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VOL. 3.
CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1854.
NO. 12.
Steinrss (Curbs, &r.
.ittorney at t.aiv.
Ojl
e in LottergatSs
Brick Building, 2nd floor.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
ELMS 6l JOHNSON.
Forwarding and Commission Merchants.
NU. io VENDUE RANGE,
:il AHLEsTuN" S. G.
W. W. ELMS. C. JOHNSON.
Juno 23, Tl. 411.
R . HAMILTON. It . M. OATEs.
HAMILTON & OATES,
COJI JI IS8ION J?l K ItC EI A NTS,
Corner of BfrnnraT uni f.uun! Strats,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
June 9 1 85 1 y
T. STrMIo: E . B. T. AVCRII.L.
T. STEXIlOtJSE. Ac C o.,
FORWARDING & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
-Y. ijaifme HO erf,
CHARLESTON S. C.
KIKKR TO
Hand, Wtliia nu c Wi'cox
R. Mia,
Charleston, S. C.
J. K. Harrison & Co. I
ilJiams, Dixon & (. o., t
thar'.otte. N. C.
H. I handler, (hatanooga. Aug. 11, '51 Cm
RHETT V KOBOX,
FACTORS & COMMISSION MERGHANTS,
xVoa. 1 tt 2 Atfuntic M'huiJ
CHARLESTON, S. C.
ti" Liu' r.il advanc-a mi 'e on Consignments.
S;riil aU-titjii grren lo the file of Flour, Corn,
&.r , and from o
r 1 tag experience in llic bnuMH, we
Kivin.; ilis(;tcion.
trel n jlr nl of
March H, l
34. ly
Dry Goods in Charleston, So. Ca.
BE ROW MM; A. LENAX,
IMPORTMS OF DRY GOODS,
No. 909 and '21 1 Kinr street, corner of Murkct Street.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Plantation Woolena, Blankets, fee., C'nrpctinps unci
t"urtin Mjteri;il. Silks and Rich l)r?t.- Gode, Cloaks,
Mtntilltx and Shawls. Terms Cash. Out- Prict Only.
Much 17, l!ol 34 ly
RANKIN, PULLIAM & CO.,
Importers ami Wholesale Dealers in
Eoi; Kl U N AND DOXeSTIC STAPLE AM) FANCY
mi? nmm im owrmm,
EO. 131 MEETING STKKET,
KPt 2x, -mi i v rn mm JESTON, s. c.
It tnnlactnre ami Dealer in
PANAMA. LEGHORN, FUR SILK & WOOL
9
opposite
:i, 53 lv
C'lIAK LESTON
HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
N. A.
CUM BS
N.
LEOPOLD COIIK.
& COHN,
A. COHEN
NPoKTERS AMI KEALEKS r N
FOREIGN
AND
NO.
DOMESTIC DRY GOODS.
17") BAST BAY,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
(10 ly.)
ntllDJ.lVV. MLKEI &. BURMS1DE,
00WHSM PA0V0&B
A ND CO M M lssiu MERCHANTS,
NORTH ATLANTIC WHAIF,
i CHARLESTON, S. C.
ST rmnwii for sclli.ig Cottoa Fifty cents er Bale.
Sept -J--, lo'.i. 10-ly.
RAMSEY'S PIANO STORE.
MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
N U N N S A CO.'S Patent
Diagonal Grand PIANOS;
Hailet Davis Co.'s Patent
Bridtre PIANOS ;
Chiikei ings, Traver s' and
other best makers' Pianos, at
V.w !) rnces.
olambia, S. C, Sept. 23, 183.
10-ly
e;oe,ia b.n,
JENNINGS B. XERR.
fftarlotlc, .1. C
28, 28if
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a. ir.
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WBIkEA I- A,
T T " 'ITT.'
DRESS MAKER
Residcare. on Main Street, 3 doors south of Sadler's
Hotel,)
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
By Dresses cut and made by the celebrated A. B.C.
met bod, and warranted to ft. Orders solicited and
promptly attended to. Sept. .', 1853 S-ly.
The American Hotel
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
I.'
BBG ta announce to my ft linn's, the public, nJ pres-
nt patron f the above Hotel, that I have leased tlie
same for a term of years from the 1st ol January ooxi.
Vtcr which til, the entire property will be thoroujrb
Iv repa;-ed and reii(vated, and the house kept in rlrnt
etaaa Mvle. Thia Hotel is near the Depot, and pleasant-
lv site. . d. rendering it a desirable house for travellers i
. o
and families.
Deo 16, 18o3. 22t C. M. RAY.
MMBtMMBaamHBBBBaBHBHBBHHMaaMBSi ManmnannnnMaBaa
ttAKC'll A: JIIRP,
AUCTION EEliS Axn COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
COLCniA, S. c,
A 7 ILL attend to the sale of all kiiuis of Merchandise,
Produce, &c. Also, Real and Personal Property.
Or purchase and sell Slaves, be, on Commission.
Salks Kdom No. '2 Richardson street, and imme
diately opposite the United States Hotel.
t'eb 3, 1S51 THOS. II. MARCH. J. M. K. SHARP.
Livery and Sales Stable,
BY S. H. RE A,
T the tand formerly occupied by R. Morrison, in
Charlotte. Horses fed. hired and sold. Good ac
c viunodati, ins fur Drovers. The custom of his friends
and the pu'.dic rencrally solicited.
Fcbraary 17, 1854.
30-y
MM IKIO BUSHELS of WHEAT, for which the
'''.M'Ul' highest cash prices will be paid, to be dc.
Iivired al his Merchant Mill in Charlotte, at any time
&ftr the lt day of September next.
LEROY SPRINGS.
June 23, 1551. 48tf.
IJr&Kia
Robert A. Whytc,
(LATE EDITOB OF THE GEORGIA HOME GAZETTE.)
The Louisville Journal thus speaks of the fol
lowing beauliful lines: "One might almost wish
to die if he knew that so beauliful a tribute as this
would be written to his memory :"
On the bosom of a river,
Where the sun unloosed his quiver,
Or the starlight streamed loiever,
Sailed a vessel light and free.
Morning dew-drops hung, like manna,
On the bright folds of her banner,
While the zephyr rose to fan her,
Softly to the radiant sea.
At hei prow, a pilot beaming
In the flush of youth, stood dreaming,
And he was in glorious seeming,
Like an angel from above.
Through his hair the breezes sported,
And as on the wave he floated,
Oft that pilot, angel throated,
Warbled lays of hope and love.
Thiough those locks so brightly flowing,
Bu'ls of laurel bloom were blowing,
A ud his hands anon were throwing
Music from a lyre of gold.
Swiftly down the stream he glided,
Soft the purple waves divided,
And a rainbow arch abided,
On his canvass' snowy fold.
Anxious hearts, with fond devotion,
Watch him sailing to the ocean,
Praying that no wild commotion,
Midst the elements might rise.
And he seemed some young Apollo,
Charming summer winds to follow,
W hile the v. atei-ilags' corolla,
Trembled to his music sighs.
But those purple waves ejichanted,
Rolled beside a city haunted,
By an awful spell, that daunted,
Every comer to her shore.
Night shades rsnk the air encumbered,
And pale marble statues numbered
Where the lotus-eaters slumbered
Awoke to life no more.
Then there rushed with lightning quickness,
O'er his face a mortal sickness,
And the de s in fearful thickness,
Gather o'er his temples fair.
And there swept a dying murmur,
Through the lovely Southern summer, J
As the beauteous pilot comer,
Perished by that city there.
Still rolls on that radiant river,
And the sun unbinds his quiver,
On the starlight streams forever,
On its bosom as before.
But that vessel's rainbow banner,
Greets no more the gay savanna,
And that pilot's lute drops manna
On the purple waves no more.
Julia Pleasants.
tai.rii uni Itottoms
Or the Way Sol Sold ' his Daddv.
my ned alrhe.
4 Solomon, my sou.'
And he came very quickly forward,' to use a
sailor phrase, for the old man caicbcd him up in
liie hay loft a chuckin ' dice with Jim, an elder
brother, and he knew he was a goner.
What am you doin' here?' asked his da
ily. rt. playin ' of iStm;,'ntd Sol, gathering up
what constituted the bank.'
' Sweat! And what's that aonnj V
' VV'hy, you see this Vre board, with I, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, painted on ? Well, Jim said he would not
b!t on any other figure than 5, if I'd let him dou
ble, and I throws three sixes every time and puis
him to perfi ct smash.'
Old Mr. Science did'nt quite understand this
answer, but reckoned to hinvsi 11 the 1 li'tle rascals
hud been 'ere gatnblin ' and a winnin ' one anoth
er's money.'
Jim,' said he jest lote yourself in tu the
house, and stay there till 1 come; and ynu,
Solomon, go ard cut me a willow branch di
rectly.' ' What for?' asked Sol.
I'm going to give you a lickin ' my son.
What sez the scripture ? ' Spare the rod and spile
the chiid,' and if 1 should do that thing you'd con
tiner logo on in this wicked way until you'd come
to the galliis.'
" Daddy,' said the youngster, putting ' both
hands in his trousers pockets, 'there's no use
lalkin ' to me in that solemn strain, for I tell you
I'm bound to be a gambler gallus or no gallus !
Now, there Nancy Smith, the female I set up
with, she sez as how I am a lam, and don't all
lambs gambol ?
' Hold your tung, you dratted skunk, you'r ig
norant as a hess ; an' if vou don't lake warning
you'll come to an dreadful end, sure as you're a
human bem', Solomon ; I say, them gnmblers have
a denim's with the devil, and if you should go
down to New York with ten dollars in j our pock
et, they'd win all from you in a day.'
4 I'll bet they would'nt.'
Besides, ii they could'nt get no how else
they'd cut your throat with a banna, and then 1
chuck you down some of those hundred feet
pits ?'
' Who's afraid ? I'm a teapot if I don't think I
could beat the captain of the hull crew to shivers I
with these 'ere dice. Why I can throw three i
sixes a dozen times hand runnin' and, daddy I
can tell you how many spots is on the top and bot
loon without lookin' !
And let me shake them up and kiver 'em
over r
Yes, daddy.'
4 And you turn
Exactly.'
yer back and shet your eyes ?' ;
4 it can't be done,' said the old man solemnly
' the thing's impossible ! Angels couldn't do it,
I could'nt do it ?'
Well, 1 kin,' said Sol, with a grin.
Silence ! you dratted fill inn ; don't I tell you
nobody could.'
What'll yer bet ?
Me bet ? an old man almost in my grave
and a deacon at that ? What would sister
Crump say 1 wonder, if she was to hear of such a
thing V
' No dad,' said Sol, I did'nt mean to say you
wouldn't, but I tell you what I did mean.
You see I've got five dollars in silver and I want
five more to buy a watch. Now if you'll give
me five I'll d. ihe trick ; I'd give you five if I
i i 1.
' And did vou sav I
asked Mr. S.'
hoafd shake the things,' j
4 Of course,' nodded Sol.
The old man scratched his head and mutter
ed to himself. It can't be wicked lo try, for it
ain''. betting, and the boy can't do it, cause it's
impossible. Besides it will drive all them uasty
notions out of his head, and he'll never do so no
more- Yes, I'll humor him this w unst ! 4 now
Solomon!'
4 V"es, sir.'
4 What did you say was the trick ?'
4 Why, you take these 'ere dice, and shake 'em
yourself, and I'll tell you how many spots there is
on the top and bottom and won't look ! If I don't
you can have my five dollars ; and il I do you
must give me your five.
4 Well, sonny, I'll do it. Give the things to
me.'
4 There they be,' said Sol, handing the dice to
his daddy ; 4 now put your five dollars in this
pile 'long with mini o ail will be fair you
know .'
4 1 will,' and the old man laid a ragged Indiana
V amongst Solomon's silver and put the dice in
his hat. After shaking them a good ten minutes
he dumped th m to the floor, and said he was
ready.
4 Wait a spell,' said Sol, makio' believe he was
puzzled ; 'all right, I guess there's justjjwenly
one.' The old man raised the hat counted both ends
of the dice top and bottom ; and of course there
was just twenty-one.
4 Bless the Lord !' said he. the child has done
it slick and sure, but it wan't fair I declare to
natur it wan't. If you'll do it again I'll give you
another five dollars, and get you a new pair of
breeches besides.'
4 Weil, daddy, go ahead ; but I don't ihini I j
can guess again, no how. J hut t nglit, shaie
'em u heap, hain't got no objection whatever.
4 All right ?'
4 Yes.'
4 Well, there's just twenty-one ?po!s there thia
time, too-'
Up comes the bat. 4 There's three sixes daddy,
that's eighteen. Turn 'em over three aces that
makes twenty one again, by thunder!'
The old man held up his hand and groaned.
Merciful Egypt ! did j ou ever? No I never
did. Solomon, my son, how was ii done ?'
Doue ?' sid Solomon, gathering up his dad
dy's dimes, 'done ? 1 1 don't like to tell you how
that was done but (aside) you were 4 done ' cm
niferous. iVr. Y. thtchman.
German Bhihes. Mr, James Brooks, of the
New York Express, who is now in Europe, ia a
recent letter says :
The Germans, by the way, hhvo a queer way
of making 'Brides,' and of doing some other
thiegs in the courting and marrying way, which
may interest you, perhaps. When a maiden is
betrothed, she is called 'Bride,' and so continues,
till she becomes 'wfe. All the while she is en
gaged she is a 'Bride.' The lovers, immediately
upon the betrothal, exchange plain gold rings,
which are worn ever afterwards, till death parts
them. The woman wears hers on the third fing'-r
of the left hand, and the man his, on his hand, j
When the 'Bride' becomes 'wife,' her ring is J
transferred to thp third finger of the right hand, !
(j n c tKora it rjm:mc 'I'ltf lntcli'irwl m1uj-q wnorj
hi3 rin just as the wife wears hers, so that if vou
look upon a man's hand, vou can tell whether he
is mortgaged or not. There is no cheating for I
him ever after no coquetting wilh the girls, as if,
he were an unmarried man; for lo ! the whole ;
story is told by his finger ring. A Viennese
married lady was much amused when I told her
that in our country we only 'ring' ihe women, but
let the husbands run at large, unmarked ! 'Oh
that is dreadful !' aid she, more than half shocked.
'Think, there is Frederick, my husband only 24
so young, so handsome and all the girls would
be taking him for an unmarried man, and be
making love to hiin !' 'Oh, it is dreudful !' 'is it
not ?' 'They would never know he was married.'
'How can you do 6o in your country ?' 'I would
not live there with Frederick for the world.
Thinking over the reasoning of my fair Viennese,
I could not but come to the conclusion with her,
that in her country there was more security for
the wife ; and that, therefore, her custom was
bet try than ours. But would not there be a rebel
lion among the men in America, if the wives there
thus put a public stamp of 'property upon their
husbands every step they took. The Germans
have other agreeable customs in their silver wed
dings (silberne hocfizeit) (the twenty-five years of
wedded lid?) and their golden weddings, (goclcne
liocltzcit) (50 years ;) but of these so much has
been written, that I can probably write you nothing
new. If ever I get time, I w ill consecrate a whole
chapter to you on German courtships and Ger- j
man wedded life but this letter isjust now medley
enough.
The Poor oe this World. -
God's ways are
often seem in
not as the ways of men. They
explicable to the human mind. iNone are more
so than those which concern choice as to the ob
jects of bis favor. He selects, as a general thing,
not the rich of this world, but the poor, not the
noble and the mighty, but the humble and the
weak.
Moses was the son of a poor Levile Gideon
was a thrasher David was a Shepherd boy
Amos was a herdsman the apostles were " igno
rant and unlearned." The reformer, Zwingle,
emerged from a shepherd's hut among the Alps.
Melancthon, the great theologian of the Reforma
tion was a workman in an armorer's shop. Mar
tin Luthor was the child of a poor miner.
Corey, who orignalcd the plan of translating
the Bible into the language of the millions of Hin
dostan, w as a shoemaker in Northampton. Dr.
Morison who translated the Bible into the Chinese
lanffiiRfire. was a last-maker, in Newcantie. Dr.
ar c?
Milue was a herd boy in Aberdeenshire. Dr. Adam
Clarke was the child of Irish cotters. John Foster
was a weaver ; Andrew Fuller was a farm-servant.
William J,iy. ol B it-h, was a herdsman ; and the
present Archbishop of York fs the son of a draper.
North Bend, rendf-reJ famous as the residence
and burial phce ol President Harrison, will soon
be converted into a town. A considerable portion
of it has been purchased by some capitalists, who
contemplate laying it out in town lo'sand oiy. ring
them lor sale.
Agriculture and the Professions.
When young men are about completing their
education, they very wisely ask themselves what
they shall do. A few, scanning the various pur
suits, luckily hit on something in harmony wi'h
their tastes, while the greater part look only to
the professions as the legitimate sphere of educa
ted men. Now this conclusion is all wrong. A
college education aims at a professional life no
more than any other ; Lut only at a general dis
cipline and culture of mind which may be applied
to all pursuits. There are, no doub'. some in each
class, who are adapt d to and will honor any of
! the. professions ; but the greater part are not, and
ihey enter them rather because they are honor
able, than in hopes of honoring them. Hut we
have little sympathy with those luminaries which
seek lo shine by a reflected light. We have been
taught to believe that the man should honor hia
office, not the office the man ; and that it is better
to move at the head of even an humble calling,
than follow in the rear of a dignified profession.
We would rather raise potatoes which somt body
will eat, than make speeches which no one will
hear, or write books which no one will read.
But if these young gentlemen will carefully
look around, they will perhaps find other avenues
to wealth and distinction, besides the professions.
Take for instance, agriculture not simply the
art of plowing the ground, but agriculture viewed
in all its practical and scientific bearings, and
they will possibly find scope for the display of at
least moderate capacities. Indeed, if we mistake
not, some enter the professions, who would not
find a waste of talent in agricultural pursuits, and
who are quite as well suited to fhem. But so
many young men are captivated with the idea of
professional ur political titles and life, that they
overlook what they call the humbler avocations.
So away they go, talking of Robert Halls and
Daniel Websters, between whom and themselves
there is no more comparison than between the
Alps and an ant-hill. We would not be thought
to underrate the professions by any means; but
we believe strongly in an adaptation, a fitness for
things. If a man has not a natural capacity for
one pursuit let him take up another for which he
has a natural capacity. Better handle the plow
with grace, than make a stupid argument.
Nor yet does this avocation preclude access to
political distinction, to hich so many young men
aspire. We know some farmers who stand as
good a chance for office as many of their profes
sional brethren, and who are as well able lo flou
rish a delicate a hand, tr quiddle as accurately,
or talk us honiedly ; bu; in good sense and sound
judgment the essential elements of a mm they
are by no means inferior. We always like lo see
such men good honest .-ouls ! w ho lean not on
the dignity of their pro'sioro, i.nf iksmcal...
Such men are at once tiio strength and pride of
the country.
Let not young men, therefore, think a profes
sion the " sine qua non" of human greatness, but
let them cast about and see what they are fitted
and have a taste for. They will go to work thor
oughly and earnestly, and be sure to succeed,
while on the other hand, they will most surely
fail. American Agriculturist.
Blind to his own Interest. The St. Louis
Intelligencer relates the following amusing inci
dent, as having occurred there a lew days ago :
One of Health's sprinkling wagons used to dam
pen the streets of our city by water from a large re
servoir, containing several hogsheads, was pro
ceeding slowly down Fourth street, engaged in
the laudable task of flooring the dust, when the at
tention of a raw Hoosier was attracted tow ards
this singular looking vehicle :
Hullo, stranger !' said fie, addressing himself
quite audibly to the driver, ' you're losing all your
water thar.'
No answer was made by the person addressed.
4 I say, old hoss said the Hoosier, you'r los
ing your water right sm-irt thar, I tell you, and
I'll be dog-on'd if your old tub wont be dry, next
thing you know.'
The driver was still silent, and the stranger
agai n addressed John.
Look here, you fool, don't you see something
broke loose in your old cistern upon wheels, and
that all your water is leaking out.'
Sii'l the driver -was silent, and the Hoosier turn
ed away in disgust, saying
4 I'll allow that feller is a little the biggest fool I
ever did see ; but if he's so blind to his own inter
est ts to throw his labor away in that manner, let
him do ii and be d d !'
Every body has heard of the gentleman who de
scribed his country seat as having a ' Lemonade '
in front, a 4 Porto-rico ' to each wing, a ' Pizarro'
in the rear, with an ' Anecdote ' by which the wa
ter was conveyed into a 4 Resurrection ' in the
4 Erie.' If we had ever heard of that gentleman's
having taken up his residence south of Mason and
Dixon's line we should have no doubt that be was
identical with the one who, as a Louisiana corres
pondent narrates, thus announced some contem
plated architectual improvements :
'I contend,' said he, ' among othfr 4 pusillani
mous things, to put a' 4 Disclosure ' around that
field, plant a 4 Harbor in the middle, and cut a
4 Revenue' up to the door. And then when I
have built a 4 Perdition,' to my house, I shul!
be able to receive my friends in a 4 hostile, man
ner.' A Sad Picture The Journal of Commerce
says :
Not a night passes, we are truthfully told with
out burglaries. Fires are of constant occurrence.
Midnight brawls are frequent. Murders follow
upo, each other wi'h frightful rapidity. Punish
ment for these offences is slow and not sure in the
few cases in which arrests are made. It is un
deniable that there is a far wider sympathy for
criminals than is compatible with the public good.'
This is indeed a sad picture of the Empire City.
Choice Fodder. A correspondent of the New
Orleans Picayune, writing (rom Bayou Sara,
Louisiana, under dated of the 17th of September,
s?ys i
"The sugar plan'ers have nothing to complain
rl except the low prices of Inst year. It is a fact
that the planters here are feeding their molasses
to their mules, and f am told mix?d with hay or
straw it makes most escetlcai food, and that the
g'.ock are very fond ol it."
The North and South.
The Petersburg Intelligencer, an able Whig
Journal, has the following remarks on the political
aspect of affairs at the North :
Months ago this paper' took tlie ground that in
a national sense of the term the Whig party had
ceased to exist, its destruction having been accom
plisljed by the open abandonment of the National
Constitution by the Whigs of the North, who are
loudly professing the most devoted loyalty to thai
greariirstrijinent. At l he time when we made this
declaration, and called on the Whigs of the South
to look out for themselves, we incurred the censure
of more than one Southern Whig journal, and
were charged with making a rash and precipitate
DioremrBi, wnion, u rottuwva up, might naetcn itc
advent of evils which might otherwise be arrested
in their progress. We took this censure, we hope,
in a b coming spirit, being well assured that' time
would vindicate the truih of our position and the
folly of trusting ourrights lo the defence of Northern
people. We had no pride of opinion about this,
and God forbid that we should have any. Most
gladly would we have stood exposed as a false
prophet and idle dreamer did the fads warrant
such an exposure.
But unfortunately for the country, time in its
march, at every step, brought "confirmation strong
as proofs of holy writ" that our apprehensions
wi re but too well founded. At the North now all
disguise is thrown oif, and the wild surges of abo
litionism are sweeping away every vestige of con
servative sentiment. Whatever of conservative
feeling might have existed once there has been
intimidated, beaten down and rendered powerless,
and the whole country is drunk with the madness
and fanaticism of abolition. We learn from the
most intelligent sources (from gentlemen who have
been eye and ear witnesses of their conduct and
proceedings) that it is perfectly evident that a
large majority of ihe Northern people look to a
dissolution of the Union as a great good, to attain
which no exertions should be spared. We are
well aware that there exists a class of persone in
the South who are always exclaiming, "There is
no danger, the abolitionist are a contemptible
faction, which, if lei alone and undisturbed, would
soon die out. This has been the language ever
since those demons of mischief, Arthur Tappan and
Lloyd Garrison, commenced their damnable opera
tions with a handful of followers. Since then, this
squad has grown with every rolling year, until we
now behold a great army of traitors panting for
an opportunity of pulling down the pillars of the
Government undfi viny out, "now let chaos come
again."
There exists in the Soulh a class of men who,
although unconsciously to themselves, contribute
to keep the South in ignorance of its true position
and nolicy allude tn llm mir-a ntile internet
God forbid that we should charge them with sym
pathizing with abolitionists. Our meaning is simply
this, that the mercantile interest of the South is
necessarily so intimately interlaced with the North,
that a fafal blow to the Union would produce the
wildest scene of commercial ruin ever conceived,
and consign hundreds of thousands to perfect
beggary. And it is to stave off this day of un
utterable woe that the merchants of the South
many, very many of them, too, being Northern
men say to their neighbors, "B6 patient, there
is a good time coming yet ; the abolitionists will
be put down." This enervating and destructive
advice is only calculated to deliver up the South,
'ound hand and foot, to the Northern oppressors
it is positive "fiddling while Rome is burning;"
and t b j planters of the South, upon whose great
interests the brunt of the w ar is waged, should
utterly scout it.
We say war is waged, for who, wilh half an
eye, cannot see that the war has commenced, to
end God alone knows how or when. While we
write, the Northern people are making the most
strenuous efforts to fill the next Congress with
members pledged to a repeal of the fugitive slave
law and the restoration of the Missouri feature,
and what sha.lt prevent their success? Nothing
but a bold united front on the part of the South.
If there should be any. wavering and quailing, we
should be reduced to a bondage, to which dea'h in
Jen thousand different shapes would be preferable.
This bold, united front cannot be held unless we
go to work "white it is called to-day," and not
await the night when no man can work. Let us
rouse upour people in tho mountains, the valleys
and the plains. Let us meet in conventions in
States, in districts, in counties, and at cross roads,
and send back the proud defiance of freemen ready
to die in defence of their riyhfs to the Northern
invader, and drive him back to his bleak and in
hospitable regions.
- 4 a t v .
"Young America." In his discourse before
the Literary Societies of the Universities of Vir
ginia, John Mitchell makes the following appeal,
full of the ring of the true metal to "Young
A merica :"
"On America especially, and in a more signal
manner, as 1 fondly believe, devolves this glorious
business. You cannot, young Americans ! you
cannot regenerate your kind ; but you can make
your own lives sublime ; you can make the history
of your own land a panorama of great ends, a
Pantheon of demigods. And is this nothing? Do
you not find fhis an aim high enough to nerve
your souls to all manly actions? That block of
cold, gray granite, which presses the dust of Jef.
ferson on Monfieello, speaks to you here tind now
He that haili ears to hear, let him hear ! The
genius of your country beckons to ycu from the
summits of the Cordilleras woos you into the
balmy airs of the Pacific sighs to you out of the
palm-groves of the Antilles, as chained Andromeda
sighed for her deliverer. Aye, an Opportunity,
too, a winged horse of Perseus, saddled and bitted,
comes bounding by : miss if, and yon may sit
long helpless by the wayside ; but sieze the steed,
mount, and ride victoriously, and the sounding
corridors of Time shall long echo ibe clang of your
sounding hoofs, and the pages of history shall
gleam and glow forever with the pomp of your
pro-destined march.
Viadote. This is the name of a new style of
ladies, bonnets, of P ir.iia,n origin. It is so con
structed thai it can be fouled and packed up into
a smnll case of two aud-a-ha'f inches sleep, ren
dered it perfectly improved. The bonnet can
be made in every style, and turned in every
height of the fashion, without impairing its character,
Love of Country.
It scarcely matters where a man is born, whether
amid the frost and snow of Polar regions, or in
Southern climes, where the verdure of earth is
perennial, he loves, and to tiro latest hour of his
life will love, his native land. Il may bo bleak
and inhospitable ; its government may be oppres
sive ; still he clings to the soil on which be was
born w ith an unfaltering affection, and whitherso
ever he may go into other and more beautiful
countries, his memory in waking hours and in
dreams wanders to his childhood's home he
loves it though it exiles him, and is proud of its
name and fame, while its yoke sits galling on his
neck. Jove o. country is a life-implonted sen''
i. trui, ueiniiiig aiiue m ne ruaesi savage anaino
most polished civilized mr..
And it is a beautiful ordinance in our naturo
that we are all pervaded by ihis sentiment. Prom
this springs the fraternity of race and nation ; the
cohesion of individuals into cemmunitx-s, and ihe
inclination of communities to a " local habitation
and a name." From (his, too, spring the strong
est manifestations' of brotherhood man coring
first for himself, family and kindred; ihen for tho
community and nation to which he belongs.
Through this isolate fraternity, man, rising in in
telligence, extends tho brothorhood of communi
ties to the human race. From this, too, springs
patriotism, which, without a country endeared by
peculiar associations to love and defend, would
not exist. If man was bound in mind and Hears
to no peculiar spot of earth ; if the birth-place,
tlie hearths, the allars, and the graves of kindred
were no bond, his sentiment, from first to last,
would be unmitigated selfishness, and instead of
meeting and defying danger by his hearth Brtd
altar, he would fly to other spaces of earth. Hi;
would be continually a wanderer a nomad
careless where he pitched his tent, or where his
grave was scooped.
And since this sentiment is so strong, so essen
tial, and so beautiful for the development and
brotherhood of our common race, how steadily
intelligent peoples aud nations should strive to
render their native lands their countries wor
thy of their love and praise. The Roman of to
day is abject and bowed down, becaus his coun
try is desecrated and shorn of the beauty and
glory which inspired the conquering legions of the
Caesars. He may love his country as devotedly
as did a Fubius or a Brutus, but it in not the love
which springs from pride in her power, her virtuo
arid her greatness ; it is rather a love compounded
of grief and pity that she has so degonerated.
The virtue and patriotism of a people depend
much upon tho condition of the country to which
they belong. It may be easy to-dny to impose
fetters upon the inheritors of the "eternal city,"
age of Coriolanus.
But the love of country simply is not enough
to inspire the noblest patriotism ; it must, to stim.
ulate ihe loftiest virtue and heroism, be a love
born of a just pride. It must be a love ihat will
not permit a people to forego the guardianship of
their own soil, institutions and laws. A love that
will make them eternally vigilant in the defence
of their own hearths, altars and graves. A hue,
jealous as devoted, and relying upon native hands
and hearts, and not upon foreign auxiliaries
upon Praetorian Guards. A people may be hos
pitable and give shelter as they will, hut the
sword, the treasure and the laws of their land
must not be placed in the hands of strangers.
All history, in ineradicable lines, is graven wilh
warning to this end. 2V. Y. Mirror.
fCjT The Charlotte Democrat recommends
Capt. Walker, of Mecklenburg, as a suitable per
son for Speaker of the Senate of the next Legisla
ture. Capt. Walker is a gentleman of experience
and ability, and would doubtless fulfil the duties
of the station with credit to himself and the demo
cratic party.
The same paper recommends Wm. T. Dortch,
Esq., of Way ne, os Speaker ol the Hous Mr.
D. is a gentleman of excellent sense, and is fully
qualified for the Speakership.
Fayeiteville Carolinian.
Homicide. On Saturday last an altercalion
occurred at the Camden Hotel between John L.
Dixon, jr., and William J. Graham, in wbicb ibo
former iuflic'ed a wound on the latter with a bowio
knife, from which he died in ten or fifteen minutes.
Dixon surrendered himself to the sheriff, and is
now in jail. We forbear giving the particular,
as the case will soon undergo a judicial investiga
tion. Camden Journal.
4 Whig Victories.' Merging the Whig party
in the abolition party, and so increasing ihe usual
abolition vote, and electing a few abolitionism
that could not otherwise have got into office.
Union.
" Dear sir," lisped a great lady, in a watered
silk, at the World's Fair, " have the goodness to
inform me if there are any nobleman in the United
States ?"
" Yes, ma'am," answered a full led Jonathan,
" I am one of them."
Advices from China up to the 22d July represent
Canton as quiet, though the weather citizens wero
leaving for the interior. Commodore Perry had
arrived there. Tea business dull.
Suspension. When a bank suspends in Aus.
tralia, they take the president te a neighboring
tree and serve him in the aame manner. A sim
ple remedy, but very efficacious.
They Reim di atk Him. The Democrat of
the Fifth Ward, Philadelphia, have repudiated
Robt. D. Wilkinson, the Democratic nominee for
Recorder, on account of his Know Nothing pro
clivities. An Invention. A double barreled cannon to
load at ihe breech, and the barrels of which may
be moved in different directions, has bueu con
structed at Berlin, Prussia,
(Kr Hon. J. H. Wheeler, of North Carolina,
recently appointed Charge lo Nicaragua, was
among the recent arrivals in Washington city.
OT" The cholera has almost enure! y disappear
ed from Knos vilte, Teon.