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THE NEWS. THOS. W. ATKIHF; Editor. ASHEVILLE, N. C. Thursday, Dec. 9, 1858. AGENTS. The following gentlemen are authorized to act as agents for this paper : L. S. Saunders, Esq., Murphey, N. 0. . T. P. Silek, Esq., Franklin. A. M. Finley, Esq., Marion. The Uaur-y JLaws. Although Got. Bragg declines to make an express recommendation on the subject of the existing laws concerning usury, we refer from the tone of that portion of the! Message which relates to the subject, that he is in fa vor of change. ' Wo confess (says the Ra leigh Register) that, the inclination of our own mind is towards a change, as we have never been able to see why the market price of money should be regulated by law, any more than the market prices of lands, houses, horses, or any other vendable article or com modity. As germane to this subject, we ex tract the following short and sensible article from Ihc Fayetteville Carolinian : If a man has ah ox, or a barn filled with grain, and wishes to sell it, the law puts no restriction upon the price ne is to asK. ne may speculate on his necessitous neighbor to his heart's content. It is only in money transactions that the benignity of the law in terposes to prevent a man from exercising his own free will in the transaction ofhis own business. It is here alone that the Taw steps in to prevent a man from making what it choos.cs to consider a bad bargain. After ail it may be for him a very goud bargain. If he can save his property from beiug saerifi ced by giving seven or eight per cent inter est for the use of money, why should the law prevent? lie ought certainly to know his own interest better than the law. If he does not, he ought to be prevented not only from borrowing money at more than six per cent interest, but from transacting any other busi ness, excepting through the medium of a le- gaily appointed guardian. a man jmay oe placed under tne ecessity ot raising? a sum of money within a giveu time, 'ihiis he can do, we will suppose, in two ways .pnly. First, by selling pioperty at a sacrifice; or secondly, byborrowing money at tue market valuL'. riiat value may be more than six pe cent.! But the law stps in and prevents him from borrowing at this ratti, and he is compelled to sell property at twoutvj per cent below its.aci.ua value, wnen i( ; he hiad been left to himself he might have obtained a loan on time at eiht- per ceut aud thus have actually saved twelve per ceut on the amount. A man under such eircuro ehfiiees wodld be apt to think that the law had given him a very expensive and unneces sary protection against usur"y. What would bo the consequence of repeal ing all restriction! on the rate of interest? , One of the- first results would be that money would no longer llow out, but would flow into the State to be loaned. This would give great life and animation to commerce. Our largo towns would feel its effect in an espe cial manner. The abundance of-money cap ital is What mainly gives the Virginia man? ktrts an advantage over our own. Let our merchants supplied with means of trading and their own enterprise will effect the rest. Thus would be established that unembarrass ed influx and reflux of the circulating: metli urn so'taeeessarv to a healthy condition of trade. Necessitous persons would no longer be compelled to pay an additional percentage to. the money lender as insurance against the ri jr An ,mi f , i . , ,-1 1 . . I .t jA . -, , v Hum nMlCi art f j-i I. est Kverv man could theu obtain money at its market value, and paennees or property to raise money would be less frequent. Many a solvent borrower is now paying from ten' to twenty per cent, per annum for the itsoof money, who could if the usury law were abol ished, obtain all he might require at seven or eight per cent. Fatal Affray. A corfesponderl t of the Western Democrat furnishes the fol fray at, Chapel II owing particulars" an af- 11: "An atiray too place at Chapel Hill on the wght ot the 22 nd mst, between a stu dent by the name ' of Boylan from Raleigh, and another student named Fianner from Wilmington, in which a student by the name of Walsh from Mobile, Ala., interfered to malce peace. The lights were extinguished, and Walsh received a stab from Boylan, con- Rldarprl fatal FMiinimr anA a cniiniv man Yw the name of Cole were cut sliohtlv Linnce-Ly was the instigator." November 27. Boylan was not arrested and has Ibft Chap el Hill. It is thought that Walsh mav re cover. I There was a man bv the name of Holder stabbed and killed in Winston, yesterday, by "a man named Shuitz. Liquor was the cause of the affray. 3TThe Grand Lodge of North Carolina, lr O. O. Fellows, met in Newbern on the 22d ult. , We learn from the Newbern papers that the following were elected officers for the ensuing year: John Sloan, of Greensboro', R. W. Grandf Master; W. H. Clarke, of Elizabeth City, . Grand Master; Thomas M. Gardner, of Wilmington, R. W. Grand Secretary; R. J. Jones, R.i W. G. Treasurer; Wm. Edwards, R. W. Grand Warden; and Rev. A. P. Rep iton, R. W. Grand Chaplain. Initiated during the past year, 142; reject ed, 16; admitted by card, 20; re instated, 5; suspended, ' 165; expelled, 31; deaths, 21; Past Grands in the jurisdiction, 286; contri buting members, 1256. Amount received during the vear. $10.- U5. I , - '1 lue next meeting of the Grand Lodge win tafee place at Statesville, on the 4tb Tues- u.tj lu uveraoer, iquu. n -mm mm- -mm-mm mm t 9 Wm VOL. 10 No. 22. Correspondence or the News. k . Raleigh, Nov. 24, 1858. Editor Asheville News : Dear Sir Thinking that you would haps like to hear something from the sembled wisdom" of North Carolina, I per-"as-give you a few items. As you will see from the papers, all the offices have been filled, and now the Legislature is ready for business io good style. A bill of great interest to your people was presented by Dr. Baird a day or two since. It is to in corporate a Company to build a Turnpike from Asheville to the Black Moun tain. I hope it will pass, as I have no doubt ic will, for .r ivtippi uuu fffucu to the alti ac tions of your place. , Col. Thomas has introduced a number of bills concerning the section between Asheville and Ducktown. One is to define the ter mination of the Western North Caroliua Road states what point on the French Broad, and gives them the right to connect with the Blue Ridge Road or to go on to Ducktown. A number of bills to incorporate mining and mauufactuiing companies, have been in troduced by Messrs. Brjaon and Love. They were the Wayehutla Company, the Keowee Company, and the Potosi Company. Mr. Wood fin in troduced one to incorporate the Southern Mining and Manufacturing Company. Aho, a bill to create the county of Bragg, out of portions of Macon and Cherokee. Mr. Bryson introduced a bill to amend the act chartering the Keowee aud Tuckaseege Turnpike Company. Mr. Caldwell of Burke has introduced a bill to lay off a county out of portions of Yancey, Watauga, Caldwell, Burke and Mc Dowel'. Mr. Love introduced a bill for the benefit of the securities of J. Hk Holland, late Sher iff of Haywood. Mr. Walker introduced, a day or two ago, a bill to create a freehold exemption law, which was ordered to be printed. . .--- I will let you know what becomes of these bills. 'Toursj O. D. The Penitentiary System. Governor Brown, in his Annual Message to the Georgia Legislature, after ably and elabo rately discussing various matters of State policy, speaks thus of the Penitentiary ays- tern : - "The report of Gen. Eli McConnell, prin cipal keeper of the Peniteutiary, will inform you of the present condition of that institu tion. The walls, badly constructed at first, have stood for a long time, and are now near ly ready to tumble down. The whole struc ture is in a dilapidated condition, and will require action on the part of the Legislature at its present or somj early session. It is a questiou worthy of your attention whether it should be rebuilt where it is, or be remov ed to some more favorable looation: or whe ther it should be entirely abolished, and some other mode of punishment substituted iu its 6tead. As a place of reformation of the convicts it is believed to have proved a failure. It brings together an assemblage of the worst men in the State, many of whom are beyond the hope of reformation. In the midst of such an assemblage the young offender has but little encouragement to reform. Obser vation has shown us, that a considerable pro portion of those ,who have served the terra of a sentence, have, after going out, very soon violated the law, and been sent back for a second, and some even for a third time. Some of the States, as Alabama and Texas, have leased out their penitentiaries; and it is reported that this plan has worked well in those States, and has relieved them from all burdens in maintaining their prisons. I com mend the who' subject to the careful consid eration of the Legislature Highest and Lowest. The highest sal- Governor of any State in the Union, ft paid in California $10,000 and tne low- est is in Vermont $750. Insane. Mj. Plunkett, the Sheriff of Ca barrus county, was brought to this city on Friday last and placed in the Insane Asylum. The duties of his office, it is said, were prop ably the chief cause of his derangement. Raleigh Register. Elections by tux Legtslature. On Tuesday last the two houses of the General Assembly, by joint vote, elected the following Judges and Solicitors : Jesse G. Shepherd, of Cumberland, and R. R. Heath, of Cho wan, Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity; and Robert Strange, of New Hanover, and Wra. J. Houston, of Duplin, Solicitors. On Wednesday Thomas Ruffin, Jr., of Alamance, was re-elected Solicitor for the 4th Judicial Circuit. Raleigh standard. A New El Doraoo. The Santa Fe (N. M.) Gazette, says: "Major Stein, lately from Sonora, expressed the opinon that Sonora is more prolific of g 1 1 and silver than California, and if a Territory of the United states would yield ten million dollars annually. He savs he , has seen sinede lumns of ffold taken from the mines there, worth from 83,000 to $5,000 o I f jTIe likewise informed u, that he had seen a j cord of silver in bars' aud ruinod without i machinery. ASHEVILLE, N. 0., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1858. Important Bills. The following important bills have been introduced into the Senate by Col. Hum phrey, of Onslow. In introducing the first Col. Humphrey said : The bill proposes to remove the free negro population from the limits of the State after two year notice, or if they will remain, to reduce them to the same condition of slaves. The bill was prepared and introduced at the request of many of his constituents, as well as at the request of many citizens of other portions of the State, who had suffered long and severely from the evil influences which the free negroes exercise over slave popula tion. BU a change so radical and impor tant in our municipal law, as the one propo sed by that bill, deserved well, he thought, the serious consideration of the Legislature; and while the change proposed met the views and wishes of those at whose instance it was framed, he had a doubt that some of its provisions might conflict with the consti tution. In his own opinion some legislation upon the subject was demanded of this Legis lature. He moved, therefore that the bill be printed and referred to the committee on the Judiciary. A BILL CONCERNING FREE PERSONS OF COLOR. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for an' free person of color to emigrate this to State Sec. 2. Be it further enacted That if anv free perse n of color shall emigrate to this State, it shall be the duty of the Sheriff, or any one of the Constables of the County to which such emigration shall be made, to arrest such free person of color, after giving him ten days' notice, and bring him before the Chair man of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Ses sions, before whom such free person of color may be brought, to receive the bond of such free "person of color in the sum of one thou sand dollars, with the security of a citizen, to be approved by him, conditioned for the re moval of such free person of color out of the limits of the State. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, TBat if any free person of color should be brought before the Chairman of the Court of Ploas and Quarter Sessions of any countv, and shall not be able to give the bond as prescribed in the second section of this act, such Chairman of he Court of Ph a and Quarte Sessionp, sha'l commit such person of color to the public jail, with an order to the Sheriff to expose him to public sale, to the highest bidder, at . i t . t . j e i . i. tue vouri Douse aoor, ot nis couuty, arter giving four weeks' notice of the same, in the nearest public journal, and at least four pla ces in his county, and said purchaser shall and may exercise all the rights of ownership over said free neison of color, for one year from such sale. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That'if any such free person of color, shall during the year of such Slavery, be able to give his bond as contemplated in the second section of thjs act, to take effect at the end of his slave ryj he shall be permitted to do so; but if he hall fail to render the bond, until after the expiration of his slavery, it shall be the duty of the purchaser to return him to the hands of the Sheriff. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Sheriff, upon the return of any such free person of color, upon six weeks' notice in some public journal, and at least four places in his county, to expose the free person of color, so returned, at public sale, to the highest bidder, and such free iperson of color, shall remain a slave for life; Provided, That if any person of color so sold should be the property of any individual, he shall have his right of recovery by due course of law. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, All monies ari sing from the, sale of suchfree persons of color, shall be paid over to the Chairman of the board of Superintendents, to be. appropriate by him to the use of Common Schools, in his county, in the same manner as county taxes for school purposes. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That upon the forfeiture of the bond of any free person of color, the same shall be placed in the hands of the county Solicitor fot collection who shall prosecute the same against the securities only; and the amount of sale, if such have been made, of the free person of color shall, in all cases, be subtracted from the amount adjudged against the securities, and the remainder only shall be recovered by them. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That two years shall ;be allowed, from and after the passage of this act, to all free persons of col or who now are in this State, to remove out of the same; and all who shall be found here after that time, without the permission of the General Assembly, shall be arrested and sold as provided in this act. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any master of a vessel, or owner .thereof, nor to any other persons whatsoever, to bring, import, induce, aid or assist in the bringing, iraportiug, or inducing any free person of color within the limits of this State, directly or indirectly; and any per son so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars : Provided, That cooks and other bands employed on board of vessels shall not be considered as coming within the provisions of this act. Sec, 10- Be it further enacted, That the Governor of the State do issue his proclama tion, commanding all free persons of color who are now in the State, to remove from the same before the 1st day of January, I860, and the Secretary of the State publish this act a number of times in all the nals of this State. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That all laws contrary to the meaning and spirit of this act, are hereby repealed. A BILL TO PERMIT FREE PERSONS OF AFRICAN DSCENT TO SELECT THEIR OWN MASTERS AND BECOME SLAVES. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of North -Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for any free person of African descent, now in the State, or who may hereafter he within its limits, be ing over the age of fourteeriars, to choose his or her master, anf become blaves, upon L r AMn fi r . . 1 1 1 I ll I I 111 b aha! r n Tj u . . . . Pre i kiMt said slave shali ndTe"s1If?ectlo I sales for any debt incurred by, or judgment rendered against the chosen master, prior to the period of enslavement. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That when ever any free person of African aforesaid desiros to choose a descent as master, such person may file a petition in the Court of Please and Quarter Sessions of the countv in wnicn ne or sne resiaes, setting iortu nis or her desire to choose an owner, and stating the name of such person as he or she desires to select as an owner; whica petition shall be signed by the petitioner, in the presence of at least two subscribing witnesses. And thereupon the clerk of the Court in which such petition shall have been filed, shall give notice thereof by posting such notice at the Courthouse door for four weeks; and said clrek shall issue a summons to the petitioner, and the person designated in the petition as the proposed master, citing them to appear before said Court, at the term thereof next succeeding the expiration of ihe publication of said notice, aud shall also ksue a subp cenea for the subscribing witnessss to the petition, which summons and subpeenea shall be ex ecuted in the same mannei as like process io other cases. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That upon the appearance in opeu Court, of both the petitioner, and the person designated in the petition as the desired master, the Court shall proceed to examine each party sepa rately, as well as the subscribing witnesses to the petition, and Bach other person as the Court may see fit; and at such examination, the County Solicitor mall be present, and see that a full examination is had, and he shall represent the pelitbnersin such examination. And if upon such examination, the Court shall be satisfied that there is no fraud nor col. lusion between the parties, that the proposed master is a person of good repute, and there is no good reason to the contrary ,the said Court shall have power, by decree entered into the records of the Court, to grant the prayer of the petitioners; and from the entry of such decree, the property in said person of African descent, as a slave, shall vest in the person so chosen as master, and his rights and liabilities, and the conditions of the pe titioner shall in all respects be the same as though such petitioner had boen born a slave to the master so chosen. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That when any such petitioner as hereinbefore named shall be a female having children under four teen years of age, and shall in her petition ask that such children shall become the slaves of the same person chosen by her as master, if the Court shall, after examination as in this act before provided, grant the prayer of the petitioner asto herself, it shall also decree such children in like manner, to be the slaves of the same owner. Provided, that where the mother of such children of African descent, under the age of fourteen years, shall be deceased, ir that case the next friend of such children shall have authority in their behalf, to proceed in the same manner to the selectioB of a master for them, as the mother might do under the provisions of this act. Sec.'5 Be it furter enacted, That theCoun ty Solicitor shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars for eaeh examination attended by him under the provisions of this act, which shall be taken as costs of the proceedings, and all the costs of the proceedings shall be paid by the master to whom the slave may be decreed, and after a petition shall have been filed under the provisions of this Act, and during the pendency of the proceedings under the same, no proceedings shall be had against the petitioner under any law prohib iting free persons of color from remaining in or coming to this State. The Methodists of Alabama have raised the sum of 309,000 as a beginning for an endowment fund for a university at Greens borough. . The Newcastle (Iud.) Courier says that a new groggery in that place was "dried up" summarily and without any fuss, the other night, by the ingenious process of boring holes through the floor and continuing the boring up into the barrel. Stations are said to be fast springing up on the great overland California route, and are rapidly increasing. The Paris papers announce the death of the Hon. Bengamin F. Butler, of New York and Attorney General of the United States under the administration of General Jack son. i ...... 'r Melakcholy Death. On Monday the 8th inst., a young man named Govan Early, aged about 18 years, was killed by the caving of the earth upon him while at work on the Railroad, on the contract of Rev. Wm. Har- rill, a few miles below town. . Ho had just commenced Enquirer. work that day. Rutherford Ifa lady yawns half a dozen times in suc cession, young man you may as well get your hat. 1 WHOLE No. 490. Thaiiksg i viiis iu New York. ... Thursday last was the day set apart for general Thanksgiving in New York, and was observed by ail according to their sev eral tastes and inclinations. Business was in a measure suspended; the churches thrown open, the military paraded the streets, and martial music rent the air, every thing passed off as well as could have been expec ted of a public holiday in New York, with but one exception, (and that a mjt,.siame ful one) the miserable hoax p!eTtmo3ii surtering poor by the heartreSs publicatlwin one of the papers of the announcement fRiat a free distribution of food to the poor would take place at two o'clock that day 6000 lbs of bread and 1,200 lbs of beef in all. Theistributioa to take place near the sta tue oi Wasu;ngtti. Llq weatiier was very com, notwithstanding which the squalid, shivering crowd began to assemble at an early hour at the appointed rendezvous, with their bags and baskets, all anxiously await ing tne least winch they were told would be forthcoming. Many of the expectants were Irish women with tremendous baskets capable of holding a bushel. Of course advantage was taken of the opportunity by some who by their appearance seemed better qualified for giving than receiving alms. As the hour approached the crowd be came more dense; persons in every stage of poverty from the ragged sweep to the "strap ped" printer, lounged about Union Square, almost frozen with the cold, but cheered up with expectation of soon seeing: the promised iooci. Hour atter hour symptoms of the long P 1 TT . I V " A passed ana still no looked for bread wagons. Still the poor people waited, stamped their feet, eyed butchers' carts suspiciously, but got no bread or meat. At twelve o'clock ine crowa was greatest, and expectation at us highest pitch. Auother hour passed in the cold and no signs of food, nor no one appearing to explain the unwarntable delay. After a while the crowd began to thin out; one by one they dropped off until but few were left, still clinging to the hope that their wants would shortly be supplied. At last some ot the persons whose names appeared in the card, came forward and announced the hoax to the poor people, declaring at the same time that their names were used without their consent. Sor rowful, dejected and half frozen, the rag ged remnant dispersed. And this is a specimen of a New Ifork Thanksgiving Day ! a day of humiliation and prayerful acknowledgment to be debased by unfeeling impositions upon the poor. Wil mington Herald. A Logical Bagrgage Master. The post of a baggage master on a rail road train is not an enviable one. There is often a wide difference between the compa ny's regulations and the passenger's opiu ions of what articles, and what amount of them, probably comes under the denomina tion of the baggage; and this difference of opinion frequently subjects the unlucky offi cials of the trunk and band box department to animated discussions with a certain class of the 'traveling public. We lately heard an anecdote of "George," the affable B. M. on Capt. Cobb's Train, on the Virginia and Tennessee road, which is too good to be lost : A passenger presented himself at a way station on the road, with two trunks and a saddle for which he requested the checks. The baggage master checked the trunks, but demanded, the extra charge of twenty -five cents for the saddle. To this the pas senger demurred, and losing: his temper per emptorily asked : "Will you check my baggage sir, ?" "Are you a horse?' quietly inquired George. "What do you mean exclaimed the irate traveler. "You claim to have this saddle checked as baggage' 4 "Certainly it is baggage," positively re turned the passenger, "Well," said the imperturbable George, "by the company's regulations nothing but wearing apparel is admitted to be baggage; and if this saddle is your wearing apparel, of course you must be a horse ! Now, sir, just allow me to strap it on your back, and it shall go to the end of the road without any extra charge whatever." Speaking of Governor Stewart, of Missou ri, getting drunk and whipped in a groggery the other day, the Washington Republic, is reminded of a story 'The deacon of a church, over whom a new pastor had been settled, was praising his many good qualities to the deacon neighboring church, He declared of a that their new minister had but one fault in tbe world, and that was, a propensity to become a little quarrelsome when he was drunk." ''h A stuttering man at a public table, had occasion to use a pepper-box. After shaking it with all vehemence; and turning it in vari ous ways, he found that the pepper was in no wise inclined to come forth. "T th this p epper-box, with a sagacious grin, "is he exclaimed, so-something like myself." "Why ?" asked a neighbor. "P- poo poor delivery," he replied. A Singular Vote. At the late election in Massachusetts the town of South Danvers voted as follows for Governor : Banks, Republican 444 Beach, Democrat 444 Lawrence, American 444 That town was very impartial in its favors, and was determined no party cause to complaio of it. should have Good Name. A young man in Cincinna- ti, named Pike, having grown nch in the whiskv trade, has jost erevted a magnificent opera house, the fii et in the West, and a wag wants to call it "Piks Alcc-Uaii" Correspondence of the New. Raleigh, Nov. 29, 1858; Editor Asheville News ; Dear Sir The election of Senators being over, we hare gone quietly to work. Alrea dy a great many bills have been introduced which are generally at present before the committees, who are engaged jn preparing reports. I have introduced several bills, and among them a bill to charter a company to build a Railroad east from Ducktown, to connect with one or both of the Roads which are approach ing the Blue Ridge. The provisions of the bill may not be uninteresting to some of the readers of your paper. r irst. It provides that th Board nf In ternal Improvement shell appoint a suitable engineer to make a survey for a Railroad from Rutherford ton across the Blue Ridge at the Reeaj.Jatch Gap, to a, point at or near Asheville, Chence to Ducktown, Tenn. Also' to make an examination of the survey thro the Swannanoa Gap, and make a report on both. That being done, the Western North Carolina Railroad Company shall proceed to. I locaJg.Jr read, either west to tDexf the Blue Rdge Road or Ducktown, or north to the line of the State of Tennessee, at the Paint Rock. The Company is left free! to make the selection between the routes, which is so fair a proposition that it seems probable the French Broad delegation will finally come in and support it. The bill also provides that the State shall subscribe for that Road the Same that she subscribed to the North Carolina Road to complete and equip it, in proportion to the amount of indiUdual stock, and that the ex cess of subscription be spent on .the Moun tain division of the Road, andjhussupercede the necessity of individual subscriptions for that object. One division terminating at a point at or near Asheville; and that all the provisions of the Acts, of 1854-55, and 18- 56-57, shall apply to the entire division The bill also authorizes the two Companies to unite at any point they may select, and to construct a common trunk Road, for the ben efit of both, to the point which may be se lected as the terminus of the Road. And in making that selection, it is made the duty of the Company to take into consideration 1. Distance. 2. Grade. 3. Cost of corX struction. 4. The objects to be attained in connecting with other Roads. Part of the French Broad delegation seem inclined to favor the bill. Others seem to regard it as objectionable. It is to be hoped that the west will not split up as they did last session, and thus disappoint the hopes of the pepple. In 1835, when the present basis was adopt ed in the Senate, which gives the East fo large a representation in that body, it was anticipated, as the debates in the Convention prove, that long since our Railroads WQUjld have been extended West, iecreased the val ue of property, and thus equalized taxation and representation in the Senate. Near a quarter of a century the West has waited fbr a fulfillment of the compromise; while the Eastern portion of the State at once went into possession of the advantages conferred on it. How much longer the West will be required to wait, this session of the General Assembly will determine. But it is to be presumed if the West unite, that the policy upon which we elected the Governor last summer, i. e. r that of taking off the restrictions to the ex tent of the appropriation already made, wll oe carried out ip good faith. But it is now obvious that efforts are being made to divide the Western members, and lead tbem to ejx haust their strength on each other, in a sort of Kilkenny cat fight. W. H. Sorghum Cider. The Nasheville fEenn1.) Homestead says that besides tle excellent syrup and sugar made from the Chinese su gar cane, there is yet another article obtained from it which is of pleasant taste, and doubt less healthy in its consequences. It is ob tained by putting the expressed juice of tle cane into a clean wood or glass vessel, allow ing it to stand ten or twelve days, when it assumes the appearance of limpid water, and we suppose might be properly called cane cider. A Man Blown up on a Keo of per. A man in New Orleans, last week. blew up a keg of powder upon which he was setting, the force of the explosion Sending him some seventy feet into the air and into the river. It appears that be sells powder in one of the skiffs on the river, and had lan ded bis boat at the foot of Main street. Haying-occasion to place one of the kegs out upon the bank, he took a seat upon it. Some children near by had kindled a firs and were roasting oysters, and having a jolly time of it generally. The powder man, thinking to frighten the children and amuse himself, commenced throwingsome powder which he had in his pocket, into the fire, and laughing heartily at the expression of the juvenile, who could not account for the mysterious fizzling and cracking among the oysters. In a short time and before he was aware of it, he bad made a train of pow der from the fire to bis keg, which suddenly communicated with the latter, and sent the man whirling into the air, and fortunately let him down into the river, where the water prevented him from breaking any bones, and also relieved bis burns. A: - . Boston paper says that a Yankee has invented an eight day clock that runs sixteen days without winding or stopping, and gives two quarts of milk per day ! Its value could not be calculated, if it only churned its own milk, and would stop ticking during family prayer. John Patterson, an Albany printer, is said to be the best mathematician the world. Ms - I H - -jf 5 . 2 ' c .-rr
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