Office up stairs opposite scares drug store A Family Paper, devoted to State Intelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agricnlture, Literature, and Miscellany.
gV WILLIAM J. YATES,
EDITOa AND PROPRIETOR.
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
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E. A. YATES,
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1857.
VOLUME 6.
Number 279.
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DISSOLUTION.
THE
n of WILLIAMS, GILLESPIE &
di..lved by mutual MMRll on tin
,: July, . The Notes and Ac
CO., a as
first day
(-ants t
I Km nitist he jiaid fortliwirti. J tie
Wmb lor I-"" can run a
usual anl will be i
jh ltd d at the end of the year by E. 8. Williams
aho will rontiuue to caiTV on
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tlie htlsim-SS
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Hi hi return their thanks to the public
,,. jl patronage heretoforr n-ceived, and
,jy .-tiivnwor hopes, by manifesting u spirit of
...:.. lion to merit a continuation of the
WILLIAMS, GELLESriE & CO.
Charlotte, Ang. 4, t8S0 tf
rXTOTICB.
I I. p -r-oiis having etaiaM ajrainst the late
VVILLIAMS,iILLE8PIE CO., will
- at 1 if an to the undersigned for settlement.
L. S. WILLIAMS.
Angus! I, l-."7
r i.lOO Heart of Becl'
SOL. C attle Wanted.
Also, 500 HEAD OF
SHEEP c 100
ftHead of HOGS,
And 12 or 15 No. 1 Milch lows.
i lii'sllM". to mirrliase the above amount of
Stuck. Tbuw having any tm sale win mi wni 10
jjiv.- ne a eall, a I am willing to pay the highest
utankH price. Farax-rs will find it to their advau-
lagr Ut .. II fh. ir H.-. Ves, Sheep or Hogs to me
ia(ead of butchering themselves, as 1 think I
. hi reutilMerate tbeui as well if not better than it
ifcei liiiteher.-d thenawivea.
W. A. COOK,
fb.irb.tt.-. duly 1 1, 1-C.7. Town llutcher.
Special (op;irtucrhip
IN the
SADDLE & HARNESS BUSINESS.
E. H. ANDREWS & CO- have entered into
tii.- above busiaeaa, aud appointed li. S-HAW
a special Ageut to carry it on in all its
Various Branches.
First doorbrlow Granite Bow, on Tryen Street.
'!::.;;. .He, .lulv !. 1 S7. 67-0
a
DR. R. WYSONG,
Charlotte, W. C.
VV1XG located "m this place, respectfully
II
tT. r It: Professional Services
to Hie Clll-
trmf if the town aud vicinity.
; ; OFFICE iu Springs' building
April 2tHh l"7.
BREM & STEELE,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
IN
IDiry Goods,
Hardware, Halw, flisirt Shoes,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Mav V I;,;. 44-tl
lolsn 13eiiry Wayl, Bl
SURGEON DENTIST,
(Ur,i,lu,i! of the liultiniore College of
MMmtmi Surgery.)
Haviaj; located permaii- utly, tenders his pro
fessional services to the citizens ol
Charlotte, N. C, aud
vicinity.
Pr. Wavt prepares aud inserts artificial palates
;m.J .!ttiir:tn. and attends to the correction of
congenital and accidental deformities of the
t. . tli and jaws. He is also prepared to insert
artificial tceih. after the most approved methods.
I Ladies waited ou at their residences if
rcipiired-
Oflfice on Try, m Btxeet, in Carson's new
buildiag, up stairs.
Xov. ItM. '20 tf.
VALUABLE
PLANTATION
FOB SALE.
The subacribct Winjr desirious of
removing to the West, otfers for sale
his valuable
TRACT OF LAND,
lying 4 miles south of Charlotte, on the Charlotte
and Columbia Kaihoad, containing about
430 Aeres.-
IM is in cultivation, 75 of which is fr'sh land.
Til.- balance is woodland except :0 acns.
'n the premises is a good
i'wcliinor II,. use and ail neces-
ry out-houses, a Giu-Hottse and
v w, &c. Tbctc io an excellent Well of water
In the yard. A Gold Mine has been opened on
tlie laud.
Penoaa d 'srions of purchasing a Plantation
with aim. st every advantage, would do well to
call and examine the premises, as it is seldom
that such property is offered to the public.
Negroca will be taken in whole, or for a part
the purchase money. I will take pleasure in
Mowing tlie Land to anyone desirous of pur
chasing. Possession given by the 1st of Janu
ary, B. R. SMITH.
Aug ll, 18T7. 09-tf
Tlao Cry is,
STILL THEY COME.
Received this duv another sup
ply, if fresh DRUGS, MEDICINES & CHEM
ICALS. Also, a splendid assortment of iur
gical Instrument1!, consisting in part
of Post Mortem, Trepauing and Amputating'
Cases, Teeth Forceps,! Speculum., Eiu niata Sets,
(entirely new style) spring and thumh Lancets,
Scarificators, Cupping Glasses, and many other
articles in this line, f good, all of which Prac
titioners of medicine a-id Surgery are respect
fully invited to call and examine.
For sale at extreniel y short profits, at
t'lil 1 lyirAHD'S Wholesale mJ His..l
Sept. d.j Drug House, Irwin corner.
Another Stipply
Of the most nune and magnificent Toilet Arti-el-s,
consisting in part of hair, teeth, nail, tiesh,
hat, cloth ami otbei Brushes.
Turkish Colognes,
Extracts. Soaps,
Bohemian Pungents,
Frankipaue, Arc, fcc,
which will be sold low at
Frilchard's Fancy Drug Store,
Sept.?. In in's Corner.
WOOIftVVM CKEA.m
WOODLAND CREAM f!
An unequalled and exquisite Pomade for the
hair. Just received from the manufacturers, at
Pritchard't Drug and Chi mical House,
Sept. 6. Irwins's corner.
Tooth Ache.
Another supply of Cunimiiigs & Fhigjj's
Xervk Anodyne, an instantaneous cure
for the huLh ache, at
P HITCH A RD'S,
Sept. 8. Sole Agent lor Charlotte.
Country Merchants
Are respectfully invited to
eall and examine my Wholesale
Prices of CHOICE
.VD iflHiiitJSNES,
nut up in any style to order, bv
PRITCHARD,
Druggist and Apothecary
July 98, h win's Corner.
AVhite Lead.
10.000 Lbs. White LcjhL in oil, just
received and for sale at PK1TCHAR1PS
Aug. 18. lrug House.
Paint or Linseed Oil.
SOO Gallons just received and for sale
at the lowest marttt prices, at
PK1TC HAR D'S
Aug. 18.
Drug Sf Chi lineal Slnrr.
VARNISHES ! VARNISHES !
A large stock now on hand, consisting of
Demon, Furniture, Copal, Coach-body, Ja
pan, cc., which will Le sold for cash lower
than any other House in Charlotte, at
ti. It. FK I I CHARD's
Wholesale Retail Drug Store,
Aug. IS. Irwin's Corner.
CoiicIitioBi Powder.
Farmers and other! intensteu fine Stock,
are assured that these preparations are unsur
passed as a h. alth-guing remedy for Horses,
Cattle, and all kinds ol S;ock. For sale at
l'ritchard,s Wholesale ami
Jlclail Drug House,
Ju'y 28. lrvvia's Corner.
Patent MediciRfS.
Call at PR1TCHAKDS DRUG STORE.
Irwin's Corner, for the most approved a nd
popular medicines of the day.
July 28.
Gram Seeds:: Grass Seeds!!!
A large assortment just received, comprising
the following varieties:
White Clover, Red Clover, Timothy, Millet,
Blue Grass, Lucerne, f-r.
The above so ds are warranted to b- FRESH
and GENUINE. For sateat
Friii hard's Wholesale Sf Retail Drug House
Au 2.", lrv7. IuWlN's CORNER.
WE3ITE LEAD.
At PRITCHARD'S yon can buy, for cash,
pure White Lead at cents p
lb
Drug Store,
Ir tcin's
t bmer.
Another Decline In Quinine
At Priickard'M Large Drug und Chemical
House, Irwin's Corner.
This article may now be had at $2 50 per
ounce, for Cash only.
40,000 PAIRS
OF
BOOTS, SHOES,
aL
OVER SHOES.
EMBRACING everv variety of Ladies, Gents,
Misses, Roys and Childrens' Shoes and Roots
that can be' found in any wholesale or retail es
tablishment in the Southern Country.
Our goods are manufactured expressly for us,
and we are satisfied they will give better satisiac
tion aud at less prices for th same quality
goods than at any other establishment iu the
South.
It is only necessary to examine our stock and
prices to be s-itisried that this is the place to buy
Roots aud Shoes.
Cash, one price only.
BOONE & CO.,
Sept 29. Charlotte, N. C.
Lumber Yard.
The subscribers inform the citizens of Char
lotte aud vicinity that they have established a
Lumber Yard in town, where they intend keep
ing a supply of all kinds of Lumber for building
and other purposes. Mr Jonas Kudisill is their
agent in towu application can be made to him
or to either of the undersigned.
Oct. 6. MILLER & PORTER.
K. M.
Ml RCIHSON. A.J. IIOWF.I.L.
MURCHISON &. HOWELL,
C0MMBSH3H MERCHANTS,
.Vo. 104 WTttti Stretl, .t.
Feb. 3d, lc57. ly
NEW GOODS
AND
J. E. STEXIIorSK.
.TOI1S STEXHOUSE.
The undersigned are now opening a large
and well assorted Stock of
.FA8H&Y GB0C8MBS,
in Springs' brick building '2d door from Mr
Bryce's store, which they will sell low for
cash.
They will pay the HIGHEST MAR
KIC'V PRICES for Cotton. Wheat and
country produce generally.
J. E. STEXHOUSE fc CO.
Charlotte, Sept. 2V, 1857. tf
A Valuable PBaaitation,
Fifteen miles ivest of Charlotte, in Gaston
county, icithin ttco miles of the Flank
ILoad between Charlotte aud
Lincolnton.
Said Plantation is on the west
ide of tlie Catawba River, con
aining about FOUR HUNDRED
ACRES: about eighty-five acres.
River ISottom; ten acres, Meadow land yield
ing an abundant crop of hay twice a year; one
hundred and twenty-five acres good upland.
lying very level, and the balance in woodland,
well timbered, and ext nding within two hun
dred yards of a Saw Mill owned by John 11.
Johnston, Esq.
On the place there is a large
I'..l. II ., LnUkn. Un TJ
Cribs, Stables, a new large and spacious"
Barn, Blacksmith Shop, Cotton (Jin and Screw.
There is also a large Orchard of peach and ap
ple Trees, worth at least one thousand dollars;
and in addition a good Vegetable garden.
The. Plantation is well known as the residence
of the late Robert Johnston; having been care
fully cultivated and from the manner in which
it lies, is capable of indefinite improvement.
The place is well watered, having three very
excellent Springs, situated in different parts of
the plantation.
Any one wishing to examine the plantation
can do so by applying to J no. K. Johnston, Esq.,
residing w ithin one mile ef the place, or in his
absence, to Dr. Sydney X. Johnston, two miles
distant at Cast mia Grove, on the Plank lioad
abi.ve mentioned.
Possession of the prembes given on the 1st of
January, IcnV, and to any purchaser desirous of
sow ing w heat, permission will be granted to do
so at the proper season.
This has always been regarded as the best
plantation on the Catawba River, and my busi
ness arrangements being such that I cannot
occupv it at tins tune, it wilt De sola uannertlu
ensuing
son; therefore early application would
be ailvisanii
ll ice anu onus ,in i oi.iue hui.nu o au-
dresshur me at -27 Murray, and :51 Warren
n .... 1 . ...til 1... l.v 1 I ,
Streets, New York City, care of Churchill, John- j
stoti v Co., until 1st ot November; utter that
date, at Columbia, S. C.
RUFFS M. JOHNSTON.
Sept. 29, 1857. 2m
Second Annual Fair
OF the STATE AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
to be held at COLUMBIA on November
10th, 11th, 12th and 13th, 1857.
The Executive Committee of the State Agri
eultual Society of South Carolina, respectfully
call the attention of tin- people of the southern
States to their approaching Fair, at which
Premiums will be awarded for all articles of
Agricultural, Horticultural or Mechanical inti r
est, as well as in all departments of Ladies'
Fancy Work and Domestic Economy, enumer
ated in au extensive Premium List, w hich can
be had on application to COL. K. J. GAGE,
Sec.'y, Fair Forest, S. C.
The Society has erected the best and most
commodious Halls in the United States, for the
convenience of Exhibitors; and fine Stalls are
prepared for animals.
All articles and animals will be transported to
aud from the Fair by the Railroads in South
Carolina, free of charge, at the ow ner's risk.
A. P. CALHOl'N,
E. H. PALMER,
J. F. MARSHALL,
D. L. HARLEE,
A. G. SUMNER,
J. A. ADAMS,
R. J. GAGE,
Executive Committee.
Brem & Steele
Are receiving their FaU & WINTER
SUPPLY !'Jp vQX)2)a
October 1, 157. 4t
GOLD MINES;
IRON WORKS 6c NEGROES
For Sale.
By virtue of a mortgage and power of
sale therein contained, executed by Philip
W. Groot of the city of Albany, to Andrew
Hoyl and his Executors, for and in behalf
of the High Shoals Manufacturing Coin
pan if, the undersigned will proceed to sell
to the highest bidder, for ready money, at
the High Shoals in Gaston county, N. C,
On Thursday the 3st December, 1857,
That extensive, well known, and VALUA
BLE PROPERTY known as the
High Shoals,
Embracing about F I F T E E N T II 0 U
SAXI) ACRES OF LAND, a large por
tion of it productive grain-growing Land.
Also, several rich GOLD .WJTJSS
opened and now being worked.
Also, many inexhaustible bodies of
ItlOJV ORE which have been profit
ably worked.
Also, a WATER-POWER unsurpassed i
bv anv in the South
Also, Sixteen A'EGIIOES, all, but
one, Fellows and Mechanics.
THOMAS GRIER,
W. P. BYXUM,
Ex'rs. of A. Hoyl.
October G, 1857. 3m
$200 Reward.
RAXAWAY from my Railroad Shantees, in
Libert v county, Ga. . about the 1st August, 1856,
mv negro man EFHRAIM. He is black and
of medium size, :. or 24 yeart old. was raised by
Mr Shinn, of Lincoln county, and sold to me by
W.P.lU um
1-C.K. 1 thiUfc said boy is lying about Chailott.
1. '
.... vv T Rvoiim's in 1. nco n coimtv. or Win.
Shipp's ot Gaston county, as tne noy nas rela
tions at all those points. I will pay
Two Hundred Dollars
for his apprehension and delivery in Charlotte j
Jail so that 1 can get ami.
Sept. 15. 107. 74-tt D. V . ORR
For the Western Democrat.
TO MY LITTLE COUSIN IN HEAVEN j
Once I loved a darling boy,
A gem, to this world given
A father's pride, a mother's joy,
A star that fell from Heaven.
Bat earthly beauties must decay,
And choicest riches too must fly:
On angel wings he flew away,
And found a happy home ou high.
O, blessed land of spirits bright!
How many jewels, rich and i are,
Sparkle in thy realms of ! ght.
And in thy pure celestial air ?
An angel came with friendly care
And bore away from a mother's arm
An only son and favorite dear.
Now free from every dread of harm.
"Every cloud has silver lining,"
Amid this gloom there's pleasure, too,
For, on hi? Saviour's breast reclining,
He tastes those joys forever new.
He forms one of the angel's band,
A pure, white robe he wears,
And o'er yon bright and peaceful land
AU angel s wanu tie bears.
IIow sweet to dwell with cherubs there,
In childish innocence and glee,
A stranger to an earth-born care,
From every pain and sorrow free.
Then weep not, ye loving friends,
Who have felt affliction's woe;
'Tis a mandate Heaven sends
This grief ye all must know.
Hut strive with Gamie to obtain
A home of blissful peace and love;
Unknown to every mortal pain,
A happy, happy home above.
O, may -ou each and every one,
'Strive to make your culling sure,'
And gain eternally a home
In Heuv'n, e'er beautiful and pure.
J. J. D.
Sl'DDEN DEATH OF THE SHERIFF. Our
community was shocked, on Saturday last,
by the reported death of Caleb Kh'tts, Esq.,
Sheriff of this county. He had been some
what unwell for several days, but was not
supposed to be iu any danger. He was
able to be up in his room on Saturday,
and attended to some official business a
few minutes before his death. He rose
from tho table after dispatching it, and re-
i marking to his wife that he had a severe
pain in the head, laid down on the bed. and
i , - 1 , . -
exP,red almost instantly.
His decease is
a public loss, for he was not only a first
rate officer, but a good citizen, lit leaves
a wife and young family behind, who,
though well provided for, are thus suddenly
called to experience a deprivation out of
the power of earth to restore. Salisbury
Watchman, 13th instant.
Former Bank Suspensions. The fiit
general Bnspe.isioa of specie payments by
banks, occurred in 1814, immediately after
the capture of the city of Washington by
the British. The banks of New York and
all South and West suspended, and did not
resume for three or four years.
The general suspension, in 1837, began
at Xew York, May 10, and the next day
the banks of Boston, Philadelphia and Bal
timore followed. The bank.-, of Cincinnati
suspended on the 17th.
A general resumption of speciu pay
ments was attempted in 1830, but a large
proportion of the banks did not succeed in
the operation, and a universal resumption
was not effected until 1843 and 1844.
Tho suspension in New York, in 1837,
was preceded by a period of unprecedented
commercial distress. Three hundred heavy
firms failed there that spring, with liabili
ties estimated at forty millions of dollars,
and it was said that two thousand men,
dependent on their daily labor for their
support, were thrown of employment. The
pressure was equally severe in other places
one hundred and sixty-eight firms failed
in Boston during the six months preceding
the suspension. Ex. Paper.
Sorgho Sugar, One of the finest
samples of sugar we have seen, says the
Austin (Texas) Gazette, is a sample made
front the Sorgho Cane, by Mr Studor, near
Austin. It is of a fine grain and color, and
would command the highest price iu
New Orleans.
Free Negro Suffrage Association-.
At a late annual meeting of the "C lored
Free Suffrage Association," in New York,
very severe resolutions were adopted in
regard to the Black Kepu'. i sans, alleging
in effect that the Mack people had been
cheated lry these political abolitionists out
of their rights. In their speeches, the
Republicans were spoken of as "a rascal I y
set of men." and the New York Tribune as
"a scandalous paper: a hrtnjff sheet." They
are quite sarcastic on the Black Republicans.
declaring, among other edifying statements
that at the great Republican ball given at
the Academy of Music, by the Republican
Central Committee, daring the last cam
paign, the grand festival supper was
furnished by two poor negro cooks, who
have never been paid to this day!
The negroes even in New York are
heo-inninnr to discover the true character of
their pretended friends.
ITA pert lawyer lately insulted the
in.l r.i win. finml liim fiftv dollars. TTo re-
h ;nsul aud the jud 1oube(
1
" " i -S
repeated, x many, ne asaeu permission to
go home.
"What for?" said the judge.
"Why, to buy vour honor's paper at ten
i -a- it 1 r .
i per cent to pay the fine !"
4 Judge. "Humph ! I remit the fine."
THE CAUSES OF THE PANIC.
In the subjoined article, which we trans
fer from a New York journal, the reader
will find an intelligent and truthful discus
sion of the present financial disorder that
is scourging the country :
The Money Ckisis. We have said but
little upon the crisis in our columns, be
cause it is of no use to reason with a panic
any more than to reason with a whirlwind
or an earthquake, all very unreasonable
and irresistible elements of human destruc
tion. The panic here must have its course
and exhaust itself, aud the very effort to
stop but enrages it. Nevertheless it is a
public duty to examine the causes of this
patsic, for by the examination perhaps we
may analyze and hereafter arrest like
causes, and to save the public from a dis
turbance fatal as this has been to commerce
trade, anl manufactures
The batiks of this city which, the ab-
sence of the United States Bank, are now
44.1,0 .r.-ont r.ninin" tl, n.mtrv Hm
O 'U iwiiuiii va inv v'-." j
last summer expanded, when, if the officers
had read the newspapers, and particularly
if they had mtrked the amount of foreign
importations, with the notices given of
Western land speculations, they ought to
have contracted. The rates of exchange
on Europe, and the struggle for money to
be laid out in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota, and Kansas lauds, ought to
have admonished them that expansion was
wrong, if contraction was not necessary
Nevertheless, they went on expanding until
the Ohio Life and Trust Compcny brok
from sheer mismanagement and folly, which
together with the failure of the Machanic's
Rankintr Association, scared the banks
here into a sudden and violent con
traction of millions. The New York
scare at once spread far and wide, for New
York began calling upon all parts of the
United States for specie, and for every dol
lar in specie brought hero from the country
there was a hundred dollars of contractions
of currency in paper money elsewhere.
As we fortified ourselves, others began to
break. Tho laboring classes became
frightened, rushed to the banks of discount
and to the saving banks for gold and silver,
and hence, perhaps, within thirty days,
tlicio Ims been a. coot, attluu 200,000,-
000 in paper currency ; so that now paper
currency,, good or "bankable," or payable"
right off in specie, is unknown in a great
part of the LTnited States. The wonder is.
not the crash, but that the crash has not been
universal, where a man owed anything, no
matter how rich he was in auything else
but silver aud gold.
AIR POISON.
Some people have often said that
no difference can be detected in the
analyzation of pure and impure air.
This is one of the vulgar errors difficult to
dislodge from the vulgar brain. The fact
is, that the condensed air of a crowded
room gives a deposit, which if allowed to
remain a few days, forms a solid, thick,
glutinous mass, having a strong odor of
animal matter. If examined by the micro
scope, it is seen to undergo a remarkable
change. First of all, it is converted into a
vegetable growth, and this is followed by
the production of multitudes of animalcules
a decisive proof that it must contain organ
ic matter, ortherwise it could not nourish
organic beings. This was the result arri
ved at by Dr. Angus Smith, in his beauti
ful experiments on the air of towns, where
he showed how the lungs and skin gave
out organic matter, which is in itself a
deadly poison, producing headache, sick
ness or epidemic, according to its strength.
Why if "a few drops of the liquid matter,
obtained by condensation of thcair of a
foul locality, introduced into the vein of a
dog, can produce death by the usual phe
nomena of typhus fever," what incalculable
evil must it not produce on those human
beings who breathe it again and again,
rendered fouler and less capable of sus
taining life with every breath drawn ? Such
contamination of the air, and consequent
hot-bed of fever and epidemic, it is easily
within the power of man to remove. Yen
tilation and cleanliness will do all, so far as
the abolition of this evil goes, and ventila
tion and cleanliness are not miracles to be
praved for, but certain results of common
obedience to the laws of God. Dickens'
Household Words.
IW A gentleman conversing with a lady
friend, a short time siuce, claimed that he
could parodise on the hoop question any
verso she might choose to repeat. She ac
cordingly rehearsed the following verge
from the Old Sexton :
Nigh to the grave that was newly made.
Leaued a sexton old on bis earth-w orn spade,
His work was done, and he paused to wait
The funeral train through the ope a gab; ;
A relic of by -gone days was he,
And bis locks were as white as the foamy sea;
And these word come from his lips so thin,
"I gather them in, I gather them iu."
Whereupon, the graceless fellow took
I his pencil, and thus wrote on a scrap of
newspaper lying by :
Nigh to a church that was newly made,
Stood a lady fair, and thus she said-
Too bad, too bad I here must wait
While they measure the breadth of this open gate
Ah ! it is only nine by sir, I see '
Too narrow, too narrow, alas 1 for me ;
And she sighed from her quivering lips so thin;
I can't get in I can't get in f"
EFFECTS OF INTERMARRIAGE.
Intermarriage among blood relatnns
produces bad results. The editor of The
Fredericksburg (Ya.) News says :
"In this county, in which we are raised,
for twenty generations back certain fat li
lies of wealth and respectability have In
termarried until there cannot be found, in
three or four of them, a sound man or
woman! One has sore eyes; another scrofula;
a third is an idiot; a fourth, blind : a fifth,
bandy legged ; a sixth, with a head about
the size of a turnip with not one out of
the number, exempt from physical defects
of some kind or other."
In certain other sections of the country
the same visible manifestations of the pro
gress of this system of wholesale suicide and
defiance of God and nature may be en
countered. In some towns in New Eng
land the blighting curse of intermarriage
rests upon a conspicuous per centage of
the would-be first families. Aud this enor
mity is still continued to a considerable
extent, notwithstanding its efi'ects are now
almost universally understood.
Not a dogs-age since there was a re
markable case of this kind in Massachusetts,
in which the posterity of one of the most
intellectual families that ever flourished
and scattered from the classic shadows of
Amherst will be the victims. Yet the par
ties of the marriage wero professed Chris
tians ; aud so far as the bride and her
friends were concerned, were all well edu
cated in "common things," as well as the
more polite mysteries of learning. Similar
instances are constantly occurring in the
Eastern States, while every intelligent
father, mother and lover daily sees evi
dence enough to convince any one of them
that the effects of such a course, in nine
cases out of ten, will be almost literally
"hell and destruction."
The curso against this "abomination of
desolation" is written all over Christendom
upon the throne of England, on the bogs
of Ireland, in the Halls of the Montezumas.
It is written in Philadelphia, in Boston,
right here in New York, and in every town,
great or small, in the land. Tho warning
is uttered from tho gallows, the mad house,
and in the senseless gabble and soulless
stare of the fool. It speaks to whola com
munities, and it is time for communities and
Atonies to tieetl tne warning. Tliosu who
continue to disregard it, should hereafter
be treated with pity and with condemna
tion. New York News.
A MICHIGAN BED BUG STORY.
The editor of tho Grand River Eagle
has a friend who has been stopping, as he
alleges, at one of the hotels at Kalamazoo.
His story is pretty fairly told, and ho pos
sesses talent in the way of spinning "yarn"
that would do credit to one who has enter
tained his mess in the forecastle of a whal
er, or relieved the tedium of a watch on
deck :
"You sco I went to bed pretty all-fired
used up, after a hull day on the road be
fore the plank was laid, caJkalatin' on a
good si. ooze. Waal, just as the shivers be
gan to case off, I kinder felt suthiu' to pull
off my shirt, and diggin' their feet into the
small of my back, to git a good hold.
Wiggled aud twisted, doubled and pucker
ed all to no use kept a going it like sin.
Bimcby got up and struck a light to look
around a spell found about a peck of bed
bugs scattered around, and more dripping
off my shirt and runn;n' down my leg
every minit. Swept off a place on the
floor, shook out a quilt, lay down and kiv
ered up for a nap. No use mounted right
on me like a parcel of rats ou a meal tub
dug a hole in the kiverlid and crawled
through, and gave me fits for trying to
lide. Got up again and went down stairs.
got a slush bucket from the wagon, made a
circle of tar ou the floor, lay down on the
inside, and felt comfortable that time any
how. , I left the light burnin'. and watched
em, see 'em get together and have a camp
ineciiii' about it, and they went off in a
squad, with and old grey headed one on the
top, right up on the wall an' to the ceilin',
till they got to the right spot, then dropped
ight plump into my face ! Fact, by thun
der. Waal, I swept 'em up again, and
made a circle on the ceiling too. Thought
had 'cm foul this time : but I swar to
man, if they didn't pull 6trawa out of the
bed, and build a bridge over."
Seeing an incredible expression on our
visage, lie clenched uis story tnus :
"It is so, whether you believe it or not,
and some of them walked across on stilts.
led bugs are cautious critters, and no mis
take especially the Kalamazoo kind."
Book-Keeping in Double Entry
On the examination of Stephen Bronson,
Jr., charged with defrauding a bank in
Chicago, of which he was cashier, Judge
Wilson, one of the victims, was a witness,
and gave the following important piece of
evidence:
" Have never examined the books to as
certain in regard to the accounts; witness
would not attempt any such thing. He re
garded the plan of keeping books by double
entry as a scheme for swindling. False
entries could be made and the best of book
keepers could not detect them. Witness
would as soon undertake to work the diffi
cult problem in fluxions or conic sections
as to unravel the mysteries of double entry
book-keeping. If the books show a balance
for Bronson, they are wrong, that's all,
and if the people can be swindled in this
way, the double entry system should be
abolished by statute."
MAGNANIMOUS ACT.
350,000 Dollars Given Away!
Mr. Lefevre, a wealthy sugar planter of
Lafourche, died recently without issue
his wife having preceded him to the grave.
His estate was appraised at about $700,
000. A few days since his will was opened,
when it was found that ho had left the
whole of his possession to be divided
equally between two gentlemen of this city
one a nephew to his wife, and the other
the broker who transacted bis business in
this city, a man nowise related to him only
in the way of his business. To the aston
ishment of his friends, this broker, on find
ing mt he had been made legatee to half
the o'd man's estate, (f 350,000 at least,)
went Infore a notary public and renounoed
the who legacy, making it over in favor
of the revives of the deceased in Fance,
consisting f nephews and nieces to the
number of twenty or thirty, and all humbly
situated iu lib. The old man had previ
ously made a wH in which his French rela
tives wero hauoHomely remembered ; but
on returning from a visit to them, not
long ago, for some reason known only to
himself, he tore the vill to pieces and wrote
a new one, leaving cvry thing to his wife's
nephew and his broker, us above stated.
He came to this country when young, a
poor hatter; but prospering in his business,
and finally marrying a Inly of wealth, ho
went into. the sugar cultun, and progress
ed so well that a few yetrs moro might
have made him a millionair. The broker
who so magiiauimously renoenced his share
of the estate gave as his reason for so
doing, that he was already as rich as he
wished to be, and felt so independent, that
he did not wish it to be in tie power of any
one to say that any part of 'lis fortune was
not of his own making. H.s independence
will certainly bo heartily blessed on tho
other side of the water. We would give
the gentleman's name, were wo not satisfi
ed that he claims no merit for his act, and
has no desire to be publicly mentioned in
connection with tho matter. iY. O. Cres
cent. Remarkable Marriaoes. Of the many
Chinamen in New York, not a few keep
cigar stands upon the sidewalk. Thoir
neighbors in trade ore the Milesian apple
women. Twenty-eight of these applewo
tnen have gone the way of matrimony with
their elephant eyed, olive kinued cotempo
rarics, and the most of them are now happy
mothers in consequence. The phy:c!ogist
avers that the human being is improved, as
is the domestic branch of tho quadruped
animals, by "crossing." If this be true-
and we suspect that it is the natives of
this country ought to be remarkable for
physical strength and beauty ; for surely
there never was such a mixture of races iu
any part of the-world. Representatives of
all nations have located and married here.
We know two Bouin Arabs, part of an ex
hibition troupe that came to this country
several years ago, who married wives ard
are rearing offsprings in ono of the Hudson
river counties. Siam has its representa
tives here in the famous twins, and in ono
of tho up town streets a wealthy native of
Morocco domicilates with a Westchester
county spouse. The mixture of Dutch,
Italian, French Spanish, English Irish,
Danish, Sweedish Scc, is perfectly bewilder
ing, but tho amalgamation of the Irish and
the Chinese is more than bewildering it
begets a chaos of ideas from which no ray
of intelligibility can be safely eliminated.
Imagine a scion of this stock chatting gaily
about "Josh" in one moment, and speaking
of his father Ping Sing Chi, and, in tho
next, swearing that he goes in, tooth and
nail, or rather body and breeches, for the
nomination of his mother's brother, Patrick
O'Dowd. Oh, what a country is this!
New York Mercury.
. .
Eoonomv Uf oca Dress. Tho popula
tion of the United States amounts at tho
present moment to about 89,000009. "If
every individual (says the New Ydrk Her
ald) in this aggregate wero to economise
ten dollars yearly the annual saving would
be $250,000,000. By wearing our clothes
six months longer the ten dollars oould
easily be "pared, and we would not be less
comfortable or respectable for the economy.
This is true, aud however trivial 'it may
seem to begin in our households the work
of removing a national misfortune, yet tho
figures show that a great deal can be done
in this way towards tbat object. Industry
is paralized at present, and hence we must
call in economy to help us out of the diffi
culty. "Gen. Pl'TMA-N." On one occasion dur
ing the Revolution "old Put" had received
a lot of new recruits, and as he had some
fighting which ho wished to do before long,
and wanted none but willing men, be drew
up bis levies in rank before him. Now,
boys,' said he, 'I don't wish to retain any
of you who wish to leave ; therefore if any
of you are dissatisfied, and wish to return
home, he may signify tho same by stepping'
six spaces in front of tlie line. But, added
the old war dog. 'I'll shoot the first man
that steps out.'
ty It was Cobbett who said and ho
told the truth, too that woman is never so
amiable as when she is useful ; as for
beauty, though men may fall in love with
girls at play, there is nothing to make them
stand to their love like eeing them at
work engaged in Uaeful offices of tho
home and family.