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NO. 36.
CHARLOTTE, JV. C, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1854.
VOL. 2.
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96u5inrss (Carta, &t.
Attorney at Late,
Office in Loner gan's Brick Building, 2nd Jloor.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
RIIETT & KOB0:,
FACTORS & COMMISSION MERGHANTS,
iVo. 1 and 2 A'antic What,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
!"iT Liberal advances made on Consignment.
trr Sot-rial attention eivcii to tlie iole of Flour, Corn,
1&.C . and from o r 1 nfr experience iu the sasiaaSS, wc
feel confident of BWaig -ilnUcticn.
March 17, !Ki4. J4-tm
Dry Goods in Charleston, So. Ca.
BtPOMTBMS OF DllY GOODS,
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CHARLESTON, S. C.
Plantation Wonlcim, Blank rta, A.c, Carpeliiigs and
Curtain Material-, Sil!: and Kicli Dress .mxl. mans.
Mantillas snd Bhawfa. Term- Cash. One I net Only.
March 17, 1-4 3 I ly
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FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC STAPLE AND FANCY
No. IS HIRIXO sthki:t,
epl 23, 'H ly C'HA R LESTON, S. C.
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hmb, -
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m FOREIGN AM) DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
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AND C O M M ISS ION MERCHANTS,
NORTH ATLANTIC WHAlPi
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r Commission for selling Cotton Fifty cents per Kale.
Sept 23, 1 853. 1 0-1 y-
RAMSEY'S PIANO STORE.
MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
N US NS&CO.'S Patent
Diagonal Grand PI ANOS ;-
llallet Davis Co-'s Patent '
jiispenioii Bridge HANOS;
( hickenngs, Traver s' and
other Lest makers' Pianos, at
the Factory Prices.
Columbia, S. C, Sept. 23, 1853.
10-ly.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
T7ILL practice in Meeklenbnrz and the adjoining
counties and prosecute Bounty Land and Pent-ion
Claims. Office ia Johnston's brick building, between
Kerr's Hotel and the Post Office, up stairs
March IS, 1853. 3' 7
C AKOMA IX X,
BY JENNINGS B. KERR.
i htu ittllt . C.
J.inunry 28, I 853. 28tf
JIis. A. W. WIBALAN,
DRESS AUd CLOAK MAEER.
(Residence, on Main Street, 3 doois south of Sadler's
Hotel,)
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Dresses cut and made by the celebrated A. B.C. !
method, and wai ranted to tit. Orders solicited and
promptly attended to.
Sept. i, 1.53 8-1 y.
BAILIE A. LABLKT,
219 KINO STREKT,
CHARLESTON, S. C,
IN POSTERS c DEALERS ia Royal Velvet, Tapes
try. Brussels, Three ply, Ingram and Venetian
C ARPETINGS i India, Rush and Spanish .MATTINGS,
Riis. Ioor Mats, &c. cc.
Ol L C LOTHS. of all widths, cut for rooms or entries.
IRISH LINENS, SHIRTINGS, DAMASKS, Dialers,
Long Lawns, Towels. Napkins, Doylias, &c.
An extensive assortment of Window CURTAINS,
CORNICES, tic, &c
Merchants will do well to examine our stock
before purchasing elsewhere.
Sept. 23, 1S53 10-ly
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
IBP.G io announce to my friend, the public, and pres
ent patrons of the above Hotel, that I have leased the
lime for a term of years from the 1st of January next.
After which time, the entire property will be thorough
ly repaired and renovated, and the house kept in first
class style. Tins Hotel is near the Depot, and pleasant
ly situated, rendering it a desirable house for travellers
and families.
Dec 16, 1853. 22t C. M. RAY.
Baltimore Piano Forte Manufactory.
r J. WISE & BROTHER. Manufacturers of Boudoir
J , Grand and Square PIANOS. Those wishing a
good and substantial Piano that will last an ape, at a
lair price, may rely on getting such by addressing the
Manuiacturers, by mail or otherwise. We have the
honor of serving and referring to the first families in the j
M, n " CVCis s7Hinunt suff, rable. The
.Manufacturers, also, reter to a host of their k lU.w citi-
ns. J. J. WISE Sc BROTHER,
Feb 3, 1854 23-Cm Baltimore, Md.
MAKC II & SH ARP,
AUCTIONEERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
COLUMBIA, . C.,
w
ILL attend to the sale of all kinds of Merchandise,
Produce, he. Also, Real and Personal Projerty. ;
Or purchase and sell Slaves, Ate, on Commission
Sales Rom No. 2 i Richardson street, and imme
diately opposite the United States Hotel.
Feb 3, 1854 thos. h. maslcu. j. u. e. sharp.
Livery and Sales Stable,
BY S. H. RE A,
A T the stand formerly occupied bv " ' ;
XX Charlotte. Horses ild. hired ami .,.t.i i'
conimodationa f.,r Drovers. The custom of kit frieuds
and the public cent rally solicited.
C mm, - -
rvpruarv l . , I'-oi
The Whip Snake.
As the wind was veering about rather capri
ciously, I was casting my rye anxiously along
the wurp, to see how it bore the strain, when, to
my surprise, it appeared :o my eye to thicken at
the nd next the tree, and presenting something
like a screw, about a foot long, that occasionally
shone like glass in the moonlight, began tu move
along the t:iut line wiih a spiral motion. All this
time one of the boys was fast asleep, resting on
his folded arms on lh gunwale, his head h iving
dropped down on the stern of the boat. But one
of the- Spanish boaimen in the canoe that was
anchored close to us, seeing me gazing at some
thing, had cast his eyes in the same direction.
The instant ho caught the object, he thumped
his palms on the side of the canoe, exclaiming in
a loud, alarmed tone : " Cultbru ! culebra !n "A
snake ! n snak !" on which the reptile made a
sudden and rapid slide down the lioe towards the
bow of the boat, where the poor lad was resting
his head, and immediately afterwards dropped
into the sea.
The sailor rose and walked oft, as if nothing
had happened, amongst his messmates, who had
been alarmed by the cries of, the Spanish canoe
man ; and I was thinking litlle of the matter.when
I heard some anxious whispering amongst them.
"Fred," said one of the men, "what is wrong
that you breathe so hard?" "Why, boy, what
ails, you? said another. "Something has stung
me," at length said the poor little fellow, speak
ing thick, as if he had labored under sore throat.
The truth flashed on me: a candle was lit, and
on looking at him, he appeared stunned, com
plained of cold, and suddenly assumed a wild,
startled look. lie evinced great anxiety and
restlessness, accompanied by a sudden and severe
prostration ol strength, still continuing to com
plain of great and increasing cold and chilliness,
but he did not shiver. As yet no part of his
body was swollen except very slightly about the
wound ; however, there was a rapidiy increasing
rigidity of the muscles of the neck and throat,
nnd within half an hour after he was bit he was
utterly unable to swallow even liquids.
The small whip snake, the most deadly asp in
the whole list of noxious reptiles peculiar to South
merica, was not above fourteen inches long, it
made four small punctures with its fangs right
over ihe left jugular vein, about an inch below the
chin. There was no blood oozing from them ; but
a circle abo'Jt the size of a crown piece, of dark
red, surrounded them, which gradually melted
into blue at the outer rim, which again became
fainter, until it disappeared in the natural color of
the skin. By the advice of the Spanish boatman,
wo applied an embrocation of the leaves of palma
christi, or castor oil nut, as hot. as the lad could
b- ar it ; but we had neither oil nor hot milk to
1 give internally , both of which they informed us
j "Uen proved specifics.
Kaiher than lie at anchor until morning under
these melancholy circumstances, I shoved out into
I be rough water ; but we made little of it, and
when the day broke, 1 siw that the poor fellow's
fate was scaled. His voice had become inarticu
late ; the coldness had increased ; all motion in
the extremities had ceased ; the legs and arms be
came quite s:ifl", the respiration slow and difficult,
as if the blood had coagulated and could no longer
circulate through ihe heart; or as if from some
unaccountable effect of ihe poison on the nerves
((uj )f (orm,,r ,)ad impeded. Still
j the poor little fellow was perfectly sensible, and
his eye bright and restless. His breathing became
still more interrupted. He could no longer be
said to breathe, bill gasped ; and in half an hour,
like the steam engine win n the fire is withdrawn,
the strokes ol contraction and expansion of his
heart became slower and slower, until lhe censed
altogether. From the very moment of his death
the body organ rapidly to swell, and became dis
colored. The face and neck, especially, were
nearly ns black as ink within half an hour of it,
when blood began to flow from the mouth, and
other symptoms ol rapid decomposition succeeded
each other so las', that hy nine in the morninj; we
hd to sew him up in a boat-sail, with a large
store, and launch the body into the sra.
Professor Wihon.
Not so Bad. A worthy citizen of this district
recently visited Columbia, for the purpose ol
drawing some money from one of the hanks. In
the performance of the object of his viit, he was
observed and walched by one of the '' take in "
'entry, who soon struck up an acquaintance with
him and proposed a walk. Our fellow. distric'.man,
having nothing to do hut wait his time of depar
ture, ccct dd, and had not proceeded far with his
new acquaintance, when by chance an individual
was met with practising ihe game of thimble
rig." The take-in gentleman proposed a bet, and
having won some cash for himself, in the generosity
of his heart proposed to bet or behalf ol his Sumter
friend, gaining for him about three hundred dollars,
which was handed over old Sumter refusing
until forced to accept, when, against all solicita
tions to stay and press good luck, he left (or home,
followed closely, however, by take-in, whom he
could not shake off. Arrived in jSumterville, by
a coup d'etat he managed to escape, leaving the
disappointed gambler to return whence lie came,
minus three hundred dollars, and in no enviable
mood at having missed his game. Thus the matter
stood, until the chagrined gamester, boiling over
with rage and vexation at his loss, and having but
an indistinct recollection of the name of his escaped
victim, wrote a threatening letter to another of
our citizens, denouncing him as a sw
modestly requesting the return of th
,i i . , ,, T
indler, and
the aforesaid
three hundred dollars. Now this citizen is not
one to he trifh-d with, and threatens dire chastise
ment to the writer, who had better sleep with one
eye open. Sumter Banner.
Outrage is Ashe Couxtt, N. C We have
an aceount of a most horrible outrage committed
, in ..sne county, iM. U., last week. It appears that
a Mr. Mitchell of (hat county left home on Wed
j nesday and was absent until the next day. A
j n-gro man belonging to him, taking advantage of
his absence, broiie into the house during the night,
and nfler violating thr? nersnn m:(i.ii
j'- " - i'M yj I 3. tMIlL tCM,
1. ,1- J t J .L
-iKHkfo ner io aenin. i ne ncjjro was arrested
",e 11 "xt nominin Urayaon eoumv. Va.. and
the mxt morning in Lnavon countv. Va
ru,no'" s:1 :? hein' lodged in jail, was taken
i out by ihe ci-iiens and hung.
Wyth tilk Telegraph.
From the Northern Cultivator.
Mmlchlmg.
This process, although known and practiced for
many years by a few culrvators, has become ex
tensively adopted only at a very late period. It
seems peculiarly adapted to our hot and dry sum
mers, and operates chit-fly in preserving the mois
ture of the surface, and preventing the growth of
weeds. The moisture at the surface of ihe earth
from rains and dews is quickly dissipated under
a hot sun ; nnd if this surface is allowed to be
come covered with a dense growth of living grass
and weeds, tfieso pump out of the soil and throw
off into the air a much larger quantity of mois
ture than is evaporated by a bare surface of
earth only.
But if this surface is covered with a few inches
of old straw, hay, or leaves, the moisture is re
tained in the soil, nnd the growth of weeds pre
vented. As a oeneral rule, wc have found it
I most advantageous to leave ihe surface bare and
i keep ihe soil well mellowed till near mid-summer,
and then to apply the mulching, for a covering
of litter, while it promotes the humility, also pre
vents the heating of the soil, and in tais woy may
retard early growth if applied too soon. These
are exceptions, however; one in the case of large
deeply rooted trees not effected br nor needing
mulching, and the other where small plants,which
are removed in summer, need the careful and con
stant retention of the moisture of the earth. We
have succeeded, with scarcely on failure in fifty,
in transplanting the strawberry in the drouth and
heat of summer, by simply giving the surface a
mulching of two inches ol barn manure, and on
which the watering was poured when necessary.
Indeed, there is nothing that better prevents the
ill effects of baking by surface watering, than a
covering of this sort of a moderate depth. Mulch
ing will, however, promote moisture in the soil,
j even when neither artificial nor natural watering
is given, simply by arresting such as rise upwards
through the earth. In one instance a striking il
lustration of this effect was furnished during a
veryjpsg season of drought, which injured and
threatened to destroy a row of newly transplanted
apple trees. Their leaves had already begun to
turn yellow, and growth had ceased, but on coat
ing ihe ground about them with a coat of mown
weeds, ft change was soon effected, and in three
weeks the leaves had returned to their deep green
hue, and in some instances growth had recom
menced. But on no kind of tree is mulching
more necessary than on new transplanted cherry
trees. Thousands of these are lost every season,
after they have commenced growing, by the dry
ing heat of the midsummer, and the evil is some
limes increased by superficial watering. A deep
mulching will generally prove a complete remedy
if seasonably applied.
Some interesting facts on this subjects were
stated, and valuable suggestions made at one of
the conversational meetings of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society. S. Walker remarked that
he had used tan, saw dust, litter, leaTes, ccc, but
he believed short, newly mown grass one of the
btst things, he had mulched a great deal with
it, and found it laid close to the soil. He also re
commended ihe succulent weeds of the garden or
roadside. He found tan and saw dust to be use
ful merely by retaining the moisture. D. Hag
gerston had found sedge from salt marshes best,
particularly if cut short ; a good watering upon
it made it lav close to the "round. He found it
excellent for strawberries. Ha had also found
tree leaves excellent, if ihey had partly decayedf
so as not likely to be blown away. Old hot bed
materials made of leaves anc" manure had proved
particularly fine. Several spoke of the ill effects
of too deep a mulching, but we think the more
common error is in spreading the covering of the
soil too thin.
Mulching is a very easy and cheap practice,
a id the season is now at hand when our readers
may prove by varying experiments the best mode
of performance.
Ct'LTi KK of the Stnflo wer. A "Conestoga"
correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph,
says :
1 do tiot think there is sufficient attention paid
to the cultivation of this plant. The Sunflower is
a native of South America, but is easily cultivated
in any common soil, either by sowing the seed
early in spring, or by slips or offsets from the
roots. It is now a common nnd well-known pro
duction, having long since become naturalised
throughout the United States. The manner of
planting and cultivating it, is not dissimilar to that
adopted in growing Indian Corn, and its ncreable
product exceeds that of the most prolific cereals.
The principal uses to which the seed of the sun
flower is ordinarily applieo, are the manufacture
of oil, for painting and burning, and the feeding
of horses, sheep, beeves and swine. The oil is
clear, thin and inodorous when burnt, though of
an agreeable taste. For painting, it is preferable
to any other oil now in use. As a feed for hens,
it is highly prized. Being of an oily nature, it
approximates more nearly the character of animal
food than any grain that can be fed to them, and
supplies to a considerable extent, a rery efficient
substitute for meat. The sunflower requires good
soil, and may he managed in the same manner as
Indian Corn, when grown on soils that are Iriablc,
rich and moist.
Bommkr's Mam he. Bummer's patent manure
is made by ereciing a square pile of straw, stalks,
leaves and other dry vegetable matter, at the side
of a vat or reservoir. Liquid manure from the
vat is pumped repeatedly on the pile, cauiing its
fermentation. The pile is built on rails and brush,
so as to drain freely, and admit the air from be
low. All surplus drainage passes off into ihe vat.
The liquid manure is made by mixing night soil
and other rich materials with water, adding
gypsum, with some lime, ashes, salt, etc., and
stable washings. Bommer published a useful
pamphlet on making manure, not now in market.
The patent is generally thought not to be valid.
Country Gentleman.
TrtE Messenger. The bearer of despatches
for Minister Soule, who left Washington on Fri
day afternoon last, to go out in the steamer, was
Warren Winslow E-q.. ol North Carolina.
" Mother, what is hush?" A hirsh, child ?
I do not know what makes you nsk ? " Caue
ihe other day 1 nsked Jane what made her back
stick out so. and she said hash."
Sbaving tlie Beard.
The more I reflect upon the mysteries of neu
rology and animal chemistry, the more confident I
am that, while we arc the least suspecting it, tri
fling errors in our doily life are producing impor
tant effects upon our corporeal systems; and I
declare it as my deliberate conviction that the hab
it, which may almost be styled American, of us
ing the razor upon the face, is sufficient to cause
a large proportion of the lamentable evils which
affect the human race in this country.
It appears by experiment that the beard, if
shaved, groves four to five times faster than if un
shorn. In this calculation, ah item is ommitted
which it is difficult to estimate, i. e., the stimulus
given the becrd by the first application of the razor
in adolescence, the experiments being made upon
beards after they have acquired an unnaturally ra
pid growth. The effect of this early stimulus
may be fairly counted at double the natural growth ;
then reckoning the difference in size and weight of
the fibre, which is treble, and we find the fruitful
truth to be, that we rame thirty times the natural
quantity of beard ! Thus it is evident that the
true beard is exhausted at a very early age, after
which the system is forced to supply a substitute.
Now nature will not submit with impunity to extra
ordinary demands upon her vigor, and that which
requires her to produce in a lifetime thirty times
as much beard as she was first inclined to, must
certainly be considered as such. She is fatigued
in proportion to the effort, let the particular Kind
be what it may, or let it be as moderate as it may;
but though her recuperative powers are great, she
insists upon having repose, even when working at
a rate chosen by herself. If that repose is deni
ed her she takes her revenge by breaking down
the mechanism. Who then can estimate the re
venge she will take for being compelled to labor
without rest under on uncompromising task
master !
2d. The chemical laboratory of man furnishes
in just proportion the ingredients required to depo
site in suitable quantity the bones, skin, hair, nails,
&c, and it is obvious that a superstraining of those
chemical elements which enter into the coflnpogr
tion of t!te beard must deprive of their just due all
the other tissues which are wholly or in part com
posed of the same elements. Such injustice Io
other structures they must inevitably feel, and the
entire system must suffer from a disturbance of the
balance of power requisite to a health action of its
various parts.
3d. The proper calorification of the body is one
of the most essential conditions of its healthy ac
tion ; and the non-conducting properties of the
beard ought to be a caution against trifling with
so powerful an agent, more especially when one
considers its intimate connection with the calorific
organs of the brain and with the respiratory organs.
Tlie popular notion, that, as women are beardless,
men may be or not as they please, is founded in
misapprehension. A man and a woman form one
specimen of the genus homo, and from a physiolo
gical point of view must be considered one and the
same. The absence of beard in women is counter
vailed by some other differences in her constitution,
which it would be needless to point out even if we
knew them. It suffices to know that nature is per
fect in her work.
4(h. The errors of the father shall be visited
upon the children unto the third and fourth genera
tion ; the tree being known by its fruit, for a cor
rupt tree cannot bring fourth good fruit ; which,
simplified, is " like begets like." No person who
feels the force of this law in all its fulness, can ex
pect to transmit to his posterity vigorous pulmo
nary organs, if he has done the best he could to
ruin his own. Daughters and sons are by nature
equally their father's heirs, and if consumption of
the respiratory organs spares more men than wo
men, the ont-door exercise of men must in part
account for the difference.
The mania which has ever possessed man for
disfiguring himself is astonishing. Not satisfied
with God's most perfect handiwork, different tribes
and nations variously undertake to beautify it, thus
fairly making themselves laughing stocks for each
other; but it is to be hoped ihat the 14 pioneers of
civilization " will come out from the category of
those who tattoo the skin, flatten Ihe skull, shave
the crown, taper the waist, stint the feet, circum
seise, and slit their ears and noses.
It is with difficulty that old habits are renounc
ed, even when ono is convinced that life can be
prolonged and made happier thereby; but it is
a question for young men seriously to consider,
whether, on starting in life, ihey will addict them
selves to a habit which at once wastes the time,
sours the temper, is against nature, and conse
quently involves their health and that of their off
spring. Nature has made her terms with us how we
may enjoy our daily existence and lengthen out
our lives ; these terms are to know her laws and
not infringe them.
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
Slall-Room and the IVnrserf.
" You are quite beautiful to-night," said Frank
Fearing to his young wife, as she entered the
drawing-room, dressed for a ball ; " I shall fall in
love with you over again. What ! not a smile for
your loved husband? and a tear in your eye, too!
What does this mean, dearest V
Mary leaned her beautiful head upon her hus
bands shoulder, and turned pale as she said :
" Frank, I feel a strange, sad presentiment of
some impending evil, from whpnee, 1 cannot tell.
1 have strived to banish it, but it will not go
away. Iliad not meant to speak of it to you,
lest you should think me weak or superstitious;
and, "Frank," said his sweet wife, in impleading
tones, 14 this is frivolous life we lead. We are
all the world to each other why frequent such
scenes as this ? A fearful shadow lies across my
path. Stay at home dearest ; I dare not go to
night." Frank looked at her thoughtfully a moment,
then gaily kissing her, said
44 This vile east wind has given you ihe blues ;
the more reason you should not give yourself lime
to think of them ; beside, do you think me such a
Blue Beard as to turn ihe key on so bright a jew
el as yourself? No no; Mary, I would have
others see it sparkle and shine, and envy ms in its
possession ; so throw on your cloak, little wife,
and let us away."
4 S?op a moment, then," said Mary, with n
smi!e and a sigh, m fet mc kisj little Walter before
bright. Come
with me, frank, ana iook ai i"".
With kisses on lips brow and cheek, the child
slumbered on, and the carriage rolled away from
the door to the ball.
It was a brilliant scene, that hull-room ! Necks
and arms that si amed f - whiteness, the snowy
robes that floated . nd them; eyes rivalling
the diamonds light rtes whose hue was borrow
ed from the sun ; manhood's peerless form and
noble brow ; odorous garland's flashing lights,
music to make your blood race more swiftly
through the veins : all were there to intoxicate and
bewilder.
Peerless in the midst queen of hearts ar.d of
the dance stood the young wife of Frank Fear
ing. Accepting the offered hand of an acquain
tance, she took her place among the waltzers.
She made a few turns upon the floor, then pale as
death, she turned to her husband, saying :
44 O, Frank, I can not I feel such an oppression
here," and sli3 placed her hand on heart and
brow.
Frank looked annoyed; he was very proud of
his wife ; her beauty was the admiration of the
room. She had never looked lovelier than that
night. Whispering io his ear, 44 for my &ake
Mary conquer this weakness," he led her again
to the dancers. With a smile of gratified pride,
he followed her wilh his eyes, as her fairy form
floated past him, excitement and exerciso lending
again to her cheek its loveliest glow, while on all
sides, murmurs of 44 beautiful most beautiful," fell
on his ear. 44 And that bright vision is mine,"
said Frank to himself ; 44 1 have won hor from
hearts that were breaking for her."
When the dance was over, following her to the
window, he arranged her scarf about her neck,
wiih a fond care, nnd with a thank you dearest,
when leaving her she again laid her hands upon
his arm, saying with a wild brilliancy in her eye :
44 Frank something has happened to Walter take
me home now."
44 Pshaw I Mary, dear; you look so radiant; I
thought you danced the vapors away. One more
dearest, and then if you say so, wo will go."
Suffering herself to be persuaded, again those tiny
feet were seen spurning the floor ; toward the close
her face grew so deadly pale, that her husband in
alarm, flew to her side.
"The effort costs you too much, Mary," said
Frank ; 44 let us go home." He wrapped her cloak
carefully about her. She was still and cold as a
marble statue.
As the carriage stopped at their door, she rush
ed past him with the swiftness of an antelope, and
gaining her boy's chamber, Frank heard her ex
claim, as she fell senseless to the floor : 4 I knew
it, I told you so !" The child was dead.
The servant in whose care the child had been
left, following the example of her mistress, hud
joined some friends in a dance in the hall. That
terrible scourge of children, the croupe, had at
tached him, and alone in darkness, the fair boy
wrestled with tlie 44 King of Terrors."
From whence camo the sad presentment that
clouded the fair brow of the mother ; or the mys
teroua magnetisra drawing her so irresistibly back
to her dying child ? Who shall tell ?
For months she lay vibrating between life and
death.
44 Yet the healer was there, who had smitten her
heart.
And taken her treasures away.
To allure her to hsaven, he has placed it on high.
And the mourner wiff sweetly obej ."
41 There had whispered a voice 'twas the voice of
God,
I love the ! pass under the rod.'
Other fair children now call her 44 mother,"
never again, with flying feet, has she chased the
midnight hour away. Nightly, as they return,
they find her within the quiet circle of home
within call of helpless childhood. Dearer than
the admiration of the gay throng sweeter to her
than violin or harp, is the music of their young
voices, and tenderly she leads their little feet 44 into
the- green pastures and still waters of salvation,"
blessed with the smiles of the Good Shepherd, who
sayeth, 44 Suffer little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not."
The Russian Crcsade. The idea prevails
among the Russian soldiers ihat they are on their
way to the Holy Land, to rescue it from the lands
of infidels, in which flattering term are comprised
not only the Mussulmans, but the English and
French. On the march of one of ihe early corps
into the Principalities, a party nf soldiers halted at
a house to bpg for a draught of water. After
their thirst was satisfied, they ashed with great
simplicity, but wiih all apparent sincerity, wheth
er they were far from Jerusalem, for which they
were on their march ; and that they wero told they
would reach it in one or two days.
Gen. Lafayette. During the Revolutionary
war, Gen. Lafayette being in Baltimore, was invi
ted to a ball. He went as requested, but in stead
of joining in ihe amusement, as might bo expected
of a young Frenchman, of twenty-two, he addres
sed the ladies thus 44 Ladies, you are very hand
some ; you dance very preltily ; your ball is very
docbut my soldiers have no shirts." The ap
peal was irresistible; the ball ceased, the ladies
went home and went to work, and next day a large
numberof shim were prepared by the fairest hands
of Baltimore, for the gallant defenders of their
country.
Shocking Mcrder. We learn that a shock
ing murder was committed in Chapel Hill, on
Saturday night lasl, by J. Brocxwell, upon the
person of Mr. James Davis. Brockwell, wc learn,
went to Mr. Davis and used some very offensive
language, whereupon Mr. Davis told him he must
go away : Brockwell refused, and continued his
offensive language. Mr. Davis then took him by
the arm and told him he must lesve there, there
upon Brockwell drew his knife and inflicted several
stub3 upon Mr. Davis, killing him almost instantly.
The murderer is a worthless drunken loafer, but
his victim was a highly respectable mechanic and
a member of the Methodist church. Here is
another distressing sacrifice lo the rum friend !
How long before the people will rise and put a
stop to his insatiate bloodlhirst mess ? Brockwell
was arrested and is now in prison to await his
trial. Star.
I fro : he lies in his little bed so
The Vote ou Nebraska Bill.
We see nothing in the recent vote in the House
of Representatives which would induce us tfi be
lieve that it was a test vote as to the final result.
The Washington Star gives us the following infor
mation concerning the action of the House on
Tuesday, by w hich it will be seen that that jour
nal has'no apprehensions as to the success of tho
measure :
44 Those who understand the real condition of
things here are not a little amused at th euse which
the ultra opponents of ihe Nebraska bill are already
aiming !o make of the vote of the House yesterday,
by whtch it was referred io the committee of iho
w hole on the state of the Union, in the face of the
fact that some seventeen of its avowed friends
voted not to make it an exception to the rule
governing the House in preliminary legislation
upon all such measurrs. It will be recollected
that the subject has already been maturely con
sidered nnd acted on by the committee on terri
tories, who some time since sent to the committee
of the whole a similar project. The subject is,
therefore, Irgitimutcly in the keeping of the com
mittee of the whole on the state of the Union.
The idea that it can be easily strangled there is a
fiction, a majority being in its favor. Tlie case
is different with a measure in which comparatively
few members take interest. When such a bill i
sent to the committee of the whole on the state of
the Union, without being mado a special order at
this period of a session, the chances ore that it
will not be reached, as it is not to be expected that
a majority will by aside all business, in which
they may be interested, to gratify the wishes of a
few.
44 In such a case as this, however, with a clear
majority in favor of ihe bill, it can be taken up at
any time they will, by refusing to take up bills
which are before it on the calendar; as is done
frequently in such cases. Tho only hope of its
opponents is to defeat it by "legislative expedients,"
which at times succeed eventually, when a measure
is not regarded as of great importance, but never
when it may be so considered. The decision of
Mr. Chandler, as regards counting to make a
quorum, commented upon by us yesterday, m ia
destined to tell with powerful effect against any
such efforts of the opponents of the Nebraska bill.
By-the-by, it utterly deprives them of their meant
of wearying the majority with cross motions, and
othep time-consuming motions. Our readers may
look out for all sorts of extravagant stories relative
to the destruction of the measure, thus accom
plished in the first place in tho anti-Nebraska news
papers ; Bnd afterwards for appeals on appeals, in
the same journals, that it may be killed 4,dead-er,"
(as they say in the Bowery.)
The bill will be taken up as soon as public busi
ness, standing in the woy, can be disposed of i
which action will show how foolish are the cries
of the abolitionists that, in tho vote of reference
yesterday, they have killed' the prospect for the
enactment of the mensure."
Oadsden Treaty.
Washington, March 20, 1854.
There ore very conflicting opinions circulating
in this city respecting (he chances of the Gadsden
treaty being confirmed by the Senate. I am some
what disposed to think that there are good chances
of its ratification, arising principally from the in
fluence exercised by the lobbymen in favor of its
passage. For the present it seems likely that the
Gadsden treaty will furnish a morft fertile placer
for the exertions of the lobbymen than any other
subject before Congress. There is no question
but that Santa Anna and his agents here would
gladly pay the lobby two or three millions to se
cure the passage of ihe treaty, leaving him twelve
or thirteen millions in hand, as a capital upon
which he hopes to establish his empire in Mexico,
and reduce all Central America under his domin
ion. I have the best reasons for believing that
however much all the Mexican claimants, such as
Hargous & Co., Sloo, and others, may differ
amongst themselves, fhey are in general united in
persuading, inducing and fluttering the Senators
iato the confirmation of the treaty.
But. besides that, thpre are some American in
terests concerned in its ratification. 1 understand
that Santa Anna has sent an order to Messrs.
Ames, the great cannon manufacturers of Spring
field, Massachusetts, lor two hundred guns, of
from ten to fifteen pound calibre each, and that
the payment of tho order, which, of course, in
cludes the supply of a vast amount of ammunition,
musketry, revolvers, 6zc., is to be made contingent
on the passage of the Gadsden treaty. Of course
the manufacturers at Springfield are well aware of
the potency of the lobby, and will avail themselves
of its aid and eloquence in the proper way. There
are various other interests also at work in favor of
the treaty. Those who have either obtained or
ore promised orders to furnish steamers and other
vessels for the transport of troops and munitions
of war for the splendid campaign in which Santa
Anna is to overrun and subdue Central America,
are of course contributing their efforts to obtain its
confirmation. New York Herald.
W orth Knowing. A mother writes to an ex
change as follows : 44 We were aroused this
morning by the struggling of our little boy, about
three years old, who was laboring under a violent
attack of the croup. His breathing was to difficult
as to awaken persons who were sleeping in an
adjoining room. 1 hastily folded a towel, dipped
it into cold water, and applied it to his throat ; i
then folded a sheet to the proper size, wet it, rolA
him up in it, and wrapped a blanket ojm
He went to sleep in three mimitea-kp1
five o'clock, when he got qp" dresssd, and
went to play, in three ho- "Rr lne attack, and
we wero rejoiced al '0 curative power of cold
water.
Tom ceo CnEwEns, Beware. Besides the poi-
contmned in the weed itself, mnnv of our to
bacco chewera are absorbing into their system an
oxyde of lead, the same which kills ao many
painters', and paralyzes others. Lead loil is cheaper
thnn tin foil and some of those who put up tobacco
for Chewing, use the latter instead of the former.
The counterfeit may be known by its dark blue or
bluish color, w hercas tin foil is nearly white. To
bacco chMvers who do not wish to absorb two
poisons, at once, will do well to profit by this cau.
tim.
This line looks solemn but it fills the column.