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CHARLOTTE, N. JQ., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1854.
NO. 1.
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CFIARLOTTE, N. C.
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FACTORS & COMMISSION MERGHANTS,
iVas. 1 atid 2 Atlantic Whatf,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
r? Liberal advances ma 'e on Consignments.
! T Special attention given to tle sale of Flour, Corn,
UV-- , and uoin o r I mm experience in the bus.ness, we
feel confident of (riving satisfaction.
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CHARLESTON, S. C.
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.irt;mi Material. Silks and Kicli Dress Goods, Cloaks,
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M ircli 17, 1854 34 ly
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toll SDDDB Iffl ixwmim3
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sept 23, "53 ly CHARLESTON, S. C.
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M IRDLln, w ll.hl.K & ill kamdi:.
AND COMMISSI O ft M ERCHANTS,
.SOUTH ATLANTIC WHARF,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
T Commission lor selling Cotton Fifty cents per Bale.
Sept 23, 1853. 10-ly.
RAMSEY'S PIANO STORE.
MUSIC AND MUSIC A I. INSTRUMENTS.
NUNNS & CO.'S Patent
Diagonal Grand I 1ANOS;
Hallet Davis & Co.'s Patent
Suspension Bridge PIANOS;
bickerings, Travers'and
other bet makers' Pianos, at
r aelorv 1 rices.
aiwoaiOj S. t
Sept. Vi, 1893.
10-ly.
CAROLINA INN,
BY JENNINGS B. KERR.
Charlotte, JT. C
January i"j3.
Mrs. A. W. WHPALAX,
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AND BHESS MAE
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Hotel,)
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
"7" Presses cat and made by the celebrated A. B.C.
aetbod, an.l warranted to fit. Orders solicited and
i :i,ptlj attended to. Sept. !, lb;3 8-1 y .
Gil Lit: & A MBERT,
21'J BUM STREET,
CHARLESTON, S. C,
IMPORTERS & DEALERS in Koyal Velvet, Tapes
I try, Brussels, Three ply, Ingram and Venetian
'AKPET1KGS; India, Rasa and Spanish MATTINGS,
lugs. Door Mats, Stc. Vc.
OIL PLOTHS, of all widths, cut for rooms or entries.
IRISH LINENS, SHIRTINGS, DAMASKS, Diapers,
.0114 Lawns, Towels, Napkins, Doylias, cr.
An extensive assortment ol Window LUKTAIHS,
CORNICES, Ace, Ac
TfT Merchants will do well tc examine our stock
tore purchasing elsewhere.
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The American Hotel
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CHAR LOTTE,
N. C.
BVA' to iBBoanea to mj Iricnda, the public, ;nd prcs
I ut patroiiM of the above Hotel, that I hiive leased the
lame for a term of years from the 1st of January next.
Rt'ter which time, the ei.tire property will be thorough
ly repj'-cd anil renovated, and the house kept in first
lass style. This Il itel is near the Depot, and pleasant
ly situated, rendering it a desuaoie nusc ior travellers
knd taiuilies.
Dec 1G, 1833. 221 C. M. RAY.
Baltimore Piano Forte Main-factory.
e
BJ. WISE St BROTHER, Manufacturers of Boudoir
, (J.and and Square PIANOS. Those wishing a
Bood and substantial Piano that will last an age, xt a
m- - price, may rely on getting such by addressing tlie
M inuiaeturcrs. bv mail or otherwise. We have the
nor of serving and referring to the first families in the
Hate. In no case is disappointment sutterabic. Ihe
Manufacturers, also, refer to a host of their fellow citi
zens. J. J. WISE i. BROTHER,
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rrfc.tiio Vt Alc.-k U.al anil P.rcnna Prmiprtv
Feb 3, lbol thos. u. march, j. m. e. suabp.
Livery and Sales Stable,
15 Y S. II. IS !: A.
T the stand formerly occupied by R. Morrison, in
Charlotte. Horses ted. hired and sold. Gond &
xnmodalions for Drovers. The custom of his friends
id the public generally solicited.
February 17, 1654. 30-v
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
I June 9 15ol iv
The Vale of Sweet Waters The Turk
Ladies out of Doors.
Friday, the Sunday of the Mahommedans, is
also their day of recieation. We are now in full
spring, the season in which the Turks frequent
the country. This is the time for their excursions
to enjoy the day, either on the banks of the Sweet
Waters of Asia or Europe. The former is, how.
ever, more resorted to in the autumn, and the
other draws greater crowds in the present season.
On Friday last the S.iltan repaired there after mo.s
que, &s also the ladies of his harom. Many thou
sand caiques might be seen gliding along the Gol
den horn, filled with the families of the Pachas,
all bound for the same destination, the Sweet Wa
ters of Europe, and filled with the veiled beauties
of the harem. It is vain to attempt to give a de
scription of this scone. It would require the eye
of an artist to deservedly appreciate its peculiar
features, and not the humble pen of your matter
of fact correspondent to describe it. The scene
of the Sweet Waters of Europe last Friday remind
ed one of the Arabian Nights, and of the brilliant
descriptions of the East only to be met in the po
ems of Moore or Byron. The waters of Europe
were sweet indeed last Friday. Many thousand
sweet creatures were there, spread about the
green meadows in groups of four and five, with
little children and young girls in their brilliant
Oriental costumes. In order to place ibis scene
vividly before you, it is necessary to explain the
position of the little valley in which all this occur
red. The valley of the Sweet Wafers of Europe is at
the extremity of the Golden Horn, where two small
rivulets enter ihe sea. The Sultan has a kiosque
I on the border of these streams. The valley is not
' more lhan half a mile wide, with ereen hills rising
at each hide. It is almost entirely meadow, inter-
I spersed with trees here and there, and a little wood
on the left side. It is not cultivated, neither is much
care taken of it. At any time but spring or autumn
it is indeed barren, and towards the centre swampy,
and during the winter months frequently under
water. At present it is, however, in its full beau-
I ty and verdure. On Friday it was peopled by
I many thousand persons- I never saw it so full
uelore. I he way was blocked up oy carriages
full of Turkish ladies, and thfe river wa9 literal
Iv so full of caquea that you could not pass. The
fair natives of fair Armenia and Georgia were
there spread about on the grass, whilst black
eunuchs on white Arabians whirled about with
jealous eves, watching the property of their mas
ters. The Turkish veil (the Yacmak) hides the
greater part of the face from view, but these fair
Orientals have of the late years changed the tex
ture of this covering, so that you can well distin
guish the finely chiselled nose and rosy lips be
neath it. What beat iy was not there assembled !
I had never seen suc.i an assemblage ol Turkish
ladies before, or ratner of ladies belonging to
Turks ; and had often ihought the accounts and
descriptions of the Oriental beauty exaggerated.
They are not. I( there was one there were &
hundred young women there of the highest class
of beauty, with the straight Grecian nose, and that
clear, soft, dark, almond shaped eye. What eyes,
and also what looks! They seemed very happy
seated in little groups, pic-nicking They had
all brought their dinners with them, and sweat
meats which thev were emovios. listening to the
i most discordant humdrum Turkish music, which
j was being performed by parties of four or five
j men with a species of guitar, not unfrcquendy ac
companied by a guttural chaunt, the only excuse
the Turks have for singing. I am not an admirer
of Oriental minstrelsy. They have no ear for
music.
Picture to yourself these thousand damsels
spread about the green, in blue, pink, purple,
oranee. scarlet, preen, and yellow costumes :
children in scarlet, velvet, with gold plaited through
the hair, and intermixed with lng locks falling
over their shoulders ('here was one little Turkish
boy, the son of some pacha, dressed in red velvet,
prancing about on a pony in every direction ;)
Turkish soldiers ; great carts, guilt and decorated,
drawn by bullocks, and filled with women; ne-gtof-s
on white horses, galloping about on every
side ; Turks sitting -ros-legged, smoking narg
hiles and chibouks in silence, enjoying their kief;
Armenians ; Persians, in their peaked fur caps,
I be Persian Ambassador in his carriage in full cos
tume, followed by the must extraordinary looking
men on horseback, dressed up in Cashmere shawls;
Circassians, in yellow pointed caps, (almost all
enib'issies were there;) mix up with these some
British officers of every uniform, and his Royal
Highness the Duke ol Cambridge, with his staff.
all mounted on superb Arabian horses, the proper
ty of the Sultan, with pu'ple velvet saddles richly
embroidered in gold, and you have some idea of
the brilliant scene the Sweet Waters of Europe
presented on Friday last.
His Royal Highness walked and rode about a
good deal, and seemed to enjoy (he scene ama
zinglv. Lord de RedclifFe, who I regret to say is
indisposed, did not accompany htm. Our offi
cers strolled round the meadows looking at the
Turkish beauties ; and they stand fire very well,
I assure you. Many a glance was exchanged be
tween them and the Inglis Askier, those smart
young fellows in the rod jackets ; indeed I am told
that one Turkish lady presented her handkerchief
to a handsome ensign of the 8S;h ; but this I can
not vouch for, a 1 did not see it. Several got
flowers from them I know, for one young gentle
man very naively asked, can one take flowers if
they give them to you 1 I have no doubt many a
boquet was given them. It is to be hoped none
of this will end in a sack and the Bosphorus.
The black guardians of the fair were all eyes, or
rather scowls ; they were on the qui vive, but had
thev seen anything, they dare not touch an Eng
lish nffleer for smiling at a lady. I saw one of
these fellows shake an unfortunate rayah by the
collar most unmercifully, because he did not get
out of the way quick enoagh. He had better noi
try the same trick on an Englishman..
Mind Your pronunciation. A young gentle
man of our acquaintance created quite a sensation,
a few evenings since, while reading to a circle of
youno- ladies a poetic efhision " To a benutilul
Belle' by pronouncing the latter word io two syllables-
War. Nevs.
Important Dkcovfrv. A quicksilver mine,
probablv the lafgeat in the worid has been discov
ered by Mr. Cur'is. at IVhalesburg, Oregon.
The use I Gabriel."
The biography of the 41 Angel Gabriel " has
b'.en published in New York, -from which we
make the following extract of this eccentric char
acter :
The name of this eccentric and perJpathtic ora
tor is McSwish. His father was a native of Scot
land, and was a domestic in the establishment of
the Marquis of Huntley. He married a female
domestic in ihe household, and with her emigrated
to the Isle of Skye, where this precious " Angel
Gabriel" the fulminator of unpalatable truths,
first opened his eyes upon a sinful world. His
fortunes and wanderings have not been uniinclured
with romance and tinged with some most disicpu
table reminiscences. He was born on the 3d of
September, 1809, and is consequently fortyrfive
years of age.
His mother's maiden name was Saunders, and
he was christened Sandy McSwish. He was a
very dull lad, and instead of remaining at school,
was apprenticed to a weaver in his thirteenth year.
II is mother having in the meantime become a
widow, she married an itinerant Baptist preacher
named Orr, whence the " Angel " not only deri
ved his present name, but imbibed his singular no
tions of handing his name down to posterity. The
family, in course of lime, left the Isle of Skye, ard
Orr went on a preaching tour to the Higlilands,
bu.' finding the " business " bad, he changed his
name as well as his occupation, and as one VVig
gins, he joined an equestrian troupp. Sandy, of
course, followed in tho footsteps of his illustrious
step-father, and soon distinguished himself in his
new calling. He shortly quarreled with the man
ager, however, joined a company of acrobats, with
whom he traveled over England, and finally came
to Liverpool.
Here he fell in love with a wine merchant's
daughter, with whom he eloped to Wales, where
they were married. In Wales, he first set up as
a preacher of the Methodist persuasion ; but bis
hearers soon growing weary of bis discourses, he
conceived the happy ideu of setting his sermons
to music, and introduced for that purpose a tin
horn into the pulpit. Hfiice the origin of all our
woes ! Having by some means lallen into disgrace,
he left his Welsh charge under cover of night,
leaving a few debts behind, and taking in exchange
the pewter tankard, which had been employed in
the church sacraments, and with his trumpet he
commenced his wanderings.
Embarking as a cook on board a Bristol vessel,
he first landed at Jamaica, in the West Indies, where
he resumed his functions of " stated preaching."
But as the Baptist denomination was here more
populous and numerous than his former sect, he
left the Methodist, and came out a deeply immers
ed Baptist. He left, Jamaica, and next started a
dancing school in a small village, during which fie
first heard of the flourishing Mormon settlement
at Nauvoo, in Illinois, and immediately determin
ed to push his fortunes in that direction. He as
rived in Philadelphia just at the period of the na
tive American excitement there, and concealing
his origin and antecedents, and being a dashing,
spirited fellow, he soon was an acknowledged lead
er, finally becoming the editor of a nativist paper.
He gave up aI 1 idea of following Joe Smith, as the
harvest here was already ripe for the reaper. He
came to New York, had just money enough to
purchase a brass horn, which he has continued to
blow until his name hns filled the earth.
The particulars of this strange biography are
related by one who was born in the same town
with the " Angel Gabriel," and he is quite asuch
astonished at his success and notoriety as any one.
He always wears his trumpet, frequently rides on
the teps of omnibuses, and blows for the amase
rnent of drivers.
Home and Wife oy Saturday. Happy is
the man who has a little home and a little angel
in it of a Saturday night. A house, no matter
how iittle, provided it will hold two or so no
matter how furnished, provided there ifi hope
id it ; let the winds blow ciose the curtains.
What if they are calico or plain, without border
or tassal or any such thing ? Let the rain come
down : heap up t!ie fire.
No matter if you havn't a candle to bless your
self wiih, for what a beautiful light glowing coals
make, reddening, clouding shedding sunset radi
ance through the little room ; just enough to talk
by ; not loud as in the highways ; not rapid as in
the hurrying world but softly, slowly, whisper,
ingl v, with them for the storm without the thoughts
within to fill up.
Then wheel the sofa round before the fire ; no
matter if the sofa is a settee, uncushioned nt that ;
if so may it just be long enough for two, or say
two and a half in it. How sweetly the music of
silver bells from time to time, falls on the listen
ing ear then. How mournfully swell the chimes
of the days that are no more."
Under these circumstances, and at such a time,
one can get at least sixty nine and a half statute
miles nearer kingdom-come." than an) other
point in this world laid down in' Malte Brun !
May be you smile at this picture ; but there is
a secret between us, viz: it is a copy of a picture,
rudely drawn, but true as a Pen6tateuch, of an
original in every human heart. Exchange.
A Cure for Bone Felon. A friend informs
us that while suffering with a bone felon, 20 years
ago. Dr. F. Lebarron, late the Apothecary General
of the United States, advised him to fill a thimble
with soft soap and quicksilver mixed, and bind it
tightly over the felon. This he did, and in the
course of 12 hours it was drawn to a head, when
the core was removed, und by appliances of the
usual poultice the sore soon healed. Our infor
mant remarks that this is a severe expedient, but
one that is preferred to the customary treatment.
We have heard others who have used the remedy
prescribed say 'hat it is the most effectual ami ex
peditious. As a good many persons are now af
flicted with bone lelons, e have been requested
to make this publication. May it prove a real
blessing to the suffering ? Baltimore Clijptr.
Inventive Skill. It r.ppears by the first part
of the report of the Commissioner of Patents, that
a patent was, in September last, issued to David
Froed, of Huniingdon, Pennsylvania, for an im
provemens in toilet furniture' The invention
consists in attaching to a piece of furniture an ap
paratus by means of which pantalooons may be
drawn off without stooping or sitting do ii ! This
is whnt may b-j called a lazy man's luxury.
From the South Carolinian.
Organization of Parties.
For the security of the government,, for the pre
servation of political integrity Among its admin
istrators, as well as for the benefits which flosr
from political discussions, it is necessary that par-
ties should exist under such a form of government
as ours, that vigilence which alone is (he sleep
less sentinel of the people's liberties cannot be
maintained without contending parties. This
being generally admitted, it only remains for the
citiiens of ihe republic to choose which organiza
tion of those in operation they will attach them
selves to.
In former days tho two parties in this country,
which swallowed up all others, were whig and
democrat. The principles and doctrines of the
latter having prevailed, and indeed became incor
porated into the policy of the government, we now
have numerous organizations under various names;
but it must be noted that the democratic party, un
der the banner of State rights, free trade, and ad
herence to the constitution, has suffered less from
these side organizations than its rival the whig
party. Cleaving, in the main, to their original
faith, the democrats have achieved victory after
victory, until their principle are recognised as
those which ought to shape the general policy,
both foreign and domestic, of the American gov
ernment. Ihe whig party, on the contrary, is
broken up into numerous factions, having been
defeated on all the great principles which united
its members as a party. Notwithstanding the as
severations of the National Intelligencer, and some
other leading whig journals of the JSorth, the par
ty, is defunct, without the slightest prospect of a re.
suscitation. It has become intensibly amalgama
ted with the anti-slavery factions of the Eastern
States, and, so far as the North is concerned, we
have little doubt hut its members, ere the Presiden
tial election, will be found enrolled in a general
ami-Southern party.
We publish in another column, irom various
journal, the evidences of this tendency, and they
are only a few of the many we receive daily from
that section. It follows, as a natural consequence,
that the whigs of the South, if they still desire to
maintain a distinct organization, must act for and
by themselves. Many of their journals have ta
ken the same ground, and have gone so far as to
commend a sectional disruption of the party, and
a convention of its Southern mombers at Colum
bus, Georgia. We have no whig party in South
Carolina, but if our advice be considered worthy
of attention, it would be that Southern whigs unite
with Southern democrats for the firm maintenance,
of Southern rights and equality. This is the only
issue worthy of their support, and it is an issue
which, from all the signs of the times, they will
have to meet shoulder to shoulder.
And in taking this view of political affairs, we
say it without hesitation, that the organization of
the democratic party can be preserved that its
preservation is essential to Southern interests, and
that Southern men of all parties ought to contribute
to its preservation. The whigs of the South have
now no political principles as a party. Their
Northern coadjutors have deserted them, and at
tached themselves to organizations inimical to our
rights and interests, and it becomes a duty, to
which political affinities must yield, for Southern
men to have no party conneclion with the enemies
of their institutions, whatever their name or apel
lation. It is true that there have been defections
in the Northern democracy that some have per
mitted sectiona I fanaticism to steal tiway their an
cient principles; but. as u party , tho democracy
of the Union are entitled to the confidence and
support of the South.
The administration of General Pierce, as nn ex
ponent of the democratic party, is moreover wor
thy of the confidence of the South in the leading
measures of its course thus far.
On all the great questions affecting our interests
the execution ofahe Fugitive Slave law, the re
peal of the Missouri Compromise, the veto of the
Insane land bill, and in his known opposition to
kindred measures of plunder President Pierce
haj proved himself true to the principles of the
party which has placed him in the Presidential
chair a State rights, strict-construction democrat.
Southern whigs, if true to their section, cannot
join in a party war against him, or give aid and
comfort to any faction at the North, whose lead
ing idea or motive, destitute of political principle,
is hostility to his administration.
As a Carolina journalist, we have no inclination
to be considered partisans in federal politics ; but
a calm and dispassionate survey of political mat
ters, as they now present themselves, forces upon
our mind the conviction that a " great Northern
partv," whose sole object is the subjugation of the
South and the destruction of the.r rights, will be
found in the democratic party of the Union. If
this party, cleaving to its principles, be forced into
a sectional organization, the South will still have
left amongst its Northern members a large num
ber of sympathizers and allies, who will aid her in
the day of trial. This is our honest conviction.
It may be taken for what it is worth.
The North Carolina Road. We learn, from
a genileman present at the late meeting of the
Stockholders of the North Ctyolinn Railroad, at
IMlsboro,' on the 13th inst., that it was well at
attended, and that Calvin Graves, Esq., presided.
After the transaction of the ordinary business
ccc, the amended charter, laid over from last
meeting, was taken up, and, after a lengthly de
bale, rejected by a majority of about 700 votes.
A resolution was pissed instructing the Board
of Directors to negotiate a lone of SI, 000, 000 for
the completion and equipment of the road.
The following gentlemen were elected Directors
by the Stockholders, in the order in which their
names come :
Francis Fries, of Salem,
Caleb Phifcr, of Concord,
R. M. Saunders, of Raleigh,
J. M. Morehead, of Greensboro .
At a meeting of the new Board of Directors, herd
shortly thereafter,
John M. Morehead was re-elrcttd President of
t he roa d . T I rilm in "ton Herald.
The Know-Nothings. The Cincinnati Times
says bv dint of grifct industry and f-harpnees we
discovered the password of this mysterious order.
Here it is " Ktsiiom-Ca-Kuoiu imbummumus
Keiliililmmpst-ksamiuxi'niinux."
From the New York Herald, July 16.
The South judged by Figures.
Ann-slavery declamation has at last provoked
statistical inquiry into the relative condition of. the
NortJiern and Southern Slates; and the astou-
ished hearers of Theodore Parker and William
Lloyd Qarrison have learnt for the first time that
religion 13 more spare and crime more frequent in
ihe free Slates than in the slave. Comparative
tables compiled from census returns have shown
that the Southern States with a quarter of a mil
lion less population than the Northern, contain
1,365 more churches, und about half as many
criminals. Of course it is easy to suggest rea
sons for so striking a discrepancy ; the solutions
offered by extreme fanatics in boin sections or the
country are numerous and frequently amusing.
A secessionist organ traces the fact to the direct
agency of the slave system, which it recommends
the North to adopt as the only cure for its social
evils. A Northern abolitionist denies the accu
racy of the census report a very safe sort of
solution of the difficulty. Others explain the
scarcity of crime in the South by charging the
Southern police with inefficiency, and their courts
with undue leniency to criminals. On both sides
but especially in one section of the country
the statistical discovery has led to much loud de
clamation, and angry appeals to feeling. It seems
to have exasperated the fanatics of the Boston
school beyond measure to find that religion thrives
better under the shadow of the institution which
they are pleased to style the " sum of all evils "
than in the pious, moral, and proselytizing com
munity of which they are themselves conspicuous
members and bright shining lights. Nor can
they be at all reconciled to the fact that such pec
cadilloes as thefts, assaults, and murders are twice
as frequent in the society they vaunt as a model,
as in the pitied and much abused slaveholding
Stales. They are heartily welcome to whatever
consolation they may derive from ascribing these
differences to errors in the census report, the pre
valence of unpunished crime in the South, and
such silly pleas : facts are none the less facts,
and if accidental agencies have heightened the
conirast, we may leave a wide margin for the op
eration of such causes, and still find that, so far
from slavery being subversive of religion and
provocative of crime, our own experience of this
and other systems of .labor show exactly the
reverse.
Other statistics confirm the discovery if it
must be called by that name in deference to anti
slavery prejudice. Let us compare two prominent
States, one North, the other South Massachu
setts and Tennessee. The latter is the most pop
ulous by about 50,000 sculs ; the figures being,
al the late census, Massachusetts, 993,990 inhabi
tants, Tpnnes.ee 1.032.625: Yet the former
Stale contains 5,549 paupers, and the latter only
532. In Massachusetts there is one pauper for
every 200 of her population ; in Tennessee, one
to every 2,000. The same contrast is presented
by the returns of the insane, of whom Massachu
setts contains, 1,647, and Tennessee but 478.
Whatever conneclion there may be between slave
ry and religion, or slavery and crime, the dispar
ity existing between the number of paupers and
lunatics al the North and the same classes at the
South, is clearly tracaable to the effect of that
institution. A system of hereditary labor neces
sarily precludes pauperism ; and in a great mea
sure reduces the causes which lead to insanity.
In these points slavery has the advantage over
freedom.
But we may go further, and, without discussing
the abstract merits of either system, assume bold
y that crime must be what the census shows it to
be more. frequent in communities where the la
borers are free than in those where thev are ihe
property ol a master. The discipline essential
to the management of slaves is a formidable ob
stacle in the way of the commission of crime.
The slave who desires to rob or murder must first
foil the vigilance ol his overseer before he can
Lenable himself to perpetrate the crime : the free
man is unwatched and unchecked until the crime
has been committed. Opportunities for crime are
rare when it is the duty and interest of those in
authority to keep a perpetual watch over their ser
vants : they occur at every instant where the ser
vant, his work finished, has no control o acknowl
edge. In like manner, this vast authority in the
slave owner imposes on him a graver responsi
bility for his own acts than devolves on one whose
powers are more limited : a vicious master knows
that he sets the example of vice to his slaves, and
that their crime will cost him more lhan he can
afford. The freeman, surrounded by freemen,
has a comparatively insignificant interest in the
virtue of his deperuhnts. Again, pauperism be
ing necessarily more frequent where ull are self
dependent, and rarer where the sick and infirm
are gratuitously supported by a master, one of the
most fruitful sources of crime must be greater in
free than in slave communities. We shall not
exaggerate if we say that one-half of the thefts
committed in the North are due to poverty and
want : this stimulus to crime is entirely wanting
among slaves. Well or sick they are lodged, fedj
and clothed ; u every free laborer of the North
were sure of as much, our jail calendars would
be much lighter. Another potent spur to crime
is passion, which habitual restraint and perpetual
servitude must tend to curb and subdue. The
passions of the freeman must necessarily be more
violent and less easily resisted than those of the
slave who from his birth has been taught to yield
every feeling of his own to a master's will. If
all these differences are taken into account, the
disparity between the criminal returns of the two
sections of the Union will appear no strange phe-
nomenon, but an obvious inevitable result of plain
I
practical causes.
The discussion of slavery in the North is, un
der any circumstances, superfluous ar.d idle. No
one wanbs to introduce it here ; and we are bound
by our fealty to the constitution not to interfere
with it where it now exists. But such discussions
are worse than idle when they are provoked by
the false assertions and absurd talcs of the aboli
tionists. So long as the figures show thai pauper
ism, crime, and insanity are more frequent in the
North than in the South, and that religion is less
generally practised here than there, clamor and
abuse of Southern instituting are as impertinent
in the mouth of a Northerner, as attacks on hon
esty would be from the lips of a convicted- Ihkf.
Wanted, a few more cash-paying subscribers.
. W. Hoi den, Esq.
We confess to some surprise at the recent course
of several Whig papers in this State towards Mr.
Holden, the editor of the Raleigh Standard. We
knew those papers were, politically, thoroughly
unscrupulous, but we have always considered the
conductors of most of them too much of gentlemen
to descend to what we have seen them descend to.
It is not our purpose to render assistance to Mr.
Holden in his battles with these papers, for he is
fully able to defend himself; but as a friend we
cannot sit tamely by and hear him abused and
villified without feeling that indignation which will
vent itself.
Tho fact is, Mr. Holden edits ihe ablest paper
In iho and ano llinl ) hoen ihfi iharpCSt
thorn in the side of Whiggery ; und certain Whig
editors, unable Id meet his arguments or contro
vert his positions, have nothing left them but a
surrender or a resort to personal abuse. They
have perferred the latter, not to his injury, but
lo their disgrace, for such conduct is disgraceful.
We know Mr. Holden well, hare been person
ally intimnte with him, and have freely shared his
confidence ; and we can safelj' say that we never
knew a more honorable, highmlnded man, or one
who detested peity trickery, either personally or
politically, more than he. We n ver heard a senti
ment fall Irom his tongue but what was manly,
honorable and virtuous, revealing a charucler lofty
and unspotted, and a mind far above ordinary
strength and purity. If there is any man above
a dishonorable action and who scorns meanness
in all its forms and shapes, that man is Wm, W.
Holden. We speak not as his defender, for he
needs no defence; we speak as a friend, and if
we speak strongly it is because our friendship is
strong.
There was a time whpn Wm. W. Holden, as a
poor printer-boy, struggling with an adverse fate
and endeavoring lo riso to a higher p sition, was
slighted and spurned by certain would be aristo
crats of Raleigh, who thought it beneath their
dignity lo even notice him. When trying, amid
other avocations, to study law. he was not recog
nized by t. ese aristocrats as a member of nociety
for their circle. He was invited to no parlies or
festivities at their houses he was nothing but a
poor printer-boy, friendless and alone. These
slights goaded him, every one a spur to his ambition,
and lie resolved that ho would rise, not only to
them, but above them. And he has done it. If
in the bitterness of his soul he then said, 'They
shall yet feel me!" who wiil now say they have
not felt him ? He has done his duty to his country
and to his party, without fearing to attack the
great. The consequence has been that his life has
been a continuous warfare, but he has triumphed.
And it speaks well for his heart that his nature
was not soured by the treatment ho received in
youth that he did not income gloomy and misan
thropic. He bears no malice he hstes no one ;
Lut with native goodness, a commanding intellect,
a soaring genius, and holding tho pen of a "ready
writer,'' he has been the carver of his own fortune,
and in now appreciated most by those who know
him best. Halislnir? Ba??rcr.
A Short Story. Dickens tells the following
story of an American sea captain :
In his last voyage home, the captain had on
board a young lady of remarkable personal all ruc
tions a phrase I use as being one entirely new,
and one you never meet with in the newspapers.
This young lady was beloved intensely by five
young gentlemen, passengers, and in turn she was
in love with tlnni all very ardently, but without
any particular preference for either. No! knowing
how to make up her determination in (his dilemma,
sh' consulted my friend the captain. The captain,
being a man of original turn of mind, says to the
young lady, "jump overboard, and marry the man
who jumps afier you." The young lady, struck
with the idea, and being naturally fond of bathing,
especially in warm weather, as it then wn, took
the advice of the enptnin, who had a boat ready
and manned, in case of accident. Accordingly,
next morning, the five lovers being on deck, and
looking very devotedly at tlie young lady, she
plunged in'o the sea head foremost. Four of iho
lovers immediately jumped in alter her. When
tha young lady and her four lovers got out again,
she says to tho captain, "'what am I to do now,
they are so wet ?" Says the captain, "take the
dry one!" And the young ludy did and married
him.
Burning of Theatrics. II is a fact worthy of
notice, that the piece about to be performed at the
National Theatre in Philadelphia, when it took
fire, was the same that was performed in tho
Richmond Theatre, on the awful night of its de
struction by fire in December, 1811. In Philadel
phia it was advertised as "Raymond and Agnes,"
which is another name for "The Bleeding Nun,"
the representation ot which had progressed for
some time before the fire in the Richmond Theatre
occurred. The unfortunate actor who was burned
in the National Theatre, was dressed for the prin
cipal character. A friend says it is the third
Theatre destroyed on the night of the performance
of I his play. He does not remember the name or
locality of one of them. Even two, however, are
enough to make a remarkable coincidence, and lo
excite some superstitions against the representa
tions of "The Bleeding Nun," or "Raymond and
Agnes," as it is sometimes called.
Richmond Despatch.
A sweet Utile girl in New Haven, only 3 years
old, was promised one evening that she should ac
company her parents to Boston Ihe next morning.
She m,,ch elaled at ,he Prpect of the jour
.1 ...i. .1.. i
ney, and when she had finished repeating her little
prayer, as she laid down to sleep, she said with
the most exquisite simplicity : Good-bye, God
Good-bye, Jesus Christ I am going to Boston III
the morning 7
Tha New Orleans Bulletin adds that it is not
simply children, but that grown people as writ
may feel thai they bid good-bye to all expectations
of divine influence on going to Boston.
A gentleman was promenading a fashionable
street, with a brtght little boy at his aide, when the
little fellow called out :
" Oh Pa ! there goes nn editor ?"
" Hush, son," said the father ; " don't make
sport of 'he poor man God only knows what you
aaay come to yet '"