North Carolina Newspapers

VKSIKliX DEMOCRAT. CHARLOTTE Tuesday SUming, Jan'y 22, 1856. SECRET SOCIETIES IN THE MARY LAND LEGISLATURE. ffcafcBMsiag rmMmvui off-r-l in th JfaaM of lbgat s of Maryland, on the r'th instant : Itesolrcd, That so much of Ike Governor' M.-sngv as relates to w.-cr. t political societies, be n-ft-m-d to a tried commits- of five, with in- fr,,. ti..iwii.;ii(iuirenii.l report : Win tin rany and ,' what eret political societies are know n to exist ill tlii- Stat' WVthlf any polit'.eal si-ci'ty, m rt or oj-n, is known to "encourape or pursu- pauyoava' which t'-ud M the subw.-sion of the wll stb Ikhri ainl defnly -cherish' d principle of our govern ro-nt." Whether Hiiy and what society or portion of the people ot tliis Stan-, or any of the Initd Ktatei, have introduced "religious issues into the field of political agitation,'" and that th'J committee be- also instructed to ascertain, as far as it may be in their power, what is the character and import of the si-crefs which axe supposed to be held or maintained by such societies if any should be found to exist; and that the committee use its endeavors to obtain ii posw.'ble a statement or description of the princij les, objects and pur pose of such societies, aud i port the sami totbis House, with such measures as they may deesn necessary for restraining such societies from violating the letter and spirit of either the federal constitution or the constitution of this State, Rcsolrcd, That the committee be authorized re.-jM ctfully to request the Governor to commu nicate to them any information he may poKaraa, in regard to such WCBetjM alluded tt in mm message, tuid thy nature of the secrets they preserve. JUstilrul, That for topMBaWaf the inquiries submitted to them, the committee le i inpoWered to send for persons and papiM, ii they shall doeiu it net- ssary to their investigation. PARTIES CONTRASTS. TIio voting in the Hotuw f Represrnta tives, fr Speaker, discloM-s u marked und j-in-uhir condition of parties. which we may briefly remiirk on. It is known to the whole vuntiy that the Democratic party, lifter binding itself by the most ftriageat tests and n fu.-ing to compromise awuy any f it primMplem, took as its candidate for Speaker the gentleman who, booth than any line else, wus identified with the great meas ure of the but Congreee the Nebnuka Kniisas bill. It Uius not only determined to declare its approbation of, and adherence t, that" bill, but it went further, and doubly emphasised its eonuoitta to it by tuking as its standard-bearer the gailunt Democrat from Illinois, who piloted the bill through the House of Kepre.entuti ves. The Demo cratic jnrty is firmly cemented find alto gether harmonious. Win n we look from that party to the members of the Know Nothing order, we ure struck with an impressive contrust. Instead of one, there ure two Know Nothing par ties. Instead of one candidate, there are t ao candidates; instead of one creed and one platform, there ure two creeds und two plat forms. When we look, again, from the Know Nothing! to the Freesoil party, we behold another contrast. That party presents as complete and harmonized a jumble of con trarieties and antagonisms ns could well be imagined. It is mode up of men who were once Democrats, of men who were once Whigs, mid indeed, of men who have been every thing by turns. But harmonized by one common instinct into one firm brother hood, they declare their principles and sus tain their candidate. We hear sometimes of sound and unsound Democrats, of sound and unsound Whigs, of sound and unsound ! k'non.- V..ti Jo.-o , ..v - ! - ii'-ininr, i-i.i mu ii' a ii' u i n i the same distinction being taken in respect to Black Republicans. Abolitionism is their animating, vital principle. In brief the lllack Republican party is an uncou-t itutional anti-slaverv party. Rut they have one virtue, and that is, they hang j together. Of the few Whigs left as memo- ; blessing indeed, an institution indispensa rials of a onoe great and triumphant party, j to t,u grioalture the South at least, some act with one party, some with other j Iu tn free States, n are inclined to shun parties. The Know-Nothings are split and grienhum, the simplest but the rudest, divided into two or three separate parties ! and hold, some pro-shivery, some anti-slave ry opinions. They cannot agree. The only party that is thoroughly conser vative and constitutional that has a perfect platform in which all agree, and that votes to a man for one candidate is the Demo cratic party. Its position before the coun try is proud and prominent. W. Sentinel. DISTURBANCE AT BETHANY COL LEGE, VIRGINIA Mr. Philip Burns aud nine other students, who quitted Bethany College, near Wheel ing, Yu., in November, have published a statement of the reasons which induced them to take this step. The question of slavery had often been publicly debated by North ern nnd Southern students previous to Sun day, November 11. without causing ill feel ing on either side, but on that day, at the President's request, Mr. Philip Rums chose for the subject of a sermon, " The Great Principle of Liberty," and alluded to West India emancipation. The excitement be came intense, and a tremendous stamping and hissing, it is alleged, was made to silence him. Then about one-third of the audience rushed out. with loud cries and impreca tions. Stones were hurled against the house, aud it was proposed to conduct Mr. Burns to Buffalo creek, hard by, and baptize him in the name of the " peculiar institution." The mob, however, were frustrated in their purpose through the vigilanoe of Bums' friends. The next day about twenty North ern students held a meeting and resolved to I cave the College, unless those connected with the mob were publicly reprimanded or expelled. On the following day one of the Professors told them that if they did not re turn to their classes the Faculty had deter mined to expel them and publish their names in the lea. ling papers of the Union. Ten of the twenty students remained firm to the resolution they had passed, and failiug to obtain any redress, thev quitted ninth 1 College. THE SOUTHERN SYSTEM OP LABOR Of all the disgusting, mawkish things that meet u- occasionally in politics and politi cians, nothing is more nauseating than the apologetic, deprecatory tones of the palter ing and sinistrous class of defenders with which the Southern people have been afHiet ed. They are those who conceive that black slavery is an evil that it is wrong econom ically, politically and morally but that owing to imperious circumstances, it should be tolerated for a time. Unfortunately, Mr. Clay, who, with all his acknowledged statesmanship, rather skimmed over the surface of great questions than dived to tin bottom, wus misled into this weak and namby-pamby view of the subject ; and his de fence of the South was scarcely less dan gerous than Seward's open and formal at tacks. We are glad to see every day indications that the Southern people are determined to discountenance this whining tone and sup plicating cant in their behalf, by weak or treacherous advocates who take the Sooth before a Northern tribunal for trial, and open the pleading with a confession of guilt. We trust the political days of such are numbered, and that they will be pushed into the harmless obscurity which they merit. John C. Calhoun well knew the dangerous tendency of this species of left-handed vin dication, and it is mainly due to his philo sophic mind and masterly statesmanship thut black slavery at the South has been placed on the solid basis, moral, political und economical, which it now occupies. 15v the laws of mental affinity, his thought has attracted the best thought of the coun try, and of all parties, until philosophy, statesmanship, as well as enlightened phil anthropy are all compelh d to proclaim that the blacky slaver of the South is right in principle und expedient in policy. Upon this basis the question must bo kept, or yielded altogether. Northern und English Philanthropists and fanatics who are so eager to reform the South, act upon the assumption that the negro is a black white man, and iiunlicit to Jive in perfect social and p Ittical equality with the white or Caucasian races a fallacy that we may expect to be established when the leopard changes his spots, rind the sooty Ethiopian is washed white in the fountains of the Nile. Meantime the moral justifica tion of the South lies in facts against which fanatic iem and cant are both powerless. They are these, to wit, that the negro is in ferior to the white man by nature and by destiny ; that he never can be his equal un til the laws of Clod ure abrogated ; and that wherever und whenever the two come in juxtaposition, dominion on one side and ser vitude on the other, are the legitimate re lations between them. As a political institution, we find black slavery a blessing, in the fact that it pre vents the virtual enslavement of any ( lass of the whites, and obviates an evil which has been the fruitful source of nearly all the agrarian movements and sanguinary revolu tions which have rent and convulsed socie ty that of want and famine in the poor class. In free society, or where there is no sluve population, a contest is always wag ing between capituland labor between the rich and poor classes, the tendency of whioh is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, until extremity drive s the latter to satiate ut once their vengeance and their want by slaughter and rapine. Free socie ty, uo matter under what form of govern ment, has not been able to find a remedy for this evil, and its continually recurring catas trophe. The guant spectre of famine is ever haunting the nominally free society of Weatern Europe, and there is not one of its thrones that is able to stand before the mad cry for bread. But under the system of well regulated black slavery, there oan be no scarcity, no famine, and consequently no wild cry for bread, agrarian outbreaks, und carnage. In ,ul economical view, black slavery is a n,,,"t repulsive and h ast remunerated of all lanors, ana crowd into the professions, trades, arts, ice, at the expense of the pro ductive resources of the country. The ef fect is, a constant tendency to a decline in agriculture, the demoralization of the Inher ing classes, an increase in the price of food, scarcity, and possibly famine. The tendency to neglect agriculture would be much greater in southern and tropical countries, where the whites cannot eudurc field labor, and the blacks will not work without a master. The present condition of Jamaica and Hay ti are illustrations. Mex ico is fast verging to the same condition, and all serve to convince us that on the ces sation of slave lubor directed by intelligence, the most productive countries iti the world will begin to assume their wild fauna and flora, and to lapse iub savagery. Black slavery secures the South from such a doom, while it guaranties her against poverty ami faunae, and the social and political evils which they engender. It is only that which can yet restore Jamaica and Haytiand yet save Cuba from desolation ; and it is that also, and an accession of new white blood, which are necessary to regenerate Mexico, give her political stability, and do justice to her naturul resources. History, geo graphy, political economy, abound in evi dence to vindicate the black slavery to tin South. She wants no apologists she onv challenges inquiry. THE PAST AND PRESENT CONDI TION OP THE NEGRO. The New York Observer, in the course of an article on slaverv . says : When the an cestors of those negroes were torn front their homes in Africa, by the slavetrmb rs of Old England and Now England nnd placed under the influence of Christianity at the South, they were among the most de graded and miserable of the human species, slaves of cruel masters, the victims of blood v superstitions, believers in witchcraft and worshippers of the devil. And what now is the condition of their iescendnnts ? Several years ago more than :X),000 of them were members of Protestant evangelical churches in the slaveholding States! About 10,000 American negroes, trained chiefly at the South, transplanted to Liberia, now rule nearly 200,000 natives of Africa, aud through their schools and churches are spreading the light and love of the Gospel in that land of darkness and heathenism. It is true that more than nine-tenths of the negroes nt the South are still slaves; but is slavery under Christian masters iu Ameri ca, th same evil with slavery under heath en tyrants in Africa ? Degraded as these .-laves may still be, compared with the sons of the pilgrims in New England, or even with the muss of laborers in some of the en iightvncd countries in Europe, can 3,000, UUOor 1,000,000 negroes, bond or free, be found in ny part of the world, who can compare, for good condition, physical, in tellectual, and moral, with the 3,000,000 slaves at the South? Has Christianity, aid ed by all the wealth of British Christians, done as much during the last twenty years for the elevation of the 800,000 emancipated negroes in the West Indies, British philan thropists themselves being the judges of what it has effected there, as it has done during the same period for the elevation of our 3,000,000 American slaves ? WHO GEN. WALKER IS. William Walker, the filibuster of Nicara gua, was born in Nashville, Tenn., aud is now about thirty-three years old. His fath er is James Walker, Esq., a citizen of Nash ville, of Scottish birth, and very much res pected. His mother was a Miss Norvell, an estimable lady, from Kentucky. Walker, after quitting school in his native State, which he did with much credit and honor, commenced the study of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, where he gra duated. He then went to Europe, entered the medical schools of Paris as a student, received a diploma there, and after some time spent in travel, returned to this coun try, went to Nashville, and commenced the study and the practice of the law. Walker is thus both lawyer and physician. From Nashville he went to New Orleans, and was for some time editor of The Crescent. In June, 1850, he went to San Francisco, and became one of the editors of The Herald. While in this position an article appeared in The Herald animadverting upon the Ju diciary, to which exception was taken by Judge Ptirsons, of the District Court, who forthwith summoned him before his Court, aud inflicted on the editor a fine of $500. This Walker refused to pay and was ac cordingly imprisoned, but was subsequently discharged on a writ of habeas corpus, is sued from the Superior Court, which acton was sustained by the Legislature at the next session. The next enterprise in which Walker was engaged was the famous expe dition to Sonora, with the disastrous result of which our readers are as familiar as they aro with his more recent history. REV. RUPUS W. GRISWOLD. Ten or twelve years ago, RuftlS W. Gris wold, (now a Baptist minister,) the author, married a wife in South Carolina, nnd re sided at Charleston six or seven years after which he removed to Pennsylvania, and made an unsuccessful application for a divorce. He then sent her a paper for sig nature, acknowledging she had abandoned him without cause which she refused to sign; she was then residing in New Jersey, with t' eir daughter, of whom she had been appointed guardian, without any opposition on his part. This child he forcibly took from her, offering to restore the daughter, if the mother would sign the paper he had sent her so that he could marry again. Implored by letters from the daughter, and advised that a signature thus wrung from her would avail nothing, she reluctantly signed the falsehood to obtain the child. Mrs. G. then wrote to the woman her hus band was addressing, stating these circum stances but was surprised afterwards to to see a notice of her husband's marriage. Having received no notice of any divorce being granted, she consulted her counsel who examined the records, discovered that the papers in the case had been removed from the office of the prothonotary, and was informed by the judge that a decree of di vorce had been granted on the representa tion that she consented to it. The loss of the papers prevented an appeal to the Su preme Court, but her attorney, David Paul Brown, Esq., of Philadelphia, has taken a rule to show cause why the decree should not be annulled, on the ground of fraud. This is a strange case, and put the Rev. Mr. Griswohl in an unenviable position be fore the public. OFFICE BEGGING. About three years ago a young man presented himself to Mr. Corwin for a clerkship. Thrice he was re fused ; and still he made an effort. His perseverance and spirit of determination awakened a friendly interest in his welfare, and the Secretary advised him in the stron gest possible terms, to abandon his purpose and go to the West, and see if he could do no better outside the Department. "My young friend,' said he, "go to the North west ; buy 160 acres of Government land or if you have not the money to purchase, squat on it ; get you an axe aud a mattock ; put up a log cabin for a habitation, and raise a little corn and potatoes ; keep your con science ch ar, and live like a freeman; your own master, with no one to give you orders, und without dependence upon anybody. Do that, and you will become honored, respect ed, influential, and rich. But accept a clerkship here, aud you sink nt once uii in dependence; your energies become relax ed, and 3 0U are unfitted in a few years for any other and more independent position. I may give you a place to-day, and I can kick you out to-morrow ; and there's anoth er man over ut the White House who con kick me out. aud the people bye and bye kick him out. and so we go. But if you own an acre of land, it is your kingdom, and your cabin is your castle you are a sov ereign und vou will feel it iu evrr throb bing of your pulse, and every day of your life would assure me of your thanks for hav thus advised you." - OPINIONS OP AN ENGLISHMAN. At a public meeting of the Mardan Me chanics' Institution at Manchester, England, on the 14th December, Mr. Bright, Mem ber of Parliament, in the course of a speech, deprecating war with the United States, said : "Many of you have relatives or friends in America. That young nation has a popu lation about equal to ours in these islands. It has a great internal and external com merce. It has more tonnage in shipping than we have. It has more railroads than we have. It has institutions more free than we have that horrid slavery of the South excepted and which is no fruit of its insti tutions, but an unhappy legacy of the past. It has also a great manufacturing interest in different branches. That is the young giant whose shadow ever grows, and there is the true rival of this country. How do we stand or start in the race ? The United States Government, including all the Gov ernments of all the sovereign States, raises in tuxes probably from 12,000,000 to 15, 000,000 sterling iu the year. England this year will raise in taxes and loans, and will expend nearly 100,000,000. This popu lation must raise, and will spend probably 80,000,000, within tho year, more than that population will raise and spend, aud in America there is far less poverty and pau perism than in England. Can we run this race on these terms and against these odds? Can we hope to be as well off as Armrica, if the products of our industry are thus swept away by the tax-gatherer and in t'ne vain scheme of saving Europe from imagi nary dangers ? Can poverty be lessened among us, can education spread, can the brutality of so many of our population be uprooted can all or anything that good men look for, come to us while the fruits of our industry, the foundation of all social and moral good, are squandered in this man ner ? Pursue the phantom of military glory for ten years, and expend in that lime a sum equal to all the visible property of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and then com pare yourselves with the United States of America, and where will you be ? Pauper ism, crime and political anarchy, are the legacies wc are preparing for our children, and there is no escape for us unless we change our course, and resolve to disconnect our selves from the policy w hich tends inces santly to embroil us with tho nations of the continent of Europe." EXECUTION OP THREE MURDER ERS. We find in the Lafayette (Ind.) Qouriei, of Friday, an account of the execution of three murderers Kice, Driskill and Stock ing. The Courier says : At ten minutes past two o'clock, this P. M., Stocking, Pice, and Driskill were duly executed by the hands of the sheriff, Tim's Jefferson Chisom the first named for the murder of John Rose, and the two latter for the murder of Cephas Fahrenbaugh. At 12 o'clock they were asked if they Were retulj- ftr diuitei ? Itl-e iepUcU c.-, I am hungry." Driskill said that he want ed "a good old dinner, ns it was the last ; he didn't want to die hungry." He remark ed to Pice, "we'll get supper some where else, may be." The dinners were brought in and despatched with great heartiness. After dinner, each of them in turn washed and dressed himself for the final moment. They could not have made their toilet with more deliberation nnd coolness if they had been going to a frolic. 1 hriskill, when washing, remarked through the window, near which he was standing, to some one outside, that he was "getting a good ready." In putting on his shirt, Kice discovered that there was a button missing. Driskill told him to sew one on. Rice replied that he hadn't time. Driskill nonchalantly rejoined that there was "an hour yet. He complimented Kice with look ing "d d starchy." Kice, as he finished, observed, "vl!, gentlemen, I reckon there was never a wilinger soul to die than I am." Stocking said nothing, but conducted him self (as he did tliroughou.) with great dig nity and firmness. The sheriff then proceeded to adjust the fatal ropes. Kice requested that a stool which had been placed for his accommoda tion on the scaffold might be removed, and on his request not being immediately com plied with, he removed it himself. He then knelt down, inclined his head forward, re marking that he had "seen men hung," by which we understand that he regarded that as the proper position. Driskill, on obser ving it, said, "Abe, are you going to kneel" Rice answered "yes." Ho then turned to Stocking and said, "Stock, which way is the easiest way to die kneel or stand ! I want to die the easiest way." Stocking re plied that he should stand unless he thought there was danger in the rope breaking. The sheriff assured him there was no dan ger. He therefore stood up, but Driskill kneeled. The caps were then drawn over their faces, and at twenty-two and a half minutes after two o'clock the bolt was with drawn and the culprits were launched into eternity. Penalty for Cruel Treatment of a Slave. We h am from the Concordia (La.) Intelligencer, of the 28th ult., that Win. Bell, a planter of Tensas Parish, was tried at the late term of the District Court for that Parish for cruel treatment of one of his slaves, and convicted. The Intelligen cer says : The prosecution was predicated on the des cription he gave of the slave when adver tising him as a runaway. The authorities of the parish did not recognize the branding of a slave, as the proper mode of identify ing him as the property of the owner. Af ter a fair and impartial trial, Mr. Bell was found guilty, and the extreme penalty of the law was inflicted on him. He was fined two hundred dollars, and the jury declared that the slave should be sold away from him. i'W Ice on the ponds in the vicinity of Charlotte is about two feet thick. Sepulchre Forty-Eight Miles Loxg. The bones of six thousand Irishmen line the Railroad from Aspinwall to Panama. Set this down to the credit of "man's inhuman ity to man," to the "almighty dollar," to "Yankee enterprise" or what you will call it mercantile, a diabolical or an osteological fact it is undoubtedly true. But the road is built, the continent is spanned, and our onward march, our "manifest destiny," has made another demonstration. We may as well look at the entire pile of grim, ghastly facts all at once, as to pick out the glorifi cation sloue and sink the gory reality. The road is a fact, and the gulf that swallowed up the human life Is another. The sinews that toiled to build tho structure seemed to have been destined to as ignoble an end as FalstafPs ragged regiment, or the British army before Sebastopol food for powder. As a great undertaking, thore is no internal or external improvement of modern times that can be any way compared with it. Death by Chloroform. On the after noon of Saturday, the 5th instant, says tho Boston Herald, Miss Ida Morgan, of this cityT, visited the office of Dr. Emery, dentist. No. 17 Bromfield street, for the purpose of having a tooth extracted. Chloroform was administered, the usual quantity being giv en, and upon proceeding to the operation, the Doctor found the lady in a dying condi tion. Dr. Stedrnnn and another physician were called, and means employed to restore her to consciousness, but without success. She died in the dentist's office, without hav ing manifested any signs of returning ani mation. The deceased was a young woman, and apparently in good health and spirits when she entered the Doctor's office, but sho probably had some organic affection which caused so lamentable a result from the inhalation of the anaethetic nger.t. Dr. Jackson will test the quality of the chloro form used on the occasion. Dreadful Murder. Wo learn from the Georgia Citizen that a most atrocious mur der was committed in Twiggs County, on Monday the 5th inst., upon the persons of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor. Mr. Taylor was found dead in his bed, and his wife gasping in the agonies of death, each with a large wound in the head, inflicted with, the sharp side of an nxe. The perpetrator of this foul deed, is supposed to be a negro boy named Lewis, the property of the deceased. It is supposed that it was instigated by a suspicion that he was sold, A Lucky Escaik. "William Wells, who was several years since sentenced to death in the District of Columbia for murder, had his sentence commuted by President Fill more, to imprisonment for life. The case was brought up before, the United States Supreme Court last week on the ground that the President has no right to commute, and could only grant an unconditional par don. The Court on Friday decided for the prisoner, und he was set at liberty. A Cool Bkd. On Sunday forenoon, says the New York Courier, men were clearing off the sidewalk near Hoe's Foundry, when, after digging away a bank of nearly ten feet, much to their astonishment they came across a knight of the bottle, wfc ia, the evening previous, taken lodgings on the walk. His breath had made a chamber in the snow, and when discovered he was sleep ing with as much composure as if in a feather bed. But a slight touch with the shovel was sufficient to render him conscious of his whereabouts. Singular Case of Crime.. Leverton Thomas, a man of seventy-five vears of ao, was tried and convicted at Pittsburg recent ly upon the charge of forging s promissory notc for 8455. Thomas is a man of wealth, and possessed much influence in Washing ton county, Pa., where he resided. The Suffering at the Cape dc Verde Is lands. Dr. Barely, of the U. S. sloop-of-warDale, which has just arrived at Norfolk, from the western coast of Africa, confirms the statement that the inhabitants of Sun Antonie, Cape de Verde, numbering about .10,000, were actually in a state of starva tion. For want of other provisions, they were killing and eating all their jackasses, &c, and were really in a most deplorable condition. The officers of the Dale have been eye-witnesses of the intense suffering of these people. PROLIFIC The Louisville Journal of the 4th instant says : "A Mrs. Rhodes, of this city, on Thursday last, had four babies at a birth two boys and two girls. They are all very well indeed, and the mother is much better than could be expected. We have spoken of her as 'a Mrs. Rhodes,' but we beg her pardon she is the Mrs. Rhodes. We hope she is a good American, for if the Sag-Nicht women are breeding at such a rate, the condition of affairs is alarming," A Widow no Longer. East night Fan ny Fern, the caustic, fiery Fanny, was un ited in the bondage of wedlock, to James Parton, Esq. She has been lecturing the public for some time past ; we trust Mr. Parton will now receive the benefit of her disquisitions. The lucky bridegroom is the unfortunate sub-editor, who fingers in such a lacrymose manner in "Ruth Hall," and the generous heart of Fanny has, we presume, been "teched" with his misfortunes. We hope Fanny will not bo compelled to take up the lamentation of Widow Bedott, as follows : "Oh ! full forty dollars would I give If wc had continued apart." jew York Day Book. London the Greatest City. This is now the greatest city in the world and far surpasses all the great cities of antiquity. According to (Jibbon, the population of an cient Rome, in the height of its magnifi cence, was 1,200,000 ; Nineveh is estimat ed to have had 600,000 ; and Dr. Medhurst supposes that the population of Pekin is a bout 2,000,000, The population of London, according to recent statistics, amounts to 2,500.000414,722 having been added to it during the last ten years. The census shows that it contains 307,732 inhabited, and 16389 uninhabited houses. Repartee. In the House of Represen tativos, last week, Mr. Giddings, while de livering a speech, said that Mr. Richardson was like Balaam's ass he would not speak! " It is true," said Mr. Richardson, in reply, I am somewhat like Baalam ; when I am in the presence of the gentleman from Ohio, I let the ass speak ."' This, of course, oc casioned much laughter. Texas. We have dates from Galveston to the 29th ult. Tho Texas Debt Bill had been rejected in the Legislature by six ma jority. A motion to reconsider the vote was postponed to tho 15th of February. Christmas day was tho coldest ever known in Texas. Great damage was done to fruit trees by the ice. The First Agricultural Society. To Philadelphia, belongs the credit of hav ing formed the first American Agricultural Society. This, however, was only a city or county society, the minutes of which were printed in full about a year since. These minutes contain distinct evidence that tho earliest State Agricultural Society was that of South Carolina. The Philadel phia Record, of December 5th, 1785, also sets forth, that "a letter was received from Hon. William Drayton, chairman of the committee of tho South Carolina Society of Agriculture, enclosing a few copies of their address and rules, and soliciting a corres pondence with this society." The date of this letter was November 2d, 1785. The formation of the society took place in 1784, tho very year in which an American vessel having on board eight bales of Carolina cot ton, was seized by the Custom Officers of Liverpool, on the ground that so much cot ton could not be the produce of the United States. Unfortunate Occurrence, We learn that a few days ago, a Mr. Horn, and a Mr. Green of this county, were making preparation at the house of Green for a deer-drive, when Mrs. Green was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of Horn's gun. He had placed the muzzle of his guu against the house, for the purpose of tighten ing the cap on the tube, when it suddenly tired, Some three or four children were seriously wound ed by the same discharge, but we learn that they are recovering. Shelby Timcg, - HUNG. Noblett, who was lately convict ed of the murder of Davis, in McDowell county, N. C-, was hung at Morgunton, on the 14th ult. As is usual on such occasions, a large concourse of people assembled to witness the death agonies of the unfortunate man. Fatal Railroad ACCIDENT. A freight train on the Torre Haute and Alton (Illi nois) Railroad ran off the track, on the 10th instant, and five persons were killed, name ly : Mr. King, the engineer; W. Davis, fireman; John Morrison, of Dunkirk, and Messrs. Bates and Doune, of Decatur, Illi nois. Fatal Accident. A small son of C. J. Nelson, Esq., cf Goldsboro', while handling a loaded pistol on Tuesday last, was shot by an accidental discharge. The entire load entered his body and he died in an hour or two. Wilmington Journal. Sausages. We see it stated that two of the dromedaries on board of the United States store ship supply, where they had been for three months on a trial of their re sistance to confinement on ship-board, were sold at Constantinople for fifteen dol lars a piece. They had become so diseased with the itch that no other purchaser could be found for them but a Greek butcher, who procured them for the purpose of killing them to make sausages for the French sol diers. Early Love and Late Marriage. The Cincinnati Columbian relates the fol lowing : "A couple, each of whom was over sev enty years of age, were a night or two ago united in the bonds of wedlock, at one of our principal hotels. They had been lov ers in the spring time of life but circum stances parted them. Each married, raised a fumil', lost a mate, and then re-married ; and, finally, having lost the second mate, and met their first love, they concluded to 'travel down the hill together, and sleep to gether at its foot.' They were both frail, tottering and white-headed but the fire of love still burnt brightly in their hearts." Died with the Colu, A free n gro, with no master but himself, who neglected or did not kuow how to take proper care of himself, w:s found on Thursday morning, dead in his room at New Brooklyn, where he had retired the night before, hungry and cold aud without food and fire. He had been down all day among the abolitionists in Brooklyn, trying to get a job of shovelling snow, but as he had no shovel, and no one would lend him one, he could get no work nor money, and so h went home and died, just as all his race will, sooner or later, in this cold climate. Atcm York Day Book, Reasons for Wearing a Moustache. Wc have been able to draw up a table of the different reasons for wearing a mous tache. We have questioned not less than one thousand persons so adorned, and their answers have helped us to the following re ult: To avoid shaving, G9 ; to avoid catching cold, 32; to hide their teeth, 5 ; to take away from a prominent nose, 5 ; to avoid being taken as an Englishman abroad, 7 ; because they are in the army, 6 ; because they have been in the army, 221 ; because Prince Albert does it, 2 ; because it is ar tistic, 29; because you arc a singer, 3; be cause you travel a deal, 17; because you have lived long on the continent, 3 ; because the wife likes it, 8 ; because you have weak lungs, 5 ; because it acts as a respirator, 29 ; because it is healthy, 77 ; because the young ladies admire it, 471 ; because it is consid ed "the thing," 10; because he chooses, 1. It will be seen from the above, that not one person confesses to "vanity" being the motive. The majority of persons wear a moustache because they imagine in their conceit that it becomes them, but rarely you meet a person who has the courage to admit it. Punch. ETHn, Partington says that a gentle man laughed so heartily that sho feared be would burst his jocular vein. Ltiapped Hands andmLips As this b the very kind of wcather'that chops up, s&u. sage fashion, many of our readers' lip8 and hands, wo would (with all respect to the me dical fraternity, of course) suggest a very simple romedy to prevent or remove itu un pleasant effects. A little mutton suet rub bed on them just before going to bed will excel all the ,rlip salves " a quack doctor over thought of. Try it. The most intense suffering from poverty is not to be found in the ranks of mere des titution and rags, but where the heart s being wrung, and conscience stifle 1 in vaia efforts to sustain a- false position, and pro. vent a little longer the bubble from bursting. lUFlxi Sweden a man who1 is seen f.,. times drunk is not allowed to vote at elec tions. REH0B0TH FURNACE, SITUATED on the Plank Road, 25 milfr from Charlotte, and 8 miles from Lincohuott, ju Lincoln County, is now in full operatiou, aud w prepared to do All kinds of Casting. Onlers for Machinery or Hollow-Ware promptly attended to. Also, Pig Iron for 6ale at the Work. Our workmen are not inferior to any in tin State ; and the Furnace is superintended by oaa of the Firm who has had 25 years' experience in tin; business. Our address is "Cottage Home, Lincoln conn ty, N. C." SMITH, REINIIARDT A CO Jan. 8, 1856 4t CLARENDON IRON WORKS, Wilmington, W, C. Ji. U. TJrBOMtMLELEjr, Proprietor THE subscriber having purchased the en tire interest in tho 'Clarendon Iron Works,' solicits orders for 4 afflfflla 1e.im Engines of any po cr or style. Saw Mills of every variety. Mining Machinery nnd Pumps, Grist and Flour Mills, complete, Parker, Tnrbine and other Watcr-whccla, Rice. field Pumps and Engines, Leavitt's Corn and Cob Crusher, Rice Thrashers, Shing'" Maohiiioa, Shifting Hangers and Tullic, Cotton Gin? and Gearing, Iron Castings of all kinds and pitlern, Brass fl Locomotive and Tubular Boilers, Flue and plain Cylinder Boilers, Iron Smith work of all kind, Door Lock for Houses and Jails. THE ESTABLISHMENT Having been rc-organized for the express purpos ; of attending punctually to the execution of all orders, tlie public may rest satisfied that any work which may offer will be promptly delivered accor ding to promise, and of such workmuntiliip as cannot fail to give satisfaction. THE MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Being in charge of men of talents and ex perience, I have no hesitation in snying that the work hereafter turned out, shitll compare favorably in every reopect with that of the most celebrated in the State, and at prices which will make it to the interest of all in want to send me their ordern. REPAIR WORK Always done without delays and having a arge force tor that purpose, it will prove ad. antageous to any person needing such to give me the preference without regard to expettNe vof sending same from a distance. Orders will be addressed to "Clarendon Iron Works," Wilmington, N. C, A H. VANBOKKELEN. Oct. 23, '55-tf iMtioIa hot iib CHESTER, S. C. By J. R. NICHOLSON. MTHE subscriber respectfully iu forms his friends and the public generally, that his house, kriorn as lln; "Kail Road Hotel," opposite the Chester Depot, is s'ill open for the reception of regular and transient boarders and the travelling public ; und that lie is making every exertion to de serve and secure a continuanee of the kind and liberal patronage which has hitherlnfbre been extended to hi.n. He flatters himself that every needed arrangement has been made to promote the comfort of all who stop with him: hip rooms are airy and well-furnished, his ser vants arc attentive and obedient, and his table constantly supplied with the best of the season, so that hts friends will not want any attention necessary to make their sojourn pleasant an(f agreeable. His stables are furnished with good hostlers and an abundance of provender, and he is prepared at a moment's notice to supply his customers with private Conveyances of every sort, to any part of the surfoundinjr country. He desires to return his acknowledgments to the public for past favors, and solicits for the future an equally liberal chare of patron age. Aug 20,1854. 5-tf Wilmingrton, Charlotte, & Ruth erfordton Rail Road. f)u r n ii- ant to an order ot the Board of Di- r f f t n r a nf. the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford ton Rail Road Company, hooks are again open for subscriptions to the Capital Stock of said Road, at the Rock island Store, and the offices ol Wm. Johnston, C.J. Fox, ami S. W. Davis. All who feel interested in the honor and prosperity of the old Nrth State, are solicited to come forward and aid in this great work, the only real public enterprne that has ever sprung upon our people. CHARLES J. FOX, S. W. DAVIS, WM. JOHNSTON, JNO. A. YOUNG, JOHN WALKER, LEROY SPRINGS, B. H. DAVIDSON, Commissioi.cn. Oct, I8r,r. 23, 13-tf NEW BOOKS FOR SALE AT L0WRIE AND MISS STORE. THE Slave of tn Lamp, a Posthumou Novel.by William North Ingenue, or the fir' days of the Blood, b Alexander Duma'--" Translated from the original manuscript- Fashion and Fancies, by Mrs. Stephen. The Maroon, a legend of the Carribee. and other tales by W. Gilmore Slmms. The Castle Builders, by the author of 'Heart' eae," "The Heir of Radtlyffe," "Scenes anJ Chances," etc. The Old Inn. or the Travellers' Entertain ment, by Josiah Barnes, Sen. The above are all the very latest and mo' popular nwels of the day. . We constantly keep on hand a large and we'' selected stock of stationary of every kind, a''d are constantly receiving all the new boo that are being published, and books that we have not got, we can get on the shortet no tice. June 99 1855- ili A. BETHUNE, Mil fiWI No. 5, Spnngb' Row, 4 DOORS KAST OF THK CHARLOTTK B CHARLOTTE, N. V. Feb. 16. 1855. 30U