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Westen 1 13 emocrat j CHAR-OTTE, N. C. For the. Western Democrat. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. At a democratic convention composed of dele gates from Lincoln, Gaston and CataWba counties, hold at Lincolnton on the 14th inst. for the ur po.se of nominating a candidate to represent that district in the Senate of the next General Assem hlv. on motion, James Qoinn, Esq, of Gaston, was called to the chair, and W. M. Reinhardt of Lin coln, Col. Veoder of Catawba, and Sand. Jarrett of Gaston were appointed Secretaries. On motion of David Schenck, Esq, the chair man appointed two delegates from each county to select permanent officers;, as follows: Dr. illiam Sloan. John i. Lewis, of Gaston ; Robt. William son, Wm. J. Hoke, of Lincoln; Geo. Setzer, Jonas ( 'line, of Catawba. Luring the absence of the committee, Capt.Jno. F. Hokewas called on and addressed the meeting in some well timed remarks on the distribution question, and strongly urged more labor ami less talk as the proper means of advancing our system of interna improvements. The committee returned and reported the then acting officers as the permanent officers for the convention. The committee proposed a resolution which was adopted, recommendiiig that eac h Cap tain's company east one vote, and that the candi date who receives a majority of those votes be de clared selected. The convention then proceeded to ballot with the following result: F. I). Bernhardt, of Catawba, 21 Ambrose Costlier, of Lincoln, 8 The nomination of Mr Keinhardt was then de clared unanimous by acclamation. David Sehenek, Esq, being called for, appeared and in a most enthusiastic manner made a lew very appropriate remarks, portraying in glaring colors the dangers which now overhang our section warned us of the fire-brands of sectionalism thrown into the democratic party, &e. On motion, the proceedings were ordered to be published in the Western Democrat. JAMES QUINN, Clin. W. M. Reiniiaudt, Cor.. YkoiR, Secretaries. Sa.ml. J auk k i t, ' the Wtstwn Democrat. DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN LINCOLN. A meeting of the democrats of Lincoln county was held in Lincolnton on the 14th inst. f.r the purpose of nominating a candidate to represent the county in the House of Commons. On motion, Geo. Con, Esq, was called to the chair, and W . R. Clart appointed Secretary. A resolution was adopted giving each captain's company one vote a majority of the votes to nomi nate the candidate. The meeting then proceeded to ballot. John F. Hoke received votes, Ambrose Costner The nomination of .Mr Costner was then declar ed unanimous. A committee being appointed and having in formed Mr Costner of his nomination, he came in and accepted, making a brief statement of views on internal improvements, and declaring his adher ence to the democratic platform recently laid down at the t na noire convention. ( n motion, the proc eedings were ordered to published, and the meeting adjourned. ' GEO. COON, Ch'n W. R. Clark, Sec'y. wmwmmwmmmmmm mmu 1 mv m 1 im ii.iii-.ii ! 111 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. j I ' n LATER FROM EUROPE. The steamship North America has arrived with Liverpool dates to thedth inst. England has made a formal demand on Naples, for indemnity for tLc imprisonment of English en gineers. A collision bad occurred in St. George's channel, between a steamer and a bark. Loth sunk, and 30 persons were drowned. The schooner George, bound on a Niger expedi tion, had foundered in the channel, and seven per sons were drowned. The French lcgislature had adopted the Gov ernment Budget. Throughout France the grain crops were promis ing, and breadstufis firmer. Letters from India state that Neva Sahib had been reinforced, and was about to commence of fensive operations. Commercial Liverpool, May 5. Cotton ad vanced one eiirhth. ales of the three days 34,- 000 bales of which number 5,000 were taken for speculation, and 3,000 for export. All giades sltLchtlv advanced. LATER. The steamship Niagara, with Liverpool dates to the Sth inst., arrived on the l'.Uh. The Spanish Cortes had been suddenly proro- ! gued. Some of the Ministers had tendered their j resignations. Nothing later front India. The 'limes speaks approvingly of the extension 1 of the United States southward. It thinks the ab--! sorption of Central America by the United States, cannot be long delayed ; and the annexation will be a great improvement of the present position. It thinks, too, that there will be more opposition j at home than abroad. The Paris Fays afiirms that Sir Colin Campbell urgently demands large and immediate reinforce men!r. The Governor General lias issued a proclamation calling on the rebels to submit, and throw them selves at the mercy of the Government. He con fiscates their estates but spares their lives. lay UNOL, May 8. Cotton advanced one quar ter on the week. Sales during the week 81,200 bales. Stock in port 510,000 bales, including 422,000 American. Breads' ufl's generally, closed with a declining tendency. HO-KMBU SCEKES IN SOXORA A Church ; full of ffonten ami Children Bttmetl Alice. The Ya.jui Indians are at war with the people of Sonera. Lower California. These Indians en- I tered Santa Cruz de Mayo and killed everv man ; there was in it. got all the women and children i together, shut them up in the church and et fire to it, and then burned the rest of the town. At I a battle fought on a plain called El Sancito, be- j tween Got. IVsjuira and Doa Jesus Gandara, the j latter was totally defeated, and himself killed in the action, and also three of his prieipal office j taken prisoiKrs, and shut on the following dav. This occurred 00 the ! l'ebruarv last. The troops are now at the river Vaqui, and have in tuitions of killing men, women and children, and of Stealing ail the cattle and corn they can by their bauds 011. Fire and Loss of Lin Chicago. May IS. ! A tire occurred here this morning, which destroy ed several buildings. All small and of but little value. Nine pjrsns are known to have been ; Limit. Three more nxc wiwiffg j IMPORTANT FHOM UTAH. Mormon War Drawing to a Close! St. Louis, May 17. A despatch has been re Mnivaul here, dated at Leavenworth. Mav 14th, stating that the news received from Ctah is unoffi- j cial, but a private letter received by Colonel Rich at Camp Scott, corroborates the statement that the Mormons were leaving Salt Lake City for the j White Liver Mountains, and that Gov. Cumming had gone to Salt Lake City by invitation. The j general tenor of the report is universally credited I at Leavenworth. Gov. Cumming is represented to have entered Salt Lake City on the first of April. The army at (.'amp Scott was in readiness for im mediate action in ease of emergency. second dispatch. New Yoi.k, May 17. A despatch from St. Louis savs that the Republican has advices from Ctah of the same tenor as those yesterday publish ed, from Leavenworth, with the additional that the Mormons had laid down their arms. Gen. Cum ming fin the invitation of Brighani Young, had entered Salt Lake City without an escort. Many Mormons had gone to the Southern part of the i Territorv, and their women and children were pre- ; par in tr to toHOW Col. Kane, a peace commissioner on the part of the eovernment, had arrived at Salt Lake city via ! California on tiie Sloth of February, and it is pre sumed was instrumental in bringing about the re sult as announced. Gen. Hmith, commander of the Ctah expedition, had not reached Leavenworth when the express arrived, but it was believed that further move ments of the troops would be stopped upon bis ar rival, as the submission of the Saints had rendered their services altogether useles RIGHT OF SEARCH. Whilst Gen. Cass was Minister to France, a Quintuple Treaty was acceded to by England, France, Austria, Russia and Prussia, which in 1 1 ... . .. . 1 .1. . . e 1. 1 '... . voiveu a uiuiuai rigui 01 ii.u. ucuuiui wrote a nowerful nrotest against this treatv. an 1 1 a . the United States rejected it, as involving the sur render of a principle we were bound to maintain ; but in lieu thereof, agreed to maintain a force on the African coast suflieieut to prevent the American flag from I ted States ever she at sing abused s, that the es. it was x he principle ; covers the of the 1 ni ship wher British as 11; l'r ;ely this sumption of the right of search and visitation, and the refusal of the United States to acknowledge, or in any way submit to it, which led to the last war time spiri with Great Britain. W had at tl lat scarcely a dczen ship of war, but the national took no counsel ol pruuence 111 t lie vinaiea- tion of its honor, and tiie result was the most as tonishing series of naval victories that the world has ever seen. There was scarcely a contest on the seas, singly or in squadrons, in which the Americans did not annihilate their enemies wher ever they met them. The principle then fought for, they are ready to maintain again, and if forty years have; added to the power, population and maritime capacity of Great Britain, in none of the.-e particulars have the United States been standing still. If we have now a small navy, we have boundh materials for building, inexhausti- ble naval stores, who can be tran and -Rki.UUU merchant seamen fcrred to the decks of our ships of war, and to those myriai Is of privateers which would swarm on every sea. We do not, however anticipate war The gov ernmcnt of Lord Derby will probably apologise and countermand the orders issued by Palmerston. But that will be poor satisfaction, and will not ( 11- sure us against a future repetition of the The order of the day- Stopping and ofler.ee. Searching American vessels and Anologrife ilterwaiot is ! becoming too monotonous. Let us try Stopping I and Searching English vessels, and Apologies af terwards. It our government should order its vessel.- in the. Gulf to fire into and sink the Styx wherever they meet her, the American people would hijrhlv annrove its conduct, and Great Bri- r j 1 1 tain might charge us with that much in the gene ral settlement ! v negotiation hereafter. It is worthy of observation, that whilst British cruisers are picking up peaceful merchant vessels on our own coast, under the pretence of suppress ing the African slave trade they shamelessly connive at the bold an 1 systematic Afriein slave traffic now carried on by the Einperor of the French. ( hie of these French slavers, the steamer Stella, a vessel id' only three hundred and eighty three tons, lately left the African coast, having on board a cargo of nine hundred and fifty Africans, and it is said the crew boasted of having carried off their cargo under the very guns of an English cruiser. hy was she not searched and v isited '! f this vast multitude, crowded into a hot little steamer, not capable of comfortably accom modating a hundred men, one-third perished before the vessel arrived at her destination. let tin vessel, and others of like character, are perm tted to pass on their way unmolested, whilst American vessels, loaded with sugar, machinery, and the pro ducts of lawful and peaceful industry, are daily outraged and abused, under the pretenc . ,1 . if 1 venting tne irame in vincan siavc: Dispatch. FATAL ERROR. irn that Cant. N. F. Steele, P. i We Forest . M. at Oak Iredell county, was acciacntly shot, on the i 2th inst., by one of his Brandon, under eircum neighbors, Mr LaFayettc tan ecs most distressing. Mr Brandon had gone out ( before d ay ) tl iai morn- ing to watch for in the ton of a f;: urkies, an. 1 had secreted himself v after his de- len tree. horl part ure. Mr Steele called at Mr Brandi lirandon s house. without previous notice however, to go with him : but finding he was gone, concluded to go and a stand about the same place. Mr Brandon nothing of Mr Steele's presence in the nei. hood. About dav liLt Mr Brandon beard a take :ncw ibor- tU I' key. and answered it with 1 ca Her." I ll mo- mentary c xpectation of seeing it emerge from the thick Mr Brandon was watt-bin with 'heard intense it. He interest in the direction in whicl h. saw something move on the and taking it to be a turkey mediately to the soot, when, edge of the swamp, fired. He went im horrible to relate, he found his friend and neighbor, Mr the act of fallius from a sittiiv' Steel, ju. t m Mr posture. Brandon naused lonsr enouirh to see that hisshor was fatal ; and then flew from the place to bear to his friends and neighbors the terrible news of his sad mistake. A jury of inquest subsequently gave a verdict in accordance with the above statement. This most unfortunate occurrence has plunged the neighborhood in tin deepest sorrow, as well on account of the living as the dead. Mr I and the deceased were on Ihe most intimate and confiden tial terms of friendship. Salisbury Watchman. Dr. Thorn well VY announce that the health regret very much to of this distinguished theologian has been so impaired that his congrega tion have requested him to suspend preaching until the 1st of October, and to travel for restoration of health. It is to be hoped he will accede to their request, and that the result may prove as beneficial a? they earnestly wish. Columbia Carolinian WESTEEN DEMOCEAT, CHAELOTTE, THE WAR IN INDIA. The seiye of Lucknow The Storming of the Begum's Palace. As we approached the Begum's Palace the ene my's bullets, varied by a round shot now and then, came hissing overhead, and announced that they i were still fighting in the front. The road, which is lined bv hiih walls on both sides, enclosing the j residences of some wealthy people, now in ruins, ; . , , B I aoove wmcn rise continuous groves oi irees aim eastern shrubs, leads from the broken canal bridge, and is met just in front of the Begum's . 1. 1 L . ' a. I i i . . j i Palace by another road of a similar kind, but a little more open, which passes by the bridge near Banke's House to Dilkoosha. Externally, all we could see of the Begum's Palace were some glit tering domes, the cupolas and minarets of a mos que on the left, and the balustrades around the flat roofs of the numerous buildings inside. A high wall, forming the outer barrier, loop holed at eery inch, enclosed the building all around, but it bore frequent marks of our cannon. In front of this wall there was a very high parapet of earth with a scarp and ditch some fifteen or six teen feet deep, and two small bastions with embra- sures for two guns, which swept the approaches to the place, or were intended to do so. Ihe em bra- sures, however, had been beaten into ragged holes, choked up with sand and timber by the fire of our guns, yards Just in front of us, within some 18 or 20 of the ditch, there was a large hole in the t 11 .litr-i ground, caused oy a mine wmcn the csepoys sprung when it was too late to do them any good 1 or us any harm, in tne uitcn itseir there lay a heap of the dead bodies of the ci emy, which our men were dragging out of the palace and flinging over the trench. The enemy had litterally dug their own graves. As we crossed the narrow ramp of earth leading to the gateway we could not but feel astonished at the small loss by which we had gained such a position. Along the front of this wall, in addition to the guns, there were loopholes for at least 2,000 muskets, and it seemed scarcely ; possible to encct an entrance at tne point wnere (j , one portion of the Ood and of the Sikhs had rush ed through, with bayonets at the Charge, 011 the astounded foe. The only way of getting at the enemy was by a hole, miscalled a breach, and battering in the door, by our guns, so narrow and low that not more than one man could enter at a time, and then only by bending bis head. But to avail themselves even of this mode of entrance, our men had to struggle through the outer breach, or to clamber up the steep bank of the ditch, where, impeded by their numbers in the narrow space, as they made for the inner breach, they were held in check under the enemy's fire till some of them forced their way in through their brieked-up windows, which led them into small dark rooms filled with sepoys. Held by such troops as those who assaulted the place, the Begum's Palace had been impregnable to infantry. Entering with difficulty through the suffocating breach, rank with hot air, gunpowder and dead bodies, T passed into the first of the courtyards in which the fight took place. How a man could have escaped who entered iu such a fashion is beyond my comprehension. But there were few slain outright, for the apparition of I these brawny soldiers alone unnerved the hands of 1 their enemies. 31 any fled at once, and were pur ; sued and shot down in the courtyards without of ! fering resistance ; others fired their muskets or . match-locks once, made a wild thrust with the j bayonet, and ran also ; others, surprised in holes and corners, fought with ferocity of wild beasts, j One officer of the 93d killed with his own hand I eleven sepoys, whom he shot with his revolver or ! sabred in the courtyard. The sepoys and mateh ! lock men fled from court to court towards the lin amharrah and the out-works of the Kaiserbagh. Onward went the torrent of Sikhs and High landers after them. The 42d, sweeping round by the left of the Palace, came upon a field gun, which they captured. Pressing onwards, they seized a serai, or garden enclosure of the Palace. Two companies of the 93d, under Stewart, went too far in pursuit, and came under a heavy fire from a loop holed wall. A company of the 43d, under Drysdale, were led to their succour, and had five men killed in a moment. When they came back they found, I am told, that the enemy had off the the heads of their comrades. Just turning to the left, we were about entering a court-yard, when an officer said, '-Mind what you are about ! There are some fellows hid inside there, and one of them iis just shot a sergeant of the lod and a man of the SR.'th." This is, as you will have observed, a mode in which our men fre quently lose their lives in this odious warfare. Soon afterwards I saw one of these fanatics a tine old sepoy with a grizzled moustache, lying dead in the court, a sword cut across the temple, a bayo net thrust through the neck, his thigh broken by a bullet, and his stomach slashed open in a desper ate attempt to escape. There had been five or six 01 1CSC fellows altogether, and they had either oeen surprised and unable to escape, or had shut themselves up in a small room, one of many look ing out on the court At first attempts were made to start them bv tbnvnrinor n livo .li..ll Tho n..- l,rC"L,f.. V... c 1 ! ; kii .1 "ari t? u" f" 'ci ttrt more suieussiui, aim I out they charged with the exception of one man, i and were shot and bayoneted on the spot. The man who got away did so by a desperate leap through a window, amid a shower of bullets and many bayonet thrusts. Such are the common in cidents at war. We went up to the top of the mosque, upon the left of the Palace, but the fire of the Kaiserbagh was too near and sharp for one to remain there without cover. Horrible night in tiie Palace. From court to court of the huge pile of buildings we wandered through the same scenes dead Se poys blood splashed gardens groups of eager Highlanders looking out for the enemy's loop-holes more eager groups of plunderers searching the dead, many of whom lay heaped ou the top of each other, amid the ruins of rooms brought down upon them by the cannon shot. Two of these were v. ritable chambers of horrors. It must be remem 1 j .1 . 1 1 .iiv oeieu mat tne sepoys ana matchiocK men wear cotton clothes, many at this time of vear usim im.ft.ij .jioiieu luuicaj aim 111 eacn room there were a number of resais, or quilted cotton cover lids, which serve as beds and quilts to the natives. The explosion of powder sets fire to this cotton very readily, and it may be easily conceived how horrible are the consequences when a number of .!-!,. .... :i....i i : : i. ,1 tnese sepoys arm nujeehs get into a place whence there is no escape, and where they fall in heaps bv our shot. The matches of the men, the discharge's these sepoys and nujecbs get into a place whence f s Of their milS. s-f fir.- to thrir p-Mt.n 4rtfJiinn It IS fed by the very fat of the dead bodies, the smell is pungent and overpowering, and nauseous to a de um. j loosen i ii at two sucn rooms, wnere through the dense smoke I could see l'lll'S Of iww.;. .i r i.i: j . i of the hospital at Sebastopol were far exceeded by i am. i nas oo.i.eu 10 uwn mat tne Horrors what 1 witnessed. nnesseci. i pwariis ot dUU dead were wnt-n fiiund in the e courts of the palace, and, if we nut "c i the wounded carried off at 700. we mav reckon that the capture of the place cost the enemy 1 000 men at least. The wounded Senoui. TT .1. .1. J t . . , j .., wv . men still lurked in the huts. One sat by the side of a body covered with clotted blood, and tenderly caressedthe dreadful form. Another was creeping along with a heap of rags on her back her jour ney near its close. Inside one of the enclosures one of the officers told me there lay dead a pretty little boy of some seven or eight years of age, his back torn onen bv a erancshot. and beside him shrieked and chattered his pet parroquet in a cage, just as it t,UU VilUl V. il L'VV - 1 V f f . h , he flvi with it i i n li i i i i a..: U ' - across the cornfields. Some kind hand liberated the poor bird. These are the accidental, but ne- cessary incidents of war. Our soldiers are not unmoved by them, and the officer who discovered the sad sight I have mentioned, told me that he ?.. ie" v. .v.. i.:.iaDO was gieaLiv watcu mu oeiuie uj mc nf s.,me soldiers of the 79th. to a very udv little u;. h.uu iWWlfn, n,i; nf Vh vil- iiu,uuu' - - l.oil him iifittfd him kindlv on the head, and fed him. drv- I J 9 . mf ins up his tears, ami teiuns; nun oito oe anruiu that no one"should hurt him." A Golgotha. A fewr hundred yards off there came in sight one of those high square enclosures, surrounded by party-colored walls with gateways and towers, which are the general type of country residences or pleasure palaces in Oude. Xcar one of the an- Sles was drawn UP a battery of field artillery, and a red-coated sentrv stood on the shade of the ande tower to which the breach was made, and where most of the stunners entered on that terrible day. We found a party of the 58rd regiment, to which these quarters were not new, posted inside the building. Their cen tries were watching a batter' of the enemy's and a number of their men, in a village or suburb on our front, but there was no 1 fire on either side. I never recollect encountering any odor so dis erusting and intolerable as that which assailed our nostrils on approaching the northern side of the enclosure. The ground was covered with grin ning skulls and fragments of burnt skeletons. It was a veritable Golgotha. In this spot 2,000 Se poys met a terrible punishment for their crimes. The most callous of men in smell and sight must have been glad to leave the place, and the officers declared to us that they coutd not keep the men on that side of the square. Retracing our steps, my friend and myself crossed the bridge of boats, and came out upon the camp of Douglas' brigade of Outram's force. PADDY'S COOI. HUNTING-. An Irishman of our acquaintance named Michael O'ltodger, who settled in this country some years ago, lately received an unexpected visit from his brother Pat, who was direct from the "sod." Mike heartily welcomed his brother, and resolved to do everything in his power to make his visit an agreeable one. Accordingly, at the end of the second day after Pat's arrival, which had been spent by them in general carousal, Mike armed his brother with a shillelah, and immediately led off in the direction of a cornfield about half a mile distant, where he assured Pat that they would enjoy a rare evening's coon hunting. The night was too dark to distinguish the ob jects of their search at any great distance, but on en tering the field and setting up a wild yell, they soon discovered by the rustling of the corn-stalks in various direction that they had been successful in routing several of them from their hiding places. Mike's keen eyes were now fixed upon a large tree, which stood a few yards distant, and he soon had the satisfaction of detecting an object moving up its trunk at a rapid rate. This he knew to be a coon, and with the shout of joy he rushed towards the tree, calling his brother to follow up. In a mo ment the two sportsmen were under the tree. 31 ike prepared to climb, and directed Pat how to act when the coon reached the ground. "He'll be afther making a great noise to ;ct away," said "Mike," "but for your lib e con t let i i.i . him escape ye " "Och, be off up the tree wid ye," answered Tat, flourishing bis shillelah, evidently growing impa tient for the sport, "niver fear but I'll put an ind to him when he comes down." Mike now commenced climbing the tree with all possible haste, and succeeded very well in the ascent until be reached the first branches, and became hid from the wild gaze of his brother, when be paused a moment to ascertain in what part of the tree the coon had taken lodgings. While matters were in this state, the coon made a sudden move among the branches, which so star tled Mike that he unfortunately let go his hold and fell headlong to the ground. Pat, supposing him to be the coon, rushed furi ously upon him with his shillelah, and commenced that delightful operation of putting an end to him. "Murthcr ! murther !" cried Mike, attempting to raise to his feet, "in the mime of St. Patrick don't be afther bating me to death." "Ye needn't be givin' me any uv yer dirty ex cuses ; shure me brithcr tould me ye'd be afther makin' a great noise to git away, but not a fut ye'll move out o' this alive." Mike, now supposing his brother to be crazy, thought it time to make a desparate struggle for life ; so, seizing Pat by the legs, be succeeded in throwing him to the ground ; whereupon a rough and tumble fight commenced, which lasted for sonic time without either of the brothers uttering a word. After a violent contest, however, Mike came off victorious, Pat being so completely subdued so as to render him helpless. But, fearing it was all over with him, he began to call wildly for Mike to hasten down the tree and assist him, or the "ugly bast" would have his life. By this time Mike fully apprehended the error into winch his brother bad fallen, and co i nmcneeu using every means in his power to bring him to his , t,.i.;,.K v ..i.i ..-... i .-v..., nnii.il, ajici ii ic;a ue;.i oi persuasion, ne succeeueu in uomg. But the coon was allowed to escape unharmed, as neither of the adventurers felt in a humor for continuing the hunt that night, Indeed, it was Pat's finst hunting scrape, and he swore by all the saints it should be the last. I 1 i R EM ARK ABLE ESCAPE . M IS Hickey was in the third story of a burning house in Boston, j says that '-Senator Douglas has expressed his de r way of escape out off, except by j termination not to continue in opposition to the w. Mie was very poor and lino-ered i Administration and nma nnln: witn every the window, hhe was very poor and lingered too long to save her little goods. The firemen below, as many as euuld join, formed a circle, each man extending his arms horizontally, and grasp ing with his right hand the right hand, and with his left the left hand of the man opposite, their arms crossing. They then told her to kneel upon the window sill and to incline her body iu such a way as to free her head from the wall, and to fall All being rcadv, she threw herself - .r . from tnat third story window . ot a man drew i:K lrVm emin1et PenI ,to ,whicn each one was t .i .. exposed. All stood firm and tin' poor woman was . , : i . .i , .-. . recuivcu I ll saietV OU tliat Islatliirm it nnnnn nanOS ana urms" - X The house of Mr Moses Evans, on the Plank road, about 4 miles from haiem, rs. C., was consumed I J i . 1I1I l lit . I't I HI E I ! ' - .. 1 1 I 41 1 1 - - n , 1 . .. . i . - .- .' J"--1 '-OIU ; uru, vugm, acciutntai. 1 O TERRIBLE STORM IN ILLINOIS ! Immense Destruction of Property. The gale on Thursday evening, says the Chi- nu in some portions of the State, ot -inlpnce. It covered a large extent Ulipiciiuuvutv" and everywhere its track is marked of territory, i with painful damage to property, and, perhaps as ww. intell'in-ence will show, loss of life. Nearly ! pvprv i.ouse in the village of Lexington was un . down. The air was loaaea wnn . ... . i -,1 , i rooted or blown were lll nitv-iv .. .... black with clouds which were pouring out destruc tion, and more than one who was there felt that the end of all things was at hand i. - which was maue, wic ucauo i I . I , -, 1 i . i .1 X-r ATI u . a The nassenjrer train irom ci. oui, a , j hut. with the i lrom the tract aim cure MFr- ! ,S a fw BbVht flesh wounds, the pr.ssen- ' . ':iMA c.fi,re the train capsized all erera were uuiujuilu. - - : i J h -nrindiwsirrl suit1, were blOWll I ..f onmnwr an d the firemen were both blown UUl IHV lli..vv . nd a brakeman was also blown fWwm thp murine, and a urakiu.au as aicu ; a. v.... c. , off the cars. ill uoirauux, v t aaUshKTi? it was ternoic. fncine bouse of the Bailroad Company and two ctmrenes ; UtoA wore blown down, and a number of jt dwelling houses the track were blow The amount of the damage at Galesburg is estima ted at -10,000. No lives lost. Two steam saw mills were ruined at Oquawka and ten houses unroofed, besides other damage done. Damage estimated at, from 810,000 to 15,000. SoVar as ascertained, no lives were lost. GALVEY. At this place a large two-story dwell ing house was rendered a complete ruin; a portion ofMr Babcock's dwelling was also blown down. Nearly all the out houses in the village were upset. The wind carried large boxes, lumber, barrels, Ac., into the air as if they were paper. A large church was moved from its foundation about a foot, The storm raged hardest between G and 7 o'clock. Mendota. Here the storm was also furious, and while in progress, the railroad engine he use caught fire and was consumed, together with the locomotive liocket. While this severe gale was raging, the rain and hail poured down in a perfect sheet. PEORIA. From one of our citizens who was in Peoria at the time, we learn the following particu lars of the ravages of the great storm at that place The hurricane struck the city at about five o'clock in the evening. In the twinkling of an eye, fif teen or twenty houses were unroofed, every church spire in the city blown down, three canal boats load ed with lumber sunk, and the steamer Olin, with twenty-one passengers on board, made a complete wreck, her cabin Icing entirely blown away. And what seems really miraculous, is the fact that but one life was lost in all this furious disorganization of matter and utter demolition of structures. It is said that a little child was lost from off the wrecked steamer. The lumber in the yards was blown all over the city, the gas lamps were all blown down, and the signs were sent flying in every direction; windows and gable ends were smashed in, whole trains of cars were blown off the track, and the beautiful College building upon the bluff utterly demolished. THE CHOPS. Wc take the following paragraph from the Galveston (Texas) News of the 8th: From all sections of our State, except in the grasshopper region, we have the most flattering accounts of the growing crops and the prediction that crops of all kinds will be larger than have ever been seen in the State before. It has been estimated that the cotton crop will exceed a quarter of a million of bushels. Sugar cane is looking remark ably fine, the late rains having been of immense Service to it; and of corn there will be more than enough for all the wants of the people. Altogether, we can congratulate ourselves on our prospects, I j .v.. .i.: I a L v. - I . i anu mat we ure anvining out ueninu in me race of progress. Tiie Cotton Crop in Alabama. The Columbia Guardian says that the latest advices from Alabama represents the Cotton crop in that State as in fine condition, the recent frosts not having effected it as recently reported. The Crops in Middle Florida. The Tal- lahassee Sentinel, of the 4th inst., sa-, "iJuriug the cold snap some days past, this region was visited with slight frost, slight damaging: somewhat garden vegetables, and corn and cotton more or less, according to age and locality. The weather is moderating, however, and our planters have more to apprehend from the want of rain, the ravages of the cut-worm and grasshopper than the cold weather Barring this, the prospects are still promising. Freshets at the West. The long continued rains have not only caused damage to wheat and other crops in some portions of the West, by causing them to run to stalk, but have raised the rivers so that they have overflowed. Destroyed uy Fire. On Saturday night last, two barns, containing about 1,200 bushels of corn, besides peas, oats, fodder, &c, were destroyed by fire, on the plantation of James Dunlap, near Camden. They were evidently set on fire, as there had been no fire, nor occasion for any, for several months, on the immediate premises. Camden Journal Anticipated Sickness. Great apprehen sions are felt in the Southern States that the com ing Summer will be a very sickly one, and that dreadful scourge of yellow fever, from which the South wasso unusually exempt last season will return this year with greater violence than ever. The fear is based upon the fact that the hw continued , i . i ... .- lub , UIUC are. 11K u br'1 ; leorne uis seases. lNearlv one-fourth of the and on the Mississippi from Vicksburg down to the mouth of that river, has been overflowed for many weeks anu an tne swamps, bayous i . - and lagoons at the koutn are gorged with stagnant water. In the interior of Mississippi, Alabama and (ieorgia, the freshets have been unprecedented. Returning to tije Fold. A letter from Xew York, published in the Washington Cn",. f -- mnjj.iig aiiacn- mcnt and devotion to the Democratic partv. He expects, it is said, to meet a very strong Republi can opposition in Illinois, and does not intend to do anything to win their support from any portion of that party. He counts on the united vote ol the Democrats ol' his State. Practical Amai.oa.matiox. A nero man "black as midnight," by the name of Andrew j Jackson, was yesterday married, in this city, by Justice Lord, to a white woman, by the name of Augusta Oser. j . J l i tiack suited tnat he was t.hirtv MMriiM . r,.,;,l . xt " .. . ..... i V. . y , a I V . HiCM I, .1 iew York, and a native oi innnia. Mi A , . . . -i me nurnose . . . . 1 1 . 1 01 0-111- uian ieu, ami Went hack ill th act. Bridae ford ((', 0 1ST. n , mi ' j: Co . Kane, a lew days pre. ious nad re.c l unroofed. nree cans uuug ..." . . -7 n off and turned upside down. v A , . ' , , Ol lryinia. iiss Xntmatn dntnl .Ui .x. : Sion to recommend h Hair ,..:. :,. i !,.. miU (Kt o - "n"'' -u u mat, sne was , . n..j ...... - ,, twentv vears nf nrr. ol.,. .. very tiling. VVood.s celebrated - Hair liestoratn , New Vt and a naUve o it ..f'L. : '. '"-'", K,r ! nr. fmm c V,.L- .1 . 7 J va"IC uistinguisiiel men in the country are "-- I)V UP irulll .New l Ork in t ho m,min tr 4,.- .1 , l . .. . .. -. . i . ... .1 FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, May 18. The government tends keeping a large military force in &,it T ln- I Valley, and will make halt Lake city a den stores and equipments. Even if the late v intelligence prove true, the supply train vii pushed on and communication established' maintained between Port Leavenworth and Lake. Neither our government nor Lord Nar.; . ! received accurate information concerning r visitation ot American vessels uy British eruW It is supposed that the latter have exceeded ri? instructions, or the published accounts have tijr u . . ..c,C)...w.. v ""'-"Lllons as alleged, it is Dencveu tiiey win not be i,,,,;. , i . I I' 1 il Ml . , it (ire-ir liritiin Our government h- j7 by Urcat lintain uur government baa addre. ! a letter to Lora iapiei, anu win Dy the i c0lllAr fnrwirti ; Iu'"u instructions to Mr Dallas uu t j uuj1 (iAWi . government mis not yet received any cong I tion of the late Ltah intelligence. There. a. x ; i . . .. , , TTa , . ... ""rui; 11 "J v.ui. vuuin ra W a n IT I Mlir M .11 III III VI I'V 'I 111 lllT 1'.. .J A nthnr lorfprn ottieora hi mm. Uftt - - Z's" ' to K llJ lVr, .... -...auanee ,( oung, v 01. xvane nau no written .fractions but a letter from the President, in fca he expressed his confidence in the discretion ay ability of that gentleman, and recommended hi, to the friendly consideration of those, to whoct t I letter might be shown, or something to that effect' ! It is supposed, for the government has heard 1 nothing from Col. Kane, that he had such tourer: I sation with Briugham Young as induced the Utter to invite Governor Cumming to Salt Lake Cifrr I with a view to conference. A Valuable Medicine. Daring the present wee. M less than six of our friends, wlio have been indue, try Prof. De Grath's Electric Oil for rhimiatism, i CJ sequence of having seen this preparation advertise. i our columns, have called upon us to state the result ' f their experiments. These persons assure us that tt rheumatic pains have been entirely c ured by a few u. plications of De Grath'a "Electric Oil," mi titer r. commend its u?e to all who are afflicted with any of Um diseases which it is designed to cure I'rov. Adrtrtite For sale by H. It. PRITCHARD, Charlotte. We are requested to anuaei DR. if. ML PRITCHAIil). M an y pendent democratic candidate to rem sent Mecklenburg county in the Huou of Commons of the next General Assembly. May 4, 18.8. Ye are requested to announce K. r WUvJ GRIKR as a candidate for re-election to the Office of Sheriff of Mecklenbnrg county. April 20, 1858. WHEAT THRASHERS !! J. & E. B. St we OFFER their well known Wheat Thrash en at Cm for Cash. Warranted to give satisfaction. Call mm examine them. Charlotte, May 18, 1858. 3v. WHITE SULPHUR i r- 1 n tJ J X CATAWBA These Springs are situated fifty miles North uf Charlotte, 20 miles West of Statcsville, and 25 milef-Ml of Morgaaton, at the foot of the Mountains, and in a vicinity unsurpassed for the salubrity of its clinutt. The Proprietor, di. i. o. mww, announces to the public that his House is ajrain npcr. with every accommodation for the reception of visitors. The peculiar tonic, alterative and invigorating pro perties of this WATER, render it invaluable in Diseases Of the Littr, Dyspepsia, Chronic Diarrhoea, Nervous Debility, Spiwl Diseases, incipient Consumption, Scrofula, Eruptin Diseases, and all cases of debility accompanied witi de fective appetite and want of assimilation. 1'a rticularh to Females is this Water efficacious. C. S. Brown's tri-weekly Line of POUR DORS COACHES from Salisbury to Asheville, pas t.; within five miles, and visitors can procure conveyances lit I Newton to the Springs at all times. May 18, 1858. tf NOTICE. I HAVE placed till my NOTES and ACCOUNTS the hands of W. A. COOK for collection. Those in debted to me are requested to make immediate pp ment, as lontrer indulgence cannot be criven. Thou ! who do not settle forthwith may expect to pny cost. T. M. EAitlloH. May 11, 1858. tf jN otice. All indebted to the late firm of DRUCKER k S0MMER are requested to pay up by the 1st of July next as -5 that time we shall give our Notes and Uook into other hands for collection. Mav 11, 1858 Gt account' Br THE RELIEF afforded by Dr. "Stomach Bitters" in all cases ot Dysp lar affections has given that valuable j. Hostettefi psia and liB preparak ' wide popularity union c those who for rears Mittcm from such ailments. It is excellent as a Ionic tm b-neficient in its effects on the system. It- bistOTT 1 one almost of miracles, one to which Dr. Hosteller Lit point with confidence and credit. Indeed, BO rcnv'ly. perhaps, in the same period has attained Each SS tended popularity a the Doctor's "Bitters," which f ever regarded as a certain cure for distress of stomach. Those who have tried it speak praisingly of its effect?, and therefore we can commend it to general use. I Hitters" are free from anything calculated to prve injurious to the system, or objectionable to the pntient Sold by H. M. PRITCHARD, Charlotte. April 2 7, 1S.-.8 TO THE PUBLIC. The subscriber would respectfully call the attentic of the citizens of Charlotte, and the travelling comm-W'J at large, that he is fully prepared to accommodate per sons with conveyances to any part of the surroundi". country or Western North Carolina. He has ," 1 stock, good substantial vehicles, and careful driver.. Persons visiting Charlotte can be conveyed into country at short notice, hv making their wishes known at my LIVERY STABLES, the rear of the Hiuwk House. Ifeji'-Tenns reaaonahle. WM. CRAWFORD. May 11, 1858. 6m Obi and yonntr are now inrifacriminatelr n-i11- Prof. Wood's Hair Restorative ; some as a cosmetic of beautilierofthecomplexion some to preventihe liaii fH some as a mere dressing of the hair, and ether, tu mak it grow ami to change gray hair to its orie:mal color; and r.hcre is no doubt of it answering all the purp08 for which it was designed by its illustrious inventcr. We are utterly averse to incurring editorial rc-p"'1?l" bilities in trifling matters, but we deem it no 0':i:"; maltcp in liuv-o tlm !.: .. . i i ...I i.n lil-' ' matter I .. i in a mail HfRU ( iivn j . - turelv falling offi il11 u-i ....-in n.-tcred. s0 1 ncitbcr do we consider it unworthy the editors 1 prvf "J reuence men 13 tnis nrenara 11 f.M i lor It on the nart nf its t.rni.ri..r i. -IractS , ol this paper. Ralacay American. irn.nam 1 tion all mat is . H. M. IIHITCIIAUI). Chaiiottr V. C