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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
JAS. A. WRIGHT, AGENT.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
Teems—Three Dollars a year, in advance
A GOVERNER TAKEN FROM A CRATE
A benevolent old man of Brooklyn
was making tbe tour of the city, in
pursuit of truants and little wanderers,
one Sabbath morning a score of years
ago, when ho found a little boy aslocp
in a crate on one of the wharves.
If o bhook the crate, and a pair of
bright eyes opened and flashed upon
him, with a look of surprise and tim
id bashfulncss.
“ Why do you sleep here ? ” inqui
red the old man. “ Because 1 have
no home,” said the child.
“ Where is your father f ”*
“ I don’t know, sir, i bain’t seen
him for a long time, never since ho
told mother ho wouldn’t como homo
again.”
« Where is your mother?”
“ She is dead.”
“So you have no homo—no father,
no mother—and live from hand to
mouth in the street, and sleep in a
orate.”
“Yes, siri I sell soap and matches
and sleep here.”
v <‘ Would you like to have a home,
and go to school and grow up to boa
good and bravo and usoful man ?”
“ Yes, sir ’’
“Came along with me, I will take
you to my own house, and ie, and yon
and clothe you, and send you to
school'if you provo to be as l think
you are, a good and faithful boy.’
As the old man said this, he dashed
n tear from his eyc“, with his coat
s'ecve, boy was the very im
age of hi < own sweet oliiid, who lad
dod but a few years before Lifting
the lad tenderly out of the orate, he
led him to his own pleasant home
whore be washed and combed and then
dressed in a suit of clothes formerly
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To fcborton tho story, which has it
it material enough for a volume—the
good old mao gave the lad nil the
advantages afforded by the schools of
the “city of churches,” and then gave
hint a chsikship in his store, for Im
was a well-to-do mt reliant.
After s veral years of faithful ser
vice, the young man expressed a
wish to engage in business on his
own account, or in some other way to
extend his useful e.-s.
“ 1 will start you in business,” said
iho old man “on certain conditions.”
“ Pleaso stats them,” remarked the
young roan with a smile ; for ho sup
posed his benefactor was about to
perpetrate a joke at his expense.
“I will start you iu business, if
you make three promises,” contin
ued the oid man.
a Pray what pr,mis.es do you wish
me to make ?”
“ One is, that you willl never
swear."
“ Agreed.”
«' Another is, that you will never
drink rum.”
“ Agreod. w
“ The other is, that you will have
nothing to do with politics.”
“ Agreed.”
True to his promise as the steel to j
the star, the old man furnished hisj
clerk with capital and started him in
business in one of the western States.,
The young merchant was very alien-,
live to his business, and his habits of
industry* and sobriety were crowned
with good fortune which generally
accompanies virtue, courage, enter
prise, and intelligence. A few yea.’s
ago, he paid a visit to his venerable
friend in Brooklyn—found him the
same kind-hearted and genial gentle
man that he was when he first led
him from the crate on the wharf to
the pleasant cottage on the avenue
“I am delighted to Bee you/’ remark
ed tho old man. “May I ask you if
you have kept the pledges you gavej
me, when you suggested to me tho idea
of starting business on your own ac
count? are you a temperance man?”
“I have not tasted a drop of any
kind of intoxicating liquors since 1
promised you I would not, and you
know I bad no sacrifice to, make in
keeping that promise, for I never was
accustomed to the use of such liquors;
and I do not furnish them to my gues’s,
nor to persons in my employment.”
“Good boy,give meyourhand and let
me shake it again. How about that
promise not to use profane speech ?
“Well, sir, when I was a little wan
derer, and sold soap and matches, I
scattered my- as liberally as col
leges do their D. P.’s, but I dropped
them in your Sabbath school, and I
have never resumed them. I never
indulge the silly and vulgar habit of
swearing. I think it shows h lack of
originality'. A man wishes lisay some
thing emphatic—and owing to a lack
of ideas and a proper use of language,
he fills up tho chinks of conversation
with oaths. lie curses his oyes—his
limbs—bis soul—his heart—his horse
—his luck—and thinks ho is fluent
when ho is only profane. No, sir, I
do not claim to be a paragon of per
fection, but I should be ashamed of
my speech, if I spiced it with profan
ity.”
“Good—good ! I expected such a
report from y T ou. How about poli
ties ?”
The youfig man of business had
until this moment maintained perfect
self command; hut when tho last
question was put to him, his cheeks
grew red as crimson.
“Well, sir, I suppose some folks think
I am a politician,” remarked the
young merchant.
“Sorry—very sorry,” observed the
old man.
“I couldn’t help what happened,
cir.”
“You promised me you would have
nothing to do with politics !’’
“i know 1 did.”
“Well it is strange that yon could
not keep that, promise as easily as yon
kept tho other two ?”
“Well, sir, have patience with me.
.it:d 1 will tell ton how it happened.”
“Well, go on.”
“As you are aware, 1 was fortunate
in trade—honored nty ‘% A:
VWiha noth W.'M’uit, tfk!
money yon hud tho kindness to ad
vance. I was a leading bu-iuem roan
in th“ town, had (.pinions in relation
to men and measures, u ; and did not hes
itate, on ail proper occasions, to ex
ptess and defend them, and sustain
thorn with my vole on election day ’
“There can bo no objection to that,”
rentalked tbe old man; “politics as a
trade, is what I dislike.” *
“As 1 said before', 1 got along wt 1.
lund as good fortune would havo it,
j persuaded some of my friends to think
and vote as J did; without consulting
me one day at a State convention, they
nominated mo for Governor, and 1
was elected. Indeed, I am now on
my way to Washington to transact
important business for the State.”
Tho writer desires to siy that this
story is a ttuo one.— Lillie Corporal
Calculating Bov.— Among tho
n any boys employed for the different
purposes of calculation on the ord
nance survey in Ireland, there is at
present one named Alexander Gwin,
only tight years old, and a nalivo of
Dcrry r , v. hose abilities at his early age
are truly surprising. He has got by
roto tbe fractional logarithms from 1
to 1,000, which he will repeat in regular
rotation, or otherwise, as the interro
gator may pat, tho question. It is
certainly astonishing to think so ten
der a mind can retain with such te
nacity and correctness seven figures
of an answer, (according to their dif
ferent variations) for 1,000 numbers.
Ilis rapidity and correctness in the
various calculations of trigonometri
cal distances, triangles, etc., are ama
zingly beyond anything wo have ever
witnessed, lie can in less than in
one minute make a return in acres,
roods, perches, etc, of any quantity
of land, by giving him the surveyor’s
chained distances, while tbo greatest
mathernetician, with all his knowl
edge, will certainly take nearly an
; hour to do the same, and not bo cer
tain of the truth iu tho end.
Candidates Coming From Abroad.
! —At a stated meeting of the Presby
| tery of New Brunswick, beld at Prince
jton, New. Jersey, on the sth inst.,
twelve candidates for licensure were
■received. Os these, nine were from
Canada at.d Nova Scotia.
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, «A., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1867.
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DICY LANGSTON
The patriots of Laurens District, in
South Carolina, during tbo revolution,
were frequently indobted fog impor
tant information to ono young gitl,
tiiteen or sixteen years old at the
commencementof the war. Atlength
suspicion of tho activo aid sho ren
dered was excited among tho Tory
neighbors. Mr. Langston was in
formed that he would bo hold respon
sible thenceforward, with his proper
ty, for tho conduct of bis daughter.
The young girl was reproved se
verely, and commanded to desist
For a time 6ho obeyed ; but having
beard by acc : dont that a company of
loyalists, who on account of their
ruthless cruelty had been callod the
“ Bloody Scout,” intent on their wotk
of death, wore about to visit tho “El
der settlement” where her brother
at.d some friends wore living, sho de
termined al all hazards to warn them
of tho intended expedition. Sho had
none in whom to confide; but was
obliged to leave her homo alone, by
stealth, and at tho dead hour of tho
night. Manj' miles were to bo tra
versed, nnd the road lay through tho
woods, and crossed marshes and
Creeks, where tho conveniences of
bridges and foot-logs were wanting.
Sho walked rapidly on, heedless of
alight difficulties; but her heart al
most failed her w hen she came to tho
banks of the Tygor—a deep and rapid
stream, which there w as no possibility,
of crossing excopt by w ading through
the ford This she know to he deep
at ordinary times, und it had doubt
io->s been rendered more dangerous by
the rains that had lately fallen.
She entered tho water; hut when
in the middle if the f rod, became bs
cumo bewildered, and know not what
direction to lake. Tho hoarse rush
of the waters, which were up to her
neck tho bill'knots of the (tight—the
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minty lest tbo next step should ingulf
l et' past relief eonfasod her; and los
ing in a degree her seif po-scssion, she
wandcro I for some time in the chan
nel without knotting whither to turn
her slept. Having with difficulty
tom Imd tbo other solo, site lost no
time in hastening to Iter brother, in
(hrmed him trod his friends of tho pro
purat'ons m ule to surprise and de
stroy them, and urged him to send his
men instantly in different directions
to arouse and warn the neighborhood.
The soldiers had just returned from a
fatiguing excursion, an I complained
that they were faint from want of
food. Tbo noble girl, not satisfied
with what she had done at such risk
to herself, was ready to help them slid
further by providing refreshments im
mediately. Though wearied, wet, and
shivering with cold, she at once set
about hor preparations. A few boards
were taken ftom tbo roof of tho house,
a fire kindled with them, and in a few
minutes a hoc-cake, partly baked, was
broken into pieces, and thrust into tbe
shoi-pouchis of tho men. Thus pro
visioned, the liltio company hastened
to give the alarm to their neighbors,
and did so iu time lor ail to make
their escape. Tho next day, when
the “scout” visited the place, thoy
found no living enemy on whom to
wreak their vengeance.
At a later period of tiie war, a party
came to his house with the desperate
design of putting to death all the men
of the family. The sons were absent;
but the feeble oid man, solccted by
their relentless hate as a victim, was
in their power. Ho could not escape
or resist; and he scorned to implore
their mercy. One of the company
drew a pistol, and deliberately leveled
it at the hi east of Langston. Sudden
ly a wild shriek was heard ; and his
young daughter sprang between hor
! aged parent and the fatal weapon,
i The brutal soldier ronghly ordered
; her to get out of tho way, or the con
tents of the pistol would be instantly
lodged in her own heart. Site heeded
not tbe threat, which was but too
iikely to be fuifi ltd the next moment.
Clasping her arms tightly round the
old man’s neck, she declared that her
own body should first receive tbe ball
aimed at his heart! There are few
human beings, even of the most de
praved, entirely insensible to all noble
and generous impulses. On this occa-
s|6G the conduct of the daughter, so
fAlifss, so determined to shield her
f&Sr’a life by the sacrifice of hor
touched the heart even of a
of tho “Bloody Scopt.”—
L*Bf;s'.on was spared; and the party
iqjpjtho house filled with' admiration
at(3se filial affection and devotion they
hhd%Y it noseed.— Chimney Comer.
THIS SHOOTING STARB
- come finally to tho question,
-ivTt is the material, what is the miu
ci?' constitution of these strange bod-
Wo have already observed that
thijpy sometimes split into pieces high
iulhe mid air, and occasionally strew
tl&ground in their fall. Wo shall not
mi# stop to givo a catalogue of in
sta«K os; they may bo found elsewhere,
arm? specimens may be seen in almost
ov«,ry museum of any consequence.
OySuLmuUUtfUhom to chemical nnal
y»rs, thoy are found to consist most
frafpieiitly of iron in a metallic and
mfUeublu, and not in an oxidized state;
the iron is in genet al mixed with
and there are various com
pounds of magnesia and silica, and in
soibo instances just those very ingre
dients which are soot, in the trup and
basaltic rocks ot our own earth
fiory messengers, then, bring
wiiti them tidings from tho chill, dia -
laitt. regions of space, that matter
tlnsieiti ahoinds similar to the matter
wflgli constitutes what lies below the
orjtjt of our own planet. But not
so,'tKl positive handling and the
actual analysis of this interplanetary,
or, it may after all occasionally ho,
this interstellar matter, serves only to
ci.jfflrm what modern skill has boon
uIV to detect regarding the material
coriflitution of the stars, nay, of the
very sun himself. It might seem a
a strango assertion to state
tiro we possess any certain knowledge
of /the minora! constitution of the
It* ro-iucqnci.’ivubly remote from
itlv ,int -vr® Tfa\ WiTTiftifflTftfutrAliu rt
distances, and if wo had the
means, wo possess no arithmetic which
could convey any intelligible concep
tion of the number of tho miles. But
so it is; and, as certain as it is that a
well instructed observer, by analyzing
iigjst, can detect tho material nature
of the source from whence it comes,
whothor it may bo from the ounabus
tioo of iron, or nickel, or magnesium,
or sodium, so certain it is, that, tbe
light from the sun and from tho stars
indicates tho combustion of these very
metals in those bodies which other
wise wo must have considered, for
such purposes, hopelessly remote. It
isnota little satisfactory, then, to find
that so soon as wo are unexpectedly
able to handle masses of mutter, which
are the neighbors and tho congeners
of tho sun and tho stars rather than
o( ourselves and of our own planeta
ry homo, we find all our scientific con
jectures verified, and wo extract tho
very iron, and tho very magnesium,
and the very materials from tho mete
or planets, which we saw on firo with
our own eyes in the mid-air, and
which we shrewdly guessed constitute
the fires of tbe centre of our universe,
and of those lesser lamps which are
too remote even to ieei the might of
his influence. The sun, and stars, and
comets, and nebul®, and tho moteoiic
dust which is sometimes spread upon
our fields, are all bound together in
one common material relationship.—
GooS Words
Aitle Custard. —To make the
cheapest and best every-day farmer’s
apple custard, take jweet apples that
will cook, pare, cut, and stew them;
when well dono, stir till tbe pieces are
broken; when cool, thin with milk to
a prtsper consistency, and bake with
one crust, like a pumpkin pie. Eggs
may bo prepared and added with milk,
if handy, though it will do without.
No sweetening is t tcossary. It may
be seasoned with any kind of epicc to
suit the taste, the loss tbe batter.
Coughing. —Paroxysms of coughing
may often be prevented or enroi, by
using a little dry salt as a gargle.
Let those who doubt try it. It will -
relieve the tickling in tho throat.
Maxim. —A good cook never sticks
a fork into meat while cooking, as it
leaves a place for the juices to escape
through.
VROTECTING PEACH ESFROM SPRING
FROST.
The only ob3taclo wo havo to con
tend with, or ever do have to really
ondauger our peach crop, is tho late
spring frosts. Against these, a per
fect protection is found in smoke,
which, first recommended in Garden
ing for the South, has now been tried
jn this vicinity for over ten years,
without a failure. It is not lieeossary
here to dmacy thing generally, in the
way of protecting the fruit, before the
last of March. It is tho late March
and April frosts that are to be feared.
It is a dense smoke, not heat, that is
required.
Prepare some fat lightwood, split
up very fine, also some billets of dry
wood, cut quite short, all kept undor
Cover until needed. Prepare also, in
advance, piles of wet tan, chips, saw
dust or other dump combustibles,
whore fires are most likely to bo need
ed. Tho wood should ho distributed
tho evening previous. About two or
threo o’clock in the morning, havo all
hands up and start fires, about two or
three rods asunder, all over tho or
chard, the windward ones being near
est. Three or four sticks are required
for each firo, which, when well started,
should havo a slick or two of green
wood added. Then put ou and near
ly smother tho fire with wot tan or
trash. If any pile beak3 out into a
flame, apply more trash, to keep up,
from dampened, smouldering fires, a
curtain of moist, heavy smoke over
tho tree 1 ", until the sun is well up, and
and the frost fully extracted. The
smoke from fires of dry wood is so
light, and rises so rapidly in a cold,
frosty nroht, that it really affords no
protection, while that from damp ma
terial, loaded with moisture, hugs the
ground, and dissipates very slowly,
if your ft uit is frozen solid before you
begin, whilo you are at work, do not
'J,impair, but make all tho smoke you
. tight if pdbtcetid.n as it
sotnis, looking through it when the
sun is tising, we have hud it so fully
protect tho frozen iruil from rapid
thawing, that tbo frost was all ex
tracted without it jury to tho fruit.
In our first trial, we were about giv
ing up iu despair, tho cold was so in
tense at day-break, but our success
was poufeet. At this placo, tho fruit
is very seldom, indeed, destroyed be
fore April, in which month not more
than one or two hosts are to bo ex
pected, and against these it is well to
provide. —Southern Cultivator.
HOW MANY ACHEIVE FAME.
It is not given to all to bo masters
of song, like Burns ; or art, like Pal
issy ; or engineering skill like Steven
son ;or of critical acumen, liko Guil
fords ; or abstract science, like Fergu
son or tho elder liorschel; yet these,
at firsl, wero all poor working men,
who gained their education by their
own efforts, who did battle with pinch
ing poverty, lack of educational means,
prejudice of class, and all thoso lions
which bland in the way of men of wea
ker mould, who, “lot I dare not, wait
upon 1 would. “All cannot bo field
marshals in tho army of life ; but
somewhat lower, yet very honorable
grades have been attained by men
onco in tho rank 4; who; while never
fora moment despising the labor by
which they earned bread, were not
disposed to consider working, eating
and sleeping, all that is worth living
for. Their daily labor hones’ly and
intelligently p rformed, thoy thought
themsolvo3 to bo froe citizens of
thought, in which true men take rank
according to what they essentially arc,
quite independently of tho condition
of their life. When tbe sun shines, it
shines for all, lord or laborer, and the
gracious instincts which make men
believe in good and beautiful things,
treasure up and nourish tbo sugges
tions of universal nature, and culti
vate the talent entrusted to their caro.
Look into ar.y biographical dictionary,
and you will see how little the cir
cumstances of early life have been
.able to impede tbe career of really
great men. Ileal morital energy soon
masters them, and makes them even
subservient to its will.
General Shrman, if lie can obtain
leave, will go on Captain Duncan’s
excursion to tho Holy Land, which
is to sail in June.
VOL. I-NO. 50.
KEEP YOUR WORD WITH THE CHILDREN.
Wo cannot estimate too highly the
importance of keeping faith with tho
children. When once that is dostroy
od, tho corner-stone of our influence
is taken away. It will not bo strange
if tho whole structure will crumble
around us, overwhelming «s with trou
ble and unavailing sorrow.
is related that tho Earl of Chat
ham had promised that his son should
be present at the demolition of a wall
about the ostate, but through acci
dent it was pulled down in bis ab
sence. Hislordship felt the importance
of his word being kept sacred, so ho
orderod tho wall to bo rebuilt, that
his son might be present when it
was again demolished, as he had
promised. It was not that a child’s
whim might bo humored, but that
his faith in his father’s worj might be
unshaken.
Those little open eyes take sharp
noto of your notions from a very
early age. You may sometimes get
on the blind side of older people, hut
rarely of a little child. Tbeygoright
through the flimsy disguises of soph
istry and worldly politeness, and
como down to the bare plain facts.
A little child had been promised
the next time grand pa came be
should go home with him. The next
timo camo, but the promise was not
fulfilled, so the child reminded him of
it.
“ You don’t think grand-pa would
tell you a lie ? ” asked tho old gentle
men, sadly cornered.
“I don’t know,” answerod tho
child ; “ What does grand-pa call it ?”
A mother had promised a cake to
her Httlo boy when she returned
home one day, but being absent for
several hours sho forgot it. The lit
tle boy had been watching long at
tho window for hor, and his disap
pointment was great, but not so great
fr.« hi- smmjmotit nt liis moth or for
breaking her word. “ Forgot” was a
word whose moaning he did not know.
Mother.quickly wont out and bought
tho cake; but still tho trouble lin
gered in his mind, nud he was heard
saying softly to himself, by way of
comfort, “ Mother only forgot.” Ho
could not boar to think sho had told a
lio. Havo your children equal sen
sitiveness with rogard to your truth
fulness ?
Oto almost trembles to hear the
scores of promises which some hoart
less mothers make, with no thought
of ever .fulfilling them. But chil
dtin vory soon learn to value them
nt what thoy aro worth; and who
can estimate tho consequences to
their immorlal souls of this early les
son in falsehood \—B. S. Timet.
EVERY NATION HAS ITS OWN “GAIT”.
The Hours at Home informs us
that we walk Yankee as well as tallc
Yankee. The travelers who visit the
field of Waterloo aro accustomed to
enter their names in a register. The
book has been kept for many years
by the same person, and with won
dotfal accuracy he is able to desig
nate tho visitor’s nationality by sim
ply inspecting tho hand-writing
Much more easily can the profession
or nation be detected by tho moans of
the gait. The grave Spaniard; the
phlegmatic Dutchman ; tho vivacious
and sanguine Frenchman; tbo reser
ved and formal Briton ; tbe inquisi
tivo, impoluom, self-confident Amer
ican, each betrays the national trait in
his style of walking. The tailor rolls,
as if our trim planot’aailod unsteadily.
The soldier marches, even when no
longer on duty. Tbo sycophant
bends his knee, as if every man he
meets was a prince. Tlie lawyer stops
baldly' and patronizingly. The cler
gyman abstractly, as if the street was
his; or cautiously, as if mindful of
gins and pitfalls spread lor tho feet
of the unwary. Tho wailing clerk
is known for his bows and graceful
effrontery. Wo distinguish a cox
comb by the Lite cartful manner in
which bo picks his way along tho
street; a watchir.jyi by his heavy,
measured tread. Students caunter,
schoolgirls trip, doctors hurry, hun
ters stride, teamsters trudge, gossips
gad, market-woman bustle, boatmen
shuffle, ghosts stalk, uldermcn wad
dle.