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THE WESTEKK DEM OCR AT, C H A ft L OTTE, M . C . t$Uxn moctat. W.J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor. CHARLOTTE, IV. C. July 9, 18C7. TlIE Crops. Notwithstanding the rnina and unfavorable weather two we ks ago, wa are grati fied to hear that the prospect is good for an abundant supply of food in this part of the State. The wheat crop, although injured to some extent, Is larger than fur several jears past. It is true, come farmers have not made as much as they expected, but all have done very well consider ing the circumstances, aud flour will certainly be abundant. The p.t week afforded splendid weather for harvesting and getting the grass from the corn. The accounts from the States south of this are encouraging. We direct the attention of wheat raisers to the letter which we publi.h In another column from a New York merchant. We have no doubt of the correctness of the statement that the crop of cereals generally will be immense, and that prices will soon rule low. and therefore thoe who sell arly will get the feest rates. The New York Express of the 23th of June, peaking of Southern Wheat and Flour, says: We are gratified to learn that the late heavy rains havo not damaged the wheat and oats. South, except in a few .and unimportaut localities. The wheat in several States hus been harvested in fine condition, and daft ly protected from sum mer rains. The crop is bountiful, and the qual ity and yield all that could be desired. In this connection we may ay, that the New York market affords excellent opportunities at the present time for our Southern planters to obtain good price for wheat and flour, this market be ing now bare of desirable stock. The Messrs. Stetihoupe & Macaulay, we tee, have just re ceived a coiiignrnent of excellent flourand wheat, the firt of the reason, from South Carolina. from the firm of Messrs. Stenhou.se Sc Co.. Char leston. S. C. We hope our Southern friends will avail themselves of the present advantages in this market to dispose of their crops, or at least 60 long as high prices are within their reach." Public Sales. The following named property will be sold at Auction to morrow (Tuesday) : Col. W. A. Owens Law Library ; Oates A: Wil liams Store House, and the Parks Mill Property. Significant. We find in some of our ex changes a letter written from Charlotte to a 1'liiludelplua paper, giving an account of the mineral wealth of this section of North Carolina, from which we muke the following extract: "The Hun. Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, General Farnsworth and N. l. Judd. Esq.. of Illinois.' all members of the present Congress, have purchased a valuable mine a few miles from this place, which they intend to work to its fullest capacity." Now, if Mr Stevens was really in earnest when he talks about favoring confiscation, why would he purchase' lands and gold mines in the .South. I)oe he talk thut way merely for the purpose of frightening Southern property-owners ? The fuct that prominent Northern men (members of Congress) are willing to buy land in the South when the terms suit them, fignifies that they do not believe that uch a thieving scheme as con fiscation will ever be adopted or enforced. We hope the present pension of Congress will put the question of confiscation beyond all doubt one way or the other, and not permit enterprise and business to be crippled and ruined by the threats of office seeking politicians. Unless Congress doeg something to restore confidence in business and financial matters, the Government will soon have to f-ed five times the number of people in the South it is now feeding, or let them ttarve. Davidson Collkge.- -The commencement exercises of Davidson College, will begin July I2th and continue up to the ISth. For particu lars we refer the reader to an advertisement in another column. V tT The firt lot of new wheat was received in "Richmond on the .'JJ int., aud sold for $2. CO per bu.-he. The first lot in New York was received by S ten house & Mucaulnj' from Charleston, and sold for $4 per bushel a fancy price, of course. Dividkxd. The First National Bank of Char lotte has dcliired a dividend of six per cent for the last 6 months. This Dank is one of the sound est in the country; and while its business, we pre sume, would justify a larger dividend, it prefers to add to and increase its surplus a wi&e pre caution against unfortunate contingencies. See Eighth Quarterly Statement in our advertising columns. m CP" The Wadesboro Argus complains that the carrying of the mail between the head of the Wil., Char. te Ruth. Railroad and Charlotte, (via Monroe.) has been discontinued, because no one will take the contract. We apprehended fiom jthe fir6t establishment of that route that it would rove a failure, especially as regards affording Wail facilities to the people between this place and Wadei-boro. A continuance of the old routes would give more satisfaction and conveniences to the people along the line, viz: A tri weekly tnail from Charlotte to Monroe, (going the upper road by Piovidenco and returning the lower roaxl by Rose Yale. &.c..) also, a tri weekly or sMni weekly mail from Monroe to Wadesboro. and the lame to Lancaster C. II. If our friend of the Argus will assist us in having these routes rs-established, we think he will find that it will be better for the people, and pertainly better for jbe newspapers at Charlotte And Wadesboro. CW A meeting of the Mecklenburg Agricultu ral Society will be hld to-morrow (Tuesday.) A full attendance is requested, as business of im portance will be transacted. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Annual Coasxrucenient of Mecklenburg Female " College. paxenport Female CaHepe-I. R. Griffith, Lenoir, Caldwell county, X. C. A Lajjy Teciier Wauled, t Davenport Female College. Eighth Quarterly Report of the First Nation! Bank of Charlotte. Muskingum Valley Portable Engine Work?, Zanes ville, Ohio. Guilford Land Agency cf North Carolina, Greens boro, X C. Latest AirjvaJ at B. Koopmann's. The President and Cosoress. The feel ing between the President and Congress is not improving, but becoming worse. We are not a ' radical, and neither are we a Johnson man; for we believe that President Johnson is to blame to a great extent for our present unhappy condition. Soon after the surrender he had it in his power to restore the Southern States to the Union by approving the treaty or agreement made between Gen. Sherman and Gen. Johnston at some point in this State. If he had endorsed that arrange ment, the two armies of Grant and Sherman would have enforced it, and peace and good feel ing between the two sections been immediately established. But President Johnston then enter tained such hatred for the Southern people that be refused to do anything to save them from trou ble. Believing that be is as much deserving of censure as any radical Congressman, we do not feel any sympathy for him in his present embar rassed situation. The following extract from a communication in the Wilmington Journal so nearly expresses our views that we copy aud endorse it : 'Our greatest misfortune since the surrender of our armies was the necessity or seeming neces sity for us to risk our shattered fortunes in the same boat with Andrew Johnson. I am not a radical nor on the road to the Radical camps. Between them and me there is an impassable gulf. I am not, however, a believer in Mr John son or his policy, which was. iu my opinion, as obviously illegal and wrong as the action of Gen. Sheridan, aud with less color of title. We were either a State of the United States or we were a conquered country. Mr Johnson's policy started with the premiss that North Carolina was neither a State nor a province, but a sort of geographical hermaphrodite, or rather territorial eunuch. Conclusions from such a premiss necessarily led him into the mire, where he yet struggles, aud hopelessly; and I very much fear ourselves with him. Gen. Sheridan can show color at least for his course under Act of Congress. The Presi dent lost his graud opportunity when he refused to ratify the treaty between Generals Johnson aud Sherman. The State Government, so called, instituted by Mr Johnson and his "satrap," is now declared by tho 'satrap" himself to be as "obviously illegal aud wrong," or in other words, as "provisional" in its natuie as that administer ed by the individuals designated by order of Gen. Sheridan. The lapse of time and the act of Mr Johnson havo rendered it forever impossible for our old Constitution to be administered by officers duly selected in accordance with its time-honored mandates. The term of office of our last consti tutional Governor. Zebulon B. Vance, has ex pired, as has also that of the members of our last constitutional General Assembly, and this leaves the State not only without officers but without the power to create them. To this exteut, in deed, has Mr Johnston made us eunuchs. I can never forget that we are indebted to Mr Johnsou for this slate of affairs, lie it was. now so fierce upon Commanding Generals for interfering with his policy and its administrators, who drove out our proper legal constitutional officers. I con fess 1 do not look with unmixed regret upou the ousting of his appointees, who are so complacent ly pluming themselves as the representatives. of the old North Carolina of our fathers, and as such, calling upon us to full down and do them homage, when in tact they arc representatives not of the State of North Carolina at all, but simply aud purely of Mr Johnson's policy, and are utterly unknown to the Constitution. Suclr. then, is the condition of affairs. The old public highway by which we were wont to travel, has been blocked up and rendered impass able by Mr Jol n on, who instead thereof offers the use of s private road, new and unfamiliar to us. to which however, other parties stronger and more powerful, declare he has no right. They accordingly forbid its use except for a short dis tance and by their consent, as the offer to lay out a new road for us. As it is my desire to take the s-hortest. sure?! and safest road out of this wil derness I shall not hesitate to use the road offered by the more powerful party, though at the same time I see not the slightest reason or necessity for uniting with that party, as it is my wish to get as far away from the "party" as possible, a's well as from the wilderness. We must get out of this difficulty some how or other, soouer or later, and as our honor is not involved in a quick exit, I say, the sooner the better. m fa" The returns of registration in many coun ties iu Virginia show that while the negroes generally have registered, the whites have neg lected or refused to do so, thus giving the ascen dency to the colored vote. If those who are entitled to register and vote, permit their stub bornness aud passions to deprive them of the privilege, they will certaiul,y havo no right here after to complain of "negro rule." The present difficulties must be settled aud the States restored to the Union, aud if white people don't assist in the matter, it will be done by the colored people alone. White men who allow their stubbornness to prevent them from voting will find out their mistake when too late. Glmlkord Land Agency. Louis Zimmer & Co., have established au Agency at Greensboro, N. C for the purpose of selliug Agricultural and Mineral Lands, Water Powers, &c, in North Carolina. They invite persons who have such property to sell to inform them or consult Gen. R. 1). Johuston at Charlotte. (See advertise ment.) We have seen a letter which was addressed to Gov. Worth by some one in New York (we think,) stating that a party of Germans desired to emi grate to this country and settle in North Carolina and engage in farming aud stock raising. The letter asked for information in regard to location and price of good lauds in this State. Those wishing to dispose of lands might find it to their advantage to inform Gen, Johnston at this place or Louis Zimmer &. Co., at Greensboro. CP The execution of Maximilian and several of his officers, by the conquering Mexican author ities, i- an act of brutality which cannot fail to arouse the iudignation of all civilized people. Mexico, one of the finest countries in the world, is cursed with a miserably depraved population, aud ruled by corrupt and infamous men. MOCKERY- Two citizens of Charleston fought a duel recently. Oue was killed." The survivor was arrested and tried before Judge Moses and the Jury rendered a verdict of "not guilty," al though it was not denied that the prisouer had killed his antagonist in a duel. Such mockery in ft Court of Justice, so-aIIed, is disgraceful. Baltimoke &, Ohio Railroad. JSome idea , of the amount of travel and freight over the Bl ; timore &. Ohio Railroad may be formed from the fact that the Company run seven .daily trains trom Washiugtoo City and Baltimore to Cincin nati. Through tickets are sold to 11 points in the West and baggage checked. Louis Zimmer, at Greeusboro, N. C, is the General Southern Agent for the Company. Tickets can be pur chased at Charlotte, .Salisbury, Greegsboro, Ral eigh, Arc. I 0 r.D Times coke Agaix. On the 4th of July a large number of freed men were in town ' and it made one think of old times to see some of them c-r joying themselves hj fiddling and danc- jingonthe street. Although the thermometer ! stood at about 94, they danced until the perspi- ration oozeu wirougu meir coais. x uo iruiam dancers stood it remarkably well, considering the dust and heat, and seemed to be pleased with the dexterous performance of the new voters. CF The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Coropa- ny has declared a dividend of ten per cent 5 per cent cash and 5 per cent stock. Goixo to Europe. In former timea pleasure seekers were generally satisfied with a visit to the North or to some fashionable resort in the South, but now the rule is a journey to Europe ; and so great has been the number of Americans who have gone across the ocean this year that it is stated that a retJrn passage is secured with difficulty. This disposition to visit Europe is not confined to Northern people alone, but South erners are going in crowds. Brides and grooms, with their attendants, are sailing from New York every week, and dyspeptic drons seem to think that all that is necessary to restore them to health is a trip to the Continent. Newly married people had better be certain that they can buy or rent a house, secure furniture and food for them selves and children, before they spend hundreds and thousands of dollars in traveling. The evil of the present day is that young people try to commence living in a style that their fathers and grand fathers enjoyed after many years of in dustry and toil. CF Gen. Sickles, in reply to the Charleston Board of Trade, states that he issued the liquor order (prohibiting the sale of ardent spirits in quantities less than a gallon, except by hotel or inn keepers) for the purpose of curtailing the consumption of "ardent liquors' at irresponsible bar-rooms. The General is a very poor judge of human nature if be thinks his order will have the effect of curtailing the consumption of whiskey and brandy in any way. The only effect of the order is to create a monopoly.. What is the dif ference between drinking liquor at a hotel or inn and a common bar-room? Atlantic &: N. C. Railroad. The annual meeting of this Company was held at Newbero on the 27th ult. The Directors elected on the part of the stockholders are J. C. Washington of Lenoir, Jas. B. Hughes, Juo. D. Whitford and C. C Clark of Craven; appointed by the State, Isaac Ramsey of Carteret, A. T. Jerkins and J. D. Flanner of Craven, J M. Parrott, L. C Des mond and Council Best of Lenoir, Wm. Murdock of Rowan, and Jno. L. Morebead of Mecklenburg. Jno. D. Whitford was re-elected President. The report of the President states that the total receipts of the Road, for the fiscal year ending 31st May last, amounted to $143,203 40; amount 'of expenditurt s $149,719 88; showing an outlay of $1,510 48 over and above the re ceipts. m mm Mail- Service at the South We under stand that the Southern mail service, restored as. before the war, which went into operation on the 1st instant, includes about one thousand routes, and is as completely under contract with respon sible parties as at any former period. No effort has been spared by the Department to furnish the very best service in regard to the frequency of trips and best connections, so that the most remote part of each State may be literally webbed with post-offices National Intelligencer. The above cannot apply to this immediate section. We have very poor mail facilities for the surrounding country. Several routes have never been re established, and even some that were in existence last year have been discontinued Death from Lightning. Mrs. Swaringen, a lady living in Davie county, was struck by lightning several days ago, and instantly killed. She was nursing au infant at the time, but the electricity did not affect the child at alL Sa lem Observer. First Cotton Bloom Gol. R. T. Bennett reports to us the first cotton bloom this season, (open July 2d) in a field, cultivated by himself and brother, W. O. Bennett, near this town. We have heard of several other blooms below Lilesville, open as early as Friday June 28th. Wadesboro Argus. Prof. lied rick, II. II. Helper and others have requested Governor Worth to recommend James Henry Harris, Esq., the colored orator of N. C, as minister resident to Hayti. DrStovall, of Surry county, N. C.,was drowned in a creek, near Mount Airy, N. C., last week. He was a native of Henry county, Va., and was highly esteemed as a citizen and a physician. Indignation in Europe. London, July 5 The grand review at Hyde Park has been postponed on account of Maximilian's execution, at which great indignation is felt here and on the Continent. Paris, July 5. Napoleon has ordered the Court in mourning for Maximilian. Vienna, July 5 The Imperial Court has gone into mourning for Maximilian. A U. S. Vessel sent to Mexico. Fortress Monroe,- July 5 The frigate Susquehanna, Admiral Porter, sailed yesterday under sealed orders. It is now known that she proceeds direct to Mexico. The Indian War. A letter from General Sherman to Gen. Haneock says: "We must not remain on the defensive, but follow the Indians up and Attack them on all possible occasions. We must clear them out between the Platte and Arkansas, and then taove in foree on them beyond those rivers." Judge Wayne, of the Supreme Court of the United States, is said to be lying at the point of death. He is nearly eighty years of age, and was appointed from the State of Georgia. In the event of his death there will be no vacancy on the bench, as the law provides for a reduc tion of the number of judges to six. New Orleans, July 4. The Board of Health Te ports officially eight cases and six deaths from yellow fever, in the last two weeks. It is not considered epidemic Make the heart right, and man will be right, the woman will be right, the child will be right; make the men, women and children right, and the home will be right; make the home riht, and the town and city will be right; make the towns and cities right, and the States will be right; make the States right, and the nation will be right; make the nations right, and the For J will be light. THIS WHEAT CROP. Correspondence of the Democrat. New York, June 22, 1867.' . Editor Charlotte Democrat: Dear Sir : We take the liberty to state a few points concerning ; the wheat crop to which, if yon think proper. yon may call the attention of oar tnenas tnrougn the columns of your valuable paper. From all points the accounts are favorable for an immense crop of cereals generally, and prices ' in a short time most rule low. Yet, in the meantime, say within sixty days, before the supplies from the great West can be matured and brought to market the whole of the crop South can be shipped off and sold, realizing a bountiful price now three dollars for a eood article of white I wheat, and the great probability is that this price will be maiutaiued for at least thirty if not sixty days. The stock of good sound wheat nere is extremely light, and the entire stock small for the season cot over three hundred and fifty thousand bushels, all grades and the Millers in very light stock, all waiting to purchase the new Southern, bespeaks for the latter, for at least a few weeks to coma, very fair prioes to a cer tainty. The circumstances then of this market being so very favorable for our Southern friends to dispose of their crop, we need hardly urge them to ship and sell promptly, as they will readily perceive that this is the best mode. Even if they sell more than they can spare, reserving but little for home consumption, (hey will .find that they can be supplied later in the season at less than one-half the amount per bushel they have realized by taking advantage of the present rates. Respectfully, your ob't servants. Stexhousb & Macaulay. A Much-needed Invention. We have been shown a patent horse-shoe which must certainly supercede the old system when it becomes known to the public. It entirely dispenses with nails, being fastened on the foot by means of an ellep tical band, entirely on the outside of the hoof, aod yielding readily to its growth. The form of the shoe also tends to a lateral expansion. It has been exhibited to the officers of the War De partment for the purpose of introducing it into the cavalry and artillery service of the Uuited States. Washington Chronicle. What Next. A distinguished German pro fessor recently announced that if a drop of human blood was placed under a microscope capable of magnifying it twenty million times larger, it would show all the kinds of .animals that ever have existed, or now exist, on the earth. In the blood of a healthy person the animals are quiet; in that of a sick person they fight. From this he draws the conclusion that man has within him all the elements from which the universe was created. He further says that if a dead cat was flung in a pool of water aod left to decompose, the drops of water would show, when under a microscope, all the animals belonging to the cat species. A Westfield (Mass ) farmer has a- cow worth having. It is of Ayrshire and Durham breeds, weighs 1,600 pounds, and gives on an average over 60 pounds of milk per day. Her greatest "jieid" this season was 65 f pounds, and the day following she gave 64 pounds. From No vember 1, 1865, to November 1, 1866, beside a supply of milk, cream and butter for family use, the owner sold 9150 worth of milk. MABRIAGE AND LONG LIFE. Statistics, moralities and sentiment have all been brought forward in discussing the question as to the comparitive health, happiness and duration of life of the married and unmarried The verdict must be considered as given in favor of the married, but with a reservation that the advantages are not equally enjoyed by the two sexes. As far as regards the people of Scotland, the question seems to be conclusively answered in a paper read some months ago by Dr. James Stark before the. Royal Society of Edioburg. He begins by the remark, that a nine years' average of the deaths in Scotland show a higher ratio of death among males than among females at all ages, except in the early period of life, from ten to fifteen years. A more important inquiry, however, is the effect of marriage on male and female life. An interesting answer to this question is brought by a table prepared by Dr. Stark. . It shows that at every age, from twenty to eighty-five years, the death-rate of the married men is very much smaller than that of the unmarried. After the eighty-fifth year of life, the numbers are too small to justify any comparison.. It appears from this table that out of 100,000 unmarried men between twenty and twenty five years of age, 1,147 died during the year 1863 ; but that out of a like number of married men, only five hundred and ninety -seven died, or juBt half the number. In other words, between the age of twenty and twenty-five years the death-rate of the bachelors was exactly double that of the married men. As the age increases, the difference between the death-rates of the married and unmarried decreases; but the decrease is slow and regular, showing a marked difference in favor of the married men at every five-year period of life. Thus at the age of from twenty-five to thirty years, when the Bumber of married and unmar ried men in Scotland is nearly equal, of every 100,000 baobelors, 1,369 died during the year; but in an equal number of unmarried men only eight hundred and sixty-five died. A similar diffeience, though in less degree, is found in favor of married men during every five-year period, even to that between eighty and eighty five years of age. Here, then, we have the re markable fact, proved from the statistics of a whole country, that the influence of marriage on duration of life of the male is of the most potent kind; that, in fact, the bachelor life is much more destructive to the male sex than the most unwholesome of trades, or than a residence in a crowded locality, where there is not the most distant attempt at sanitary arrangements of any kind, Reckoning from the twentieth year of life, the mean age at death of married men was fifty-nine and a half years, whereas the mean age at death of bachelors was only forty years, showing a chance of nineteen and a-half years longer life to the former over the latter of those two classes. In comparing the mortality of the married and unmarried women, it was found that the difference is trifling, while, during the three periods of life, fifteen to twenty, twenty to twen ty five and twenty-five to thirty years, the mar ried died in a higher proportion, it was the re verse during the next two periods of life, or from thirty to thirty-five, and thirty-five to forty years, during a period in which nearly half of their children are born. From the forty-fifth year of life.to old age, or seventy-five years, married women die in smaller proportions than the un married. We leave it to the thoughtful reader to judge how far an explanation of the longer life of mar ried men, as a class, may be explained by the growth of more regular habits, the practice of greater thrift aod economy, and aJJ (fee infla rnccs of homes of their own. Latest lYeir. MARKETS. Nsw Yoax, July 6. Cotton dull, 21 to 36i. Gold $1.37,. Liverpool, July 6. Cotton quiet., Uplands 10 peace. Orleans 1 1. Sales 8,900 bales. CONGRESS. Washwqtos, July 5. In the Senate a resolution was submitted confining legislation to reconmoc tion, and that bills relating thereto only be acted upon. A long debate eniaed, daring which it tran spired that thirteen Senators bad vated in cautus in favor of universal euffrage. The resolution finally passed. Ayes 19, Naja 9. Mr Wilson stated, in the course of debate, that Stanton wanted no legislation regarding the ju diciary, but needed money to support reconstruc tion. Mr Tipton argued in favor of a reward from the Government for Indian aealps. Bocsk. The Speaker presented a memorial from Green M. Adams, against the admission of Mr Beck from Kentucky. Referred to Committee on elections. Mr Paine moved to suspend the rules, so that he might introduce a joint resolution tendericg the thaoks of Congiess to Major General Philip II. Sheridan, for his able and faithful performance of duty as Commander of the Military District of Texas and Louisiana. The rules were suspended by a vote of 110 to 18, and the resolution passed. A joint resolution of thanks to Gena. Sickles, Pope and Scbofield were adopted by a strict party vote. The Speaker announced the committee on recon struction provided for by the resolution of last Wednesday, as follows : Stevens, Boutwell, Bing ham, Farnsworth, Hubbard of New York, Beaman, Paine, Pike and Brooks. Washington, July 5 Judge Wayne is dead. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1790, and appointed to the Bench in 1835. The prosecution has closed their testimony in the Soiratt case. Thb Scrratt Trial. Since the commencement of the Surratt trial a fact has come to light regard ing the court which tried and sentenced Mrs. Surratt that deserves to be made public. It seems that after the trial and sentence the court joined in earnestly recommending her to mercy, and that all the members thereof, except, perhaps, the Judge Advocate General, signed the recommendation. The paper is said to be in the handwriting of Hon. John A. Bingham. From Texas. Five cases of yellow fever have occurred at Galvestoo, and two deaths from black vomit. The Mayor has ordered the immediate and free use of disinfectants. Serious Accidxnt. Col. David White, of Cabar rus county, was seriously if not fatally injured on last Wednesday morning at Mr V. Stirewalt's saw mill. In passing the saw, be accidently came in contact with it, and was frightfully torn part of bis spine being sawed off. His life is despaired off. The Victim of Fashion. (Jones has been telling Robinson one of his splitting stories.) Robinson "Ya'as it's very funny!" Jones "Then why the deuce don't you laugh V Robinson "My dear fellah, I would with plea sure, but I daren't display any emotion these trousers are so tremendously tight!" Toubu Stories. A New Englander, riding in a railroad car, off Southwest somewhere, seemed .particular disposed to astonish the other passengers with tough stories about Yankee dom. At last he mentioned that one of his neighbors owned an immense dairy, and made a million pounds of butter aod a million of cheese yearly. The story produced some sensation and the Yankee perceiving that his veracity was in danger of being questioned, appealed to a friend as follows: "True, isn't it, Mr P ? I speak of Deacon Brown you know Deacon Rrown?" "Ye-e 8," replied the friend, "That is, yes, I know Deacon Jirown, though I don't know as I ever heard precisely how many pounds of but ter and cheese he makes a year, but I know be has twelve sawmills that all go by buttermilk!" A Mobile paper elegantly says Northern his torians of the war seem to be engaged in a great lying match. A RAILROAD ACQUAINTANCE A western railroad conductor tells the follow ing capital hit, of which the Times, of Cincinnati, "makes a note :" . "One day last week," said he, "there came on board of the cars, from one of the up-country stations, a very pretty, genteel young lady, ou her way to this city. She was alone; so I waited upon her to a good seat, and made her as comforta ble as possible. It was a few minutes before the starting hour, and she was so agreeable and talk ative that I lingered, and we had a pleasant chat. "Afterward, when collecting the tickets, she detained me again an instant, and gave me some fine peaches, which she said came from her friends orchard in the country; and really I be gan to think that I had not had so charming a passenger for many a day. "Well, we arrived at the depot; and then I attended her to the carriage, handed up her car petbag, and after all, what do you think she said?" Now we thought, of course, that the young lady would say very politely, "Thank you, sir," smile like a glearn of sunshine the carriage roll off and our friend John Van Duaen, the gentlemanly conductor, would bow an adieu, and with a sigh turn away and forget the matter, and we stated that as our natural supposition. "No," said the conductor, "she did no such thing: but, just as her foot was on the step, she turned, and wit.h a sort of look I can't describe observed : "You must consider this, sir, merely a car ac quaintance. You must not expect to be recog nized if we meet any where else !' John drew a long breath. "What did you say !" we asked. "Why I thought this rather uncivil, to ssy the least, so replied- very quickly : "Certainly not, madam. I was just going to remark that you must not feel slighted if uuno ticed by me anywhere, except on the cars; for really, we conductors have to be careful about our acquaintance !n- "Aud the lady P said we. "She looked quite silly, as ahe drove off," re plied John. A keener response to an example of female "tnolUm" could not have been made, nor Letter deserved. m mm i KISS HER FOR HER MOTHER. "Let me kiss her for her mother The sweet Lucretia Ann Let me kiss her for her mother Or any other man. "Let me kiss her for somebody, Anybody in the world, With her hair so sweetly auburn, And so gloriously curled. "Let me kiss her for her 'feller And I do not care a red, If he laps me on the smeller With bis billy made of lead. "Let rne kiss her for her daddy The pretty pouting elf Or if that don't suit the faro fly. Let me kiss her for .herself." The Chicago penitentiary is so fall that seven ty had to be turned out to make room - for new teo&ntj. v A lady asked a gentleman the other day why so many tall gentlemen were bachelors. The reply was that they were obliged to lie crosswise in td to keep their feet in, and that a wife would be in the way. In tbis county, on the 30th ult., by John Harry, Esq., Mr R F Simpson to Visa Martha Marshall. In Henry county, Va., on the 25th ult., W L Scott, Esq., of Greensboro, N. 0., to Miss Ella Smiles, youngest daughter of Col. P P Penn. In Gailford coantv, on the 30th ult., Mr Martin V Pan n to Miss Mildred D Caldwell. On Wednesday, Jane 2Ctb,at the Edwards IJouse, in Sootbbridge, Mass, very suddenly of inflamatlon of the bowels, George Eugene Waterhoose, son of Miles Waterfaouse, formerly of this city, aged 20 years and 8 months. ANNUAL C OMMENCEMENTf. Mecklenburg Female College CHARLOTTE, N. C. Sermon, Sunday, July 28th, at 11 o'clock A. XL Exercises, Monday, July 29th, at 10 o'clock A. Mn and at 8 o'clock, P. M. fgy Next Session will commence, October lit, 1867. . ' July 8, 1867. - Latest Arrival Jast received at B. KOOPMANN'S a fine lot of Bleached Shirting of all grades, from l2 centa up. July 8, 1867. Eighth Quarterly Report Of the First National Bank of Charlotte, N, C., July 1st, 18G7. RESOURCES. " , Loans and Discount?, .......$218,fi90 28 Premiums on U. S. Bonds....... 2,875 00 Cash Items, Revenue Stamps, &c, ......... 2,987 10 Due from Banks aod Banker,.. 6,763 45 U. S. Bonds to secure Circulation,... 122,000 00 Other Securities M 20,152 60 National Bank Notes,-...... M,...M 855 00 Specie, 14,955 60 Fractional Currency....... mm 814 82 Legal Tender Notes,. 21,305 00 $111,408 85 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock, ....... ............. ....... $150,000 00 Surplus Fund, 15,000 00 Circulation........ 108,000 00 Deposits......... 119,322 83 Due Banks and Bankers,.... ........... 8,165 34 Profit and Loss,. 9,920 68 $411,408 65 State of North Carolina, County of Mecklenburg. I, Thos W. Dewey, Cashier of the First National Bank of Charlotte, do solemnly swear that the above atatement is true to the best of my knowledge and hclief. THOS, W. DEWEY, C. Overman, J. P. Cashier. July 8, 18C7 JaTenport Female College. The Summer and Fall term of thia Institution opens the 3d of July, 1867, witb a full corps of ex perienCed Teachers. Board, $11 per month. Tui. ' tiontbe same as in other Institutions of like grade. For Catalogue address J. R. GRIFFITH, Lenoir, Caldwell county, N. 0. July8, 1867 2w - WANTED. A lady qualified to teach Oil Painting and ether ornamental branches can obtain a situation by ap plying immediately to J.R.GRIFFITH, Lenoir, Caldwell county, N. C. July8,18G7 2w GUILFORD LAND AGENCY OF NORTH CAROLINA. PRINCIPAL OFFICE, GREENSBORO, N. C. Persons having Agricultural and Mineral Lands, Water Powers, ic, for sale, are respectfully invited to place them in our hands for that purpose, as our facilities for bringing purchasers from Northern States and placing property prominently before the public, through our advertisements, and a.lso through our agencies and correspondents in the North and West, are unsurpassed. We are now waiting for Lands to be placed in oar hands for sale for the purpose of making sales to Northern parties. Persons at a distance wishing to place property in our hands should give us an accurate description of the same. If Agricultural Lands, tbey should specify the soil, number of acres of cleared aod timbered lands, the kind of timber, what is raised on the land, what kind of improvements are on the premises, how far from Railroad and Connty.ieat ; whether it is well watered, kc. If Mineral Lands, tbey should state what kind of Minerals, the indica tions, Ac, always sending a good fair 'specimen of the ore. It would also be advisable to send a sketch of the land to us aod an abstract of title." LOUIS ZIMMER k CO., Land Agents and Real Estate Brokers, Greensboro, S. 0 Or apply to Gen. R. D. J0I1NST0N, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, If. C. July 8, 1867. JHUSKI.AGUItt VAIJLEY PORTABLE ENGINE WORKS, ZANESVIULE, OI1IO. I. r'r "t DUVALL'S IMPROVED PORTABLE STEAM EN GINES AND CIRCULAR SAW MILLS. DUVALL'S rilEMIUM CO XX MILLS AX D IM PROVED FLOURING MILLS. These Engines and Mills have received the first premium over all competitors. Tbey afford the best, cheapest, &Bd most economical power in use and excel in power any Engines made Jo the Union. These Engines are fired and thoroughly tested before leaviog the works, aod are warranted in all respects perfect and ready for Immediate use. Tbey are warranted to cut more lumber witb less baods and at less expense tfcaa any other in (be Union. For descriptions, price lists and other information address, LOUIS ZIMMER k CO., Guilford Land Agency, Greensboro, N O, July 8, 1867. Sole Agents for N. C. CHARLOTTE MARKET, Jo! 8, 1867. CoaaxcTXD by Stkxbocss, Macaclat k Co. The past week wss ono of the dullest of tha jear. The weather being favorable, farmer! were closely engaged at work in their fields. There is oo change to note in prices, except Floor, which has adranced to $7 tod $7.25 per sack from wagons, sod $7.50 to $7.75 froo stores. Dariog the week there was little or no Floor io market, tod the immediate demand hod tendency to advance prices. 3 ssHWflawav Jt 3 ! -v' 3.C 0