North Carolina Newspapers

9 mmmn PUBLISHED WEEKLY. J A FAMILY PAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MWING, AND NEWS. PRICE $2 PER TEAR In Advance . ROBERT P. WARING, Editor. j "t Itatfs Distinct as tfrr SMIlotu, bat one ns tjie $ra RUFUS Ms HEREON, Publisher. VOL. 3. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1854. NO. 7. Stosinrss Curbs, &r. Attorney at Emw, Ofice in Lonergan,s Brick Building, 2nd floor. CHARLOTTE, N. C Kill: Si A ROB0V, FACTORS & COMMISSION MERGHANTS, iVb. 1 and 2 Atlantic H'haif, CHARLESTON, S. C. HP Liberal advance s mave on Consignments. YT Spcri il attention riven to the s lc of Flour, Corn, & z , and from o r I jng experience iu feel confident of giving a alixlaction. March 17, 1854. the biMMM, wc 341y Dry Goods in Charleston, So. Ca. browning: a lenian, IMPORTERS OF DRY HOODS, Has. 209 and 21 1 King street, corner of Market Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. PInntition V. miens, Blankots, &.c. Carpeting!? and Curtain Material. Silk9 and Itich Dres Goods, Cloaks, Mmtillis and Shawls. Term Cash. One Price- Only. Mirch 17, lt54 34-ly RANKIN, PQLLIAM & CO., Importers and Wholesale Dealers in FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC: STAPLK AND FANCY NO. 131 MEETING STHEF.T, sept 23, '59 ly CHARLESTON, S. C. m. at. wh&SiIAKS, M iimfactiirt-r and Dea'cr in PANAMA, LEGHORN. FUB. SILK & WOOL OPPOSITE CUAKLESTON HOTEL, sep! 23, '53 ly CHARLESTON, S. C. H. A. COHEN. I LEOPOLD COffK. & CCHN, N. A. COHEN IMPoKTEKS AND DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, NO. 175 EAST BAY, (10 1 ) CHARLESTON, S C. W illDiMW. il.kr.K & BIRVKIDL, AND COMMISSION NORTH ATLANTIC MERCHANTS, VII AKF, CHARLESTON, S. C. tT CamiaHN far selling Cotton Fifty cents er Bale. S. j)! 88, 1853. 1 0-ly. RAMSEY'S PIANO STORE. SIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Ml NUNNS & CO.'S Patent Diagonal Grand PIANOS; Hallet Davis it Co.'s Patent Suspension Bridge PIANOS; bickerings, Travers' and other best makers Pianos, at Factory Prices. S. C, Sept. Columbia 23, 1853. 10-ly. CAROLINA BY JENNINGS B. KERR. Charlotte, -V- C. January 29, 153. 2Stf Mi,. A. W. WHIiAI.AN, i m USER AND DRESS MAKER. (Residence, on Main Street, 3 doors south of Sadler's Hotel,) CHARLOTTE. N. C. Dresses cut and made by the celebrated A. B.C. method, and warranted to fit. Orders solicited and promptly attended to. Sept. U, 153 8-ly. BAILIE V LAMBERT, 219 KING STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C, IMPORTERS & DEALERS in Royal Velvet, Tapes try, Brussels, Three ply, Ingrain and Venetian CARPETINGS; India, Rush and Spanish MATTINGS, Ruas, Door Mats, &c. &c OIL CLOTHS, of all widths, cut for rooms or entries. IRISH L1NKNS. SHIRTINGS, DAMASKS, Diapers. Long Lawns, Towels, Napkins, Doylias, cc. Ar. extensive assortment of Window CURTAINS, CORNICES, tc, Alc Cl7 Merchants will do wall to examine our stock before part basing elsewhere. Sept. 23, 1Sj3 iu-iy- The American Hotel, CHARLOTTE, N. C. TBEG to announce to my trieiifis, tin- public.tmd pres. cat patrons of the above Hotel, that 1 have lcastd the same for a term of years from the 1st of January next. After which tioc, the entire property will be thorough ly repa;"ed and renovated, and the house kept in first clam htyle. Tins IIjU-I is near the Depot, nud pleasnt ly situated, rendering ft a desirable h.iu.-c for t. avellcrs and families. Dec 1G, 1853. 22t C. M. RAY. Baltimore Piano Forte Manufactory. r J. WISE & BROTHER. M'inufu'-turrra of Boudoir , Gran.l and Squire PIANOS. Those wishing a good and substantial Piano that will last an age, at a tair price, may rely on getting such by addressing the Manufacturers, by mail or otherwise. We have the honor of serving and referring to the first families in the State. In no case is disappointment suffcrablc. The Manufacturer, also, refer to n host of their fellow eiti itns. J. J. WISE i. BROTHER, Feb 3, 85I 23-tm Baltimore, Md. MARCH A MIARP, AUCTIONEERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, COLI'MBIA, R. C, W'lLI. attend to the al of all kinds of Merchandise, Produce, tke. Alto, Real and Personal Property. Or purchase and sell SUrn,fcc, on Commission. Salks R ion No. 18 Richardson street, and imme diately opposite the United States Hotel. Feb 3, lS5t tiios. h. march. J. m. k. sharp. Livery and BY $. Sales Stable, H R I-. K T the stand formerly occupied ly R. Morrison, in ( x, Charlotte. Horses fed, hired and sold. Good ae- J c inundations for Drovers. The custom of bis friend , and the public srcncrallv solicited. February 17, 14. 30-y I R. MAMILTOX. K. 31. OATC9. I HAMILTON & OATES, (OMmIO Ml iit II WTS. th Corner of Richmrdton and Laurel Streets, COLU.HfllA, S. r. Jfsc n y? To My Sorrowing Child. " Murmur not! " Complainer! oh, consider, That God has not forgot, But will sustain and comfort thee, If you will murmur rot. Each blighted hope," it hath been said, " Is parent to a better;" Then murmur not at thy sad lot, But welcome every fetter. Though the sky be overcast with clouds The sun above does shine, And thus may hearts be clouded o'er, Yet, still beat true to thine. Then do not murmur at hy lot Nor think the world all cold, A lining to each cloud there is Of sapphire and ol gold. You gaze upon the stars, dear child, And mighty wonders see ! (Oh! would 1 were those heavens, dear, To beam with glittering hope on thee;) But He who guides the planet And gives the flowers dew Will not forsake his image bright, He will preserve you, too. The earth hath silent witnesses, Who register on high Each prayer, etch tear, and each complaint, Each moment passing by. Then oh! let moments freighted go With praises for thy name ! Of patience trieu, of faith, and hope, But never more complain. Eva Earnest. From the New York Mirror. The Shadow of Life. "All that live must die. Passing through Nature to Eternity." Men seldom think of the greai event ol Death until tiie dark shadow falls across their own path hiding forever from their eyes the face of the loved one whose living smile was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the great antagonism of lite ; and ihe cold thought of the tomb is the great skeleton in all our fears. We do not want to "o through the dark valley, although its passage may lend to paradise; and, with Charles Lamb, we do nt wish to lie down in the mouldy grave, even with kings and princes lor our bed h llows. Rui hn fiat of nnture la inexorable. There is no ap. peal or reprieve from the great law that dooms us nil to dust. We flourish and fade like the leaves of the forest, and the frailest flower that blooms and withers in a day has not a frailer hold on lite than the mighiest monarch that ever shook ihe earth by his footsteps. Grneralions of men ap pear and vanish like the grnss ; rnd the countless multitudes thni swarm tiie world to-day, will to morrow disappear like foot prints on the shore: ''Soon !m the rising tide shall beat. Each trace will vanish Irorn the sand." We do not recur to the great fuel for the pur pose of making ourselves or our readers "lotny. We bulifve theMight of immortality shines eternally behind the dark cloud. No one knows how a soul feels an hour alter death. God has but vaguely reve;tlrd the great secret of future life. The longing to live is the strongest evidence that in dividual exis'ence does not end wiih mortal life ; and the everlasting hope of something better to come, which buoys up the weary, world-worn pilgrim in his journey through lif, implies a promise of its own fulfilment. Death is but a change. It cannot be an 'ptPrrw,l sleep." In the beautiful drama of Ion, the instinct of immortality so eloquently uttered by the death devoled Greek finds a deep response in every thoughtful soul. It is Nature's prophery of the life to come. When about to yield his young existence as a sacrifice to fate, his betrothed Ccmanfhr asks if they shall not meet again. To which he replies : "I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal ; of the flowing streams that lucid flow forever; of the stars amid whose fields of azure my raised spirit hRth walked in glory. All, all were dumb. But while I gaze upon thy living fnce, I feel there's something in the love which mantles through its beauty that cannot wholly perish. We shall MEET AGAIN, ClEXANTHE." We believe this conviction of the souls endu rance alter death, to be as universal as the soul itself, the hollow professions of the skeptic to the contrary, notwithstanding. Who would consent to live a dav in miserv and pain, il he "could his quietus make with a bnre bodkin ?" Knowing that death is always imminent, nnd ultimately inevitn hie, men who only toil and suffer, wouid gladly lie down and die al the first day's work. But they live on and struggle on, fighting against the "com mon enmy" with all their might; nnd even the wretched miser, whose heart is wedded fo his golden god, will give millions on hts death-bed for one short hour more of lile, when every motion is a pang and every breath a groan. It seems harder now than ever for out poor human roe to l-ocomo reconciled to the universal doom. Very few can aay with the poet, in np. proaching life's last mill-stone, that "R signa'.ion gently slopes the way." They would "fain lay their ineffectually finger upon the spokes, of the great wheel" and slop where they are. Even the world. weaning the disciple of years of sickness enn scarcely bring the poor patient to think of !he narrow house," and of the sMe omnibus that never brings a pas senger hack without a shudder of reluctance. I Little children trv to keep tlvireyes open at night for fear of dying before morning j and the tottering J old man who Jias outlived all his kindred, is rot yet ready to go. Husbands and wirrg, ps. rents and children, brothers and aisfers, how closely they cling together in the deaih-chamber, or when, in tim"s of pestilence, the "Death-Angel spreads his wings on the blast." How sad to part with those we love, with but the dim assurance of re union in another state of existence. For how, or where, or whs! we shall be when the breath ceases, nnd the heart steps beating, and the body grows cold, neither the voice of Nature nor the Book of Revelntion is sufficiently explicit to remove all doubt even in the minds of the most docile be lievers. The Grave of Edgar A. Poe. A correspon dent of the St. Louis Republican is calling public attention to the fact that the remain of the Inte Edgar, Allen Poe, are still reposing in an obscure corner of a grave-yord in Baltimore, and suggeRt ihrir removal to a more appropriate spot, and thai a monument be creeled lo perpetuate his me-nrory. Anglinff for a Husband. FROM THE 1 HtX II, Mme. D , who resided at C baton, was a la dy of the strictest character, nnd of a heart proof against all allurement. She prided herself upon her great insensibility, and her profound indiffer ence had repulsed all those gallants who had ven tured to offer their addresses. The country was lor her a veritable retreat, she shunned reunions, and was only happy in solitude. The charms of a chosen circle, the pleasures ol the world had lor her no attraction, and her favorite recreation was that of angling an amusement worthy of an un feeling woman. She was accustomed every pleasant day to sta tion herself at the extremity of the lonely island of Clinton, and there with a book in one hand and her line in the other, her time was passed in fish ing, reading or dreaming. A lover who had always been intimidated by her coldness, and who had never ventured on a spoken or written declaration, surprised her at her favor ite pursuit, one day when he hud come to the island for the purpose of enjoying a swimming bath. He observed her for a long tfme without discovery, and busied himself with thinking how he might turn to advantage this lonely amuse ment of angling. His reveries were so deep and so fortunate that he at last hit upon the desired plan, a novel expedient indeed yet they are al ways most successful with such women as pretend to be invulnerable. The next day our amorous hero returned to the island, s'uddied the ground, made his arrange- ments, and when Mme. D had resumed her accustomed place he slipped away to a remote and re'ired shelter, and after having divested himself of his clothing he ontered the stream. An excel lent swimmer and skillful diver, he trusted to his aquatic talents for the success of his enterprise. He swam to the end of the island with the great est precaution, favored by the chances of the bank and the bushes which hung their dense foliage above the waters. In his lips was a note folded and sealed, and on arriving near the spok where Mme. D. was sitting he made a dive, and lightly seizing he hook he attached to it the letter. Mine. D , perceiving the movement of her line, supposed that a fish wss biting. The young man bud returned as he came ; he hud doubled the cape which extended out into the water separating theni from each other, and had regained his post without the least noise in his passage under the willows. Thu deed was done. Mme. D pulled in her line, and what was Iwt surprise to observe dangling upon the barb of her hook,-not the expected shiner but an un expected letter ! Tbi& wa, however, trifling, and her surprise became superstition when, on detaching the trans fixed billet, she read upon the envelope her name ! So then, this letter which she had fished up was addressed to her ! This was somewhat miraculous. She was afraid. Her troubled glance scrutinized the sur rounding space, but there was nothing to be seen, or heard ; all was still and lonely both on land and water. She quitted her seat, hut took away the letter. s soon as she was alone, and cloiseted with her slfe, nnd as soon as ihe paper was dry a paper perfectly waterproof, and writien upon with in delible ink she unsealed the letter and commen ced i'.s perusal. A declaration of love ! cried she at the first words. What insolence ! Still the insolence had came to her in such an extraordinary manner that her curiosity would not suffer her to treat this letter as she had so many others pitilessly burning without a reading. No, she read it quite through. The lover, who dated ids notes from the bottom of the river, had skilfully adopted the allegory, and introduced him self as a grotesque inhabitant of the waters. the fable was gracefully managed, and wuh the j' Sting tone which he had adopted was mingled a true, serious, ardent sentiment, expressed with beauty and eloquence. The nex! dny Mme. D returned to the island, not without emotion and some trace of fear. She ihrew her line with a trembling hand, and shud dered as, a moment after, she porceived the move ment of the hook. Is it a fish ? Is il a letter ? It was a letter. Mme. D was no believer in magic, still there was something strange and supernatural in all ihis. She had an idea of throwing back the letter in to the stream, but relinquished it. The most stub born and haughty woman is always disarmed in face of that strange mystery w Inch captivates her imagination. This second letter was more tender, more pas sionate, more charming than the first, Mitip. D. re-read it several times, and could not help think ing about the delightful merman who wrote such bewitching letters. On the subsequent day she attached her line to the bank, and left it swimming in the stream, while she withdrew to a hiding-place upon the ex tremity of the island. She watched for a long time, but saw nothing. She returned to the place, wi'hdrew the line and there wus the letter ! This time an answer was requested. It was, per haps premature, yet the audacious request obtain ed a full success. The reply was written after some hesitation, and the hook dropped into the stream charged with a letter which was intended to say nothing, and affected a sort of badinage, which was nevertheless a bulletin of a victory gain ed over the harsh severity of a woman until then inapp roachable. Mine. D had too much shrewdness not to guess that her mysterious correspondent employed, insiead of magic, the artof a skillful diver. Scru ples easily understood restrained her from that portion ol the bank wr..re si.e was sure that ine diver would emerge frc:n the water. But this gme of leUers aroused her. First it pleased her intelecf, nnd then her heart was in terested ; finally her feel- s, and her curiosity became so lively that r wrote: - Let us give up ihi.: j3-itg, which has ph ased me lor th moment, but which should continue no longer, and come wdh your apologies toChator. The rover answered : 4 Yes, if you will add Hope.' Tii? inexorable 1 tdy replied 4 If only a word is necessary to decide you; be it so V And the word was written. The young man appeared, and was not a loser. The gilt of pleasing belonged to his person as much as to his style, and he had made such rapid progress under water that it was easy to complete his conquest on land. Thus Mm". D caught a husband without wishing if, and in spite of the vow which she had taken never to marry. Holding the line, she has l been caught by the fish. Gossip about the Empress of France. A correspondent of the Pittsburg Commercial Journal, at paris, gives the following account of the French Empress : The young Erhpress, whether justly or not, is generally considered to have set the fashion for this rage for novelty, and it is certain that she surrounds herself with the richest and most fan tastic adornments of every kind. Descended on her father's side from one of the noblest families in Spatn, she comes also on her mother's, from the lowest of the low. Her moth er, in her youth, was a cantitricre, and followed the army, in that capacity, through all the vicissi tudes of the Peninsular war. Being of remarka ble beauty, she wiis of course a great favorite with the soldiers, and at length attracted the attention ol an old officer of very high rank, the Count Montijo, who was also Duke of Leba, and poss essor of innumerable other titles and distinctions. So enamored was the Count of his new conquest, that he mttrried her, and al length left her a rich and noble widow. One of her daughters married the Duke of Alba, the other has become Empress of the French. But in the neighborhood of Seville, the Countess's re lations are very numerous, and are as completely ut the bottom of the social ladder, as her two daughters are at its top. That a young and very handsome woman, pla ced in a position which enables her to gratify eve ry fancy, should attach a good deal of importance to outward ornament, that she should set off her beauty with the most elegant dresses and the most elhenal laced, and the costliest jewels, is all very natural, and accordingly, in half the streets of Paris, great guildd letters let into the windows of the most important shops, informs the passers that " Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress Eugene," honors the fortune establishment with her custom ; lu re for silks, there for laces, here again for cash meres, for flowers, for boofs, for jewelry, and so on. But besides her love for pretty things where with to embrace the charms of her own beautifol person, she, has the most cosily and exquisite equipages, the most wonderful Arabian horses and ponies, (nnn favorite little turn out she drives herself) the most miraculous furniture, and a se ries of boudoirs, all fitted up like so many fairy palaces. One of them is called " The Charm of Evening," fitted up with hangings of amber satin, over which is suspended draperies o.f the finest lace, (which of course has cost an enormous sum of itself , another is hung with crimson damask, with gilded cornices, and every bewitching trifle that could be brought together ; a third, called " Day's Delight," (Ic Bonheur Ju Turo) is hung with the richest possible blue silk, between pannellr.gs of solid -silver, which precious material, partly chased, partly burnished, and carved with the most con summate art, replaced the usual wood work in every part of the room, wainscot, cornice, mantel piece, w indow-f rames, and doors, being all of this metal ; but though the apartment is as rich as the boudoir of some Oriental tale, it is ugly, heavy, and exceedingly unbecoming to the com plexion. Tbc Unappreciated Sky. "It is a strange thing how little, in general, peo pie know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the bake of pleasing man more for the sole and evident pur pose ol talking to him, and teaching him, than in any other of her works ; and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of men, is not answered by every part of their organiza tion ; but a vpry essential purpose of the sky might, so far is we know, be answered, if, once in three days or there-nbouts, a great ugly , black rain-cloud were brought up over the blue, and everything well watered, and so ail left blue again till next time, with perhaps a film of morning and evening mist for dew. And, instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain that it is alt done lor us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure, And every man, wherever placed, however fnr from other sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few ; it is not intended that man shouUJ live always in the midst of them ; be injures them by his presence, he ceases to feel them, if he be alwaye with them; but the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not "loo bright nor too good for human nature's daily food." Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, some times awful ; never the same for two moments together; almost human in its pansions spiritual in its tenderness almost-divine in its infinity its appeal to what is immortal in us is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal, is essential. And vet we never attend to it we nevar make it a suhject of thought but as it has to do with our j animal sensation; we look upon nil by which it speaks to us mre clearly than to brutesupon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receivo more from the covering vault than ihe light nad the dew which we share with the weed nnd the worm only as a succession of meaningless and monotonous accidents, too common and too painful to te worthy of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admiration." John Ruskir. The Crew of the U. S. Ship CvnDe bve pub lished a statement in defence of Cap. Hodms and his officers, and in reply to the severe strictures of ibo Northern .press on their condor at Grey- From the Richmond Enquirer. Cuba and the United States. De Bow's Review contains an interesting letter from John S. Thrasher, Esq., upon the important and vexed question, how ihe interests ol Louisiana would be affected by the annexation of Cuba to the United States. Some of his facts are strong and his arguments marked by clear common sense. It seems tha' the industry o Cuba is almost entirely absorbed in the sugar rane and the tobacco plant, and its attendant labors; the necessary supplies for its consumption come almost entirely from abroad. The writer presents tables satisfactorily shots ing that, while New Orleans is the great ex porting .port of nearly all the articles of lood im ported into Cuba, and is the one most easily ac cessible to both the producer and the consumer, a very small proportion of them is imported into Cuba. Thus from the United States there were in three years imported only 5,642 bbls. flour under the onerous duty of $10.81 per bbl., while Irom other places there were imported 228,000 bbls. under the smaller duty of $2.52 per bbl. Of lard there were imported 10,103 370 bbls. under a duty of $4.30 per qtl.; while there were im ported from Europe 8,451,900 of olive oil under a duty of 57 cents per qtl. These unequal fiscal impositions change the natural current of trade, and flour, instead of being brought from the cheapest market in the world, is sought on the other side of the Atlantic; olive oil of the most inferior quality is enabled to compete largely with lard for domestic purposes, and of 34,531,959 pounds of meats consumed, only 2,890,259 pounds, or a fraction over eight per cent., are imported from ihe United States. With a lower system of duties, who does not believe that the revenue of the government would be increased and the com merce of the island greatly augmented ? Mr. Thrasher estimates, upon sound grounds, that the great advantages of New Orleans for this extended commerce, would attract a very large portion of the trade, and that the increase value of the trade accruing to New Orlenns by a charge to a liberal fiscal system in Cuba would not be less than twenty-five millions ol dollars annually, or nearly one-filth of their present export trade. It is easy to conceive the vast commercial benefits that would accrue to all portions of our Union from ihe throw ing open of ihe ports of Cuba. The effect of the annexation of Cuba upon the great staple of Louisiana, sugar, is also an interest ing question that has called forth much discussion. Mr. T. shows that the product of sugar to the acre in Cuba differs very slightly from that in Louisiana, while the difference in the amount produced per hand is even less than the difference of product to the acre, and is probably in favor of the Louisiana planter, from his improved system of culture and better care and feeding of his hands. The great elements of the less cost of production of sugar tn Cuba than in this country, consist in the superior cheapness of labor, and the lower value ol land there. The average value of field hands in Cuba is $500, while in Louisiana their value is $1200; and the mean value of land is far less than in Louisiana. These constitute almost the entire advantage of the Cuban planter, while he labors under disadvantages in other respects, such as the cost of his supplies, which is greater from his greater distance from the place of production. The annexation of Cuba would at once b.eak down the present nefarious system of importing large num ber's of savage negroes from Africa, which menaces the safety of society, and tt would, by cutting off ihis source of cheap supply, cause an appreciation jn value of the slaves. An equalization of the value of the slaves in Cuba nnd the United States would also be brought about under a system of free intercourse between the two countries, and the smaller mass in Cube would be the most af fected and their value would advance there. A similar appreciation in the value of lands of Cuba would necessarily result, and by ihis double operation the cost of the agricultural products in Cuba would be augmented, removing some of the important constituents of the product of cheap su gar there. But, admit that these views of Mr. Thrasher are not correct and we are thoroughly inclined to think with Mr. Thrasher that the annexation of Cuba would have the great advantage of giving us cheap sugar, while we give them chenp bread we think that the annexation would make the United States the great Sugar grower, as it is the great cotton grower of the world. Under the swelling power of our moral influence, relaxations of the fiscal regulations of other countries (nearly all of which treat sugar as a luxury) would be obtained, and i's consumption thereby vastly increased to the great benefit of the produce. We shall not confine ourselves to so narrow a view as the benefit to the South that must surely accrue from the annexation we look out in the broader light of its immense beneficial consequences to the commercial interests of our whole confederacy and to the cause of good government every-where. A Shxewd Reply. Sir Walter Scott says, that the alleged origin of the invention of cards pro duced one of the shrewdest replies he had over heard given in evidence. It was made by 'tie late Dr. Gregory, at Edinburgh, to a counsel of great eminence at the Scottish bar. The doctor's testi mony went to prove the insanity of the party whose mental capacity was the point at issue. On a cross interrogation he admitted that the person in question pi tyed admirably at whist. "And do you seriously say, doctor," said the learned coun set. "that a person having a superior capacity for a game so difficult, and which requires, in a pre eminent degree, memory, judgment, and combina tion, can be at the same time deranged in his un derstanding ?" "I am no card player," said the doctor, with great address, "but I have read in history that cards were invented for the amusement of an insane king." lite consequences of this reply were decisive. Meat vs. Faeia. Dr. Martian, of Boston, says in n medical work published by him, that he had free intercourse for two or three years with a large numher of physiological reformers, who suh-sited entirely upon vegetable food, and that he found them much more healthy and vigorous -than those who made use of meat. Some ol them ! ere I boring mm, crnpelled1') hard labor daily, but who stated that they possessed a greater amount of physical strength tbao wlv n they were in the habit of eating flesh. From the North Carolina Standard. We can assure the Wilmington Journal it was not our purpose, in the article to which that paper refers, to prejudice the public mind against the proposed Charlotte and Wilmington Railroad, or to do injustice lo the interests or ihe spirit of en terprise of the two places. Our impression was that the contemplated Road would conflict some what with the North Carolina Road, and especial ly that it would create a difficulty, and probably an animated and angry contest aa to the point from which the extension westward should commence; but we referred to the matter only in the- light complained ol because we were noticing the dem agogueical course of Gen. Dockery, and because we felt that an attempt had been made by a por tion of ihe Whigs to manufacture party capital out of the Charlotte Convention. Since reading the Journal's article we have looked more care fully into the matter, and we are now prepared to concur generally with the views of that paper on the subject, with the exception of its position in re lation to the point from which to begin the exten sion westward. This proposed Road must, in (he very nature of things, be of essential servio- to Wilmington ; and it must benefit Charlotte nlso, for it will give to the enterprising traders and pro diicers of that region a belter choice of markets than they would otherwise have. In addition to this, it will run through part of the State abound ing in naval stores and producing largely the great staphs cotton. Bui the Road, it is evident, must rely for success upon freights and way-travel. The Journal has done us the justice to state that our feelings towards Wilmington are of a friendly character. Our columns, lor years past, will bear witness to this. No town on the American conti nent has struggled more constantly or morn brave ly, so to speak, to advance and improve in condi tion than Wilmington has doue ; and cold indeed must be that North Carolina heart which does not leap tviih pride when the enterprise, the spirit, and ;he devotion to internal improvements ol the citi zens of Wilmington are mentioned. Charlotte, too, has recently entered the lists ol competition, and her prospects, at one time by no means invi. ting to men of capital and trade, have entirely changed. Her population is rapidly increasing, the hum of industry and of active business opera, (ions is heard in her streets, and she is now out stripping, in the race of progress and wealth, nVI other inland towns in the State. We commend her citizens for the efforts they Bre making to ex tend their business and to build up their town; and certainly we should be the last tn stand in their way, or to prejudge either their claims or those of the people of Wilming'on lo new works of internal improvement. So far as uc are con cemed, we prefer that all new schemes should stand before the next Legislature on their own merits. The leading idea of the day is. and should be, so to plan and construct our works as to turn the channels of trade towards our own seaports. Il this can be done, we may safely leave the rest to lime and events. If this had been dona twenty five years ago, North Carolina would have been at this time one of the first States of the South ; yet twenty-five years in a Stale's existence is but a brief period, and the loss of them only devolve on us with increased weight the duly of doing for ourselves and our posterity what our lathers failed to do for themselves and for us. Railroads in tiie United Slates and Europe One feels the good of a strong government, when he commits himself to the tender mercies of the railroad men. I wish that two or three of our leading companies would send a committee of in telligent men to examine tha ways nnd means by which the roads are managed on the continent of Europe. They would bring back some im provements, but it is very doubtful whether ihey would be able to introduce them in America. It is an easy matter in a free government, lo hold public servants to a strict accountability to law; and where life and properly are, as in our coun try, always at the " risk of the owners," we must look for accidents as every day affairs and tiie verdict in most cases " nobody lo blame." - I have travelled almost daily en railways for six months in Ivirope, and never had a detention ol five minutes; I never heard of an accident all that time worth speaking of; never was treated with the slightest discourtesy by an agent of any sort ; and I travelled for thousands ol miles with less apprehension of danger, than I have felt in riding over ten miles of some of our first class railroads in the United States. And wh 1 Be cause the European ro us are more substantial, not so uneven, managed with uiore quietness, precision and caution, and the cars move al ihe same speed as on our roads, with far less jolting and rocking, and a man never has that fee'ing of insecurity which so often comes over him wrt-n rattling and banging along in the express train at home. Iracnus Letters. Give Him the Mittew. " Ah, mon dieu ! mon dieu," aaid Monsieur Melemots to tus friend Sniffins, " my sweatheart has give me de mit ten." Indeed how did that happen V Veil, I thought I must go fo make her von visit before 1 leave town ; so I step in V side of de room, end 1 behold ber beautiful pairson stretch out on von lazy." ' A lounge, you mean. Ah, yes von lounge. And den I make voa ver polite branch, and " You mean a polite bote. Ah, yes von bough. And den I say I vas ver sure she voulo be rotten, if I did not come to see her be tore 1 " You said xckal V I said she would he rotten, if.' " That's enough. You have put your foot in it, to be sur. " No, aare. I put my foit out of it, for aha says she would call her sacre big rothr and keek me out ; be gar. I had intended to say mortijttyl, but I could noi think of the vord, end rnnrtiftf and rot is ail de same as von, in my dietioiuire.'' New Goto Dollar. The SeerWnTv ' the Treasury has sanction d sf uW gold dollar e in. about to be issued from the Mint al Pfiibid. lehis Il is about the diameter of a five cent piece, ud bears on one side an Indian head wih a crown of eagle's feithers and on the other a wreath, sir rounding the words 'Ooe DotW.