North Carolina Newspapers

Nl s 5 OFFICE OPPOSITE SCARR'S DRUG STORE. J A Family Paper, devoted to Stale Intelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. BY WILLIAM J. YATES, KDITOR AND PROIMUKTOR. CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. j $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. !?. A. YAISS5 ASSISTANT EDITOR. TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1857. (VOLUME 5. KTow Series NUMBER 29. W,' MV-XS 1 i al M lip dmwll Vx THE Published every Tuesday Containing the latest News, a full and accu rate Report of the Markets, ccc. For the year, if paid in advance $2 00 If paid within six months, 50 If paid after the expiration of the year, 3 00 raAny person Bending us five new sub scribers, aceompa.m-d by the advance sob scription (10) will receive a sixth copy gra tifyfor one year. "Subscribers and others who may wish to send money to us. Can do so by maih at our risk. ADVERTISING. One square of 16 lines or less, for months, $1 00 . . . " " " 00 m 1 10 00 m-I . - 1 - I V . r, r, i " 1 T, 1 L; . 1 iT pi r roiessionai anu un'irsj . ceedinir six lines, er annum, 5 W One s juare, 16 lines, or It-ss, first insertion, $1 00 j Each HkaqpMM illMIIUMt, 13 Transient advertisements must be j paid for in advance. rrFor announcing Candidates for office, $5 in advance. Advertisements not marked on the manuscript fr a specific time, will be in serted until forbid, and charged accordingly WILLIAM J. YATES. HO it the Western Democrat Ofiice. Warrants, Marriage Licenses, Tax Receipts, Subpoenas, Jury Tickets, Administrator' Bonds and Letters, Guardian Bonds, Indentures, Deeds for conveying Lands or houses, Prosecatioa Bonds, just printed. IV Blanks of all kinds printed to order at short notice. ixro'ricJE!. I shall be absent from Charl tae burins the Winter, for Ike pnrpose 1 ttenOUw lae H.-oicai Erciures aud Hosittald iu N w Yo:k and Phila delphia. Mv Kotaaandaecannts previous lo the V ar lS.'.Gaiv in the bands of Win. A. Owens, Eq., for collection. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D. Charlotte, Oct. 2U, lo6. B-t 1YOTICE. m CONSEQUENCE of having lost by the fin which aecama m uua place, ou tue oraiai af tne Bui o) stay last, vanecs AOtes and chums against nunieroon persons in this and adjohihi" counties. which mites and claims, be ing the property ' E. STEELE, A. Hkth lni'. V Co., aiui others, which were placed in nij bauds Im colbrcUon: All porons,thrn fiw, against whom auv of such claims arc till standing un s i;h u, are hereby duly notified, that unl they m:i-;ir limn- lediateiT and Close np IHc .-::m-, ov n.iT nr 1 Bhai! b-' coinoeii.-i". to C1C. li'i lvuh, Hills in Espriry, thereby snbjecting such ersona to auoiuocai nuu unu-'i-. .1 S. V. 1.VIS. ChavlottP, June 10, -:0. tt Thv Charlotte SStittial E'ir Issaras cc C sis g a ;s y , riOVn.M'KS to take risks against loss l Fire oa Houses, Goods, Produce, A usual rates. Otacu iu Bran ley 's Buildia at up stairs. M. B. TAYLOK, Presidt it. 8. P. ALEXANDKR, Vice President. J. A. YOLINti, 1 J. H. Will PE, ) J II ('vK), ) Execattve Conunittto. C. OVERMAN, I A- U. STEELE, J J. II. W1I. Aeent. E. NYE HUPCHISON, Secretary. July 1836 tl B0XXTSIX6 B1S9ID. A A'ew Tailoring g:?tali lisbiacaita JAMES BBIANT informs his friends and form r patrons, that he has reopened bis TAIL ORING ESTABLISHMENT in Spring's nr Baildiag, where he will be banpy to see any one wanting any thing done in his Una. AH-work warranted. Oct. -J-Nh, I656L 17-tf SJavsaiis : Bargains ! I CHINA DEPOT. n . E . NICHOLS & BROTHER. mroKTESts of CHINA, GLASS & EARTHENWARE. Also, a great variety of Tea Trays, Lamps, labia Cadery, Britannia and Block Tm Ware, Wood and Willow Ware, and Housekeeping Articles genet-ally. EXT noon TO COMMERCIAL HANK, COIA .MUII, 5. C. lr' Packing it ai ranted Nov. 11, l:rf. J.i-tm John Bcnry Wavt, Mm a. T SURGEON DENTIST, Graduate of the Baltimore College of JJtn'ai Sure 1 ru.) Having loeatel a?naanently, tenders bii ro- fessional services to the citizens ol" Charlotte, N. C, and vicinity. Dr. Wayt prepares and inserts artificial palates and obturators, and attends to tl;e eorreetioii of congenital and accidental deformities of tie teeth and jaws. H is also prepared to insert artificial teeth, after the asosl approved ineiho b. Office ou Tryon Street, in Canon's 1 1 w building', up stairs. Nov. leth. 20 t Notice The copartnership of Glen A McKay ras dissolved on the 2"2d of Jnly last, J. 6. McCoy having purchased Mr Glen's interest i; t!:V Marble Yard and Notes and Accounts. All eou tra?ts must be made with J. G. McCoy. Charlotte, October 7. 14-tf Waited. &WWW pealed anduupea. the HIGHEST CASH price will be pa. Dec. 9. 1S56 tf T. M. FARROW Rotes ol Hand, EST TRINTED and for sale at the Office of the 'Westeru Democrat." STABLE S TO RET. I OFFER for Rent the Stables on the Ameri can Hotel Lots, excepting th" Stalls recent ly erected and now occupied bv Mr. D. H. Robinson. RUFUS BARKINGKK. Charlotte, Dec. 27, 1."6. 'JG-tf HEAL ESTATE I will sell, on Monday ef January Court, the. STORE-HOUSE and DWELLING attached, know n as the J. K. Harrison property. Also, 4 In improved Lots in the Town of Charlotte, aud 500 Acres of Land in Union Canity. y Tenus mad- known on day of Sale. H. 13- WILLIAMS, Trustee. Pec. '.3, 1856. 25-6t Mew Jlore. J. & E. B7STOWE AVING removed to their New Stove on Main-street, below lounjj &. Williams' Hotel, and opposite Boone & Co.'s new Shoe Store, where they now have oil sale a large stock OF and such other articles as are usually kept in such Houses, including their Domestic and COTTON YARN. Now in Store 300 Sacks Salt. 40 Ilbls. New Orleans Molasses. 5 Hhds. best Portorico do. 5 hhds. West India do. 5 hhds. Cnba. 5 hhds. of good Brown Sugar. 40 bids. Extra do. 1" bbls.Crushad do. 100 bags good CeJfoe. Eng lish dairy and common Cheese, Bagging, Rope and Twine, Adamantine and Tallow Candles, North Carolina and Western Whiskey. All al Use Lowest Priees. lJ""c respectfully solicit call from buyers. J. & E. 11. STOWE. Pee. ), irr, tf Mae of .nf3i Carolina, LINCOLN COUNTY. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. April Session, ls5u. J. W- L v. e, Adm'r, and others. vs. Ilirius Banard and others. ; Petition to seil Real Estate for assets in the hands of the Administrator. ! It appearing from the affidavit of Petitioner, ! J. W. Lowe, that Hunts Ballard, David Ballard, ; Presley Cox and wife Epst y, the defendants in ; this proceeding, are non-residents of this State, and beyond the ordinary proo ss of ilns Court. Jt is tii. efbre ordered that publication be made in the Westi rn P. mocrat l'V sis weeks, notify ing the said dcfindants that thy be and appear at the next Court of Pleas and Quarter .Sessions, to b; held for the county ol Lincolu at the Court House iu Liueolnton, on the J Monday in Jan uary, 1 -7.7 , then and there to plead, answer or demur to Plaintiff's petition, or Judgment, pro cwufesso, will be taken against them, and! a, de cree made expMe according to the 1111 lits of Plaintiff's petition, i in testimony whereof, I have this, 4tb Dec, ! l it. surued my name and" affixed the s al of said I Conuty J. A. HIrSS, Clerk, By W. li. CLARK. P. C. j FAMILY GROCERIES. SUGARS Loaf, Crushed, Ground, Poito Rico and B. C. ! COFFEE .Mocha, old Java, LagoSa and Rio, of various natalities, old anil new 11 op. TEA Gun Powder and Imperial, achoic . artiele. MOLASSES New Orleans, C a and Cir- fllgos. t M E ESE Goshen and Pine ' pple. CHOCOLATE No. 1 and La Vauiile, the latter a snnerior article. . ... ..... . . ... , . 1 1 SAKUISts Halt ami tfnairrr oofe RAISINS Whole, Hall ami Quarter Bcira. SICILY ALMONDS, Filberts, Vur.-.nts. i Citron, Mace, Nutmegs, auearino u Vcrnm- cilla. CANDLES Star and ath Craavls, in whole, half and 6 lb boxes. BUCKWHEAT IT Ot i ' ' , . and quar ter Bbls. CAN PIES Assorted aal L'a, v. CKACKEKS Butter as 4 S. PICKLED SALMON. . kerel. Tongues and Lobsters. Smoked Tonga s and Codfish. A good Stock of of the Washington, O atBnlbana, Don Pedro and other Brands, All of which will D,. 501J low for CASH, by 1 SOMAS M. FARROW. Dee, 9, IS&d. og-: 1 rates of Freights between ClisirP t ou al Neva l orli, By the Palmetto line of Steamers. WYATTj STOGXEK & LLOYD, AND Gciici Pii CantHiMioai tlcrcfaaailn, Agger's North Wharf, rJ! :" Undersigned, Factors and Commission 1 -erc;.an!s. offer to receive, forward, and ship me rrha. dese ant! produce at the following I rates. j he pr eg hei e rianiea are tnose a In li ! are ,u.r.. y charged by all the line of sail I vsscs, ki t having no control over any other i-'n4 than te one we have an interest in, we j er-not say hat the pr ces here named can j De nsidei ed permanent, except hy ot;r Line. I ity that they are permanent. The "Paimetto L're" hn ten fine first class Brigs a..d Schsoner,, constantly rnnninaTi aud will car- rf y 'Mights as follows: Vhe. . I" cents per bushel. ,'loui, in harre.s, 2 I cents. 1 r, in sacks, 10 cents. The drayage, wharlage, insurance, and for att Jm g com miss. on, per bushel, for whe 9 1, is - 4J cts. I01 , per barrel, - 1G cts. Flo r, per sack, - - - - 13 cts. Fr .ht on a l cases, boxes, &., Ac, t orn New 1 ork to Charleston, per 1 ubic foot. - - - - 4 eta. We measure evrv thing, to prevent over c'jarges. Every thing shipped by the "Pal r etto Line" of vssels (Dollner & Potter, I w. York asents, and Holmes &. Stowry, of Ci irleston) an 1 consigned to us, shall be fre hted for the above 1 rices. Pi duce and Merchandise consigned to us Wtll rave the best attention. WVATT, STOGNER A LLOYD. Aag lit li, 1856 TO RENT, The subscriber will rent on the 26th day of January, lt-57, at public .anction, the STORE ROOM and in ! WAREHOUSE formerly occupied by C. H. I Elms, one door south of the Court House, pos- I session to be given until the first dav ofJan'y 1 -o-i. Applv to C. H. Elms. J. H. MAXWELL. Charlotte, Jan 13. 2t-pd VALUABLE HOTEL IN CHARLOTTE, IT" o r Sale. I Y virtue of a Deed of Trust to me executed, I will off'-r at public sale, upon the premises, at 1 o'clock. P. M., on the 27th of January next, i. being Tuesday of County Court, the Hotel known as the B0 A ID) HOf SSi, situated contiguous to the depots of the Charlotte and South Carolina and the North Carolina Rail Roads in Charlotte. The Hotel building is en tirely new, commodious and ta. y 111 appearance, and so located as to give commanding advantages for the patronage of the through travel of both Rail RoaJs. TERMS The purchaser will give notes vith approved security, due one half in six and the other iu twelve months, beating interest from date. JOHN A. YOUNG, Tiustee. December 23, 1856. 25-Gt 3S3"otice. I will sell at public auction on Wed nesday of County Court, my HOUSE and LOT situated on the Plank Road, corner of Church aud Ninth Streets. JAMES BRIAN. December 22, 1856. 25-Gt To Exchange, TOWN Lots improved or unimproved for Negroes. Apply at this office. Di c. 2,, Idob. 25-4t W A T C II E S OF ALL KINDS & QUALITIES. SOME VERY CHEAP. Of all kinds nod N K W C2L.OCBL3 Of all kinds, for s:i! IftV-awrj luw prices. Spoons, Knive? & rorks, Of everv desti ipti. 1. A!o, CASTORS AND CANDLESTICKS 01" ALL KINDS. Port Monies and Wallets, Ladies and pjeu'lemen's POCKE T KHftmS of,, II kinds $ prices. W&l&W OAfiKB, silver, ivoiy. and bone heads, also with crooks. The Istavsj articles are often d low for cask. TIIO. TROITER & SON. Chi;rlotto, Deo. 30, 1850. if UM) FOR SALE . he sobscriber ffers for sa'e one va'uab'e Tract ol Li-nJ, lying within one mile of States vi He, N. (..'., aiijoining the latins of A. K. Sjfmonto , P. 11. Dalton and others, contain ing abvM - On hundred acres of which is well t m be red There is an excellent meadow, and a quanti ty of !.ood upland in a high state of cultiva t on; there is also a good DWELLI(i HOUSE, and all nec ssay out. buildings. For further 1 art eulars ap ly 10 A. VV. Jamison of States v:lle, c,r the subscriber at Oak Forest. J. . B. ADAMS. December 23, 18.36. 2G 3t EDGEWORTII FEMALE SEMIDJARY, C3trcnsborouft!y, 11. C THE next Session of this Institution will eom- menee on Friday, January 2d, 7. Tue course of study is designed to embrace everything necessary to aseilt;i lit in 1 tlistl maitteBta I Ednctnllotl. Grnat pro minence is given to the SOLID BRANCHES. Neither labor nor expense has been spared to secure Instructors of the highest qualifications in their various departments, and to make Edge worth s com! to no Institution in the country, in everything necessary to a complete Educa tion. For circulars containing Terms, Course of In struction, &o. apply to RICHARD STERLING, Principe;!. Dee. 2X 1H545. 25-4X EXCII.WGE Cm9MsjECTMMT C U A R L O T T E , N. C . Office Up Stairs in netc Brick Building op posite Boone tf Co's shoe store. Drafts on New York and Charleston. S. C., Gold aud Silver, and uneuneut Bank Bills BOUGHT AND SOLD. And special attention paid to the collection of claims by JOHN McRORIE A CO., Dec S3, 1856 5t Charlotte, N. C. Charlotte Common Schools. WE, the "Common School Committees" for tbe two districts in the lownol C harlotte, inform the citizens that we have unitedly em ployed Mr. E. C Elms for the ensuing year, and that a School under his superint. d dance will be opened at the Common School-house 111 this place on Monday the 5th of January, 1857. E. H. ANDREWS, R. If. JAMISON, A. Git AY, C. OVERMAN, E. GRAHAM, J. UIGLEli. Dee. 16, 185C 5w Servants to B3ire. I have two Servants to hire by tbe day or week, at "0 cents per day. They cook, wash and iron well, and are good house servants eenerally. Also, a boy 16 or IJat 75 cents per day. A. C. WILLIAMSON. Jan 6, 1637. Tlie friends or It. H- foTU-i'll announce him as a candi- date for the ottice ot a.sasaanaaspf ior hps vuai lotte Beat. Election 3d Satu' Jay in Janua ry, lf7. mm WESTERN DEMOCRAT. CHARLOTTE.1 Advance in Cotton Goons. In the N. York Daily News of the 7th inst., under the head of rpview of the dry goods trade, we find the following in reference- to the advance in cotton goods: "Nearly all kinds of goods are opening higher, and especially domestic cottons; the raw material is about three cents per lb. higher than at the same period last year, and mpuufactures will have lo undergo a corresponding advance to protect manufac turers from actual loss." Emigration from Georgia and Ala bama. The Claiborne (Ala.) Southerner of Saturday last, says: 'We have observed this Fall an unusual number of emigrants moving through this place. Sometimes thirty or forty white persons are in the company. They seem to bo mostly from Georgia and tbe south east counties in this State, and arc general ly bound for Texas." HON. HENRY W. BILLIARD IN ALA BAMA CONFERENCE!. We find in the True Union of the 25th ult., a notice of the proceedings of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church which recently assembled at Tus kecgee, Ala., which concludes as follows : We conclude this hasty notice by recur ring to one of the most impressive and thrill ing scenes of the Conference, and to which we have heretofore slightly alluded. Mr. Ililliard had been a.luded to in connection with a proposition, which was before the Conference, to establish a Methodist news paper in Montgomery, as its probable edi tor; and the prospeot of acquiring him as a member of the Conference was urged as a reason for the establishment of tho paper. The argument was responded to bv the Rev. T. O. Somm-rs, in a seemnvg spirit of levi ty. Mr. Ililliard arose and announced to the Bishop ofihe Conference, and the whole audience, a life-long purpose to return to the work of the ministry ; and turning to Eishop Pierce, said, with deep emotion, solemn, moving, and pathetic emphasis : "I give you my hand, my brother, in this great work ! Hence forward our paths of life shall not diverge ! I come, in tho ma turity of my manhood, deliberately to lay my heart, intellect, and whatever of trophies I may have won in other walks of life, pro fessional or political, humbly at the foot of tbe Cross, with motives which befit tho ser vice of my Master. "Let it be distinctly understood, that no vote which this Conference may take upon the pending proposition, can affect my res olution to give myself to this work. At home and abroad in my solitary journey- ings or standing in the palaces of kings, I have never forgot ton my early vows. I j have seen the beginning and the end of earthly greatness. "Intimately associated with some of the first living statesmen of this age and coun try, I have seen them pass away from this earth ! Sir, I know the vanity of earthly things! I come humbly ; but I come pre serving that self-respect without which I should not be meet for tho Master's service. "I ask nothing from this Conference on my personal account. Let the vote have no reference to me. No, no, sir ! I have never lowered my crest when facing political parties in the day of battle. I preserve my self-respect, but I desire to achieve some what that will enable me, when this world burns up, to be recognized by the Great Head of the Church, as a friend of Christ, and to take my jdace, however humble, among Martyrs and Saints who have loved and served him on earth!" This is the substance of bis remarks, de livered to the spell bound audience. May he find grace equal to his noblo resolution ! Long may he live to edify the church ; aud finally win and wear the crown of endless joy and glory. Something Novel. A Frog Supper was given in Boston on Thursday evening last, by a distinguished bon vivant, to a few friends. The Times says the "game" was of his own procuring, and of t lie right kind having a proud manor of the same near Chelsea. The frog business is becoming one of importance, and the Times hear that as many as 1000 fat green hides are procur ed a day, by good sportsmen. They sell at $'2 5U per hundred ; and when they be come better known as a table delicacy, they well command a still higher price. No taste has to be cultivated to enjoy them, ivhen properly cooked. The time will come when the quotations of the frog market will be considered as essential as those of the Brigh ton or Cambridge cattle market. The Way the Mumstek Touched Them. WTe are indebted to an exchange for the following good one : "A renowned gentleman, not a thousand miles from this city, lately preached a rather long sermon from tho text, 'Thou are weigh ed and found wanting.' After the congre gation had listened about an hour, some be gan to get weary and went out ; others soon followed, greatly to the annoyance of the minister. Another person started, where upon the parsoa stopped in his sermon, and said : 'That is right, gentlemen, as fast as you are weighed pass out.' He continued his sermon at some leDgth after that, but no one disturbed him by leaving. DR. LIVINGSTONE S DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA The discoveries of Dr. Livingstane in Af rica, are considered of great commercial value. He lived with a tribe of Eechuauas for eight years, and in co-operation with Mr. Oswald, discovered Lako Ngami. He traced by himself t1 e course of the great river Zambesi, in 'astern Africa, extend ing two thousand r .ilea. This immense stream, whose discovery is the great fruit of the journey, is in itself an enigma without parallel. But a small por tion of its waters reach the seacoast. Like the Abyssinian Nile, it fal'.s through a ba saltic cleft, near the middle of its course, which reduces its breadth from 1000 to 20 yards. Above theso falls it spreads out periodically into a great sea, filling hun dreds of lateral channels; below it is a tran quil stream of a totally different character. Its mouths seems to be closing. The south ernmost was navigable when the Portuguese first arrived in the country, 300 years ago, but it has long since ceased to be practica ble. The QuiUimane mouth has of late years been impassable, even for a canoe, from July to February, and for 200 to 300 miles up tho river navigation is never at tempted in the dry season. And iu this very month of July, when tho lower portion of the river, after its April freshets, has sunk to a mere driblet, above the falls the river spreads out like a sea over hundreds of square miles. This, with frequent cat aracts, and the hostility of tho natives, would seem to bo an effectual bar to the high hopes of fat trade and fillibu storing, in which English merchants and journals arc now indulging. During this unprocruented march, alone and emoti savages, to whom a white face was a miracle, Dr. Livingstone was com pelled to struggle through indescribable hardships. The hospitality of the natives he conquered by his intimate knowledge of their character and tho Bechurna tongue, to which theirs is related. He waded rivers and slept in the sponge and oozes of marsh es, being often so drenched as to be com pelled to turn his armpit into a watch-pocket. His cattle were destroyed by the ter rible tsc-tso fly, and he was too poor to purchase a canoe. Lions were numerous, being worshipped by many of the tribes as the receptacles of the departed sculs of their chiefs ; dangerous, too, as his crushed arm testifies. However, ho thinks the fear of A frican wild beasts greater in England than in Africa. Many of his documents were lost while crossing a river, in which bo came near losing bis life also, but he has memo randa of the latitudes and longitudes of a multitude of cities, towns rivers and moun tains, which will go far to fill up the "un known region" in our atlasses. Toward the interior he found the country more fertile and more populous. The na tives worshipped idols, believed iu transmi grated existence after death, and performed religious ceremonies in groves and woods. They were less ferocious aud suspicious than the seaboard tribes; had a tradition of the deluge and more settled governments. Some of them practiced inoculation and used quinine, and all were eager for trade, being entirety dependent on English calico for clothing, a small piece of which would pur chase a slave. Their language was sweet and expressive. Although their women, on the whole, were not well treated, a man having as many wives as he chose, they were complete mistresses of their own hous es and gardens, which the husband dared not cuter jn his wife's absence. They were fond of show and glitter, and as much as $1.30 had been given for an English riflo. -On the arid platen a of tho interior, water melons supplied the place of water for some months of the year, as they do on the plains ef Hungary in summer. A Quaker tribe, on tbe river Zanga, never fight, never have consumption, scrofula, hydrophobia, chol era, small-pox, or measles. These advan tages, however, are counterbalanced by the j necessity of assiduous devotion to trade and raising children to make good their loss from the frequent inroads of their fighting neighbors. Marriages in Boston in 135G. Dur ing the year 165G tho Kegistrar of Boston, Mr. Appolonio, has issued certificates of intentions of marriage to 3,013 parties. In 1855,3,001 iiitentionswere issued. Decrease in 1S5U fleap year) 41. The oldest person married was aged 72. It was his fourth marriage, his intended being 3D. A lawyer of Concord N. H. 07 years of age, obtained a certificate of his intention to make a se cond marriage and several other bridogooms were over 60. The youngest female mar ried was under 15, a id another was about 15. There was a considerable number of third marriages. In a number of cases the ajre of the bridegroom was doublo that of the bride. There were also some four or five marriages of colored men with white wo men but not a case of the marriage of a white male with a colored female. One Thousand Persons Killed by a Stroke of Lightning. Accounts from Rhodes state that the lightning struck the immense store of gunpowder which was placed in the vaults belonging to the An cient Knights, destroying the whole Turk ish quarter so completely that only three children were saved. One thousand per sons are said to have perished. CHURCH MUSIC BV Q. E. PHILANDER DOESTICKS, V. B. "The organist hero made preparations to gyrate, he rolled up his coat sleeves as not to interfere with his fingers thou he rolled up his pantaloons so as not to trouble his toes, then he unbuttoned his cravat and loosed his vest. At tivs instant a very muscular man disappeared from the rank in the gallery, vanished through a chubby bole, and we.s instantly out in tho anatomy of tho organ then there was a great rat tling in tho bowels thereof as if it couldn't digest the muscular ma ., hut had a great deal of wind ca its stomach. , This was the preparation. Then the organist commenced 'a violent strugglo with the key board, as if he re garded the unfortunate organ as a fisticuff enemy whom it would require his utmost strength and dexterity to overcome eo ho went in he hammered him on the white keys, and pelted him on the black ones, he punched him on the semitones, lie kicked him on the double bass, he put a series of running kicks on his chromatic scale, he pelted him on the flats, ho battered him on the sharps, he smote him on the high keys, he hit him on the low notes then ho grab bled both hands in his .ictaves and shook him until he squealed, then he ferociously jerked out tbe stops on one side, as if he was pulling half his teeth out of his head, then he savagely jammed in those on the other as if he was knocking the rest of his grinders down his throat after three quar ters of an hour, tho left hand, which had been doing manful duty in tho lower sub urbs began to fail and sent for a reinforce ment; whereupon the right hand after hit ting the chord of G. sharp a furious dig to keep it quiet in tho interval, scampered to the rescue, only stopping by the way to be stow upon the middle C. a couple of punch es by way of a remainder then the plnj-cr with both bauds, both feet, and both knees, went at the poor instrument and belabored him, f 0 unmercifully in the lower pipes that ho lost his wind and cried, "enough," in the roar of agony. This was tho prelude. The singing commenced; the opera folks stood up to earn their money ; they sung as if the musical scale had been greased on this occasion; they would go up a note and then slip back each one went a notch higher than the 0110 behind him, but fell back and his voice subsided into a discon tented growl low down in her ribs. At last after five trials, each one of which ended in an attenuated squeak, a female with a mouth like a hatchway loosened her bonnet strings and made a desperate scream and went so high that she got a firm hold and they all stopped. This was the singing. And the muscular man came out of the bowels with the perspiration dripping from his coat tails, and as he hadn't another suit handy he sat down in the draught to dry. This was the finale. HORRIBLE SUPERSTITION. The Brownsvillo ('Texas) Flag notices a case of superstitious barbarism, which al most surpasses belief. It is said to have occurred in Matamoras, Mexico, about a month ago : It seems that a young lady of Matamoras was taken sick, and an old lady of the neigh borhood, reported to have skill in the vir tue of herbs, was solicited to visit and ad minister to the patient. From somo cause or other the old lady failed to attend, nnd suspicious reports were circulated that the old lady had bewitched the young one. The authorities were petitioned to compel the attendance of the old one. Officers wero sent to take her before her supposed victim and these miserably ignorant wretches reported that they, on several oc casions, repaired to her domicile and could not find her at home, but found instead a suspicious lookiug black cat. After sever al efforts, however, they found tho old wo man at home, instead of her cat, and she was taken to the presence of the invalid. But her herbs failing to restore the sick to health, and the meddlesome black cat persisting in following its owner and being by the neighbors found in the 100m of tho invalid instead of her mistress, fixed the opinion fast in the minds of these ignorant people that the old woman and black cat were one and the samo person- that she being a witch could take the form of the cat and assume her own shape at will that the invalid was a victim to hor diabolical art. With these convictions, it is said they sought out the unfortunate fld creature and actually tied her up and with thongs cru elly flogged her to death as a witch. In justice to the civil aathoritiea of Mata moras, we are happy to state that they were not a party to the tragic part of this singu lar transaction, and that they were prompt in arresting the actors. But what a mourn ful picture does it present in this enlight ened age ! m 1 A farmer once hired a Vormonter to assist in drawing logs. The Yankee, when there was a log to lift, generally contrived to secure the smallest end, for which the farmer rebuked him, and told him always to take the butt end. Dinner came, and with it a sugar loaf Indian pudding. Jona than sliced off a generous portion of the largest part, and giving the farmer a wink, exclaimed, "abcay take the butt end ."' ANIMAL INSTINCT A writer to Porter's Spirit of the Time, Rays: A few years since, I owned a Sher man Morgin Stallion who became very much attached to a cat and her kittens. The eat, to avoid being worried by tho dog, chose for her nest a place under the manger where the horse stood, and there she had a litter of four kittens. When tha young cats wero large enough to run about they would come out and play about the liorso and with him, and he with them, for hours at a time, and the-kittens would run up his legs and scratch him; lie would then take up his foot and hold it up till the kit tens were out of tbe way. He never hurt ono of them, and guarded and protected them from the dog till they were grown up. This horso was a very intelligent one, and knew who treated him well and kindly. In tho fall of 1850, I sold him to go into Otsego count, N. Y. In September, 1852, he was exhibited at tho Now York State Fair at Utica, und f with a number of gen tlemen went to the stall to see the horse, and us soon as I spoke his name he recog nized my voice, and by every motion and action plainly showed that he knew mo, and those present said the horso knew me, and were surprised that he should manifest so much attachment for his former owner. KENTUCKY RIFLEMEN. Tho renown which Kentucky Riflemen haTO obtained for precision and skill in handling tho rifle, has become world wide, and excited the attention and wonder of tho warriors of other nations. In battle they have stood as cool and collected, although the first time in action, as the oldest vete rans of Europe ; pouring in their fire with unerring aim. "I shot that officer," exclaimed a rifle man, as ho saw an officer fall at New Or leans. "No, no I shot him said his comrade at his side." "I shot him in the right eye," replied tha rifleman. "And I shot him in the left eye," was the response. After the battle, it was found that this officer had been shot in both eyes. This unerring precision can only be obtained hy long practice and thorough drilling. At the first settlement of the State, they wero compelled to be constantly under arms, as it were, to guard against the wild Indiana, and the murderous tomahawk. As tho fath er, so the children grew up, taught, in tho earliest infancy possible, to poise the rifle and direct its aim. As ammunition was not always convenient to be had, the father would dole out to his son a certain number of cartridges for his riflo, for each one of which he must bring home some sort of iame or get a taste of hickory for every missing shot. Many years ago I was conversing with my ft.ther on tho wonderful skill of ytho Kentuckians, when ho related the following anecdote : "I was out in tho wilds of Kentuck, soma years beforo tho war, on a surveying expe dition, and had the opportunity of studying the character of the earlier ecttlers for a considerable length of timo. It became necessary for mo to stop a few days at a log tavern, and to while away the time, I took my ride and explored the wood for came, of which there was an abundance. The landlord had a littlo son abount tea years of ago, who accompanied me with his rifle, and always had extremely good luck. On one occasion the fates seemed to be ad verse to him ; for, perceiving a squirrel on a very high branch of a tree, he up with his rifle and blazed away, and down came the squirrel. Tho look of dismay with which ho viewed his game I shall never forget. Dropping the butt of his rifle on the ground he burst into toars. In the utmost surprise, I inquired what tho matter was. He an swered : . "Daddy'Il lick me." "Lick you! what for?" "Because I didn't hit him in tho head." I soothed1 him all I could, but the day's pleasure was over. On returning to the travcrn, I interceded for him all in my pow er to save him from the hickory, but it was of no use : the application must be made, if only for an example. "No, no stranger; if I let him off I break a standing rule of our State, I was never let off, and what was food for me in good for him. He must shoot right or put up with what he gets." The hickory waa applied, but no bones were broken. Such training as that, which was uui versal in those parts, tells the secret of Kentucky rifle shooting." A Chinese "Oltbage." President Pierce's message before the last was duly presented to the Viceroy of China by Dr. Parker, the American commissioner. The Friend of China, of Oct. 31st, says : The communication appears to have been sent to Pckin in due course, but the pleasure of opening it was declined by his majesty, who had no relish for converse with outside barbarians, and has been returned. Of course, after similar rejection of a letter from the Queen of England, Mr. Pieroa cannot consider himself particularly hard used, and will wait patiently tbe time when the eagle aqd the hou can make common cause, and tuko atonement for thu.uiaoy in sults passed upon them by the dragon.