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CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1861.
TENTH V OLUBIE NUMB EE 494.
(Published every Tuesday,(o)
BY
WILLIAM J. YATES,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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barged accordingly.
SAMl'KL l SMITH,
Altoriicy and Connwlor at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N C,
Will attend promptly and diligently to collecting and
remitting all claims intrusted to his care.
Special attention given to the writing of Deeds, Con
Tfvjtnces, kc.
jp3?" During hours of business, may be found in the
Court House, Oiliee No. 1, adjoining tb clerk's office.
January 10, ISol
J. A. FOX,
Attorney vt Xjdoir,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GENERAL COLLECTING AGENT.
OSce over the Drug Store, Irwin"s corner.
January I, 18GI.
tf
Wm. J. Kerr,
ATTORNEY AT L.AW,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Will practice in the County and Superior Courts of
Mecklenburg. Union and Cabarrus counties.
OrruE in the Brawley building opposite Kerr's Hotel.
January 24, 1861 J
UOBEItT GIBBON, 31. D.,
PRACTITIONER OF MEDICINE
AND
OJire Xo. 2 Indus corner, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
January, 1801.
Has constantly on hand
VATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C
Of the best English and American manufacturers.
Call and examine his stockbefore pnrchasing elsewhere.
Watch crystals put in for 25 cents each.
January, 1861 J
John T. Butler,
PRACTICAL
Walch and Clock linker, Jew
eller, &c,
Opposite Kerr's Hotel, Charlotte, X. V.
(Late with It. V. Beckwith.)
Fine Wutclit's, t lok Jt JTwlrj-,
efery description, Repaired and Warranted for 12
months.
Oct 1, 1861. y
WILKINSON &. CO.,
DKALERS IN
Wat olies,
JS'SIiliBY,
Silver fc plated Ware
AND FANCY GOODS,
No. 5, Granite Range,
Opposite the Mansion House, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Attention given to Repairing Watches and Jewelry.
September 18, 1860. y
New Supply
of
WATCHES, JEWELRY,
Solid Silver and Haled Ware,
The subscriber has lately purchased a very extensive
snpply of the above articles. His purchases being
maae directly from the manufacturer, he is therefore
enabled to soil at a very small advance on cost, and
persons may rt st assured that all his articles are war
ranted to be what he represents them to be.
Watches and Clocks carefully repaired aid will
receive mj personal attention.
II. W. BECKWITH.
Nr. 37. I860 tf
DI5. C. II. ANDREWS,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.,
Would inform the public generally, and the citizens of
Mecklenburg particularly, that he has resumed the
Practice of 'DENTISTRY and may be found at his old
stand. He is prepared to set Artiiicial Teeth on (iold.
Silver, Vulcanite, or on the neoplastic process, as
patients may desire, and fill Teeth with Gold, Tin,
Amalgam or Os Artificial.
Fie is also prepared to perform any operation belong
ing to Dentistry, and need not say that he will be pleas
ed to wait upon any of his old friends or new friends
yon may take that for granted.
February 5, 18G1
NEW GOODS.
KOOPMANN & PHKLPS have received a handsome
assortment of SPRING GOODS, consisting in part of
DRESS GOODS, BONNETS, &c,
to which they invite particular attention.
April 23, 1861
HiADgfARTKiia North Caholi.va Tnoors. )
Adjutant General's Office, Raleigh, Oct. 15, 1861.
Genera! Order. No. 20.
All companies hereafter accepted by the Governor
ill remain at home, without pay, until called upon
for active service, when a reasonable time will be Al
lowed them for reaching their appointed place of ren-h-ivous.
This order is necessary on account of the
limited quantity of clothing and camp equippage now
n hand, and to enable the Governor to have these sup
plies ready for the use of the troops.
3y order of the commander-in-chief.
J. G. MARTIN,
Oct 22. 4t Adjutant Oenernl.
J. G.
J2
I take pleasure in informing my friends and patrons
of this town and nt-ighboftood that l"bsive returned to
i Charlotte and resumed my former business.
In consideration of the existing pressure of the times
I shall limit my terns of tuition (in town) on the
Piano to $30, for the full Session of 40 weeks, or $15
for the half Session of 20 weeks.
I have a fine stock of sheet music on hand and will
attend punctually to all orders in that line as also to
Tuning, Repairing and Sale of Pianos.
Address orders through the post-office.
CHARLES 0. PAPE.
Wanted to purchase, a second-hand Piano.
Oct 8, laoi.
Hardware!! Hardware!!
A. A. N. M. TAYLOR
MESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the pub
lic generally, that he has added to his extensive
stock of Stoves and Tin Ware, a large and complete
stock of Hardware, consisting in part as follows:
Carpenters' Tools.
Circular, mill, crosscut, hand, ripper, pannel, prun
ing, grafting, tennou, back, compass, webb, and butch
er SAWS; Braces and bits, Draw Knives, Chissei?,
Augers, Gimlets, Hammers, Hatchets, and Axes; Brick,
plastering, and pointing Trowels; Saw-setters, Screw
plates, Stocks and dies, Planes of all kinds, Spoke
shaves, Steel-blade bevel and try Squares; Spirit Levels
Pocket Levels, Spirit level Vials, Boring machines,
Gougcrs, and in fact everthing a mechanic wants, in
great variety and at very low prices, at TAYLOR'S
Hardware Store and Tin-ware Depot, opposite the Man
sion House, Charlotte, N. C.
May 29, I860. tf
Blacksmith's Tools.
Such as Bellows, Anvils, Vices, hand and slide Ham
mers, Buttresses, Farriers' Knives, Screw-plates, Stocks
and dies, Blacksmith's Pincers and Tongs, Raspers and
Files of every kind, Cut horseshoe and clinch Nails,
Borax; Iron of all sizes, both of northern and country
maL lfacture; cast, plow, blister and spring Steel; &c,
for sale very cheap at
TAYLOR'S, opposite the Mansion House
Ludlow's Celebrated Self-Sealing
Cans, of all the different sizes, at TAYLOR'S
Hardware Store, opposite Mansion House.
Agricultural Implements of all kinds.
Straw Cutters, Corn Shelters, Plows, Hoes, Shovels,
Spades, Forks, Axes, Picks, Mattocks, Grubbing Hoes,
Trace Chains, Wagon Chains, Log Chains, Pruning
and Hedge Shears, Pruning and budding Knives, gar
den Hoes and Rakes, with handle?; Grain Cradles; grain,
grass aud brier Scythes, Bush Hooks, Wagon boxes;
Hollow ware, such as pots, ovens and lids, skillits, spi
ders, stew-pans and kettles, Cauldrons from 20 to 120
gallons each; Iron and brass Preserving Kettles, Sheep
Shears, kc, at TAYLOR'S Hardware Depot, opposite
the Mansion House.
Tin and Japanned Ware,
A large assortment; Block Tin, Block Zinc, Tin Plate,
Babbit metal, kc.
Stoves, the largest Stock, of all sizes, at
TAYLOR'S Hardware, Stove and
Tin ware Depot, opposite Mansion House
PETER R. DAVIS.
W. H. HARDEE.
DAVIS & HARD EE,
PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
rotorst)urs, X7z.
REFER TO Hon. D W Courts. Gen. R W Haywood,
Raleigh, X. C.
Feb lit, 1861 Cm-pd.
ISIKDS, 12IRDS.
All kinds of EUROPEAN BIRDS:
STYLE CAGES. Those wishing a
fine Soncster. will find it at
J. D. PALMER S Variety Store,
One door above the Bank of Charlotte.
Nov 20, 1860.
From and after this day (1st of January, 1861.) we
will be pleased to sell our old friends and customers,
aud the rest of mankind, for
cah, and cash only,
any article in our line of business that we may have on
hand. Any person sending or coming for Goods after
this date, without money, will please excuse us if, in
stead of filling their order, we furnish them with a
copy of this advertisement, as we are determined not to
sell a single article on credit.
KSkAnd those indebted to us are requested to call
and pay. as we want the money.
GATES & WILLIAMS.
January I, 1861 tf
Dissolution.
The firm of FULLINGS, SPRINGS k CO. was dis
solved bv limitation on the 1st January, 1861.
The business will be continued under the name and
style of FULLINGS & SPRINGS, and they hope, by
integrity and strict attention to business, to merit the
same patronage heretofore liberally bestowed by their
numerous friends and customers.
The present financial crisis and the uncertainty of
business, for the future compel us to shorten our time
of credit from twelve to six months to prompt paying
customers none others need ask it.
All persons indebted to the old firm of Fullings,
Springs k Co., must come forward and make immediate
aMtlrmtMit.. a it i? absolutely necessary that the busi
ness be speedily closed up. "A word to the wise is suffi- !
eient. J,ln ,0i '""
PROCLAMATION
BY HIS EXCELLENCY, HENRY T. CLARK, GOV
ERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
ExEcrTivE Department,")
Raleigh, Oct. 3d, J8S1.
In pursuance of the power given me by the 19th
section of the Constitution, and by and with the ad
vice of the Council of State, I do hereby prohibit the
exportation beyond the limits of this State, of all
bacon, pork, beef, leather, men's shoes, woolen goods,
jeans, lindseys and blankets except through the orders
of the proper officers of the Confederate Government,
or of the State Government.
The order of the 13th ult. is hereby revoked. The
Adjutant General is directed to employ all necessary
means to carry into full effect this order.
Done at the city of Raleigh, this 3rd day of October,
A. D., 18.51. " HENRY T. CLARK,
Oct 8 4t Governor Ex-oflicio.
IS
Situation Wanted.
A person who is thoroughly acquainted with the
Milling business, and who has had entire charge of a
large establishment in Virginia for 15 years, desires a
situation in this part of North Carolina. He has had
large experience in farming and the management of
hands. He can bring the best of recommendations.
For further inforruain inquire at this OfSc, arjd
state what sal?" ""il De giren.
August 13, 1S61
t SJhstern Semnrrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
East Tennessee. Two of the bridge burners
were hung at Greenville, Tenn., on the 30th ult.
Their names were Henry Fry and Jacob nenchi.
They were tried by court martial and found guilty
of being engaged in the late bridge burning opera
tions in East Tennessee. After a few more of the
tory rascals are hung the people of East Tennessee
will hare peace.
The Lincolnite sympathisers in that quarter are
being promptly dealt with by an Alabama regi
ment. A large number have been arrested, many
of whom took the oath of allegiance to the south,
and others were committed to prison to be tried
for treason. Some came forward voluntarily and
took an oath to support the Southern Confederacy.
The rebellion is regarded as at an end.
Parson Rrownlow publishes a card denying that
he had anything to do with bridge-burners. He
says he has advised against rebellion, and has en
deavored to behave himself and promote peace.
,
Missouri makes the twelfth State of the South
ern Confederacy. She is entitled to thirteen
members in the House of Representatives.
.
It is stated tha a portion of the citizens of
Louisville, Ky., observed the late Fast Day ap
pointed by President Davis, although the city is
under the control ot the Lincolnites. The hearti
of a majority ot the people of Kentucky are with
the South.
FACTORY FOR SAI,E.
The undersigned propose to sell, at a low price and
upon liberal credit, their COTTON FACTORY, locat
ed on the South Fork of the Catawba River. The ma
chinery is comparatively new and in good order for
work. The water power is good and the buildings
ample, and a good FLOURING MILL attached.
The principal machinery consists of 1300 spiudlea, 9
cards, '26 looms, and all the machinery to work the
same. J. k E. B. STOWE,
Oct 8, 1861 lm. Stowesville, N. C.
WHEAT !
The subscriber is prepared to purchase the new
crop of Wheat at th." highest market price. Farmers
will find it to their advantage to call at the CHAR
LOTTE STEAM MILLS before selling.
Jan'y 1, 18GI tf JNO. WILKES.
BUTTER ! BUTTER!!
The highest, cash market prices will be paid for
Butter. Eggs, Poultry, &c, at PALMER'S
Sept 24, 18(51 Variety Store.
HEIES.
I have now on hand and am constantly receiving
large quantities of Hides, which I will exchange for
Leather.
S. M. HOWELL,
October 8, 1861 Gt-pd Charlotte, N. C.
NOTICE.
jhUR CREDIT CUSTOMERS,
HJ? BY DISREGARDING OUR APPEALS,
have forced us to adopt the CASH SYSTEM.
Our terms hereafter will be strtly Cash on delivery
FISHER k BURROUGHS.
Aug 6, 18(51 tf
MONTAMOENA FEMALE SEMINARY,
MOUNT PLEASANT, CABARRUS COUNTY, N. C.
The exercises of this School will be resumed on the
20lh of August.
Rates pkr Session :
Board (including washing and fuel) $40 00
English course, from $5 00 to 15 00
Music on the Piano, Melodeon or Guitar, 20 00
Languages, each, " 8 00
Drawing or Painting, 10 00
Vocal Music, 3 00
Embioidery, 1 00
Other ornamentals reasonable.
Terms :
Half of all the expenses, board and tuition, must be
paid in advance, and the remainder at the close of the
Session.
Pupils who board in the Seminary will not be per
mitted to make store accounts.
For further information, address
. L. G. IIEILIG.
August 13, 1861 2Jm
Notice to the Sheriffs of the different
Counties of North-Carolina.
All Blankets and Clothing which may be received by
you can be sent directly to the several Companies
which went from your county and when your own
Companies are supplied, you will then forward any
balance on hand to the Quartermaster in Raleigh. You
will put up all articles intended for your Companies in
strong boxes, directed to the Quartermaster in Raleigh
with the Company and the Regiment plainly marked
on them; and you will have the contents of each box
marked on it.
Whenever the Companies are on duty in your neigh
borhood, you are authorised to deliver the articles to
them, taking the receipt of the Captain for them, which
receipt vou will forward to this office.
Octobers, 1861. J. DBVEREUX, A. Q. M.
QUARTKRJJASTER,S 0FFCE
October 3d, 1861.
Any person or persons who may be desirous of
taking conn-acts fo; making Clothes for the Army of
North -Carolina, can obtain terms, &c, on application
at this office Goods will be issued to any responsible
parties, in quantities sufficient to clothe single Com
panieswhich can be made up in their own neighbor
hoods, and the money will be paid to the parties re-
thp return of the manufactured j
articles. Parties may furnish the Cloth, which will be
paid for by the State. J. DEVEREUX, A. Q. M.
October, rhGl.
Headquarters North Carolina Troops, 1
Adjutant General's Office, Raleigh, Oct. 11, 1861.
General Order No. 19.
I. All accounts against the State of North Caro
lina, incurred for military purposes, must be presented
at this Office within thirty days after they have been
made. If longer withheld, no assurance can be given
of their favorable consideration or prompt payment.
II. All accounts should always be accompanied by a
certificate o some officer or authorized agent of the
State, that the property has been delivered, that the
price charged was according to agreement or contract,
and that the receiver will account for the same to the
State. Otherwise accounts cannot be paid-
r J fJ, flnuamar J. G. MARTIN.
0ct22. 2t Adjutant General I
SPEECH OF HON. WM. L. .YANCEY.
From the London Globe, November 12.
Mr. Dudley Mann and Wm. L. Yancey, two of
the Southern Commissioners now in England,
attended the dinner of the Fishmonger's Com
pany on Saturday. Mr Yancey in answer to a
complimentary toast, made the following speech,
which derives interesc from the fact that the
Minister from the TT. States, Mr Adams, was at
the same time speaking in Guildhall.
Mr Yancey said:
Upon the part of Americans, I sincerely respond
to the sentiment just expressed by the Prince
Warden, for the restoration of peace in America.
Such a wish proclaimed by a company of intelli
gent Englishmen, must kindle a corresponding
spirit in the bosom of every enlightened and im
partial American. The name American no longer
represents a united people. There exists now two
American nationalities che Confederate and the
Federal Americans. I as you may, perhaps, be
aware am a Confederate, or, as the Federal
Americans, unmidful of the character of our com
mon forefathers, disdainly terms me, a rebel. But
tie justice and the sense of right of this great
government, promptly coincided in by France and
Spain, speedily wiped out that stigma from our
brows, and my countrymen are acknowledged
here, at least, to be belligerents. (Cheers.)
Though indebted to an enlarged and enlightened
view of public law, and not to the mere grace or
favor of England, for this acknowledgment of our
unquestionable lights and locus standi, I must
freely express here to-night that deep sense of
thankfulness which I am sure all my countrymen
feel for its early public avowal Bis lat qui cito
dat. (Prolonged cheers.) From no other power
could it come so gracefully. In this the old
country the principle of self-government is
recognized and practiced, however blended with
the prerogatives of the crown and the privileges
of the aristocracy. To your institutions Ameri
cans are indebted for the chief of those vital
principles which have caused them to style the
Republic,
The land of the free
And the home of the oppressed.
Such invaluable rights as the old English writ
of habeas corpus, of a speedy trial by Jury, of
freedom or speech, and freedom or the press, are
the main pillars of American Constitutional Lib
erty, and I am happy and proud to say are ob
served at least throughout the Confederate Amer
ican States a3 vital and practical rights, even dur
ing their stern struggles to preserve their " na
tional life." Hear, hear, arid cheers. I feel
how unbecoming it would be in me to intrude
upon such an occasion as the present any merely
partisan views of the causes which have broken
up the late Federal Union. No matter what they
may have been, one thing is clear, and that is that
the contest now going on is upon the part of the
people of the Confederate States for the right to
govern themselves and resist subjugation by the
North. Hear, hear. They occupy a territory
as large as England, France, Spain and Austria
together they are 10,000,000 in number they
are chiefly producers of raw materials and buyers J
or all kinds of manufactured goods.
Their pursuits, soil, climate and production, are
totally different from those of the North. They
think it their interest to buy where they can buy
cheapest and sell where they can sell dearest. In
all this the North differs, toto caio from them,
" and nqw makes war upon us to enforce the
supremacy of their mistaken ideas and selfish
interest." Hear hear, and cheers. In defence
of their liberties and sovereign independence the
Confederate States and people are united and reso
lute. They are invaded by a Power numbering
20,000,000, yet for -ight months has the Con
federate Government successfully resisted aye,
repelled that invasion along a military frontier of
1,000 miles. Though cut off by blockade from
all foreign trad ', their internal resources have been
adequate to the equipment and maintenance in the
field of an army of over 250.000 troops. Can all
this be, and yet these 6,000,000 of whites be
divided ? The idea is preposterous. So much
has been said about our efforts to obtain foreign
Intervention that I may be allowed to declare em
phatically, " that the Confederate States have
neither sought nor desired it. They can maintain
their independence intact by their own strength."
As to their recognition by the powers of the
world that of course they desire. They are a
people, a nation, exhibiting elements of power
which few States of the world possess. Rut they
have no reason to complain, nor do tl.ey feel
aggrieved because these great Powers see fit for a
season to deny their formal recognition and recep
tion into the family of nations. However they
may differ with them as to the period when their
recognition shall take place, they fuily understand
that such action is purely a question to be deter
mined by those countries each for itself and with
reference to its own interests and views of public
policy. Other nations having trading relations
with us have quite as much interest to send minis
ters and consuls to us as we have to send such
representatives to them. Hear, hear. Why,
then, shall there not be peace ? Simply because
the North in its pride will not admit that to be
a fact a fait accompli which Oid England,
followed by the first powers of Europe, has recog
nized, and which the Confederate Government
and armies have repeatedly demonstrated to be a
stern and bloody fact the fact that we are a bel
ligerent power. There can be no basis for nego
tiations, or for peace proposals or consultations, so
long as the Confederates are doomed to be and are
treated as rebels. Hear, hear. But when our
adversary shall becou e sufficiently calm to treat us
as a belligerent Power, the morning of peace will
dawn in the horizon. When that hour shall arrive
1 think I may say the Confederate Government
will be inflexible upon one point only its honor
and its independence. For the great interests of
peace and humanity, it will yield much that is
merely material or of secondary importance. Mr
Yancey sat down amid loud and continued cheer
ing Married Women. By a vote of twanty seven
'ayes' to thirteen 'nays,'-the Georgia Senate has
passed a bill securing to married women all the
property they owned at the time of marriage, free
from the debts or contral of their husband,
except in relation to the profits,
ST. LOUIS FOR THE SOUTH.
From the Memphis Avalanche.
A gentleman who, some months ago; went to
St. Louis, Missouri, as escort of his sister-in-law,
and recently made his escape on foot, has fur
nished us with" the following items of information:
Two-thirds of the thinking population of the
West are in favor of.acknowedging the Southern
Confederacy for the sake of peace, but at present
have no power to act. Having nothing else to do,
our informant took a trip up .to Davenport, Iowa,
and there conversed with men (secretly of course)
who were confident, if they had the opportunity,
that they could get 5,000 men to aid the Sou'h.
When, a short time ago, the Governor of Iowa,
finding it impossible to obtain the required num
ber of voluntary recruits, issued orders for a draft,
there must have been -five thousand young men
who suddenly left the cities of Davenport and
Keokuk to avoid it. But few men can be found
in that section who will own that they are Abo
litionists, as such fanatics are excluded from gen
teel society.
Having been forced to stay in St. Louis three
months before he effected hrs escape, he took
special pains to ascertain the sentiments of the
people. He found that nearly all the old resi
dents and the mas3 of the English population are
for the South, while the Germans are as uni
versally for Lincoln. Three-fourths of the Lin
coln army raised in Missouri are Germans, who
give more trouble than double their number of
other troops, for if they are not paid square up,
which is very difficult to do, there ib a row in
camp.
Obtaining a passport, finally, to Cairo, he took
passage with a friend on the steamer Graham, and
when about twenty-four miles above Cape Iser, as
the boat was landing to deliver the mail on the
Missouri side, they jumped nshore and took to the
woods. After five days' hard travel on foot they
reached the headquarters of Gen. Jeff. Thompson,
at New Madrid, and spent two days in his camp.
The General does all the thinking for his rueu,
and were he to say: " Boys, I think we can take
St. Louis," they would think so too, and follow
him without hesitation to accomplish the feat.
The people of St. Louis are looking eagerly for
the appearance of Price and McCulloch, to whom
they look for deliverance from the hated Lincoln
despotism. The superceding of Fremont caused
a suspension of work on the gunboats, as it was
thought Fremonts authority to order their con
struction would be questioned. The rafts accom
panying the gunboats are to be towed by propel
lers. There was great rejoicing in St. Louis over
the Belmont victory, while t lie Unionists were
greatly depressed, admitting a federal los of 1,200
men. The secessionists of St. Louis are warm in
their expressions of attachment for the South.
NEW YORK.
The city of New York has undoubtedly signal
ized itself in the present war. It has thrown all
the other western cities in the shade. Boston and
Philadelphia together have not approached the
energy, exertion and furore of the Empire city.
In capital, men, armaments, New York has been
the backbone of the invasion. Her newspapers
have led the way of stirring up the war passions
of the North, her preachers have thundered ana
themas from the pulpit, her mob has cried unre
buked for rapine and murder, her very women
have urged on her military ruffians to deeds of
blood and crime. If New York had seen fit to
hold back from this accursed war, it could not
have been waged, nor could she have been dra
gooned into it by any power at the command of
the General Government. She need not have
proclaimed herself a free city, as some of her jour
nals before secession hypocritically pretended she
would. She need not have raised an army in be
half of the South, as John Cochrane declared from
the Exchange porch she would in the event of co
ercion being attempted. She might have remain
ed simply passive, and the war, without her aid.
would have been a mere farce. With perfect
safety to her interests, she should have pursued
this course a course prompted by every consid
eration of consistency with her political principles
and of gratitude to a section whose commerce has
made her what she is. What would New York
have been without commerce? And what would
be her commerce without the great Southern sta
ples? The enormous amounts she is expending in
this war shows that she appreciates the great
source of her wealth and power, whilst the fact
that she is expending these amounts in making
war upon those who have made her rich is an
exhibition of ingratitude and fatuity unparalleled
in the history of the world. We can never ex
pect such a community to see the atrocity of in
gratitude,' but it might have saved its hundred
millions and the future Southern trade, both now
lost forever, to its unspeakable remorse and mise
ry. Let the war terminate as it may, New York
is a doomed city, and if ever a city de-served to be
doomed and damned, it is that Sodom of America.
Sale of Houses. Some twenty horses be
longing to the State were sold here last week by
I. B Sawyer, Esq., at public outcry. They brought
an average of about $05. We think the prices
very good indeed, considering the condition the
horses were in. They cost originally, we are toid,
semethinglike one hundred dollars apiece. xihe
ville Xews.
Bread and Whiskey. A Southern contem
porary denounces in terms of just but strong re
probation the extensive distillation of the staff
of life into one of the most prolific fountains of
misery and death that ever was let loose upon an
unhappy race. In the present condition of the
South, when it is absolutely necessary that all the
grain we raise should be converted to its legiti
mate purposes, its distillation into whiskey should
be restricted to such limits as are required for me
dicinal purposes, and the moderate supply which
is neeessary for the army. Anything beyond this
is a wanton, criminal,' and treasonable waste of
articles essential to the support of our soldiers
and the comfort of our population.
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Mr. Emerson, in one of his lectures, observed
that in New England a man might one day b a
tavern keeper and the next a judge. "A very
natural transition," whispered a wag, "from the
bar to the bench."
MARRIAGES.
From a table compiled by the Auditor of State,
exhibiting the ages at marriage. between persona
j marrying for the first time, and the numbed of
each, in the several districts of the State, we learn
that by calculating from intermediate periods, that
it a icmaie la twenty years ui ugu uu a uniuai
ried, more than one quarter of her probabilities
of even her ever becoming married are gone) if
she passes the age of twenty-five, a maiden, more
than three-quarters of her, probabilities are lost;
and if she passes to thirty years unmarried, seven
eights of her chances of ever becoming a wife are
past; at thirty-five years of age . aud still unmar
ried, she has only about three chances in a hun
dred left, and these arc rapidly becoming less. ,
The tables of course vary as to males. In .re
spect to them it will be perceived that if ho is "
twenty and is unmarried, one in forty of his pro
babilities of ever becoming married are gone; if he
passes the ae of twenty-five unmarried, one half
his probabilities are lost, and if he passes to thirty
years of age, he has fifteen in every hundred of
his chances remaining; at thirty -five years of age
and still unmarried, he has only two chances in
every hundred left.
In this State the number of marriages in 1859
was 7048 embracing 14,038 persons passing this
interesting event in life for the calendar year. ;
In 1860 there were 7336 marriages, or one in
every 142 of the free white inhabitants. Of this
number 5919 were males, and 0497 were females,
marrying for the first time. ""''
From 1839 to 1843 there was in England an
annual average of one marriage in every 130 of
population; in France and Austria, one in 123,
and in Prussia, one in 110. In Massachusetts,
the average annual marriages for the years 1850,
1851, and 1852, was one in 106; in Kentucky, in
1853, 1854, and 1855, one in 143; and in South
Carolina, in 1856, one in every 174 of the white
population. 4
The returns of marriages show that in the North
western districts of tho State, the youngest female
who married was twelve years old, and the young
est male was fourteen. No female married in any
of the other districts under thirteen years of age,
and no male under sixteen years of age. Rich
mond Lxaminer. .
The Chicago (Illinois) Tribuno gives the
following exhibit of the cost of exporting Indian
corn to Europe: . i
One bushel of corn costs at Bloomington, 111. lOe.
Freight to Chicago, 10c.
Storage, 2e.
Lake freight to Buffalo, 22c.
Elevating at Buffalo, 4c.
Canal freight to New York, 8Jc.
Transfer in New York, ilc.
Insurance from Chicago to Liverpool, 2o.
Ocean freight, 23e.
Cost of one bushel of corn at Liverpool 89c. '
The ten cents per bushel paid for corn at Bloom
ington will not give the grower more than day
wages for harvesting, shelling, and drawing it ten
miles over Illinois roads to market, leaving the
use of land, seed, tillage,-&C., a dead loss. Yet the
factory hands of British Manchester, Sheffield,
&c, will pay at least $1 per bushel for that corn,
though it reaches them swollen, soured, and
musty from the effects of its long transit by water.
The Wool or Texas. The following is from
the Houston Telegraph: '
"The wool crop of Texas is near two million of
pounds, and the production of the Confederate
States is estimated by wool buyers at not over
3,000,000 of pounds, while the consumption of
factories in the States will not reach that amount
by three-quarters of a million of pounds. There
is now unsold in Texas near a million of pounds
of wool, and the next clip is only four month? off,
which will give at a low estimate 2,000,000 of
pounds for market. The error is in relying on
the census report of 1860 for the number of sheep,
when as it is well known, not half the census tak
ers attend to their duty in anything like a reliable
manner. When a correct census of the sheep in
this State shall be taken, it will be found that
they never numbered much less than 300,000
since the 17th of January, 1861, and that the
next year's clip will be taken from over a million.
We state these facts that wool holders may seo
it is for their interest to sell while the present
good prices prevail. The chances are against
much of a rise in the prioe for the present."
Pohk. In this section holders are asking from
eight to ten cents gross for hogs. We advise our
people to keep hands off. Let speculators eat,
their own hogs. The truth is, we have all been
eating too much hog meat for years past. The
general health would be better if more rico, sugar
and tnolaxses were consumed, and less meat. But
it is hard to shake off old habits. Our people
have been accustomed to "swimming in grease'
and they would think they will be ruined if the
supply is cut off. All nonsense. Twelve months
ago, if a man had proposed that the community
abandon the use of coffee, he would have been
voted insane; and yet coffee is "nowhere" to-day.
Not one family in fifty drink a drop. Are they
worse off? We fancy, not. Let us all become
Jews, aud abominate swine, until the war is over,
or the speculators all hanged. AxhcrilU Netc$.
The Caroo of the Finoal.: The Richmond
Examiner vouches for the following being a cor
net statement of the cargo of the Fingal:
12,000 Enfield rifles, 11,000 of which are for
Confederacy, and 1,000 for Louisiana; 1,000,000,"
cartridges; 40,000 pounds of powder; 6 24-pound-er
rifled cannon; a quantity of sabres and a few
pistols; a lot of shoes and blankets.
'
Remedy fob the Bite or Mad Dogs. A'
Saxon forester, named Gastell, now ot the venera
ble age of 82, unwilling to take to the grave with
him a secret of so much importance, has made
public in the Leipsic Journal the means which he
has used for fifty years, and wherewith he affirms
he has rescued many human beings and cattle -
from the fearful death of hydrophobia. Take imv
mediately warm vinegar or tepid water; wash the
wound clean therewith, and then dry it; then poor
: upon the wound a few drops of hydroohlorie acid,
because mineral acids destroy the poison of .tot :
saliva, by which means the latter is neutralised.