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HIE WXLMIjMGTOJM SUNDAY. JULY 21, 18b9 i "He declined it and cave his under Willis Gaylord Clark Which X0STH CAROUSA. Oailjr Tboahts, Tio-zrr ana EvraU In the State. Burlington New: Tha corner-stose taught their children when of Northern origin, and if fiexl fwith falsehoods: and assaults upm the noble people in the South, not to allow the children to be taught such 1 The Hon. Charle M.

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It is also on Hie at many of the Iteeding hotels and reading rooms. WILMINGTON, N. C. SUNDAY, July 21, 1SS9. POT-POURRI.

It is known to many parents and most teachers that the pictorial and other histories of the United States are with very few exceptions filled with misrepresentations as to the war between the States. Some of them are positively offensive. The more recent works have' not been so bnoxioms to criticism and so unfair So the South as those between 1870 and 18S0. Northern publishers have learned that if they would have their looks to be used in the South they Tnust not fill them with false state-aients and views as to our people. Tee best of those we have seen is by Xtfrvard Eggleston.

One of the so-failed histories is published by J. H. Bntler of Philadelphia, and is Torritten by John A. Stewart. Evidently he has relied upon newspaper accounts and not upon the reports commanders.

He believes im-jSicitly the most bare-faced misrepresentations by correspondents and others who did not aim fco tell the truth, but to glorifj Northern arms. His standingpoint strictly, persistently, blindly Northern. His sympaties are naturally on the side of his people and shows it. But a man cannot rito history who cannot "write the truth. He may write fable or ro mance but he will never be an historian even of a school book.

He 1 neither does justice nor avoids blun-j iers. His statistics are sadly at fault. He makes 11,000 Federals whip 20,000 Confederates at Pea Ridge. He gives Grant but 33,000 nien at ihiloh, but these whipped 40,000 Confederates. At Corinth 20,000 I Stderals whipped 40,000 Confeder-j ates.

The latter lost 0,000 in killed and woifhded while the invincible blue coats lost but 315. This passes for history iu Philadelphia. He 3avs that "the Confederate General was defeated" at South Mountain. He does not tell that less khan one Confederate Division held i at least 75.000 Federals in check i i I aearly or quite all day. That; was the "defeat" he tells of.

At Sharps- lurg he places the number of Con federates at 00,000 and 30,000, It is a matter certainty that General federals at of absolute Ifee fought ahat great battle with less than 35, COO Probably his force did sot exceed 30,000. McClelland army is known to have exceeded And, so on he. goes in his figures blundering at every turn. Our children must be "taught the truth, a Such statements, have no business in a work labelled history. We advise all parent and guardians tt examine the school histories MESSENGER reason that ho did not think he had the technical and scientific knowledge that the President ought to have.

His sene 'of duty impelled him to decline." i He evidently knows his own limitations! and qualifications better than his many earnest admirers do. He may be wrong and his eulogists right, i We certainly would not regret to know that of all he istjie best equipped for the Presidency of a college in which scientific fanning, technology or technical mechanics are to be taught, and if he is really so abundantly furnished, as many editors say he is, then let him reconsider and accept the position. I HOME FOLKS. The Anglo-American i Pretibyterian is the name of a well conducled jweekly published in thislcity and edited, by Rev. D.

J. Saunders, pastor jof the colored Presbyterian church. He is a man of education and of iharac ter. He discusses what the 3IessEN-gee had to say recently of the educa tion of the colored people in morals, in mind and in industrial He approves of much that was said and is evidently relieved, perhaps sur He says: "They show that the Messenger has not as yet fallen from grace a thing about which there has been no little apprehension of Dis caiding the digressions referred two and taking into consideration the es sential points of the I we wish to say, they meet our cordial approval." The best friend is not the man or paper that flatters and deceives or is blind to faults; but it is he who! in i the right spirit speaks plain words that meah well and that contain truths; The writer of this has as much respect for a colored man who has character and intelligence and proper views of social relations, as any man who may seek to flatter and to use "the colored man and Our religious contemporary consid-ers what was said about 'social equality and negro supremacy" as mere "rot." Very well. We shall be glad to know that the historic de-velopments of the next quarter of a century shall be of a kind to make absurd and needless what we ventured to write and print in columns.

The" editor of the Anglo- American Presbyterian says, and his race generally would be wiser a better for heeding his views "The ground taken is, th at the negro must be educated and that the education in order to serve its proper ends must be symmetrical i include a right development mind, the hand and the heart, must of the i or you may call it intellectual, industrial and moral; education, if you prefer. This is he great point made and is universally approved among us. Numbers of persons have spoken, approvingly of it to us. They endorse it with all the emphasis that can be measured by the difference between the aoove and the ignorant and prejudiced dictum of those sickly papers, to the effect that "when you educate a nigger you spile a Afield hand." When we find such eminent authority demanding such education for the masses then we cxn't help feeling Jthat a brighter day is dawning." IHs announced that some our or five hundred Indians are to be brought into North Carolina Are these desirable additions to our population? Has the State no voice in a matter like this? Are the people in the section most interested willing to have this importation of uncivilized and warlike Red Men? We ask for information. i EDITORIAL ENTREES.

Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Baltimore, has been doing an useful work in finding out how much the Southern States have to pay for the benefit of the Federal pensioners the men who fought against the South. In 1887 the South received and paid Think of it; the -Southern States that were robbed, stripped and pealed by the North, are paying every year 000,000. This is an enormous blded- i ing and helps much to grind the faces of the poor, and the hegroes among the others.

The Republicans have not only made this possible to thus rob the South, but they actually propose to increase the afmount. The prospect is that before the next Republican Congress ends the pension frauds will be much enlarged and the South may have to pay fully thirty or thirty-five million dollars. North Carolina is paying some $2, 000,000 to Yankee soldiers and! Southern traitors in pensions eack year. Gen. Johnson says that $27000,000 'stands for interest at 3 jer cent, on $900,000,000.

This is the indemnity for the civil war actually levied on the Southern States." of the contains articles of more interest and excellence than Putnanfi Jfonthly t- ln the "South, before the war, there Vere two excellent publications the monthly Southern Literary ZTeuenger published at Richmond, and the Southern Quarterly Review, published at Charleston, S. C. Edgar Poe wrete for the former and Hugh winton Legare wrote for the latter. There ar bo poems and literary articles from Southern pens in these "dulcet piping times of peace" that equal Poe's; and there is no magazine or review writer in the South now that lean compare with Legare in learning, in high ability and in power and eloquence of style. The same might be said of Gayarre.

Then there was De BouC Review, excellent in! its kind, pnblished in New Orleans. Now, jn spite ef the over the "new literature" there is not a monthly or quarterly publication in all the South of any marked literary excellence or of any. particular educating force in that direction. So it may; be that the "dry-out" of the present magazine literature may be worse than the want of "genius" and "true literary skill" on the part of the earlier if such lie a arraignment. Is the Atlantic Monthly published in Boston and the exponent of New England culture and literary ability of 18S9, really so good as it was before the war when Dr.

Holmes was charming the world with his and otlier New England men of genius, (then at their best) Longfellow, Emerson, J. T. Fields, Dr. Lowell, Whittier and a dozen others, men and women of gifts, were crowding its pages With their choicest offerings? But the theme is too large for our space. We admit that ther dialect novels and short stories since the war are of delightful flavor and are unique and charming, and the works in the South before the war were not equal to them.

But out of the field of fiction we see n6 superiority in Southern writers now over those of forty years ago. In poetry, criticism, able and elaborate articles on great subjects, history, biography and so on we see no advance in the South beyond thirty and forty years since. In the North what histories since the ey war equal those of Bancroft, Mot andPrescott? The solitary biography that is superior to those before the war is Schurz's "Henry Clay" and he isi a German. What criticism knd high; thinking in the North equals Emerson? (What poetry equals the best of New England including Bry ant, before 1860? But we must end ARVIS AND THE NEW COLLEGE. While this editor.

knows that he is not esteem with ex-Gov. Jarvis it is no reason; why he should ever faij to do full justice to that politician whojis so great a ayorite-with a yery considerable portion of the State Dress. Nor; will this editor do hjm injustice knowingly; or with malice prepense. He may not admire the ex-0overnor' political record in some respects as others do who may not see it as he does, but he does not fail to recognize his ability in certain lines. As a canvasser in wjiuh State politics enter solely he is equal to Vance or any one else we ever heard.

That is his strong point. He is a practical man of business, with sound judgment for the most part, as we see it. He has administrative ability of a superior order we suppose, and is even at times able to command a certain kind of rugged eloquence. He is not a man of mucli culture or of nruch literary ability if may judge him by an occasional I performance. He is a man of parts unquestionably and we the have no disposition world to underrate him.

We have said this because manv newspapers have been extremely warm in laudation of Ex-Gov. Jarvis and; his peculiar land unequalled qualifications for the high office of first President of the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College. We were perhaps stupid enough and ignorant enough not to see these uncommon gifts and accomplishments. We can only say we were perfectly honest when we thought he did well in declining because he was not qualified however able and well equipped in other are gratified to see that he had taken a similar view of which we had no information then. The Raleigh Suite Chronicle after asking "Shall ex-Governor arris be canonized," what ever that may mean, says this: i Elon College, at Miiloint will be laid by the Masonic ti4traity on the ISth InsU" Hookerton Clipper: Some of tte cot ton drowned by the recent fioods in Contentnca Creek is coming out and it is hoped will make something.

Ashe ville Journal: There is amove on foot by some of our enterprising citizens to organize a stock company here for the purpose ci estaUUhing a canning factory. Raleigh News-Observer: The State firemens' tournament which is Jo bo held here August 13th and" Is drawing near, and all the firemen la the State are preparing to attend. Shelby. Aurora: George Hoyle, in Catawba county, was drunk and fooling around a threshing machine. His arm was cut to pieces, Drs.

Anderson, Falls and Goode amputating his arm near the shoulder, Fayette ville Observed: Lightning struck and killed Judge tMcRae's fine family horse during the storm Sunday evening last. Two or three of the Judge's children ware also badly stunned by the shock, but soon recovered their consciousness. Goldsboro Mercury: The sweet potato crop is fine, while a larger number of acres have been devoted to this crop than for many years. The cotton crop, in Wayne, is not damaged by the rain. It is now growing finely while the upland corn, on stiff soil, is reported better than for manv vears.

Wilson Advance: The future of Wilson is brighter than it has been in years, we believe. Hon. F. M. Simmons made a speech at New Bern a few nights since, where the people were assembled to- the question of establishing a cotton factory.

Raleigh Visitor: Just as the excursionists were getting ready to return to this city st night from Henderson, two colored women, Willie Haywood and Cora Edwards, both of this city, became involved in a diiSculty, and Willie Haywood drew a knife and cut Cora Edwards on the head aud arm. Davidson Dispatch Bakter McKary, one of our colored sportsmen, came into the Dispatch onlee yesterday with a hawk that was a bawk sure enough. The bird looked savage enough to tackle the toughest old rooster in town, and hp was big enough for the business too. He measured fo jr feet and six inches from tip to tip of his wings. Charlotte News: A party who is just in from Rtfleigh, says that there are some mutterings of a row over the sectarian question in regard to the election of the faculty of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, After the eleclion some one discovered that three of the professors are Presbyterians and Thereupon the cryof sectarianism was raisear Laurinburg Exchange: The lightning struck simultaneously: in two places in Capt.

M. Thomas'' field near his residence last Fridav eveninc. killing about an acre of cotton ahd knocking bis daughter, Misj Bettie, down, who was only temporarily ejected. Expressive of their universal esteem for him, the of the railroad shops here have their "Tribute of Respect" to memory of Col. L.

C. Jones published in this-issue." WTinston Daily: The AshoviUo Young Men '8 Christian Associiition hii found ten $100 men to guarantee a salary of a general secretary and negotiations are pending for nice rooms. That gallant North Carolinian a.d gentleman of sterling worth, Major C. M. Stedman, is in our city.

We have had it hinted to us that" his minion here meant much good for Winston, should he succeed in accomplishing his purpose. Wadesboro Messenger: A telegram received here a few days ago brought the sad information that Miss Katie, youngest daughter of Judge R. T. Bennett, was quite sick at Sewanee, Tenn. Mrs.

Bennett left at once for her bedside, and we are glad to learn that she is much better. The new Baptist church is now about completed, except the furniture. It will be ready for use within two or three weeks. No town in the State the size of Wadesboro, can boast of so handsome a church building as our new Baptist church. Henderson Gold Leaf: Mr.

J. R. Stainback, a well-known citizen dit-d at his home in the lower end of the county last Thursday, aged about So years. The wheat, crop has been saved in good condition notwithstanding the late continuous rains. New- reached Henderson Monday of the cc cidental drowning in James river, near Richmond, of Mr.

Samuel White, oldest son of Captain J. B. White of this place, Sunday night. A telegram was received here last evening conveying the Fed news that Mr. Capers Harrisa, of Henderson, was drowned there about 6 o'clock yesterday" afternoon.

He was visiUng at that place and had been away from home but a few days. Deceased wa3 a son of the late Col. Har-vill Harris, of Henderson, and the oldest child of his widow, Mrs. Joe Harris who now lives here. Charlotte News: A telegram received in the city this morning announces the safe arrival across the water of Dr.

A. W. Miller pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Charlotte. Mr. A.

Burwell returned to the city this morning from Raleigh, where he attended the funeral of the late Mr. B. It. Crow. The funeral services were conducted from the First Presbyterian church by Rev.

Dr. Watkins, and were largely attended. Ed. Potts, colored, a son of Newell Potts, was drowned in a pool in Briar Creek, on the farm of Mr. I.

N. Alexander, Thursday. A crowd of five boys were bathing In the pool, when it was proposed to swim across. Four went across safely, but Ed's strength gave out when in the middle of the pool, and he sank in 12 feet of The body was recovered by a son of Mr. Alexander.

The many friends of Rev. Payne, pastorjof the Presbyterian church at Concord, will be pained to learn of yet another affliction which has been visited upon him. His little daughter, Virginia Macklin, died at 3 o'clock Friday morning, after being sick- fox. nearly two months. i i boro is visiting Mrs.

Hoirn. city, is visiting friend Major P. F. Daffy, of ti the Mr, has gone to visit his family. Mr.

Charles Simpson an of Meridian, are vji H. 3IcL. Green. D. Mc I).

Grady and Fayettevillc, are visiting th, II. McL. Green, in Mr. Juhn Moser, Ooveni; chitect, of Washington. I), the city and is stopping Orton.

ft 4 Captain James G. Ktna of Duplin count and St our townsman. Mr. W. s.

Vas in the, city yesterday. Mrs. WA. Bryan is vii? tives in friends here will be rloa that her health has much i it The friends of Miss Minr of this cit gladly welcome v- jr. -iuru irom 4ew iorK C1IV, nas uecn making a -visit i time.

Mr. W. A. IVillson, Jr homo 3'esterday from an visit to St. Louis, Kansas i other Western cities and having enjoyed himself im The many friends of tin-M.

Kennedy, pastor of tin Bethel, will be glad to kno has returned to the city and his duties. He is much ini health. Arrivals at Tha ()itu; Duncan, "Raleigh: A. Davi. Ievy, A.

II. Heller. Bahim. Moser, J. T.

Boston; N. T. Alston, Phi! P. B. Wilkc-s, W.

fi. JesHup N. Jones, C. E. lrvin New A.

Parker, 't and family, BcunettM-ill: Virginia; 11 L. Phifer, T. (irirdner, J. tL (1 North Carolina; JuUu- Cray, boro; J. E.

Kemp, Louisvilk-; C. EI3, Savuimuh. Vv 11 v. jst. 1 ARE YOU MADE mim digestion, Cc mtipation, Dizzii of Appetite, Yellow Skin? Vitahzer is a positiro cure.

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A vacant lot not feet front by 75 deep, tietween and Ann and Seventh aud Front. cash price and location. Address (j sender. WANTED. Ily a yoansr man of acter.

Intelligence, with orrje In the mercantile buslnens. Work kind, in any Southern or South wt town. Address Warsaw, C. TTTAXTED. We vlsh to ereT? teacher for Gnud High School is non-wctarlan.

Refer nre School to opn aboijt 1 tt HeptemN-: Trustees Callud II igti School, lil i Jy 18 6t i'T 1 Zc. (v r''T FOR SALE. That fine fat wSIir. yacht Ripple," has i 1 and racing sails. 27 vi Oil SALE L'eht i.ha u.t oruer.

in lAiUlS J. THE SEA SH0RZ. Wilmington Seacoast Railrc AND AFTER MONDAY. Jl tnvin.s on the Wllmlngtoo. S-sti-' will leave as follow: t.

Leave Leave Leave 6 00 a. aria, 8 JUp. tn h.Wp. 6.25 p. eg 8.33 p.

Arrive. Arme. Arrite Airiv Arrive. Arrtre 1 LEAVE. ft Leave 9 CRa.

Arrive 3.10 p. Arrive Leaver. 6. 16 p. Arrive The 7.25 p.

zn. I Train will -supper train. Round trip ticket at 50 cents for thi train to pmt the aame eight. JySI tl Gecri flarolina Beacli OTEAMERS SYLVAN GROVE AN r'L5' PORT leave daily. fXji Prt: -(( j.

For Carolina Biruh at 9J ar, tJftTc m. ana p. m. Ttmia retqrti mod 8 p.m. For fcoathport, leave at 9: Returnlnz, leave South port p.

m. TickeU by boaU leavttsg at p. b- good to return on aame day oA-S, ef TrAir from ibt rztmncel or 1 1 1 c4- -r-f produce dangerooa current, tU rieceel ran afelr en wit thn bathing by almply obserrljij iLV p8 praaecce ana common tense. jt New tUl-water bathicif ocean water tor ladies and ehiidX. Kl7JxJl PVle.

attendant. t'rtS UlneU in atnndace. lsyJ 4. "Al! JT. General stuff.

Considering the number of books written in English concerning the ancients especially, the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, a very large proportion of1 the; reading public know but little about them but little; "if really anything, concerning their civilization, numbers, customs, manners, inventions and scientific attainments. For instance, the state-mentmade by the eminent Professor Louis Agassiz, that.in some respects the ancients wereinore conversant with natural hiatory than tht moderns, must s'uf prise, nearly "every one. He says: "In some way the study of natural history' has lost rather than gained in moaefnTcivilization. You would be surprised to learn how well informed the Greeks were, for instance, about the structure of animals. Aristotle knew more of certain kinds of animals and their general rela tions than is known noW.

For in- stancehe never confounded sharks and skateVwith ordinay fishes, while all modern naturalists would have put them all in one and I the same class. Strange to sayLhave studied the selacians on the South American coast, by the light of Aristotle's researches upon them in the Medit-eranean Sea, more than 2,000 years ago. I can fairly add that the knowledge of Aristotle on 'these topics is far ahead of the current information recorded in modern works of natural history, that his statements can only be understood by one who. has in3de a special study of these animals. The community.

evidently shared his knowledge for he refers to text-books of natural history which must, from the details he gives about them, have been superior to those we have now.1 You may seek in vain in the anatomical atlases of Wagner or Carus for information about the structure of the reproductive apparatus off. selacians to which Aristotle alludes as contained in the. text-books of anatomists, and belonging to the current knowledge of the time." We read recently, a short editorial in the Memphis Appeal that interested us. It was headed "Literary Dry Rot." The" gist of it was that the magazines of the-present day aie not equal to those of forty years ago. It said this: "The magazine reader who the past year, had the patience to puruse the output of the short-story writers who are admitted to the.

pages of the leading literary periodicals of the country, must admit that there is ample evidence of dry-rot in American fiction. Only in rare instances is there the faintest gleam of originality or the slightest manifestation of the. dramatic faculty. Stu; pidity, glaring and wearisome, is the almost constant characteristic. Some of the short stories in the most pretentious magazines are so puerile as to excite wonder that their editors would admit tnem, and justify fully the criticism passed upon current fiction by Mr.

Trescott, of South Carolina, in his recent address to the alumni at the Charleston College, printed in The Appeal of last Sunday. The magazines of forty years ago, both American and English, contained a great deal better work than the average of that which is now thrown out for the entertainment of the man who has a leisure This is evidently the opinion of a man of intelligence and an editor of no mean abilities. Wej did not see Mr. Trescott's address, but he is as well qualified as any living South Carolinian to pronounce judgment upon the literary productions of an era or a country. In view of the opinions of the "Young Americas" of letters Mr.

Page, for instance-that their literature is a great way ahead of anything the South had prior to the war, the opinion of Mr. Trescott and the Appeal a leading Southern daily is a little startling. We have been thinking over the assertion. The magazines of our time are far better printed, on better paper, are much larger, are; superb ly illustrated for the most part and far beyond any thing known thirty years or more ago, aiid much more widely read, and pay much' more liberally for contributions. But is Harper equal to the very best of the illustrated magazines and possibly the best any better now in its literature than prior to 1860 or earlier We very much doubt it.

Is the North American Review ahead as to style and ability of the old Whig Review orlhe Democratic Review ferj doubtful again. Is it equal to itself when Edward Everett and Dr. Chan-ning and MrPrescott and other able New England men filled its pages Who writes for it now with the literary finish and 1 noble eloquence that characterized those accomplished and able- men? Which of the monthlies is really more enjoyable than the old Knickerbocker was.