North Carolina Newspapers

V ?1I PRICE $2 PER YEAR In Advance. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. J A FAMILY PAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MINING, AND NEWS. RUFUS M. IIERROK, Puklisher. t $Mts Distinrt ns tl;e SMHouf, but one as tlje $ra. ROBERT P. WARING, Editer. H NO. 8. VOL. 3. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1854 3tainti Curbs, &f. Attorney at Ltur. O'Ji-.e in Lonergan's Brick Building, 2nd floor. CFIABLOTTE, n. c. It fill; IT V ROBSOIV, FACTORS & COMMISSION MERGHANTS, Xos. 1 rind 2 A: I it, tic What, CHARLESTON, S. C. fa Liberal advances roa'.'e on Consignments. 1 (" Special attention given t tlie sale of Flour, Corn. &.C , and from o r long experience in the businrsp, we fed confident of iri irig tatisf-iction. March 17, IS54. 3 t-ly Dry Goods in Charleston, So. Ca. BROWinCi A. LE.HAi, IMI'ORTLRS OF DRY GOODS, No. 201) and 211 King street, corner of Market Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. PUaUtiaa Woolens, BUnkets, &c, C.irpetinps and Curt tin Material, Silks mid Rich DreM Good, Cloaks, M latillas mmi Shawls. Terms Cash. One Price Only. Kirch IT, 1854 34-ly RANKIN, PULLIAM & CO., Importers and Wholesale Dealers in FOMtMSH AND DOMESTIC STAPLE AND FANCY DRY AKD OX-DOTM, NO. 131 HEKTIJta STBEK.T, sept 23, '53 1 y CHAR LESTON, S. C. ST. H. WHStltSAMS, M.inuliictur-'' and Dealer in PANAMA, LEGHORN, PUR, SILK &i WOOL XT.t 7t n OPPOSITE 23, 53 1 v t'll.VULESToN HOTEL, CHA RLESTON, S. se. C. N. A. COHEN. N. A. COHEN LEOPOLD COHK. & COEN, nnmm am i.kalkks in FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, NO. 175 EAST HAY, (10-l.) CHARLESTON, S. C. W1RDLIW, WALKER & Bl RS1DE, oowm factors A N D COMMISSION M E RCH A NTS, NORTH ATLANTIC- WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. ty nmamiamM tor selling (Jut ion Fifty cents per Bale. vS. pt 23. 1853. iO-ly. RAMSEY S PIANO STORE. MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. N UNNS CO. S Patent Diagonal Grand I'lANOS; Ballet Daws iv (Jo.'s Patent Suspension Bridge PIANOS; t bickerings, Tra vers' and other hest makers' 1'ianos, at th Factory Prices. ( o'linihia, 3. I Sept. 2.1, 1S'.n. 10-ly. 4 AKOIJM INN, BY JENNINGS B . KERR. Charlotte, Jf. C January 23. 1853. 2Sif IRn. A. W. WBKALAN, A . ; j taW k H.K UJi - I XJ - it (K. sidence, on Main Street, 3 doors south of Sadler's Hotel,) CHARLOTTE. N. C. d7 Dresses cut and made by t lie celebrated A. B.C. method, and warranted to fit. Orders solicited and promptly attended to. Sept. !, Itf3 8-ly. B.1ILI i: ex LAMBEKT, 21!) KINIi STRKF.T, CHARLESTON, S. ('., IMPORTERS c DF. A LKRS in Royal Velvet, Tapes try, Brussels, Three ply, Ingram and Venetian ' A RPF.T1XCJS ; India, Rush and Spanish .MATTINGS, Rags, Dear Mats, &c. Jfcc Oil. CLOTHS, of all widths, cut for rooms or enl ries. IKIH LINENS, SHIRTINGS, DAMASKS, Dia.irs, Long Lawns, Towels, Napkins, Doylias, &r. An extensive assortment ol Window CURTAINS, CORNICES, fcc, vVc CL"" Merchants wilf do well to examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. Sept. 23, 1833 10-ly The American Hotel, CHARLOTTE, N. C. IBF.( to announce to my friends, the ub!ie,aml pres ent BalTWH of the above Hotel, that 1 havclc:is(d t lie same for a term of years from the 1 t of Jaiuiary next. Acr which time, the entire properly will be thnrough Iv rep:" cd and reuovat.-.l, and the house kept in first cla-m fctvle. Tins II tel is near the Depot, and pleasant, ly situated, rendering it a disirablt house for travellers a . ! famiiiua. Doc 16, 1853. 22t C. M. RAY. Baltimore Piano Forte Manufactory. I J. WISE it BROTI1F.R, Manufacturers of Boudoir t J Grand and Sqaare I'lANOS. Those wishing a good and substantial Piano that will lat an age, at a fair price, may rely on gelling such by addressing the M uitifacturcrs, by mail or otherwise. W have the honor of serving and referring to the first fa milies in the State. In no case is disappointment suiferablc. Tlie Manufacturers, also, refer to a host ol their li llow citi zen.. J. J. WISH v BROTHER, Feb 3, I&34 2S.fm Baltimore, Md. j - i MARCH A SHARP, AUCTIONEERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, COLI .MBIA, S. C, A1T1LL attend to the sale of all kinds of Merchandise, Produce, ttc. Also, Real and Personal Property. Or purchase and gpU Slaves, ttc, on Commission. Sai.ks Rhh No. '2f Richardson street, and imme diately opposite the United States Hotel. Feb 3, lS.it THOS. H. MARCH. J. M. E. SI1ARP. Livery and Sales Stable, BY S. H. REA, T the stand formerly occupied by R. Morrison, in , t'hirlotte. Horses fed, hired and sold. Good ac i lor Drovera. The custom of his friends i and the public generally solicited. Februiry 17, 1851. 30-y . HAMILTON. R . M . OATE9. HAMILTON & OATES, CO!IIIO. IIKRl HM, Vomer of Rieharlon and Laurel Street,- COLUMBIA, 8. a aac y l t 5 1 j v A Word before your Buy. Young housekeepers who have just got settled after their late moving now look about the naked walls of their parlors, and sigh for pictures ; along their empty mantels, and long for a few mantel ornaments ; at their scant furniture, and wish for flegant chairs a neater " tete-a-tete " or a Vol tair;" at their sitting rooms, and wish they had a cheap lounge ; in their bedrooms, and wonder if they cannot afford a more fashionable bedstead ; in their closets, and long for a set of spoons everywhere, and at all points discover a lack that nothing but a plenty of money would exactly sup ply. It may be called the season of temptation. There is scarcely a young couple in the city that would not, with unlimited credit, find such a list of necessaries positively demanding an outlay as would break a man of moderate means, and run one who lives on a respectable salary only heels over head in debt. But hold np, young friends don't do your shopping till you have heard our advice. The chairs, the mantel ornaments, the "just one oil painting," the spoons, the new carpet, would help your house wonderfully. They would add very much to the elegance of your apartments, and make us envy your snug quarters when we inci dentally drop in or stop to tuke tea by appointment. But are you sure you can afford them ? " Your husband ha9 good wages " but how much has he la'd up against the day when some of these reckless omnibus drivers shall knock him down in the street and disable him for a month or two ? " Your wife is thrifty " but what provisions have you made for her if she should suddenly have !o go into mourning a pretty young widow ? M But i luriuiure, pictures, 'stiver, arejost as good as ! money ;" so they are, worth all they cost, until I you want to sell them, and by them raise the cash, ! and then suddenly you find they are marked too high if put down at half cost price. Money is a mighty hard thing to come at ; like i a captive obtained by tedious watcliings and skil ful waitings, it snould not be surrendered unm a council of war has been held over it. You, then, our fair reader, who hold that well-engraved $20 bill in your hand, wondering what vou will get wiih it, fold it again and put it into the portmon ; naie ; wait till you have talked it over with him." j Me says, " spend it of course, you want the arti ' ctea." But let him fetch out the book and do a bit of calculating. lie has paid out his bills and is not in debt. That is good. He has a small sum in the Savings B ink on which he can call and save his credit if there should be an unex- i peeled demand. Thut is very clever. He has a small sum out at interest; he has calculated what ; it amounts to daily, and can tell just how mucii it mnkes him during the seven hours he 6leep each night. Why, he is independent.' His rent he! paya monthly, and there he shows you a fur.d set pari tor its payment. 1 he sexton will cull this week for his pew money ; the Croton tax is due in June, and next week he must renew his life insur ance policy ; and he shows where the dollars are to come from to meet them all. Current expenses he can predict w ithin a half eagle for a month to come, he has so often kept a strict account of tlie items. Why, now, go ahead. Spend the bill you were rumpling in your hand ; and another just like it, if you wish. You can be trusted to make wis" bargains. Folks that keep accounts of the i ems, and know exactly how they stand, may safely be trusted to spend when they feel a want pressing. And yet remember that the fash ior.s of this world pass away, and as many, addi tional dollars as you give to d iy lor an article, because it is in the very height of the fashion, you may be willing to give shortly hence, if it could be but made a little bSs preteusious, so as to outlast a series of fashions instead ol that of a single season. New York Times. The Right Kind of a Wife. A New York editor says he had fn introduction some time since to the heroine of the following sketch : Mr. , a merchant, now residing in Phi ladelphia, who formerly lived in rather an exlra- ragaol style, was in the habit every Monday mor ning, of giving his wife a certain sum of money for the table and other household expenses of the week ; lie never mentioned his business to his wife, and he deeming him sufficiently capable of atiei ding to his own affairs, never inquired into them. About five years after their marriage, through some slight mismanagement, and the ras cality of his confidential clerk, Mr. sud denly broke, and his fall was mentioned sympa thisingly on change, and, like nil such n atter!1, there all sympathy ended. The merchant kpt I he affair a secret, and the first intimation his lady had of it, whs a news paragraph in the Ledger. Shortly alter dinner was over, on the discovery ol ihe startling fact, Mrs. requested her husband to remain in the parlor a few moments, as she had something to say to him. She then left ! tlie room, nurneo up stairs and snortly niter re turned, with a bound Bibic in her hand. Handing it to her httabaatt, she said : 4 George, the day alter our marriage you gave me this precious book as a token of your love, and as a rich fount tin to look to in the day of trouble. Its pages have been precious to me ; and as you' brow looks sad to day, I now return it to you. that you may glean from it some consolation in the hour of gloom.' She then left the room. The merchant opened the book carelessly, and a bank bill fell out. He picked it up and glanced at its lace it was a ten dollar bill. Ho opened the book again, and another note of the same amount was before him. He opened at the first page, and continued to find an X between every two leaves, till be arived at the commencement of the book ol Revelations. He was saved could commence business, and hud a capital of nine thousand dollars. Ho rung the bell a servant appeared. 4 Request your mistress to come to me imme diately,' said the merchant. The lady obeyed, entering the room with some thing between a tear and a smile. 4 Kate! Kate ! wuere did you procure all this money ?' 1 This is the weekly saving of our household expenses for the last five years,' was the modest reply. ' Every week I put ten out of tho twenty dollars which you gave me into our Bible bank, that when a day of trouble came upon us, we chould have, something to rave us from the wolf.' But why put it in the Bible, Kate V Because it is a good bank, one which will not suddenly break,' replied the good lady. You are an angel, Kate,' cried her delighted husband, clasping her to his heart. And so she is. Does any one doubt it? The Lifetime of nun. When the world was created, and all creatures assembled to have their lifetime appointed, the ass first advanced and asked how long he would have to live. " Thirty years," replied Nature; M will that be agreeable to thee?" " Ala !" answered the ass, it is a long while. Remember what a wearisome existence will be mine ; from morning until night I shall have to bear heavy burdens, dragging corn sacks to the mill, that others may eat bread, while I shall iave no encouragement, nor be refreshed by any.hing but blows and kicks. Give but a portion of that 1 pray !" Nuture was moved with commission, an! pre sented but eighteen years. The ass went away comforted, nnd the dog came forward. " How long dost thou require to live?" asked Nature. 'Thirty years were too many for the ass, but will thou be contented with them "Is it thy will that I should?" replied the dog. Think how much I shall have to run abiut ; my feet will not last for so long a time, anc w hen 1 shall have lost my voice for barking, and my teeth for biting, what else shall I be fit for but to lie in the corner and growl ?" Nature thought ho was right, and gavi twelve years. The ape then appeared. Thou wilt doubtless willingly livi the thirty years," said Nature ; ' thou wilt not have to labor as the ass and the dog. Life will be pleas ant to thee." " Ah, no !" cried he, "so it may seem to others, but it will not be ! Should puddings ever rain down, I shall exci.'e laughter by my grimaces, and then be rewarded with a sour apple. How often sorrow lies concealed behind a jest ! J shall not be able to ei dure for thirty years." Nalure was gracious and he received but ten. At last camo man, healthy and strong, and asknd the measure of his days. " Will thirty years content thee?" How short a time !" exclaimed man ; " when I shall have built my house and kindled a fire on my own hearth when the trees I shall have planted are about to bloom and besr fruit when iife shall seem to me most desirable, I shall die. O, Nature, grent me a longer period !" ' Thou shalt have the eighteen years of the ass besides." " That is not enough," replied man. M Take likewise the twelve years of the dog." - It is not yet sufficient," reiterated man ; " give me more." " I give the, then, ten years of the ape ; in vain wilt thou claim more." Man departed unsatisfied. Thus man lived seventy years. The first thir ly are his human 3 ears, nnd, pass swiftly by. He is then healthy and happy. He labors cheerfully, und rejoices in i:s existence. The eighteen ol the ass came next ; burden upon burden is heap ed upon him ; he carries the corn that is to feed others ; bloivs and kick are the rewards of his faithful service. The twelve of the dog follows, and he loses his teeth, and lies down 111 the cor ner and growls. When these are gone, the ape's ten yours form the conclusion. Then man, weak and silly, becomes the sport of children. Translated from the German. Sleep and Death. The Angels of Sleep and Death, locked arm in arm, wandered over the rarih. It was evening. They laid themselves down upon a lofty hill that overlooked the habitations of man. A mournful stillness reigned around, broken only by the evening bells whose sound came faintly from the distant hamlet. Silent and speechless as is their wont, these beneficent guardian angels of mankind, lay in close embrace, till night's dark mantle fell around them. Then the Angel of Sleep rose from his mossy couch, and scattered with noiseless hand the invisible seeds of slumber. The evening wind carried them to the silent dwellings of the weary husbandman. Soon sweet sleep enfolded in its gentle embrace the inmates of the rural cottages ; from the grpy-haired sire, whose tottering steps a staff supports, to the infant in its cradle. The sick forgot his pains, the mourner his sorrow, the poor his cares. All eyes were closed. His task being finished, this benevolent Angel lay down by his sieroer brother's side. "When morning break," cried he, with happy innocence, "all the world will bless me as their friend and benefactor. Oh! what joy, thus to do good in secret and unseen. Mow happy are we, invisible messengers of the good spirit ! - ' tJ How beautiful is our q'liet office!" I hus spake the Angel of slumber. The Ansel of Death gazed upon him in silent sadness while tears, such as immortals weep stood in his large dark eyes. "Ah!" said he, "would that 1 like you, could rejoice in cheerful thanks; but the world calls me its foe and joy-destroyer." Oh ! my brother," answered the Angel of Slumber, "will not every good man, upon awakening, recognise in thee his friend, and gratefully bless thee? Are we not brothers, and children of one Father?" So he spake. The tearful eyes of the Angel of Death shone with a gleam of pleasure, while he pressed his gentler brother more tenderly to his heart. From the German. Politics. He who takes no interest in politics, and who holds himself altogether aloof from them, boasting that he is but a looker-on, deserves not the name of a citizen. One may just I v refuse to neglect his business, and become a bar-room ora tor, without being chargeable with any great crime ; yet, when a sane, reasoning man determines to become entirely neutral in political affairs, he com mits a great dereliction of duly. In a country like ours, free and enlightened, the study of politics should be as much a part of a man's duties as his religious devotions. It is much better to boast of one's abject slavery than to boast of one's ignor- j nnce relative to political affairs. When we hear j a fool bragging of his lack of wit and education, we always institute a comparison between him and the man who knows no'hins of-political sub- j-Qt-. Nfirark 3Scrcirry. Getting "Fits in a Clothing Store. Nehemiah speedily selected a nice, blue coat, and vest of green, but he was more fastidious in his choice of pants, these crowning glories of his new suit. He seemed to indulge a weakness for long pantaloons, and complained that his lust pair had troubled him exceedingly, or, as he expressed it, "blamedly," by hitching up over his boots, and wrinkling about the knees. Nehemiah delved away impetuously amidst the stack of two or three hundred pairs, and finally his eyes rested upon a pair of lengthy ones, real blazers, and with wide yellow fctiipcs running each way. Nehemiah snaked tbem out in a twinkling, lie liked them they were long and yellow they were just the thing, and he proceeded at once to try them on. The new clothing store had a nook curtained off for this purpose, and Nehemiah was speedily closeted therein. The panls had straps, and the straps were but toned ; now Nehemiah had seen straps before, but the art of managing them was a mystery, and like St. Patrick's dilemma, "required a mighty dale of nice consideration." On deliberation, he decided that the boots must go on first; he accor dingly drew on his BlUchers, mounted a chair, elevated his pants at proper angle, and endeavored to coax the legs into them. He had a time of it. His boots were none of the smallest, and the pants, though long, were none of ihe widest, the chair too, was rickety, and bothered him, but, bending his energies to the task, he succeeded in inducing the legs into the "pesky things." He was standing like the Colossus of Rhodes, and just in the act of raising the other foot, when a whispering and gig gling, in his immediate vicinity, made him alive to the appalling fact that nothing but a thin curtain of chintz separated him from twenty or thirty ol the prettiest and wickedest girls that were ever in one shop. Nehemiah was a bashful youth, and would have made circumbendibus of a mile, any day, rather than meet those girls, even had he been in full dress ; as it was his mouth was ajar at the bare possibility of making his appearance amongst them in his present dishabille. What if there was a hole in the curtain ! What if it should fall ! It wou'd'nt bear thinking of, and plunging his foot in the vacant leg, with a sort of frantic looseness, he brought on the very catastrophe he was so anxious to avoid. The chair collapse with a sudden "scrouch," pitching Nehemiah head over heels through the curtain, and hemadehisgrandentrnnce among the stitching divinities on all fours, like a fettered rhinoceros. Perhaps Collier himself never exhibited a more striking group tableaux vivantes than was now displayed. Nehemiah was a "model," every inch of him, and though not exactly "resolving on a pedestal," he was going through the movement quite ns effectually on his back, kicking, plunging, in short, personifying in thirty seconds all the attitudes ever "chiselled !" As for the gals, they screamed of course, jumped upon chairs, and the cutting board, threw their hands over their faces, peeped through their fingers, screamed again, "they should die they knew they should !" "Oh, Lordy !" blubbered the distressed young 'an, "don't holler so, gals, don't ! I didn't go tew I swar to man I didn't ; it's all owing to those cussed trowsers, every mite on't. Ask yer boss, he'll tell ye bow 'twas. Oh, Lordy, won't nobody kiver me up with old clothes, or turn the wood-box over me ? Oh, Moses in the bullrushes ; what'll Nancy say ?" He managed to raise himself on his feet and make a splurge towards the door, but his "en tangling alliances" tripped him up again, as he fell "kerslap," upon the hot goose of the pressman ! This was the unkindest cut of all. The goose had been heated expressly for thick cloth seams, and the way it sizzled into the seat of the new pants was afflicting to the wearer. Nehemiah riz up iu an instant, and seizing the source of all his troubles by the slack he tore himself free from all save the straps nnd some pantlet-like fragments that hung about his ancles, as he dashed through the door of the emporium, at a two forty pace. Nehemiah seemed to yearn with the poet, for a "lodge in some vast wilderness," and betrayed a settled purpose to ,4flee from the busy haunts of men," for the last seen of him he was capering up the railroad cutting ike a scared rabbit, the rays of the declining sun flickering and duncing upon a broad expanse of shirt tail that fluttered gaily in the breeze, as he headed for the nearest wood. Boston Yankee Blade. Love. How bright and beautiful is "love" in its hour of purity and innocence how mysteriously it etherealizes every leeling, and concentrates every wild and bewildering impulse of the heart: Love holy and mysterious love, it is the garland spring of life, the poetry of nature. Its song is heard in the rude hut of the poor, ns wtll as gorgeous palace of the rich its fl imes embellish the solitude of the forest and the thronged haunts of busy life, and its light impaitys a brilliancy to every heart, no matter what may be lis condition. Love pure and devoted love can never change. Friends may forsake us the riches of this world may soar away, but the heart that loves will cling the closer; as loud roars the storm, and amid the wreck of the tempest, it will serve as a "beacon" to light us on to love and happiness. Love is the music and unseen spell that soothes the wild and rugged tendencies of human nature that lingers about the sanctity of the fireside, and unites in closer union the affections of society ; and the souj that loves truly will love forever. Not like the waves of the ocean, nor traced in sand, is ihe image impressed upon a loving heart. No, no but it will remain unbroken and un marked it will burn on undefaced in its lustre, amid the quick rush of the tempest cloud and when our fate seems dark and drearv, ihen will love seek shelter in her own hallowed temple ; and offer us a sacrifice, her vows and affections. Monumental Lit. Gazette. Death of a Distinguished Army Officer. In formation has reached Washington, says the Star, of the recent death of Brevet Lieutenant Col. John McClelland, of th Corps of Topographical En gineers, at Knoxville, Tenn., of cholera. Col. McC. waa the brother of Secretary McClelland, of the Interior Department. He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Walker, of Washington, nnd a famiH of children, ull of whom are at Piney Puinf. Judge Dougia at Chicago. The Chicago papers of Saturday morning last contain full particulars of the successful attempt of an organized gang of abolition rowdies to dis turb a public meeting which had assembled in that city, on the preceding evening, for the purpose of hearing Judge Douglas's promised address on the Nebraska question. The following account of this disgraceful outrage on the constitutional rights of an American citizen is copied from the Chicago Times : The Meeting Last Night. During the whole of yesterday the expected meeting of last night was the universal topic of conversation. Crowds of visitors arrived by the several trains from the surroundifig cities and tuwa, c? from a for Detroit and St. Louis, attracted by tho announce ment that Judge Douglas was to address his con stituents. During the afternoon the Tribune, true to its fiendish instinct, issued, as a last effort 10 create a disturbance, an inflammatory handbill, headed by the exciting words : " Organization of the Irish body guard." Asserting that an Irish body guard had been or ganized to prevent Americans entering or partici pating in the meeting. The effect produced by this and other nefari ous means on the public mind will be seen here alier. In consequence of the extreme heat of the wea ther ii was deemed advisable to hold the meeting on the outside of the hall, instead of the interior, as had been announced. At early candlelight a throng of eight thousand persons had assembled at the south part of North Market Hall. At the time announced the mayor of Chicago called the assemblage to order, and Judge Douglas then addressed the meeting. We have been una ble to prepare in time for this morning's paper a full report of the speech. During thus lar of his remarks he was frequent ly inturrupted by the gang of abolition rowdies, in cited thereto by the infamous appeals which for weeks have been made to them by the organ in this city. Whenever he approached the subject of the Nebraska bill, an evidently well organized and drilled body of men, comprising about one twentieth of the meeting, collected and formed into a compact body, refused to allow him to be heard. They kept up this disgraceful proceeding until after 10 o'clock, refusing most determinedly to allow one word uttered to be heard by the rest of the meeting. In vain did the Mayor of the city appeal to their sense of order, but they refused to let him be heard. Judge Douglas, notwithstanding the uproar of these hirelings, proceeded at intervals. He told them that he was not unprepared for their conduct He had a day or two since received a letter written by the secretary of an organization framed since his arrival in this city, for the purpose of pre vent ting him from speaking. Thia organization re quired that he should leave the city or keep silent ; and if he disregarded this notice the organization was pledged, at the sacrifice of life, to pro vent his being heard. Ho presented himself, he said, and challenged the armed gang to execute upon him their mur derous pledge. The letter having been but imper fectly heard, its reading was asked by some of the orderly citizens present, but the mob refused to let it be read. At length, at IO3 o'clock, yielding to the earn est appeals of his friends, Judge Douglas withdrew from the stand. To Choose a Good milch Cow. Select from a good breed. We prefer the Dev ons bright bay red. The Durhams are roan, red, white, and mixtures of these colors. Ayr shire cows are generally red and white spotted. Herefords, red or darker colored, with white faces. Alderneys, pale red and mixed with white. These are the principal colors of the several breeds, of which the Durhams are the largest and the Alder neys 'he smallest. Different individuals will con tend for each breed being the best and only one that should be selected for their milking qualities. But animals ol each breed, and of crosses of them, often prove remarkable milkers, and so do some of the native stock of the country. Two families of cows, one owned by Col. Jaques of Ten Hills Farm, near Charlestown, Mass., and one owned by Maj. John Jones of Wheatland Farm, near Middletown, Delaware, were called native breed. If we were about selecting a milk cow, we would endeavor to get one out of a herd of good milkers; one with a soft, velvety. feeling skin, slim neck, fine legs, broad stern, with what is called a large escutcheon, that is, the hair of tho stern pointing inward; a large udder, slim teats and large veins, commonly called milk veins, on the belly. Above all things, select your cow of a gentle, pleasant countenance, because a first rate milker may be so vicious as to be worthless. Do not look for flesh, as the best cows are seldom fat ; their hip bones are often very prominent, and they have the appearance of being low in flesh. A beefy cow is seldom a good milker. The next thing is, what is a good milker? That is, how much milk must she yield per day ? A cow that will average five quarts of milk a day through the year, making 1825 quarts, hi an ex traordinary good cow. One that will yield five quarts a day for ten months is a good cow, and one that will average four quarts during that time is more than an average quality. That would make 1200 qu irts a year, which, at three cents a quart, is $36. We believe tho Orange County milk dairies average about 940 per cow, and the quality of the cows is considerably above the av erage of the country. It is as important to keep a good cow as it is to get her good. This can never be done by a care less, lazy milker. Always milk your cow quiek and perfectly clean, and never try to counteract nature by Hiking away her calf. Let it suck, and don't be afraid 44 it will butt her lo deith," It will distend the udder, and make room for the secre tion of milk. Be gentle with your cow, and you will have a gentle cow. Select well, feed well, house well, milk well, and your-cow will yield well. V. T. Tribune. OCT Cap:. Marryatt's daughter is about lo ap pear before the pubbc as a noveliet. Her first work, in 8 volumes, is entitled Temper." Where the Strength .Lies. Where is the strength and safety of a people? Is it in their multitude? Look at Europe and be hold the million the sport of tho few look at the nations and races, trampled by a tithe of their numbers in the dust look at the myriad slaves, whom a thousand tyrants and taskmen scourge in fields, and camps, and dungeons. The strength of a people is not alone in multitude. Is it in the power of revolutions and massacres, or 10 the bayonets they can fling to the gleam of the nun ? Did bayonets' save Romedid they save Poland, and Hungary, nnd France, and Germany to the people? The strength and safety of n people lio in their kvouledge of their rights, and their union ir drfenc of thrr t Ignorant and disunited, the greater the number the greater the danger ol a people. They are their own curse. They fall upon and destroy themselves, and no power can oppose them. Liberty comes with intelligence, and the unarmed, intelligent million, are stronger than ignorant armed millions. The strength of the American people lies least in the number of their cannon and bayonets, and most in their school-houses, newspapers and books. These are indestructib'e weapons, to which age adds edge and might ; and armed with these, we are safer and stronger than n soil bristling with murderous steel. Armed with these, millions lean together, nnd strike mightily but bloodlessly as one man, Lhroogh the ballot box, -4' A weapon surer ye, And mightier than tho bayonet ; A weapon, thct conies down as still As snow-flakes tall upon the sod, And executes a freeman's will, As lightnings do the will of God!" N. Y. Mirror. A Chinese Wonder. Europeans and Ameri. cans are very apt to consider the Chineese as bar. barians, when compared with our own and other Christian nations. Yet we are constantly meeting with facts in relation to (hat singular people, which put to the blush all our vainglorious boasting. What are our great canals when compared with that extraordinary work of art, the imperial Canal of China, which was built by the Mongol Emperor, Kublai Khan, and extends a distance of more lhan 600 miles? Great heights are tunnelled, lakes bridged, and stupendous embankments thrown over marshes and low ground to afford it a passage. Unlike our canals, its capacity is not limited lo small boats, but large ships sail upon its waters, which are filled by mighty rivers, and serve not only the purpose of a commercial highway, but are used for the two-fold objects of irrigation and drainage, thus rendering available for cultivation much land which would otherwise bo useless. This canal has been pronounced by Europeans a gigantic work, and 0110 displaying sound practical engineering skill, and even genius in its construc tion. Yet it is only one among many achieve ments of art to be found on a larger scale in China than in any other country in the world. And yet the race which produced these wonders is pro nounced useless in California. Doubtless, they may be, for electioneering or warlike purposes ; but in many other respects they will prove of quite as much utility to the Eureka Slate as their self sufficient traducers. Irish Character. The Buffalo Republican gives the following in cidents, illustrating some beautiful traits in the Irish character among the "lowly." The lessons taught by these poor laborers are more beneficial to thejfK'ople of our America than all the teachings of Irish politicians : "What are you going to do with your money, John ? said we to an Irishman of thut name, to whom we r.re indebted for labor. "I'm going to send iMo my mother in Ireland,'' was the reply. And to her he did send it, and (rusted to health and industry to provide for his own necessities. This feeling of deep-rooted sympathy and never cooling filial affection we have witnessed in every Irish servant, male or female, that we have ever employed or been acquainted wiih. We have an Irish family in our mind's eye, numbering some dozen Or more, male and f mule, the mule head of which was turned out of an employment late in life, in which he had "wrought" during his. whole prime of life. They kept together, bound firmly by the strong cords of Irish affeetion, till famine so pinched that their labor would not suffice to keep absolute want at bay. By a united effort they managed to get the oldet brother off to America, and he landed here in Buffalo. He took hold of the first employment that he could get, and toiled constantly, living on almost nothing till he had sent horn, enough to bring another brother. The two labored on until they were enabled to import a third. These again toiled and saved, till they sent for a eister. She contri buted her weekly dollar till another sister was brought over. And so they kept importing faster and faster, till the whole family, father, mother, and all, were safely landed on this side ol the At lantic." Fawatical Outbage. On Monday, 29th oil., when tho cars arrived at Salem. Ohio, from Pitta- burg, Pa., a crowd had gathered, in consequence of a telegraph despatch from Pittsburg stating that a slave girl was in the train with her master and mistress. When the cars stopped a big negro stepped into tbem, and, accoaiing the girl, aaked her if she was a slave. She made no reply, but her mistress answered that she waa. Thereupon the black rufrin seized her, and she clinging to her mistress' neck, begged most piteously not to be torn away ; but the black fellow violently tore her away, and in the effort bruised the lady's neck severely, and carried the child out of the car on one arm, and flourished a revolver in the other hand, amid the plaudits o( the excited, crowd. The master of ihe girl offered lo go before the proper authorities and execute free papers, if the girl wished to be free, leaving the choice to herself. But the mob would not allow it. The poor child's screams could-be heard above the tumult, begging to go back to her mother, who belongs to the same owners. The master's life being loudly threatened, he was compelled to proceed with the train, leaving the poor lule girl in ihe hands of her ruffiuu captors. It is supposed that rha Mormon population of Uuh Territory now reaches fifty thousand. 1