CFf,CE up stairs opposite SCARR'S drug store j A Family Paper, deyoted to State Intelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany.
By WILLIAM J. YATES,
EDITOK AND MtOPUETOK.
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
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(, uth Fork t the Catawba River,
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II mi;. - .,"it!i - st ol oiuuioti", ani winini
tbive aiis-s of Uu? line of Rai!road now building
lo'H Charlotti'to Unctdnton.
A . Two Hundrt-d Acn s, one-third of which
i BIHlY run ii aiiun.
AIm, ,'"" Acns on the
South Foik in a rood j
itt mint anon.
XIk :.!.-.vi :e.e jmmmI Fu ming Land, and will
k-sU inlotsfesail purchasers. Tms easy.
On oi.e ,.j iiie tract - there is a water power
of 5BI t, with ronunand of th' whole liiM-r.
IVfsom wishing to examhw tb se Lands will
In-atfa-aded to bv thenarnea at Siowsville.
J. A . E. U- STOWE.
nuuiotte, June g, 1 -r.T. 4Mf
Jr t attle Wazslcd.
Also, 500 IIEiD Oi
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ftr'ifWlead of HOGS,
ni It or 13 No. I Miicli (o'.v.
I lKSIRE to purchase
ii i-;e r Ii allow ainonut ol
j niji any l.r Bale will uo weii io
mr a i"
all, as 1 bu willimr lo py uignem
BuakH uikf . Farmers will IuhI ittotli u :. ivan
tav losell tb.-':r Beeves, Pheep or llgs to me
usii-ad ! iwtelM'ring tmnist-lves. as Ithiuk I
ran natuiK rat. tlx ni as well if not better than it
th. v n J :h msetve.
W. A. COOK,
CharkiUe. July It. 1-"T. Town Bnt5her.
BOOTS & SHOES.
Just
Til
SPRING &
A- iliie
Boo ts
As h: ex
oarac ;rn TP 91 P
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an Assortinent !
er been offered t" a
(.'a!! and see tin m at
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3T rerms, CAS1I.
Manh '7, 1857.
iV; C "S STOUE.
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K.n. Ml'84 IHSOX. -J- howeli
IVIQUCHISON HOWELL,
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Feb. 3d, l-:7.
13';:.' I Street, .V. J
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D I!. K . WYS0NG,
Charielt, W. C.
1 AVIXO loeat.il isi this place, reSM
-tfidly
i offers his Profi-ssMinal Sutvieea to the citi
lis el he town and vicinity.
! .. OFFICE in the new brick building,
pptsite the bnrnl ihstriet, Main Street.
April
BREM & STEELE,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
IN
Hardware, ?S;ti. ssd Shoes,
CHARLOTTE, X. C.
May r, 1857. 1 l-tl
DRESS-MAKING.
'MRU, WHIAMH
K.spectriiIIy informs the Ladies oi Charlotte
and vicinity, that she has returned, and offers
net ei vices to her old custom is and u n s.
RESIDENCE CPPJSITE THE POST OFFICE-
Charlotte, June 30. I n7.
Dl. JL CHERAS
Having located at MONROE, tenders his pro-
t' -:oi;ii services to the CltlW ot tile ToWH
aa 1 Bummndin country, and respectfully aoli
ct their patron ago.
I . I :tic at J. Bickett's.
April it. -J.:-:!in
tar For the Ncatefl stock of Clothing
tou e
um . f
r saw
to the Emp ritt!u of Fas
FULLLNGS & CO.
svrv i or tne l reuiest stocc ot uiotlimt;
VI" ,1 Ik T .l 1
you . vor saw g.j t.i t!;e Kt rium of F;i-!i-1
" of FULLISGS & C .
For die Cheapest stock of Clothii
you eve saw go to the Emporium of Fas I
: ! HV LUNGS cv C
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State oi'IYortli Carolina.
Whereas, the last General Assem
bly, by an act entitled, "A supplementary
act to take tlio sense of the people of the
State relative to the proposed amendment
of the Constitution," did enact as follows :
Whereas, a bill to amend tlio Constitution
of tlm Stato of North Carolina, bus been
read in Pach house oi the present General
Assembly on three several days, and agree d
to by two-thirds of each bouse respectively,
in the precise words following: "A bill to
amend the Constitution of the State of North
Carolina :"
Whereas, at tlio rs-don of the last (Jen
era! Assembly, begun and held in Raleigh,
on l! te third Monday of StnTcniber, la the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and fifty-four, :i bill, entitled "a bill to
amend the Constitution of the State of North
Carolina." was read three times in each
bouse of the said General Assembly, and
agreed to by three-fifths of the whole num
ber "! members of each house respectively.
And whereas, the bill so agreed to hath
been duly published six Di mtiis previous to
the election of the members of this present
General Assembly, according to the clause
of section one of article four of the ameud-
I ed ('.institution, and th directions con
tained in the second sect!. in of the said bill;
and it is. the intention, lv this bill, to agree j
to the preamble and Brst section of the bill
aforesaid, containing the -aid alteration of
the Constitution of this State :
And whereas,
a large number of the people are disfran
chised by the freehold qualification now re
quired f voters for members d" the Senate ;
therefore, Bt it enacted by tht General As
sembly dj'tlie State of Xortlt Carolina and it
is at r l i enacted In the a u tl, urit u of the same.
j tiro-thirds of the ipAoe nttmbi r of members of
1 eadt house coucnrritig. That tlio second
J clans! d the third section oj the brst article ,
of the amended ( Constitution, ratified bv the i
d
f North Carolina, on the second
i Monday f November, i:i the year of our
Lord eiirhteeii hundred and Ihirtv-five, shall
intended t read as follows : Event tree
.. 'lite man of the age of twenfy-one years, be-
a native or naturalized citizen of the
United States, and who has been an inhabi
tant of the Slate for tn Ive months immediate
ly preceding the 'lay of any election, and
shall hare paid public taxes, shall he entitled
to '. for a uu mber -f the Si Hate Jar the dis
trict in which he resides
And whereas, it was further provided by
the .-aid act, "that the foregoing amendment
t" the Constitution of thisjRttate, as embodi
ed in the preceding section, be submitted
by the (lover nor to tlio people, on the first
Thursday in August, 1 sixty days no
tice having bei u given in ten newspapers':
NOW, THEREFORE, ! do hereby give
notice tn.ill persons entitled to vote fo
members if the Ifou.-i- of ('ominous, that
pi -Ii- a iii be opened on the first Thursday in
August nest, by the Sheriffs of the respec
tive Counties, at the election precincts
within tho same, to take the sense of the
. , a . 1 . . , i" . 1? ... 1
.-;iii voters as to rue rniiiicuiiou oi ?-a:u
u . udiueut to the Constitution of the State;
iLos' for ratification to vote with a written
or printed ticket "Approved;" those op
poscd thereto to vote witli a similar ticket
A, A nvrovt ."'
Given under my hand, as Govern
or of the State of North Carolina, at
the Executive office in the City of
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the 18th day of May.
A. IL. 1.;7.
By the Governor: TUOS. BRAGG.
1'ri.ASK Cowper, Pr. Sec'y.
May , 1-7. 2m
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CHARLOTT
BOOK STORE.
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mkith'AN SpoRTyMAS: contaimng
xirtsiiam, not. s on shooting, and the
(lame Birds and Wild f owl ot
. by Lev
IS.
Legacv:
a story of Lif
s f.-.mi the ForsTAW or Life
. el. n, bv Rev. K. New to:
or Ser
, 1. 1).
Family
1 nsv Chain or
Aspiration
Ulirouicte.
Si : p n Recoi i ECTtosa
G!!mpse ef American Life, by V
K.VTIIIE CiiAXDE: a Fi'.esid'
A Way-Side
II.EK March.
1 1 istory of a
Qtiiel Life, by I Iulxe Lee.
Hoi sr.iiof.D Mvstekies, by Lizzie Pitt.
El Gkixgo, or New Mexico and her People.
I'm i. 1 ise, by N. P. Willis.
Veva, or tlie War of tit.- Peasants and the
C nseript: two interesting Romances bound in
on oluine.
The Napoleon Dvxastv, or the History of
the Bonapaite Family: an utirely u w work, by
the Ib-rkley Men, with twenty-two authentic
Portraits.
Call at P. .J. LOWRIITS
Book Store.
March 31, u. 39-tf
EC.
S. Dewier 6c Co's
CELEBRATED
WHEAT FANS.
The subscribers are m w
Fnion countj . . C. in pi
raged at Monroe,
in? t:n the above
nameu r ans. in iBeir maimer oi cuusuuwkiu
and operations and entin adaptation te the pur
poses for which they are designed, these rans
are untualled by any that have her tolbre been
oil red to the public. They arc constructed ol
the best materials, and none but the best werk
an n employi d. An exp Tience of five years
in the business justifies ti:.- belief that entire
satisfaction ill be gii i n. '
All our v. oik is warranted.
I . 'AH orders will rec ivc pioawp attention
and the inachinery delivi red according to order.
Rejert no :
D. A. Covington, ,L P. Houston, Munroe, K C.
James D Robinson, Benj Mihtow, Mecklenburg
county.
Wm U Smith. li Wadkins, Anson county.
i; sk & STEEL.
Monroe, Union county , March 90th. 6m
A Acw Tailoring tab
listaiiieiit. JAMES BRIANT informs bis firienda and
former patron . that he has reopen d his 1 A1L
ORING ESTABLISHMENT in the up stairs
of the Building next to the Bank ef the State,
whi re he will be bappy to si all those wanting
any tain r done b: his line. All v oik warranted.
. i), : 2c?th, 1850. 17-tf
.9 oh ii fiaVsiry Wayt, JI. .,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Graduate of the Baltimore College of
Dental Surgery,)
Having located permanently, tenders his pro
fessional services to the citizens of
Charlotte, N. C, and
vicinity.
T"lr f nri'ii'iri-j oi.il innrti; ,rtilii!nl ,x..l..,i.
I and obturators, and attends to the correction of
congenital and accidental deformities of the
teeth and jaws. He is also prepared to insert
artificial teeth, alter the most approved methods.
I W Ladies waited on at their residences if
required
Office on Tryon Street, in Carson's new
building, up stairs.
Nov. J 3th. Q0 tf.
Ready-Made Clothing
AND
FurBiitliing- Establishment.
SPRINGS & HEATH
EESPECTFUUbY inform their friends and
the public generally that they have received and
are receiving an extensive assortment of Ready
Made Clothing at their old stand on the north
side of Mint street, to which they invite atten
tion. Gentlemen's COATS
j Among their stock may be found Black Cloth
Coats, single and double breasted; black and
! drab Alpacca in Sacks, Frocks and Raglans;
1 reach and .hiighsh JJrap-d fcte; plain and Ian-
ev Cassiineres, gotten up in nice suits; plain and
tancy Linen Marseilles, in suits; white Lim-n
Drill and Linen Duck; each style embracing
the different cuts, Sacks, Frocks and liaglaus.
PANTALOONS;
Pants of French and American Cassiineres.
black and Fancy ; black and fancv Alpacca, steel
cloth and French ami English Drap-d'Ete ;' plain
aiKi t.uicv Jinen aim Marseilles ot grade;
They w uld call especial attention to their lot
VESTS,
both single and double breasted, embracing black
and figured Silk, black Satin, and the prettiest
lot of Marseilles Vests ever offered in this market.
Gents Furnishing Goods,
The largest lot in this market, consisting in part
of plain and fancy Linen and Cotton
Collars, Byron & Bishop; linen and cotton Draw
ers; plain and tancy Hosiery ; Cloves, silk, kid,
&c; a variety of Cravats, silk and linen; Hand
kerchiefs, silk and linen ; Suspenders, &.C., A:e.
AliSOf
A fine lot of 1 1 ATS for the Summer wear, em
bracing all the latest styles of the Silk. Cassimere
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
want the money.
They return their thanks to their customers for
the liberal pa ."onage heretofore bestowed upon
them, and hope to merit a continuance of the
same by diligence in business and untiring ef
forts to ph ase. Call and examine their Goods.
SPRINGS 6c HEATH,
Charlotte, N. C.
April 7, 1857. 40-tf
FOR THE LADIES
JL 1 E jLi o
A large assortment of Fancy Hair and Tooth
Brushes of every quality; French, English and
American Pomades for the hair; Lubin's Ex
tract of Jockey dub, violet, marcchale, tea
rose, cedar, beleotrope, rose, new mown hay,
sweet scented shrub, sweet pea, niouseline,
bouquet Napoleon, summer, blossom, milleflow
ers, upper ten. jasmine, Caroline, musk.
Cologne, Verb na, Jasmine, and Geranium
Waters, &c. Just received at
SCAUR cSc CO'S
April 1-1 th. Drugstore.
Temple of Fashion
JS NOW OPEN..
Something Entirely New.
GENTLEMEN, one and all, young and old,
who wish to wear Good, Fine Clothes, goto
J. W. COLE'S
NEW CLOTHING EMPORIUM,
First Dour above Kerr's Hotel,
formerly occupied by Lowrie's Book Store,
where you can get the best tits and the finest
clothes for tho least money tine, anywhere else
in the State. The goods a.e all made up to
order expressly for this marki t. Everything is
gitii n up in tin-very latest and neatest styles,
and the making of every piece is
"V7"XXi'3:i.tOCJ.
to lat, or otherwise made good. I t all ro
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.
Gentlemen wishing any particular suits, by
leaving their measures, can have them in 12
days, warrnutcd to suit or no
sales.
He intends to sell very low and conduct a
strictly Cash Business. The purchaser will
certainly rind the Cash System at h ast 20 per
cent, in his lavor. His motto is "quick sales
and small profits," for CASH ONLY. Yes, if
you want the worth of your money conic to me.
' J. W. COLE, Ag't.
Charlotte, April 28, 1K7. Cm
VII. II. M. PRITCHARD'S
EEr STORE
IS REMOVED to the Stand on the North
corner of Public Square, known as Irwin's Cor
ner, where he will be glad to see his friends and
customers.
May 12, lc57. 45-tf
Cigar, Tobacco,
AND
FRUIT STORE.
THE subscriber reapeetlully informs the citi
z. ns of Charlotte and surrounding country, that
he has just received a splendid assortment of
SPANISH CIGARS
of the choicest brands. Also, a lino article of
C 1 1 EW ING TOBACCO,
FRUITS & CONFECTIONERIES.
JAS. D. PALMER,
Opposite Boone A Co. 'a Shoo Store.
Charlotte, April 7. lo7. 40-tf
WESTERN DEMOCRAT,
f CHARLOTTES '
THE POISONING OF CHILDREN AT
CINCINNATI.
Further Particulars
The Cincinnati Commercial if Wednes
day has tho following pcrticulars of the
poisoning:
Yesterday afternoon betweei tho hours
of two and four, a couple of bays, appar
ently from 14 to 1G years if ape, were ob
served sauntering up Buckeye street, a
densely populated German neighborhood,
scattering small lozenges upon the sidewalk
about tho size of peppermint drops. In
another part of the street a rather robust
man, dressed in a black coat, white pants
and white hat, with a box under his arm,
was also observed occasionally distributing
a similar description of lozenges, on.y in
larger quantities. As is usual in Gernun
localities, quite a number of children wire
playing upon the street, and they greediy
seized the tempting candies thus gratui
tously thrown in their way. Occasional!;
the man would give a package to persons
ho met, but in these instances the parties
declined tasting, suspecting that all was
not right. Not so, however, with the un
suspecting children, who greedily devoured
tho (to them) dainty waifs, and in a short
time afterwards they were taken with vio
lent vomiting. The neighborhood became
speedily alarmed, and Drs. Smith. Davis
and Fries were summoned, who speedily
detected tho actiou of poison, and ipon a
chemist in tho neighborhood, Mr Eckel,
analyzing a loziuge, it was found to be
composed of equal parts of arsenic, sigar
and flour. In the track which the man, or
rather monster, had takci:, as many as
1,500 of these death-dealing drops wire
found in one pile, and in another spot one
fourth pound of arsenic was found tied in a
couple of parcels.
The neighborhood became fearfully ex
cited, for at least twenty children Lad more
or less partaken of the insidious poison.
The first victim was a fine little by named
John Shultz, aged nine years. lis expired
at about (1 o'clock in the evening. We
were present when the Coroner held his
tutjuvst, uml a muic niclunciioly sight it
has hardly been our lot to witness. The
mother of tha dead child had a few days
previous been confiued, and in the same
room her eldest born lay a stiff and rigid
corpse, while the new-born infant sought
in vain for nourishment from the maternal
breast, the fount of which sudden grief and
agony had dried. Her two other children
had also partaken of the poisonous drops,
and lay sick in the same room, but they
were pronounced out of danger.
Immediately upon the other side of tho
street, another promising child named
Henry Schwartz, about 11 o'clock last
night is said to have breathed its last; and
at the time we visited the poisoned district
some four or five other children, male and
female were supposed to be in a very criti
cal condition. We heard also that several
similar cases had occurred on Fifteenth,
between Race and Elm streets.
It is with heartfelt pain that we arc com
pelled to record a crime which makes us
blush for our common nature. Such a
fiend as the perpetrator of the above atroci
ties might well cause us to claim kindred
with the brute and forswear our relation
ship with the human species. It is to be
hoped that no pains will be spared in hunt
ing the vampire to his lair.
One of the Lynchers Huxq. A
young man named Flinch, son of Deacon
Flinch, of Massilon, Cedar county, Iowa,
hung himself last Tuesday, about 4 o'clock
p. m. lie was with the vigilance committee
at the time they took Kelso and his com
rade, and on casting a vote whether he
should be hung or not, he cast his vote in
favor of hanging, but left before they were
hung. When he returned home his mother
asked him if they had caught the men. He
said they had, and he had voted to hang
them. His mother told him he ought not j
to take that which he could not give. After
she had talked with him a few moments, he
left her and went to his plowing, attended j OI Piaiu a,,u uuaoTO J"J
to that for a while, when he hitched his ments, and plates of various thickness, from
horse, and taking ono of the reins, went to t! f,,il to thc "teenth of an inch thick,
a tree, tied the strap to a low limb and combined with gold, so as to show gold up
round his neck, then let his weight down, j n G ido ad t,,p iJfi 1 10
and when found his knees touched the j a(1 5t was certainly very difhcult to tell
ground and he was dead. Anamosa ( la.)
Kureka.
A Cakgo of Irish Girls. A company
of seventy Irish girls passed through this
city on their way to the AN est, a day or
two since, accompanied by an Irish gentle
man, who had them in charge, and had
brought them all the way from Ireland.
They were a fine looking lut of girls, from
sixteen to eighteen years of age, and intend
to make the West their homes; and of
course tire ready to marry, but are willing
to work and earn their living until the
time arrives when they will get a husband.
They are to earn money sufficient to pay
the expense of bringing them over, and
return it to the benevolent gentleman who
took the expense upon himself, the first
thintr, after that they will be at liberty to
indulge in ribbons and hoops, if they
choose. Detroit Free Press.
THE TWO BROTHERS.
The following beautiful Arabian legend
we copy from the "Voice of Jacob."
The site occupied by tho temple of Solo
mon was formerly a cultivated field, pos
sessed in common by two brothers. One
of them was married and had several chil
dren; the other was unmarried. They lived
together, however, in the greatest harmony
possible, cultivating the property they had
inherited from their father.
The harvest season had arrived. The
two brothers bound up their sheaves, made
two onual stacks of them, and left them on
the field. During the night tho unmarried
brother was struck with an excellent thought.
My brother, said he to himself, has a wife
and children to support; is it just that my
portion of the harvest should be as large as
his. Upon this ho arose and took from his
stack several sheaves, which he added to
those of his brother ; and this he did with
as much secrecy as if he had been commit
ting an evil action, in order that his offering
might not be rejected.
On tho samo night tho other brother
awoke and said to his wife, "My brother
lives alone without a companion ; ho has
none to assist in his labor nor to reward
him for his toils, while God has bestowed
on me a wife and children ; is it right that
ve should take from our common field as
many shieves as he, since we have already
more than he has domestic happiness.
If you consent, we shall, by adding secret
ly a number of our shieves to his stack, by
way of compensation, and without his
knowledge, see his portion of the harvest
increased. This object was approved and
immediately put in execution.
In the morning, each of the brothers went
into the field, and was much surprised at
seeing the stacks still equal. During
several successive nights the samo contri
vance was repeated on each side ; each
kept adding to his brother's store, the
stacks always remained the same. But
one night, both having stood sentinel to
divine into the cause of the miracle, they
met; each bearing the shieves mutually
designed for the other. It was thus that
all was elucidated, and they rushed into !
each other's arms, each grateful to Heaven
for having so good a brother.
Now, saya tho legend, tlie place where
so good an idea had simultaneously occur
red to the two brothers, and with so much
pertinacity, must have been acceptable to
God. Men blessed it, and Israel choso it
there to erect tho house of the Lord.
OREIDE THE NEW SUBSTITUTE
FOR GOLD.
The manufacture of this new metal,
oreide, under the French patent ot II.
Migeou, granted iu this country March 3,
ld57,Jias been commenced on a large scale
in Watcrbury, Connecticut, and it will un
doubtedly soon bo in use, as it is already in
France, for various articles of domestic
economy and all sorts of ornamentation, as
it bears relation to gold similar to that of
German silver to pure silver; like German
silver, it may be used in a pure condition.
or as a base of gold plating. It bears so
strong a resemblance to gold, that when
manufactured into fine articles, such as we
have become accustomed to see made only
of gold, we arc at once convinced that the
articlo we are handling is really the pure
metal, yet it is made of a meterial that
costs only eighty cents a pound as it comes
from the furnace, where the several metals
of its composition havo been refined into
ingots.
The oreide is not a new metal it is only
a new compound of old metals, so refined
in the process as to have done away with
a great part of their disposition to oxidise,
as it only tarnishes in about the same de
gree as silver, and though ebulition takes
place, if tested with nitric acid, it docs not
leave a black spot, so that it may be actu
ally cleaned with acids which would de
stroy such metals as copper or brass. We
have examined the metal in bars and sheets
prepared for the manufacture of various
articles, and also in its manufactured state
in spoons, sugar tongs, napkin rags, gob
lets, buttons, watch chains, various articles
i . 1 J 1 I 1 1 ,
which was gold and wtncii was oreiue
That it is an improvement in the arts there
can be no doubt ; and that it so much re
sembles gold as to make it necessary for
our Legislature at once to require, as
in France, that all articles should be stamp
ed "oreide" to prevent great frauds, will
probably be found out after a great many
people have been severely cheated. A. Y.
Tribune.
As Antidote. Dr. Shaw of Texas, states
that he has found sweet oil, drank freely,
a successful antidote to strychnine in two
cases. The oil is to be poured down
without any reference to the patieut's
vomiting, l'rof. Rochester has reported
two cases of poisoning by the same terrible
drug successfully t-cated by a free use of
camphor internally, and mustard poultice
outside.
HINTS TO HORSE DEALERS.
Tompkins bought a fine horse paid 500
for him. Tlie horse, after a few months,
proved to be lame in tho right shoulder.
Tompkins was distressed about it tried
all sorts of remedies embrocations, lini
ments, Mustang included, under tho advice
of the very best veterianaries, still the lane
ness was obstinate and grew rather worse.
Ho became desperate, and hit upon ili'u de
vice to sell the horse, lie drove an bgly
ten-penny nail plump into the rigH fore
foot, and left it there for ten days, when
he led the tortured animal limping to n
Uc tgh Vot igj ltlwohnmStV to b. shod. i1:e
blacksmith was a dealer in horses, and qtite
a jockey in his way. After a while Thomp
kins called at the shop for his horse.
"That's a splendid gelding of yours, Mr
Tompkins ; pity he is so lame, says the
blacksmith.
"He is, indeed," replied Tompkins ; "but
he is very lame, and I am afraid he can't
be cured."
"Perhaps not, and may-be ho can," says
Vulcan. "How much would you be willing
to tako for him, just as he stands, Mr.
Tompkins, money down ?"
"Ah, well, I don't know what to say
about that, if he is cured, he's worth all I
paid for him. and even much more as
horses go now ; but if his lameness should
continue, you see ho is worth nothing not
a uollar."
The blacksmith began to chaffer. First
he offered $50 then $100 aud at last $'-200
for the animal. Tompkins was persuaded,
aud accepted the last offer. The money
was paid, aud the horse delivered on the
spot.
"Now," says the blacksmith, "as the bar
gain is finished, I will be frank with you,
Mr. Tompkins. I suppose I can tell you
exactly what ailed that horse"
"Can you ?" said Tompkins ; "well, I
shall be glad to hear it. I thought you
knew all about it, or you would not have
paid so much money for him."
Tho blacksmith produced the nail, and
assured Tompkins, with great apparent
satisfaction, that, while paring down the
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frog of the near fore-foot.
"Is that all you know about it ?" Tomp-l-
l-j . m-;.v
"All!" replied the blacksmith: alt:
isn't that enough for conscience sake V
"Well," replied Tompkins, "I don't know
as it is. 1 will bo equally as frank with
you, since tho bargain is finished. I drove
that nail into the foot, but the lameness is
in the shoulder, I think you will find !"
Consumption. Sir James Clark, of
England, has assailed, with considerable
force, the doctrine that a change of climate
is beneficial to persons suffering with con
sumption ; and a French physician, M.
Carriere. has written forcibly against it.
Dr. Burgess, an eminent Scotch physician,
also contends that climate has little or
nothing to do with euro of consumption ;
and that, ifit had, the curative effects would
be produced through tho skin, and not the
lungs. That a warm climate is not in itself
beneficial, he shows from the fact that the
disease exists in all latitudes. In India
and Africa, tropical climates, it is as fre
quent as in Europe and North America.
At Malta, right in the heart of the genial
Mediterranean, tho army reports of Eng
land show that one-third of thc deaths
among tho soldiers are by consumption.
At Nice, a favorite resort of English inva
lids, especially those afflicted with lung
complaints, there are more native-born
persons dio of consumption than in any
English town of equal population. In
Geneva this disease is almost equally pre
valent. In Florence, pneumonia is said to
be marked by a suffocating character, and
by a rapid progress towards its last stage.
Naples, whoso climate is the theme of so
much praise by travelers, shows in her
hospitals a mortality by consumption equal
to one in two and one-third ; whereas Paris
whose climate is so often pronounced vil
lainous, tho proportion is only one in three
and ono-quarter. In Madeira, no local
disease is more common thanconsumption.
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Franklin Asking von Work. When
quite a youth, Franklin went to London,
entered a printing office, and inquired if he
could get employment as a printer.
"Where are you from ?" inquired the
foreman.
"America," was the reply.
"Ah," said the foreman, from America !
a lad from America seeking employment as
a printer ! Well, do you really understand
the art of printing ? Can you set type ?"
Franklin stepped to one of the cases, and,
in a very brief space, set up the following
passage from the first chapter of the Gospel
of John :
"Nathaniel saith unto him, can any good
thing come out of Nazareth .' Fhilip saUL
unto him, come and see !"
It was done so quick, so accurately, and
contained a delicate reproof, so appropriate
and powerful, that it at once gave him
character and standing with all in the office
m
To Telt. Good Eggs. If you desire to
be certain that your eggs are gd ami
fresh, put them in water, if the huts turn up
they are not fresh. This is an infallible rub
to distinguish a good egg from a bad one.
THE LANGUAGE OF DRESS.
Fil ler this head (says Life Illustrated) we
! are impressed to sav few words to Uio
j ladies, the marriageable girls especially.
j We do this "privately and confidentially,'
and request all young gentlemen to have
the politeness not to read (his article. Itis
for the Girls exclusively.
Well, then, girls, yon expect to get
married,do you not? If you do not, you
should. Yii also wisli to marry, don't
you? If you do not, you arc either more
or less than woman. Preaunung that you
an . i
! are all light m 'los m in..r wo call TOU1
attention c the following extract, the words
of a popular author:
"A wife looks prettier, if sho did but
kmv it, in her neat morning frock of calico,
than ii the incongruous pile of finery which
sho dignifies with the titlo of full dross.
Many an unmarried female first wins the
lieart of he: future husband in some simple,
unpretending attire, which, if consulted
about, she vould pronounce too cheap
except for ordinary wear, but which, by its
accidental suitability to her figure, face,
and carriage, idmlizc her youth wonderfully.
If the sex would study taste in dress moro,
and care less for costliness, they would havo
no reason to regret, i t."
Now we assure ono and all the unmar
ried of the fiir sex that we have known
many females who really wished to marry,
to live in single blessedness and dio
husbandless, for no other reason in all
human probability than that of dressing too
gaudily. We have heard the sentiments
of the male sex expressed a thousand times
on this point, and in every instance, whether
the observer was young or dd, young man,
bachelor, or w idower; rich or poor, ugly or
handsome, wise man, for or dandy, in every
instance an overdressed or expensively
"rinsed out" female loslot in his estimation.
This is perfectly natural and proper. A
foolish and silly nan is not worth marrying;
and a sensible oan will surely judge you
advantageoiHy in exact ratio to tlie
plainness snd simplicity of your dress.
A pror man, or man in moderate circum-
stansea, however worthy and descrvincr.
ustb nui inarr) ti reunite who Is superfluously
done up in ribbons and flounces, however
lovely and talented she may be, because ho
has sense enough to suspect she will be an
expensive treasure. He may love her, and
still feel that he cannot afford to marry
her.
And the rich man, though ho likes her
personally and admires her other accomplish
ments, dare not take her for better or
worse, because the dashing style of hor
habiliments indicate too great a passion for
the admiration of the world. He fears,
justly too, that her passion for general
admiration will be a serious obstacle in tho
way of the manifestation of affection for
him individually. And as all men aro
selfish, whether women are or not, both
rich and poor, in selecting a wife, act on
the principle, that
I leauty, when unadorned, is adorned thc
most.
A NEW PROJECTILE.
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'very person lias read oi Jules uernra,
the lion-killer, and his wonderful encounters
in the jungles of Africa. When Gerard
came back to Paris tho last time from his
fayorite amusement in Africa, he suggested
to Devisme, the well-known gunuiaker of
the Boulevard dea Italians, tho idea of
inventing a ball that would explode when
it arrived in the animal's body. The new
projectile is about thc size of t he Minie ball;
its penetrating force is equal to thc common
ball. Arrived m the animal's body, it
xplodc.s iike a bomb, and, of course, causes
thc sudden death of the animal. If shot
into the lungs of an elephant, for example,
the ball in exploding disengages carbonic
acid gas, and thc animal, which from its
size might otherwise survive for a short
time, will suddenly, fall asphyxiated. A
few days ago a party of gentlemen accom
panied M. Devisme to a horse slaughter
house, iu the environs of the city. There
the new projectile was tried on five horse
who were standing tied to a fence waiting
to be shot. They were each shot in the
lungs, the ball exploded and the animal fell
dead. The experiment WM completely
satisfactory. Since then, IL DeviaiiM, to
demonstrate the practicability of his new
projectile as a substitute for the harpoon in
the destruction of whales, has gone to
Havre, not with the hope that a whale
would present itself to be killed; but to try
the experiment on an artilical whale that
would respond in iu resistance to a real one.
Thc experiment was entirely successful,
and those who witnessed it assert positively
that thc substitute for the harpoon is
found.
Lawvers Good Soldikbj?. Somegoiiim
has conceived the brilliant idea to pre all
lawyers into military service in ease of war
because their "dbsvyct" aro so great that
no one could stand them.