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' : ': i . ' I : I, k ' 1 . I i! i .' ; A ! ? l $1 , I - : ! ytfissf j - T'"'- -Jj - - -w.- - - .., ' , ; , ' j i;f ' a 1 'I''- mw ' i f?. ! SKI1'"" w h " f I wmHmIj 01 1 IlSil TftljJ rail fir fiitffiTFMMIfi'" ; P f- ' i . ' . Hi' I I VOL. III. Tii IKD SERIE imm lUatr Oman, irijuiisiiEoi WEEKLY BY I jj p.. BUUNElt; i Kdltor ana proprietor. of KimcmrTiow fit K AH i1 ayible m ml va nee. . .$2.50 !.-. 150 i.-JO.OO six it i (i one iiuuirroi Afeeilt8iti(f. (toe H I HIT ruoti.. i ... $1,00 . 50 r t 41! Jl !l!,il UliSlTlMMl. . . ?ia u.iip ., vu'll U charged per cent id t altove rit'. :ni ,lnsticeV Orders w ill be Coll it publish' Mat tl mu f. rates wjtii other aidvertise- i OltUuary utf-, over six lines, j charged usailt'vrt VOS't UACT RATES. S(tare. Snare fc! 50 .:i7.V $5 00 $7 50 $12 00 50 0 25 8 50 12 (K) 20.00 00 J 00, 12 00 18 00 , 25.00 SipiiT-e-t. i i8 00 II 00 15 00 2 5 00; 350 Coh mhi Cohlnili. 1,8 (K) 2 100 30 00 40 00! K0.00 r Of) 45 00: 45 00 85 00 ! 100.00 i , Tlie symptoms ofLiver I 1 Ecomplauit are iineasinesH 8Z2MCZOX7SI and pain in the side. nies the nnin ih in the fthouldcr, nnd in tuis- taken iji)r 'rhieUniatintu; the Ptomach lis a fleeted wfitli iif iJitpetite and sickness, howela in Ktfii'niljdwtivey wHiietinies alternating with lax. I The head is j troubled with pain, and jdnll, hea vy sensation, insidera lle loss of memory, ac ftomiianied with tutitiful stffiMatHitt tl haiiriKh ft undone somethins which oi hjht w hav been dne. Often complaining of wtakiUWdebi lily, and low spirit. f4ometime ninny m ine ati lH)Teyniitoii)8 attend the disease, imfs vi-rv Cfv f tlimi. hut tlv. aiidj at btlier timea very few of them1: hh'r in eenernllr the njosrinvolvtd.- Cure the Liver with organ J)R. SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, a preparation roots and herbs, warranted to be i Mniy; vegetable, ami can do no injury to any oiie.: h has been used by hundreds, and known th 'u't 4y fvan aM one of 'he mot reliable, Ttpcal4wkandlwraiiilew preparation ever of firt;d hWthe suflerinR. If taken regularly and ITriMeniy, u is sure to cure Dysjiepsia, hehdche, jaiifidice,costiviness,sick headache, cluoiiic diarr- hiea.affectioiisojl'liieblad der. eninn ( vulitrv -f M! L - llefulator. icjiiofwiol the kidneys, nervousness, chills, dis e;H the skin, inipurity.of the blwkl, nielan cljoly, ir depression of spirits, heartburn, colic oiymi in the bowels, pain in the lujad, fever ?1"K ,h'ffy, loiIs, pain in the back, &c. IVpHrtd on y by J. H. ZEILIN A ( n ov man i JVVl! T- F- KLUTTZ&ICO., "'.lF',!n1y-- SalwlmrV, N. C. MUmi CA kO.LINA, In the 3I'frior Court. lJOW'AS C'OI NTY ' l V hm .mm ... . I i- Mua miller, Administrator of y and Urv McNetjIy -H'laiUitTs. Summons and Peti i p.wun.if, IT . 1 1 v tion to 6el land for Assets. cunt it Hi'pnannir t,t tl,o sat't.. f ( .irt that Win. IV. MeN'eelv and i jM'cNfVdy, alias. Ac-nith Corriher. njfrfs'iJliitM of th.T'Ktiit. ?,t X..rtU t'iioliuiLr-l4 is therefore ordrl th 4i'iiyi.,a l,. in w Carolina Watchman, pwsj Aa.er ttul.lisl.1 in Salisbury. N. C. ! SIX siuc-ssivly, rtOjUiiiiifr paid df.'iulaii s t appear "at th oflKte of the pern.r I mi t for the count v 0 uh lriUpr ,1 Ut d:iy f 1WltlWr wxU nd a lis H er 4 wilil lUinplaiiit of t!.e plaiutiin h. I or the ItnjeHti. emu ex parte. Si, l4-: JudS4n Jlason Curt .r Y rion p. .rt of-said county at joffice jn o lOlh day of October, A. D. A. JIJDSOK M ASON, " rk of Itotuin Superior Court. lififoi'l ROUNA. maliiwkl County. ( SUriJ Hi ej Conrad .Hbe. Mary Hise, i.jionSiU Iticaniion and vvif IWbr Chester and w-ifn - J ! ! I Against, Mirvll IRwi. fcliJabkb ntitti Lrnl ,4ry Kuuis, iufaut under the ageTof r t 5 jf" iy tneir tiuardian. J. P. Iilv; Klwha Hit ud wife IMahala, FIT1 n1" M'5'' JHtnes Hise. Milly Ann II w,iiwfaiits under the a?e.i tweuty-otie Mr .by - their, GmrJian ad litum J. P. ''m,3t ! f " ' ' " l' i n thw cae it ie ordered that pblicat:on W made hi the "Carolina Watchman" a i uMMr libirlu-d iu the .o n of Salis F fuf fn11 Nvtifyiiig Marvtil Hise, l,,u r4spt,4efeii(knt, that he appear at tin Sifitior court Clfrk'a. office iu Uuoir, Calawtell riiuutv. within hut tim u...l th ciMiiyaiiit of the Pfaiutiff, or; iudcineut I tNj 4keti pro cofifetoio as to hiui. I 'r T'yll-Pl. Wakefield. Clerk of our d Co ift Julie in Lenoir, this 1 itl. Av 8a of ijept -avi).'i?7i. ;:. 3 L ill Ji' At.r itJu, C. o. C. ? V 1 III., ,1 f - "inn, uiutl u u V". AXe, wl,ich t made with Extra Ilevy Poll U i iuona eXfieii n,.n o . ri jHREM. BROWN i CO., J v"? f . w "0,8' Hardware Deal- hi a. W , ,- 8:2t lAnd Deeds" Tmcfnrt hri itf"1? r8trncr 8 Decds. Sheriff IJfCfMChattle Mortgage &e. fr oaie at tliis office. V !i 1 1 ! .O -i H Cft O 7 c 2 " ii i f Si . i; 1 ? ' I AKIS ! . 'i : P : P !. . . 'P. -.: f . P -. P . . . k i , , ' ! - i I i - i '. 1 1 1 ! . i i I ! I.' THE , ... . V : - ' 1 . K WATCHMAN OFFICE if well supplied with A large and elegant assortment of Pictorial or T ILLUSTRATIONS, &C, PRINTING. Finer and more Ornamental Types for 1 Business & Professional Visting, Party andjWedding Cards ; College and School -Circulars of all kinds ; R CI 'I Jobaceo Notices and LABELS for all purposes ; For Clerks, Magistrates ; j p a i and Solicitors : 7 - Or anvthin elsd recjuired in the ' i . Printing Line. A TrfE ait ! - - AS A NEWSPAPER, Is a candidate for! public favor. Its I circulation is gobdf, and its standing i s - ,1 ; and patronage improving. It is one of th best advertising mediums in the State, and offer? its facilities on as i . i p - p j liberal terms as any. LAND FOp. SALS ! Acout 102 Acres, iSeven miles from Salisbury, on the Wilkeshoro Road, adjoining Benj. IlowarJ, Jos. Mingus and others ;jpart of it Secotid Creek Bottom. Term, one-fourth ca-di, balance one, two mid three year credit.- L Encpiire of Jno. Miller, who liww on the prerawoB, or of It. Barrfiger, Agent, Charlotte, Ang. 25, 712m PLAIN & FANCY v - l - ; p - p. . -,f suitable for 411 k nds of i'lciiiii 'WSi 'mm m D AMD OPT T?rn 1 AUirilDIL.lO Into pa nit? Carolina tDatchm NOVEMBER. The year grows old. Summer's wild crown of ; I rosea j . y ' Has fallen and faded in the woodland ways; On all the earth, a tranquil light reioses, ' J Through the fctill dreamy days, i 1 - ' i . I The dew lies heavy in the early morn, Oti graiM and fosses sparkling crystal fair- - i iuu biiiiiin;inreaos oi siinrer are borne, 1 i Floating, iitwm :1h sor of Across the lea f-strown lanes, Trom bough to bough Like tissue woven in a fairy loom ; Apd crimson berried bryony garlands glow, I j Through-ihe leaf-tangled gloom. The W(ods are still, hut for the sndden fall Of euplesa acorns dropping to the ground, Or raobil plunging through the fern stenw tall, f - Half startled by the sound. J , I . . fx, Aibd frbm the gardeijilawn romes soft and dear. Tie robin's warble from the leafless spray, The low sweet'Angeliis of the dying year j j Passing iu light away. i j Evei-y Saturday. I; Si OWED AWAY. jl was oucq a third inate ofa Water Kympti, a fine clipper ship engaged in the Atialian trade. One Antuinu she was du-irhavgiiig a general cargo at the. railway pur, Wiiliauisiown, Port Phillip, and my duty chiefly consisted iu keeping a watch ful eye upon the gteVctlon s at work in the hold, for they were 'terrible fellows for broachhig cargo whenever they get a cljaiice, and the quantiiieg of wine, beer, aijd spirits on board offered f hem many temptations. jNotwithsUnding my vigilance, casks ard cases were constantly ueni on board void of contents, aiid I was repeatedly censured by the chief officer for not keep ing: a sharper look out. This galled me. mhcb, for I was confident the gang then awoik were not the depredators, as 1 hijjd si en several bottk-d-ale casks dragged eippty from the ph ces where they had been stowed and , I knew that their de pletion were owiug to some other agency titan the one suspected. A last I received a hintfromthe cook that tleie was il ways plenty of grog kiwck iug about in the forcastle ; so I resolved tfi sneak below, after the hatches had been closed at sunset, anil endeavor to catch sme of thu crew in flagrante delicto. II told the tii8t mate the suspicions I entertained,, and he considered my pro ject a good one; so shortly after night fall, he lowered me down the hatchway. The night was cloudy and s oi my, occasional rqualls of wind and rain drown iiig every "soif nd on deck, but in the spa cious lower hold all was dark and silent a$ the grave. I groped my way forward for some distance, clambering "on hands khees over chests, bales and boxes, until at last I found my piojjrets im piled by several huge casi s of machinery, which barred up the passage from one hatchway to the other) on the starboard side. j On the port side and amidships small cases of wine were stowed, and as 1 could ejisily lift them, 1 commenced removing tjie top Jajer, and Crawling ahead as I did $b. As a lamp would have betrayed my presence lit thieves, I did not cary one, bul l had a few mrtches iumy vest pock et, and 1 occasionally lighted one when I lost my way among the labyrinth of goods. At last, ou removing a goods'zd b.iled, I found an empty space before me, ud concluding I had grrived at the main hatchway, whence all the cargo had been teiuoved, I f,iced abou; and began hiwer itjig myself by my hands and feet to the kelson; but a case I grasped gave way, and I was suddenly precipitated to theplauk ftootitig,' the package falling upon my leg aud holding me down with its weight whiih was considerable 1 tiied to rise, bit the effort was futile, and the paiu in crushed limbs was excruliating. The air Mhia hot and stilling, and a peculiar sick ening odor hung upon it. After fumbling in 'my pocket for a match, I ttruck the last one- 1 had against the irou band of the case. Directly it i-. irjtefl, a sheet of white Hi me Hitted armmH a;.u in its pale, wierd M . - - Iisht I saw a .irhast- X 'Keictou crouched in dose proximity w-nere I lay. I uttered a cry f horror I0r u was no chimera. ; I waarealfv in l. . .' t - : 7 :j w as really in t mo ot one who had nm-i ! ... apd - the flame which hud, illumined the dark cavity where Iwlas had been caused by the noxious gases generated in the de caying body of the unfortunate man. who nu.t have been immured iu a living sep ulchre. Iir a frenzy of terror I u t ten d wild screams for help, bat only the echoes omy vo'ce.answeivd; and no other sound bfoke through the dread stillness save the hurrying) rush of many feet, as swarms of ran fled over aud away from me. Huge drops of sweat welled up and stood in Jewy beads Upon my brow ; yet a chill aensaiioiilsbpiik every nerve and rausele in, my body. l could see nothing in the inteuse daiMuciss ; but, as . if lured by fascination, I iglancvd Ju the direc tion of the ghastly figure until niV eyes wre almMt ot rf 'ihefr 'sockets. I'fan cjid; 1 cohld ee the t long-, bony arm of the skeleton thrnsrifcfelf forth io grasp the; 'the fleshless faceVhe hollow temiiles teeined clear to my sight, and the white rows of teeth seemed to mock and grin at me in my despair. I was a yoangtef and I could bear the horrible nLni.ii! ill. f' ' no longed; my over strained nerves tc- lixed, and 1 swooned. How long T remained nnconecious I cannot tell, but when my senses re turned I heard a noise a thort distance ahead of 1 where I lay, and saw a ray of yellow light gleam through the interstices of some loosely stowed p ickages on ray right. Tfien the sound of a man's voice fell upon my ear, and by the tones of h 1 keW that a sailor named Carsrairs was in the vicinity of where I Uv. j Us a good thing for us the rflate thinks it's the lumpers as broaches this cargo; or we'd never get a d.op of this jrood Ii qitor. pi say. Bill can t we mu?li off enough to last the voyage home!" I heard him say. j - .' SALISBURY, N. C.; NOVEMBER 24, 1871. " Caraiairn !" I holloed, in a faint voice, that sounded strangely nn natural even to myself " Help f I'm jammed up in here.? I heard a crash of glass, as if a bottle had been let fall, i ;r . s " Bill! Bill 1 did yoo; hear that V balf shrieked the terror etticketi sailor. "'Tis sum mat ounat'ral, anyhow. Lets get out o thin, Joe.tll knew mi good would ever come of this way of doing business," replied bis companion. I holloed again, louder and more dis tinct ly For mercy V sake, don't leave me here U die " 1 cried. :. 1 ha l the thirdt mate'x Tin," said Carslairs. Whl' he alter voice. d .wn h re 1 Spying ..on us. I s'oos. if he's goiteu hurl, U?sbect we should en ..li'ii . . - . and bjJi him t lie r.ot a bid sort, and perhijw woia pJitoilaff. Fliueiiiff cases aud ba , ,fe'-t.iil,'i . nging cases aud bales aside, titer advanced quickly towards me, guided by my voice as I repea-edly hailed them. At last only one case stood between them and me; they rolled it away, and grasped I he one beneath which I lay. " Are you much hurt, sir ?" asked C'ar stairs. ; I can scarcely tell," I replied, as they lifted me up. Then I pointed iu the direct ion of the skeleton. ' Look there!" I said. " Meicy, mercy 1 cried the sailor, his stalwart form trembling all over as hid gaze fell upon the ghastly figure which the glare of the lamp revealed to us iu all its repulsiveness. "Tis some poor fel low w ho's stowed himself away for the passage," he added, when the first agony of surprise had passed away. I was sorely bruiaed, but no bones were broken. The sailors assisted me along until I got under the main hatchway; then they went up-oii deck, via the fore castle, and told tho mate they thought some one was down the hold, lie, think-, i ig 1 had made a capture opened the hatch, atid I was hoisted, more dead than alive, from the hold beneath. I explained all to the mate, except the part relating to the two sailors, for I did not wieh to get them into trouble, as they had aided me; and next day the remains of the unfortunate stowaway, were bro't up on deck. From a paper found in the pocket ol his coat we ascertained his name and fomer residence, and afterwards learned that the uphappy man wished tojoiu Ins sweetheart in Australia, but having no money to pay for a passage, he had storved himself away iu the pump well, whence no sound ould reach to the deck, and so met the terrible fate I have recorded. There was no more cargo broached at night aboard the Water Nymph that trip. SOHETING ABOUT ECHOES. A good ear cannot distinguish one sound from another unless there is an iutervu-1 of one ninth of a second between the ar rival of the two sounds. Sounds must, therefore, succeed each other at an interval of one ninth of a second in order to be heard distinctly. Now, the velocity of souud being eleven hundred, and twenty feet a second, iu one ninth of a second the souud would travel oue hundred and twenty four feety. D.. ..! - .1 t t . - . t , iv p itieu cjuuvb uappen wuen two O stacles are pjaced opposite to one another as parallel wall-, for example, which re-fle-ct the sound successively. At Ademach, in Bohemia, there is an echo which repeats seven syllables three times ; at Woodstock, in England, there is one w hich r -peats a souud seventeen limes during the day and twenty times during thu nigh;. An echo in the vill i iSiuiouetta, near Milan, is said to repeat a sharp souud thirty times audibly. The most celebrated echo among the ancients was that of the Metelli, at Rome, which, according to tiadition, was capable of re peating the fifteen syllables, eight times d stinc.'ly. Dr. Birch describes an echo at llesen- heath, Argyle-hire, which, it is said, docs not now exist. When eight or ten notes were pJayed upon a trumpet, they were relumed by this echo upou a key a third j lower than the original notes, and shortly after ujkii a key still lower. Dr. . I age describe an ocho in Fail fax county, j Virginia, which possesses a similar -curi- .. .. . .. , 'in.:. . i. ..: .i . ,,,ie l"T'7' tii cvnw givirs inree oi- tmct letieclioiiP, the second much the most distinct Twettty notes played upo.i a. date are returned with perfect cli uiness. But the most sitigular property ol this echo is, that some notes of the scale are not returned tu their placia, but are either ! satins ai.d embroideries for some grand thirds, fifths or octaves, i nApti.,1 ceremony ' soon to Uike place iu Ihere is a srprn-iug echo betweoc two IVkin. The richest tilk province re barns m Belvidere, Alleghany county, i sp. ctfully protests, I see by Hie IN kin i. !. 1 he echo repeats eleven times a. word of me, tw'o or three syllables ; it has been heard to repeat thiiiccu tunes. By i laeing one's self iu the centre, be tween' 1 life twt bams there -will be a double echo, nut in t'i rlii-ttnik .( I,.r, and a monosyllable will times. 7 - ........ y. T- t j UQI II, be lepcated 21 : r ' A istrikmg and beautiul effect of echo is produced iu Certain localities by the Swiss mountaineers who contrive to sing iheir Jianz tics Vaches in such time that the reflected uotesjorm an accompaniment to the air itself. . CURIOUS CUSTOM. The causes for which a Mahometon wo man may demand a divorce (are clearly and broadly laid down in thu Koran, and her evidence is sufficient, because the Mahometon law supposes that a woman must be violently aggrieved before the modesty of her sex will allow her to ap pear in public with such application. So careful is this law to spare her fellings, tint she is not evep required to recount her injuriesj'nnless of her own free will; all she has to do is to place her slipper re- vered-tlat is, with the sole upward before the cadi, and the case m finished ; the divorce is granted without further in- n ... h . i.T'.' ' An 4 inrui,i SVf. n r . ' Jeffersonkm Democrat Imperial Mat rimony. Congressman James Brookes writes from Pekiu, under date of August 27, some interesting notes on Chinese jwdicy. lie says : ' ' ' Before I leave Pckin I rausWry to con vey to you my impression of whit this Government is. It seem to be a demo cratic despotism, and hence peril ips ih secret of its old age and long preservation. Confucius was a sort of Thomas J. ff rsop or Ben. Franklin. He laid down great practical democratic principles, and thi-v have ruled emperors and mandarins l.itu dieds and hundreds of years. onf u ins created a public opinion and a vstem f precedents thai no despottetu touhl ever a.dely ignore. Then, the coianou people, through their instructed mandarin, guide and overawe, if they do not even sway, l he Emperor He is afraid ol I he p.-ople. and the mandarins are afraid of the peo ple too. There is as much a public opin ion uere 10 ne respected as iu Great Brit ain or the United Stales. No. hereditary aristocracy of auy kind exists. No man darin can transfer even his buttons, to say nothing of his post, to his children. When these mandarins are made governors of the provinces of China their power in quite absolute, but the Emperor is omnip otent, of course, over th. in. The provin ces are like our States, w ith certaiu pro vincial rights that mandarins, must res pect when sent-there. Hence the govern ment is nowhere absolutely absolute that is, with safely to itself. TUE RAILROAD AND TELEGKAPII. Intelligent mandarins .would like to build railroads aud telegraphs, it is thought but they dare no?,, it is believed, as yet. No mandarin feels potent enough to ad vise the Emperor to run a railroad over the grave and through the giaveyards of hiuese revered and worshipped ances tors. The trouble iu erecliug telegraph poles is that a supeistiiious Chinaman believes (and all are more or less super Billions; mat tuese poles will mterlere with the F uug-ouuev. wind aud W 4 W wa- ler, a Snecies of evomanrv ir u I., li. f J.. the good or ill luck attached to particular U'cal situations that the poles may have struck. An event has just occurred which will hasten th-? erection of Ulegrapbs. The grand IVkin Council of Scholars have just awarded two competitive prizes to I two Cantonese scholars, the highest hoii- ors of the empire. The news was seitt from Shanghai by sea telegraph to Hong Kong,,und reached Canton days before the news could come overland. The Can tonese were astounded, aud discredited until the long looked f.r IVkin Ojjicial Gazette came oveiland aud confirmed it. Then there was wonder aud marvel over that intelligence, and all China, from north to south, is asking if it will doto Kive I t - ' ioreigners tlie means of more rapid lutef course with the exteii-r of our empire than we oimeIv?s have. Interest, thetr trade and commerce, I think, will soot, dispose of that Fung Shuey, and give China the telegraph. f We have opened their gr -at river, one of ihe greatest rivers in the world, and by steam we Americans do nearly all the coat ng trade there, wiih Shanghai. -Mandarins now prefer our boats to their junks to travel in. Europe and America have taught Chinamen how to cast can non and to make rifles. Their factories Under our auspices, are almost equal to ours. Their ships of war are now putting on fjimdable .fr-onta. If Ei'gland again comes into coullict with I hiua it w ill not be so easy a conquest as iu her last two Chinese wars. WANTED AX EMPRESS. Gie;.t efforts are being made to find a wife No. I for the boy Emperor. He can liav e as many as be tdoascs af.er Nn 1 The pretty girls from hundred and hun dreds of miles h IV.- been sent nn in t In. .- iti. iial as patterns for an Empress ; but his mother, the Empress Dowager, has not picked out a wife lor him. Boys and gii Is in China have notl.it g to do with the se- K cliou of ilu ir own wives. They seldom see the husband or wire -till the dav of J uis marriage. Ihe Kmneror' even has got to take what they gje him ; but if No. 1 does not suit or s itify, No. 2, 3, 4, 6, C, and so. on, cjhi be hand maids. Some of the richest provinces have just be-li levied lll)"i. however.' to fnn.i.li ilL- UuZ' tfe, againut the silk ley made upih that province. The mandarin wiile the requisition cannot be complied wiih with out trouble there, and what is stranger, the Pekiu OJicial Gazette publishes in full the refiiectful irenum iranrr. ThU IVkin Gazette, bv the w-v: ii iU ...iv . . J ---- J " v real V. hinese. newspaper iu the cjppirc. It it is pubiuheil daily here, and the inantt seiipt is fnroit-hed twenty four hours in ad vance to I ho .foreign ministers if ihey deir'; it ll i- au official record only, with no Jis.eitaiion iu it.no " ed rtoiialir" only the decrees of the Governm.Mit aud the reports and petitions of tuauuaiius from the provinces. The Economy of liadicul Jlulc.Tke economy of our general administration is shown in this, that in 1671 We received SJ.850,000 from the sale of public lands, aud paid Sl.779.GS0 for collecting it. This was fifty three per cent Whit do our business men think of thu I Uncle Sam also pays seven per cent, for collecting his internal revenue, and six per cent, for obtaining his custom house duties. It takes 821,000,000 a year to pay custom house officers and internal revenue officers. Private individuals would take the con tract of this collection for two and a baf per.cenL, and consider themselves richly r i .1 NO. front ih rV.rrv.tw-.u r ,i . lj i " 1N PERSIA. Oeoomi ail Persia, Aug. liS, 1871 My deaf Observer ITnh.nr. V-;. seems to be sorely tisiied, this year, by the Hgmcnlsji'of 0id. Kasha Guerjis, of -..,.y-B jwi iciuiiicu irom ispanau, where he has been, laboriog several months tiast, under the direction ol UeT. Iiobert Brijre, of the Church Vfissiou.ry Society, ilfe rrnorta mircaln1 1-1. there, and much to encourage the heart of ihe Christian. But his accounts of the famine in all the Southijf Persia are heart rending. Ie says the official returns made to inquiries oidered by the Shah, who seut Iage stores for the relief of the sufferers, Yummed up letween fourteen and sixteen? thousand dead by famine, 1 his hash was the agent of Mr. Bniee in Utnbut.mg, mcnthly, between $60 and S80 amougf the starving people from his private funds, and he describes some most harrowing ircenes. He says th- paM win ter and sprlne seem to him Iiko . iU dream. Children wrrln l;u..i - ------- ', i u, anu eaten. Horses, donkeys, dogs and cats were gieedily devoured. The eyes and brains of soch as had died were dug out and eaton. The leg bones of aniraalthat had died we're soaked, and the skin scrap ed off and eten. In fine, everything that the teeth of -hungry men could penetrate was eaten.! The dead lay in the streets ; and the ding, shriveled human forms crept lon by ihe aid of walla to pre vent theirialliiig from exhaustion, with open mouth; yet speechless tongues, beg ging bread,! Flocks, cattle and horses were either killed and devoured, or died for want of gias or prorend. r; and horses wero not found ev n for t ri ders. The! cause of the famine was the great scarcity of water ihe past two years, and the terrible sufferengs could not be relieved byj the rapid communication, as there are no railroads nor steamboats in Persia, Tie cholera has since appeared in these rrgjone, aud at last accounts was prevailing. ; The cholera broke out also in Teheran, and, for a lime, whs very severe; buta terrible tertipi st of wind, which filled the. air w ith dint;, and which pi 8t rated many walls and upper rooms, swept over the city, after Which the cholera entirely dis appeared, j ;Bl it is raging violently now in Tabreezfour days disunt by caravan not rail.s- Our post, this week, brings word that iie dailj dcalh rate in the thy is from 300; lo 900. The people have fled in every direction, and now it prevails iu the village. It has also hern severe iu Khoi, and has reached Salmas, sixty miles north of us.; As yet our ciiy has escaped but it Willie strange if we should be passed by. j May God be merciful. Our meeiiger from Tabreez alM re ports that lerrible bail and thunder storm had just swept over Tabreez and vicinity, and the mountain torrents, swol len bey. nd tall precedent, came pouring down, sweeping off whole villages, and the crops o an alarming extent. A thousand hbuses in Tabreez, and 1,700 lives, are reported as deetroyed by the flood. j From the;' regions of the Tigris, above Mosul, our helpers write us that the pow erful tribe pf Arabs, the Sbamar, have risen, and ijrere laying waste the region oeiween Alawlin ai.d .Mosul. Whole vil Iages were plundered, then burned, and little children tossed in the fUtm s. The menwere -killed, and the fairest of the womeu andfctnldren carried away captive At our lastaccouuts, the devastation was going on. i I All there things seem lobe against us, put Our God reigns. Voars nrpectfullv, G. W.COAN. The following letter is later intelligence and of the same distressing character : London, Nov. 2 Further advices re garding lhe terrible Perriju famine have been received iu this city to-day. Tbe statements iormetly reciived are now proved lo hive in nowise bun eaggera-t-d. The famine has already swept almost the .-iitire length aud breadth tf Persia, and jstill coutiuaes unabated. The etplo iu cviury city throughout the coun try are dyij.g by haudreds from the ef fects of starvation. In !spaham (one of tho principal cities of Peria, with a pop ulation of about ?00,0p0) the; ravages of the famine, jind iu concomitant diseases, have been fearful. Theiuhabtiant, wrak etied to the hist degree by excessive want have succumbed u hundreds The cem elerks are fijlled. In this city alone it is estimated that there are over 20,000 native P.rsians, l,b00 Jews, and 1,500 Chris tians starving. The .provision are al most eihausbrd, aud are quite insufficient to supply one-tenth if;the. pupulatiou f.r any prniracjcd period. A similar state of (aff.iire exists at Teh ran (310 milee further 8outi).Vnd hardly a single, city is exempt frbui the dreadful vis'rution. TOBACCojlN NORTH CAROLINA. We learn that the cultivation of tobac co is spreading in North Carolina, espe cially West! .f ihe Blue- Ridge, which region is f njnd to be highly aUjpled to the production of the finer qnaliuea that bring the highest prices. At tbe recent fair in this cjty the first premium on to bacco was taen by a eitiai n of Buncombe county oldi" Buncombe," which has such eitduriog fame as the origin of tbe famous sayilig of 44 speakiug for Bun combe." She is rich in soil and in min eral resources, and i one of the mst picturesque and delightful of all the lovely sections of the Bi te Rgf. The gentleman who raised this tobac co is a native of Ueury county iu thi Nate. He moved to Buncombe after the war and euie.red upon the 'cultivation, of the finer qualities of tobacco, w hich he understood remarkably weU, and his aue cess ha heed wooderluj . .hju st Jhe i ', ' 10. "WHOLE NO. 100 fashion, aird Buncombe and Lb Dethbor ing district have rapidly increased their crop of tobacco. We may expect largely increased arrivals of the ataple in this market from that ictcrtsting region of the Nrth State. By the way, the Danville road has .he prospect of further important railway al liances in North Carolina, and these slli ances mart be vastly beneficial to Rich mond. The products f iht region art taetly suited to our market Besides the superior tobacco, wheat is prodaeed there with success, and a quality well suited to the mills here. Thete articles must come to this maikeu The mineral wealth of the country must also be favor able lo our commerce. The great manu facturing power of Richmend must estab lish intimate relations with all sections whieh ere rich In mineral wraith. Rich mond is the nucleus 'around which will be concentrated a great part of the thrift and increase resulting from mineral devel opment within the rpere of her trade. We can truly congratulate oar citizens upon every additional facility that is giv en to their intercourse with North Caro lina. With that state our intercourse should be the most intimate. Richmond is the natural market cf the North Caro linians, and it will be their market if oar people only take advantage of tbe oppor tunities that are given them. Mchmond Dispatch. Revenue Tax oa Tobacco. IMPORTANT LETTER FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON. PetUlers or Retail Dealers of TJLtcto Puy a Sjxrial Tax of Kre DJUrs , and may retail on y Kit re in the Stafc TfirASCKV DtPitiTurcr UFKICE OK ISTKKSSL RETK51E. - ::! W ashixuto.v, Oct. 28. 1&71. Sin: In reidv to vour lfitr f n 24. iu reUtion to peddling manufctored tobacco, I h.ve lo ray that a manufac torer of tobacco may nell l.i8 product any where in ihe United States wiibont paying a special tax as .Je.iUr in it..,.- co, bnt he cau sell onlv P i ih tri;n.l aud unbroken package He may send UMV vmpioyi-c lo JUUlf for him, who may sen ou the same conditions as the manufacturer. A peddler of tobacco who i nvt n employee of the manufacturer, and whoe sabr exceed Si 00 per annum, is lirfUe U a special tax as a dmhr iu tobacco for selling manufactured tabocco in ihe rain ner of a peddler, and such a peddler who has paid the special lax for o r-U bacco, may retail from wooden packager, "i-u maa Biampeo- according to law. Very lespecl fully, J. W. DjrfiLARH, Commissioner. W. I). Jones, Esq., Assecsor Ith Dis trict, Raleigh, N. C. ANSWER TO A CHALLENGE. The eceentTic II. II. Breckinridge, ne of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, when a young man, was challenged to fight a duel by an English officer, whom he answered as follows : M I have two objections to this duel matter- the one s lest I should hurt you, and tbe other lest you should hurt me. I do not see what good it wonld be to pat a ball through your body. I could make no utt of you when dead for any ordinary purpose, as I would a rabbit or a turkey. I am no cannibal, to feed on the flesh of men. Why, then, shoot down a human creature, of wlmtn I could make no use f A buff do would make better meal; for though your flesh might be young and tender, yet it wants the firmness and con sistency which take and retain salt. At auy rate it would not do for a long sea voyage. ' YtT might mike a good barbecoe, H is true, being ol the nature of a raccoon or opossum ; but people are not in the habit of tiubecui ieg anything that is hu man now. As to your bide, it U not wonh taking off, being little beV.cr tbau a two year old calf "So much for you. As for myielf, I do not like to stand in the way of a'ny thing that is hurtful. I mm under th iaapression that you might hurt me. This being the care, I think it the. most advis able lo stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, lake a tree or a bam door, about my diineueiona. If you hit that, send me word, aid I will acknow. ledgo that, if I bad been in the same place, you might have bit me." "Ay, Every inch a King f An exelianzo savs : " We are creeping along to ward it. At the Bangor banquet the president dined at a separate table, sat upon elevated dais and beneath a canopy. Iland-kissfag will soon be in urder." When we give a man the pow er to suspend the vrrit of habeas corpus and proclaim martial law at his discretion in any part of the United States, it is tihly appropriate that he should sit upon an elevated' dais and be neath a canopy. Those who ex ercise the powers of a king may well imitate the personal assump tions of royalty. '" . i