Newspapers / The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, … / Nov. 10, 1857, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
up stairs opposite scarr s drug store j A Family Paper, devoted to State Intelligence, the News of tke World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. BV WILLIAM J. TATES, EHITOB AND PROPRIETOR. CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. J $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. (?S. A. TATESfl I ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 5 VOLJJiME 6. Number 22. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1857. THE an mocxat Published every Tuesday , )nuinig the latest News, a full and accu rate Report at tln Markets, &c. ',,r the year, if paid in advance,. . . .$2 00 If paid within six axoartha, 2 50 ,,:;jd aft' r the expiration of the year, 3 00 ;-Aiiv porson Bonding us fivit new sub accompanied by the advance ana tion ($lil)wfll receive a sixth copy gru i for on year. - ib-cribcra and others who may wish I ,,; m hi y to us, can do so by mail, at ADVERTISING. ;.. i mc ol ' lines or It lor 3 months, St n ) " E on " l i )0 oo 1 1 - ; , ire, 1 lines, or less.firat insertion, SI 00 i. , i-i se ueal insertion, 25 I rausient advertisements must be for in advance. for announcing Candidates for office, " in advance. Advertisements not marked on tbe ri ! for a specific time, will he in . til forbid. and charged accordingly WILLIAM J. YATES. lain able Plantation, ' .14 wiles west tit Charlotte, im Qeulou trithin tirn mil is tif the Plank Road Ik tin i n Charlotte and V. evl a i n. S ud Plantation is on the west side of the Catawba L'ivcr. con taining abont FOUK HUNDRED .CKE: about eighty-five tern, !,- i,itooi; ten acres. Meadow land yield. j i mi abundant crop at hay twice a yeai; one .1 aud twenty-five actes good upland, .hi !e i. and the balance in woodland, . U limbered, ami extending within two hun- irds of a Saw Mill owned by John 11. .lolinsotu, r.Mi. i i tie- I dace there is a large !'... !!'!-. Kitchen, Nifrro Houses. .' Sial Ii . a new bwxre and snaciuus ili e. Buirksiuitti Shop. Cotton Gin wad i- .i'-o a large Orchard of peach Ti . -. worth at least oin" thousand il Hlditi 'ii a COOd v. getabh garden. ; Plantation w well known aa the residence Robert Johnston; having bcn cans . cultivated and froaa the aaanuer In which rapabfo of indefinite hanrovtment. ; ;., .,- 5- well wan-red, having three very . - 1 i i ;': ings, njtnand in uitl . ul pacta ul ii.. . 1 . 1 1 1 1 : . i , . t . Anv ,.n. wishmg to examine the plantation , m hi hy appli ing to JaoJ B. Johnston, E., Ii -i. inv w ill. ai one mile of the place, or in his iW net-, in )r. Kvdue X Jahnirtun, two mil. -. - mj t Catrtnuia i. on the. Plank Koad a" ...v.- Hientiowd. -, sioii ! ile r uil-ea given on the Is; of Jaauaiv, I and to :mv pnrchaaer deahona ol iwing aii i,. . i mission will be granted to do Ml .it il " llfOIK i -;. ill. This lets aiw iys u regarded as the best plantation on ihe Catawba ICiver, and aay hnsi-io-s rnoigent-uts being anch thai I cannot i. ipj i' at thi- lime, ii ill h. sold during th. . ij.r... aaon; tlwrefon? early application wwud I . advisable. Piii -and term will be aaade known by ad ssing me -,7 Murray, and Warren p:r. is, , Vork City, rare of CharrAill, John- n a uinil :t of November; after thai late, at i olumbta, S. t . IUFUS M. d H1NSTON. 8m Sept. 3 'I DISSOLUTION. TiiK firm of Williams, giljlespie a ii . .- a-; dissolved by mntnal consent en th . .! J iily, IS57, The Notes and Ac nuts loi !-.. asnat ba paid forthwith. The .in - for I-. 7 :!!! run as nstuil and win be at the end of the year by L- S. Willi.uns ...i u ' ; continue to carry on the business J - and. i : Ii m return their thanks to the t natronaire here:. .tore receivi piIUIH d. and - il iee i,r hoj hv manifesting a spinl ol uiui Kiaiion to merit a continuation of the W ILLIAMS, GILLESPIE A CO. Charlotte, Aug. 4, IBM tf NOTICE. l Lp raona having claims againat the late m W ILLIAS8,GILLESP1E t CO., will !. i l.t th. in in the andersiened for aeMlenient L. WILLIAMS. An ffiist t. 18." .00 Head ol" Beef I iiw Cattle Wanted. Also, 500 HEAD OF v o i. 1 ri xii x . ivjj Ja,7 A.tTH of HOfiS. " " And 12 r 15 o. I Milch Gews. ' DESIRE to purchase the above amount ot Sunk. ThMe having any fee sale will do well to give in : . :,. i mu willing to pay Ui nignesi market price. Farm rs w find it to their ad van- j Mge to s ,1 their 1'.. . , Sheep or Hoga to me j instead ot hutciM'riiig theuiaelves. as l think I raa n ma aerate them as well if not better than it ) they batchered tuemeelvea. W. A. COOK. l Ii lotte. Jul? I I. I Si! Town Butcher. Special fepartoership IN THE SADDLE & EARN ESS BUSINESS. F. If. ANDKBW8 CO. have entered into Ihe above business, and appoinnd 1J. SHAW a pn ial Agent to carry il an in all its Various Branches. I door below Granite Row, on Tryoa Street. Charlotte, J atj M, 1 853 . 67-tf DR. R. WVS0XG, Charlotte, W. C I I tVlXn . united in this place, resnectfullv I 1 ns ot tit h'.s Prufi --lon.il Bervicea to the citi- tun n am ' noinil aa April 2blfa IPS?. BR EM & STEELE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers IN Screw. I and ap-dolianK Dry Goods, Hardware, Hats, and Shoes, CHARLOTTE. X. C. May :., I v.:. 1 1 tf omTTm;r i! OHL.L, 1IU.X uumti. RCCCiVOd 6ns Say anofht r sup- jily ot In-sti 1KI S, MEDICINE a &. CHEM ICALS. Also, a aplandid aaaoiiiiiint of Half fill Insti hum ills, , i - in part ol Post Mortem, Trepaning ami Amputating Cases, Teeth Poreeps.Speenlums, Enentata Beta, (entirely new stvle) spnnsr and tliuinb Lancets, Scarificators, Cupping Classes, and many other articles in this line ot goods, all of which Prac titioners of aiedniiue aid Surgery are respect- miiv uivitea to cai: and examine. 'or .sale at t-.rt re me I if short profit, at PR ITCH ARB'S Wholesale uhd Retail Sept. 8". Dm? House, ririn's corner Another Supply Of the most unique and magnificent Toilet Arti cles, consisting in part of hair, teeth, nail, llcsh, hat, cloth and othei Brushes. Turkish Colognes, Extracts. Soaps, " Bohemian Pungent?, FaaakipaiMf &c, Scc, which will lie sold low at PrilcharWs Faun Drug Store, Sept. 8. Irwin's Corner. WMUAHB CREAM! WO DLAND CREAM!! An unequalled ami exquisite Pomade for the hair. .Just received from tin- manufacturers, at Prili hard's Dru g and Chemical House, Sept. 8. Ii -wing's Corner. Tooth Ache. Another supply of Cumtningfl & Flagg's XCKVR AkoktnB, an insta iilautous cure fur the toutk ache, at PR1TCH AUD'S, Sept. 8. Sole Agent for Charlotte. Country Merchants Are respectfully invited to call and examine my Wholesale Prices ot ( lioii'F, AM) 1HEOIC1NES, put up in any stvle to order, hv PK1TCUARD, Druggist and Apothecary, July 28, 1857. Irwin's Corner. White Lead. Lbs. White l e ad, ill oil. just received and for sale at PR1TCH ARB'S Aug. 18. Drug House. Paint or Linseed Oil. 300 Gallons just received and for sale ui lowest market p PR1TCH ARD'S iy ( 'In micttl Store. Amx. 18. Drui VAIiNISHES ! VARNISHES A lai"e stock now on hand, consisting of Demon, Furniture, Copal, Coach-body, .la pan, fcee, which will he sobi tor cash lower than any other House in Charlotte, at II. M. PR lit HAUD's Wholesale & Retail Drug Store, Ag. 18. Irwin's Corner. Condition Powders. Farmers and ethers interested in fine Stock, are ussured that these preparations are unsur passed as a hi alth-giving remedy for Horses, Cattle, and ;.ll kinds ol Stock. For sale at Pi itchariPs Ii hulesulc and Retail Drug J louse, Ju'v 2S. Ii 'win's Comer. Patent Medicines. Call at PR1TCHAKDS D.U'G STORE. Irwin's ( omer, for the most approved and popnl r medicines of the day. July Crass cedI! Ura Seeds!!! A large assortment just received, comprising the following varieties: Whitt Clwcer, Red Clover, Timothy, Millet, Blue Crass, Lvet rne. Sfe. The above seeds are warranted to be FRESH and GENtTlNE. For sale at ' it chords Wholesale &f K tail Thug House Ang. 25, l-.7. Irwin's Cobnek. WHITE E.KAO. At PRITCHARD'S yon can bay, foe cash, pure Whit.- Lead at 9 cents per lb. Drug Store, rKwa'a Corner. Another Decline In Quinine At Prthhard's Large Drug and Chemical House. Ji irin's Corinr. This article may now be had at $2 T0 per ounce, for C ash ONLY. 40,000 PAIRS OF BOOTS, SHOES, BROCAi$ OVER SHOES. EMBRACING every variety of Ladies, Gents. Misses, Boys and Children" Shoes and Boon that can be found in any wholesale or retail es tablishment in the Southern Country. Our goods are manufactured expressly for us, and wean satisfied they will e ire better satisfac tion and at less prices forth, same quality of .r is than at any other eatabhahment in the South. It is only necessary to examine our stock and prices to be satisfied that this is the place to buy Boots and Shoes. Cash, one price 0hf. BOONE & CO., -av Sept. 20. C II A HL0TTE, . C Lumber Yard. The mhocribets inform the citizens of Char lotte and vicinity that they have established a Lumber Van) in town, wbi re they intend keep ing a supply of all kinds of Lumber for building and other purposes. Mr Jonaa Rudisill is their ageat in Iowa application can be made to him or to either of the undersigned. Oct. ti. MILLER dc PORTER. k. at. MVBcmaox. a.j. howei.l. MUKCHISON &. HOWELL, OM lO I It'ttll Street. . 1857. ly .v. r I HENDERSON & AHRENS Are daily receiving, and have now on hand, an excellent assortment of Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS. Tho cheapest stock of BOOTS, SIIOES and CLOTHING in this section of country. HARDWARE, GROCERIES, II ATS, CAPS, AND Bonnet. A large and very cheap stock of LADIES' CLOAKS, Ac. We offer the following goods at the annexed low prices: Men's stout Shoes, whole leather, $1 S7J " Boots, Kip and Heavy, $2 75 to $3 Ladies' calfskin Boots, $1 00 " Morocco and goatskin Boots, $1 to 1 25 Men's Coats from $:5to $15. liaglaus and Overcoats at all prices. A large lot of Pants, Vests, Shirts, Ties. Cravats, Drawers, Undershirts, Hats and Caps ; a large variety of Blankets, Linseys, Brogaus, pant Stuffs, &c, a huge assortment. Families and others iu need of any Goods this fall would do well to give us a call before mak ing tin -ir purchases, as we are otferir.g unusual indue -incurs, particularly to Cash buyers. iy Store at Springs' Corner. HENDERSON & AHRENS. Oct. 1-2, 1857. tf. '"J" We have also a good assortment of Goods at our Store at Morrow's Tirxoit, where we oiler (ioods at Charlotte Prices. HENDERSON & AHRENS. FALL GOODS AT FISHER & BURROUGHS' HAVING OPENED a large and attractive stock of fall and winter Goods, we would invite the attention and solicit au examiuation of our DRESS GOODS, EMBROIDERIES, CLOAKS and TALMAS. Also, CARPETING8, OIL CLOTHS and MATTING, ta great variety. Blankets, Fine Bed and negro Blankets, also Kerseys and Plains for plantation use. A large supply of tin above goods excellent in quality and moderate in price will be found at FISHER A- BURROUGHS'. HARDWARE, Shelf Hardware in all its varieties, also Anvils, Bellows, Vices, Axles & Springs, Iron and Steel, Boring Machines. Morticing and Drilling Ma chines, Faints. Oils sud Varnishes Cuustani ly on hand and for sale low at FISHEli & BURROUGHS'. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Corn Shelh rs, Straw Cutters, Corn and Cob Mills. Grit Mills. Plows, Corn Cultivators, Ac. We solicit an examination of the above goods at FISHER & BURROUGHS'. Smut Machines, The subscribers have 011 hand a supply of these superior machines, which tin y are offering at low prices for cash, and warranted to give satisfaction or no sale. FISHER & BURROUGHS. Oct. 13,1h:7. 2m TATERSILL. Livery and Sale Stable, One Sauare Kast of Kerr's Hotel, Neaily opposite the Jail. 4 The subscriber in-r forms the public that he has pui chased the stables formerly owned by Lee Williamson. He has thoroughly refitted said stables, and built in addition a good Carriage House, making in all 190 feet, containing 4') stalls well arranged. Iu addition to said im provements, are three large lots with Racks ami Troughs for the accommodation of drovers, &c This establishment is eqnal lo any in the State, ... . i , ' n 1 I . it no; in rne i num. ne nopes. wnn piopei ai tention and good management, to receive a share of the public patronage. Conveyances of all kinds in his line For ZEUx-o. Competent Drivers furnished when required. Horses kept by the month or otherwise. Persons having horses to sell or exchange will do well to call. Every effort will be made to accommodate, and charges made reasonable. K. RARE, Proprietor. I,. J. HAWLEY, Agent. Charlotte, Oct. 20, b-07. tf Strayed or Stolen From the subscriber, about one mile from Char lotte on the Plank Road, on the 7th instant, a Man MULE nearly black, 2 years old. about I -1.1 hands high, fore feet newly shod, hind feet unshod, with a leather halter the strap ot which is fastened in a larg" brass ring. She has a black stripe across the shoulders : the tail has been trimmed about a year ago, and is square at the end: a small scar "on the right side and a roach ed mane. I will give a liberal reward for her, or be thankful for any information concerning her whereabouts. My post office is White Tim or Liucolnton. Oct. 20. 4t-pd. MOSES M. ROBERTS. $200 Reward. R ANA WAY from my Railroad Shantees, in Liberty county, 6a.. abont the 1st August, lSori, my negro man EPHEAIM. He is black and of medium size, 2;i or 24 years old. was raised by Mr S'nipp, of Liucoln county, and sold to me by W. 1. Bynam, of the same county, in February, 1S."I I "think said boy is lying about Charlotte or W P. Bynum'a in Lincoln county, or Wm. Shipp'a of Gaston county, as the boy has rela tions at all those points. I will pay Tiro Hundred Dollars for his apprehension and delivery in Charlotte Jail so that I can get him. S. pt. 15, lc:7. 74-tt D- W ORR- New Miliiuery and Mantua Making ESTABLISHMENT. MRS. P. M. SMITH would inform the pub lic that she intends carrying on the above busi ness at her residence, next to the new Episcopal Church. She weald also inform the ladies that she has ju-t received a supply of Bonnet Trbn min.'s, consisting of Flowers, Feathers. Rouch es. &C..&C. n p Qct. 27. lr 7. WESTERN DEMOCRAT. Charlotte, N C. &W Of all the victims of speculative follies or faults, there is, in times like theso least sympathy for those who have played a game against the suffering consumers.' the necessaries of life, and have lost tBeir stakes by the venture. While the pooest householder, even the widow with her orphan children was paying enormous and totally unreasonable prices for her small supplies of sugar or molasses paying prices which could be ill-afforded, these articles were stored by the acre upon tbe wharves of Boston, New York and Philadelphia, kept up at famine prices by the operations of speculators, sustained, in many instances by banks, who we are happj' to say, have shared in the losses of their miserj producing pets. Upon no class of articles has the reduction of price been so great as in that of sugar and molasses. Think of the price of sugars ruling in the beginning and middle of the year, and then bear in mind that, within a week past, a cararo of s112.tr has been sold at rates averaging under four cents per lb. Such a sudden cave-in never has been known. hipping Co tton to Europe. We learn that several of our planters are taking measures for shipping their cotton directly to Europe. It is to be hoped tlie effort will be carried out. We believe that nothing would have so powerful a tendency to bring about direct trade and independence of New York. TUwnsooro (S. C.) Register The Camel Experiment. Tho latest advices received here concerning the pro gress and promise of the camel experiment of the Government iu its military operations on the frontier, continues to confirm the highest hopes of its friends. From the day animals were landed on the coast of Texas to this hour the experiment has proved an eminently successful one ; until the exper ience had with tliem a beasts of turaen has been such that all concerned in their management and use are unanimously of opinion that they suit, as beasts of burden, the requirements of our great western plains as well as those of Asia and Africa. In persevering to obtain from Conjucss tho means of making these experiments, and in his sagacious arrangements to consummate them to the best advantage, the late Secre tary of War has certainly conferred a bene fit on his country second to none other for which the nation has so far been indebted to a gentleman in a similar official position, in twenty-five years hence camel trains will be well nigh as common in the far west of tho United States as on the most traveled routes of the East. By this time next year they will doubtless be imported on private account, and in actual uso by citizens cross ing the great North American desert. As yet, the national advantages to result from this idea of Secretary Davis aro not to be calculated. LAND SALE. Oil Tuesday of the Superior Court, lOlll day Of NOv-ember, at the Court House in Charlotte, will be sold the following Tracts of Land belonging to the estate of the late R. H. Brawley, deceased : One Tract known as the Glenn Tract, upon which David F. Glenn now resides, containing 5 Acres, adjoining the lands of Ira Alexander, John Patterson and others. Another Tract known as the Walker Tract, upon which Frank Glenn now lives, containing ti. Acres more or less, adjoining the lands of P. M. Brown, B. H. Davidson and others. Each Tract has a comfortable Dwelling, out houses, &e.,upon it. Both are in a good state of cultivation, are within convenient distances of town, and lie sufficiently near each other to be cultivated together without iucouvenience. T:-'Ras: 12 months credit, approved note bearing interest from date. J. M. HUTCHISON, Attorney in fact for the heirs at law. November ;i, 1857. 2 HOUSE and LOT At Auction. I will offer for sale, on Wednesday the 11th November, my House and Lot on Tryoa street, nearlv opposite the Post Office, a.ijoiuing the residence of Mr J. A. Hoggins. There are many conveniences on tbe premises the out-buildings are neaily new with a Well of good water in the yard. TERMS two vears credit, with interest from date. " W. W. PEGKAMs Nov. 3, 1357. CHARlOTTE v o in P A IV Yr . The requisite amount of Stock in the above Company having been subscribed, the Stock holders will meet at the store of P. J. Lowrie on Monday evening, the lfith of November, for the purpose of organizing said Company under the late Act of incorporation. JOHN IRWIN, H. B. WILLIAMS, DAVID PARKS, LEROY SPRINGS, THOS. H. P.REM. W. W. ELMS. WM. JOHNSTON, Come. Nov. 3, 1857. NOTICE. I will sell at the late residence of Robt. G. Kirkpatrick, dee d, on TUESDAY the 17th of November, Seven IVegrocs; Horses; 1 Mule; Stock of Cattle; Wheat, Com. Oa;s and Fodder; Farming Utensils, and Kitch en Furuature. A rea-nnahle credit will be giveu. H. KIRKPATRICK, Adm'r. LEAVING THE STATE. Westward ho ! lias become a word of very frequent use in our State. Very many too, who go west return in a few years fully satisfied as to the "error of their way," and content to comform to tho usages of old Rip Van Winkle in all after life... $i is really astonishing that so many of nur young men, on completing their educa- Uwri, securing licence to practice law, or receiving their Medical Diplomas, resolve to leave their native State, and seek for fame and fortune abroad. The reason most commonly urged for such a course, is, that talents are not sufficiently appreciated in North Cnrolina, and they must go where they can support themselves by their pro fessious. Now, it is certainly a mistaken notion, that talents aro not appreciated as highly here as in any part of the World. All ex perience proves, that good doctors and lawyers have ever found abundant employ ment in our State, and quacks, or inditTer ent professional men, will find it a hard task to succeed anywhere. lruc, there are many well read young men who leave the State, without giving it a fair trial, and succeed abroad, but these would have succeeded in time, if they had remained at home. There will always be room for good professional men. The old champions, who by their industry and ap plication have won fortunes and filled the country with their fame, are passing away and their places must be filled. Our own young men natives of our State are the most proper persons to fill their places. Why, then, should they not do it, rather than go to some distant western State, where they would be regarded as in truders, and as persons who were unable to cope with the talent and energy of their native State ? Our young men are needed at homo and by application and industry they may tccomo as successful here as on any part of the globe. The spirit of emigration is also rife among our farmers. They complain of the poor and worn out lands of North Carolina, and the want of sufficient "elbow room," and forthwith, pack up all their store, and go west in search of richer lauds. Tills they easily accomplish, but they find also tbe invariable accompaniment of rich lands in the west an unhealthy, moist climate, abounding in fevers that in a very few years undermines the soundest constitutions, aud leave the healthiest body and stoutest arm in a situation far too weak to perform the ordinary duties of the farm. And why should our farmers go West, in search of rich lands or "elbow room," when there is such an abundance of both at home ? Our State is sufficiently varied, in climato and soil to suit the most fastide ous taste. If our farmers wish to enjoy the advantages of good society and level fertile lands eastern North Carolina fur nishes both. If they wish for room and game and pleasure of living with but little labor, the western portion of tho State yet comparatively unsettled, furnishes all these advantages. There immense forest of oak and hickory and chesnut stretch for miles over beauti ful and fertile lands, without a single human habitation. Hero game of almost every kind abound. The scenery, too, is of the grandest and most sublime character; mountains may be seen, lifting their proud summits on every side, and nearly every valley and raven is watered by crystal fountains. We never saw scenery that would compare in wildness and beauty with that to be found in the western part of North Carolina. It is a perfect luxury to travel in the summer time, among those mountain ridges not only on account of the sublime views presented from their sum mits, but also to enjoy the health inspiring breezes by which Uiey are ever fanned. No country can afford greater advantages for raising stock of all kinds, than this. Grassos of the most nutricious kinds every where in abundance. There is no country where a man can live easier, than in the western part of our State. The only objection that can be raised to it, by the most scrupu lous, is its unhandiness to any large market. But for this, it might bo regarded a farm er's paradise, so easily are all tho necessi ties of life procured. i. Carolina Argus. A Superstition. The causes of the re volt against the British power in India has been a subject of curious and difficult study. The English fiud it is as difficult to ascer tain those causes as to put down the rebel lion. It has transpired that two phrophe cies or supernatural traditions long current among the native population point to an end of the British sway at this period of, time. No matter how purile in themselves, these superstitions have undoubtedly a great in fluence upou the people of Hindostan, and will have more and more, as they seem near being realized. One of these notions is that the Loh-i-noor diamond will ever be fatal to its possessor as misfortune has attended its course hitherto. The other tradition is that the British should rule in India fur a hundred years and no more. The Koh-i-noor is in the cornet of Queen Victoria, and the British power was estab lished iu 1757. ILLUSTRIOUS FARMERS. Edward Everett, in a late oration at the N. Y. Agricultural State Fair, thus referred to great men who hara chosen an agricul tural life : The greatest political philosopher and consummate statesman of modern Europe, Edmund Burke, who saw further than any of his countrymen into tie cloudy future which hung over the close of the eighteenth century, at the meridian of his life, and when most engrossed in public business, purchased a large farm. " 1 have," said he, iu a letter written to a friend, in that most critical year of English politics 17G9 just made a push, with all I could collect of mv own. and the aid of mv friends, to cast a littlo root iu tlie country. I have pur chased about six hundred acres of land in Buckinhanishire, about 24 miles from Lon don. It is a place exceedingly pleasant and I purpose, God willine, to become a furmer in good earnest." This, his purpose, he carried into effect, and adhered to it to the end of his life. Those immortal ora tions which revived iu the British Senate the glories of the ancient eloquence were meditated in the retirement of lb aconsfield and there, also, were composed those all but inspired appeals and expostulations which went to the heart of England and Europe in the hour of their dearest peril and did so much to expose deformity and arrest the progress of that godless philoso phy specious, arrogant, hypocritical and sanguinary which, with liberty and equali ty on its lips, and plunder and murder and treason in its heart, waged deadly war on France and mankind, and closed a profess ed crusade for republican freedom by the establishment of the military despotism. A greater than Burke in this country, our own peerless Washington, with a bur den of public care on his mind such as lias seldom weighed upon any other person conscious, through a considerable part of his career, that the success, not only of the American Revolution, but of the whole ex periment of the republican government, was dependent in no small degree upon his course and conduct, yet gave throughout his life, in time of peace, more of his time and attention, as he himself in one of his private letters informs us, to the superin tendence of his agricultural operations, than to any other object- 4'lt will not be doubted," says he, in his last annual mes sage to Congress (7th of December, 17D5,) that, with reference either to individual or national welfare, agritulture is of prima ry importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circum stances of maturity, this truth becomes more rfpparent, and renders the cultivation of tho soil more and more an object of public patronage. Among the means which have been employed to this end, none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards, charged with collecting and diffus ing information, and enabled, by premiums aud small pecuniary aids to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improve ment." On the 10th of December, 199, Washington addressed a long letter to the managers of his farms the last elaborate roductlon of his pen transmitting a lan, drawn upon thirty written folio pages. containing directions for their cultivation tor several years to come, in seven davs from the date of this letter his own vener ated form was "sown a national body, to be raised a spiritual body." Nearly all the successors of Washington in tho presidency of the United States, both the deceased and the livi.ig, passed, or are passing, their closing years in the dignified tranquility of rural pursuits. A SHOWER OP MANNA. Do not be incredulous, reader, when we inform j'ou that on Monday last, at tho foot of Clear Lake in this county, a shower of sugar candy fell, covering a large tract of country. It covered everything leaves of trees, rocks, and tbe earth's surface alike. When discovered by the inhabitants the next morning, a part of it was of the consistency of syrup, aud the rest of per fectly cr-ystaliied as the candy of the shops. Its taste is precisely similar to that of un favored caudy. Mr J. Hale, the Clear Lake expressman, saw it whilo on the ground, and collected a box as samples, which he brought to us. There is no mis take about the matter, as the public may learn for themselves, by calling at our office. The. specimens before us are gen erally irregularly crystalizod, rounded at one end and irregular in form at the other, as if broken off from some surface to which they adhered. They are from one-fourth to five -eighths of an inch in length, some pure white, and others of a delicate pink hue. Their general appearance is that of very small stalagmities, such as we have often seen in caves. A similar shower occurred at Salt Lake, some years since. Naturalists pretend to explain such phenomena by saying that such saccharine showers are of insect ori gin ; but their explanations seem even more improbable than the faot itself the latter being well attested, and the former a mere theory to excuse ignorance of Nature's wonderous workings. Kapa Repuhlicah. When has a man most sympathy for his pocket-book ? When there's a fellow -feeling for it. OEN. CUSHXNG AND THE LADIES. Gen. Cushing, in a late speech, has gal lantly mai tit n i ned that the ladies are not at all responsible for the present financial re vulsion. The New York Herald takes the other side of tbe question, and declares that nearly all the ladies, we suggest to him to speak of his own section, for it is not true of the Southern ladies who have money or credit, or could obtain either, have been for several years shamefully ex travagant that they are almost entirely responsible for the exceaaive imports of ar ticles of luxury, which imports have drain ed our specie reserve and loaded down our urehousos with articles which are of no eaitldy use, and that they are even uow spending too much money for articles which they do not ueed. but which they buy aim ply on acciunt of a decline ie price. The Herai ' then proceeds to substanti ate its charges by figures. It says : "Tbe total value of tbe imports for the fiscal year ending, June 30, 1856. was $314,639,942, of which, for articles of luxury consumed by women, we have spent $43,624,558. Forty-three millions of dollars! That is equal to tho whole product of the gold mines iu California foe ne year, and thai would have more than auDioed to have sav ed us from the crisis. Of this sum $31, 218.766 were paid for silka and manufac tures of silks ; 0,376,853 for lacea and em broideries; shawla. $2,529,771 ; 'gloves. $1,344,550 ; furs, $804,731; jewelry, $844. 630; silk and worated goods, $1,335,247. We spend two millions more for ailk than for sugar, and so on. We hare omitted many items which would tell againat the women, as it may be urged that men eon sumo a portion of the articles above enu merated. The articles omitted bijouterie. artificial flowers, French shoes and boots. fancy articles, and tho thousand and one fripperies I hat make up that wonderful mys tery, fashionable women's attire would moro than balance the account. There is a little item of $42,000 for purfumed soap. which is quite a good index to the whole thing. Again, it must be remembered that these figures are taken from the Treaaury reports, and that the articles are valued at something under the wholesale rate, while our fair country women are charged upon all such matters as laces at least one hun dred per cent, profit. A set of laces which cost in Paris twenty do'Iars could not be bought here in flush times for lesa than sixty. It should further be remembered, that twenty or thirty thousand of our wo men either reside abroad or go to Europe nearly every summer. The amount of rich stuffs silks, aatins, velvets, shawls and jewelry which they run through the Cus tom House free, ia something enormous not less than a million a year; and all luxu ries of not the slightest use to any body on the face of tho earth. We have seen ou board one ship a lady enter, as her person al baggage, twenty large trunks. No princess in the world would havo so much." Tho Herald then proceeds to add insult to injury by speaking of the marked dis tinction between the promenade dresses of "upper ten" and of these abroad ; tbe French and English women going out to walk in plain, neat, serviceable dreasen, whilst the New York aristocracy, having very much the vulgar and undiaorimiuat ing taste for show which characterizes the African character, have for walking dresses robes which are made for carriage or the drawing room. "Nowhere in the world,'' suys the Herald, "are the women dretaed so badly and so expensively as in Amotion. When we go abroad we are astonished by the simple morning and promenade cos tumes of the daughters of tbe English no bility men with rent-roll to which an American fortune is a drop in the sea. A French Countess, with a fixed income of a hundred thousand pounds a year, will not spend half so much on her dreaa aa th wife of a New York merchant whose buai&ess may give him a profit of ten thousand dol lars a year, and may bring him in debt to double that amount. Let tbe Chevalier Cushing look at the vulgar display mod at Saratoga, Newport or Cap May, and com pare it with the modest attire of tbe aris tocracy of Baden, Brighton or Barrritz." This is the Herald's account of it own. aristocracy. It is not a true picture of American women In general ; for happily the overgrown Northern cities are not America. A lady correspondent of th Herald, however, gives him a Roland for his Oliver. She asks him who smoke th four millions of dollars worth of cigars and tobacco which are imported, and who drink the seven millions worth of foreign wines and spirits; who support th gambling clubs, fast horses and fast women. The Weather axd Crops. Many of our readers will be pleased to preserve th following statement, deduced from the re view and examination of thirty-two year, as lately given in DeBow's Review: Average latest spring frost. March 23. Average earliest fall frost, October 26. Average time between the latest and earl iest frost. 7 months and 4 days. Average date of first bloom, June 5. And for 1857, as follows: Latest spring frost, April 23. Earliest fall frost, average October 26. Growing season, 6 months and 3 days. First bloom June 25. Feb 8
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 10, 1857, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75