The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, January 25, 1877, Image 4

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SO GOES THE WORLD. BY E. O. ROBBING. Our varied days pass on and on, Our hopes fade unfulfilled away, And things which seemed the life of life Are taken from us day by day ; And yet, through all the busy streets The crowd of pleasure seekers throng, The puppets play, the showman calls. And gossips chat the whole day long Ana so the world goos on. Our little dramas come to naught, Our lives may fall, our dailing plan May crumble into nothingness. Our firmest castles fall to sand; And yet our children sing and dance, - The merry-makers laugh and shout, The stars unmindful still shine bright, Unconscious that our light is out? And so the world goes on. The house grows sad that once was gay, The dear ones seek their blessed home, And we may watch and wait in vain To hear their well-known footsteps come, And yet the sunlight checks the floor. And makes the summer shadows long, The rosebuds at the casement bloom, The bird pours forth his cheerful so?rg? And so the world goes on. And God goes on, and with our woe Weaves golden threads of ioy and peace; Guarding with his heart of hearts Our days of pain, our days, of ease. He marks them all, the seed, the sheaves, The dancer's smile, the mourner's tears, And keeps them safe, His children all, Through all the great, eternal years? And so, thank God, the world goes on. MILLIE'S_ FAULT. BY H. A. DAVENPORT. Millie Mapletoo sat in an easy chair by an open window of the sitting room, her head leaned against the chair back, her feet resting on an ottoman ; the white hand3 were clasped loosely over the sew? ing in her lap, the dark grey eyes had a dreamy, unseeing look, and an uncon? scious smile was havoring upon her sweet mouth. She made a pretty picture, that sum? mer "afternoon, yet she was even then yieldirig~to;'her4>esetting sin df idleness. Perhaps that is too general a terra?her fault was just- this, she spent hours of precio?* time in day dreaming^ she built beautiful air castles, where she dwelt with those she loved; she dreamed luxurious, dreams that fascinated her like some written romance; she followed for hours theleadings of her imagination in stories that were, according to her mood, excit? ing, sweet, or sorrowful; and while thesd dreams seemed to carry her into a differ? ent atmosphere, full of intoxicating de? lights, her daily duties were often lehv nod one, and the burdens of the house fell the more heavily on her mother, who1 was already overworked; for she was a widow and poor,- her only child besides Millie a helpless- crippled boy, of twelve years,- and in the family also were oKf Mr. and Mrs. A-iken, distant relatives, who,- tho?glr they' aefded very much to the small income by the liberal price they paid for board, were yet it great ?flaftiotf try Mrs. Mapletor/s care and labor: Millie loved1 hef' toother dearly,' and did not intend to' neglect her share, indeed, hardly realized that she did do so; her beautiful dreamland fascinated and drew h?t on almost as the sparkling wliitws^p' fertfr?s? an?* ltrres1 on* fee poor ^^^^ftfMrious result wassufely fol? lowing this'fara.lt of hers; she was losing, j the poffefedf.conWottmr ber thoughts, and of <ro$0jp vigorous* brain* work when occasionTe^aired. In this also she did not realize tfie" effect of ber castle btrild ing. She had never comprehended, per? haps never even thought about the weak? ening influence of an uncontrolled, un? disciplined imagination. But Millie certainly knew that she ought to be busy at work at that mo? ment; for on the next morning they ex Eected ber mother's brother, Prof. More ead and his wife, for a visit of a few days, and this sewing her mother wished to have finished before their4 arrival. Somehow Mrs. Mapleton was always in a state of nervous anxiety before and dur? ing those visits, chiefly because Mrs. Morehead was so oppressively wealthy and grand, and aristocratic, and bad the art. of making people of limited means and luxuries feel that she was extremely, condescending to endure their moderate accommodations, Partly, also, because of the awe tbey all felt for Prof. More bead himself, for he was really a great man, a profound thinker, and one who bad a wide-spread fame as an author and scientist. Millie's work came out as usual. It was not done when night came, and so Mrs, Mapleron sat up alter bed time and finished it, and the next morning the spare chamber looked as faultless as she could make it for Mrs. Prof. Morehead's inspection. Bat when the morning train came rushing in, and they watched for their guests, only the Professor came walking up the village street. After their greet? ings were over be explained that his wife had gone to Saratoga with some friends who were very anxious for their compa? ny, and that he had persuaded her to go alone with them and enjoy the summer in the way he knew she would like best, and let him spend the time in quiet rest. He was weary, over-worked, aod almost sick. Would they not consent to take him in for the summer, and let him find health and relaxation iu their quiet home and lovely peaceful village ? So it came to pass that the great pro? fessor spent nearly three months with them. A bappy time it was, too, and fraught with good results, especially to Millie. She learned to love very dearly the quiet, dignified gentleman, and al? though her reverence for him was, if anything increased, it became before he went away entirely free from that fear with which we often regard great men. She learned to know and understand him as she had never done before, and when a few years later the grand head was laid low in the grave, she grieved and mourned for him as for a father. The professor had been with them but a few days, when oue warm afternoon found him seated, boo, in hand, in the shady sitting room, the coolest, and cosi? est room in the house. He occupied a large, easy chair, and was apparently ab? sorbed in his reading. But for all that his eyes occasionally wandered over to Millie, by the open window, with her sewing in her lap. She was in the same mood as the first day we saw her?fitful spells of working, then the bands dropped loosely in her lap, the dreamy smile came over her mouth, and the far-off, yet eager look, into her eyes. Two or three times the professor watched ber with an air of interest and keen penetration. At last he said to this maiden of sixteen: "Little girl, tell me where your thoughts have been wandering? 'In fairy land, I think, by your eyes." But for answer Millie only looked down, and smiled, and blushed rosily. "Why not give me a little clue to the thoughts that were evidently so pleas? ant?" persisted he. "May be I wa$ ia a sort of fairy land," she laughed. "Any bow, in my land of dreams and ?' ^rtes, as mother calls it, I expect it's very foolish, but then," with another little laugh, half brave, half bashful, "I save the money and time it takes to buy and read books by imagin? ing out my stories for myself." But the professor did not laugh in re? turn, instead, his.face grew serious. "M? cbjW':said he> "let me-talkto you some about this vague castle build? ing, because I myself know of it from experience when I was no older than you. You are not saving time, for you waste more than it would take to read many valuable bocks ; nor are you really saving money, for, Millie, it is true, prac tically ?s well as theoretically, that 'time is money? and moreover, that true wealth and the ability to get it lies within our? selves. . My child, you will weaken your mental powers by this aimless day dream? ing, and you will lose the will-power which makes the body an efficient work? er unless you rouse yourself from this purposeless castle building. Yet the imagination is one of the grandest fac? ulties we possess. But you must control and train it if you want it ever to amount to anything. Don't let it run to nothing. Suppose Liszt and Von Bulow had spent their lives in improvising simple melo? dies for their own amusement, devoting no time, nor thought, nor severe labor to music, what would they have been to? day ? I tell you it is the mental training, the hard work of body and mind togeth? er, that makes one man a success and another a failure in the world. Personal effort accomplishes the end; and in one sense we may call every one who is really successful a 'self-made man.' " "I think the professor had almost for? gotten where he was for the moment. But Millie's intense eyes and' eager face told that she/drank in; every. Word. "How-^ii I ever give rip this habit and break it off?" said the youthful , dreamer, with a little sigh.' 1 "My child," he answered, "I do not mean that you should throw away the imagination God has given you, nor cease to use it, onlf cuVfj1 arid control it as we train a runaway coltf to; become a tfseful, noble horse. Let me give^?tfsonie rules that once settled a certain person with this same disposition." "In the first place, keep your hands busy at something; don't allow them to drop idly whenever you are thinking. If you will train yourself to work while you think, it will be worth a fortune to you. Another reason for doing it is little Mil? lie's duty to a busy, weary mother. Does she not sometimes forget it?" Only the down-cast eyes and burning face said, "yes." "Is the lecture growing too severe?" said the professor. "No, no!" she answered, "I know I deserve it. Please go on." "Well, then, in the second place, I want you to promise me that you will write something every day from the sto? ries you tell to yourself, following up each until it is finished. Into each put the best and purest style you can com? mand, and not only the romance of the plot, but some original and solid thought. You will find that writing is the best way of.disciplining the mind to work: Prom? ise, Millie, that you will do this every day that I remain with you." "I will try," said Millie,-with fear and trembling. " "Then third"and last; I want you to begin a course of reading, which ybu will let me mark out for you and spend an hour each day at it; it will benefit you in many ways. And now, little neice, is the dose too bitter to take?" "I expect it will be pretty hard, uncle," she answered truthfully. "But I would do it if it were ten times harder, or at least try, after what you have said. Still," with a little laughing mischief in her face, "I've only taken this pledge for I three months." I "We will see what comes then," he an? swered with his grave smile. Then he went away to his own room, and Millie i war r^Mcrocr* -. 11 ?1 ?? ? 1 SJhe. trtfe Jo* the first clause of her promise',.'began seeing . vigorously, arid "worked while she thought." She was a girl of much firmness when ouce her nrintf tfas1 ftflly made up;, and sbe was deternririeery for" b?f tJe?f'. ffnckrV sakey to carry otrt his advice for the coming three months, to the letter. The summer, with its long, Warm days, and busy life passed away; the silent autumn came,- with its gorgeous foliage, its whisper' of tbetiyii'rg year', its sad yet sweet i?firierre'e.- Jfbt Until then did the professor a'ff?fjge for his departure to his work in the city. The pure country air had given the old energy to his manner, a firmer ring to his step, and the glow of health to his face. On the morning of his last leisure day he said to Millie, "I know that my little niece has been resolute and has kept the 'three months' pledge;' for her mother has tqld me of her industrious, steady work, and-what a help she has been, so I am sure she has kept the second and third clauses as faithfully as the first. And now lam ready and anxious to see what'you have written." Strange as it may seem, Millie had never thought of the possibility of her writings coming under her uncle More head's inspection; and so she stood grow? ing white and red by terms; and giving little gasps of astonishment and dismay, for was he not a great author and a mas? ter of style and thought? "My child," he said gravely, seeing her hesitation, "go and get it for me; it is for your own sake I wish to se?? it." And she obeyed at once, saying j never a word, for be was, somehow, always obeyed like a king, without a question or an appeal. He was alone in his room all the after? noon, and not until after the summer twilight had begun to deepen around them that evening, did he speak of what his thoughts had been. Then he called Millie out to a qniet seat on the varanda. "In looking over your papers this af? ternoon," he said, "I found as I had thought that you have a love of the ro? mantic and imaginative, and a facility of expression which run? through the whole of your mother's family. She herself, if she had only had the opportunity, might have made for herself a name. The lack with all of us has been a natural distaste to close application; but whatever suc? cess any of us have gained has come alone through the agency of hard work. I am anxious that you, my Millie, should be one of our hard workers, and that through your work you may help your mother and yourself in more ways than one. But don't try to fly, my child, until vou have enough of feathers grown; I nave known some to attempt it, and they fell to the ground very ignominiously." "I wish you to take the pledge again, and for the coining year. Work while you think; write daily, and study the best authors. You may consider that a recipe to cure aimless day dreaming in general, besides being your particular pledge. In writing, try each day to in? crease in both quantity and quality, but especially the latter, and after you have finished any sketch, revise and re-revise it with your best care, and, finally, copy it for me. I will probably come here again by the end of the year. And now are you willing to make this new prom? ise?" he asked, with his grave, sweet smile. "Yes, uncle, I promise," she answered, giving her hand by way of emphasis, and the bright eyes had in them the flash of a newly-awakened ambition. Looking at her, you did uot wonder that her uncle was proud of her and had high hopes of her future. Somehow, j everything in her face and form and manner told you that she could do if she would. It was autumn again and Millie had just completed her seventeenth year and entered upon her eighteenth, and though there was still the merry flash in her eye, her general manner was more serious, as if Bne had an earnest purpose in her life. The leaves had put on their glorious apparel for the closing year, and the air had that quiet, dreamy, smoky quality that belongs to the Indian summer, when Prof. Morehead came again for a few days' visit with them* Then Millie, with many an inward fear and tremble, put her work of the year into her uncle s hands. That spoke for the second and third parts of her pledge ; and for the first part her mother's happy testimony told the story. "I have not had since Millie was born, a year of auch rest and relief as the past. I feel as if I had 'caught up' again, and it is all due to my clear child b systematic aud thought fill help to me in the work of the house." I When he had carefully examined Mil? lie's papers, the Professor said to her, "I see that you have kept faithfully all of the three parts of the pledge, anil I am very glad, for it shows that you can fill a position that will be far better for you than the school teaching which you were all thinking a necessity; that you would never have loved and never have made a success. Now it is evident, the 'busi? ness' which you will like best, and at which you will succeed best, is writing for publication. At that you will be able to stay at home with your mother, and be a real help to her, if you continue to work while you think, as you have the past year." "I do not wish you to think, Millie, that I suppose you would ever be likely to 'win fame,' as the saying is, or that I would encourage any ambition of the sort in you; few can expect that in our land where so many write well, and so few are what one might call extraordina? ry. But you will have a pleasant occu? pation, one that will improve your mind, and force yo? to Usecp it well stored with general knowledge,' one that will help yourself and yorjr mother financially, and one, also, by which you may do good in the world, my Millie. Put thought into everything you write; thought that will have a pure and ennobling influence just as far as it reaches. And in every? thing you do, remember this, that work is the key-note of success." ? This was the beginning of Millie's life-work. You would not think it. in read? ing what she has written any more than you now imagine who she really is. She is an'indefatigable worker, and the product of her' tabor" has brought luxury and beauty into lVelv home, and made it her ideal of what ii home should be, warm and bright and eozyy and there is in it the music of happy children's voices, too ?Millie's children?for she'bus past her girlhood now, and is "the minister's wife," in a Western city. Her mother is with her, and her declining years are'fall of rest and quiet happiness. You would never imagine, when you read her stories so full of sound sense and vigorous thought, so helpful to the wsak, so inspiring to the strong, prompt? ing to uoble work for truth and morality, and Christianity, tbat she was once only an idle day dreamer. The world has many varieties of day dreamers in it. How much might be ac? complished for good by them if all would follow the professor's advice, and "work I while they think."?Cincinnati Gazette. WATTERSOIV'S GRAND ARMY. An Amusing Burlesque upon the Pro? posed Democratic Mass Meeting. Special Correspondence of the Ifen York Herald. Washington, Jan. 12,1877. The notion of bringing 100,000 un? armed Western Democrats to Washing? ton on the 14th of February, each with two revolvers and a bowie knife in his pocket, originated with Mr. Watterson, who combines the functions of editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and mem? ber of Congress. It is said by some of his friends to be one of the practical jokes of which he is known to be fond. But others assert that he is dead in ear? nest, and has already bought a cocked bat and a pair of striped trowsers, in which he will appear as leader of the procession. The matter attracts a good deal of attention here, and, while there are people who pretend to laugh at Wat? terson, there are others, among them the owners of hen roosts in the suburbs, who regard it very seriously. Mr, Watterson is known by his inti? mates to be as zealoos for Mr. Tilden's success as Mr. Halstead, of the Cincin? nati Commercial, is for that of Governor Hayes, and there are Ohio men here who assert that if Mr. Watterson brings on 100,000 Democrats at his own private ex? pense, Mr. Halstead is precisely the man to raise, at his own cost, an equally nu? merous Republican army. Both these gentlemen are energetic and enterprising; oth are believed by their friends to be desirous of a foreign mission, Peru being the country of their choice according to the best information, and while it 13 well known that if Mr. Jefferson Davis had taken Mr. Watterson's advice during the late unpleasantness, many things might have been different, there is a letter here, on file in the War Department, which shows that Mr. Halstead, on his part, is also possessor of superior military genius, which he was on one occasion patriotic enough to place at the service of the late General Halleck, with a view to bringing the war to a speedier close. An invasion of 200,000 unarmed poli? ticians would be a serious matter for Washington, whose hotels could hardly accommodate even the 10,000 Kentuck ians whom Mr. Watterson has summoned as a first levy, and for whom it is rumor? ed he means to provide first class board and lodging during their stay. Careful inquiry of the different hotel proprietors here leads to the belief, by reason of their cautious reticence, that Mr. Watterson has already achieved the master stroke of engaging in advance the whole of the hotel accommodations of the city for his Kentucky contingent, leaving poor Mr. Halstead out in the cold and mire unless, with true Western energy, he should at once have new hotels built for his forces. Mr. Watterson is naturally reticent about the plans he is believed to have already perfected for moving his army of occupa? tion. As he sits in the House of .Repre? sentatives his face has an air of thought, not without some signs of care. There is a report that he has been seen of late somewhat nervously fingering a large check book, but this is not well estab? lished. Some of his friends who have had army experience have been engaged for several days in detailed calculations as to the cost of moving 100,01)0 unarmed Democrats across the Alleghauies, and rumor says they find it can be done for the trifling sum of S?0 each, which would include all expenses and return them all safely to their anxious families. At this rate for the sum of $5,000,000, cash down, Mr. Watterson will be able to bring his whole force here and provide them with return tickets, and there are people here who say that he could not do a nobler or more patriotic thing than this, and that when he has headed the procession on the 14th of February and paid ail the bills, including whatever window glass may be broken by the firing of Demo? cratic salutes, he will deserve an eques? trian monument, which, it is already pro? posed, should stand facing that of Gen? eral Jackson in Lafayette square, and with a horse equally disposed to stand on his hind legs. Extended iuquirv among leading Dem? ocrats, shows that they have so far taken singularly interest in the expected arrival of their Western constituents. This arises probably from the fact that every? body here has unbounded faith in Mr. Watterson. It is believed that if he means business it is not necessary for anybody else to interfere, and the rumor sent out from here some days ago that the National Democratic Committee was to be asked to co-operate with Watterson was received here with undisguised con? tempt. ? When a young farmer's wife made her first boy's pants precisely the same before as behind, the father exclaimed : "Goodness! he won't know whether he's going to school or coming home." ? It is remarked as a little singular by a student of Biblical paintings that all the patriarchs are represented as being bald. It should be remembered, howev? er, that most of them married young. ? A recent lecturer advises all men to "know themselves." That's advising a good many to form very low and disre? putable acquaintances. ? Eitlier trouble or happiness borrow? ed from the future is apt ui prove lul a cinus. ? The blacksmith, no matter how we., lie is paid, :. a.. on .. .-.ri-?-. Senator Robertson (Jives the Presi? dent an Inside View of South Caro? lina. :-x %f .. .. . . -J^rX. Washington, January 15. Senator Robertson, of South Carolina, has just had an interesting interview with the President on the subject of the affairs of that State. He said to the President that while he was satisfied of the election of the Hayes electors in South Carolina, he was none the less sat? isfied of the election of Hampton as Governor. He told the President that he knew of his own personal observation that the negroes had voted the Democratic ticket in largo numbers. In his own city of Columbia he saw hun? dreds of negroes voluntarily taking part in the Democratic meetings and march? ing in the Democratic processions. In reference to the matter of intimidation he said that he could personally testify that there had been a great deal of in? timidation by Republican negroes to? ward those of their own race who had shown indications of Democratic procliv? ities. He also brought to the attention of the President the statement of the colored legislator, Hamilton, that 3,000 illegal Republican votes had been polled in Beaufort County, at which the Presi? dent seemed to be somewhat surprised. He said that the returning board of South Carolina would' hrtvo thrown out other counties beside Edgefield and Lan rens had it been necessary m oedc.r for them to figure up a majority' for' Cham? berlain, and that there would have been just as much justification in throwing out other counties as the two named';? In ' Abbeville and Barn well Counties1,' for instance, there was also a large Demo? cratic colored vote which was no more J untrammelled than the colored vote of Edgefield and Laurens. The President listened with interest and attention to the statements of Sena? tor Robertson, a native of the State, and one who was a consistent Union man during the whole war, and a zealous Re? publican since. The President was care ? iuf, however, to abstain from the expres? sion; of* any decided opinion as to his prooablc course between the two govern? ments'.- He' expressed great admiration personally1 for the attainments and abili? ties of* Governor Chamberlain,.but made no personal reference to'General Hamp-7 ton. He"*said h? had received no direct advices from eithel' side'irr South Caro? lina for some days!- Senator Robertson in conclusion told IrirA* that he was en? tirely convinced that u'flUer no circum? stances could the people g? South Caro? lina yield any obedience W 9he Cham? berlain government or contribute any? thing to its support. This 'voi&ntary testimony of Senator Robertson is- the more important when it is considered that had he elected to support the illegal government of" Chamberlain there is no question that Chamberlain's Legislature would have unanimously re-elected him to the United States Seriate. JUDGE CARPENTER ANr THE ATTORNEY (JENER.'. L. Judge Carpenter, of South Carolina, says that he does not intend to be in a hurry to decide the contesting claims of Harnpto? a'rvd-Chamberlain to She guber? natorial office in1 So)Kh Carolina. He says he is spending time here to consult legal authorities which are not available in South Carolina. One of the authori- j ties whom he seems to be consulting very frequently is the Attorney General, ! whom no doubt Chamberlain'would look upon as a safeguard. Judge' Carpenter is the South Carolina Judge> Who, .last summer, in the political saloons of Wash? ington, denounced Governor Chamber? lain in the most opprobrious terms. The Political Situation. Mr. Watterson, M. C, from Kentucky and editor of the Courier-Journal, has written a remarkable letter to his paper from Washington. ? He sketches the Radical conspiracy and its master-spirits with graphic power, showing that the plot bos lost nothing of its vigor and the movers of it hone of* their determination. Indeed, some recent events at the South have given aid and comfort to the" enemy. We give Mr. Watterson's conclusions a conspicuous place. They are as follows: "The people must act for themselves. Without their support the House of Representatives is powerless. A cor? poral's guard may disperse it. The ar? rest of half a dozen of its members would demoralize it. Anything, everything is possible to those who oppose themselves to the conspirators- But unless the peo? ple act there will be no need of violence on the part of the conspirators. They will proceed without regard to precedents or facts with their plan to put the de? feated candidate for President in the White House, leave Congress to pursue its policy of impotent protest, and, .hav? ing weathered the 5th of March, say with complacency to sucht .a question, 'Wliat are you going to do about it?' "Is there no peaceful remedy ? I think there is. There is the right of position, which, adequately presented and urged, becomes a power. The Democrats do not include civil war in the list of their resources. Civil war is not a red-tape affair. It does not come in the regula? tion way. Nor is it likely to happen ever until all the peaceful methods lor the redress of grievances have been ex? hausted. The Democratic party plants itself upon the law and the facts, it de? clares that the vote of no State shall be counted without the consent of both houses of Congress. No State vote has ever been or ought to be. Siuce the foundation of the Government to the present time, including the evidence fur? nished by the Republican leaders them? selves, all authority sustains thispositiou. On it the Democratic party plants itself, and means to stand until it is driven off at the point of the bayonet. It is for our people to determine, therefore, whether this shall be done. It* they will rise in their might, and, exercising the peaceful right of petition, memorialize the Senate j to do its duty, to do that which every Re? publican member of the Senate is com? mitted to, and will send a hundred thou? sand petitioners to Washington on the 14th of February to present the memo? rial in person, there will be no usurpa? tion and no civil war. The conspirators will be thwarted. There will be Repub? licans enough in the Senate to deieat them, and we shall have the Presidential result settled by well-established Consti? tutional methods. Otherwise those Re? publican Senators who wish to do right, seeing that the country is going to sub mit, will submit too, and we shall drift into a new era of popular discontent, the end of which no man can see. "The Convention called to assemble in Louisville should consider these things. There is little complexity whatever in the situation. All that I have written here may bo relied upon with absolute assu? rance. It is no pleasure to write such things; but they should be written simply and distinctly. If the Convention wisnes to do something, let it take ground firm? ly, not noisily, for the joint right of the two Houses, fortified as it is by all prece? dent; and having thus memoralizcd the Senate, let it provide for the presence of at least ten thousand unarmed Kcotuck ians in this city on the coming 14th of February. Less than this will be of no avail. So much, supplemented as it will be by other States, will secure through civil"agencies the peaceful settlement of the most dangerous issue that ever men? aced the existence of a free government." ? A good story is told of Judge Mackey, of South Carolina. During the war Mackey was on the staff of* General Sterling Price. While on the Missouri raid, on one occasion he was dining at the house of a Union man, in company w.iii several brother officers, when the c nvernation turned on the Confederate (f ur- r- of thf command. Turning to a v> g lady pr sent, Mackey inquired: " i f r da- el, who would you take m- o of' A od the 'fair, damsel" at THREE FEET OF SXOwT A-Surprising Story of the North Caro? lina Kallroad Biockader*''~ F,um the Raleigh (a*. C.) Seiet, Jan. 10. Major W. W. Rollins, the President of the Western North Carolina Railroad, arrived in this city yesterday afternoon, and gives a graphic account of his trip between Henry's, the head of his road, and Salisbury. The train left Henry's on Monday morning last about seven o'clock, Snow was falling at the time, with the thermometer registering eigh? teen degrees below zero. Soon after start? ing the track grew very heavy, but the train managed to reach Old Fort. The snow was falling at a terrific rate, and with each turn of the wheels progress be? came more and more difficult. . Four miles below Old Fort the engine gave out of water and the train came to a dead stop. The locomotive was cut loose, and with Engineer Marsh, Route Agent Ramsey and four negroes, started "alone to the tank, which was three miles dis? tant. About half way it ran into a snow drift, which stopped it entirely, and after repeated efforts to get through and as many failures, the engineer essayed to put back to the train and discovered to his utter consternation that he could neithergo forward nor backward. Bound fast by the snow, the engineer and his party remained there on the track the whole of that long and cold night, with no covering save their ordinary clothing, no shelter except, what was afforded by the cab and no fire except what they could keep in the furnace of the. engino by homing such fence: rails and other wood as they could dig out of the snow. Provisions were sent to them from the train, and the next morning water was carried in buckets for'a? distance of a quarter of a mile, through snow thirty six inches in depth on a level, reaching to the waists of the men, until enough was had to raise steam in the engine-. Then by repeatedly running back, thest? under full headway striking the snow bank with the plow on the pilot, the lo? comotive finally made its way through this drift, to find the road filled with others almost as immovable. Mean? time a large force of convicts had been sent for, and these pushed the train back to Marion, where the passengers, were provided with all necessary comforts. The bare engine proceeded down the road at slow rate, the snow being shov? elled out before it in many places, until about the third day it reached Icard, where it found the up train from Salis? bury. A special engine, the heaviest on the road, had been sent out from Salis? bury, with the snow plough loaded down with castings, and three engines, distrib? uted along the road, cleared the track in five days, aud the train which left Hen? ry's Monday morning, reached Salisbury, a distance of 117 miles, Friday night at twelve o'clock. Major Rollins states that in many places the snow had drifted to the depth of fifteen and twenty feet. The cuts of the railroad on top of the snow were filled with all kinds of birds, which had frozen to death and dropped down the banks. While waiting on the road a whole covey of patridges were seen all frozen to death, and some of the crowd reached them and broke off the heads, of some, their necks snapping like corn stalks. At CatawbaRiver a yearling was seen some little distance dut iu the stream, its hind legs having sunk through the ice, leaving its bead and fore legs upright. It was frozen to death. The poor brute had no doubt gone out on the ice to try to get some water. The rivers and creeks all along the line of the road having first frozen over, and then been covered1 entirely by the snow, people and animals go over them as over the level earth. There is no sign anywhere of a running stream. With the apprehension of the people that they and their stock will freeze ov" starve to death before the snow melts is intermingled the dreadful fear that when Che thaw does comeit* will deluge the. whole face of the earth, carrying.with it desftnetiori and death. College Wisdom.?College boys are generally full of fun, and! have a keen appreciation of the weaknesses and fol? lies not only of each other, but of boys of a larger growth. This craality some of them preserve through life. An in? stance in poiut: The Alumni Associa? tion of Yale College lately held an annu? al thanksgiving jubilee, at which W. C. Sultier, of the class of 1870, delivered what is facetiously called the "sermon," saying that as some time had passed since the aggregate body before him had been born, he would briefly and general? ly review the mercies which had been ac? corded to Yale College during the past 1876 years, and give thanks for all. Ask? ing what there was in the recent history [ of Yale graduates-to be thankful for, the sermonizeranswered' himself by - saying: "Not much; but what had been donevjjas good; we furnished Mr. Beechcr with a lawyer who split the jurymen only, so that a ragged edge was left, but not a man hurt. [Laughter.] Then we have set up a pretty good sort of a man for President of the United States. To be sure, he didn't graduate;.Amt if he had what a man he would have been. He isn't an able man, nor a brilliant man, nor an eminent man, nor a financier, nor a diplomat, nor a statesman, nor anything of that sort. But he's good. [Derisive laughter.] He isn't elected, but then he is likely to live on board wages at the White House for the next" four years. We don't expect him to do much, but then we ought to be thankful for even little things. [Laughter.] Then there's Chamberlain. [Derisive cheers.] He's sunny, but he's amazingly deep! And he's good! [Laughtcr.J He don't say much, but he's quietly working away re? generating South Carolina and electing Tilden. [Laughter and cheers.] Then there's Waite, quietly weighing the scales of justice; and Taft, peddling out opin? ions; and a lot more standing about in government circles with their hands in somebody else's pockets. [Uproarious laughter.] They are not doing much." Browns Matrimonial Methods.? "Brown, I don't know how it is that your girls all marry off as soon as they get old enough, while none of mine can marry." "Oh, that's simple enough. I marry my girls off on the buckwheat straw principle." "But what is that principle ? I never heard of it before." "Well, I used to raise a good deal of buckwheat, and it puzzled me to know how to get rid of the straw. Nothing would eat it, aud it was a great bother to me. At last I thought of a plan. I stacked my buckwheat straw nicely and built a high rail-fence around it. My cattle, of course, concluded that it was something good, aud at once tore down the fence and began to eat the straw. I dogged them away and put up the fence a few times, but the more I drove them away the more anxious they became to eat the straw, and eat it they did, every bit of it. As I said, I marry my girls off on the same principle. When a young man that I don't like begins calling on my girls I encourage him in every way I can. I tell him to come often and stay as late as he pleases, and 1 take pains to hint to the girls that I think they'd bet" ter set their caps for him. It works first rate. He don't make many calls, for the girls treat him as coolly as they.can. But when a young fellow I like comes around, a man that. I think would Ruit me for a son-in-law, I don't let him make many calls before I give him to under? stand that he isn't wanted around my house. I tell the girls, too, that they shall not have anything to do with kirn, aud give them orders never to,speak to him again. The plan always works first rate. The young folks begin to pitch into each other, and the next thing I know they arc engaged to he married. When I see that they are determined to marry, I always give in and pretend to make the best of it. That's the way I , manage it.'*? Vitlu-fa Telegraph. 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