tliment to the Queen, by wearing his uni
form, as he would upon occasion -on u
tj," a boose. Mr- Dallas must have euter
taiaed a 4uWr opinion, or be never wuld
lave permitted a friend to attempt en
trance upou such a public occasion- He
luiew that in Europe, all rrts of uniforms,
ven of volunteer corps, are paraded by
English gentlemen, under an opinion thy
Hre valid opoa scseh oecasians. Swords
and spare are authorised.
Our English firfc-ods, as well as others on
the Contsnwit, often laut and tliiuk it
strange that Americans dbuW desire to be
prencntod at Court, booeua?th people there.
tre not allowed to -enter the MMM of the
Sovereign, as ax; ail are to visit the Presi
dent, Gwwwsrs and other dignitaries of
this groat awoi. Every Americ an who
goes to Washington, calculates to tliuke
bauds wb the Preswretit. Every one Jres
mm in Am c he lias but would look very
trngt tt awa keeper, if there should
he owe a-bra, who would criticise his hat,
cravat, W5s, or trowscr.-, before be was
tallowed to enter "The White House." This
frcedrwjw from restraint give ft uuht, easy
rnnfnter tu our people, which surprise Ra
ropns, who expect us to be dazzled bj
fce eyhnJui saf u Court, whioh only reminds
us of the exhibitions of u circus. We ven
ture to sny, our decent negro slaves, would
carry more quiet und cheerful gentleness
and better manners Into a Court Circle,
than ball the gentlemen admitted in G resit
Britain, been use they are accitstogH d tu be
among their master's best Company, and
acquire his ways and address.
Itcsides we are not a very "scary geu
eratiou" and t;iki things " uncommon
cool," We are of opinion, w hen an Amer
ican presents himself fur adini-sion to a
foreign Court, he should conform to thtir
regulations. If he rill not carry a sword,
a whito choker, or a velvet hat, under his
arm if such be required let him stuy at
home.
But, at tho British Court, such special
requirements should he printed in general
circulars, that our Ministers and people
may understand them; for there is such a
variety of barbarous costume admissible,
we ought to know the extent or limit of the
prohibitions.
Wc liavc red in English history, there
was a time, when Britons painted their nak
ad legs, like other savages when Peers
end their wives rode to Lojidou upou the
same horse when laws were made to ob
lige tho "natives" to wear browsers; which
some of our forefathers carricd.over their
shoulders on pitchfork or a sjjillalah, to
"save tho law.'' Tho record of J'riti.-h
"manners" js a very curious one, for study.
It is uot a thousand years since laws were
required, to prevent British parent from
selling their owu children. like tho Circas
sians and Georgians of the present day
before tho figures of Arithmetic were car
ried Into Europe from Arabia, or they had
any knowledge of musical notes. Seven
hundred years ago they began to use glass
windows in private houses, but chimneys
were not known; while tho huts in large
cities were thatched with straw, as they
are in Africa, now; splinters of pinewood
acted as candles; knives and forks were
luxuries, and they had no gold coinage.
Four hundred years ago, they possessed
neither bibles, prayer books, maps, nor
charts. Three hundred years sinco pins
began to be employed to hold up the Eng
lish women's clothes. Thoy had sewers
of wood or metal, such as butehers now
use to tack up flaps of beef. A coach
for the first timo was then driven in Lou
don. About two hundred years ago they
first established posts from England to Ire
land, learned the use of tea, decimal frac
tions, and bayonets to their muskets.
Let the people of Great Britain, who ridi
cule our "manners," ascertain what has
been done for the benefit of social existence
within tho last hundred and fifty years,
by their Atlantic descendants, intermin
gled with those of every other nation
in Europe; and overlook, if they can, the
rapid advance mado in arts, science, let
ter., and comforts, by their wild relations
on this side of tho water, who have other
matters to think of thun dress or parade,
although we venture to say there is not a
better dressed nation in Europe! Within
that time we have civilized whole nations
of wild n 'groes, sold to us from British
ships and by British owners, to supplv to
bacco, rice, cotton, and sugar to our pro
genitors, who had neither. We bam given
an impulse to their trade and manufactures,
to their commerce and knowledge, by our
ingenuity, industry, and enterprise, more
rapidly advanced in every thing valuable
for life, than they had doue by themselves,
for a thousand years before.
English etiquette in in many respects an
tiquated and absurd ; therefore scarcely de
finable to ur intelligence. It is kept up
from a fear of change, by certain old-school
gentlemen, who rule in such matters, "by
ancient eoAom."
We were pleased to observe that the Bles
ter of ceremonies performed his strict du
ties, in gcutlemauly style, and that the am
iable lady, the Professor desired to see,
promptly and kindly ordered he should be
admitted, "in any costume."
We consider it ridiculous to stick a sword
by the side of a professional scholar, who
never carried one or to place under his arm
a description of bead peice he never wore ;
but such is the rule of the British Court,
and such must be done by those who desire
to be "presented."
When an English Embassador refused
to perform the customary prostrations be
fore the picture of the Emperor of China, al
though he offered to bow reverently three
times, as he was required to do before his
own King, he was laughed at in Europe,
because he thus failed in a special mission.
The formal, quaint dtesa, the bowing in,
and backing out, of the presence of British
majesty, partake of the same absurdity as
the ceromonials of "The Son of Heaven,"
at Pekin. They are not serious matters,
to us, in either .case.; and we may laugh at
both, with equal indifference. But, when
we wish admittance to either, we should
oontrolourselvea, at any rate, till we got in j
and pass out, ag.nu. a neu,
both, a very "fair game."
We venture to believe there are better
manners, kinder feelings certainly more
intelligible language, in any of the Interior
districts of the C States, than can be found
.. nrncnt i mp nmun? similar eiaasew ,
in England, Scotland, or Wales.
We trust our relations over tho water
will not be over strict with us. at Court,
when they aru so very lax in important
matters, every where else.
A TRAVELLER
August I, IrtoO.
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IMPRESSIONS OP A TRAVELLER.
TPIP OH TMK N. '. HAll.-UO.Vl.
We make the following interesting ex-
tracts from a h tier in the Jf ,,rk Journal
of Commerce of July 1U, written atC'ulum
l)ia. S. C. over the signature of "The Wan
derer." and dated June i,8, 1856;
"My proposition now Js, to lend you from
Weldou, over another route through North
Carolina, to Columbia ; and I invite you
and your render-, to accompany me with
observant eyes and willing minds ; and the
distinct understanding that we do not at
tempt to prejudice one interest for the ben
efit of another. Ourohji ct shall be to relate
the truth, as ir ecuurs to us.
While sitting 'be omnibus wbioh con
veys "through passengers" from the rail
road to the station at Washington, und re
flecting in regretful iilence Upon the long
separation yet to occur between my sell
and my better self, I was addressed in quite
an ingenuous and intelligent strain, by a
stranger; und. upon mutual identification
with North Carolina, we became compan
ions. My companion was bound for his
residence lit Hillshoro, some twelve miles
North of the Htute University of North
Carolina.
After sleeping soundly in the cars from
Aquia Creek, we breakfasted at Peters
burg; came ovei the poverty-like soil of
Virginia in that section of the Stated until
we reached the rich lands of the Roanoke,
in North Carolina, extending to Weldon.
And here, at Weldon, commences our new
route of travel.
At two o'clock P. M., ufter a fine dinner
at Moody's new nnd cleanly eating house,
we took tlc cars of the Weldon and Baleigh
Hailroud; and after passing through a good
Oakland farming country, where tar, pitch
and turpentine, though extremely valuable
to the world, are not known, wo reached
the beautiful embowered little city ot Ilal
eigh, the North Carolina seat of govern
ment, where the largo granite Htate house,
with its collonade fronts, and almost every
private residence is overshadowed by groves
of tall oaks in full summer green. The
granite of which the fine capitol is built,
was taken from a quarry about two miles
from the town ; and the capitol stands in a
square of 180 to 200 yards in diameter, and
surrounded by an iron fence. The ouks of
the square are tall und spreading.
While speaking of the capitol of Raleigh,
it may be as well to state, for the informa
tion of those who do not know the fact, and
for the honor of North Carolina, that she
was the first State of the American Union
which had sculptured und paid for a splen
did Italian marble statue of Washington.
It was the work of the great culptor Can
ova, and cost some twenty-five thousand
dollars. It was seuted on an Italian mar
ble pedestal, clud in the Roman toga,
and holding a tablet and scroll in the left
hand, and a pen in the other. The marble
of which the whole work was composed was
white as snow. It was destroyed in the
conflagration of the old Capitol, about twen
five years ago. Yon may know all this,
but your readers do not ; and henco this
historical synopsis.
After a visit to some business men at
Ral.-igh, a good supper at Col. Yarborough's
hotel, and a treat with piano music und
singing at the house of a friend, I slept
soundly at No. 41. Yarborough's, on a fine
bed ; aud left the next morning at half past
nine, on the North Carolina Central Rail
Road, for Charlotte, accompanied by mv
young friend, who left the cars at Hillsbo
rough ; after which, Judge B. of the Supe
rior Court, who entered the cars at Hills
borough (strictly a burrow among hills) be
came my companion und instructor, as far
as Charlotte.
Baleigh contains an Asylum for the
Deaf anu Dumb; and an Asylum for Lun
atics, about 700 feet long, has recently been
completed on one of the oak clad hills near
the border of the town, aud is occupied by
a number of inmates. It presents quite an
imposing appearance viewed from the town.
I believe it is a Stato institution.
The country after leaving Raleigh, be
comes more and more interesting; and the
eyes of the travellers are gratified by tho
alternation farms, well cultivated; tall oak
woods, interspersed with luxurious under
growth ; fields of grain, ripe for the sickle,
or covered by green corn and extensive
open oak woods; handsome residences sit
uated in large groves of tall oaks; small
streams and rivers, and hill and dale with
out termination ; the soil being red and
brown, like that of most Southern hill coun
tries, even to Texas inclusive.
Much of tho scenery near the Yadkin riv-
er reminds me of the country from Plain-
field in New Jersey to the Delaware, bor- i
dering the New Jersey Central Railroad ;
but Jersey has, nowhere, such elegant groves
ad woods of tall, large, spreading oaks, as
are to be seen bordering the North Caroli-
na Railroad; and there is one fact connects
ed with this road, whieh ought to recom-
mend it Aye, three fcts. 1st. It has no j
trussel work to give way, to let the ears faJJ
through or burn up, d. Tik bridges a.
cross the rivers are strong, und rest upo j
stone pillars. And 3d. It passes through ,
a handsome, hilly and healthy eouutry. i
The first river on the route is the litjle J
Eno, so called by the Indians, at Hillsbo
rough; 2d, the Haw, an abbreviation of the
aboriginal Saxapahaw ; nd not a corrup
tion, as Tar is of Tan river, or River of
Health, in the original; and the 3d, the
Yadkin, The Eno is about 90 yards wide;
the Haw 100, and the Yadkin some 200.
The principal town between Balcigh and
Charlotte, are H "dishorn' where large num
bers of young men have been prepared for
college; Green sborough, where large num
bers of females have been highly educated
in one nf the best female colleges in this or
and Salisbury, a rich
y J '
, . t - I A. I li u ,t I o I (LltiJIil
two nights and ouc day, and found it con
tain many handsome two story white resi
dences, situated in groves of oaks, many of
which oaks) I judged to be at lust sixty
feet in diameter, from poiut to poijit of limbs.
Mr. Young, proprietor of the Mansion
House, ut Charlotte, iu which I hud a fine
room, called my attention to a lump of gold
ore weighing 38 ounces, valued at 90 per
cent, pure gold, which, the owner stated,
was picked up by one of his hands, on his
plantation, between Raleigh and Weldon.
At seventeen dollars an ounce for pure gold
this lump is worth $584 40. He stated also
that ho had receut.y sold a fine diamond
from the same premises, for $.'ii5. A gen
tleman of Charlotte, who has a fine collec
tion of North Carolina minerals, showed me
a curious specimen of sheet stone, about
one-third of an inch thick, which bends to
the extent of several degrees back and forth
whieh I had not seen before, though it has
been written of, He also showed roe en
ormous specimens of amethy st ; some opal
gurnet, diamond, most beautiful red oxide
of lead, &.c, all found in that region of
North Carolina, with carbuncles and other
precious stones.
The belt of country, some GO miles wide,
between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers,
is said to be one of the garden regions of j Democrats have ever charged was, that
the earth, as a farming district, iudepend- m. Fillmore regarded the Fugitive Slave
ently of its rich minerals. Let travellers pass J fejjl ("certain clauses of the Bill," if you
over the Weldon and Raleigh, and the N. please) unconstitutional, and that he would
C. Central, on tbejr way to the South, via j not sign it until the "written opinion" of
Charlotte, and they will discover what few ! j,s Cabinet in favor of its constitutionality
strangers know, that the piney lowland near j wasobtained; and this is fully substantiat
the sea-board does not constitute the State ed by Mr. Crittenden,
of North Carolina any more than "iNoo- But, the truth is. Mr. Fillmore, himself,
wcemond" county and its sisters in poverty- jD Albany speech, acknowledges that
stricken, Huckleberry dons, constitute Vir- l,e had "long cherished prejudices" to over
gun.
From what I have said, it will be seen
that from Weldon, to Wilnibigtou, N. C,
the distance is 101 miles. It is, then,
about one mile to the W. and Manchester
Railroad, which is 171 miles to Kingsville,
S. C while from Kingsville to Columbia
is about 20 miles ; making in all, 3o3 miles
from Weldon, N. C to Colombia S. C.
By the upper route, from Weldon to Raleigh
is 97 miles, Raleigh to Charlotte 174, and
Charlotte to Columbia 110 miles; in all,
381 miles by this route from Weldon to Col
umbia, or 28 miles farther, and at a cost of
about $24 more for railroad fure. From
Columbia to Charleston, or to Augusta, Ga.,
the fare is $5, formerly 84."
S""
INTERESTING TO" RAILROAD TRA
VELLERS. The following curious question of law,
which has been under consideration by one
of the New York courts for some time, and
which presents some features of interest to
travellers by railroads, has already been
briefly mentioned :
The E ie railroad has been in the habit
of charging an additional price for all tick
ets not purchased at the ticket office. Sev
eral persons, ignorant of the rule, tendered
their pay to the conductor of the cur as he
passed along, and found themselves com
pelled to paj' this usurious interest. In
June, a Mr. Austin took his place in one of
tho cars of the company without purchas
ing his ticket. The distance of his trip
was three miles the price ten cents.
When the conductor came to him he offer
ed the ten cents, but was asked for an ex
tra dime. Finding that this mode of tra
velling would become expensive, he refused
to pay, and was shown the door. He bro't
an action to recover damages ; judgment
was rendered in his favor for twenty-five
dollars and costs, the court deciding that the
statutes did not authorise the company to
demand more than threo cents per mile,
and that all further charge was illegal, and
consequently that they had no right to ask
the sum in question.
ACQUITTED.
The young man Jarboe was tried last
week in the Criminal Court of Washington,
for murder, in the shooting of N alley, the
seducer of his sister. The jury, in course
of fifteen minutes ufter the case was sub
mitted, rendered a verdict of acquittal.
On this announcement the crowd expressed
their satisfaction by excessive applause,
and eagerly pressed forward to congratu
late the avenger of a sister's wrongs. The
result has produced a general rejoicing in
the community. Jarboe, in company with
his sister, met Nalley in the street, and
appealed to him to marry his sister and save
her from disgrace. Nalley refused a com
pliance, when Jarboe drew i pistol and
killed him.
Unfortunate Affair. A correspon
dent of the Peoria, (111.) Republican writes
to that paper us follows : " Mary Ann
Moody, aged 19 years, daughter of J. Moo
dy of Roschcld, Peoria county, was acci
dentally shot ou Thursday, the 10th inst.
A young man living with Mr. M., wus play-
ing with a double barrel pistol, one of which
was loaded. The voung man was not aware of
this fact, as there was no cap ou either "Our efforts to prevent the great Ameri
tube. He put a cap on one of the tubes, j cnn party from being sectionalized or abo
und with the desigu to have a little sport, j htionized, have been successful," saysCom
poiuted it at Mary Ann. who was standing i mdore S. Now, this is news to everybody,
a few feet from him, savintr he was vniiur to t m tne f a thousand facts showing the
shoot. Ho did .xo, and the fatal ball enter-
A hr k k... I :
ed to the young man in a few weeks.
Staubed. On tast Monday night, Mr.
W. C. ttaaahao, Manager of Cresceut City
' Cirou, was stubbed between the uiuth and
I tenth ribs, just about the region of the
; spleen. The affair transpired In the street,
j while the company were exhibiting iu this
j place. It being quite, durk, the person
that inflicted the wound made escape ; but
atroug suspicions rest upon a man in the
neighbor hood. Although we refrain from
any comment, we hope he may be urrested
and a lawful hearing bad, so that the inno
cent may be free from censure, and the
guilty meet the merited reward. Mr. Man
ahau is confined to his bed from the wound.
but it ia thought that he will recover
Grecnsbrorough, JV. C, Times.
WESTERN. DEMOCRAT.
Tnf sday jBorBiBgyABSt 5, 1856.
A KNOW-NOTHING WITNESS.
The know-nothings have drawn the fol
lowing letter from the Hon. John J. Crit
tenden, to disprove the charge that Mr.
Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave bill with
reluctance. And that he considered the
same uncauxtitutional ! The Wilmington
Herald (know-nothing) thinks the letter of
Mr. Crittenden a. clincher. So do we ; but
it clinches as true that Mr. Fillmore did
sign that bill with reluctance that he did
believe it unconstitutional, until he "requir
ed me Mr. Crittenden to give my opinion,
IN WRITING, in regard to the CONSTI
TUTIONALITY of certain clauses of the
Bill, and J did so."
"This," says Mr. Crittenden, "was done,
no doubt, out of respect for his Cabinet,"
&c! Who believes that it was "respect"
for his Cabinet, that induced Mr. Fillmore
to consult them "in regard to the constitu
tionality of certain clauses of the Bill?"
Mr. Crittenden, by assigning such a mo
tive, in tho absence of any proof, and in
violation of common sense, shows a labored
effort to release his friend Fillmore from the
awkward position he occupies on the sub
ject. We give Mr. Crittenden's letter be
low, and a more lawyer-like or jesuitical
production, we have rarely if ever met with.
Closely scanned, it proves the truth of pre
eislv what it undertakes to deny. All the
j
come in signing the Compromise bills, evi
dently referring to the fugitive slave bill,
about which Mr. Crittenden says he con
! suited his Cabinet, "regarding the consti
tutionality of certain clauses of the bill."
Why did not Mr. Crittenden condescend to
inform the public what "clauses" they were,
in that bill, which Mr. Fillmore regarded
as unconstitutional? It was a bill made in
obedience to a plain and imperative provi
sion and requirement of the Constitution
and yet Mr. Fillmore, who is opposed to
the exercise of the veto power, had to con
sult his Cabinot, "as regards its constitu
tionality," before he would sign it! The
"written opinion" shows that Mr. Fillmore
would not sign that bill until ho had the
advice and counsel, and instructions of his
Cabinet to do so; and nothing could prove
more clearly the abolition feelings of Mil
lard Fillmore than his hesitancy about sign
ing Koli a bill. The following is his letter
a portion of which we have marked in
Italics :
Washington, July 11, 1856.
My Dear Sir: In answer to vour letter
,1 1,1,. -Sltl tf U I i . , IJ i t ' i . i . . uu.aa.
his administration, nor at any time, did he
ever say tome, or in my hearing, "that
the fugitive slave law was unconstitutional,"
or anything to that effect. Neither is it
true " that it was only by your (my) urgent
solicitation as his adviser that he could be
induced to sign the bill." For the purpose,
as I supposed, of acting, and showing that
he acted, deliberately and advisedly on so
important a subject, he required me, as the
law officer of the Government, tc give my
opinion in writing in regard to the consti
tutionality of .certain clauses of the Bill,
and 1 did so. I believe that, he also con
sulted, as usual, all the members. This
was done, no dubt, out of respect for his
Cabinet, arid to secure to his conduct the
highest sanction which tho advice of his
Cabinet counsellors could give. All the
members of. the Cabinet, I believe, advised
in favor of the bill, and in so doing only
concurred, as I understood, in the Presi
dent's own opinion on the subject.
There was no urgency or solicitation to
Mr. Fillmore to sign the bill that I know of.
I certainly used none, nor did I ever sup
pose that arty was necessary. Mr. Fill
more, I have no doubt, signed that bill free
ly, and in obedience only to his own convic
tions, and sense of duty.
The above will afford you, I hope, sir, a
full answer to you enquiries, and I have the
honor to remain,
Very respectfully yours. Ace.
J. J. CRITTENDEN.
,Un S! T 1 . T r;m!u flint aiftir.r .1 1 1 i-i ,1 rr
A CURIOSITY.
The letter of Com. Stockton, declining
the honors of the Presidency, is tho great
est curiosity of the day. It is worthy a
place in the temple of Fume, along side of
Gen. Scott's "soup" epistles. The pen is
.'aid to be"mightier than the sword," but in
some hands the sword is mightier than the
pen. The" letter of Com. S. may be intelli
gible to Know -Nothing comprehension, but
what he means by "Our efforts," "purging"
the American party, the "Rational Camp,"
the "pledge" of Mr. Fillmore to "uphold
the integrity of American principles," dec,
is more than the uninitiated or those unac
quainted with the secrets of the "Order"
; ca" comprehend
' contrary. -The American party has been
! nursed" adds Com. S. Well. God know
i it needed "purging" but when, where, and
how did it undergo the cleansing, scouring,
j and purifvinz process? Who were the nhv-
; sicians, besides Dr. Stockton, iu attendance
i on tho afflicted patient?
j Commodore (or Doctor Stockton) thinks
j he has straightened up Mr. Fillmore, in his
"integrity,, by purgatives. He now retires
; rather unjrvacefuily from the practice
of medicine and surgery although we are
: not assured the patient is any better, than
he was before.
His letter is a first-rate medicine for hy
pochondriacs. We know a Physician who
carries it in his pocket, evidently for the
j purpose of reading it to his patients, when
iu low spirits. A man must be "far gone,"
who can read it without laughing. Here is
the extrordinary production, which, after
m pjwg
the mountain had been longin sore travaU,
was nshered forth into this breathing world
throagh a New-Ark, N. hebdominal:
Gektlemen : Our eflforta to prevent the
great American party from being seetiona
ilzed or abolitionized, have been success
ful. It has been purged of all sectional and
abolition men and dogmas. The National
Camp has endorsed Mr. Fillmore' Amen-
camsin, ana ne is picueu
tegrity of American principles and the per
petuity of our reformed organization.
My object has been attained, and I am no
longer a candidate for the Presidency.
Your friend and obedient rvant,
R. F. STOCKTON.
To Messrs Allen, Jones, Robbinnet, &c
Committee.
FIFTEEN STATES OSTRACISED-
Is the Black Republican anything (says
the Detroit Free Press) but a sectional par
ty the kind of a party that General Wash
ington and General Jackson in their fare
well addresses warned the country to avoid,
as rocks upon which the confederacy would
split ? Is it any thing else, either in its or
organization or its purposes ? Let us see.
Twelve States were not represented in the
convention that nominated Fremont. Fif
teen States could not, were he elected, have
the slightest sympathy with his administra
tion, nor take part in the affairs of the Gov
ernment. They would be virtually ostra
cised. War would have been made upon
their institutions, and they would have no
other resource than defence.
It is painful to contemplate the then
possible ensuing state of things. With a
power behind the throne greater than the
throne itself, holding to the doctrine that
there is a higher law than the constitution,
what would constitutional guarantees and
constitutional barriers be worth to the
South ?
With audacious mockery tho Philadel
phia convention resolved that the Union
, ,, , uri . I 1
snail do preservea : v ny, me poimcui
history of the chief engineers of that con
vention is a history of continuous assault
upon the Union and of persistent denials
of tho binding obligation of the Constitu
tion. It will be a sorry time on this continent
when an administration shall be borne into
power on the waves of sectional hostility,
of one half of the States against the other
half of the States of the Union. Washing
ton Union.
o
REMOVAL OF GOV. SHANNON.
appointment of his successor.
The President has nominated to the Sen
ate Col. John W. Garey, of Pennsylvania,
to be Goternor of Kansas, in place of Wil
son Shannon, resigned. CoJ- Geary is lit
tle less than 40 years of age, and has held
high civil and military positions. He was
born in Pennsylvania ; graduated at Jef
ferson College in that State ; was for many
years a civil engineer ; was selected to be
Colonel of the second Pennsylvania regi
ment in the Mexican war, where he disti't
guiokocl Limsolf by -rrnt Kravery and mili
tary skill ; was appointed by President
Polk, in 1848, to proceed to California as
Postmaster of San Francisco, with the ex
traordinary commission to arrange the pos
tal matters of that State ; was appointed
by Gen. Riley to be a Judge, or Alcade, in
and for the district of San Francisco, with
tho power to organize and establish a police
force for that city ; and was elected first
"Mayor of the city of San Francisco under
a city charter, and was appointed by tho
Stute Legislature as a member of the Board
of Commissioners for tho funded debt. He
is represented as admirably fitted for the
wise discharge of the duties of the office to
which the President has appointed him.
THE GREAT FILLMORE MOVEMENT
THE KANSAS BILL.
The measure of Mr. Dunn, passed by the
lower House of Congress, last week, abro
gates the present Territorial Government
of Kansas, re-establishes the Missouri res
triction, and, generally, makes such changes
in the law there as, if finally triumphant,
will surely consummate the so oft avowed
purpose of its mover, to abolitionize the
territory past redemption. It is the great
Northern Fillmore measure of thesessionits;
sponsors, being Mr. Fillmore's two thumbs
in the. House of Representatives Messrs.
Haven and Dunn. Its passage through
the House, by the union of the Republican
Northern Fillmore parties, bears out all we
have said with reference to the entire iden
tification between those two great political
interests, so far as the rights and future of
the South are coucerned. What Southern
American party man, who cares more for
the security of the rights of the South un
der the Constitution than for the triumph
of the abolitionism of Messrs. Dunn, Haven
& Co., (who are to bo the Government if
Mr. Fillmore should be elected,) can lon
ger hew wood and draw water for them?
Washington Star.
iy Mr. Brooks, who caned Sumner, has
been re-elected to Congress, tn South Car
olina, by the following vote:
In Lexington district, 983 votes.
" Edgefield " 2,161 "
" Newberry " 1,381 "
" Abbeville " 1,616 "
" Laurens " 1,771 "
Total 7,922.
In Edgefield and Abbeville the amount of
money collected (to pay his fine) was $615.
The vote is a very handsome one under
the circumstances two thirds of the voters
having cast their ballots.
Mr. Keitt has also been re-elected, with
out, r-pposition, by a very full vote.
A Mean Act. The Concord Gazette
states that when Mr. Kerr passed through
Rotherfordton, the other day, the town bells
were tolled for him as he entered the place,
and continued tolling as long as be was in
hearing. This ia about as mean and cow
ardly an act as we ever recorded, as com
mitted by persons claiming to be respecta
ble. tmm
tJT Col. Colt has made t wo millions of
dollars by making shooting-irons. He ia
now considered by many quite a horse.
Goisft it to the Death The Sandy
Hill Herald states that at the funeral of an
aeed and respectable citisen of Warren
county. N. Y.. on Sunday, the 13th inst.,
the officiating clergyman, after the close of
bis sermon, presented a large package of
Riolr Rpnublican papers, and laying them
upon the table, requested the audience each
to take a copy as they left the house.
Mortality among Children. In the
cities of New York, Philadelphia and Bos
ton, last week, the following number of
children died, under five years of age :
New York, 436; Philadelphia, 273; Bos
son, 34. t
Our Foreign Relations. The latest
rumors from Washington are to the effect
that Great Britain will ere long send out a
Minister to supply the place of Crampton.
Lord Howden, (formerly Ambassador at
Madrid! is mentioned. There is some rea
son to hope that the Central American dif
ficulty is to be settled now by Great Bri
tain's consenting to retrocede the Bay Is
lands to the State of Honduras.
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Hottentot Custom. Among the Hot
tentots, if a widow marries again, she is
obliged to cut off the joint of a finger for
every husband she marries after the first ;
this she presents to her new husband oh her
wedding day, beginning at one of her little
fingers first.
13F Tho Baltimore county Advocate is
printed on paper made exclusively of south
ern cane or reed, the kind universally used
for fishing rods. It was manufactured for
an experiment by Mr. Henry Lowe, at bis
mill, near White Hall, on the Northern
Central Railroad, in Baltimore county.
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Prudence. The Paris correspondent of
the Boston Post says that a musical per
former, Vivier, who is engaged to come to
the United States, is so frightened at our
numerous Railroad accidents that he de
mands a lifo insurance for fifty thousand
dollars.
An Awful Mixture. A woman named
Eliza Livingston, having been found dead
in Tallahassee, a few days ago, the Coro
ner's jury returned a verdict that she came
to her death " by the excessive use of chlo
roform, laudanum and liquor."
Destruction of the Cotton and Corn
Crops. We hear sad news from all this
section of the ruvages of the worm in the
ootton and corn. In many cases, fields of
hundreds of acres of cotton and corn have
been laid waste, We have met with many
planters within a few days past who have been
sufferers their prospects utterly blighted.
Some consider it the regular cotton cater
pillar of 1846, while others say it is only a
species of grass worm, in great numbers,
not heretofore known to depredate on the
cotton or corn to any considerable extent.
Jackson (Miss.) Union.
High Price for Negroes. There has
been a greater demand for negroes iu Rich
mond during tho months of May, June and
July, than was ever before, and thoy have
commanded better prices during that time.
This latter is an unusual thing, as the sum
mer months arc generally the dullest in the
year for that description of property.
Prime field hands (women) will now bring
from $1000 to $1100, and men from $1250
to $1,500. Not long since a-likely negro
girl sold in this city at private sale for
$1700. A largo number of negroes are
bought on speculation, and probably there
are not less that $2,000,000 in town now
invested in such property. Richmond Dis
patch. - -
ABOLITIONISTS TAKEN IN.
It will be remembered that an account of
a caning at the Metropolitan Hotel, by Mr
Vicks, who thrashed Stanwood severely,
appeared in our columns a few days since.
Connected with Mr. Vicks we have a tale to
unfold which will make the abolitionists of
Philadelphia feel very cheap.
It seems that when Mr. Vicks was about
to leave North Carolina in company with
Mr. Haywood on a Northern pleasure tour,
he was requested by the Stato authorities
to take with him a negro who had been
sentenced to banishment from North Caro
lina for a glaring outrage upon the laws of
that State. Mr. V. consented, and on his
j arrival at the Hotel in Philadelphia he reg
istered his name Vicks and Servant. Soon
after the Abolitionists appeared and used
every persuasion to induce the negro to ab
scond ; and ho informed Mr. V. that they
had offered him $50 to run off. Mr. V. ad
vised the boy to demand $100. The amount
was paid and the banished negro who was
taken to the North to be left there, received
aid unexpectedly and is now residing among
a class of people altogether worth his asso
ciation. Columbia Times.
Another Vote for Buchanan. We
were not a little amused when going up in a
Broadway and Fourth avenue stage, on
Friday evening, at the result of a vote ta
ken on the Presidency. There were twelve
passengers, and among them was a sharp
faced Black "Republican" looking gen
tleman, who was quite disposed to carry on
a conversation over the rattling pavements
about the election of President, and boast
ing, as these fellows love to boast. He
evidently had hold of the wrong customer ;
but nothing daunted, he proposed a vote,
which was taken, when to his dismay he was
the only Fremont man in the stage ! the
other eleven being most incontinently in
favor of Buck & Breck. The laugh was de
cidedly on him ; but determined to take one
more chance, he sprung for the change
hole, leading to the driver, pulling the check,
he cried out "driver, who do you go for
for President, Fremont, Buchanan or Fill
more ?" "A wee bit of a saxpence, Sir, if
you please." "No, no," was the response,
"who do yon vote for at the next election ?:
"Vote for, did you say, is that all ? Well,
thin, I votes for me wife and children first,
and thin, if 1 have two or three left I shall
give them to jSucA-anan share gee up,"
nd snapping his whip, off we went, but such
a roar of laughter as ensued we have not
heard for a long time. At the next comer
the sharp-faced gentleman retired, with th
remark that yon would never catch hi
proposing a vote on the Presidency a
in a stage coach or anywhere else K '
Aptly Quoted A sentimental gent'a.
man, with all his senses concentrated ao!
the juicy sweets of a watermelon, remark.
" The meon-choly days have come
The sweetest of the year."
PIEDMONT
Sulphur and Chalybeate Sprints
JBtVJlKE COVTTW, JT. c.
THESE Springs are 16 miles north of v
ganton, N. Carolina, located in a besuTifTi
Mountain o?e, and surronaded wirt
magnificent Scenery. - From this point toe i
ebrated Table Rock, the Linmville Fauj!
the Cave, and other curtosities, are of easTi!
cess, and make, to and fro, sn easy and pleMam
day's recreation, and change of scenery, calCu
lated not only to gratify but invigorate t W
uu, as wen a muse nuusn a irBure amon tK
mountains, during the season ef Sfanssni (La
and a retreat from the snetee se cemnn tefcL
brile regions.
The superiority of these Waters has been nf
ficiently tried to prove their efficacy, and man
broken-down, and alaaest wasted nivalin hat,
been fully restored to health by their uso.
The
ie waters have been analyzes by Dr. Hip.
t, ef Morgauton, and other Physicians, wto
poldt, et Morgauton, anu saan J-eysicians. wfio
are ready to near tnen.isway o we etfacacr ia
certain disorders. Those wishing to visit these
Springs, by calling oh Dr. H.ippoidt, a she
"Mountain Hotel," will obtain nil the iafoma
tion desired, as regards their curativp eftVrts a&t
application to certain forms of disease.
The Proprietor, in order that the Patrons of his
Springs may have their stay rendered desirable
and comfortable, has secured the services of Mrs
PRESNELL, a lady who has had considers
experience and enjoys a high reputation in public
house keeping. He therefore promises that his
TaHLE shall be furnished With the beat the coun
try affords, aud served uo in a manner to plea,
the most fastidious. Nothing shall be wanting to
make every department adequate to the ,cit)u$
and wants of those who honor him with their
company.
JAMES C EST18,
Jnly 15, 1856.3m
PRESBYTERIAN
mw&m mum,
Second Notice.
WITH a view of enabling them to mak
their plans fully, as well as to have their
sessions and vacations to coincide with those ot
Davidson College, the Trustees of this Institu
tion have determined to defer the opening of th-u
College, until
The 15th of September next,
At which time they will be prepared for the re
ception of pupils. They take pleasure in announcing-
to the public, and especially to the
friends of the College, who have manifested m
great an interest in its establishment and succna,
that their new and handsome edifice is uow draw
ing rapidly to completion, that the services of a
mu corps oi experienced
Teachers will be secured
in time, and every possi
ble provision made tor the
comfort of the young
Ladies who may be
entrusted to their care. It is their purpose now,
as it has been from the beginning, to render their
College inferior, in no respect, to similar institu
tions of the highest grad"- and best established re
putation in our State. The location is favorable
to health, being iu an elevated region, and within
a few hours ride of the mountains, while from the
lower country it is easily accessible by ineani of
the Central Rail-Road and a tri-weekly line of
Stages from Salisbury, 26 miles.
Board and tuition to be paid in advance.
TERMS per session of five months, as fol
lows :
Board and tuition in tin'-English depsrt-
ment I
Tuition alouc H
French Language, 5 00
Latin and Gr ;ek, each, 10 B
Music, with use of Piano, 22 M
Contingencies, 1 w
Candles aud Towels furnished by the pupili.
By order of the Board.
8. B. O. WILSON, Pres't.
July 8, 1856. t!5S
jMaaVanhM
CIONTRACTS lor the Grading, Masonry ana
J Cross-tit s on the Western Division w tV
Wilminiiion, Charlotte and Itutherlord Kail U
will be let on the 3d duy ol September next, ' tlx
Company's office in Liricolnion.
Stockholders and all other persons cksiiojaol
conti acting, will send in tbeir proposals pni
that nine, directed to the undersigned, tndutt
"Hail Road FropatmU:'
Maps, plans, pi utiles, together wiih the estimates.
and secihcaiions tor the woik will be oeiiJ C
inspection at the office on ai d alter the 1st l Au
gust next and an assistant Engineer will be ready
at all tunes to give any explanation that may be
required. JOHN V. McKAE,
Chief Engineer W . C. & I. It. U. Co.
Lincoln! on, July i'.t, lrf5o 5w
Town Taxes.
PERSONS indebted for Town Taxes, f
either or all of the years VBB-t-4' m&-'3
are requested to make immediate payment.
All who disregard this notice, by failing topJj
will find their property advertised for sale, in
days from this date. Now, you have fair wW
ing. S. A. HARRIS.
April 29, 1856. tf Tax CsHisW
Town Taxes for 1856.
THE town Taxes for 1856, and all anearr
are now due, and must be settled by
first day of August, or I will proceed W coy
according to Act of Assembly, without soy m
crimination.
8. A. HAKffS,
July 1 , 1856. 5w TaxoU:
otioe.
THE Tax Lists for 1855, sre now in 7
hands, and I hold them ready for iwf"
I request all persons to inform me of any taxw
which may not be listed.
CP-All persons that have not paid their tax
for 1854, will surdu come, up and fork ottr
E. C GMEIl, Sbenft
April8 i3rV tf
Stop Him!
RAN OFF, or was decoyed away frosa -subscriber's
residence near Wood-W
yum--
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Mill. Gaston couc.lv. N. C. on Sunday
the29ib of June, a negro man namid
a i, n i ; it t
Arirwit 3fl v., u au i .. ...ii.a ! In W '
complexion, about 5 lieet 5 or 6 inches h't
stumpy form, wi2hs about 140 or 150 pD''j
and is slow of speech when spoken lo. H
on when he icit, copperas punts, heavy dr
.ie shirt, black wool hat, nd a PairofrB'r
toed home-made shoea bis clothes very mW
He took no other clothes, and no ea0e
known for bis leaviusj
I will pay TWENTY DOLLARS for J
delivery to me at home or in any of tb
joining county jails se that 1 get him '
taken up yt of the Htmte or the hou""1'
home, showing that he was jnaking for
State, I will pay FIFTY DOLLARS, if
ed until 1 gat him and a like sum w'
detection and conviction of the pero"
decoyed hi in off, if it shall appear he r
snaded awajr for their own ptirposea.
LEANDbU SMITH
Gaston, July t, 1855.tf
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M efWtaefla S A C K S for
WU sale at $2 per
.n!r for ejmh. and cash 00 1 7
Minim ii dESUjr- i J
BREM Wtt&h
Charlotte, Jury 15, 1966,-4
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