North Carolina Newspapers

a 7 ' "' office upstairs opposite scarr'S drug store J A Family Paper, devoted to Slate Intelligence, the News of the World, Political In formation, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. BY WILLIAM J. YATES, EIUTOR AN! FIOTIItTOt. CHARLOTTE. MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. f $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. J?. A. YATES, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 5 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1857. VOLUME 6- c N UMBER 275. i THE mocxai Published every Tuesday Containing! the latest News, a full and accu rate Report of the Markets &c. por tbe v ar, if paid in advance, ... .$2 00 It" pjid within six months, 2 50 If paid after the expiration of the year, 3 00 jjv person sending us five new sub- rthera neeoinpanied njf the MVSHBce sub ... riptioa tfTlO) vnQ ii4 i-i-a Hxfh copy gra l,- f..r ue year. j uhssrihen and others who may wish f ., send money to us, can do so by mail, at ur risk. ADVERTISING. i:ic s pare of 1 hoes or less, (or 3 months, 9 1 00 M ft " ft OO .4 .4 44 J.J .4 (J (H ii el iirf, 1 lines, or less, first insertion, 91 WD Hi mascesnust insertion, 25 y" Transient advertisements must be jv iid for in advance. '. J'l r announcing Candidates for office, ." in advance. . tT Ad verti.-ements not marked on the n in it se ri . t for a specific time, will be in- i rt-J iiniil forbiil. ami charged accordingly WILLIAM J. YATES. Land rr sale. The subscribers offer for sale IgOO Acres of 8. acid In one body (one thousand of which is in wis) lyuMr in ftastosi county on both aides of toe South Fork it the Catawha River, 11 laiiea North-west of Chart attc. and within three milt s of the line of BwTwd now building jaw Cii.irlottt' to Lincoluton. Alas, Two Handled Acn s, im ihhd of which i- nu l l vnttH sties. A . 25U Acm on the .South Fork in a pood M ! ! . uitivatioii. The :lo,' rood Fanning Lands, ami will ! n.J.1 in lots t, nit purchasers. Yatans easy. Oa one of hVs tracts then is a water nnwm of "-'i .' t. u lib rouiuutiel of tie- u hole River. PmMU wMmag t-o examine these Lands will b' atteataVd to lv tin parties at Stow esv ille. J. sc. E. B. 8TOWE. ClrarUstte, June ti, W7. 4-tt" oOO E3rael oi' Beef Cattle Wanted. Also, 500 HEAD OF SHEEP 4. 100 Head of HOGS, Aud 12 or 15 xNo. 1 Milch Cows. I DESIRE to porchaae the above aanoant of StiK-.k. These INN iuj; any for sale will do well to fZ'w , me a eat!. :,s I am willing to pay tin- highest itiaiVi-t price. Farmers will find it to their advau-tair- to sell their Beeves, Pheen at lloijs to nu issstBsd of buteh' iing Ihi iwivea, as I think I -ju i . ju mn i it lie in as well it not better than if they butchered aheanslvOB. W. A. COOK. CtVorlottc, July 14, l-.",7. Town butcher. BOOTS & SHOES. Just Received FOR THE SPRIXG & SUMMER TRADE, As fine an Assortment of Boots v:ncl - has ever been offere.1 to a Southern People. Call ami see them at BOONE & CO'S STOKE. JC-c" Terms, CASH. March 17, 1857. tf DR. R. WYSONG, CbrMte. A. C. I T WING loeaf-din this place, respectfully I I offer his Professional Services to the citi zens of the town and vicinity. ! tr" OFFICE in Springs1 building. April -'fh IflK. BREM & STEELE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers IN Hardware, Hat, and hoes CHARLOTTE, X. C. May 5, IS57. 44-tf 11. La F. A L E XAADER, Attorney at Law, CHARLOTTE, tL C. Office over China Hall. August 1 1, lfC7. v VALl A RLE PLANTATION FOR SALE. The subscriber being desirioas of removing to the West, otl'ers for sale his valuable TRACT OF LAND, lyinp 4 miles south of Charlotte, on the Charlotte aud Columbia Kailroad, contuiniiiji about 430 Aci-oaa 150 is in cultivation, 7." of which is fresh land. The balance is woodland except 30 acies. On tho promises is a giod Dwelling House and all neees ary ent-nonsca, a ton-House and ii i -a Screw, &c. Th.-re is an excellent Well ot water in she yard. A Cold Mine has been opened on the land. Persons aVaihma sf purchasing a Plantation with almost every advau;;!re, would do well to call aud examine the Remises, :s it is seldom tiiat such property is OBeted to ih- public. If glOta will be taken iii whole tr tor a part of the purchase money. I will take pleasure in hawing the I. rind to anyone desirous of purchasing-. Possession given by the 1st of Janu srv. ljjod. B. K. SMITH. Aug- 11, 1:7. 69-tf itTB mm I CLOTHING AT COST. A chance is now offced to the commu nity to obtain rare largains out of our varied Stock of CLOTHING and Furnishing Goods, AT NFW YORK COST. Tt is entirely unnecessary o tell you what wo have, but would request you to come and see for yourselves. Perhaps it will be asked why we are sell ing off at Cost! Wo don't 'do it because it is fashionable, but because we have con nected ourselves with a large Manufac turing House at the Ncrth, to take effect the Jst Jan., 1858 ; ard we don't want any of our present stock u liand. So come. OM and all, buy our goo s at COST, nay the I! ASH, and help u.s oi in our honest designs. gPBINGS k HEATH. Sept. 1st. 72-tf DAILY EAPtESS Between Charlotte an4 Columbia EACH WAX inn AiM.us dAracrfss cm. nave cnin menecd ruuniiur a Daily Lineiof Ernmnhc. tweoi Charlotte and Columbia and all interme diate points Leaving their Office in ChtrWfas at 7 o'clock, a. in., ariiviiir in Columbia at Hp. m. Leav.- their office in Columbia 17 Kicliard.son street, at is o'clock, a m, aniveat Charlotte at :mo p m. Fiewht intended for this linetnust be left at the Office befece 7 o'clock, a m. Merchants and others oid.-riig goods by this line, will rind it a safe, speedy aid cheap "mode of transportation. Bankers will rind it to their interest to patron ize this line, as there is not tLe V ast possibility of a loss. The patronage of the publ ic .s toliciti d. F. M. KEA. Art. Charlotte. J. B. EZELL, Lgt. Columbia. Benlejnher 'a, 17. 5t STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. CLEAVLLAND COLM V. 11. P. Schet k. ct al. ) vs. 0. L Injunction. John Cline. ) Whereas H. F. Sehenck, J. 0. Williamson and John H. Peeler, have tiled 1 the Office of the Clerk and .Master in Equity tr Ch-avcland county, a ISill of complaint againsslohn Cline of the State itf Texas, praying, aaaonr ether things, that t!ie said John Cline may b( enjoined and restrained from leaaoving from thi 8tate of North Carolina certain NgTO slaves in .iid bill named; And the said H. F. Sehenck anJ others, Plain tiffs, havinjr entered into bond as required lv act of Assembly and the fiat of Jus Honor. W. 11. Battle. J. S. C; Therefore, unt ice is hereby given to Defendant, John Wine, and each and every person acting as his SgCUt, that they are enjoined and restrained from removing the shires men tioned in the Bill, or aur one or more of them, from this State, and that the said John Cline be and appear at the next Term of the court of Equi ty for the county of CleaTt land, to be held at the Court House in Shelby on the 1 1th Monday af ter the 4th Monday iii September next, then ami thereto plead, answer or demur to PhrinrMfc hill, or tin-case will be set for hearing exparte asto him, and heard accordingly. WITNESS, Thos. Williams. Clerk and Master of oar said court of Equity for the county of Ch aveland, N. C, at Office m shell. v, the I Itl Monday after the 4th Monday m March, A.D. M&7. TllO.. 1 l-l. 1 A.US, t. 51. t. Shelby, N. C, Aug. 17, 1&7 71-bt CITY OF MOKEIIEAD!!. GREAT SALE OF LOTS!! ON THE ELEVENTH fll-ral DAY OF Noveuiber next, at the Ciiy ot Motehead, will be sold at uubhc auction, the Lots ol said City. This is the new City laid oil by the "Shepard's Point Land Cainpany," at the te minus of the At- lau ic and orih Carolina Kail Koad, at Beaufort Ilarhor, N.C., immediately at the Atlantic Ocean. The various Reports of the L . S. Coast Surv y establish the greai excellencies ol this Harbor, for facility of entrance, depth of water and security from wind or wave, whilst Fort Macon completely commands the entrance. The interior communications by water and land mist make this a great Commercial City. The :.st pr eductions ot me lertile vai eysot ine noon oke, Tar and Neuse Rivers and the commerce of those izreat inland seas the Albrmarle, Currituck, ( 'raotan and Pamlico Sounds, will reach this fine Harbor throuih Core Sound on the north, whilst Rogue Sound will bear on its bosom the agricultur al products, lumber, naval stores and line ship tim ber of the regions lymsr souih. The A- fc N.C. Kail Road which will be ready for use by the first of January next, passes through the entire length of the City to Us wharf in 18 feet water at low tide, and connects with the great N. C. Rail Uoad (of which it is a continuation) at (joldsboro. The N. C. Rail Road, amonsi the best in the Union, 323 miles long, is completed to Chatlotie, where it connects through the South Carolina and Georgia Rail Roads with Atlanta and the south west; and by its western extension, now in rapid progress, it is contemplated to r. a-li the trade ol Memphis and the Mississippi Valley by the net Huik of all the rail ways that connect at Atlanta, Chattanooga, or with the East-Tennessee Rail Road. The Port of Beaufort, C hattano ga, Memphis and St. Diego in the Pacific, ate about the same parallel of lattitude; and if thai parallel be exttnd ed across the Pacific, it will reach Shanghai, the nearest great Port on the eastern Continent : therefore, if the Pacific Railroad ever be construct eil (and that should be done forthwith) why may not this new City became the Atlantic mart tor the commerce of the East Indus? Two short Kailroads will connect the two great Coal FieWs ot the State, lying on the north and south of the North Carolina Railroad, with that road ; and it is confidently expected that a vast coal trade will be carntd on through the new ciiy; if so, may not Beaulort become a great coaling Port, not only for purposes et commeice. but to liirnish the supplies to steamers passing so near the entrance going north and south ; and may not the new city become thai great "entre depot" be tween the north and south, to which our able and distinguished countryman, Lieut. Maury, relers in hislinrivaled Statesmanlike paper on the com merce of the Amazon, South America and the Gulf of Mexico ? . The ciiy of Morehead is situated on a beautiful neck of land or dry plain, almost entirely surround ed with salt water: its climate is salubrious; its sea-breeze and sea-batiinm d.hghtlul; its drinking water good, and its fine chalybeate spring strongly impregnated with sulphur, will make it a pleasant waierme place. As not a lot has been or will be sold until the day of sale, all will have an equal chance to get the best lots and to suit themselves. It will be the RTSt instance of as entire new city on the Atlantic coast being brought into market at once ; and capitalists may never have aain such an opportunnv tor ;ood investments, tor a great city must and will be built at this place. J. M. MORLHEAD, President of Sheppttd's Point Land Co. September 1, 1 t.Y7. llw Cash Paid For Hides. THE highest prices will be paid for Hides be S. M. HOWELL. 3 doors South of the Mansion Hotel Charlotte, Oct. 30, 1655 Cry Is, STILL THEY COME. RCCGiVOd this day another sup Olr of fresh DRUGS, MEDICINES &CHEM ICAEH. Also, a splendid assortment of Sur gical Iiistruuieilis, consisting in part of Post lfurtett, Trepauing and Amputating laseg, Teeu J- oreeps, opeeara m, Banna ts, (entirely new style) sprintr and thumb Lancets, Scarificators, Cupping Glastu s, and many other articles in tins une ol gootts. an oi wuicn i-rac titioneTS of medicine and Surpery are respect fully invited to call and examine. For unit at t.ctrcmtly short profits, at PRITCIJAllirS WkeUtaUand Retail Sept. 8. Drug House, Irwin's corner Another Supply Of tlte most unique and magnificent Toilet Arti cles, consisting in part of hair, teeth, nail, tlesb, bat. cloth and otttef Brnsnes. Turkish Colognes, Extracts. Soaps, Bohemian Pungents, Frankipuiie, etc., &C, which will be sold low at Pritchard's Fancy Drug Store, Sept. 8. Irwin's Corner. WOODLAND CREAM! WOODLAND CREAM!! An unequalled ami exquisite Pomade for the linn'. Just received lroni the manufacturers, at Pritchard's Drug and Chemical House, Sept. f. Irwins's corner. Tooth Ache. Another supply of Cu minings (c Flagg's NERVE Anodvne, an instantaneous cure for the tooth ache, at PRITCHARD'S, Sept. 8. Sole Agent for Charlotte, Country Merchants Are respectfully invited to call and examine my Wholesale Prices of choice AI1 MUJHCINES, put up in any style to order, by F1U 1CHAKU, Druggist and Apothecary, July 28, 18.")7. Irwin's Corner. White Lead. 10.000 Lbs. White Lead, in oil, just received and for sale at PRITCHARD'S Aug. 18. Drug House. Faint or Linseed Oil. SOO Gallons just received tmd for sale at the lowest market prices, at tji: I I f H a b ivs jyrr. 18. Drug Sf Chemical Store. VARNISHES ! VARNISHES I A large stock now on hand, consisting of Demon, Furniture, Copal, Coach-body, Ja ... -1 . i ,. f i , pan, c.,' wnicn win ne soiu ior casi. lower than any other House in Charlotte, at 11. M. 1'KllUrlAKU s Wholesale & Retail Drug Store, Aug. 18. Invites Corner. Condition Powders. Farmers and others interested is line Stock are assured that these preparations are uiisur passed as a h, altd-giving remedy for Horses, Cattle, and ..II kinds ot &;ock. for sale ar. Pritchard's If hull sale and Retail Drug House, July 2S. Irwin's Corner. Patent Medicines. Call at PR1TCHAKD S DKUG STORE. Irwin's ( orner, for the most approved and popular medicines of the day. July 28. Grass Seeds!! Grass Seeds!!! A large assortment just received, comprising the following varieties: Whilt Clover, Red Clover, Timothy, Millet, Blue Grass, Lucerne, Syc. The above seeds are warranted to be FRESH and GENUINE. For sale at Pritchard's Wholesale Sf Retail Drug House Aug. 25, 1857. In win's Corn er. WHITE LEAD. At PRITCHARD'S you can buy, for cash, pure bite Lend at cents per lb. Drug Store, Iricin's Corner. Another Decline In Quinine At Pritchard's Large Drug and Chemical House, Inrin's Corner. This article may now be had at $2 50 per ounce, for Cash ONLY. EXELITOR'S SALE, Lands, Mills and Town Lots. Pursuant to the Will of the late ANDREW HO YL, dee'd, the undersigned will sell on the premises, one mile east of Dallas, M. C.,the very valuable property known as the HOYL'S MILLS AND PLANTATION. The tract of Land contains about FOl'R HUN DRED ACRES, and is a very productive and valuable Farm with excellent Meadow. The Mills are newly repaired, and consist of a Float Mill with French Huns; Corn and Saw Mill with a large custom. Sale at the Mills, on the SIXTH oi OCTOISER, 18."7, on nine months' time, with interest from the Jst of November. Also, will be sold on the premises in tin town of Dallas, on the 27th of OCTOBER next, TWO IMPROVED LOTS, now occup-ed by John II. Rob' its. Terms same as above. Also, a tract oi Acres, on Little Catawba Creek known as "Frederick's Ford." Sale on the 6tfa of October. lo7. terms same as pre cedimr. THUS. GRIEB, K,,Iltnrs W. P. HYM m, i Aujr. 27. 72-Gt State of North Carolina, UNION COLN'IY. Court of Picas and Quarter Sessions, July Term, 1S57. Stewart, Houston, and "j 'Covington, I Original vs. 'Attachment. Wyatt Austen. J It appearing tothe sati-factiqn of the Court that the Defendant, Wyatt Austen, is not an inhabitant of this State, but resides beyond the limits of the same; it is therefore ord red hat nnblicatioii be niide for six weeks in the Western Democrat, notifying said de fendant to be and appear at the next c ourt, to be held for the county of Lnio-i, at the Court House in Monroe, on tbe first Monday of October next, then and there to plead, answer or demur, or final judgment will be taken against him. Witness, J. M. Stewart, Clerk of our said Court at office, 1st Monday of July, 1857. tjt J. M. STEWART, Clerk TOTOS DEf OCSAT. CHARLOTTE. Land in tub West. The Rev. C. P. Jones, in a communicati is to the N. C. Christian Advocate, speaking of a recent visit to Asheville, says: "The lands in the vicinity, especially on the French liroad, are rich and very pro ductive. The growing corn looks better than any I evjr saw. I have been in the bottoms of the Cape Fear, Neuse and Roan oke rivers and have looked with admira tion upon fields densely filled with luxuriant corn, but never have I beheld such as I have just seen growing in the valley of the French Broad. I was in a part of Mr Woodfin's farm, the rows of which ire 3 feet apart and the stalks about 15 inches giving over eleven thousand stalks to the acre, which will make about one hundred and twenty bushels. Mr W. gathered a year or two ago, off of an tcre of this land, one hundred and forty-nine bushels, three pecks and two pints. Off of twenty acres of another field, I was informed he gather ed two thousand bushels. Talk of Missouri and Texas as corn growing countries; what country can beat this ? And this land is in the old North State, and, until recently, very cheap and in a regiou so healthy thaf people to have a spell of sickness now and then must take medicine 1 Hut generally it is as hetilthy as any country in the world." It mr.y be that it is not generally known to the public that the Washington National Monument has ben roofed over; that all work upon it has bfen stopped for more than a year past ; tint it has been raised but Jour feet since its construction was intrusted to Know Nothing misman agement; th.it the treasury is in a most dis tressingly embarrassed condition ; that there is not enough of money in it to pay the salaries of the different officers, aud certainly none to purchase cement, and that immaculate Board of Managers, wlw boasted that they would finish the monu ment, are no w quarreling among themselves. Hut such is the truth. GPThe Frotestant Methodists hwe located their College at Jamestown, Guil ford county, N. C Their building will cost $20,000. They have a male, school Ciillpjrp. the Yadkin Institute, a w miles above SalinDury. rni oriek. building GU y 30 and 2 stories high cost $3000. Tbe Principal gives the Trustees $40 a year for five years, for the privilege of teaching in the house and taking upen himself the responsibility of keeping up the school. lie has about 40 scholars. This same society aim to have a fine Female Seminary about 20 miles East of Salisbury. 1 - - A DROVE OF IRISH BULLS. We agree with the Philadelphia Sunday Transcript that the followiugnvay be "back ed" against anything ever rj-oduced. It was written half a century agoby Sir Boyle Roche, a member of the IrisI Parliament. "The TroubI' d Times of Njiiety-eight," when a handful of men from the couutv of m Wexford struck terror into the hearts of many gallant sons of Mars, as well as the worthy writer himself. The letter was ad dressed to a friend in London, and is old enough to be new to nine outof ten of our readers: " My Pear Sir: Having now a little peace and quietness. I sit down to inform you of the dreadful bustle tnd confusion we are all in from those blood-thirsty reb els, most of whom are, tlwnk God, killed and dispersed. We are in a pretty mess ; can get nothing to eat, not any wine to drink, except whiskey ; and when we sit down to dinner we are obliged to keep both hands armed. While I writ this I hold a swoi d in each hand and a pisiol in the other. I conclude from the beginning that this would be the end of it, and I see I was right; for it is not half over yet. At present there are such goings on that everything is at a stand still. I should have answered your letter a fortnight ago. but did not receive it until this morning. Indeed, scarce a mail arrives without being robbed. Not longer ago than yesterday the coach with th'e mail from Dublin was robbed near this town. The bags had been left behind for fear of accident, and by good lick there was no body in it but two outside passengers, who had nothing for the thiees to take. Last Tuesday notice was given that a gang of rebels was advancing here under the French standard, but they had no colors nor anv drums except bagpipes. Immediately every man in the place, in cluding men women and children, ran out to meet them. We soon found our force much too little ; we were too near to think of retreating. Death was in every face ; but at it we went, and began to be all alive again. Fortunately the rebels had no guns but pistols and pikes, as ve had plenty of muskets nnd ammunition, we put them all to tbe sword. Not a soul of them escaped, except some that were drowned in the adja cent bogs ; and in a very short time nothing was heard but .-ilence. Their uniforms were all of different colors, b it mostly green. After the action we went to rummage a sort of camp which they had left behind them. All we found was a few pikes without heads, a parcel of empty bottles of water, aud a bundle of French commissions filled with Irish names. Troops are now stationed all around the country, which exactly squares with my ideas. 1 have only time to add that I am in a great hurry. P. S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have miscarried, therefore I beg you will write and let me know. THE HORSE CHARM. Or the Great Secret for Tarring Horses. The horse-castor is a wart or excrescence which grows on every horse's fore legs, and crenerally- on the hind leers. It has a peculiar rank, musty smell, and is easily pulled off. The ammonical effluvia of the horse seems peculiarly to concentrate iu this part, and its very strong odour has great attraction for all animals, especially canine, and the horse himself. For the oi of cumin the horse has an instinctive pas sion both are original natives of Arabia and when the horse scents the odour ho is instinctively drawn toward it. The oil of rhodium possesses peculiar properties. Al animals seem to cherish a fondness for it and it exercise a kind of subduing influence over them. The directions given for tarn ing horses are as follows : Procure some horse-castor and grate it fine. Also get some oil of rhodium and oil of cumin and keep the tree separate in air-tight bottles. Hub a little oil of cumin upon your hand and approach the horse in the field, on the windward side, so that he can smell the cumin. The horse will let you come up to him then withoutany trouble. Immediately rub your hand gently on the horse's nose, getting a little oil on it. You can then lead him anywhere. Give him a little of the castor in a piece of loaf sugar, apple, or potato. Put eight drops of oil of rhodium into a lady's silver thimble. Take the thimble between tbe thumb and middle finger of your right hand, with fore-finger stopping the mouth of the thimble, to prevent the oil from running out whilst you are opening the mouth of the horse. As soon as you have opened the horse's mouth, tip the thimble over upon his tongue, and he is your servant. He will follow you like a pet dog. SKETCH OF PARLIAMENT. The Christian Intelligencer has a letter from an American in London, giving a pen and ink sketch of Parliament, as follows : "At 4 o'clock last evening I went to visit the House of Parliament. The new build ings are a perfect wilderness of Gothic towers, groined ceilings, snperb halls, lined with marble statutes of departed states- oieu. auu wainuia. Muttons or uimmuj enough to endow a scjiool in every parish have been lavished on this gorgeous edifice. As we reached the door of the House of Commons, the elegantly dressed doorkeeper called out, "The Speaker is in the chair!" I was shown to a seat in the small Speaker's gallery. The hall is superb in ornament, of oblong shape, with rows of green cush ioned benches on each side, and no desks in front of members. The Speaker wears a huge wig and gown. The members, most outlandishly, all wear their hats, except while speaking. The effect is exceedingly bad. I was also surprised at the youthful appearance of many of the House; at least a score of them seemed like members of a senior class in college. A considerably loud conversation was carried on during the the debates, aud members were walkiujr about continually. The speaker of the evening most listened to was Mr. Gladstone, of Oxford. He is an easy nonchalant converser, with no elabor ate harangue ; but his style was very at tractive. While he was speaking there was a constant cry of "Hear, hear," which sounded like " Yeh yeh yeh." After him came the Chanceller of the Exchequer, a graceful, fluent statement maker. Lord Palmerston pulled off his hat and spoke in a slow, careless , tone for half an hour. He does not look so old as I expected. Sir James Graham is a huge, easy country gen tleman, who sat like a man of leasure in a coffee room. The only outer and shabby member, in face, figure and dress, is the Radical Roebuck, of Sheffield. He has a waspish petulance in his tone, and is a man for "inquiries" and "investigations." The old heroes, Sir Charles Napier and Gen. Williams, of Kars, attracted much attention. As a body of men, the House of Com mons is not as imposing in appearance as our American Senate. Lord John Rus sell sat smiling and silent, DTsraeli looked sarcastic and sullen. He is the sharpest debater of them all. From the House of Commons we go by a splendid hall to tbe House of Lords. Their room is the most superb in the kingdom. It is a blaze with crimson and gold. As we enter we see the noble Lord Shaftesbury on the red cushion by the door. Beside him, that handsome youthful face, under the thick golden hair, belongs to the Duke of Argyle, the rising hope of Scotch Pres byterians. Old Lord Aberdeen sets next, in a deep reverie. Those magnificent women in yonder gal lery are the wives and daughters of the Peers. I do not know enoghh of millinery to describe their, rtg" for your lady readers ; but it may be some gratification to Ameri can ladies to know that the lace and pearled bonnets on the head of the ducheses and countesses were fully as large as a saucer ! Their faces were generally fair and brilliant in beauty. I came away from the house of Lords (which contains many able and noble charac ters,) in nowise converted to a belief in the hereditary houses of legislation. m OCT A Western puper offers to write "Mr," before or "Es," after the names of such of its subscribers, in directing their papers, as will pay in advance. LINVILLE RIVER. From the Ashetille Spectator, There are numbers of natural curiosities throughout the South which are never seen or heard of except by somo adventurous traveler and knowu intimately only by the intrepid mountain hunter. Thus these cu riosities remain unnoted, while yearly thou sands of our citizens go Northwards in search of health and pleasure. Among such may be classed the Falls of the Linville River iu Burke county. We doubt not but numbers of persons in Burke county never heard of them. They are to be found in tbe North West corner of that county, uear to that famous tree upon which the fesur counties of Burke, Watauga, Yancey aa McDowell corner, and about nine miles from the Piedmont Springs. Tho facilities for getting to them are as yet about no fa cilities at all, an idea may be formed from our experience : Leaving Childsville on tbe morning of Tuesday, in company with Col. Childs, we rode within three miles of the Falls, and then leaving our buggy we went on horse back to the house of Mr David Franklin, one mile from the Fulls. Mr Franklin con sented to become our guide ami after a short rest we moved on to the Falls. Hav ing arrived iu half a mile of them we dis mounted and proceeded on foot, being una ble to ride on account of fallen trees. We soon reached the river, the din of the water fall having for some time been roaring in our ears, we then crossed it, to do so being compelled to put certain portions of our per son in a state of nature. Having crossed wo proceeded down the eastern bank through a wild and irregular growth of ivy, laurel and whortleberry bushes. It is rath er singular that on the west bank of the LinviUe, the soil is rich and covered with a most luxuriant growth of trees, while on the east bank, just here, for some distance out, nothing of any worth grows. The river where we crossed it has as clear, smooth, an appearance as any mountain stream ; it soon becomes agitated by slight rapids until suddenly it is divided by a huge rock and dashes over a fall of about twenty feet, it then boils and surges in a most ter rific manner for ubout two hundred yards, .- i.;., V U i tiii.o sovorul times, twist ing and turning in every shape that human imagination can fancy. Following our guide we seated ourself on the top of a rock around the bf.se of which the river rushes in its wild carter. About forty feet below us on one side dashed the troubled waters of the Linville, on the other these same waters having forced themselves through a passage not more than ten feet wide made their descent over the last und lighest fall. Here the mist was rising, and the rays of the sun as it shone through caused the peculiar view which resembles so much the sulphurous flames, which Bun- yan so well describes as arising from a cer tain dark abode, that it gives the cavern under the lower fall the name of the Devil's Iole. Our position was a commanding one but not such as a person with weak nerves should seek. As we gnzed far dorn the course of the river we could see the stream again assume its comparatively placid ap pearance, but now instead of banks almost even with its bed it was locked in by an impenetrable mass of chimney rocks, which continue for miles down its course, rising in the most majestic grandeur to a height of one, two and three hundred feet aud in some places near a thousand. At one point we are informed the rocks close over the river and it is easy for a person to jump from one bank to the other. The grand sublimity of the scenery which is hereabouts presented to tho eye cannot bo surpassed by any in the world. Lan guage fails to describe it and the pencil of the artist can give but a faint conception of its beauty and magnificent grandeur. Here it is that man feels his insignificance and trembling kneels with awe and fear. We have seen Niagara in all its artistic splen dor, and we have seen what was called grand scenery but never, never have we seen anything to equal the scenery of Lin ville Falls, nor do we ever expect to see the like again until we revisit them. Ere long tbe pencil of the artist will trace the rarest beauties and give them to the world's view. Ere long the spirit of enterprise will make good roads, and build a good House, at which visitors may stop. No place can present the same at tractions a?a watering place that Linville can. Its beautiful scenery that never lias been fully explored its healthful climate, the excellent water of the Rattlesnake Spring, the fertility of the soil, and last, but far from least in the pleasure seeker's eye, the large quantity of game which is to be found thereabouts. Hav ing spent the afternoon at Linville we returned to Mr. Franklin's House and there rested for the night. The next day we visited the Gingercake Rock. This Rock is a curious formation resting on a ridge between the Hawk's Bill and tbe Gingercake mountain, very near to the latter. It is a high rock conical in shape, between fifty and seventy feet in height, about six feet through at tho base and rising to a thickness of twenty-five or thirty feet. This rock is flat on top and covered with grey moss. On one end of its top there lays a rock about fifteen feet long and four or five feet wide with a thickness of about four feet. This rock is to all ap pearances just about to fail at least ten feet of it projecting from the edge of main rock the whole presenting the appearance of having just been dropped in its place and lodged for a little while, thus making one of the grandest sights that can exist in na ture. He . span ding the mountain wo walk ed over to the chimney rocks and there we had presented to us as beautiful a landscape view as can be found iu Carolina, unless it be that from tbo (op of the Pilot Knob. Tho eye has a full open scope from tbe Grandfather Mountain entirely around to the Roan aud even beyond that. Tbe val ley of the Catawba is open to the view from its origin to its source, the whole of Turkey and North Coves, with their rich fields of waving corn. In the dim, durk distance a lone mountain rises to tbe view, which from iU location we supposed to be tho Pilot. Ju.-t as the sun fudo beneath tho horizon it casts forth a clear red light and you see Hashing iu its blaze the windows of the houses of Morgautoii, from tho same source a golden tings is thrown upon every lenf, and everything is mellowed into soft Loveli ness in tbe nccomplisbmeiit of nature's most splendid creation. Far, far beneath, hid amid a mass of shrubbery and rooks, the Linville finds its way to Catawba. Turn ing to our guide we asked "Does tho Linville run there," he replied "Yes, and poor thing it sees troublesome times before it gets out of there too." ra have never seen anything which gave one so forcible an idea of man's littleness us this poin:. The chimney rooks of the mountain are about three hundred feet high, from their base the mountain de scends with fearful rapidity into tin' Linville river, how far it is beyond our power to estimate but it seems like it was almost into the bowels of the earth. It seems as if one might fall "From morn till noun, from noon till dewy eve," and but then fathom its depth ! We looked and turning looked again, gladly would we have spent hours upon that summit but nature changes not to suit man's wishes, and days must end on the mountain top as well as in tfc valley. We turned to Mr. Franklin's house, thankful for what wo had seen, but wishing that we could spend weeks roaming among the beauties of that moun tain country. THE LOAF. Onco upon a time, during a famine, a rich man invited twenty of the poorer children iu the town to his house, and said to them : "In this basket there is a loaf of bread for each of you ; take it, and come back every day at this hour till God sends us better times." The children pounced upon tho basket. wrangled and faught for the bread, and each wished to get th j largest loaf, and at last went away, without even thanking him. Francesca alone, a poor but neatly-dressed little girl, stood modestly apart, took tho smallest louf which was left in the basket, gratefully kissed the gentlemanly hand, and then went homo in a quiet and becoming manner. On the following duy the children were equullv- ill-behaved, and tho poor Francesca this time received a loaf which was scarcely half tho size of the others. But when she came home, and when her sick mother cut tbe loaf, there fell out of it quite a number of bright silver pieces. The mother was alarmed and said, "take back the money this instant, for it has, no doubt, got into tho bread through somo mista'ie." Francesca carried it back, but the be nevolent gentleman declined to receive it. "No, no," said he, "it was no mistake. I had the money baked in tho smallest loaf simply as a reward for you, my good child. Always continue thus contented, peaceable and unassuming. The person who prefers to remain contented with the smallest loaf, rather than quarrel for the larger one, will find blessing in this course of action still more valuable than the wo nay which was baked in your loaf." "Better a poor but peaceful life. Than wealth and fortune bought with strife." m AGE OF ANIMALS. A bear rarely exceeds 20 years ; a dog lives 20 years ; a wolf 20 years ; a fox 14 or 16 years; lions are long-lived. Pompojr lived to the age of 70. The average of cats is L years ; a squirrel and bare 7 or 8 years ; rabbits 7. Elephants havo been known to have lived to the great age of 400 years. When Alexander the Great bad conquered Phorus, King of India, he took a great elephant which had fought very vali antly for the king, named him Ajar, and dedicated him to the sun, and let him go with this inscription: "Alexander the son of Jupiter, bath dedicated Ajax to the son." This elephant was found with this inscrip tion 950 years after. Pigs have beeu known to live to the age of 30 years ; the rhiuocerouj to 20. A horse ha been known to live to the age of CO, but averages 25 to 30. Camels sometimes live to tbe age of 100. Stags are long lived. Sheep seldom exceed the sgc of 10. Cows live about 15 years. Cuvier considers it probable that whales sometimes liv e to the age of 1,000. The dolphin and porpoise attain the age of 30. An eagle died at Vienna at the age of 104. Swans have been known to live 3f!0 years. Mr. Mallerton has the skeleton ot a swan that a'.tained the age of 200 years. Pelicans are long lived. A tortoise has been known to live to the age of 1U7.