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F THE WMKlBHSuOS TIMES I ; -^HB 1 ..1^ A DevoUd to Ayricultvf^ Hat* of tA* Day. ?? _ - - ;_t_^^ME^7iJ2Hirir mwmM^ 1 > ^ . ?? ? * *jgry ?* - 1, vol,. XXin.- NEW SERIES. UNION U. H., 1'.), 1892. NUMBER 3s5S*2"^' * "^ ' - w . 1 ' -ill---1 '-!_.. J?! !?>.. Jfr V V 4s qperatlng orilciat who kuows about ^ Wiping-cart, their cost and profit, ro' '?anaikcd recently to the Indiuuapolis Kind.) Journal: "Slcepiug-cars pay big money, and when ono knows the cost of Operating thein it is uo wonder. A new * car costs, good, stroog and modern, anyfcray from $8000 to $10,000, a'though Eou hear of them worth twice that sum. fowevor, these costly cars don't get outBide the shops. The railroad companies pay three.cents a mile for the privilogo x>l haulim them, and the car will average 300 miles in twenty-four hours the year round, or $0 a day earnings. Say ' It oarns $3000 a year, a lo.v estimate, it will pay for itself iu three years. Now a ten-section cur has Iwcntv berths soiu.w. j , "g local at $2 a berth, making the earning capacity par night $40, not couutiug tho Jay earnings. Of course, sleepers don't carry full loads every night, but if they did not average teu passengers a dry wo would haul them on our road. Now, wo pay for ice, water and fuel and insure the cars; that is, we repair them when wrecked or injured. The sleeping-car compauy pays a porter $25 a month at tho most, ft conductor $1)0, and has to furnish linen and soap. It is not difficult to see how tho slecpiug-cur coinp?,uics pay dividends." ?? ? To illustrate the strength of tho prejudice against corn in Groat Britain, mention may bo made of an instaaco in tho city of Glasgow, Scotland, where it was proposed by a Member of the Poor House Board to substitute maize for costlier foorl in that institution. The mere suggestion brought a storm about his cars, because of his inhumanity in thrusting upon defenseless paupers a food which was only lit for pigs. American canned goods of all kinds are largely sold in Europe, but canuud corn is almost never seen there. If a demand (or it could bo created it would inea i hundreds of thousands of dollars yoarly to the proprietors an 1 workers of our canneries. Agents of the Department of Agriculture have been exhibiting tho cereal in this form also abroad with the hope of teaching the people to liko it. Wherever corn dishes of various sorts have been prepared and distributed by them they have been receive 1 so favorably as to give good grounds for confident expectation in this regard. The use of the potato, the tomato and tho tobacco plant, nil of American origin, lias spread through Europe and added to the comfort and happiness of millions. There seems to be more hope for corn now than there was for any of tlio9e commodities at the beginning M. do Varigny gives iu the Paris Tlnvue (Ins den* Mnni'lua n nl ?A1* aun'Muof account of the events of the Chilean war, which the conflicting reports of ue.vspaper correspondents have left vague in most minds. While lie blames the conduct of Balmacedn, ho regards much <>f what has happened as the almost in^ * evitablc outcome of the opposition of English and American ideas and influence, which, working as they have worked together in the evolution of the Chileau Rcpublic,hadcieatc la condition of things under which it was impossible for a people so naturally vigorous to continue. Chilean parliamentary institutions are impregnated, according to M. de Varigny, with the monarchic t! spirit of England, from which co.intry they were copied. But this monarchical systotn has for its own crown an autocratic President, whose powers were gmuted to him under American inilncnco, an 1 whose position in the Constitution was rnni?'fl frrwn tlmf i>? f ln? I'nsiiliint i?f tlin United States. The two institutom caunot work together. Ililmncudi only followed in his unconstitutional practices the "deplorable deviations'' of all his predecessors, and one of the results of the war is likely to be a revision of machinery of Government which may bring the powers of the President and the Parliament into a more logic il relation to each other. Too Chiloau war, In fact, has been, in M. Varigny's reading of it, a war between the force \vh ich mado for closer union with the United States and thono which male for the supremacy of English influence; the English forces have won, and with Iheir victory the dreams of the three Americas united noainst. the world loses all chance of realization. The indignation of Chile, ho continues, has bee 1 stirrc I gainst the United States,and too deeply ?' * heale l, ami 1811to J)?y the l?*t <*'l tribute not hciSi1.""' wor,il !UI' .i ,u'- v 'C(M " ns. casions. No Wot. Mtfnl sfrvai*. enter tin of tho department, who Washington a fortnight ago, recommended that increased rewards he offered for the capture of such criminals. SSSBSmw and Di?-' PotomabTo tile Quif. i*. '' Roanoke is to have a match factory. The Danville Fire Insuruuco Company ' has been organized. Another uationahbauk is being organized at Harrisonburg. Norfolk has a now bank called the City National, with $200,000 capital stock. The Book-Sellers' Association met at Richmond last week. More attention is now being paid to stock raising iu Louisa. Twenty-seven marriage licenses were corned during January in Bedford county. Senator Daniel delivered a lecture in Charlottesville for the benefit of the Confederate veterans of that city. The Barig Iron Works of Buena Vista made an assignment Thursday, with liabilities of $80,000. The Young Men's Christian Associa tion convention convened at Richmond Thursday with 145 delegates present Eighty years ago there were less than 1,000 lambs raised yearly iu l'ulaski county for the northern markets; now it will average about 10,000. Then the lambs averaged not over 00 pounds; now from 75 to 80 pounds. The Chesapeake Ohio Railroad Co. has given a contract to the Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works for 25 locomotives. which makes 40 ordered by that road of this company. It was only a few years ago when Southern railroa Is were compelled to buy all their engines in the North. Farmers' Bulletin No. G, in press at the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C , treats of the cultivation and curing of tobacco. It is written by Joliu M. Estcs, a practical tobacco raiser, nuu uas icceuny inane a carciui siuny oi the subject in the tobacco raising States Any one can procure the pamphlet by writing for it. NORTH CAROLINA. Tlio bank of North Wilkcsboro will open up March 1st. Salary of the mayor of Winston lias been increased to ^ 1,000. The new Atlantic Coast Line machine shops are to lie built at Rocky Mt. Salisbury i> about making an organ i/.ed movement again t the saloons. The State Sunday School Association meets in New Berne March 29th. Average death rate iu eleven tcwni of Ninth Carolina is 10.0 for the whi ?s per 1,090, anil 17 4 for the blacks. Juo. T Patrick lias been notified by the Commissioners of Agriculture to "move his plunder" from the Agricultural building at Raleigh. Governor Holt is at Haw River, where his aged mother is quite sick. J. I). Bridges, dry goods merchant ?f Shelby, has assigned. Liabilities about #10,000; assets #5,000. The First and b'eeoud regiments of the State Guard arc to encamp in July at Wrightsville, the Third aud Fourth iogiments ut Ashcville. Dr. Albert B. Ilait. professor of Ainer icau History ut Harvard University, is delivering a series of lectures at Chapel Hill before the faculty aud students of the State University. Governor Holt olTcrcda rewnrd of $200 for It. L. Askew, a white man who in llcrtic county n?uriVred Charles Hardy, also \\ hito. It is believed Askew tied to Virginia. in Lewis Fork township, Wilkes county, Amos and Matt Ilatnby got drunk and had a row. The latter received ten knife wounds and will die ltov W k. 1* burner Riyuti, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Asheville, has received a call to Cincinnati with a salary of $5,000. lie has it under advisement. Sheriff J. It. Smith, of Cumberland, completed his settlement of State taxes, paying to the State Treasurer $0,080.95. He is the (ifty fust sheriff tj settle iu full. Jaunty Crankfield, of Wilkes county, dropped dead the other day, aged 80 years, llo made a request sometime before his death that his body be buried iu a "Republican graveyard." Ceo. A. Shuford, of Ashevdle, the newly appointed Judge of the 12th dis tilet, vice Judge Mcrrimon, resigned, was born iu Henderson county, and is about forty years of age. lie studied law at Dick and Dillinrd's law school at Qreensboro. and after obtaining license, located in Waynenvide, Haywood county, moving to Aslicville in 1882. Castor Popo, of Hatt'eboro, went to New York to buy "grecu goods" and got scooped for $500. The scoopeis generously gave him $15 and he got home ou it He i9 pros trnted with grief. The sale of hickory timber at Rock well, Rowan county, lias amounted to nearly nine thousand dollars this winter. This industry has brought a lot-of money to Rowan. The timber is shipped to various points iu the Slate, and is used in making spokes, handles, etc. BUUlil UAK' LINA. The year book of tlie City of Charleston for 1890 has just been issued Governor Tillman offered a reward of $50 for the captuie of the person who burned the barn of J. P. Cook, in Newberry county. A stage line is to bo established between Orangeburg and the nearest station on the Houth Bound railroad. There is a movement on foot to form a new county out of portions of Orange,c th> Berkeley county with Holly and <>ur prieei. H. K. SMITH CJhinston j.? 20 0 As a ' nearly all o. crvicc returned to <|fc??*i{le from * raid < in Ocooeo afcri-Pickens dmiiitfes. He ucstroy*d four illic t distilleries and live Iprudrcd gallons of b?3 and miwli. A scheme is on foot nt Greeuville nnd will l>o carried out to build a magnificent new opera house by qtganizing a branch of a northern building uud loan association. A meeting of the prominent citizens of Pickens was held and a company organized to build a railroad from Pickens to Easley, where a connection will bo made with tho Kichmoud and Danville road. The East Shore Terminal Co. Las decided to iucrca'e ihi bonded indebtedness by an issue of (Kinds to the amount of $200,000, also to inc rease the capital stock of the company $200,000. The Wolfe & Tiger Mining Co., incor pointed br the last legislature, is devel oping, gold mines in Greenville and Spar tiiiburg counties, and is having surveys made f><r a canal to be constructed four miles in length. Another fatal accident occurred in the Northeastern railroad yard, Charleston, by which C. A. O'lJrian, acting yardmaster, was crushed to death while coupling cats. The deceased w.is 22 years old. He will be seut to Sineath, on the South Carolina railway for burial. OTHER STATES. Greenville, Miss., special sa\s: "Duo ? clue Ferguson, son of Gen. S. W. Fcrgu- ] son, shot uud killed Jaiues Goodman, merchant and larir : lilanter. Goodman's brother wiis also wounded. The alTray o roiled at Leosburg, Miss., twcuty mites from here." , Among the speakers at the meeting of ] ihe Southern Educational Association at ] Atlanta, July 5-8, will he President < Winston, of the State University; Frcsi- , deut James IJinwiddie, of Peace Insti- , lute, Ruloigh, and President C. I). Me- \ Iver, of the Normal aud Industrial School \ f. r White Girls,% at Gtcetisboro. These i gentleman will well represent North Car- i olina. I Fish Planting in North Carolina , Streams. i Newton, N. C. ? 1 Jr. Josephii9Turner, I of Shcrrill's Ford, takes much iuterest in 1 tisli and has been corresponding with 1 Concressmau Henderson with regard to \ stocking the Catawba river. The fol- ] lowing reply of the Commissioner of Fish 1 and Fisheries to one of Mr. Henderson's coniinuiiieations, which is furnished us by Dr. Turner, will he of interest to many readers, especially those nloug the Catawba and Yndk u rivers: Hon. Joiin 8. IIkndeuson, Homo of Representatives, Dkaii Sik: ?Replying to yours of January l'Jth, I beg to say that in June, 1880, 305,000 slnnl fry were deposited in the Catawba river, tear Morganton, N. C. In December, 188-t, 500 red-eye perch were planted in ttie Yadkin river near Salem; and during the same month 2,455 carp were put in the sane stream near Salisbury; also, in January, 018 yearling j rainbow trout were deposited therein. 1 have directed these streams be placed on our list for deoosit of shad in ilie <ti*iii. button of die aperies next spring. Should you desire thai notice in rcfcreuce to the planting be given to any of your cot- ' stitueiils, please fu.wnrd name and address to this ollice. Very rt spcctfully, M. AIcDonai.d, Commissioner. Atlantic Coast Lino Violates the law. Washington, 1> O., 1 P.pccial.]?The i Tnler-State Comma *ee Commission has made a decision in favor of the complainant, in the t tse of Charles !?. Perry against the Flori.ia Central and Peniusular Company and oilier roads forming the Atlantic Coast Line. The conditions affecting rates on strawberries from Florida points to New Vork are compared with those connected wi h the transpor talion of oranges and other freight carried in the same trains, and the Commission rules that the rates for forwarding strawberries from Florida to New York city should not exceed 3.33 per hundred pounds from Callahan, Flu , to New York, and from Lawtry, Hammock ltidgc, and other stitions inorc distant from New Vork than Callahan; anil through rates should not be in excess of the charge from Callahan, and should he filed with the Commission and published according to law. The Commission nlso reaffirms its power to determine what rates arc reasonable, and in regard to damages it holds that the measure of reparation is the difference between the rate charged and the reasonable rate winch should ha\c been charged. The defendants are ordered to bring their freight from Law try and all points to Callahan in conformity with the long ami short haul provision of the law, and fault is found with the practice of charging a thr 'Ugh rate and adding a local rate to or from a local point upon a through shipment intended to he continuous. Killed in Trying to Save Her Sister. W hkki.ino, W. Va., (Special.) ?A terrible accident occurred at Cameron, near this city, in which two beautiful young girls, daughters of William Criswell, lost their lives, one of them while heroically attempting to save the other. Essie and (Jeorgiana Criswell, aged lespe tfully fourtecu and sixteen, wete walking along the Baltimore and Ohio track, and while attempting to cross in front of a westbound train Essie fell when the engine was almost upon iter. (Jeorgiana, seeing net- sister's dar.gci and i "iinri 111' : ho fm i ?!??? dw. ?it. .? ? - f r> """"(^ was almost certain death, rushed '.o her rescue, hhe, too. slumided, and wti3 killed. Kssie was cut in two by the wheels. ____ Lynching nt Rcanokf). Roanokp, Va Karly Friday morning a mob of lr)0 persons took Win. Lavender, tlie negro who was confined in the polico station here for an attempt assault on Alice Perry, a whit girl, and hanged him to a tree. Lavender confessed b$'ore uo was hanged, \ ?a I 3apt. Alexander Hit' a Rill. Which | He Thinks Will Regulate the t Cotton Acreage. ,\ ' 1 Washington, D. C.?"Impossiblo to y control it; useless speculation to consider it,'' emphatically and tersely yeplied ' Sydenham 11. Alexander, of the sixth listrict of North Carolina, when asked if 1 :oucertod reduction in acreage was the 9 -cmedy for the prevailing depression in :otton. ( "Wc cau't uinke cotton in my part of J North Carolina under 9c.," Mr. Alexao Icr said. "What is your remedy for tho present :oudition?" lio was asked. t "This," he replied. Mr. Alexander producers-bill which t s before the committor?o? "waya and ( ncaus. Tho proposition ia as concise as s '.he author's speech. The most important i provides "that all vessels built within 1 lie United States by citizens thereof, aud t ahollv owned aud manned by citizens of 1 :lin llliitpil Ktntna onir.nlnn i?? * ....?, ?o"o--n ,",v,8u :ommcrce, shall be allowed to cuter Hud t lischargc their returning cargoes at any t port of the United States, free of all con- I lour duties; provided, that said vessels I shall have carried full outgoing cargoes 1 rrorn the United States, three-fourths at t least of which cargoes consisted of ugri- j cultural products of tho United States." t rite other sections simply provide regu t lations to curry out this idea. t E C The nine third party Alliance member* s >f Congress?Simpson, Otis, linker, Da- 1 fis ami Clover, of Kansas, Kctr nud Mc- < Ivcighan of Nebraska, Uallowcll of Min- t aesota, nud Watson of Georgia?held a t conference, and a declaration was drawn t up to be issued as a manifesto to their 1 constituents and the country. It declares I that these gentlemen propose to Hock by t themselves hereafter and denounces the t Livingston faction for going into the old t party lines. Tho S inpsou-Watson fac- c lion want it undcrs'ood that from this ( time on they are third party men, and < not to be reckoned as sum to support the t party measures of either pnrty. Con- i jrcssman Clover of Kansas has in prcpar- c ntiou a bill, to be introduced iu a day or i so, which he says will warm the cockles < of the Alliance heart. It is a bill provid- ( iug that- cvwy State shall own all rail- | roads in its borders and operate the same- i A full programme for the conduct of < those new State enterprises will be set < f ...1. l.V. ? i ' '? luini. j-mn per cvui. 01 an proms arc 1 to l>e laid aside as a repair aud mainte- i nance fund, and the residue is to fatten < Llie public treasury, and iu that way to i lower taxes. Mr. Clover claims that his j scheme will make travel cheaper; that I railrou-d tickets will bo sold for 20 per i cent, of the present tariff, and that, as a direct result, many moro people will triyv- < el and more freight will be shipped, aud ( I he aggregate of receipts will be larger lhau ever. i * + + ** 1 i RESOLUTIONS OF MECKLENBURG ALLIANCE. t Resolved, That we adopt tho Caroliun Watchman as the orgau of the Meckleuburg County Alliance. 2. That we endorse the principles laid down the in Ocala platform iu to to, and the sub Treasury especially. 3. That we endorse our National President and worthy North Carolinian, L. L. Poik. 4. That we endorse our national editor, Dr. C. W. Macune, and recommend the taking, and urge the rendirg of national organ, the National Economist, so ably conducted by hint, by all Aliiancemen and liberty loving citizens. 5. That we arc in hearty sympathy witii our Western Alliaucu brethren and will be found solid, side by side with them at the ballot box next. November, voting for reform and pure government. C. I hut ?*e recognize co-opcratiuu in business essential to success, aud, as out State Alliance lias successfully inaugurated a business system, and each Alliance business agent do his trading through our State a ircnc v as far as nrneticnl O I *"**" Fraternally, L. M. McAi.i.ister, Scct'y. * * * * * * A V ISE MOVE IN GEORGIA. One of the best moves that has been made in the South tosecurc a good class of immigrant farmers has just been inaugura ted iu Putnam county, (da., by some enterprising citizens, who have organized the Middle (ieorgiu Land Co. with a capital stock of $50,000. Subsfiip?w?t;s to the capital stock are to be in laud and money The company will purchase good farming property and divide it into 100 acre farms. On each farm a comfortable residence will be built and such improvements made ar will enable n tcnaut ( r purchaser to begin active farrning operations as soon as be takes poseasion. Tlie Atlanta Constitution, in giving some details of the plans of operations of tlie company, says: "The intention is to sell these farms to desirable settlers on long time and easy payments, thereby securing industrious and tinifty immigrants Put home people wid not be shut out foil) the benefits of this scheme. Farmers who have licretof ic rented land may, in u r< nson1 il- ^ - - * * ? uviu icngiii 111 nine, own a uirin 01 nicir own, paying for it an annual sum not exceeding the amount of their rent uotes. Thus renters who have been living from hauil to mouth and moving about in the hope of bettering their condition will be enabled to iccurc homes of their own and pocket the prntits of their labor. "The opt-iulions of the company will not be confined to one county, but will embrace several counties. The result of tin- movement will add largely to the number of small farms, and give to the section interested a large increase of the white pcpulation. Incidentally it will be the means of settling the labor question. In seeming emigrants the new company will have the active aid of W. (Jlessner, who h>s scored considerable success in this direction. He has already brought a large number of homcscckers to Georgia from toe Northwest sailed an experiment. Its purpose ia slear, and its plan so aitaplo and ions', that it can hard!} (ail of succ< We truat that other fteeUoaa <5f the 8t will follow the State will follow this' tin pie." * Tbo hope which tbo Const itutfitJ' ?roases thst other counties in Oeoi will follow this example is applicable he whole Smth. The organisers of t :ompanv have preseuted a good pi which every part of the Bouth may ad with great profit. ! THE SOUTHS DEVELOPMENT. _______ h Good Showing For Tho Pi Week. The Manufactu!crs, Record, of Ha norc, in its issue of Fcbruavv 13. says: "While there is no marked ineroiisc he organization of now industrial 'ml irises throughout tlie South, there i toady, solid advance, and also a git ng coutidcucc with the leading cupi! sts of tho country tliat thu South is >est field in America for invest me klany plans of great magnitude are bei vorked out, and with a return of acti y iu investment and business interests he eouutry at large the South will ag leconic the center of development, ? uture operations will probably be o arger scale and by heavier capitali huu anything which the South has s< ct. Among the more impoi tant tint! akings reported during the week he very cxteusivc iron and steel mak ind town building operations to bo c< nenced by Alex. A. Arthur, the fouu >f Middlcsborough, in counectiou \\ oino of the foremost iron tnakers ti argest capitalists of tho North '1' mterprise, or rather these combined erpnses, will probably draw not 1 hau $10,000,000 into that section wit he next 13 or IB mouths. At Tuscaloi Via., $250,000 coal and coke compauy >ecu organized, in counectiou with t ructspreviously made,to secure a railn ,o navigablo water on the Warrior rii hus openirg a water route from A lab; :oul fields to the (Julf; a $00,000 < :oiupany has been organized in She rouuty, Ala.; a knitting mill will be noved from thoNertli to Bridgeport, Al it Oca'n, Fla , it is reported that a syu rate with a capital stock of $1,000,1 will establish 8 huge tobacco factorie: ;ompany is being organized to c.stab i bleachury in Georgia; a $1,000,000 c< any lias been incoi'i orated in Louisvi Ky.. to deal in timber lands, and a i )00,000 company in Kentucky to j :hnse and develop oil and mineral Ian in Frankfort, Ivy., a $500,000 distill company has been incorporated ;Mai ie 3a., is to have a large furniiure facti i $250,000 kaolin company has been {uni/.ed in 1 ukc county, Fla ; a $15, furniture factory company in Grecnvi 3. C. ; a |60,000 ice factory in Shu port, La.; a $000,000 company is be organized to purchase and develop I )00 acres of Kentucky coal lands, i Ure Norfolk & Western milioad lmsj secured $2 000,000 in New Yoik pushing the work on its Ohio ox I en* riore rapidly. These are signs wl: bow how the outlook is improving." EX-GOVERNOR SCALES DEAD Ho Fasses Away at His Homo Greensboro, Ghf.kksuoro, N C.?Ex-Govei Alfi cd Moore Scales died at his horn 9 05 Tuesday night. lie was I November 2Ctli, 1N27, in Rocking! county, lie served in Congress one t before the war and for five cousecu terms after the war. lie entered Confederate army as a private, was many of the most important battles that conflict, was twice wounded and fore the close of the < oldest was crei brigadier-general. In 1SS1 be was c I...I '.t Xr~-.il. / II-? 1 IV?? VH?*VHIV7I Ul .MJIIII \/illUIIIIII UY jority of 20,000. After hi* term oxp lie rclircd to private life, nml lias *> been interested in tiiiaiicial cutcrpri being at tlie time of liis death prc-sit of the Bank of (Ireensboro. He lias I very ill for many months, and his d< was not unexpected. The funeral took place at 11 oYl Thursday from West Market Street l1 hyteriun church, the pastor, Rev. l)i Henry Smith, conducting the excrci At 10.30 o'clock nil hells of the city gan to toll and so continued for hal hour. The pall bearers were Messrs S Michaux, It M. Douglas. It. It K Dr. It. I*'. Dixon, D Selienck, .Jr., I*. Bynum, Jr., S 'I rogdon. J. Morehead, J. A. lbtriiiigcr, J. N. \ son, Dr. !). H. Sch.enck, Hubert Vaugl Olov. T. M. Iloit and s'.alT were prei at the funeral. Free Puss Excitement. Richmond. Va.?A bill introduce few days Hgo making John E. Masi superintendent of public instruction, officio inemher of tiie board of visitor the deaf and dumb institutions and of the university, tame up. Sen Flood, of Appomattox, opposed the on two grounds, the first cf wlfch that Massey was the officer to which boards made their reports which unfi liiin to serve; the second and main jection was that, though paid $.?!)0 annum for expens s by the Statu. Ma regularly traveled on free railroad pas and hoarded w ith the professors of < tional institutions while he charged Ftute for railroad faro and hotel L Flood read some of th itemized 1 making these charges against the S and also a letter asking for $70 f from Prof. Lomax to defray his (Masse expenses ba k from Alabama, where had j'.iijt been n#?."r;c?'!. A ?~,oiiiiiiiiiee appointed to investigate the report. Albert Fink to Bo President. New York.?There is a good nutli ty for the statement' that when the i ganization of the Richmond Tciin property is completed, A1 Kick, the former trunk line commissi cr, wiil be offcied tiie presidency of new corporation. The Olcolt commi has completed its work, ami the pla reorganization prepared by it will pr< bly be made public io a day or two. y vi , x. 1 * o T?r*d and Belovod Ooufed- wefi r?- arete Leader. y ?*~j The "Life and Letter* of Q?n. Thul . \i0 ei J. Jackson T>y hit wife, Mary AnunJacK* wish t ton," bM boon issued from tho press qf Mm Harper & Bros., with au introduction ty uiinuti Hov. Dr. llcnry Field. only ii U'B Writing from the other tide Dr. Field jai.^8, t? says, "The time has couro wljcu wo csfci ?ot ^ '?* do justice to those whh aeto ouco ^ the m ?? arms against us." "It ia**<mly a fotr 4>f t|l0 ?Pl months since (.Ion. 6hermkn was boriw Knglii through our streets, and among those #i|ol, , who followed at his bier was his gre^t cjen,j, adversary, Hen. Johustou, who, by a sin- hauler gulir coincidence, survived him but a ruo,^, . few weeks. Thus the warriors who onoe W|U fj 'to battle rodo' nt tho head of hostile jlw cxj armies, now fall iuto liuo iu tho great 8Unuo Iti- procession to that realm of sileuco its wliate which all ouaiitica are buried." intero i in In this bearing of our great soldiers m>riou er towardaoach other, they who wero "first p0int is a i" war" were also "first in peace," ami ??ovor >w- ii ?cn won umi mey snou.u rental u "tirsi |t Lai - in tho hearts of their countrymen," as yyj, llu> the leaders whom we are to follow in tho nt. work of reunion Why, then, tecall the maxin ing bitter mcinnries of a war that is ended? ,jr,.ss [vi- "JLct the dead past bury its dead." But out |?t*?-|?a i iu of the ilead past comes the living present. WUH; uin "It is a poor reconciliation which is ob- Holve ,iul tained by ouly agreeing never to speak of |jf0 jt, ii || the past." "Men who are honest and Hts brave havo nothing to lie ashamed of. jon xv L.v|, and nothing to conceal." Lessons of -p),, It!-, heroism, of patriotism, of patient en bir- |.\|St arc ranee may be learn? d from illustrious and f jug examples on both sides, the blessed finds S'-coii ,i?. of which are to broaden character, to en- vutioi der large sympathy, and to teach respect for itli a foe who honestly and courageously dit- \y\ for* from us. .??l ,| iiis Already "Stonewall" Jncksop has he- j vu. come a national hero, uod the North 11{? less (without tlie tender lovo uod hero-wor hin *bip for him that inspires every Southern toldisa, heart,) proudly claims him &a tho highest :uu| '] has type of an American soldier. Dr. Field .. on- "ays: "lie was the most picturesnue i'age? Dad figmc of the war. None of tho other .,u t| ;cr, leaders luul a personality so unhpio. In jj?. K| ,m;i Jackson, there were two men in one that awav .,,.,1 seemed absolutely iucoinpntiblo- the tains, 11,^ highest military genius, with a religious retun iw fervor that bordered on fanatacisin, a ?i,c tl Irt . union of soldier nml suint for which wf |jf,. |, lt| I * must go hack to the time of Cromwell. n [)l(0 His ? haracter is oue of the most fuscina . hey ,. n tint; studies of Amcricau history." died The world has heard so much of Jack- jlUt u )|n. son through two previous Biographies, p, jHt. that it will hardly be prepared for the ,,f p, 11 ' revelation that awuits it in the charming were ,ul'_ hook before us. Its purpose is not to re- t|l(; ,js. iterate what has already been said by j,,.,. a) lt.,y able and loyal pens, nor to portray in OIH. ? p.j fresh coluinus the matchless Confederate wjj| | '! hero, but to disclose to the public, for .,assj, ,j, the lirst time, another phase of his charjwja acter, not less attractive because so dif doss II,. fereut from the "iron man of war," as wor|i ,v,.' many have only regarded him. Another ,,f mil jl|tr beautiful illustration of the lines that, 1,1,,, j y,," "The bravest arc the tenderest, heart L>(^. The loving ure tlie daring." j? |,js j,ls| His "inner life known but to few, dis ,|C1U.( j-,,, closed fully only to her who was united -p,, ju jlH| to him in the closest of human relation- limj t ,jc|, ships, is by her beautifully and delicate- |j|s( | ly unveiled for the wonder and adinira- Wouh tion of thousands who never knew him, mur , und of many who met him in the clash ,|CVot l# of arms aud on fields of carnage." Mrs. |;, Jackson, in her preface, gracefully and yCani louchingly gives her reason* for the pub- j-,,) p( *D licatiou of these memoirs and letters. orv The work was undertaken at the earnest nor solicitation of her now sainted daughter, (,|,j o fit the lovely Mrs. Julia Jackson Christian, ,llore torn who, especially after she bccuiue a moth- |,rj?|| !iam er, felt such a desire that her children p'ipei crni might know more of the jm.)U tivc domestic life of their illustrious Hj,ol,| the grandsire than they could ever learn otli- (|j(| , in erwise than through this book. She,too, not'o of had known the father only at second amj h be- band; Iter historian had been the loyal te|1,p itcd mother, from whose lips she daily lis- vt.a|0 dec- tcned lo some sweet reminiscence and j0 jlt. ma- reali/.ed. as vears nnssoil nn . ? et?u?r ?... i ? - ' i 7 l liov ired quttiutuucc with, and appieciaton of, the WOini incc the matchless father, whom God "called ..ytS ises, up higher" Indole she hud learned to lisp |y 0 lent hit name. 8hc "with gontlo footsteps J ,, 0 iccn followed him. even i s he followed a <ou ;ath Christ, into the Upper Sanctuary before r()?(| the work was completed. With heart of al0 a, ock lead, and hands that seemed t? have lost luj|i( 'res- their cunning, Mrs. Jackson resumed ?|-| r. J. her sad but sacred task, inspired by her la- Hj/t, ses mentcd daughter's wish,ami the prayerful |IO)1'k be- hope that the motherless lambs might he f an spared to read, to admire, and emulate aj60 , his grand example. Most worthily and the ri m?f> even toucliiugly has she completed her more W. "labor of love.Her style is chaste and phies ' vivacious, and is peculiarly adapted to war. ^ 'I' biography? a socMcs of composition that "writ ,mn- issooitci heavy, even in the hands of ^ sent mod,, experienced or p eteiitious wr.ters. O'cn Ja< ksou's life was of rouise full of advenluie, and of incidents All this Oil n inu.iv iiiwii uitu am 111<-?<m.i iiy unci- (iratli woven by the cnthudastic uutlior. ami his re ' forms an unusually attractive book. w,lH '' Two points of character at ron^ly i in pi ess ateil s tx" the render One is tin- deep tenderness tlio la s.? end a lied ion of his nature a romunlic out ol s'j love for his wife tint never fails or varies L'niu a. . ' ?combined with complete unfieliishncss passu " ?in fact, cntiie self abnegation to love made V."v or to duty; the other is, his inleuss re robin ligious character. It was not a profes- w e' siou it w.tn a life permeating his being, SOutl ? ' and entering into every detail of his daily XV;,s ' life. It was often remarked, during the mcut SS(,y wnr, that it was hard for a man to be u ises, Chiistian in the amy, where Ids t* inptaj.u* tious were so great and so multiform, but Th ...lC' here is a marvellous example of the Chris- to fu tian soldier nevei too tired or too hur- of th " s ricd to piay- alio, in the heat of action, mnki a e amid storm of shot and shell, so ofteu have ,ni ra scd his eyes in devout supplication to to at the God of batt'es Kpisi was This latter characteristic is strikingly conij testified to by his colored servant, Jim, $15,1 who said he could alwuvs tell when there buih whs goiuh to be a battle Slid be: 'The Hupt General is a groat mail for praying, morn- terpr ioii- in# and night?all times. Hut when I ye?i> oor- 8c<- him get up several times in the night of et iual besides, and go off and pray, then I ?Q j bert know there, in going to he something to pot/, ion- and I go straight and pack his haversack, the because I know lie will call for it in the W ttee morning " No wonder that success Tenr n of crowned the efforts of one who felt that the a >ba- ''in the b>rI icds his strength." "If the laws Lord be lor us, who can be agaiust us'<" la ;h vt mjr OOB qould read t ltd Ml ? I* a Chrlitian. ? ^ Jncksou has. happily, given 4o s accounts of battles, and they ft re atroduced as forming a |>?\rt of den* )n's life, from which they could i dissevered. The first diopters of emolr ore devoted to a hriof history .lockson ancestors ?people of old ?li and Scotch Irish stock, n delinsof whose sturdy, vigorous natures I? reveal whence the great military inherited his indotui table will, his I' and trampiil courage. "The hoy itlier of the man." In childhood, + lihits wonderful determination in untirg ohstaeles and Accomplishing vcr he undertakes. This is voijf >t , ^ stiugly nan a tod in his trying oxico when Attempting to enter West , his suliHOtpient trials, and dual A. * coming" of tliein nil hy the end of ur years' career as a cadet, ilw in the military academy he comfor his own use a set of rules anil as, relating to morals, tnauti'zrs, choice of friends and aims in life, ps the most cliaru? tot islic dC these "You insy l?o whatever you roto lie.*' Another was: "Through t your principal object he the dise of duty. Disicgnrd public opiulicn it interferes with duty." jn there conies "M' iivis to Action, regard for one's own h'nppiucas, or the fumily in which you live, id, stri' y to attain a very liigh elo, ,.r .11,...-... i?.. n...i - i.i.i. ion." tli such lofty resolves ho could do lure. Wliul an example for young i career in the Mexican war 1846 to is pleasantly, but not lengthily his subsequent years of usefulncu happiness an a professor in the VirMilitary Institute, his two mari are foil of interest ami till his lifo, ic shadows of 1H61 railed hitu ia niug to the ttormy Hcencs of war, from the peaceful neat in tho innunto which he was destined never to n. The interest never (lags through tree years, in which we count his y ilmfs, not yearn, till tho fatal , when at the very ctiinnx of hia a shot from th so who would have for him, palsied the strong arm and n untimely end to his grand career. Field says: "Next to his thought at and ac knowlodgement to Him thoughts of the dear ones at homo young mother with his child in rins. All his heart was Centered in pot. Many who read these pages ic surprised at the revelation of his mate love of home, to which ho was to return, though lie was never to its threshold imam. While tlio I saw only Ilu> soldier w ith hi? coat til over his breast, k^yni.? " i m rest saw uprirT if a grehl human Aho\j>4tll to hur who lookad up i face Jffuh perfect trust-and conti U'f'l face was open as the day. :r this mail of iron was the gentlest elide rest of all human beings, whose bought was always for her; who I not ''that even the winds of sumshould visit her too roughly." Such ion cannot lie forgotteu even after ipse of u quarter of a ceutury. The inghcj.it turns to thcpist?the faithimiiii carries with it a great incuiud a great alTcction. s bhesits hv her desolate fireside, the ays come again, mid they are once in the home that was always made t by the sunshiuo of his presence, il with such memories, it is hut thv Ise of loyalty to the dead, that she d w ish others to kuuw him as .</(? lint the world should know liiiu nly as the t>oldier, but as the man, iliould know all the gentleness and irness in that lion heart. Thin is re? d nowhere so clearly as in his letters r during the war. If miiv think are too personal, I have met the inly shyness and timidity hy saying: i, you can leave it all out, and supv. ry word of endearment hy a blank, verv time you do this you leave out .1. ,'.r mi.tii. tf.tii r..i.nn ?i.i. Irvotion. this cxquisitu tenderness i much a part of the mail as was hi* try genius." < volume commends itself also in binding an I finish?not so vo'umior ponderous as to deter the mass of is. nor is it at all prolix The price !$'?!.00) is such as to make it within i! ich of many who cannot nlTord the extended and expensive biogrnof other ".eat leaders in the lite It is a simple and beautiful story tteu out of a woman's heart." ov. McGrath Stricken With Appoplexy. aiu.rrton, H. C. ? Ex-Governor Mci had an attack of appoplexy and "overy is doubtful. (i ?v. McGrnth iorn in (his city in 1810, and gradurt Harvard. He studied law under ite Judge Story. At the breaking f tlie war of tlio rebellion, lie was d States district judge, und on the ge of the ordinance of Accession, a dramatic scene in co irt by dis<i himself of the judicial ermine, as dining the last war Governor of i Carolina, and nfter the surrender, imprisoned bv the Federal governin Fort 1'ulaski for same. Money Well Spent. e citizens of Conway (Ark.) propose rther the enhance the nttiactiveness eir town to the home-seeker by"* n# it an cducalionnl center, and * made liberal contributions of cash tain to this end. The Methodist r>pd Ma'e College has been lately ileted at a cost of from $40,000 to >00, and work will commence soon on lingt to cost $30,000 for tbc State ist Female College. In all this euising town has during the past two i raised $113,00) for the furtherance location. Pension Soldiers of ths Florid* Wnr. AfiiiNr.TON, I). C. ? Mr. Ilouk, of icasee, introduced n bill providing for intendment of the general pension so as to include soldiers wlio served ic Florida war.