party were defeated as soon as landed and he shipped in a whaler to australia thence he went to alio i peru and finally opened a gambling sa i loon on one of the chiucha islands he ' circulated freely among the cities of peru i frequently getting involved in desperate i frays in one of them he killed an at j tache of the british legation and was | therefote arrested aud kept in prison for i twenty-six months when through the ef • forts of lewis cass secretary of state i he was released since then he has been , engaged iu gambling and fighting in the ; united states burdened with cousump ! tion for the last ten years he has kept on j his feet and been r ady for any excite i men in july last he was taken to st i paul packed i:i cotton for a change of ' climate it did him no good and he was j taken to new otleans where a short i tune ago he went to his long account hays & sill druggist & apothecaries sal:3su&y ist c a high compliment to north carolina — < jen lb hood of texas was sere naded in raleigh some time since by tins citizens who engaged the colored band of that city for the purpose in responso the general said : having purchased the contents of the drag store formerly occupied by l>r edward sill we respectfully call the at tention of the citizens of salisbury aud the burroonding country to the new ar rangement and inform ih m that we will continue to carry on the business at the fame place and the same excellent way we will endeavor to keep on hand all the various goods the people may need per taining to our line and therefore hope by strict attention to business to receive a liberal patronage gentlemen — i thank you profoundly for the compliment you have paid me i appreciate it most highly coming as it dues from north carolinians during the late revolution i had large opportunities for observing and i must say that if i were called upon to award the palm to any state it would he to north carolina having served three years in the army of virginia and one year in the army of the southwest i must give it as my best conviction that more men were left upon the battlefields of the south from north carolina than from any other state i do not say this because i stand here in your presence but because truth and can dor compel me to say it i believe that your state had more in virginia than virginia had on her own eoil and you and all north carolinians ought to be proud of h'-r name your troops were better provided for than any other and it was owing to your superior management at home gentlemen i again thank you but for many and good reasons it is much to be hoped that the radicals will unite with our friends in striking from the constitution a provision so objectionable as that which requites annual sessions of the legislature physician's orders prompt ly attended to the greatest suspension bridge ' ix america — the greatest work in the line of suspension bridges ever attempted i in this country is the bridge from new ; york to brooklyn across the east river , now being built it will be supported by j two great towers which have a height ; above high water mark of 2su feet while ; tbey rest upon foundations some so feet beneath high water the height of the ' centre or main span of the bridge will be j ljj feet above high water the length ! of the river span will he 1,g ic feet ; oi each land span 910 feet the length of the new york approach will be 1,-141 feet and the brooklyn approach 941 — the total length of the bridge will be o,s7s feet it will be amply broad and will hare f nl ways carriageways and a railway track all distincl and effectually separated it was begun in 1870 the tower on the brooklyn side ha3 a height of 140 feet ; that on the new york side o0 feet above the water it is conjectured that it wi 1 be at last four years before travel will commence upon il and that it rp.q'lo m prescriptions accurately ainl carefully compounded by reliable and competent druggists day or the title for an american " honorable the n york com mercial advertiser suggests that it is about time a little discrimination should bo exercised in the prefix of the title '• honorable to men in public positions mr jefferson was opposed to all such handles even to municipal dignitaries — the grievance might be borne with if the " honor of those who bear the designa tion was always truly represented by tin til lc — exchange night 4 iy triumphant daniel b whitener in his s7th year and charles srotice in his 90th year both i brave soldiers under gen jackson in tho j war of 1s12 walked to the polls on elec ■tion day and voted for greeley their ■wives are still living aged respectely 80 ! and sa pianos piannfiv it has been said of old that in certain conditions of society " the post of honor ii a private station so it may be said in this lav of the multiplicity ot titles that the most honorable prefix is to any man's name is no prefix at all ll must be hu initiating loan honorable gentleman who by distinguished services has won the title hon to see it affixed to the names of so many of the must miserable scamps in the country so with the line man who won such a title as that ef '• co by atduoua service on the field when he sees it aiiixed to the names of creatures who dodged all service during the war and who as far as gallantry is coucerned would not tight a sitting turs key offol ber nest with a fence rail as to professors every one is a professor who professes anything from mixed ma thematics down to the manufacture of soap anybody too is judge — from the umpire at a cock fight up to the gowned occupants ofthe supreme court bench as toles now applied plain mister should be most desired petersburg appeal we have hid a strange love for that simple but manly title of mister ever since we were able to distinguish between true worth and mere pretension we cannot say it was innate or intuitive but it came lo us through our devotion to our boyhood's hero a gallant officer of the army long since dead and who alas ! fill by bis own hand in a fit of hereditary in sanity at fortress monroe long before he was forced to decide bet ween his slate and his county 1 1 was at the close ofthe mexican war when most of ihe officers were receiving brevet liih-s we happen ed to be present and were tolerated !■$• them as a mere boy when a discussion arose among them s to titles our favor ite and mentor whose words were then our oracles and who had received a bre ve for gallant and meritorious services said the true title of an american gentleman is mister it is when worthy worn above any that can be confessed by piince or potentate or won by military or civic services ; and while i shall deserve ihf respect of men so far as to merit that title equidistant from disgusting familiari ty and servile flattery i am content — from that time we have set a high value upon our only american title of nobility — that simple but expressive little word mister ilicjimond enquirer living in this township in good health i is paul anthony s7 years of age john smyress joseph whitner so john hawn : s5 the latter was also a soldier in the i war of 12 and seven others between 73 and 78 a mrs prupst s2 bar bara beindhardt sl cristena weaver so amy whitcner b2 mrs wallace bo — hickory eagle upwards of fifty first pre miums and di'ld and silver medals were awarded m l iia les m s nici'i for the list pianos in competition wi'h all ihe leading manufactur ers of the country office and slew wnrerooms .\ • \ . i . baltimore aid railroad companies must protect i passexgers — it has been announced j that mrs avery d putnam recovered a judgment from a street railway company j in new york for 5,000 damages for fail ! ing to protect her husband who was killed | oti one of the ears of the company the instruction lo the jury given by judge i curtis upon which the verdict was found will be of general interest ho said : the defend ints undertook to transport tlie deceased for hire and were bound to an eli ing minister — a casey co ky correspondent writes to iln danville advocate on tuesday 12th instant elijah wilson a minister of the methodist church living about six miles south'of middleburg in this county eloped with geo latham's wife many of your read ers will recollect that about six months ago galen e taylor took llie same wo man and slatted off with her and that lanham followed taylor and killed him near columbia lie was tried and ac quitted and he and his wife have been livjng together ever since nnil her sud den departure a few days ago the whereabouts of the couole are unknown to any one in this county even the di rection they took is unknown a chaldean account of the deluge t - pianos contain all the latest iin jiric i in a first-class piano with additional iniproveini - own in vention ::■.! i i found ::> other instruments touch and finish of their instru ments cannol be excelled by any uiauufactur a good one at a political meeting not long since the audience and speaker were very much disturbed by a man who constantly call ed for mr henry whenever a new speaker came on this man bawled out " mr henry ! henry ! 1 call for mr henry !" afier several interruptions of this kind at each speech a young man ascended the platform and was ailing his eloquence in a magniloquent style sink ing his gestures when again the outcry was heard for mr henry putting his hand to his mouth like a speaking trump et ; this man was bawling out at the top of his voice " mr henry ! henry ! hen ry ! i call for mr henry to make a speech !" the chairman now rose and remarked that it would oblige the audience if the gentleman would refrain irom any further calling for mr henry as that gentleman was now speaking is thai mr henry ?" said the dis turber of the meeting u thunder that can't be mr henry why that's the little cues that told me to holler secure him a safe passage so far as that could be done by the exercise of due care ' ou their part they were bound to exer ] cise the utmost diligence and care in main ! taining order and guarding their passen ' gers against violence which might reason ! ably and naturally be expected to occur : in view ofthe character and condition of : other persons whom they voluntarily i permitted to come or remain on board the i car if defendants failed to exercise snch i utmost diligence and the death of mr i putnam was the result the defendants are ! liable the loudon daily telgraph has re ceived from mr ceorge smith of the british museum the subjoined account of the fc.cord of the deluge whicli as was announcedja day or twoago he ha lately deciphered from the assyrian monument the cuneiform inscription which i have recently found and translated gives a long lull account of the deluge it con tains the version or tradition of this event which existed in the early chaldean pe riod of they ci;y of erecb one of the cities of nimrod now represented by the ruins of warka in this newly discov ered inscption the account of the delugo is put as a narrative in tho month of xisuthnis or noah he relates the wick edt.ess of the world the command to build li ■aik its building the filling of it the deluge the resting of tlie ark a mouniain the sending out of tiie birds and other matters the narrative has a closer re i mblance to the account transmitted by the creeks fiom berosus the chaldean historian than to the biblical history ; but it does not differ materially from ei ther the principal differences are as to the duiation of the d luge the name of the mountain on which the ark rested t bending out of the birds etc tho cuneiform account is much longer and fuller than that of berosus and has sev eral detail omitted both by the bible and the chaldean historian this inscription opens up many questions of which we know nothing previously and it is cou nected with a number of other details of chaldean history which will be both in teresting mil important this is the first time any inscription baa been found wiih an account of an event nientiuiud i ii genesis terrible accident — a letter to one ed ofthe english papers fiom a lady who j was in the accident to the train pussing ! through the mount cenis tunnel gives a : graphic picture of the scene the train i arrived at the tunnel at four o'clock on j sunday afternoon it takes about forty , minutes to traverse the darkness and j about half an hour had elapsed and the passengers were just anticipating emerg ing again into daylight when without the least warning they were flung from their : seats by the sudden stoppage of the train with a terrific crash the first sensation was one of horror at the total darkness and unknown extent oflhe danger then i the carriages began to fill with smoke — ' the heat soon became like that of an oven | three of the passengers were mortally wounded and many others were severely | injured and their groans and cries were aggravated by the shrieks of the other passengers many of whom were women without light almost without air and helpless the passengers remained wedged in the tunnel with the burden train wiih which they had collided for five hours when six engines sent final modane drag ged the trains asunder a large as l-band pianos always ,.-.: iiai tl from 7 to 1 i parlor ai h organs some twenty dif ferent si - -•''' and upwards send ior illustrated catalogue containing names of ov i uundrcd southerners hundred of « hich are \ irginians iwo hundred n'unh carolinians one hundred and fifty k .-; tennesseans and others throughout the south who have bought the stieff piano tho close of the war 2 1 ' 1 allen buown agent rali bury n c an infidel sunday school — the bal timore american publishes an account of an infidel sunday school from which is carefully excluded all acknowledgement of christ as the saviour of men and all recognition of the remission of sins thro his death on the cross the american remarks thai " there are s veral sue sun day schools in this city and iheir growth illustrates ihe remark of the r v dr hoge in his eloquent address on saturday night ihat " the literature of th world i.j thoroughly pervaded now with infideli v and hc religious element is being more and more eliminated from institutions of learning residence of santa clatjs — rev t v moore d d , of richmond in one of his letters from switzerland published recently in the richmond whig says that in his journej from alpnacht lo brietiz there was one point of interest lo every lover of children he says we passed very near the residence of ilu famous st nicolaus von der flen whom every child knows under ihe name of santa clans kriss krinkle or st nicholas he lived very near ihis road and was in early life a suiili't ; in later a councillor of state ; and tor many years a hermit and living ae he did so near the lime when christiani ty was introduced into germany be be came after his death the patron saint of germany and nearly every hut in thin uuterwalden districl has a portrait of brother klanss as he is usually called by th peasautry of germany i suppose few of the saints on ihe roil of canoniza tion has as enviable an amount of revi r ence and love as that given by thousands of little loving hearts that devoulty trtt-t in the benignant kindness at christmas times of good old santa c'laus j,s;m jin sua\|u ton si isjiiu.iii mi deaths in the county it is seldom that the columns of the southerner an nounce so many deaths as they now report as having taken place since ihe last issue insure in georgia home insurance co of columbus ga dining the past week three of our most highly esteemed fellow countrymen all in the prime and vigor of manhood have passed to theii final account viz.t-m.sers lames j lawrence janet while and a j daniel each highly respected for their sterling character of mind and disposition during the same period of one week several young children and also several respectable colored people have died making a grand total for that length of time lhat is truly appalling — tar south enter scotch juries llie x york world thinks ii would be a goru'i thing to intro duce scoth practice into our criminal code thil is io jury trials let the majority decide under the scorch syst'-m an accused cannot have alaivyer till 15 days before ihe trial comes off there is no grand jnry hut the trial takes place on the indictm it ol the prosecuting officer fifteen men make a jnry ami the facili ties fir going to higher courts on legal quibbles are reduced to minimum the evensville journal says a young man named ebert a resident of sullivan was married yesterday to a miss well of this city miss well was a stead fast jewess and as a condition precedent lo her acceptance of him mr ebert had to renounce christianity and become a believer in judaism he submitted to the rite of circumcision about two weeks ago and was formally accepted as a child ot israel before his marriage incorporated 1850 capital 350,000 j rhodes browne president ll f will x set euury all losses equitably adjusted and promptly paid in full all this is very sensible especially what the enquirer says about the now somewhat autiquated title — mister it is enough as has heen suggested by the appeal to disgust any decent or distills guished citizen to beai a title that once indicated honor in the wearer but has been prostituted to the use of the basest creatures that ever crawled in the cess pools of party iu north carolina some of the most ignorant and stupid of fellows have been dignified with the titleof'hon property owners desiring lo obtain reliable in surance will do well to protect themselves by necuring a policy in georgia hume insurance co agencies at prominent points in all the era states j allen brown agent office no 2 granite row april 25 72 [!>'] salisbury n c arrival of a lunatic — gillie m bacon of cabarrus was brought to the asylum yesterday by capt it s harris sheriff of cabarrus county bacon is about 62 years ol age a school teacher by profes sion and has a wife and nine children — the cause of his insanity is unknown raleigh neics .' printer lord maym cf london — sir sidney wat rlow the new lord mayor of london began his life an apprentice in a printing office , went t pari to seek work -.,- a compos itor and for sumc time w is employed at galif naiii's tiku he returned to london and join ed his father and brother in a little shop which gradually grew into a large and wealthy estab lishment it i very evident that if the forty second congress refuses a general amnesty the l-'orty tiiir i will not grant it in thin present house there is a majority in favor of such a step but the requisite two-thirds are lacking ; in tho next a prescriptive two-thirds is already a sured it is stated that mr charles dickens jr will visit this country next spring a mcrriden conn dentist announces that in full belief that our lord jesus christ will come to earth again next year i have disposed of my dental office to enter the field again actively in an effort to proclaim the prophetic evidence of this sublime and joyful event e.v-piesident johnson will establish his residence at nashville tenn the country seat of the late jas gor don bennett at fort washington is ad vertised to let a tine drove of hogs from tenneew p*«m>j threugh charlotte on monday marriage certificates for salo iore bul thu bestisalwuys llie cheapest
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1872-12-26 |
Month | 12 |
Day | 26 |
Year | 1872 |
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Date | 1872-12-26 |
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FullText | simfw 1 if t stf ip h i j hlflll vol iv third series salisbury n.c december 2(5,1872 no 15 whole no 855 pcblishbo weekly ; official return ofthe vote foi governor at the election held on the first day of august 1s72 governor president timely remarks we copy with pleasure the following paragraphs from a recent letter of col w l saunders one of„the editors ot tho wilmington journal to his paper raleigh december 9lh : orable by the press the tendency in this country is to have some title ; every man wishes to be a squire or sheriff or colonel or judge or professor or doc tor or honorable dickens was struck with this over-running fondness for titles and has not failed to satirize it in his american notes but it ia too late to make a successful war upon such crying evils the tendency of things is towards titular distinctions under giantism ; and giantism disguise it who may is only another name for imperialism we expect before a decade to see a royal court held at st washing to us when american dukes and earls and duchesses whose grand father and fathers were yankee cheese mongers green-grocers ostlers oystermen and captains of fishing smacks will be aping the cast-off manners of the lordly iolk of england and france it is to be hoped however that it will be a long time in the south before plain mister is lost in other less noble titles — sentinel women as they were dreadful disasters ox lake superior senator sckurs and the administra j j br u neb a court lady's life in the time of char les ii was a r uud of amuflem-'iit and dissipation iu the morning she would drink her cup of chocolate in her bedroom and receive her visitors she would not always rise from her couch to go through the ceremony but wiih a dainty cap set upon her head and leaning on her elbow would receive the homage of her adorers listen to the recital of a few verses by a starving poet or discuss the latest scandal with perfect simplicity and decorum in the summer a water-party might follow in those days picnics commenced early in the day — and seated in a gaily decorated barge music playing and steamers flying surrounded by rickly-dressed beaux our beauty might journey as far as chelsea then a pretty country village or drop down quietly wuh the tide to greenwich and frolic amongst the deer under the greenwood tree the theatres would be open later on and my lady wonld show herself to the beau morale from a private box but the most fashionable spots which beaux and belles delighted to honor with their presence was the park and spring gardens to promenade the park in the evening was considered the mode and many sequestered spo'.s therein be came celebrated for gallantry and dueling barn elms neurits southwest corner was a well-known rendezvous and rosamond's pond surrounded as it was with trees was notorious as t lover's haunt as well as lor the place where many disappointed ladies committed suicide — loudon so ciety wholesale destruction of life and frofitrty a despatch from marquette mich in the chicago inter-ocean gives a harrow ing account of the most terrible disasters ever known on lake superior involving the most fearful destruction of life and property two new barges whicli lift marquette in tow of the steamer dix were cut loose from the latter in a high sea and foundered with all ou board the dix nar rowly escaping the schooners griswold and urown are also lost with all on board the bark golden rule alter being near ly dashed to pieces drifted ashore finally with her captain and crew all badly froz en a schooner supposed to be the m id dlesex is ashore at point au pins and the spars of an unknown vessel are seen off cross cape the snow and ice in the canal is nine feet thick and whole fl ets of vessels are either frozen in or disabled at the sault ami mu.le like grand is land and other places ition — senator cail schurz of missouri has written a letter to senator thurman defining his political position which is substantially that assumed by hit wheu he assumed a portion of the leadership of the movement against grant's adminis tration mr schuiz ral her declines to ba as a democrat to which we do not ob ject it matters utile what he calls him self so that he adheres to the principles of the cincinnati baltimore conventions mr schurz says : the programme adopted last winter in missouri upon the basis of which the cincinnati convention was called reprc sent a subsubstantially my political faith it includes the recognition and mainten ance of the great and legitimate results of the war as embodied in the constitution as it t ids — a policy of reconciliation with regard o tie south ; honest and cconomi cai administration and thorough reform of the civil service and ot th revenue sys tem ; opposition to centralization and a dangerous assumption of powers ; a re turn to sound constitutional principles and the government of laws for the realization ofthe principles laid down and the measures of policy advocated in that platform 1 shall faithfully work without permitting myself to be diverted by other considerations if the administration dees anything to promote those ends i shall then support it ; in whatever the administration may do in the opposite di rection i shall earnestly oppose it i shall therefore not make opposition to the administration under any and all cir cumstances and my support as well a such opposition shall be governed by my sense of duty without considering myself bound bv party interest proprietor aad editor j j stewart associate editor bates of sibikil'tioiv one of tlie greatest evils of the present constitution is the provision that compels the legislature to meet every year no people were ever cursed with too much legislation to a greater extent than are the people ot north carolina to-day with first one reconstruction conven tion and then another and special and an nual sessions of the legislature it has been scarcely possible to print and pub lish a law before a new law making body was in session and hard at work repealing or changing it to such magnitude has the evilgrown that a new compilation of the lajpthas become a necessity not only to eliecjji but to lawyers and judges as well but if these annual sessions con tinue even this new compilation will af ford only temporary relict twelvemonths will not pass over our heads before there will be enacted hills to be entitled acts to amend an act c ad infinitum in view ofthe crying evils consequent upon compulsory suggestion made by senator flemming on saturday that the first ses sion ofevery legislature ought to be as short as possible leaving to the second ses sion the bulk of the work when the mem bers will have had lime to consider and ma ture their views osk ykak payable in advance 2.00 six months " '• 1.00 copies to one address ln.ih ho.mhexts 6 * i counties s s £ 1 i 5 fc i t t ft * *- r j -< w 3 k 55 s d o o alamance 1270 1015 soo 9-2o alexander 54-i 3:i'j 370 313 alleghaney 3 9 184 220 149 anson 1191 1019 970 1017 ashe 7">2 761 312 542 ilea ii fort 1331 1565 1019 1459 bertie 949 1514 0.-.3 1517 bladen 12ns 1448 758 1409 brunswick 711 708 490 857 buncombe 1538 1114 1109 970 burke 852 683 544 5g5 cabarrus lltil 811 796 946 caldwell 827 332 521 319 camden 562 554 234 111 carteret 1662 739 744 652 caswell 1415 1459 1261 1554 catawba 1261 422 1252 441 chatham 1774 1683 1300 1586 cherokee 486 433 284 372 chowan 576 742 430 767 clav 252 142 204 125 cleaveland 1099 547 351 553 columbus 1045 693 730 777 craven 1146 2780 954 2759 cumberland 1890 1883 1442 1846 currituck 763 349 0 00 0 00 dare 232 270 144 217 davidson 1334 1516 713 1454 davie 826 662 510 637 duplin 1750 1035 1211 1039 edgecombe 1474 3552 1221 3436 forsvthe 1033 1115 758 1100 franklin 1475 1560 1197 1543 < iaston 927 688 808 640 gates 754 512 618 479 granville 1976 2655 1690 2653 greene 783 947 1362 172i guilford 1849 1s31 1485 3719 halifax 1673 3630 1485 3794 harnett 795 695 668 341 haywood 749 420 068 341 henderson 565 719 399 536 hertford 874 983 52s 420 hyde 816 610 528 420 iredell 1738 994 1159 890 jackson 554 166 425 138 johnston 1481 1374 s09 1368 jones 559 639 375 654 lenoir 944 1270 707 1304 lincoln 903 706 375 65-1 macon 655 130 493 159 madison 635 641 380 417 martin 1035 1048 959 1291 mcdowell 706 519 0 0 0 0 mecklenburg 2511 2261 2202 2181 mitchell 105 628 64 468 montgomery 475 653 241 620 mu ore 1055 881 714 731 nash 1284 1293 1003 1215 new hanover 2261 3614 64 468 northampton 1095 1990 752 1997 onslow 892 493 720 529 orange 1945 1321 1483 1265 pamlico 410 358 291 358 i'.isijuotank 657 1033 351 1049 perquimans 042 910 397 892 person llol 819 934 800 pitt 1782 1775 1429 1734 polk 224 342 99 264 randolph 1364 1389 983 1291 richmond 1016 1304 730 1186 robeson 1631 1583 1051 1503 rockingham 2653 1301 141 01370 rowan 1055 1118 902 976 rutherford 727 1013 400 928 sampson 1097 1464 889 1470 stanly 646 366 4s>7 383 stokes 905 830 839 825 surrv 9s9 838 6s1 887 swain 332 20 203 35 transvlvania 379 203 200 150 tyrrell 391 347 235 321 union 1022 031 782 544 wake 3269 3s43 2107 3705 warren 1107 23s0 1054 2428 washington 492 917 390 935 watauga 405 353 197 1-7 wavne 1749 1039 1308 1934 wilkes 1034 1294 639 1178 wilson 1319 1152 1053 1124 yadkin 759 800 518 818 yancey 503 582 835 307 90,731 98,630 96,731 1,899 tombs john h buis ri^enders his compliments t his friends a and the public and in this method would bring to their attention his extended facilities for meeting demand in his line of business — ■he is now prepared t furnish all kinds of grave stum from the cheapest head stones to the costliest monuments those prefering stvb-s ami very costlj w orks not on hand can be accommodated on short time strictly in ac cordance with specifications drafts and the terms of the contract satisfaction guaran teed he will not be undersold north or south orders solicted address i7;tf lulix ii ili'ls salisbury young ladies a3 they were young ladies of the time of edward iv were brought up with greater strict ness than their descendants under victor ia mammas in those days kept their daughters a greater part of the day at hard woik exacted almost slavish d.-fference from them and even as an able antiquar ian states counted upon their earnings after they had attained a certain age it was the custom for the young of both sex es to be sent to tb<3 houses of powerful nobles to finish their education by learn ing minneia and thus a noble lady was often surrounded by a bevy of faces from the owners of which she did not sciuple to receive payment for their living let us follow a lady of gentle blood through her occupations of a day she rises early — at seven or half past — listens to matins and then dresses ; breakfast fol lows ; and this is her costume a silk gown richly embroidered with fur open from the neck to the waist in front and having a turn-over collar of darker color ; a broad gitdle with a rich gold clasp skirts so long as to oblige the wearer to cany them over the arm ; shoes long and pointed ; a gold chain round the neck and to crown all the st2eple-cap with its pendant gossamer veil after regaling herself with broiled beef and beer she will possibly if religiously inclined go to chapel ; if not to the garden and weave garlands this occupation enlivened by gossip witb her friends will tak her un til noon when dinner is served after which an hour or so will be spent with the dis taff or the spinning-wheel at six o'clock supper is served alter which perhaps follow gam's of cards or dice or possibly a dance < if the latter our young lady is i extremely fond and and has been known once er twice when agreeable company is iu the house to commence dancing after dinner aud to continue until supper when after a short respite she began again she has grown tired of the old carolc and now dotes upon those merry jugs import ed from france ■later on another meal is served called the rere-supper or ban quet alter which she may drink a glass ; ol wanned ale or a cup of wine it she be '. so inclined and then retire for the night ' another day in the proper season she ! may go a hawking or ride on horseback i or hunt the stag or shoots rabbits with i bow and ai rows or witness bear-baiting j or some olher such refined amusement young ladies of this age are cautioned j by a m de motitaiglon who appears to ' be somewhat of a poet and a social re ■former against being too quick to fall in ! love from talking scaudai from chalter j ing at table they are enjoined to prac | tice habits of industry to respect the aged j to icfrain from quarrels and above all never to allow gentlemen to kiss in secret ! london society social equality ix new y'ouk — a new ot k correspondent has made a discovery ihat is dreadfully shocking to m j d old prejudices as well as a singular in dication of some notable men a differences between the sexes he says that in can vassing the eighth ward where nearly all the negroes of new york live he found more than 3,000 negro men married to white women and but one white man married to a negro woman among the females many are claimed to be young and handsome wh'ie most of them are repre sented to be contented attd even cheerful the correspond nt who has made this discovery says that he inquired of several of the white women how thev came to many negroes and that the answer waa that it was better to be the wife ol a black man than a white man's mistress if these answers aie true it seems that the alliances are justified mote on the score of morals than on that of lethetics if theie is snch a disproportion between while men and while women it would also indicate lhat the women are the more susceptible though the obstacles iu the way of the marriage or the self support of women in the lower classes of life un doubtedly influence them in the choice between a colored husband or none at all millersburg fuhioj farmer w a rats e buyce sill 217 new firm if however those who think it impos sible to complete before the 31st decem ber all the work that ought to be done at this session ofthe legislature be correct it is good policy to take a long recess and to begin it at an early day in order to en able members to be at home on cristmas and new year to attend to the business that necessarily must be transacted in set tling up the affairs of the out going year and cutting out the work for the incom ing otic it is nothing but simple justice to the western members if a recess be taken at all that it should give them time to go to their homes and return as otherwise they would be kept in raleigh upon their own expense as members draw neither per diem nor mileage during recess indeed so far as the cost of the state is concerned it matters not whether a recess be taken or not m-am death oj a remarkable adventurer — john franklin recently died in new or leans having run a career such as few men would care to be debtors he was born in albany in the year 1s26 and was called john murray but soon took his stepfather's name he was compact ly built handsome and a thorough sport i ing man to whom cincinnati new or i leans and st louis have been indebted for some of their most notorious prize fights before he arrived of age he be came a professional gambler and adven turer forced to leave buffalo when only eighteen on account ofa tight with a ne gro whose skull he fractured he went through central america to california embarking thence on the schooner game cock for a filibustering adventurer in ho nolulu his party were defeated as soon as landed and he shipped in a whaler to australia thence he went to alio i peru and finally opened a gambling sa i loon on one of the chiucha islands he ' circulated freely among the cities of peru i frequently getting involved in desperate i frays in one of them he killed an at j tache of the british legation and was | therefote arrested aud kept in prison for i twenty-six months when through the ef • forts of lewis cass secretary of state i he was released since then he has been , engaged iu gambling and fighting in the ; united states burdened with cousump ! tion for the last ten years he has kept on j his feet and been r ady for any excite i men in july last he was taken to st i paul packed i:i cotton for a change of ' climate it did him no good and he was j taken to new otleans where a short i tune ago he went to his long account hays & sill druggist & apothecaries sal:3su&y ist c a high compliment to north carolina — < jen lb hood of texas was sere naded in raleigh some time since by tins citizens who engaged the colored band of that city for the purpose in responso the general said : having purchased the contents of the drag store formerly occupied by l>r edward sill we respectfully call the at tention of the citizens of salisbury aud the burroonding country to the new ar rangement and inform ih m that we will continue to carry on the business at the fame place and the same excellent way we will endeavor to keep on hand all the various goods the people may need per taining to our line and therefore hope by strict attention to business to receive a liberal patronage gentlemen — i thank you profoundly for the compliment you have paid me i appreciate it most highly coming as it dues from north carolinians during the late revolution i had large opportunities for observing and i must say that if i were called upon to award the palm to any state it would he to north carolina having served three years in the army of virginia and one year in the army of the southwest i must give it as my best conviction that more men were left upon the battlefields of the south from north carolina than from any other state i do not say this because i stand here in your presence but because truth and can dor compel me to say it i believe that your state had more in virginia than virginia had on her own eoil and you and all north carolinians ought to be proud of h'-r name your troops were better provided for than any other and it was owing to your superior management at home gentlemen i again thank you but for many and good reasons it is much to be hoped that the radicals will unite with our friends in striking from the constitution a provision so objectionable as that which requites annual sessions of the legislature physician's orders prompt ly attended to the greatest suspension bridge ' ix america — the greatest work in the line of suspension bridges ever attempted i in this country is the bridge from new ; york to brooklyn across the east river , now being built it will be supported by j two great towers which have a height ; above high water mark of 2su feet while ; tbey rest upon foundations some so feet beneath high water the height of the ' centre or main span of the bridge will be j ljj feet above high water the length ! of the river span will he 1,g ic feet ; oi each land span 910 feet the length of the new york approach will be 1,-141 feet and the brooklyn approach 941 — the total length of the bridge will be o,s7s feet it will be amply broad and will hare f nl ways carriageways and a railway track all distincl and effectually separated it was begun in 1870 the tower on the brooklyn side ha3 a height of 140 feet ; that on the new york side o0 feet above the water it is conjectured that it wi 1 be at last four years before travel will commence upon il and that it rp.q'lo m prescriptions accurately ainl carefully compounded by reliable and competent druggists day or the title for an american " honorable the n york com mercial advertiser suggests that it is about time a little discrimination should bo exercised in the prefix of the title '• honorable to men in public positions mr jefferson was opposed to all such handles even to municipal dignitaries — the grievance might be borne with if the " honor of those who bear the designa tion was always truly represented by tin til lc — exchange night 4 iy triumphant daniel b whitener in his s7th year and charles srotice in his 90th year both i brave soldiers under gen jackson in tho j war of 1s12 walked to the polls on elec ■tion day and voted for greeley their ■wives are still living aged respectely 80 ! and sa pianos piannfiv it has been said of old that in certain conditions of society " the post of honor ii a private station so it may be said in this lav of the multiplicity ot titles that the most honorable prefix is to any man's name is no prefix at all ll must be hu initiating loan honorable gentleman who by distinguished services has won the title hon to see it affixed to the names of so many of the must miserable scamps in the country so with the line man who won such a title as that ef '• co by atduoua service on the field when he sees it aiiixed to the names of creatures who dodged all service during the war and who as far as gallantry is coucerned would not tight a sitting turs key offol ber nest with a fence rail as to professors every one is a professor who professes anything from mixed ma thematics down to the manufacture of soap anybody too is judge — from the umpire at a cock fight up to the gowned occupants ofthe supreme court bench as toles now applied plain mister should be most desired petersburg appeal we have hid a strange love for that simple but manly title of mister ever since we were able to distinguish between true worth and mere pretension we cannot say it was innate or intuitive but it came lo us through our devotion to our boyhood's hero a gallant officer of the army long since dead and who alas ! fill by bis own hand in a fit of hereditary in sanity at fortress monroe long before he was forced to decide bet ween his slate and his county 1 1 was at the close ofthe mexican war when most of ihe officers were receiving brevet liih-s we happen ed to be present and were tolerated !■$• them as a mere boy when a discussion arose among them s to titles our favor ite and mentor whose words were then our oracles and who had received a bre ve for gallant and meritorious services said the true title of an american gentleman is mister it is when worthy worn above any that can be confessed by piince or potentate or won by military or civic services ; and while i shall deserve ihf respect of men so far as to merit that title equidistant from disgusting familiari ty and servile flattery i am content — from that time we have set a high value upon our only american title of nobility — that simple but expressive little word mister ilicjimond enquirer living in this township in good health i is paul anthony s7 years of age john smyress joseph whitner so john hawn : s5 the latter was also a soldier in the i war of 12 and seven others between 73 and 78 a mrs prupst s2 bar bara beindhardt sl cristena weaver so amy whitcner b2 mrs wallace bo — hickory eagle upwards of fifty first pre miums and di'ld and silver medals were awarded m l iia les m s nici'i for the list pianos in competition wi'h all ihe leading manufactur ers of the country office and slew wnrerooms .\ • \ . i . baltimore aid railroad companies must protect i passexgers — it has been announced j that mrs avery d putnam recovered a judgment from a street railway company j in new york for 5,000 damages for fail ! ing to protect her husband who was killed | oti one of the ears of the company the instruction lo the jury given by judge i curtis upon which the verdict was found will be of general interest ho said : the defend ints undertook to transport tlie deceased for hire and were bound to an eli ing minister — a casey co ky correspondent writes to iln danville advocate on tuesday 12th instant elijah wilson a minister of the methodist church living about six miles south'of middleburg in this county eloped with geo latham's wife many of your read ers will recollect that about six months ago galen e taylor took llie same wo man and slatted off with her and that lanham followed taylor and killed him near columbia lie was tried and ac quitted and he and his wife have been livjng together ever since nnil her sud den departure a few days ago the whereabouts of the couole are unknown to any one in this county even the di rection they took is unknown a chaldean account of the deluge t - pianos contain all the latest iin jiric i in a first-class piano with additional iniproveini - own in vention ::■.! i i found ::> other instruments touch and finish of their instru ments cannol be excelled by any uiauufactur a good one at a political meeting not long since the audience and speaker were very much disturbed by a man who constantly call ed for mr henry whenever a new speaker came on this man bawled out " mr henry ! henry ! 1 call for mr henry !" afier several interruptions of this kind at each speech a young man ascended the platform and was ailing his eloquence in a magniloquent style sink ing his gestures when again the outcry was heard for mr henry putting his hand to his mouth like a speaking trump et ; this man was bawling out at the top of his voice " mr henry ! henry ! hen ry ! i call for mr henry to make a speech !" the chairman now rose and remarked that it would oblige the audience if the gentleman would refrain irom any further calling for mr henry as that gentleman was now speaking is thai mr henry ?" said the dis turber of the meeting u thunder that can't be mr henry why that's the little cues that told me to holler secure him a safe passage so far as that could be done by the exercise of due care ' ou their part they were bound to exer ] cise the utmost diligence and care in main ! taining order and guarding their passen ' gers against violence which might reason ! ably and naturally be expected to occur : in view ofthe character and condition of : other persons whom they voluntarily i permitted to come or remain on board the i car if defendants failed to exercise snch i utmost diligence and the death of mr i putnam was the result the defendants are ! liable the loudon daily telgraph has re ceived from mr ceorge smith of the british museum the subjoined account of the fc.cord of the deluge whicli as was announcedja day or twoago he ha lately deciphered from the assyrian monument the cuneiform inscription which i have recently found and translated gives a long lull account of the deluge it con tains the version or tradition of this event which existed in the early chaldean pe riod of they ci;y of erecb one of the cities of nimrod now represented by the ruins of warka in this newly discov ered inscption the account of the delugo is put as a narrative in tho month of xisuthnis or noah he relates the wick edt.ess of the world the command to build li ■aik its building the filling of it the deluge the resting of tlie ark a mouniain the sending out of tiie birds and other matters the narrative has a closer re i mblance to the account transmitted by the creeks fiom berosus the chaldean historian than to the biblical history ; but it does not differ materially from ei ther the principal differences are as to the duiation of the d luge the name of the mountain on which the ark rested t bending out of the birds etc tho cuneiform account is much longer and fuller than that of berosus and has sev eral detail omitted both by the bible and the chaldean historian this inscription opens up many questions of which we know nothing previously and it is cou nected with a number of other details of chaldean history which will be both in teresting mil important this is the first time any inscription baa been found wiih an account of an event nientiuiud i ii genesis terrible accident — a letter to one ed ofthe english papers fiom a lady who j was in the accident to the train pussing ! through the mount cenis tunnel gives a : graphic picture of the scene the train i arrived at the tunnel at four o'clock on j sunday afternoon it takes about forty , minutes to traverse the darkness and j about half an hour had elapsed and the passengers were just anticipating emerg ing again into daylight when without the least warning they were flung from their : seats by the sudden stoppage of the train with a terrific crash the first sensation was one of horror at the total darkness and unknown extent oflhe danger then i the carriages began to fill with smoke — ' the heat soon became like that of an oven | three of the passengers were mortally wounded and many others were severely | injured and their groans and cries were aggravated by the shrieks of the other passengers many of whom were women without light almost without air and helpless the passengers remained wedged in the tunnel with the burden train wiih which they had collided for five hours when six engines sent final modane drag ged the trains asunder a large as l-band pianos always ,.-.: iiai tl from 7 to 1 i parlor ai h organs some twenty dif ferent si - -•''' and upwards send ior illustrated catalogue containing names of ov i uundrcd southerners hundred of « hich are \ irginians iwo hundred n'unh carolinians one hundred and fifty k .-; tennesseans and others throughout the south who have bought the stieff piano tho close of the war 2 1 ' 1 allen buown agent rali bury n c an infidel sunday school — the bal timore american publishes an account of an infidel sunday school from which is carefully excluded all acknowledgement of christ as the saviour of men and all recognition of the remission of sins thro his death on the cross the american remarks thai " there are s veral sue sun day schools in this city and iheir growth illustrates ihe remark of the r v dr hoge in his eloquent address on saturday night ihat " the literature of th world i.j thoroughly pervaded now with infideli v and hc religious element is being more and more eliminated from institutions of learning residence of santa clatjs — rev t v moore d d , of richmond in one of his letters from switzerland published recently in the richmond whig says that in his journej from alpnacht lo brietiz there was one point of interest lo every lover of children he says we passed very near the residence of ilu famous st nicolaus von der flen whom every child knows under ihe name of santa clans kriss krinkle or st nicholas he lived very near ihis road and was in early life a suiili't ; in later a councillor of state ; and tor many years a hermit and living ae he did so near the lime when christiani ty was introduced into germany be be came after his death the patron saint of germany and nearly every hut in thin uuterwalden districl has a portrait of brother klanss as he is usually called by th peasautry of germany i suppose few of the saints on ihe roil of canoniza tion has as enviable an amount of revi r ence and love as that given by thousands of little loving hearts that devoulty trtt-t in the benignant kindness at christmas times of good old santa c'laus j,s;m jin sua\|u ton si isjiiu.iii mi deaths in the county it is seldom that the columns of the southerner an nounce so many deaths as they now report as having taken place since ihe last issue insure in georgia home insurance co of columbus ga dining the past week three of our most highly esteemed fellow countrymen all in the prime and vigor of manhood have passed to theii final account viz.t-m.sers lames j lawrence janet while and a j daniel each highly respected for their sterling character of mind and disposition during the same period of one week several young children and also several respectable colored people have died making a grand total for that length of time lhat is truly appalling — tar south enter scotch juries llie x york world thinks ii would be a goru'i thing to intro duce scoth practice into our criminal code thil is io jury trials let the majority decide under the scorch syst'-m an accused cannot have alaivyer till 15 days before ihe trial comes off there is no grand jnry hut the trial takes place on the indictm it ol the prosecuting officer fifteen men make a jnry ami the facili ties fir going to higher courts on legal quibbles are reduced to minimum the evensville journal says a young man named ebert a resident of sullivan was married yesterday to a miss well of this city miss well was a stead fast jewess and as a condition precedent lo her acceptance of him mr ebert had to renounce christianity and become a believer in judaism he submitted to the rite of circumcision about two weeks ago and was formally accepted as a child ot israel before his marriage incorporated 1850 capital 350,000 j rhodes browne president ll f will x set euury all losses equitably adjusted and promptly paid in full all this is very sensible especially what the enquirer says about the now somewhat autiquated title — mister it is enough as has heen suggested by the appeal to disgust any decent or distills guished citizen to beai a title that once indicated honor in the wearer but has been prostituted to the use of the basest creatures that ever crawled in the cess pools of party iu north carolina some of the most ignorant and stupid of fellows have been dignified with the titleof'hon property owners desiring lo obtain reliable in surance will do well to protect themselves by necuring a policy in georgia hume insurance co agencies at prominent points in all the era states j allen brown agent office no 2 granite row april 25 72 [!>'] salisbury n c arrival of a lunatic — gillie m bacon of cabarrus was brought to the asylum yesterday by capt it s harris sheriff of cabarrus county bacon is about 62 years ol age a school teacher by profes sion and has a wife and nine children — the cause of his insanity is unknown raleigh neics .' printer lord maym cf london — sir sidney wat rlow the new lord mayor of london began his life an apprentice in a printing office , went t pari to seek work -.,- a compos itor and for sumc time w is employed at galif naiii's tiku he returned to london and join ed his father and brother in a little shop which gradually grew into a large and wealthy estab lishment it i very evident that if the forty second congress refuses a general amnesty the l-'orty tiiir i will not grant it in thin present house there is a majority in favor of such a step but the requisite two-thirds are lacking ; in tho next a prescriptive two-thirds is already a sured it is stated that mr charles dickens jr will visit this country next spring a mcrriden conn dentist announces that in full belief that our lord jesus christ will come to earth again next year i have disposed of my dental office to enter the field again actively in an effort to proclaim the prophetic evidence of this sublime and joyful event e.v-piesident johnson will establish his residence at nashville tenn the country seat of the late jas gor don bennett at fort washington is ad vertised to let a tine drove of hogs from tenneew p*«m>j threugh charlotte on monday marriage certificates for salo iore bul thu bestisalwuys llie cheapest |