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WML in 11 TWlTj'T 'it 'riTI 7Y7IT T:i FR -U .VJAJ I JU.A1A1 JLlliA L A ) a: s. i a u 4 ; i s i iVf ftliVnTt WARING & HERRON, PROPRIETORS. Office, one door south of .Sadler's Ilolei up sairs. Terms of Subscription. It p;d strictly in advance $.',00 Ii ua.d wiihin tree month It , n : al the end of the year IftO No 'u'.'criptioo w.ll be received fur a shorn i pericd than IX IIHlllll. .r:y petuflfj sending RBI five NEW selscribeis, accompa nied by tin- advance subjcnption, (10,) will receive the auiih copy yiatis tor one year. Terms of Advertising. Advertisements will be inserted at fl per square for the first, and -5 cents tor each suset.eiit inseition- A fjuart con st is ol thirteen lines or Ief, this sire letter. A reas triable d-daction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. liouble column advertisement will be charjrfd 25 per cent, ad imoiial on the us.ial rate. AtwnwBMSli inserted monthly or quarterly 81 per square tor each insertion. Obituaries, Trib ite of Respect, Religious meetings, and Benevolent societies, will be charged hall the Adveitsing rates. For announcing cnudidnlps for office $3 in advance. Professional and Business ('aids not exceeding six lines will he inserted at S.'i a year ; not exceeding a square $.. fc"T Letteis on business nii.el be addn-rstd to the Fropr.e tors, post paid, to ensure attention. 93r Subscribers arid others who may wish to send money to ua, can do so at all tunes, ly wail, ui l at our risk. Lntc from Europe. 'I he steamer Alps h.is arrived bringing Liver pool dates ol July 19.h. The news from the Principalities indicates a de cisive h t'lh'. Omar P.mlia was at Giurjfrwo with 17,000 men, and tltH A I lie mid Turds. UO,O0U strong, were ad vancing to letnlorce him, Tha French were already nt Uustchuk, and the English half-way between Shumla and Kustchuk. The Russians w. re nt Frahieriehti, 70,000 strong and were eonliuu illy being reinforced. The Unssuns hnd heen defeated at Chernarnda, and the place captured hy the Turks. The Rus sians had also been defeated at Wat-schi. It was rumored that the Russian Gciiemi Arnet had com nntid suicide. The death ol Prince Paskiewitch was reported. At Petersburg 300 persons hid leen arrested, chared with plotting against the Government. in Spain the revolution was spreading. The garrison ol Bircelona had declared against the Government. Spau tali Iiiaiirrection. The following is the procl una'iun issued by the insurueul duels : Citizk.ns: A corrupt and corrupting govern meat, which has outraged Use noijesiy ol the laws and humiliated the honor ol the cuuutrv, is on th point of sinking under the weight of the national execration. The honorable men of all parties condecM it ; the public, indignant at its iniquities, reserves lor it an exemplary punishment. The days of us shameful domination do not suffice to count by "hem the reekouiig ol its crimes. It has broken through the coiisutultun of (he Stnte, trampled on all the rights of citizens, been want in" to ali i he sentiments of decorum, scorned the national representation, closed the tribune, en chained the press, sucked the treasjry, corrup'rd consciences, and sowed profound perturbation in the country. The generals who have given to the Queen a throti, in order to reign Constitutionally the men pertenced in political struggles, and the inde pendent writers, are persecuted, dismissed, or proscribed. A swarm of adventurers has pro posed to itself to convert Spain into its patrimony, nnd to destroy in a day the conquests of hTty years of heroic actions and generous sacrifices. After having torn from the people enormous con tributions not authorized by the Cortes, it has in stituted a new impost, which has spread misery und famine in the provinces. Its conduct has no example nor excuse. The revolution docs not sarii g from the masses, nor go out from the peo pie it proceeds from 'he governing power, which has pluct d itself beyond the law. It is not another change of persons which is trea'ed of, nor a party revolution ; what is treated of is the fraternal uniin of nil liberals, of all men ol probity, who seek to render the scandalous robbery which we have hpherto witnessed impos sible. Patriotism, union, and confidence with these three elements, the nation, liberty, and the throne, will be saved; and you will banish forever the sad legacy ol humiliation which otherwise you will leave to your children. An act of energy alone can put on end to the reign ol nbruianness nnd immorality. The eoumry expects it all lrm you. To arms, citi zens ! E'ther now or never ! Gemrul O'Donnt'll. Gen. Don Leopoldo O'Dontnll, Count de Lucena, the head and front of the Spanish insur rection, is an old officer of the Spanish Guard, and renowned for his courage. lie made himsell famous in the seven years' war against Don Curios, and was one of the first to attach himself to the liberal and constitutional monarchy of Isabella. Alter the war, a command was confided to him in the northern provinces. In 1841 he seconded the movement against the r gency of Espartero, which, not succeeding, O'Donnell left Spain, but he re turned two years ufter, when Espartero had fallen ; he was then nominated Captain General of Cuba. After thii he became a turbulent member of the opposition ; but Navarez did not scruple to entrust him with the important functions of Director General of cavalry, from which, however, he was subsequently dismiss d by Murilto. In February last he was ordered by the Queen into exile, but secreted himself iu Madrid ; and it is now known that the movement was to have taken place on the 29th instead of the 28th of June. O Donnell, during the three nights which preceeded it, abso lutely walked about the streets of Madrid in full uniform, waiting for the favorable monien'. He possesses, it is said, a very Jarge fortune, and makes his present expeditions, c n p. inc. in a chaise and four. Is tub War at av En ? The Czar is re ported to have uttered the following language : What is henceforth to be relied upon ?" he is said to have remarked. " If the Emperor of Aus tria and the King of Prussia fail in their most honorable and dearest sentiments, and Austria employs against me all the resources of her tradi tional skill, she misleads Prussia, I know ; but wbax ingratitude! The King of Prussia aod the Emperor of Austria have therefore forgotten alt tbey owe me. But for me and my armies, both one and the other would have ceased to reign, i alone saved them ; but do they think that all is over, and that they are in safety ? II I onlv thought of vengeance, I should allow their ene mies to have '.heir way, and the thing would be sooo prur ; they would pay dear for the in jury they seek to 'do me. The Emperor of Austria announces to me a declaration of war. I will not commence U, but will wait for it ; but let him be certain that if I feel inclined to remain in the Principalities, no one shall make me leave them. War, real war, war on a grand scale, has no! yet commenced ; it will soon commence, if I am driv en to it; an army of 500,000 men will be in march, and then we shall see," CHARLOTTE: FRIDAY MORMlffi, Aig- 4, 1854. Glory Enough ftr One Day! Whole Democratic Ticket Elected ! BRAGG, WALKER, BLACK and MYER S j VrfrmRiniTR im M RC; K 71 K V? 77 7? 7 111 I Mr Bkago received over Mr. Craigc's vcte ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ! We held back our paper a few hours to enable us to give the re.ult of the election in this counly. We have full returns from each precinct. Capt, Walker is elected Senator by a majority of 60 ; Black, by 363, and Myers by 266, to the Com mons. We append below the vote at each box : RETURNS OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY. Gov, Senate. Commons t J I I I t 4C1 258 167 W3 440 451 280 f.6 29 32 25 f'J (-8 28 46 85 26 57 57 36 102 39 15 26 6 38 37 18 21 60 7 41 29 17 61 100 81 44 41 109 !'3 81 47 32 26 22 58 46 32 31 53 17 40 40 27 57 128 14 72 19 13J 130 21 81 22 36 19 83 83 19 1023 65 453 3J3 1065 988 702 charlotte, Provio.nce, Stkkl: Creek, M' Lea a it's. Long Creek. Dkwese's, Hill's, Harrisbcrs, Harts', Rea's, Total, K C. of 293. Grier if elected Sheriff' by a majority BumIuvss Iiuprovenieutp. We know of no interior town in the South that is doing eo heavy a business ns our growing and prosperous burg all our merchants have have J enjoyed this season a fair siiare of patronnge and done well. W. W. Elms & Co., have, we believe, the lar gest store-room in the State, and the amount of their sales will not fall short of $150,000. Daily we see waggons from the border counties of Vir ginia, and the western part of our own State, loading at their door. This is the legitimate fruit of enterprise and liberal trading. Our mountain trade is vastly iucrensing, and our merchants are getting ready to supply the demand Brem & Steele, gentlemen well known to the business community, have commenced a new mercantile house, which will be ol immense pro portions. It is two hundred feet deep by 30 wide, ! 2 stories high. They will be prepared for an ex tensive wholesale trade this fall. W. Johnston, Esq., is now having erected for Diucker 6z Sommers, a handsome house on his lot, one door south of Kerr's Hotel, 80 leet deep by 23 wide the upper story to be a private residence. There are signs of improvement in every part of the town. There are now in process of con struction 10 or 12 handsome private residences, and many more in contemplation. tW On our inside page will be found an article in reply to o pamphlet which recently appeared shadowing forth a system of internal improve ments for this State. VVe have all along been convinced that the Danville connexion was the Road pur excellence, for this town and region, and we have never been led to abandon it by the cry of " bleeding at both arms," building up Virginia and South Carolina, which the advocates of other routes have so vehemently raised. We are adxious to see Wilmington and Beau fort spring into large and commercial cities at a bound, and do advocate with all our zeal the lines looked to for this purpose by their respective friends ; but we can never be made to believe that opening to the planter, markets in the adjoining State, will either work an injury to our own State, or his own interest. The laws of trade and util ity of the various routes tending to the develope- ment of this section of the State are so ably dis cussed by our correspondent, that we find it only necessary at this time to call attention to this ad mirable article. (K7 Wo insert the following note verbatim el literatim et punctttatim, to show there are some persons in the world so green as to suppose that an Editor must issue his paper with especial reference to their taste. If he did, would it not be a gem of classic beauty ? I wont y u to stop my paper becauz I cant pay muney out for nothing the papur iz fild oup with noncenz & I wontit sped (or'.hwith J' A .Rily It is well known to those who take the pains (o think a moment, that no weekly paper could live a month if it did not give a good deal of its space to advertisements. There is some complaint among our subscribers of the roam occupied with them in the Democrat, but il our paper is com- I pared with other weeklies, it will be seen that the amount of reading matter is as great as is afford- i ed by most of them ; and greater, and more mis- i -.ii.,,.,- ..r..i .tii ,..m , ' . , , , cure at any B- oksture in the world. . "- We have had several subscribers to discontinue their paper, but to Mr. conceiving the above who has found fault questioned the merits Riley is left ihe honor of elegant epi-tle the first either with our course or of our journal. Judging ai O from his letter, we acknowledge our inability to write anything that would come rote a to his stand ard of ciiticism. He certainly bust be a "knoic nothingj" Charleston .Market. ChahIESto;, August 2, Two hundred and twenty bales of cotton were sold at from 7i to 10c. Progress of the Cholera. New Yokk, July 31. The total number of deaths in this city last week were 1140, including 241 from cholera. In Philadelphia 500, including 90 from cholera. In Boston the deaths from cholera were 175. At the Stale Prison 125 cases but no deaths had occurred. Baltimore is still free from the disease. The brother of Ex-President Fiilmorja in Minnesota of cholera. du-d in For the Democrat. 44 Hints on tho Internal f snproremestf of .Vrlh Carolina." This pamphlet, priuted in the city of New York, is stated, in some of the papers, to be the productioa of an .Episcopal Clregyman, now re siding in that city. As we have srcii no denial o the assertion, we take it fur granted, such is the fact. VVe do not consider either the place of r si dence. 'be profession of the writer, hi all in his ) favor :is n il :ih i'm mp.'i lavor as reliabla means of information upon the Bubject of Rail Road routes, in this Slate. But, as he bas ventured to enter the lists, we treat him, solely, as a speculator, in such matters. He is a great advocate, lor system but if we translate his expressions into pldin language, we would say, that he proposes, a sjs'em of reckless expenditure ol the wealih of the State of North Carolina, to build up a city, among salt niarhes and sand bank-, whose harbor is inapproachable with w inter w inds. Beaufort being only open to the Suuth. Ii is nlso without fresh tcatcr, and is situated near Cajie Lookout, bchreen Untieas and Cape Fear positions on our Const, which all prudent navigators avoid, as much as possible ! In order to benefit his friends in New York, or North Carolina, who have capital, or lands, he proposes this out of ihe way harbor, as ihe ter minus of the Great Pacific lt'tii Road ! Similar ide is prevnil at Tampa and elsewhere. The wri ter curiously quotes a declaration of the intelligent Superintendent of the Coast Survey ' that ves sels can leave Beaufort, at any state of the tide, and w iih almost any wind" while at the sanvi time, the sailing directions of the Survey Chart shew, that North ard West winds, which prevail precisely at the only season, in which mosquitoes do not abound, will not permit a sailing vessel to enter at all. Other cautions are given how to proceed in case of getting agrrund, on eiiher side of the proposed entrance, where the bieakers are " distinctly seen." The whole system, of the writer of the Hints, appears to be, to give preference in the public mtmi, to hia scheme ovt r the commerce of Wil mington, or an outlet of the upper country, tc Danville in Virginia. The policy of this last route by Danville, he considers "little short of suici dal !" If we employ similar figures, to express argument, we shou'd call his plan M wilful mur der," to propose to seamen a oort without fresh !ef, only accessible with summer winds, and exposed to mismola and inspcts ! nnd al! the dan gers proverbial to the Coast. The author of M Hints " has strange notions about Rail Roads, to describe a connection w ith the Virginia im provements ns a process of depletion 14 to bleeu us to death !" So lar to the contrary, this sister State offers to the Northern and Western coun ties of North Carolina, a healthful means of sus tenance, a prompt market for their agricultural productions and mineral resources, of inf.nitely greater importance, to the pcoplc of the State, than a new harbor. Let any one examine the maps connected with the " Hints" und it will be found, that a straight line from New Orleans to Portland in Maine, passes near the town of Char lotte in North Carolina, and that of Danville in Virginia, with all the accessory improvements. We need for the upper country of North Caroli na, a I rite Central route, connecting the old North State with the Capitals of her sister States, on each side with Richmond and with Columbia if our planters, merchants or miners, find advan tages there, or by those routes. Rail Roads are only improved, but expensive modes of conveyance, which we need in the up per country. The Eastern parts of the State have means of water conveyance, if they will employ it. Our produce must pass by land, and to the best market, wherever that is, whence our planters bring back into the State increased means of improvement and outlay. Such a sys tem, is not depletory. It strikes us as a prominent point, that in the se cond edition, of M Hints," the map of the harbor of Beaufort, has been left out. This plan of Beau fort harbor exhibits loo many marshes, shoals and sand banks to be inviting ; and the general map of Rail Road routes through the United States, dis proves some of the arguments of our clerical friend, at a glance. The Rail Road communication through the cen tre of North Carolina, from Columbia, S. C, through Charlotte, Salisbury, and Greensboro', cannot halt at that point ; it must be passed through at some not distant day, to meet with the Virginia improvements at Danville ; and then all the Rail , Road improvements, from the extension North, East, South and Wc!,t, will have access to our State, end those will be most advantaged by it, who require it most. We shall open all the Vir ginia, Tennessee nnd Kentucky trade that of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and the Great West. North Carolina will be the thoroughfare, and her citi zens have recourse to the harbors most useful to her various sections, and multiplied productions. We feel distressed to witness, the selfish preju dices, that the writer of t lie " Hints" endeavors to keep up, or promote, upon the subject of an in timate connection and communion with neighbor ing sister States w hich permit him to call the sea ports of a sister State, M a foreign one." Such preposessions are unworthy a son of the Church, or of the State of North Carolina, who, until re cently, cut off from sister States by an inclement coast, and her inland position, should be encour aged to unite cordially with her nearest neighbors, to intercommunicate both the necessaries, the con veniences, and the luxuries of life and (ravel. The " Hints," seem to us expressly written, to prevent our State improvements, to connect with tnose ol vnginia, making a latse issue ol every equivocal advantage through Beaufoit, to New York ! The feelings of a low jealousy, which are apparent, seem to deprive the writer of his or dinary powers of rational calculation and argu ment. Yet the same dispositions have been 4 snewn oi me commencemeni oi en worns ol in . If r II ternal improvement in other States, but are now t r ... . . . ( ,- , rm-imnicpH 99 (nolo ahiiiirri nt f-ilvp nn n-v itrA very expensive, besides ! The State is exclusively ben fined hy such works, and we hnd belter build a Chim se wall, at once, around North Carolina, than attempt to confine all profits, within her own limits. She wants outlets and inlets, from various quarters. The best markets, by the best Roads. A choice or competition is quite as important among States as among individuals. Let us have North and South Carolina as well as Virginia to trade to. The different sections of the Stale require all, as here- tofore. There is now, in the lower section of the i S'ate. n communication by Rail Road from South ! Carolina, along the Manchester route, through I Wilmington, to Petersburg and Norfolk, in Vu j g?t. Notwithstanding the facilities of cheap I water communication in the Eastern part of ihe i State. Such Rail Road extension, by land, offers a pnceiifnt which members of ihe Legislature refuse to follow, when applied to the Central i Rou'e through Charlotte, already attached by the j Southern extremity to Columbia, S. C., but denied an attachment to the Virginia routes at the North, i an extent of only 54 miles from Greensboro' to ! Danville. j L-t u- hate seme liberality in this business of j improvement do not let one section of the Slate abaotb nil the borrowed capital, and d ny to more poofi! able routes, any charter for extension. The Eastern part of the State w ihes to iKrr w money j fnmn l.r.nl iinnn Stftto or. flit tit I 1 1 f I i n P t ho V&i- ue of their oioperty, but denies similar means to ben fit the up-comitry, iqually rich, more health ful, and more varied in its productions. Wh are no advocates for State indebtedness to form Stale improvements the example of sister States should teach us some discretion. We do not look upon dell of any description, ns a f'ess ing. A Strang; doctrine to be advocated by a elerg) man ! The Legislature shoulu grant pro tective charters, to such companies who will lorm their ow n Rail Roads, with the smxllrst assistance from the State and then Stale taxation may be limited. But the condition of other States who have formed debts, upon as good vouchers as any we have rend in the " Hints," ought to warn North Carolina not too eagerly to credit such ex travagance, lest the State be further depopulated, by excess of taxation, to pay the interest on an indiscreet State D bt of many millions. July 31, 1854. MECKLENBURG. Cfcv" We take the following extract from an ad dress recently delivered before the two Societies of the University of North Carolina, by Hon. Aa ron V. Brown, Ex Gov. of Tennessee: "Let us now turn .o the contemplation of our country in her progress in those industrial and professional pursuits into which yuur preparations here are mainly intended to introduce you. I Forem'-st of till the pursuits of man stands agri I culture. It was the original nnd natural employ j ment of our race. The Patriarchs were successful j cultivators of the earth. Among the Romans the ' proudest patrician thought it no disgrace to live on his farm and cultivate it with his own hands. Cinciur.atus was called from the plough to save his country, and having accomplished the great work, resigned the Dictatorship and hastened back to his labors in the field. It is not only the most ancient employment, but its necessity and usefulness, arc the greatest. It is, in fact, the foundation of all others. There can be no com merce, no mnnufaciures, and, indeed, no subsis tence without it. In the expressive language of nn old adage, "it makej all, pays oil, and supports all." But although it is the substratum of ail oth er pursuits, it has always been the most neglected. A very high degree of education has been consid ered ncecsary to those who intended to betake themselves to Ihe learned professions. Some pre paration was thought necessary to success in com merce, manufactures and mechanic arts, but in agriculture, no apprenticeship, no degree of in s'uetion seems to have been thought at all impor tant. Men were to be educated to other things, but they were to be born farmers. How to fol low the plough and to handle the axe and the schythc was to be the sum total of the qualifica tions for the noblest, the most virtous and the hap piest occupation of man. Happily fof our country, however, these rude notions have been rapidly giving way before ihe advancing intelligence of the age The establish ment ol agricultural professorships in some of our colleges, the reports from one of the Bureaus at Washington, the organization of fairs, and the pub lication of newspapers and peroidicals, exclusive ly devoted to the subject, are beginning to place agriculture rather in advance of any other pur suit or profession. Wherever in the United States it has made its greatest progress, there the rela tive rank of the planter and farmer, in the social circle, has been the most completely restored. He no longer stands in conscious inferiorty to the lawyer nnc physician. As well educated as they; as learned in his profession as they are in theirs; renumerated by as large profits, and devoting those profits to hospitalities as elegant and ra tional, he knows and feels he is pursuing a calling which may well challenge a comparison with an)' other. In confirmation of this just claim of equal ity, he sees all other professions and pursuits be ginning to pay homage to the one which he select ed. How many of the learned professions are found, of late years, engaged in the s'lme bold vigorous and healthful? How many opulent mer chants and manufacturers are retiring in the ev ening of their days, and egaging in agriculture? Even the statesmen, and the warrior pay the same homage to this noble calling. Mr. Webster, in the midst of his highest fame, still looked to his favorite Marshfield, and cherished ihe hope that he might spend the last years of his lite in the cul tivation of his fields, and in looking after his herds and his flocks. Mr. Clay clung to the same hope, as to the rich fields, and the verdant lawns of Ashland. Gen. Jackson sighed when he left the precincts of the Hermitage, and exchanged the cultivation of Isis farm for the executive sway of a mighty empire. Of all the professions, learned or unlearned, it is best calculated to inspire deep and undying sen timents of patriotism. Standing on his own soil, personally identified with it as his own, the far mer is ever ready to protect and defend it. It may havo descended to him from ancestor, whose memory he reveres the dwelling may have been built or the orchard planted by a father's hand. Here is the green lawn on which he played, the spring, the brook, the grove, the church, all con secrating his home, and inspiring him with attach ments w hich can cease only with his life. Where ever his business or other necessicity of life, may compel him to roam, "He still has hop, his long surjournings past, Safe to return and die at home at last." We speak not of him who, inheriting from his ancestors his broad acres and his many servants, commits them all to the superintendence of a sel fish nnd ignorant agency, and betakes himself to the crowded city, to pursue a life of indolence and pleasure, far removed from the invigorating nnd manly pursuits which we are now commending. VVe speak rather of him who resides on his farm or near it, and directs in person its scientific cul tivatior; of him who knows personally that his ser vants are well fed, well clothed, and well protec ted against unmerited punishment, inflicted bv w a r f ciud and capricious subordinates. This is the furmer and planter who is worthy of the name. Such an one soon finds every thing prospering un der his enlightened and humane supervision. j From ruder constructions and more hu:nble pre paration he advances in his improvements, until' the convenient and costly edifice, the wide-spreading and verdant lawn, the waving field and the abundant harvest, giving unerring evidence that in the selection of his pursuit, he was both wise and fortunate." The' Hot Weather. There were some half a dozen cases of sun stroke of men at work in New York on Friday last, and omllibus horses fell down dead under the beat of the sun's ravs. i The thermometer stood at 102 at sevejal points ...... . . ' . in tne iortn ana west. An uncommonly long drough has prevailed and everything is dried and burned up for want of rain. There was a refresh ing rain here on Sunday, and the temperature has been more pleasant sitflte. The thermometer has not ranged near ns h;gh on an average at Norfolk for several weeks, as it has at points further North, where the wa breezes do not prevail. Norfolk Beacon. WV cause y have l ulls an aversion to Crimson ? B then ! n tzy isj9 specie! Hate-red. Mr. Hunter s Bill. ! The Va lien Democrat savs : The Graduation Bill of Senator Hunter has passed the Senate by a vote of 36 to 11. This billls a substitute for the y-? farm or Homestead bill, and graduates the price of the public lands from one dollar down to twelve and a half cents, according to the period of entry. We are free to confess we arc not re markably well pleased with this bill, but regard it as deeidedly preferable to the iniquitous home stead measure. It will perhaps settle the disturb ing question of the disposition of the public lands, and remove from Congress a cause of consider able discord and mischief. The grabbing game has lately been resorted to in regard to the public lands, and a disposition manifested to appropriate them for local purposes, instead of holding ihem as security for our national debt and a source of revenue to the government, and it was absolutely indispensable that measures should be adopted to stop the squandering of the public domain, and the corrupt log-rolling system among members of Congress. This bill will have that result, and al though we do not subscribe to all its features yet at this particular juncture it is the best we can get." Cuba. The editor of the Alexandria Gazi tie. published in Louisiana, has been expending some time among his brother Filibusters iu New Orleans, and writes joyously home to his paper as follows : The fato of Cuba is sealed. Nothing short of the hand of Omnipotence can save her now and the Queen of the Antilles may set about preparing a wedding dress for her marriage to Uncle Sam. It does not matter a straw whether we kick up a war with her about the Black Warrior case, or let that take its place among the thousand and one other indignities we havo impatiently endured. There is an expedition on foot, having for its ob ject her overthrow, of a charade altogether too formidable to admit a loop upon which to hang a doubt. This is positively true, and what is a little remarkable, there is no disguise whatever about it. Men talk of it here as an event beyond the ur veils nee of chance. "There is no such word as fail." Blatherskite meetings are not held" nor aro our risibles excited by symbolic givings out of any mysterious hints. But what amounts to some thing more and better, a hundred subscription books are open, and I state a fact within my knowledge, that nearly half a million of dollars has been subscribed in New Orleans, and paid in. Any one can see these books, witness the paying down of cash by what I may call a countless throng crowding aro.und them, and fork over whatever he may deem proper. Munitions of war, huge can non, muskets, powder, &c, leave here almost daily for New York, and large bodies of emigrants are pressing forward to 1 he Rio Grande. Up to this time these public movements have encoun tered no obstacles, nor will they in future. Men I have charge of the expedition now who are not half-brained fools, but energetic, practical, business operators. They will start with the sinews of war money wilh picked men not the rag-iog-aud-bob-tail of large cities and with appointments for an emergency. It will never do to tell it out so. The N. Y. Sunday Atlas, in speaking of a new idea, which is in voguo among some of the bonnet saloons, says : "A lady friend of ours, in making some calls upon the fashionable millinery establishments in Broadway, after making her purchases at one of them, was politely invited into a back room, where she was invited to take a glass of wine. We did not ask her whether she refused or not, but she informed us that the department seemed devoted exclusively to ihe purpose of treating their cus tomers. This is another step in the march of civilization. We poor male bipeds will have to keep a sharp look out for our wives and daughters, lest they be iuduced, while in a s'ate of semi intoxication, to spend more money in finery than the law allows. Tippling is getting to be a fash ionable vice among the ladies, ond there arealready several splendid saloons in Broadway, which they visit exclusively for the purpose, unattended by their lords." Novel Award at School A rlvssaXD. The Jacksonville (III.) Female Seminary, under charge of the Rev. C. G. Selleck. ought to be come a very popular institution. Among the awards at its late celebration was the following: "To Miss Hattie J. Hine, for meekness of dispo sition, kind heartedness and affection, a husband Mr. Austin Rockwell." The Constitutionalist of that place says, this lat ter presentation was quite unexpected to most ol the audience. Such a prize has never been giv en in connection with the school since the present principal has been in it. We would suggest the propriety of making such prizes, instead of books, gold rings, &c, since, there are doubtless those who will furnish themselves to be given to the de serving, and instead being a cost to the institution, as in other plans, no doubt it might bring some in come, as we doubt not some would pay for the privilege of being used as prizes. We think, al so, that such an arrangement will be satisfactory to the ladies, if we may judge by the willingness with whic Miss Hine took and promised to cherish her prize with all conjugal affection." A Novel Transaction. The Buffalo (Nw York) Democrat relates the following. Our com mercial editor furnishes us with the follow ing fact, which deserved record ere it is lost. A well known, successful and liberal wheat operator on the dock, proposed a short lime since to another gentleman similarly engaged, that they should, together, in vest a sum of money in wheat, ihe profits, if any, lo be donated to the service of Christianity. The other, however, declined, which made the author of ihe proposition the more earnest, and he at once purchased wheat to the value of $3,000 on the account of the church. When the returns came in he found ihe operation to have yielded a profit of fifty percent., which amount of $1,500 he turned over at once to the cause, by placing it in the hands of the Rev. Dr. Lord ! This is casting bread upon the waters in a manner as novel as charac teristic. White Blackrerries. The New Albany (Ind.) Tribune says: Now don't laugh at the seeming incongruity of the thing. A friend of ours from Franklin township laid on our tahl. yesterdoy, a fine specimen of white berries j ga'hered from the common blackberry bush TK j 3 ' ' ' ,ldvur m any blackberry we I CVer and WU'd make a sP'endid preserve. ; No Chance fi r Yankees.- One correspon ; oent from Nebraska tells a story" which it rather . hard. He, says: It seems to be a purpose pre. I penst to have it a .lave Stale. There is a sf ry ; abroad that at all the ferries over the Missouri mat ihey have a cow tied, and a committee to stch all immigrant. The committee ask of .eh i ...Minwrmu wilh animal thn is. ff ne saw "a i cow, , au well he goes over. ' keow lh-y turn him back Bat if he snswrra "Ahk iiikkk any Aholitionisis A mo.ncst We fine in the Picayune of this morning t helli lowing thrilling local rumor : 01 "A fact of a startling nature came to our kn0L edge yesterday. Two negro men, runaways fro the coast above the city, were arrested jUl they were in the actol going on board an upri" steamboat a Cincinnati boat, we were inloii,.j j It appears from the confession of a third u egro ,0 our iniormant, a jjtMiueiimu ui uuquestinnej Ve racily, that there is a regularly organized plan L the crews of certain boats of course without 1 knowledge of the officers of the boats to indues the negroes to run away from plantations, coo dosn to the city and go on board, when they are immediately taken care of and secreted by i crew, and finally carried off to be landed in a lre, State. How long this system has been carried of course we cannot say ; but it is enough to know that it is carried on. This may account to rnanv of our coast planters and others for missing sltt vei It not only becomes the duty of the police to on the watch on the levee for cases of (his kind, but owners of slaves particularly coast plnniera should keep a close eye upon the movements 0f these rascally boat crews when at their hvt, taking in wood or discharging freight. We trust this hint may not be disregarded." New Orleans Delta. Getting bid or Caterpillars. We hart standing in our back yard, says the editor of the Thomasville Watchman, a beautiful mulberry tree, the leaves of which, some three weeks since, were being entirely eaten up by caterpillars. Be. ing informed of a process to get rid of them, we iried it, and are happy lo announce the successor the experiment. With a common sized gimblet, we bored a hole into the body of the tree, some two inches deep, perhaps, which we fiiltd with sulphur, and then plugged up the hole. In short time, say forty-eighl hours, they were seen crawling about ihe yard, and in lets than six days not one was to be found remaining on the tree. Young leaves are now putting forth from th limbs which they hnd stripped. This is a siu ple, ond we believe n sure way, of getting clear of these pests, and many valuable fiuit trees might be preserved by following it. Genius, Tai.ext and Clevkrness. Genius rushes like a whirlwind talent marches like a cavalcade of heuvy men and heavy horses cleverness skims like a swallow in the Summer evening with a sharp, shrill note, and a udd-o turning. The man of genius dwells with men nin nature ; the man ol talent in his study ; but the clever man dances here, there, and everywhere, like a butterfly iu a hurricane, striking every thiny and enjoying nothing, but too light to be dashnd to pieces. The man of talent will attack theories, the clever mnn will assail the individual and slander private character. The man of gemu despises both ; he heeds none, he fears none, lie lives in himself, shrouded in the consciousness of his own strength; he interferes with none , and walks forth nn example thr.t "eagles fly alone they are but sheep that herd together." It is true, that should a poisonous worm cross his path, he may tread it under foot ; should a cur snarl nt him, he may chastise him ; but he w ill not, cannot, attack the privacy of another. Clever men writs verses, men of talent write prose, but the man of genius w rites jioclry. lluzlitt. Munificent Donations. At a meeting of ihf Trustees of Furmnn University, on Wednesday, th Board having determined to increase the sala ries ol the Professors, and seeing the necessity of enlarging lye endowment, nineteen thousand dol lars was immediately subscribed by a few gentle, men of the Board. Reverend J-isa P. Boyc, of Columbia, giving ten thousand d. liars. B. ('. Pressly, Esq. two thousand. Other gentlemen whose names we have not yet learned, handsome donation. How gratifying to every liberal mind to see much acts. This nohle Institution must succeed, wiih sin h men in charg- of its destinies. VVe congratulate the excellent corps of Professors on the increase of their salaries a measure iu just to th m, und justified by the liberality of t lie friends of the Institution. Gr re r n ville Mou n ta in err. Cabiiage Worms. John Farrar, one of the most practical farmers in the Siute, says the destiuciive insects may be destroyed in the fnV lowing easy and simple way : "Break t.ffa large leaf from the bottom of the cabbage, and place on the top U per side down. Do this in the evening and in the morning you will find near or quite ull the worms on each Cab bage have taken up their quarters on this leal. Takeoff ihe leaf and kill Ihem, or feed them tu the chickens, and place the ieuf back if there be any more to catch." Calico is a greal promoter of laziness. If young men wish to accomplish anything oi moment, eith er with head or hand, thej must keep clj.ir of the institution entirely. A pair of sweet lips; a pink waist, and a pressor ol two delicate hands will as much unhinge a man, as three levers, ihe nvi sels, a large sized whooping cough, a pair of hy j iws, several by neophobias and ihe doctor's bill It is an exchange says this we wuuld'nt, o( course. The Bomrardmet of Greytown. VVe pre sume that by Monday morning, if not to day, lb President w ill bend In the House his reply to the very considerate and proper resolution of Mr. Chandler, calling for information concerning tacts upon which Commander Hullius of the Cf yane was ordered to inflict so summary punish ment upon the lawless freebooters recently con gregated at San Juan or Greytown. VVe pred that this answer will at once spike the guns of ts many journals now engaged in making capita' against President Pierce, by retailing false steK ments concerning ihe circumstances involved, order to justify their insidious comments upoO ' Washington Star. Good Cement. Take some common lime mix it wiih s quantity of tar just enough to m' a tough dough. Use it quick, because it becom hard in a few moments, and will never soak a crumble. This is a first rate cement for il Pf' pose of making swine trough, feed boxes, ci" troughs and many other things. A Hoosieh's Advice. When a young n11,, head begins to M run " on " alabaster shoulder' exquisite ankles, and similar excitin ' good must either be " shut up " discontinue 'u" and travel, or else " jine " some interesting P of calico for life. " A traveller in England, observing a ppaas" work, and seeing he was taking it remarkably e1' said : My friead, you dou'r appear to eweal aw Why, no, master, six shillings a week sweating wages." It isreporled in Washington that Col. vVbe of North Carolina, has accepted ihe PrvJ,n,r. of" Charge d: Affairs to Nicaragua, nd Mr lin, ol the Nashville Union, Charge to liiala.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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