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BV WILLI AH J. YATES, I
eoitor 4jm proprietor. )
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
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TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1857.
(VOLUME 5.
3srow SerieB I NUMBER 53.
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WILLIAM J- YATES.
BOOTS & SHOES.
Just Received
FOB THE
sr:iic; & si iilr trade,
A- line an Assortment of
As baa erer been offered to a
Soathern
People
Call and see Uicin at
B h ni:
f '1 tins t 'ASlI.
Mareli IT, lS-7.
Notice.
11 WING return) d lo Charlotte, I am again at
the ibsiMKtal of 'hose who may require my seivi-
I l - - - I D
C III tile praCIW ' ol .lei ieilie OUIJJ' I J
ni Helieinv aui
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.
F h. 3d, l-'7.
k. m JMJnCHHSOX. a. J. HOVCIX.
MJRCIIISON &. HOWELL,
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IN. lorat i! in tins p.ae , n sirTJ
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tfters h:- I Vol.ssnoial ac-rvtces to Uie citi-
y.rn-i mt the town and vicinity.
1. OFFICE in the ii w brick building,
MKmaite tie- bornt district, Main Street.
April afcith le&7.
BRFJ! & STEELE.
Wholesale and Iwctail Dealers j
IN
XX57 Goods,
ECardvare, ami Sbocsi
CHARLOTTE, X. C.
May :., Ij7. Sl-if
W sS
sfffiKa 'l li.- s'lliM'ii'.i. r otV.rs tor sale the
-.'' !aiita!oii ujion which h formerly
i.s Y Vf ... o. ihewal rs itf lie-
klieha ls Cm k, on the Provi-lenec
BumI, six lei'es fi an ( 'hai "tt.-. containing about
230 mr HO.) Acres.
lbs Land w. .1 unproTed, about one-half
rleared and in a good state of cultivation, and
Ike Tuwd-lanil well timbered; with .- good
iHrelling Uetne, tin e good Khcbvua, Bafn
and Stables, all iu good npair; also, a first rate
ton Iftsasp and Screw; Cotton Gin, Thresher
ad fan; also, a
First rate Saw Mill
ia g ..id repair, all of w lurk I offer with the land.
Tii' I. nid can be divided to advantage to
anil purchaseta.
Auv p. son wishing purchase would do
well la call and examine ike Plant ation, as I
aia 1 r rmiii d to s. li. Th. y can call on .Mr
N. ItiNick, who liea adjolinng, on the main
rtavhl nc road, wfa re M.. Hiuehison formerly
"Vetl; . frill SBOW til premises with pleasure
aad d l i l t .my iaiwnuaiton about said laud to the
su'jci.ii ; iu StansarihV.
JAS. U KENNEDY.
M it utb, l8o
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IV. I. V ' i 1 1 j lt:V O
11 tviag hc V i at MONROE, tenders his pro
t litioaal serrices ta the . i: iz us ol the Town
an 1 aarreunding nmatry, auJ respectfully soli
cits th ir f; rtruaagv
: Odlc at .!. Bick.-tt's.
April JH. .:-:lin
Wo
tir-o
HATING obtained 1. tt evsof Administration
& COS STORE.
If
BpoatlM! estate Ot . P. I iOttef. deceased. I ' are UU pl.ll V d by any I hat ha ve hen tolol e D u
give notice- fall persons indebted to the late firm I off .red to the public. They are construct! d ol
f 1. I'i-t t i' Ji. Son. by note or book .h best materials, and none bat the best work
s' mt for th last four or five years, to come j m are employed. An experience of rive y an
fin-ward and men the same without dehtr.aad in the husun-ss iustitini the Uhrf that entire
th r. bv
iW up.
save cost, as the enaeern must be si t
TUOS. TROTTER, Adaat
aLd Surviving raitucr.
Feb. 3d, 1-..7.
3i-tf
ry business w ill in the
Th Watch and Jew
nnm
be conducted by the subscribi r, who will 1
mi piias or exp n.- to trive gamrral s:ii.-
Bwtiaa. watch npah ing duur iu a sup ti.r nutn
ner, and a; the ahorteat aoiice.
THOS. TROTTER.
jC" Foa the Neatc t loci: of Clothing
Vo
er saw go io the mpn riua) .-f Fasli
FULL1NGS i CO.
ton of
iTr F,r the Prettiest stock of Clothitiir
jroa ever saw go t-- the Emptium of Fasb-
of Fl'LLlNCS J,.- C5.
v F. r th.- Oh
:.t rtoct of t "lothinrr
you ever saw g t. the Einpotfara of Faah
Fl'LU.STGS v'c CO.
State of .orth Caro5i3a.
Whereas, the east General Assem
BL.V, by an act entitled, "A supplementary
act to take the sense of the people of the
State relative to the proposed amendment
of the Constitution." did cuact as follows:
Wherea, a bill to amend the Constitution
of the State of North Carolina, has been
read in each house of the present General
Assembly on three several d;t s, tad agreed
to by two-Murds of each uooat respectively,
in toe precise words tollownifr: "A bill to
amend the Constitution of the State of North
Carolina :"
Whereas, at the session of the last Gen
eial Assembly, begun and held in Raleigb,
op the third Monday of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and fifty - fun r, u bill, entitled "a bill to
amend the Constitution of the State of North
Carolina." was read three times in each
house of the snid General Assembly, and
agreed to by three-fifths of the whole nnm
her of memoersof each bouse respectively.
And whereas, the hill so agreed to bath
been duly published six months previous to
the election of the members of this present
General Assembly, according to the clause
of section one of article four of the amend
ed Constitution, and the directions con
tained in the second section f the said hill:
and it is the intention, lv this bill, to agree
to the preamble and first secti n of the hill
af resaid, containing the said alteration of
the Constitution of this State : And whereas,
a larse number of the people art; disfran
chised by the freehold qualification now re-
i e .... r i .. . . r .!.. w .
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wereiore, in u cnucica i int mmrai jis-
st miit f i ; int stale of Aorta ( aroitna. atut it )
it In n h i rnacti r b lli" authority J'the tame,
hri thirdt of Uie tcholt number of member of
i i'l, ,;, tte comcu rring. That the ircond !
claiuse of the third section of the first article '
of the amended ( Jonstitutbm, ratified by the ;
people uf North Cartdina. mi the second
Monday of November, in tlie year of ourj
Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-five, (Shall
be amended to read aa fidlows : Eteru free I
irUile man j'lfu age of' tir. nf i one yrars. hr- j
mr i native or naturalized cifizea. ot t!c
nicd dilates, and who hat b( n an inhabi
tant of the State for twelv months immediate
priced in g tin dan of any election and
thai I hare paid public tarts, shall be entitled
to vote for tt member of the Am .'i for the dis
trict in which he rctidct.'
And whereas, it was further pryvided by
the said act. "th;;fthe foregtdug amendment
to the I Constitution of this State, as embodi
ed in the preceding section, be submitted
bv the Gorernor to the people on the first
Ihursdav m August, sixtv days no
tiee
living been given in ten newspapers
NOW, THEREFORE, I do hereby give
notice to all persona entitled to v.ite for
liteiub. rs of the HoUSC of COninons, that
polls will be opi ned on the first Thursday in
August in xt, by the Sheriffs of the respec
ti'e Counties, at the election precincts
within the same, to take the eensc of the
siiiil voters as to the ratification of said
aim ndiucu! to t!i- Coustituthm of the State;
those for ratification to vote wilh a written
or printed ticket "Approved those op
po-ed thereto to vote with a similar ticket
No t Appro d ' '
Given under my hand, as Govern
or of the State of North Can-linn, at
fL.S.1 the Executive otiiee in the City of
Raleigh, on the ldih dav uf Mu.v,
A. D-. ! ?57.
By the Coveno.r: TIIOS. BRAGG.
PULASKJ COWI'KB, Pr. Sec'y.
Mav 17. 2m
BOOKS
CKARIiOTTE BOOK STORE.
The Amkricas RefHrrssi tat : c.mt. mine
bin to Sp rtsmi n, not. s on shooting, and tie
hah is ot the (.'ame iiiuls and Wild Fowl ol
Am riea. by ... .
The (i: i.:t.N Legacy: a story of Life's
Phas. s.
Bills fmm the Foi ntain ok Life, or Ser
mons to Clii'.dn n, by Rer. R. Nkw rox, 1). P.
The Daisy c h ain or Aspirations: a Family
Chronicle.
Shoepac RECOLi.Et-noxa : A Way-Side
;:::iijie cf Am. rican Life, by WALJ B MaBCIL
K .! !!!: Ill: Nt)e: a l'ii. side !! tory of a
Qua t 1. by Hoi me Lee.
I lot SEUOLQ alYSTERIBS, by Lizzie Pitt.
'.'.. Gaixno, or New Mexico and her People.
P.t i. Can::, bv N. P. Willis.
Veva, or tin; Sv.u- of the Peasants and the
Con-c ht: two interesting Romances bound iu
one vohxmc.
The Napolros Dynasty, or the History of
tl: Bonaparte Family: an entirely new work, by
the lierkhy Men, with twenty-two autha ntic
Portraits.
Col at P. J. LOWRiETS
lheik Sti.ro.
March :?!, lsT7. 3S-tf
11. B. Dowlsr ck Co's
CELEUUATED
r II E A T F A N S.
The snbarribpn are aaw engaged at Monroe,
Union county, N. C, iu putt.ug aptae abort
named Fans. In their manner of construction
and
ip rations and entire
i for w Inch they arc
iptation to the par
posi
rneo
tl
r ana
satSf ction will be riven.
A.I our work ia warranted.
All orders will receive nmaoot attention
and the naachmery deliv p d according ta ord. r.
Reft ft :
l. A. Cerington, P. Houston, Ifnarae, X C.
Jam s u Couuisou, Cenj Morrow, ateca.H"Ubnrg
county.
Wm G Smith, Dl Wadkins, Anson county.
i; SE A- Si 'EEL.
MtiNRtii", Union county, March 'JOth- Cm
lihmeiit
.TAMES BBI ANT iniunns his frfcwdf and
former patrons, that he lias n ,.p, mil his TAIL
ORING ESTABLISHMENT in the npwlana
ot'the Building neat to th Bank of the State,
where he will bo happy to s e all those wanting
am tuuurdonein his i.n-. All wosk warrnr.tt d.
Oct. 8Srh, 1'ti. 17-tf
John Henry Watt, 11, i..
SURGEON DENTIST,
(Graduate of the Baltimore College of
JJcntul Surgery,)
Having located permanently, tenders his pro
fessional services to the citizens of
Charlotte, N. C, and
vicinity.
Dr. Wayt prepares tyid insTts artificial palatrs
and obturators, and attends to the correction of
congenital and accidental d. fonnitii-s of the
I teeth ami jaws. H is also prepared to insert
1 artificial teeth, alter the most approved methods
I i? Ladies waited on at their residences
it
required"
Otlice on Tryon Street, in Carson's new
buildinr, np stairs.
Nov. ldth. 20 tf.
Ready-Made Clothing
AND
Furnishing Mtahli$hnient.
SPRINGS & HEATH
RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and
tin- public generally that they have received and
are receiving an extensive assortment of Ready -Made
Clothing1 at their old stand on the north
side of Mint street, to which they invite atten
tion. Gentlemen's COATS;
Among their "lock may be found Black Cloth
Coats, single and double breasted; black and
drab Alpacca in .Sacks, Frocks and Raglans;
French ami English Drap-d'Ete; plain and lan-
v.-
i lancv jinen ji.-irsenies
Linen Marseilles, in suits ; white Linen
I), ill and J. men Duck; each Btyh
nibracing
different cuts, Sack-; Frocks and Raglans.
PANTALOONS :
Pants of French and American Casshnerea,
bhiek and fancy; black and fancy Alpacca,ateeJ
cloth and French and English Diap-d'Ete; plain
ami fancy I. men and msrseilles ot ail grades.
They would call especial attention to theirlot
VESTS,
both single and double breasted, embracing black
and figun d Sid. black Satin, and the prettiest
lot of Marseilles Vests ever offered in this market.
Gents Furnishing Goods,
Th" largest lot in this market, consisting in part
of plain and fancy Linen and Cotton
Collars, Byron .V Bishop; linen and cotton Draw
ers; plain and tancy Hosiery ; Gloves, silk, kid,
Ac; a variety of Cravats, si'k and linen; Hand
k rchiefe, silk and linen ; Suspenders, Ji.c, cVc.
A fine lot of HATS iV.r thi Summer wear, em
bracing all the latest styles of the Silk, Cassuuera
and Felt Hats; Straw, Leghorn, and Panama do.
They offer the above Goods
VERY LOW FOR CASH,
or to punctual dealers on time, with the express
understanding that accounts are due when they
H ant the money.
They return their thanks to their custom pn for
the liberal patronage Iwretofore bestowed upon
tbem, and hope to merit a continuance of the
same by diligence in business and untiring ef
forts to oh ase. Gall and examine their Goods.
SPRINGS 6c HEATH,
Charlotte, X. C.
40-tf
April 7, 1857.
fi' O 11 T li E LADifiiS
T 0 I L E T . '
A large assortment of Fancy Hair and Tooth
Brashes of i very quality ; French, English and
American Pomades for the hair; Lnbin's Ex
tracts of Jockey club, violet, maiechale, t.-a
lose, cedar, heli otrope, rose, new mown hay,
-we. t scented shrub, sweet pea, mouseline,
bouquet Napoleon, summer, blossom, mill, flow
ers, upper ten. jasmine, Caroline, musk.
Cologne, Verbena, Jasmine, and Geranium
Water. , &c. Just received at
SCARR & CO'S
April 14th. Drug Store.
Temple of Fashion
JS NOW OPEN.
SoRielhiii!? Entireiy New.
GENTLEMEN, one and all. young and old,
who w sh to wear Good, Fine Clot lies, goto
J. W. COLE'S
NEW CLOTHING EMPORIUM,
First Door above Kerr's Hotel,
tonneriy occupied b Lowrie's Book Store,
wln re you can g. t the best tits and the finest
clothes for the least money than anywhere else
in the Slate. The goods are all made up to
older expressly for tins market. Ereiythtng is
gotten up in the very latest and neatest styles,
and the making of every piece is
""WlT1 X 2? 3C X Z3L Tfc O 3.
to last, or otherwise madi' good. Let all cro
and look at his well selected stock of Ready
made Clothing, and be sure to examine his
prices: he will put you up a suit so low that you
will be compelled to wear fine clothes.
Gentlem. n w ishing any particular suits, by
leaving their-measures, can have them in 12
days. warranted to suit or u
amies.
II intends to sell very low and conduct a
strict iv Cash Business. The purchaser will
certainty find the Cash Syst. m at least -J per
cent, in his favor. His motto is '-uick sales
and small profits," for CASH ONLY. Yes, it
v., ii v:mf the worth of vour mo. lev come to me.
J. W.
1857.
COLE, Ai
t.
Charlotte, April 1
6m
DK
ii. M. rUIKHAUD'S
l)Ki STORE
; IS REMOVED t. the S'artd on the North
earner of Public Sonare, known as Irwin'a Cor
ner. W il.
he will be r!ad to see his friends and
. customers
; m iv ta. 1857. -I."-;.
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Cigar, Tobacco,
AND
FRUIT STORE.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the citi
zens of Charlotte and autronnding eonnUy, that
lie has juai received a splendid lus-oitun of
SPiVNISII CIGARS
of tie- choicest brands. Also, a fiuo anicie of
CHEWING TOBACCO,
FliL'ITS d: CONFECTIONERIES.
.1 AS. D. PALMER,
Opposite Boone & Co.s Shoe Store.
Charlotte, April 7, 40-tf
T!;: fey B EM06RAT.
tilCHARLOTTEV "
POSTING THE BOOKS.
The House of Representatives stands
thus :
Dem. Blk.Kep. K.N. Vac's.
j Maine - 6 -
N. Hampshire - Jl -
Vermont 3
Massachusetts - 11 -
Rhode Island - 2
Connecticut 2 2
New York 12 21 - -
New Jersey 3 2 - -
Peunsybania 14 10 - 1
Delaware 1 - - -
Virginia 13
South Curolhia G - - -
Florida 1 - -
! Arkansas 2 - - -
j Missouri 3 12 1
Illinois 5 4
Iowa . 2
Wisconsin . 3
Indiana 6 4.1
Ohio 8 13
Michigan . 4
California 2 ...
78 1)1 2 3
Of the Democrats 52 are from the free
States, and 2G from the Southern States, l
proportion of two to one. But the remain
ing elections arc to take place at the South;
and the Detroit Free Press makes the fol
lowing estimate thereof :
Dem. K. N.
Maryland 3 3
North Carolina G 2
Georgia G 2
Alabama 7
Texas 2
Louisiana 2 2
Tennessee G 4
Kentucky G 4
Mississippi 5
13 17
REC lAPITULATIOS.
Democrats 121
Black Republioans i)l
Know Nothings 19
Vacancies 3
This shows a handsome gain. Demo
cratic members of the next House, 121 ;
Democratic members of the last house, 7G ;
gain, 45.
If the Democrats shall fill the vacancies
in Pennsylvania and Missouri, and the
Black Republicans the vacancy in Indiana,
the Democratic strength in a full House
will be 123. and the combined Black Re
publican and Know Nothing strength, 111.
Clean Democratic majority, 12.
m - .
Feveu Poisons. In a work recently
published by an English physician on the
transmission of fevers, after referring to the
value of thorough ventilation, libht and
cleanliness to disinfect clothes and apart
ments, and to disperse infectious fever pois
on, he saj'.s :
"P. is important to know regarding infec
tion, that when not destroyed or dispersed
in the sick room, it attaches itself and ad
heres with great tenacity to all articles of
furniture chairs, tables, drawers, Arc,
nestling in their innumerable pores; and
unless these articles be scruhbed with a
solution of chloride of lime, or exposed to a
strong heat, or a free current of air for sev
eral hours, it may again become evolved,
more virulently than at first, after the lapse
of weeks. Put it chiefly adheres to cotton
or woolen materials. The patient's body
clothes and blankets become saturated with
it, like a sponge with water; and in airing
these materials a mi re passing breeze is not
always sufficient to carry it away.
Lying in Bed with the head High.
It is often a qaestion amongst persons who j
are unacquainted with the anatomy and ,
physiology of a man, whether lying with
the head exalted or even with the body was
the most wholesome. Most consulting their
own case on this point, argue in favor of
that which they prefer. Now, although
many delight in bolstering up their heads
at night, cud sleep soundly without injury,
yet we declare it to be a dangerous habit.
The vessels through which the blood passes
from the head to the heart, are always les
sened in their cavities when the head is
resting in bed higher than the body ; there
fore in all diseases attended with fever,
the head should he pretty nearly on a level
w ith the body ; and people ought to accus
tom themselves to sleep thus to avoid dan
ger. -Mtdical Journal-
Mr. and Mrs. Mahony live in Chicago.
They quarrel. The other day they got to ;
throwing soda bottles at each other and cut '
each others faces badly. Then Mrs. M.
had Mr. M. arrested ; but the next morn
ing she appeared and averred there had
been no trouble between them. To this
was opposed the evidence of a black eye
upon her countenance and a cut upon his
iii iiu. mc . ..i-i hki vo. rv i . v, ii,-, uiiU ue
said the horse kicked him, and they got off.
"My son. how could you marry an Irish
girl ?" "Why father, I am not able to
keep two women, if I had married a Yan
kee girl, I'd been obliged to. hire an Irish
girl to take care of her.'
ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS IN BUSI
NESS. The Petersburg Express says that Hunt's
Merchant's Magazine of a recent date con
tains a brief paragraph under the above
caption, which we earnestly commend to
t havscrio js attention of every young man in
our community aye, every young man
whose eyes these lines may reach. Cut it
out paste it over your desk, on your work
bench iu your memorandum book in the
crown of your hat or in any place, where
it will be ever.befoie your eyes. One of our
most prosperous business men, who Las now
attained toadvanced age ; and whose accu
mulated years have brought wealth and re
putatiou along with them has; a simple
motto ; more in brief, but the substance of
which is the same as the paragraph below-
posted prominently on the mantlepiece of
his oflice room, where it hasjtnet his waking
eye from day to day for more than thirty
years past. Ask him the true secret of h
success ? He will point you to that rule,
which has guided him in all his transactions.
Let the youngjnen of the rising generation,
tb se who have just merged into manhood,
and are now entering the race for success
profit by the example of those who have
achieved that which is most desirablo in
life a competency and an unblemished re
putation. The extract from Hunt's Maga
zine is as follows :
"A judgment quicksand cautious, and
clear and sound a decided purpose a firm
will energetic and persevering industry
punctuality and fidelity in eVery arrange
ment justice and honor controlling every
transaction and courtesy that true cour
tesy which spring from genuine kindness,
presiding over all the intercourse of life.
Such qualities! indeed, whenever and wherc
ever exhibited, may be said almost to insure
a favorable result ; for they are the means
which common sense dictates, and which
Providence is wont to bless."
YOR-I CITTBAEIZo.
During the pastyear the followingamotint
of business has been transacted in New
York babies :
Lost children restored 4,952, sick and
injured aided91G, rescued from drowning
91. The method of recovering lost children
is curious and efficient. Seldom one stops
for three hours'iu a station house without
hearing the anxious inquiry from a mother,
"have you seen my child ?" The police
man have seen many children in the street,
hut none that he knew was lost. "Wrill
madam please to describe her child ?"
Here of course must be imagined the mo
ther's minute description of her lost one.
It is in some cases a long time before the
officer in attendance can ascertain the size,
appearance, and age of the child. As soon
as he does, however, he puts the police
telegraph in operation and inquires at the
office of the Chief of Police whether any
lost children have been reported there. If
not, the operator in the chief's oflice opens
the line to the other station houses, and if
a child has been found at any of them an
answer is returned immediately and for
warded over the line to the station where
the inquiry was first made. Such inquiries
are hardly ever fruitless, for it is the duty
of every policeman to report all children
found strolling about and unable to tell
where they live to their respective station
houses without delay. Such children are
kept for two days, when, if not claimed,
they are transferred to the alms-house. It
is. however, seldom that a child remain un
claimed so long. The facilities which the
police and police telegraph afford for the
discovery of lost children is now pretty
generally known, so that when a child is
missing some one repairs to the nearest
station-house immediately, and the where
abouts of the absent little one is often
learned in two or three minutes, even though
it he in a distant part of the city.
a-o-a
Coleridge says, that even in after years,
innocence preserves its natural moral in
stinct unimpaired. It is an established
fact that a dove trembles at a snake, al
though it has never seen one before, and
we may cite as a confirming instance of
the instructive innocence of old bachelors,
that ice never see a very handsome and
fashionable widow without feeling just as
the dove does in the presence of a boa
constrictor, or hooded serpent. In making
this confession, we mean nothing disre
spectful to those fair but highly dangerous
man-traps !
Pater. There are 750 paper mills in
the United Slates, in which are 3,0U0 en
gines, making 9(U,0()0 pounds a day or
270,000,000 a year ; G,000 tons of straw for
wratitdncr naoer and pasteboards are used.
, f. -vfinurB amiuai imlK)rtation of ra.'s
. .... , --en- r - D
10,000 tons. It is estimated that one
and a half pounds of rags are required. to
make a pound of paper, and the cost of
labor is one and a quarter cents for each
pound of paper. The consumption of paper
in this country equal that of England and
prance
A little boy once said to his grandmother:
"Grandmother, I hope you will die first."
"Why so. my child ?"
"Because I can stand trouble better than
you can.''
This hint from an affectionate and brave
bov occasioned great laughter.
TEA TABLE DRINKS.
There tire three aromatic beverages tea,
coffee, and cocoa which are generally
used in all parts of civilized Europe. Asia,
and America. In the countries of China,
Thibet,. Russia, Holland, England, and the
various States and Provinces of North
America, having an aggregate population
of five hundred million human beings, an
estimated quantity of two thousand million
pounds of tea four pounds to each in
dividual annually used. Coffee, which is
preferred by many people to tea, and
which is, indeed, the staple minor luxury
of Mahomcdan life, is yearly becoming
more and more generally used. It is
estimated that six hundred million pounds
of the coffee bean are consumed every year
by one hundred and twenty millions of
men. Cocoa, the least popular of these
drinks, is still a favorite beverage in Central
America, Italy and Spain, and is probably
consumed to the extent of one hundred
million pounds a year among a population
of fifty million.
An article in the April number of the
Edinburgh Review gives some interesting
facts in relation to the chemical properties
of these three tea table drinks, which are
common upon every table in our land, and
explains at length the reasons why they
arc always so refreshing to the weary and
so apparently nourishing to the hungry. It
says that the tea, coffee and cocoa all
contain in the roasted state in which they
are used, aromatic oils, in Ktinute proportion,
to which the peculiar aroma of each is due.
They contain, also a proportion of an astrin
gent substance resembling the tannin of gall
nuts or oak bark. In the tea and coffee is
found variable quantity of a white crystal
line body called theine ; and in cocoa a
substance of nearly a similar character
known by the name of theobromine. Of
these three constituent Jparts, two of them.
the volatile oil and the theine, are known
to exercise a peculiar influence upon the
svstem. lhe oil possesses narcotic proper
ties, intoxicates, occasions headache and
giddiness, and sometimes paralysis in those
who, as tea tasters, are much exposed to
its influence. New tea contains this oil in
largcrquantitie.s than old. The small
proportion of it which exists in tea as we
tret it from China is harmless.
The theine which is found in coffee and
tea, and the theobromine in cocoa, are
bitter, strengthening substances, distin
guished particularly by the peculiar property
of retarding the natural waste of the animal
body. The faster the waste the larger the
quantity of food which must daily be
consumed to make up for the loss which it
occasions, ine uieine, or theobromine,
therefore, by lessening the waste, lessens
also the amount of food necessary to be
eaten within a given time. The volatile
oil produces a similar effect in a somewhat
less degree, and when old age comes on
and the powers of digestion diminish, the
infusion tea, which contains both these
ingredients, by lessening the waste, aids
the digestive powers to maintain the strength
and bulk of the weakening frame. Dr.
Johnston, the author of a work upon ''the
chemistry of common life," savs, in connec
tion with these important properties of the
theine and volatile oil, that
"It is no longer wonderful, therefore, that
tea and coffee should be favorites on the
one hand with the poor, whose supplies of
food are scanty, and on the other hand
with the aged and infirm, especially of the
feebler sex, "whose powers of digestion and
whose bodily substance have together begun
to fail. Nor is it surprising that the aged
female whose earnings are barely sufficient
to buy the common necessaries of life, should
yet spare a portion of her small gains in
procuring this grateful indulgence. She
can sustain her strength as well with less
common food when she takes her tea
along with il; while she feels lighter at the
same time, in spirits, more cheerful and
fitter for the dull work of life, because of
this little indulgence." Boston Journal.
Curing Hides. It is not generally
known that well cured hides will command
from one to two cents per pound more than
hides cured iu the way usually adopted by
our butchers and farmers. Tanners who
thoroughly understand tli-ir business know
this to be a fact, and will not buy hard sun
dried hides, when they can procure those that
have been properly cured ; from these two
important facts hides cured iu a propei
manner are much easier and quicker work
ed by the Tanner, and will make a superior
article of Leather.
In order to enlighten those who wish to
secure the best price for hides, we give tin
following mode of curing, which we procur
ed from a gentleman who knoic it to be a
most excellent plan :
After the hide :s taken from the animd.
wsh the blood from it with clean water,
spread it on the ground floor, .-alt it well,
and let it remain in a cool place from 12 t.
24 hours, then bang it under a shelter until
nearly dry, turn the hair side out, and when
perfectly dry, it will be in fine condition for
Tanning.
PRETENDED ARISTOCRACY.
There is a great deal of humbug and
shamefaced deceit in the world now-a-days,
and we have been not a little amused by
the pretensions made to rauk and title by
some whose ancestry were not unwilling to
own that they earned their daily bread by
"the sweat of their brow.' Those who as
sume for themselves a superiority of station
above their fellows, are generally defend
ed from parents who claimed no pre-eminence
for their high birth or degree. By
fortune favored, they have been placed in
a position in life to command respect for
their money, and believing gold to be the
title to aristocracy, they assume n haughty
demeanor, and say to those less fortunate,
"I am holier thau thou." The true noble
man is to be distinguished by his manners,
and not by the amount of his ducats.
' True is, what whilome that good poet said,
Th-a g.-ntle mind by gentle deed is known ;
For nun by nothing if so well botiay'd
As 1 his BMMNHae, in which plain is shown
Of wha degree and what race lie is grown."
We holier and respeot the man who
strives to muvntain the dignity of whatever
station he may occupy iu life, but theio
are so many whose pride is the basis of
their claim to aristocracy, that we cainu t
but smile as they exhibit their weakness.
Low birth is no crime and he who calls the
poor seamstress "Mother," is equal in all
respects provided he is u man to him
who was matured and reared in the cradle
of luxury.
'Titles of honor add not to his worth,
Who is an honor to his title."
Beneath the homesjun raiment of the
hard-fisted son of toil, there may beat a
heart as sensible to high and noble feelings,
as can be found hack of the silks, satins,
and broadcloth f wealth. The germs of
greatness are hidden in the recesses of la
bor, and from tiuie to time develop them
selves to star.'le and astonish the world.
All the great men of the land, in early life,
were poor and without position. The in
nate spirit of nobleness that filially claimed
acknowledgement from the people, was not
the result of title or proud position. It
sprung from the heart of honor and virtue,
unadorned by wealth or fortune, or by rank.
"Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reaeon, valor, liberty, and virtue,
Displays distinguishuicuts, is a noble
Of nature's ow n creation."
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WORKING GIRLS
Here is a short chapter in commendation
of the working girls, a numerous class of
the community, whose useful labors are too
little appreciated :
ELaPPT Girls ! who cannot love them.
With cheeks like roses, bright oyea and
clastic step, how cheerfully they go to work.
Our reputation for it, such girls will make
excellent wives. Blessed indeed will those
men be who secure such prizes. Contrast
those who do nothing but sigh all day, and
live to follow the fashions, who never earn
the bread they eat or the shoes they wear,
who are languid and lazy from one week's
end to another. Who but a simpleton and
popinjay would prefer one of the latter, if
he were looking for a companion ? Givo
us the working girls ; they are worth their
weight in gold. You never see them minc
ing along, or jump a dozen feet to steer
ch ar of a spider or a fly ; they have no af
fectation or silly airs about them. WMien
they meet you, they speak without putting
on a dozen silly airs, or trying to show oft'
to a better advuntuge, and you feel as if
you were talking to a human being, and
not to a painted automaton or a fallen
angel.
If girls knew how sadly they missed it
while they endeavor to show off their deli
cate hands and unsoiled skins, puting on a
thousand airs, they would give worlds for
the tituation of the working ladies, who are
as far above them in intelligence, in honor,
in every thing, as the heavens are above
the earth.
Be wise, then ; you hove made fools of
yourselves through life. Turn over a new
leaf, and begin, though late, to live and act
as human beings, as companions to immor
tal man, and not play things and dolls. In
no other way can you be happy and sub
servo the designs of your existence.
Chief Justice Sausdkbs. Roger
North gives the following curious account
of Sir Edmund Sauuders, Chief Justice of
the King's Bench : "His character and
beginning were equally strange. He was
at first no better than a poor beggar boy,
if not a parish foundling, without known '
parents or relations. He had found a way
to live by obsequiousness, in Clement's Inn,
an I remember, and courting the attorney's
elerkft for scraps. The extraordinary ob--ervance
and dilligence of the boy made
the society willing to do him good. He ap
peared very ambitious to write ; and u of
the attorneys got a board knock, d up at a
window on the top of staircase, and that
was his desk, where be sat and wrote after
copies of court and other hands the clerks
gave him. He made himself so expert a
writer that he took in business, and earned
some pence by hackney writing. And
t has by degrees, be pushed h in faculties,
and fell to forms, and, by books that were
lent him. became an exquisite entering
clerk, and. by the same course of improve
ment of himseU, an able counsel, first in
special pleading, and then at large. And
after be was called to the bar, he had prac
;ice in the King's Bench Court equal with
any there."
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