The Greensborough patriot [November 26, 1863]

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Volume XXV. GEEENSBOEOUGH, 1ST. C, NOVEMBEE 26, 1863. Number 1,277.
MIRTH AND MEN OF GENIUS.
The annaals of Letters scarcely present
uuch an ovation to genius, as h^s of late
been accorded to Schiller, by Europe and
America. The splendid procession in 1791,
when the antics of Voltaire were removed
to the Pantheon, nor tho still mere classic
one at Alexandria, when Ptolemy Philadel-phia
was cownod; cannot vie with the
honor paid by the Old and New World to
the poet of Germany. These glowing des-criptions,
with which the papers for months
have teemed, havo lod the writer to exam-ine
their interior histories. And the sad
impression is constantly made, that honor
and pleasure, without a gospel hope, are a
sad inheritance. What avails it, that the
anhes bo pressed with marble, and poets
Bing to our memory, if indeed there be no
well-grounded hopo in our death ?
Is it i.ota mockery of the dead, to write
upon their tombstone an epitaph, full of
promise u> thoslumberor,—if, while living,
be rejected the very truth, by which alone
♦Peace can be secured ?
While residing in tho capital of the
Duchy of Baden. Schiller thus unbosoms
his ultor desolation of" heart to his life long
friend Tht-o. Koener : Men, things, climate,
and place, have all lost their attractions
forme. There is not a soul here, (Manbeim,
pop. 25,000), not one soul capable of filling
up the void in my heart. I never yet was
happy. Weep for me, that I should make
such a confession. 1 look upon Mabeim as
a prison, and its atmosphere weighs upon
me like the conscience of a marderer."
His biographer in our authority for the
fact, thst the following linos were a transi
cripl of the mind of this genius:—
"Let me weep
Upon thy bosom, iet me ireep hot tears,
Tho i only friend. 1 have no one, no one
On this wide earth ;—no one.
Far as our Hug is honored :—not a spot,
Not one, not one, where I msy weep."
As he neared the tomb, his last written
allusion to his futuro has nothing to relieve
the gloom of that mind, which had amused
so many. "Winter is a sullen guest, and
makes tho heart shrink." How the fetes,
it o eulogies, the loud trump of fame, all
die away as we look upon the grave of
Schiller. Can the departed soul find in all
these things aught to comfort it there?
Another of kindrod genius, but who
touched loftier keys, found no consolation
inearth. He confessed that he was har-rassed
by unsatisfied desires, with the sole
prospect of dragging on a languid spiritless
life. In bis disconsolate pride, he believed
that life, when it no longer suited him,
might bo cast aside at pleasure. Ho quotes
Montesquieu, as sanctioning suicide : "Eve-iv
man may conclude the Fifth Act of his
Tragedy whenever ho thinks best." He
then sportively alludes to those who had
av According to Buffon, it is one J A LESSON FROM JEWISH HISTORY.—The MAS AND HIS SAVIOR.—A very old
against ten thousand. "An urn, with ten Jow has become proverbial for his love of | man auihor discourses thas
j u:- ~«- ,i.am ia! money throughout the world. With him
it is constitutional ; and be is perhaps more
houfland.
thousand names, and his one oi thorn, is
" The abbreviation of time, aod the failure
of hope, will always lingo with a browner
Shade, the evening of life." The settling
{.loom of the future upon the mind of one,
whose life-time studies made him familiar
with the history of the Church of God, is a
sad close of a brilliant career.
Byron sacrificed everything for pleasure.
Hear the result of his searches after peace
From the inspiring scenery of the Alps, bo
writs; " The mountain palaces oi nature,
can afford no asylum to a haunted heartI
" It is growing" very dark," said Lotd
Thurlow, with a fearful oath. " Stand firm-ly
around me, my brave grenadiers!' said
the dying Gen. Leo. He had rejected tho
Gospel, and he bad no life-guard, with
whom to enter tho unseen world,
poor man at the gate of Dives.
Hume thus describes the state of
mind :
" Methinks I am like a man, who having
struck upon m».ny shoals, and having nar-rowly
escaped shipwreck, yet has tho rash-ness
again to put to sea, in the same wea-ther-
beaten, leaky vessel. I fancy myself
some strange monster, unable to mingle in
soeiety, expelled from all human com-merce,
and lett utterly abandoned and dis-consolate
!" Who would covet such an ir-heritauce,
as these offered of the sons of
genius and mirth ? If we are, as they
blashphemously assort, " half dust, half
deity, " how can dust and ashes fill these
immortal longings <<f our hotter half? It
is sad to a theughtful rnind to know, that
these prolonged notes of fame cannot reach
the dull ear of death. Tho offered incense
to departed worth, cannot cheer tho soul of
the gifted one in tho world to come. So all
such ending mirth is woe begun.
like the
his
Ger-tenderly
of
Christ:
"My soul is like a hungry and thirsty
veloped in Jacob's eons, who sold one of J ^ild' and l need D'8 loTe and consolations
their own brethren for twenty pieces of jorray refreshment; 1 am a wandering and
silver. A wedge of gold, concealed in the lost sheep, and Ianeed him an a good and
put an end to their mental misery, from
lb a days of Ajax, to Otho. He praises the
r for hiving invited his friends to a
splendid /"cast, and after an evening r-pent
in mirth and festivity, ho retires and ends
sorrows by the dagger. He speaks of
"his whim oi committing suicide."
"Among my aims, I possessed a coBtly
l-giound dajjgor. This I laid nightly
by HIj Ued. Ueiora exunguisning inyngtit,
I'tried whether 1 could bacceed in sending
tho sharp point an inch or two into ray
His estimate of religion was,
ti;at it was advantageous '.o the lower or-ders
oi society, and therefore, as a consid-erable
help to the constable and hangman,
ght decidedly to be kept up. But not a
single hint or allusion could we find in his
autobiography, that whispered of a good
hope alter death. "Veriiy the end
mirth is heaviness." In his "Sorrows of
Werter," he describes his own mental
condition: it was that of the nameless Un-ro^:,
a spirit struggling in bondage, but not
knowing of any ransom. His favorite fig-ure
was—-"painting our prison walls with
gay colors, and pleasant scenes, but una-ble
to unbar the gates, or break the
chains."
Robert Hums is our next witness, than
whom, fow of the gifted of earth ever
tried harder, to drain tho cup of pleasure
to the last drop. With his exquisite num.
bers, and seemingly at times breathing the
inspiration of the heavenly muse; he
charmed the dwellers on his heath-clad
Is. Bat many a true heart achsd, as
they saw their noble bard descending to
th • grave, with a hopo darkening, and a
night dcopouing into despair. Listen to
the breathings of his agonizing spirit: —
"Canst thou minister to a mind diseased,
uanst thou speak peaco to a soul tossed on
the sea of troubles, without cno friendly
oarse, and dreading th*
* Lord Byron, when passing through a secluded
valley of Italy, found the words " Imjjlora Pace" on
a tomb. He turned to his companion and said,
"Let the word " Peace" be my only epitaph."
THE IMPROVIDENT TRAVELER.—A certain
traveler who had a distanco to go, one part
of his road leading through green fields,
and the other through a tangled road of
brambles and thorns, made great prepara-tion
for the first part of his journey. Ho
dressed himself in light and gay clothes
and put a cake in his pocket; he stuck a
nosegay in his bosom, and taking a light,
slender cane in his hand, nimbly proceeded
on his way along the boaten path across
tho greon meadows. The sun shono in the
skies, and on went the traveler comfortably,
pleasantly, and delightfully. After awhile,
the road becanio rugged, and by the time
night drew on, the traveler was in a pitia-ble
plight. His psovisions were exhaust-ed;
his clothes wet through, and partly
torn from his back by briers ; his flowers
were faded; and, weary as he was. his
slender cane would not bear bis weight ; a
stream of water was before him, and dark-ness
around him.
I
"Alas !" said lie, smit-ing
his breast, "1 ac* hanery., an.i■ '•-, ■ ■ ■ .6
WOT, , »a LO me sum, arid have no urj
clothes; weary, and havo no staff to rest
on; 1 have a stream to cross and there is
no boat; I am bewildered, and Lave no
guide; it is dark, and I havo no lantern.—
Fool that I am ! why did 1 not provide for
tho end .,f my journey as well as for the
beginning ?"
Reader—time is hastening away, thou
art a traveler! Life is tho beginning,—
f death tho end of the journey. If thou
hast, made preparation for both, happy art
thou; but if otherwise, thou rescmblest
tho foolish traveler.
A LITTLE BOY'S REMARK TO HIS TEACH-ER—
A class of little boys was confided by
tho superintendent to the care of a broth-er,
whoso hoary head is declared in the
word of God to be a crown of glory. Their
venerable teacher promised them '.ast whi-ter,
that as soon as tho days of spring
should come, and the earth put on us man-tle
of grjen, and tho little songsters begin
to waible among tho trees, ho would set
apart a day and take them to visit the
abodes of the dead, and to look upon tho
graves of those schoolmates whom the
baud of death had lately torn from their
embrace, and over whom the snowy blasts
of winter were then fiercely beating.
Spring soon came, and their iaithful
teacher was glad to fulfill his promise. The
little scholars soon became tired of walk-ing
ameng the dead, and of reading tho va
camp of Achan, defoatod the army of I Bra
el. This ungodly greed of gain led them
anciently, in selling their corn and wheat,
to " make the ephah small and the shekel
qrent, and falsify the balances by deceit "
Amos viii : 5. "That is, they lessened the
measure and increased the price. This was
one one oJ the great sins that destroyed
that nation—the sin of dishonesty. And
what was the result? O that our people-would
consider it, and be wise, before tne
same iniquity shall prove our ruin ? Here
it is : the Lord hath sworn by the excellen.
cy of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any
of their works. Shall not the land trem-ble
for this, and every one mourn that
dwclleth therein ? and it shall rise up whol-ly
as a flood ; and it shall be cast out and
drowned as by the flood of Egypt." This
sentence was fearfully executed in th' sec-ond
captivity of that people in Babylon «,
Arc not our people doing the sarfe
thing on a most fearful scale? Are they
not "making the ephah small and the shekel
great?" And is this a sin less offensive «.o
God now than it was then? "Unless this
spirit is arrested, it will work its own cure,
by superinducing desertion from our ar-mies,
and turning loose a lawless mob at
home, that will take summary vengeance
upon tho authors of their sufferings; and
our prayer ;s, that in such an emergency,
our beloved country may not go down in
the wreck.
Alas ! how fearfully tho sentiment of
the Scottish bard :
" Man's inhumanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn."
How different is the treatment of our
Father in Heaven towards us, sinners that
we arc ! Ho "giveagood measure, shaken
together, pressed down and running over.
He has filled our barns to overflowing.—
Cannot, will not those to whom God has
shown mercy, learn to show mercy- to oth-ers?
If so then all may yet bo well—if
not, why, we may prepare our minds for
any desliuy that a just God wiii award to
a people ripe for ruin!—South Western
Baptist.
MINORITIES AND MAJORITIES.—Thomas
Paine once asserted in the presence of Pe-ter
Pindar that the minority, in all delibe-rative
bodies, ought at all times to govern
tho majority. Peter smiled. " You grant
mejvftut "-he proportion of men of sense to
the igworant is no more than twenty, or at
most'lhirty, to a hundred; consequently,
the majority of mankind are prone to error;
and if wo would act rightly we ought to bo
guided by tho sense of the minority.
Peter, who had listened with great seem-ing
attention, now mildly replied : " I will
not say but your arguments, are cogent,
though not entirely convincng. As it is
SO&Syt Su&e
jf!A,P¥,W>foBrY, tfdVmkeTy'liOfli
ttie negative of your preposition, and leave
it to the good company which is right"
■' Agreed," said Paine, who saw himself
surrounded by his admirers. " Weil, gen-tlemen,"
said Peter, with all tho gravity of
a Speaker of the House ot Commons, »'you
that are of opinion that the minority in all
deliberative bodies, ought in all cases to
govern the majority, please to riso in tho
affirmative." Paine immediately rose him.
self, and as he had foreseen, tho company
ail rose in his favor. "Then I rise in the
negative," cried Peter, " I am the wise
minority, who ought, in all cases, to gov
ern your ignorant majority ; and conse-quently,
upon your own principles, I carry
the vote ; lot it be recorded."
This unexpected manoeuvre raised a
hearty laugh. Paine retired trom the pres-ence
of triumphant wit, mortified with be-ing
foiled by his own weapons.
rious inscriptions upon the tombstones,
tho solemn
Btar to guide lur ©
next surge may overwhelm her? Canst and tho old man, to impress
rive to a frame, tremblingly alive to lessons which they had road, kneeled with
the tortures of suspense, the stability of the thorn in prayer, under a large oak tree.
Ihe that braves the blast ?" « If thou God met, and really blessed them there.
ii..L do tho least of those, why shouldst Tho teacher remarked to his youthful
. i liBturb mo in my miseries, with thy company that ho must soon die. and bo laid
quires after mo? My feelings at times
O.in only be envied by a reproDate spirit,
g to the sentence that dooms hiin
•don. 1 have exhausted in Tefloc
lion every topic of comfort." Alas, poor
Burns! Sow little did he know tho full
in the silent grave, and that he did not ex-pect
to havo a large and cosily monument
erected over his resting-place or even a
fc.mple grave-stone to mark the spot whore
ho lay.
To these affecting remarks one of the
asisof those words—" icea'y—heavy little boys very beautifully replied : "Nev
faithful Shepherd, my soul is like a fright-ened
dove pursued by the hawk, and I
need his wound for a refuge lam a feeble
vine, and I need his cross to lay hold of
and wind myself abomt; I am a sinner and
1 need his righteousness ; 1 am naked and
bare, and need his holiness and innocence
for a covering; I am in trouble and alarm,
and 1 neod his solace ; I am ignorant, and
I need his teaching; simple and foolish, and
I need the guidance of his Holy Sprit.
'"In no situation, and no lime, can I do
without him. L>o 1 pray? he must prompt
aod intercede for me. Am I arraigned by
Satan at the divine tribunal? he must be
my Advocate. Am 1 in affliction ? he must
be my helper. Am I persecuted by tho
world ? he mustdelond me. When I am
forsaken, He must be my support; when
dying, my life; when mouldering in the
grave, my resurrection. Well, then, I will
rather part with all that it contains, than
with thee, my Saviour ; and, God be thank-ed.
I know that thou too art not willing to
do without me. Thou art rich, and I am
poor; thou hast righteousness, and I sin;
thou hast oil and wine, and 1 wounds; thou
hast cordials and refreshments, and I hun-ger
and thirst. Use mo thou, my Saviour,
for whatever purpose and in whatover way
thou mayost require. Hore is my
poor heart, an empty vessel; fill it
with thy grace. Here is my sin-ful
and troubled soul ; quicken and re.
fresh it with thy love. Take my heart for
thine abode; my mouth, to spread the glo~
ry of thy namo, my love, aud all my pow-ers,
for the advancement of thy honor and
the service of thy believing people. And
novcr suffer tho steadfastness and confi-dence
of my faith to abate, that 8o at all
times 1 may bo enabled from tho hoart to
say, 'Jesus needs me, and I him, and so we
suit each other.'"
A BETTER MAN THAN I.—I have read I In Canada, the Methodist papers are dis-of
a fellow-countryman who carried the j cusing the propriety of a onion between
bread of life to a poor remnant of Indiaue j the Mothodist Episcopal church, the Meth-about
a hundred years ago. His has be-[ dist New Connexion, the Primitive Metbo-come
one of the names of history since, but
while doing tho work which has immortali-zed
him, hs seems to have in no wise
thought of name or fame on earth.
Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing.
Onward through lite he went,
i anddiost. No! ho had njt exhausted
nines of Redeeming Lovo '. While
the language in which ho sang shall last,
Ins sweet minstrelsy shall continue to tell
i ilation he rejected, of a mirth
whose end is heaviness, ot a genius whicb
vly sink into eternity, withouth a mor-al
safely lamp to illuminate its gloom.
,'. irid ol fashion, perhaps, never wel-rned
a more brilliant or suecessfu1 pleas-i—
kcr into its circle than Chesterfield.
He made Bport ol all religion, to say noth-lie
laws of morality. But after he
mite with tho gilded throng no more,
an bis grave, ho writes : " I bear
holy situation, because I must
bear it, whether I will or no. I think of
b ■ ,■ I ut 'ling time, the best way I can,
v that he has become mine enemy 1"
^ hal a condition for a soul of a dying man!
Uiavoice ot warning might still have
'eached the highest circles around the
t .: nes of Europe. His eternal interests
Bti unadjusted. His Creator's mercy otill
to bo asked for. His overlasting wcibbe-iii;.'
still to bo secured. Hisspau of life re-d
to mere moments, and ho charges
that point of time, on which hangs hie all
ity, with being his enemy !
Arard tiibbon, clos s one "of the most
e. cjuent autobiographies in any language,
with casting up the chances of dying on a
er mind, father Poore, you will have tho
corner-stone which the buildors refused !"
If we don't keep our hearts, the Devil
will keep thom ; shall we let Satan have
thorn! When a rude army gets into a
town, what work do they make—what
rapes, plur.deis, massacres: when Satan
possesses hearts, he carries them at last
vielrntly as he did tho swine, into the sea.
Satan is first crafty, then cruel. He ob-serves
the humors of tho body, and lays
suitable baits. Tho Dtyril cannot know the
heart, but he may observe the temper and
constitution; he tempts a sanguine man
with beauty, a covetous man with gold ;—
as the husbandman knows what ground is
tit for barley, what for wheat Satan hath
not been a tempter so long, but by this
time, he hath gained experience, having
commenced master of his black art.
The Old School Presbyterian Committee
of Dome-tic Missions has decided, if possi-ble,
to secure one chaplain or permanent
missionary for every brigado in tho Con-federate
army—a number not far from ono
hundred.
TIIE INCONSISTENT MAN.—The inconsis-tent
man treads upon a moving earth, and
keeps no pace. His proceedings are heady
and peremptory, for he bath not the pa-tience
to consult with reason, but deter-mines
merely upon fancy. No man is so
hot in the pursuit of what he likelh—no
man so soon weary. He is fiery in his pas-sions,
which yet are not more violent than
momentary—it is a wonder if his love or
hatred last so many da> s as a wonder. His
hoart is the inn of all good emotions;
wherein if they lodge for a night it is well.
By morning they aro gone, and take no
leave—and if they come that way again,
they are entertained as guests, not as
friends. He is good to make an enemy of,
ill for a friend—bocause, as there is no
trust in his affection, so no rancor in his
displeasure. The multitude ol his changed
purposes bring forgetfulness—and not ol
others more than himself. He says, swears.,
renounces, because what he promised he
meant not long enough to make an imprcs.
sion. Herein alone, he is good for a com.
monwealth, that ho sets many on work,
with building, ruining, altering—and
makes more business than time itself.—
Neither is ho a greater enemy to thrift than
to idleness Propriety is to him enough
cau: e of dislike—each thing pleases him
better that is not his own. _Eveu in the
b^-st things, 1 :>ng continuance is a just quar-rel.
Manna itself grows tedious With age,
and novelty is the highest style of common,
dation to the meanest offers—neither does
he in books and fashions ask how good,
but now new. Variety carries him away
with delight—and no uniform pleasure- can
bo without an irksomo fulness. Ho is so
transformable into all opinions, manners,
qualities, that he seems rather made imme-diately
of tho first matter than of wcll-tem.
pored dements, and therefore is, in possi-bility,
any thing or cv ry thing—nothing
in present substance. Finally, ho is SUM
vile in imitation, waxy to persuasions,
witty to wrong himself, a guest in his own
house, an aye to others—and, in a word,
anything rather than himself.—Bishop
Ball.
A PRAYRLESS CHRISTIAN.—What is that ?
Those words aro contradictory. I have
heard of a lifeless speaker—of a souless
miser—and a heartless mother. I think
those phrases are intelligible. No one is
misled by thom. No ono believes that a
dead man literally speaks; hut there aro
many men whose speaking has very life.—
We do not sepposo ttiat oven tho miser has
no soul; but people generally think that
what lie has must bo exceedingly small.
No mother is literally without a heart; but
1 bavojust read of ono who gave her child
to strangers, and devoted herself to infamy
—And sho is said to be intelligent. Heart-less
is a very mild torm to employ in char-acterizing
such a mother. But a prayer-less
Christian ! 1 do not understand wnat
thatc.n be * * * *
Can any Christian live without„.n^ftitT"mi
frtrfeWra urViW-frW'fSnJfin- in* neglect ot
prayer1 A Christian without a closet ? A
Cluistain who does not love.he duty of pray-er
! who neglects the prayer-room '! A Chris-tian
parent who has no family altar ? Oh!
do not dream of such things; such con-contradictions.
Talk of the blind man who
is filled with raptures when the rainbow
spans the heavens ; or of the deaf man who
is ravished with sweet music; but tell me
not of tho man who loves the Saviour cf
sinners, and yet docs not lovo prayer.
"But do not real Christians sometimes
neglect prayer for a season ?" 1 fear they
do. I must think that David was living
so when ho was indulging in that memora-ble,
fearful course of sin. "How long may
a Christian neglect prayer ?" I know not.
I would not advise you to make tho expe-riment
The wish to make such a trial
would, of itsolt be strong evidence that
you are not a Christian. One of the last
things to be mentioned is tho effort of a
Christian to live without cummunion with
(iod. How unnatural and how unyrateful.
Does he lovo the Saviour, who desires not
to pray to him ?
;No, professed discipio of Christ, Do not
try how long you can live without pray-er-
but seek to know what it is to continue
"instant in prayer." The best experiments
in religious affairs are those which mortify
tho flesh, and humble the heart, and bring
us into nearness and conformity to God —
Prayer is eminently conducive to these re
suits. Colo tho Great Heart searcher with
a full and Contrite confession of your sins,
and plead the merits of atoning blood, and
and tell
dists, and the Bible Christians of that coun-try.
In England, a movement is on foot,
which, it is thought, will lead to " co-ope-ration
on special occasions in promoting
the great cause of the world's salvation,
aud ultimately to union between all the
, bodies which have seceded from the old
in feeble health performing wearisome , Weileyan church for the sake of a more
journeys on horseback, to rest at night in j liberal form of ecclesiastical government ;
the damp, smoky wig warns of the red men; namely, the Primitive Methodists with
no doubt regarded by them at first as an | 141,000 members, the United Methodist
enthusiast, a preacher of a strange religion, | Pre* church with 60,000 (including their
which might be well enough for the pale : missions,) the Bible Christians with 25,000
faces, but was wholiy unsuited to the ions ! and the Wcsloyan Reform Union with
of the forest. When I see him, through about 33,000.
sickness, through derision, through obloquy
at last winning bis rode, and in some cases,
besotted bearers away from their vices to
holiness and heaven, I rejoice that David
Brainerd was a better man than I.
I have read of a Scotch minister who died
quite young. His portraits all breathe of
gentle and sweetness of disposition ; and
doubtless he was favored in theso respects
by nature. But what is offar higher im-portance,
grace sanctified and ennobled hi*
whole character. He bad not the genius
of Chalmers, nor the sabtility of Edwards,
nor the overpowering eloquence of Whit-field,
nor the master ruling spirit of Wes-ley
J yet I believe that almost every reader
of McCheyno's Life and Seronins, rises
from tho perusal convinced, each for him-self,
"be was a better man than I."
There is another name, to be mentioned
with joy and love unspcakble—annmeabove
every other that is heard in heaven or earth
—ot One who, being in the form of God,
though it not robbery to be equal with God
but took upon him tho form of a servant
and bocame obedient to death. In looking
calmly over the whole history of the pant,
in reviewing successively the great and the
good who have most signally ruled, bless-ed,
or adorned our race, the mighty, the
noble, tho elevated of all former ages,
1 am left no room to doubt that iho subli-mest
purpose, the profonndest self-sacrifice
thotendorest pity, and the most unsearch-able
lovo are found united, and found only
in Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God. Fair-er
than tho children of men, graco is pour-ed
into his lips; therefore God has blessed
him for ever.
OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT.—The Confederate
Biplist states that a gentleman saw copies
of that paper throwing about in a quarter*
master's office in the South West, and on
asking why it was not forwarded, was an-swered,
" Oh, the soldiers don't want such
papers ; they prefer secular papers!"
" This infidel official undertook to deter-mine
what wore tho wants of the solJicrs,
an i perhaps found the paper convenient
for wrapping."
THE NEW ENEAND SPIRIT.—The mor-tal
remains of Whitefiold are deposited in
a vault under the pulpit of a church in
Newburyport, Mass., in an open coffin.
The bare bones and decaying mould of the
greatly eloquent man are, so to speak, "on
exhibition," and may be "inspected and
bandied by any body who will pay for the
privilego."
UNION.—Tho Basis of Union adopted by
the committees of the Old and New School
Presbyterian churches in tho Confederate
States, was spproved by the Old School
Synod of Virginia, at Salem, without a dis-sentice
voice—though a lew ot the mem-bers
abstained from voting. It was unani-mously
approved by the .New School Synod
of Virginia, at Lynch burg.
Tho French and Foreign Bible Society
employs two eolporters of its own, and 100
supported by the British and Foreign Bible
Society. It sold last yoar 88,000 copies of
Scripture.
FATTENING POULTRY.—We take the fol-lowing
pertinent remarks from tho Amer-ican
Agriculturist upon a prevalent mode of
fatten ing (?) poultry :—Without ventila-tion
and cleanliness, wo important in fat-tening,
no perfectly good poultry flesh can
be obtained. Wo know it is quite common
with many people—particularly country ;
tavern-keopors—to cram their
and other poultry into narrow and closn
boxes, or coops, throw whule grain in any
quantity upon tho floor, with a saucer or
littie basin of water once a day aid think
they will fatten well nn iK.. U_. •• „
ureatno is lelid with the stench of tho fow-ls
; the food fairly smells before they eat
it, and tho whole flesh is tainted with the
foul food, foul air and foul water. We have
sat down to a table with such poultry cook-upon
it, and tho smell was as bad as that
The receipts of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the
past year, closing Soptembor 1st. were es-timated
at 3383,500.
Town Property for Sale.—On the sth
of December next, I will offer at public auc-chickens
; U°n inthetown of Jinuestown, N. C, a dYsirsl.te
House sud Lot, the House in good condition and
comfortable, with outbuildings. The lot contains
foin acres, with orchard, meadow, and water.
Also at the same time, and p'ace one other lot,
oontaiuing one acre with bouse and well on it.
AJ*QW"- -i -■ W A. COBLE. _
THE WATCHMAN AND HARBIN-GER,
a Religious and Family Newspaper is
published Weekly, at Greensboro', N. C.—Price $o
in advance.
The Watchman and Harbinger is devoted to the in-terests
of the Methodist Protestant Church, but will
be conducted in a spirit of kindness and liben.hty
ot the coop they inhabited before slaughter ,ow„j au other branches of the Christian Church,
aud this tO", was in the finest corn and "endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the
poultry regions in the world, where tho '< bonds of peace." As such it proposes to give its
best, and very perfection of dressod and i influence to the spreading of Scriptural hoht
cookod poultry should abound.
To PREVENT SORE SHOULDER? IN WORK-ING
HORSES.—Tho Boston Jounvnal says
the plau we have tried and never found te
fail, is to get a piece of leather and have it
cut into such a shapo as to lio- snugly be-twen
the shouldorsof the horse and the
collar. This fends off all tho friction, as the
collar slipa and moves on the leathor, and
not on f bo shouldorsof the horse. Chafing
over our land, by an earnest advocacy of liibls
Christianity.
In addition to its decidedly Religious character,
its aim will be to car.-y to the fire-sides of its read
ers whatever may be found entertaining and usetul
in a moral and literary sense, diverting the youthful
mind from the paths of error, and attracting it to
the ways of Righteousness and Peace. To the toil-ing
and way-worn soldier it will bring its message
of parity and love, pointing him to the flowery fields
end perpetual sunshine of our Father's abode.
There being no other paper in the Confederate
States devoted to the interests of the Methodist
Protestant Church, the Watchman and Harbinger is
destined to have a wide circulation, and it will of
is caused by friction ; hence this • remedy necessity, therefore, be an excellent, advertising me-is
quite a plausibto ono, and is much bet- Ilium for Book-Publishers, Schools, Colleges, and
ler than trying slips of leathor or pods of for whatever else may be designed for readers in the
■Skh»eoiHpslkriinn unnnidUerr tthho« cfnollllaarr. . ^""o.re^remote portions of the Confederacy. The at- gf ^ benevoIeut everywhere is invited to
it r — ! our paper, as being well adapted to the wants ol our
RYE FOR Mu.cn Cows.—Mr. C. Brooks,
one of tho best dairymen of Orango coun-ty,
claims that the rye makes mere milk!
than corn or oats, or other meal. Brew.,
ers' grain formerly cost six conts por bush-el
at the farm, now thoy cost ono nhillling,
and are not so profitabje as rye at six
shillings per bushel. Oats he este.-ms the
poorest kind of grain for cattle. Jlis dai-iy
allowance to each cow is five pounds of
meal,given with cut straw, wot with warm
cast your soul on divine mercy,
me if you could have been better employ-ed.
t
MANAGING AND FEEDING WORKING OXEN.
Oxen working on a stone drag on tho toot
ot a Plough, on the sled tongue, cart spire,
or twitching stone or timber, should carry
their heads up, a. this enables them to do
this work much easier; those that work as
leaders, forward of other oxen, should car-ry
their heads low and have the yoke the
right length, to let the bows suit the neck ;
.he yoke and bows to the leaders should
set I little anaggor than th. nib oxen-
Nevei use the whip but from necossity.-
boui to strike the young steer or
Will ho know what
When a
ox, ask yours-lf,
for 'f JLet each ox have a name,
hiB ,;amo. Never
without meaning ;
sjK-aii
soldiers in camp and field, and liberal donations are
solicited to aid in furnishing the paper lo soldiers in
large quantities.
Address J. L. MICHAUX,
Editor pro tern.,
Greensboro', N. C.
I Committee.
THE CRKKVSBOROUGH PsTBIOT.
The publishers ol the Patriot spars neither labor
or expense in making it an acceptable visitor to eve-ry
household in North Carolina. t makes a nea
C. F. HARRIS,
J. I.. MlOHACX,
L. W. BATCHKLOB,
and wheat bran, changing tho
qucntly, thinking his animals thrive
on a frequent change of diet.
He fed corn and, oat^ buckwheat ^^^^„d „ point of tiu it
host among the largest papers now published in ths Con-federacy—
containing twenty-four columns, at least
sixteen sf which are filled with the choicest reading
™ * - matter,—embracing a greater variety than any oth-
We hoar that tho Yankees in Chatta- er pa|,erin ,he country,
nooga are subsisting on a cracker a day. A fair ftnd complete histery of the stirring events
When they got hold of one of Joe Brown's of ,h, jay ;s g0 epitomised as to admit ol room «br
"crackers,"' with a musket in his hand, maUer_DOth original and selected—upon all topics
fhey won't find him tho easiest thing in
the world to live on.
The new Federal commander at Chatta-nooga
says ho is " sanguine of his ability
to crush tho rebellion." Tbatmay betaken
forGrunt-ed, with duo allowance for Yan-kee
voracity.
Wo presume Mr. Davis, in his determi
calculated to interest and instruct the general read-er.
Some of the best writers of the Stale contribute
to ths columns of the Patriot on questions pertaining
to political economy, juiisprudence, the science of
government as founded on the natural authority of
the people alone ; while the pen* of other contribu-tors
are devoted to subjects of a lighter nharacter.
We will scon commence the publication of
i ation to recover tho green lands of lenn- of „,s,Toiut:AL SKETCHES OF THE WAR IN
strikv; him
ana bo sure he knows
word to an ox
Grain sacks.—Urain
. =itj
60-y
backs, - bushels ca
A. WLLLARD,
Greensboro', N- C.
SATAN IN THE CIILCUES —A ^ orth V\ es-tern
Methodist Conference has paused i he
following among other resolutions : MB o
endorse as war measures, Emancipation
Confiscation, Conflagratioi
nation '."
did
two quarts ot meal, wot, ■»£ *>*f°^
chopped bay, throe times a day, and as
much hay M he will e* t; this is the high-
SJ Ued working MM ought to have, and
on'th?. this they will work every day.
. ■ †i ■
JV,„VN MISSION.—When the Methodists
c^:£.,on, 1810, at Kjssvil^
[,; the Hudson Bay Te.ntory, the Indians
re attracted from the North even irom
of six and eight hundred
tho wonderful news, and
Parti of the Bible have
we
the distance
miles, to hear
some settled mere.
bC
»a
at night.
essee, proposes "obtaining" a Grant from
tho United States Government.
As the " Food Question" is attracting
considerable attention in army circles, wo
suppose some ingenious fellow will suggest
the 'late feud between our Generals as a
means of subsistence. n
We presume the men who " live on air
are tho fellows who put on so many
French ones at the hotels. They have no
other visible means of support.
VIRGINIA, by one competent to the task, and who
hastoen through every campaign of the war in that
State. These sketches alone will be worth Ihe
subscription price of the Patriot for an entire year.
The Patriot has a large and constantly increasing
circulation, and is consequently an excellent adver-tising
medium. Trice ol the paper nvi DOLIABS
per annum. Specimen copies sent free on apphea-
Sea. Address' INGOLD & CLKNI.'F.MN
Greensborougn, N. v..
^ m trunTaU-d into their language (the
a"3-r«dtli«wordofGod By tno.r fires
LINCOLN'S FORTHCOMING MESSAGE.—It
is whispered among the knowing ones in
Washington that tho the forthcoming mes-sage
of Lincoln will exhibit a disposition,
on bis part, to ant independently oi the
radical e.iqu.s that has presumed to run ™*X!n^"i£**iuC** will be paid,
the Government machine and dictate tne ^^ 72-1^*
policy of tho administration. I
WASTED
AT TIE
Manassas Gap Rail Road Shops, near the Depot
Greensborough. N. C. :
KITCHEN GRF.A8E, LARD, TALLOW,
SPOILED BACON,
OLD BRASS,
OLD COPPER,
CAST STEEL,
RACON, PORK.
CORN, AND CORN MEAL,
whicl
oct22
the recommendations in the inessHge, will
show that Lincoln is not unaware of the
intrigues of tho leaders of certain factions,
nud does not intend to be involved or
committed by them.
N*otlce.—To the members of ("horiton Chapter,
No.TIl, you are hereby notified to attend at
the Hall, on the 3rd Friday in Dec. next, at
P m
suing year
76-3w
>r ihe purpose of electing officers for the en-
C. P. MENDENHALL, II P.