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CHARLOTTE: FRIDAY MORM, Jlarrh 30. 1855. $0r V. S, LAWW5 A- CO, (South Atlantic Wharf,) te our anUortzJ gente in Charleeton. S. ('., a: tl are duly tmpoweird to take Advui atnitiiis and Subscription at tbc rt required by ue, ar.d grant receipts. CnARLOTTE 9I.4RK.ET. Western Democrat Office, Thursday Evening, March 29, '55. Cotton Coming in freely about 500 bales changed hands the past week, at prices ranging from 5i to 6. Flock A good deal offered at 7J a 8.?. Wheat None offered. Would command 1.50 a fj. 75, Corn 80c. Meal 85c, wanled. Peas 60 a 65c, and in demand. Bacon Hog round 8 a 8j. Potatoes, Irish Northern, 08 a bushel. " Sweet Cuba Yams, 82 a bushel. Late advices by the steamer Atlantic show an' advance uf t in Cotton at Liverpool. Rail Road Tli-cliiiffS. We attended on Friday and Saturday last, the Rail Road meetings held in D dins and Lincolnton. Thore were large crowds present and ihe right spirit prevailed. Our Gaston friends are in ear nest, and every eflbrt will be made 10 run the Koad through that County. Our friends in Lin coln and Catawba are aho fully aroused to the importance of currying the ijond through the an cient town of Lincolnton, and we feel sure from the spirit and enthuaiasm manifested on Saturday last that the Road wiil be built. Our cotemporary of the Ilukeville Express is rather too fast in assigning us to either route. There is noticing in the article upon which he com ments, to induce any one r.ot too touchy, to con. elude that the Democrat favors Gaston more than Lincoln. We disclaimed in that very article any intention of expressing an op'mion as to which route the Road should run. We deem it unne- 1 r 11.. t cio uriioie in tne cessary to reply more fully to "4 rpress.s rtid c-onvention in Lincolnton gave us a much better opportunity to state our position than we could possibly have through the columns xf any journal. Accident to Hon. H. t'ralgc. We learn from a gentleman just from Salisbury that on Wednesday last, Mr. Craige's horse ran ay, struck his Buggy against a tree, threw him Out and hurt him very severely. Fortunately the accident happened in the town, and not far from his own house. He wis taken up, and after the proper restoratives were applied, he recovered from the stunning effect of the fall, and upon ex amination it was ascertained that no bones were broken. It is hoped he will suffer only a tempo rary inconvenience from the occurrence. Clarendon Iron Works. We unite the attention of our readers to the advertisement to be found in our paper of the Clarendon Iron Works, located in Wilmington, N. C. The Company is composed of North Car olina gentlemen whose capital and enterprise have already done so much to increase the prosperity oi Wilmington. The capita 0 the Company is 8300, 000, and tfcey ate prepared to execute in the most ei'pediuous manner, at rates as cheap as at the North, all work required of them. We are glad to see enterprises of this kind springing tip in our midst, and if they will work as cheap it is Dot only our interest to patronise them, but every consideration of duty and Slate pride urges us to do it. Wherever are the workshops of the na tion, there will be its power and wealth and how ever much we &?ay boast of our freedom and in dependence we are and will be bound to the North by the most galling vassalage as long as we de pend on her to supply our every wan;. We call attention to Mr. Seeley's advertise ment 0' Town Lots. They are handsomely sit uated, and to ihoso who wish to make a purchase in one of the most pleasant, growing and prosper ous towns in iLe State, offer a rare chance for investment. Highly important from Enropp. ARRIVAL OF STEAMER ATLANTIC. New York, March 27, 1855. The steamer Atlantic has arrived, bringing Jliivernool datcp of March 10. The death oi the Czar Nicholas is confirmed. Alexander has succeeded peaceably to the throne, his brothers and the officials taking the oath ol allegiance. The firat a'.t of the new Czar was to issue a manifesto declaring his determination to parry out the policy of his father. The instructions previously given to Prince Gortschakoff, the Russjan ambassador at yieqna, relative to the peace negotiations, have been con firmed. The first preliminary conference had been held. The Czar Nichols before his death had recalled Menschikoff from the Crimea, and appointed Gen eral Gortschakoff first in command and General Osten Sacken second. Alexander has appointed General Rudiger min ister of war. The allies hare ordered their generals to press forward the war. fhere had been severe fighting before Sevasto pol. The French stormed a redoubt, skilfullv arected by the Russians during the night, and in the fight several hundred were Killed. It was strongly rumor-d ihat the Grand Duke Michael haa been wounded and died in Sevastopol. A large force of Russians threatened Balaklaya. The blockade of the Danube bad been raised. The town of Broussa, with most of its inhabi tants, had been destroyed by an earthquake. Disagreement had Arisen between Napoleon and England. The former declared that the armies hou'd not act together if Roebuck's C.mmi::ee of Inquiry proceeded to the Crimea. Iyord Clarendon went immediately to Bologne and made matters straight. In the meantime the committee proceeds, but it is thought that Parliament will shortly be dissolved. Serious troubles had occurred in Ticiuo, Swit EerUtnd. The Belgium crisis continues. T.10 King of Denmark is ill, j Know Sothlnsisnt. We have published and written so much upon the Order of Know Nothings tkat we fear we have tired out the patience of our readers. But as long as this secret and dark-working order exts in our midst, seeking to change the Constitution and obliterating from its fair record one of its most beautiful features, and that too, solely for the promotion of a party the avowed I principles of which have repeatedly been repudi ated by the people, we feel it our duly often to re cur to the subject, and warn our friends of its in sidious workings. TheWhig party has undergone so many changes and, like drowning men, caoghl at so many straws, that this new ism would not give to the patriot any cause of Lneasiness, but for its dark, mysterious, and secret meetings. If the princi ples of this order be patriotic and for the good of the country, where the necessity for midnight meetings, and the horrid oaths by which its mem bers are bound to preserve the secrets. In a despotism, such as Austria or Russia, where the myrmidons of tyranny hunt with the scent of the blood hound the friends of liberty and republicans, such things might be tolerated but io a country like ours, where every man can advance his opinions and discuss freely the merit of any question" or form of government, when we come to the door of one of the secret political or ders we. feel like writing hie nigcr est, this is black. In order to substantiate the charge we some time since made, thai Know Nothingism was only W higgerj in disguise, a shallow trap to catch Democrats, we beg leave to call the attention of our readers to the subjoined card of a recanting Know-Nothing. Read, reflect and inwardly di gest its contents, and then say are you prepared to sacrifice the glorious principles of Republican liberty and universal toleration, in order to pro mote that party which has ever been at war with the best and dearest interests of the country. Democrats, the country is in dangor ! You alone can save it. The next Congress of the U. States will present -r ,nnt wil' make thp heart of the patriot bleed. View the actions of this recent organization and ask yourselves where is the single instance in which it has sustained a national manor more strongly, where is the single instance it haa failed, when it had the pow er, to strike down every friend of the South and elected in his place the most rabid and fanatical Abolitionist of the hellish crew. Are you going to trust your interest to the ten der mercies of an order that elected Seward and Wilson ? Wc ask honest Southern men of all partips to read the testimony. Here it is : "In the first place, I deny that any influences were used with a view to procure my renuncia tion of the Order, and also that the senior Editor of the "Citizen," whom I did not consult and who had no knowledge of my intention until my Card was handed to him for publication, had any con nection with my leaving a faction with whose principles I had become thoroughly disgusted. I desire in this communication simply to state my reasons for my act, which was entirely of my own will, as I sought council from no one as to the course J should pursue, and am myself personally and otherwise solely responsible for it. When I joined the Know Nothings, I had no knowledge of their character, their objects, their aims ; I had no means of ascertaining them; I attached myself to them, firmly resolved thct if the good of my country were the end to which they looked I would adhere most faithfully to them. I attended, I think, hut four meetings, certainly not more than six, which were amply sufficient to coqvjn.ee me that no man of true patriotism and liberal feelings could remain among them without sacrificing his honor, and compromising his freedom of will and opinion. Instead of meeting with the patriotic, the intelligent, and the liberal, wilh a few exceptions 1 met with the bigot, the intolerant, the proscrip tionists, the nuperanualed, and broken-down leaders of the old VVhig party, euid the disappointed office seeking Democrat. Its political complexion was decidedly Wing, the main body being men of that creed, the residue those who had once acted with the Democratic party. I saw that its aim was to break down the party of which I had been a member from my vouth, and under whose wise, republican, and generous policy my country had grown rich, great, and powerful, and I determined to eschew it as a ching of evil evil in its origin and evil in its pursuits. Under Democratic rule I had always been tree to act, think and speak for myself. I had never been controlled by caucuses or cliques. I voted as I pleased, and no one ever dared to question the propriety of my conduct; but there I was bound in will and purpose to do as those in authority might dictate, under pain of the dreadful displeasure of those who se k power, place and profit bj' the organization, and who give direction to it. I regard it as a loul egg, hatched after a pro tracted and elaborate incubation in the old Whig nest, and whose cbick strongly resembles in form and feature the craven bird, ancient Federalism, and advise all my Democratic felow,citizens to give no heed to its outward md specious profes sions of "Americanism," for these are a farce, a mockery and a lie, and to avoid it as they would the vipor, whose presence is contagion, whose sting is death, Having been brought tip in the faith of Protestanism, and Still believing in its doctrines, I could not, without doing violence to its charitable teachings, assist in disfranchising my Catholic friend and brother, whose right to his religious belief is as Divine as my own, and sanc tioned by the highest human authority the Federal Constitution the organic law of my country. -Nor could I endorse the despotic dogma that would enslave the fugiuve from oppression, who sought among us a city of refuge an asylum where the tyrant's power could not reach him. Notwith standing the denial, that it has no sympathy with Whigery, it is a fixed and indisputable truth that it is the old enemy of Democracy in disguise, holding in the closest union all the discordant elements which have threatened our overthrow as a Government, and hugging to itsernbrace all the foul factions and isms in the land. I was unable to discover anything like "Americanism" io it. Its cardinal dogmas being opposed to the spirit ol our institutions, are in direct antagonism with our Bill of Right., our State and Pederal Constitutions, and are in contravention of the great principle ol Republicanism, namely, civil equality, the founda tion stone of our Government, and without which it cannot endure. It is the doctrine of thp tories of the Revolution it is one of the issues that led to the war of 1812 It is an oppression, a tyranny, a despotism, which the 'siber second thought" of a free but over impulsive people will crush ere ita Dead Sea fruits have ripened, and ere its Upas like breath shall have blighted the glory nf our name, or dimmed the hallowed luMre tbnt gleams in beauty'and brightness from our flag of stripes and Btars. In the heartless demagogue, the dc- ' signing knave, and the empty fool, I place no reliance. These, like drowning men, will J'caich at straw," and any scheme that offers a prospect, shadowy though it be, of advancement, will he eagerly embraced by them ; but in the honest hearted, the true and patriotic men who have been beguiled into its bosom, I have the most ab'ding confidence ; and as of old the Dagon of Idolatry fell before the Atk of the Covenant, so will thr spell of this loul and frenzied fanaticism be broken by the sublime moral power of true American patriotism. I could not have remained in the Order without sanctioning these prescriptive and anti-American principles, and thai it) conscience I could not do, and therefore withdrew. As to the manner of my withdrawal I have but this to say, jt was not of my own Skioa ; one less public would have suited all my purposes as well. 1 had determined to attend no more meet ings, and signified my intention to a friend, a member of the Order, and requested him to an nounce to the next meeting that I did not wish to be considered as connected with U any longer. This he promised to do, but did not comply with his promise; I then made the same request of another friend, also a member, who made the same promise, and who, after some delay, informed me that 1 would have to attend another meeting, ere I could get mv dischurge : this I was unwilling to do, having no" confidence in the purity of tfteir in tentions, and felt myself forced to announce through the medium of a public journal my disconntction with l he faction. These, Messrs. Editors, are the reasons which influenced me in the step I have taken in this matter. I care not what they may seem to others, to me thev were sufficient, and I have acted upon them honestly and conscientiously, ar.d am willing to meet the consequences. 1 have only to remark that I would not hnve intruded this Card upon the public, but for the attack make upon me in the "Examiner." WILLIAM D. DOLL. communicated. Charlotte No. 4. Having found it impracticable to record all that ;s worthy of honorable and hudatory notice, in one or two Fern-leaf communications, we proceed to speak of other entrancing scenes, Hnd the differ ent classes of society, not leaving out of view the tipper Tn. Standing at the corner of what was, in days of yore, an eminent lawyer's office, and beholding the delightful grounds and edifices of Messrs. As bury and Carson op the left, and of Messrs, B. H. Davidson, Williams, White and Johnston on the right, the eye is greeted with a panorama of or der, elegance and beauty, which is not surpassed . by the richest snd fairest portions of Boston or Philadelphia. For the greater part, if not all of this, they are indebted to the ladies, and not doubt ing that others are often similarly engaged, we perceived that Mrs. Davidson was employing her superior judgment and taste, and for the exercise, was adorning and beautifying her attractive home. None can pass the present residence of Mr. Elms, or enter and enjoy his liberal hospitality, without realizing that all within as well as the ex terior, is invested wilh an air of ease, abundance and comfort, and that the multiplicity of large business transactions in which he is always suc cessful, does not prevent him from excelling in artistic arrangements for domestic happiness and convenience. His grounds were laid off by a pro fessed artist, according to the most acceptable and approved rules of the science, and are a beautiful specimen of landscape gardening. His benevo lent and amiable lady, like Mrs. Osborne, possess es a cultivated intellect and very entertaining col loquial powers, as well as accomplished and ur bane manners and appears, asshe should be, among the happiest of her sex. The physicians of your city occupy a deserved ly high position in the estimation ol the enlight ened public. Living as they do where all needful information is accessible, receiving nil the medical journals, and enjoying frequent opportunities of consultation, they are fully prepared to attend to important cases at the shortest call. Without making invidious comparisons, (for none are in tended,) we might point out some who could flu ently deliver instructive lectures on the science of medicine, and others who could compose finished essays on Anatomy or any other cnlfaieral sub jects, and still others who could perform the moat delicate and dtfiicult operations of surgery. Two or three well-read gentlemen of the profession have established drug-stores, and one equally well qualified, in every respect, is associated wilh Mr. Parks, and we fear, will bury his talent in the mercantile business. Dr. Andrews is deeply versed in the science and very successful in Den tistry, and in our judgment, merits a higher degree of praise than he has ever received, for his beau tiful and well classed cabinet of minerals. The Trustees of some literary Institution or Academy of Fine Arts, would do well to secure so invalua ble an addition to their illustrative apparatus. Not being intimately acquainted with the gen tlemen of the bar, and having heard them but seldom, we cannot speak of them with minuteness and certainty ; but of one thing we are assured bv testimony end personal knowledge, that all claims entrusted to their care will receive a prompt and successful attention. One of them, Mr. Myers, represented the county with distinguished ability in the last legislature of the State, and there is every reasonable prospect of his being returned and rising still higher in popular favor. There is one bright particular star" in the constellation, who is famed beyond his native Stale for ready, animated and captivating eloquence. His address ea and appeals to a jury, especially on criminal cases, are the most touching, pathetic and sublime we have ever heard. We allude to the celebrated James W. Osborne, Esq. Although your citizens are as greatly disposed as any others to cultivate the arts of peace, yet, when the voice of the people call for war, they have ever shown themselves willing and able to defend their country. Mjor Caldwell and Lieut, Davidson stand prominent as modern patriots, and many chiiee and noble spirits, enlisting undor iheir banner and proceeding to the hostile plains of Mexico, evinced their resolution to subdue the enemy or die by the sword in a strange and friend les land. Having sent forlh these few stray arrows," we shull unbend the bow and lay the quiver near the Railroad Depot, and hoping it may soon be j .... ... a- , . replenished, wc bid an affectionate adieu for the present. TRANSIENT i Fw the Democrat. MB. Editok : In the last Whig "Americas" takes shelter behind his allies, the boguses, and with his expiring breath fires his last blank car tridge at " Mecklenburg," and points triumph antly and exul'.ingty at the defeat of the Demo cruts in New Hampshire by the anti-Nebraska in fluence. What intelligent man doos no' know that the anti Nebraska influence of the North and the Abolition influence Is identically the same? And in every election that has recently taken piace in the Northern States you will find that the bogus Know Nothing-, and the National Know Nothings (as "Americus" HHsely calla them) vo ted side by side with the anti-Nebraska parly and the Abolitionists. t But, Mr. Editor, I am done, I now resign into your hands Mr. Americus the champion of Know Noihingism in the old Hornet's Nest. TaSe him, and hold him and his associates up before the Democrats of Mecklenburg it is your duty to do so. But be cautious Mr. Editor, he does not like anything diluted and is well posted up on spiritual pints, and will detect the smallest foreign sub stance, mix it as you will. After all, when yoH come to shake up this fourth-proof defender of the faith I think you will find he carries a very poor bead. MECKLENBURG. The El Dora go Outrage. Tlic facts or the Case. The brief allusion made by us on yesterday to the lata outrage upon the steamer El Dorado by a Spanish frigate was based upon unofficial intel ligence, but so well authenticated that we felt authorized to rely upon its correctness. We have been favored by the State Department with a copy of a letter of Captain Gray, the Commander of the El Dorado, addressed to the acting American Consul at Havana, which we publish below, and which fully sustains the account on which our comments of yesterday were made. The insult to our Aug was flagrant, wholly unprovoked, and without the shadow of palliation. An armed Spanish man-of-war deliberately fires two shots at one of our regular mail steamers, stops heron her voyage by force, and compels her to submit to a search by a Spanish official! I: is difficult to con ceive of a grosser outrage upon our national fl;ig. or a more deliberate insuk to our national honor, or a bolder assertion of "(he right of search." If the case takes the usual course, the facts will be forwarded to Madrid, where the Spanish gov ernment will be called upon for reparation. The Spanish government will claim time to send to Havana to procure evidence; and in the mean time, whilst this delay takes place, some other American vessel will be fired into and searched by another Spanish frigate, and in this way the insult and injury are never acknowledged or 3toncd for. We will not pursue the subject, but only remark that our flag a id honor have been insulted and the right of search practically asserted. We have full confidence that the President will do bis duty faithfully in the premises. The letter of Capt. Gray is as follows : Washington Union. Steamship El Dorapo, Havana, March 8, 1855. Sir : I have to report to you that on the night of the 61b inst.mt, while on my passage from Aspinwnll (N. G.) towards this place, witn the United States mails and California passengers, I was fired at and brought to by the Spanish frigate "Ferolona," the circumstances of which are these : The night was beautifully clear, with a smooth sea and light breezes from the south and the east. At twenty minutes past midnight I made Cape Antonio light, bearing north by west, (per com pass,) steering north by west west, and a few minutes afterwards a ship was seen on our port bow with her head to south and west and courses hauled up. At about 1.15, when she was two points forward of the beam, and distance from half to three-quarters of a mile, without signal of any description, she fired a shot at us, which fell about twenty yarns from the ship on port side, abreast of fore rigging. 1 immediately ordered the helm put a star board, and ran down towards her, intending to pass under her stern, but, when within three hun dred yards of her, she fired a second shot, which passed hut a short distance over the port wheel house from forward to aft, The engines having been previously slowed I stopped them, and ranging up under her stern, asked w hat he wished. He replied by asking what ship it was, and where I was from. I told him the United States mail steamship "El Dorado," from Aspinwall, bound to Havana. He then told me to back and wait. After stopping some minutes I again hailed and asked him what he wanled, and to know if he was going to keep me there all night. He answered by saying he would send a boat alongside, which he did. When the officer came on board, he re quested to see the paper?. I showed him the clearance from the United States consulate at Aspinwall, and also the bill of health ; after reading which, he told me I could proceed so soon as the boat got a short distance from the ship. The de tention of stopping being about forty-five minutes, besides running out of my course. I would further remark, that during the whole night my signal lights were burning bright and clear, and that I was pursuing my course at a dis tance of fully eight or ten miles from any land, and without the intention of violating the laws of any country. I remain, with respoct, your obedient serv't, ALFRED G. GRAY. W. H. Robertson, esq., United Stales Consul. We, William Brown, second mile, and Joshua H. Walcott, passenger, cl the steamer 'EI Do rado," which arrived yesterday morning at Ha vana, from Aspinwall, do hereby declare that the statements contained 111 the foregoing report, signed by Alfred G. Gray, captain of said steamer, are true and correct ; said Brown was, when the occurrence took place, the officer of the deck, and said Walcott waB also on deck part of the time. WILLIAM BROWN, J, H. WALCOTT. Sensible Views. A lady correspondent of the Home Journal, touching upon the "extrava gance question," gives the following anecdote. The sensible father might have thought, although he, as a semi-millionaire, could bear the expense of a costly dress, the robing of the lads in i'. might give them tastes and habits (no pun intended) which in manhood they would, quite likely, want the fortune needed for their honest gratification. The wealth that in the hands of one will purchase luxury and splendor, "moderate circumstances;" a truth that some rich parents seem to forget when docking out and indulging their children in a style : the children may never be able to keep up. It is not well to accustom the young to expenditures on them or for them much beyond what they I probably can compass in after adult life. "I knew a lady, whose husband was the undoubted and honpst possessor of half a million of dollars, who was about to purchase Genoa velvet jackets for her boys boys handsome enough to grace the regal fabric when her husband restrained her. saying, 'You can ajford it; but-Mrs. B., who , r U9' ana, wno8e bf,'8 wl"h ours, would like to put her sons in velvet jackets oVwJ a k .L j . . JaKeis also, - ' r fUZi tZL7ZZt From the N. Y. Observer. Kc-ligion and Morals in Turkey. Montauban. (Tarn & Garome.) 1 Feb. ourj 0th, 1855. $ It is not our intention to attack the character of the Turks, or to exaggerate their faults. Ihe Ottoman race is grave and proud. It has perform ed great deeds in past ages, and to day it supports misfortune with resignation. In their private re signations, according to the testimony of travelers, many of the Turns are honest, true and even generous. They maintain a manly dignity which is not always found among Christians. There re at Constantinople, in the higher classes of so ciety, intelligent and liberal minded men, who having visited the different countries of Europe and studied in the German or French academies, labor to bestow the benefits of our civilization upon their people. They are loyal, and as politicians and diplomatists they deserve as much confidence as'those of other States. But the justice we ren der to some of the Turks compels us to declare also, that the mass of the Mahommedan popula tion is profoundly degraded. The false religion which they profess is incapable of inspiring them with the social and private virtues which are 'he basis of public prosperity. The old Turks, and they compose the large majority, are still imbued with the most narrow and bigoied prejudices. They despise foreigners, without excepting thos who actually shed their blood for the defence of the Ottoman Empire. They regard our arts, sciences and laws with jealousy mingled wilh dis dain ; and should they become the strongest a thing happily impossible they would show the same cruelty as did theeotemporaries of Mahomet II. It is not just to judge of all Mahommedan by what passes around Constantinople. The Sultan Abdul Medjid and his chief officers appear anima ted with the sincere desire of establishing intimate relations with the Western powers. In the pro vinces, not only untitled individuals, but gover nors and magistrates, who shouid give an example of honesty and impartiality, are, most of them, merciless despots, oppressing the weak, robbing the defenceless, persecuting the members of Chris tian communities, and wbysing all the trusts re posed in them. Turkey is consumed by moral disease and corruption, and is sinking under the weight of her own depravity. Thus the Ottoman's have, generally, preserved their aneient intolerance. Mahnmt said, while attacking the idolators with his sword : Islamism r death!' W lien ho faced the Christians, not iicping to convert them by the fear of death, he changed his motto to 4 Death or the tribute money !' Indeed it is a custom universally observed by the Turks to require their Christian subjects and the Jews to pay the kharaj or poll tax, by which they annually purchase the privilege of living and wor shipping God. The law which condemns the Mahommedan to a violent death, who embraces the Christian faith, is still in operation and has recently been unscru pulously executed. The missionary who should try to convert a Turk would expose himself to a severe penalty. The only concession which has been made, after the urgent entreaties of the am bassadors of France and England, is that death shall not be inflicted upon a renegade who, after becoming Mahommedan, wishes to return to his ancient faith. The disciples of the falso prophet still cherish at heart an implacable hostility to Christianity ; and when they pretend to be friend ly, it is through selfish motives. But is it not true that religious liberty is estab lished in Turkey 1 that missionaries of different Christian denominations can there exercise their ministry, and that Protestants especially may there enjoy solid protection 1 Yes : but it is necessay to explain this. Priests, pastors, missionaries, schoolmasters, evangelists of every kind, have the right of speaking Bnd teaching what they please, of going where they wish, and acting as they wish provided they address only Christians by birth. Such religious liberty requires no liberality on the part of the Turks. They despise all Christian communions ailke. Let a Greek become Arme nian ; let a Romanist become Protestant, it dors not concern the Turks. They attach no impor. tance except where they have received money to maintain one denomination more than another or where they fear to excite the dissatisfation of an influential ambassador. All Christians are, in .their eyes, giaours, infidels, slaves. Mahomme danism is the rational and only honored religion, and every other is odious In thi m. Where, then, is their regard for rei'ginus liberfv ? They would not even understand the meaning of the term. Whenever the provincial governors can hope to escape the eyes of European diplomatists, they commit the most odious acts of oppression. Many Amenian children especially the young girls are taken from their parents at an early age, and educated in the Mahommedan religion to fill, af terward, the Turkish harems. If the parents com plain, unless actively seconded by foreign ambas sadors, they themselves are cruelly treated. The Sultan has recently prohibited the impor tation of whiteslaves from Circassia and Georgia. Do you think this prohibition is respected? Not at all. The infamous trafflic has been resumed, since the Russians have left the Danubian provin ces, and can no more guard ihe navigation of the Black Sea, so that the British ambassador has been compelled to order his agents firmly to oppose the pachas. It is not surprising that the Greeks and Arme nians generally favor the cause of Russia. They well know that Nicholas isa despot ; but they be lieve that a Christian master whoever he may be will not subject them to the wrongs and insults which they suffer from the Turks. I have before mo the letter of a pious man who has passed sev eral years in Turkey. He affirms that the Arme nians, from the patriarch down to the lowest peas ant, earnestly desire the triumph of Russia, and that they would welcome the entrance of Nicho las' troops into Constontinople as the coming of the millennium ! The official documents are de ceptive in this reepect. The Armenian patriarch has presented an address to the Sultan, in which he speaks ol the sympathy of all his people with the Sublime Porte. This is merely a measure of policy What shall the Western Powers do if they succeed in keeping the Russians out of Tur key ? They will be compelled to hold garrisons in Turkey arid rule there ; for if they do not, the evil they will have done will overbalance the good. I am, die, G. DE E. The Wheat Crop. The Messenger, published at Hannibal, Missiouri, learns from farmers that the prospects for a good wheat crop throughout northern Missouri are more promising than they have been for some .years past. In Illinois the prospects for an abundant wheat crop are also good. We learn from the Alton Courier, the editor of which paper has recently made a trip across the central portion of Illinois, that, "how ever short the crops might have been last year, it has not deterred the farmers of the State from seizing every portion of favorable time during the fall for sowing their wheat, and the result shows that there are at least twenty per cent, more acres now in wheat than io any previous year. The winter has been exceedingly favorable, and if we should be blessed with our ordinary spring, Illinois will have an amount of wealth in that sinoe crop which it would 60 difficult to estimate. The Revenue Act. The State Treasurer has issued the follojn instructions to the Clerks and Sheriffs: ' Tbeasubv Department, . C ) March 14, 1855. '' Sir: Having had letters addressed torne different County Court Clerks, asking my J struct ion of certain sections of the Revenue rtct passed by the last General Assembly, I hne fe)J it my duty to address this class of Clerks, anda the Sheriffs of the State, upon this subject. The Clerk, in making out the tax list fop year, which he is to furnish to the Sheriff, on 0r before the first day of April next, is to estimaie the taxes according to the rates imposed by tfo new Revenue law, which goes into operation 30 days after the rise of the General Assembly, ,ay from and after the 19th March, 1856, un thelu jecta of taxation heretofore listed, and which are also embraced in the new Rerenue law. For in. stance, the tax by the new law is twelve cento on the hundred dollars valuation of land, and forty cents on the poll. In making out the list, the new law is to beob. served, as it goes into operation before the list required to be made out and handed to the Sheriff And so in regard to any other subjects of taj. tion which appear upon the lists taken in 18JJ4, if the new law changes the rates. Of course ihese instructions hare nothing to do with new subjects of taxation required by the new law to be hereafter listed. It will also be observed by the Clerk, that twelve cents on the hundred dollars valuation ol land, and forty cents on the poll, include the tax for the Insane Asylum, and is all the State tax on these two subjects ; and ihe Clerk will make out his list accordingly. The Sheriff, in regard to all tine ejres to be paid to him without listing, will be governed, after ihe new law goes into operation, by t fiat late. For instance. Merchants are required to pay o their capital employed for the year preceding the first of April. The new law being in operation the first ol April, the tax imposed by that lay mustje collected. Very rospectfully, Your obedient servant, D W. COURTS, Public Treasurer, Ornamental Trees. Who ever saw a perfect tree, that was not ornt menial ? The magnolia does not possess all 1 lfl beauty of the forest. The tulip tree, bay, oak, beech, pine, chesnut, walnut, elm; and even ih waned sweet gum, are beautiful, when arranged with judgment and skill. The sweet gum, which abounds on every branch and in every svnmp of ihe South, has been scorned for its excrescent looking limbs, without a thought having been be stowed upon the graceful beauty of its foliage, and the pyramidial form of its branches, until it it found engraved in a Northern horticultural work, as a great arboreal curiosity, from the cork like excrescences on its feathery limbs, and spoken of m terms of rapturous commendation, ns an orni mental tree. And although it is doubtful whether it can be acclimated north of Philadelphia ; yet tne seeds and plants of the sweet gum, will be sold by Northern nurserymen all over thu world, and our traveller will look with admiration at the sweet gum in the English parks, thatcarne from his own neighborhood and grounds, without recognizing his leafy kinsman of the forest. There is a sad want of taste for ornamental trees in the country. Our farmers are great in deadening trees, arid care little for the beauties of the living. How many of the wealthy planters of the South live among the leafless branches of the girdled trees without t green leuf or blossom to teach ihem love and grat itude. The native trees of our forests are fast d'uap. apearing before the ruthless axe, and with thim goes the greatest ornaoients of nature. Would gentlemen of intelligence reflect for a moment be fore laying ihe Bxe at the root of the venerable renturian, how long it has taken in it silent, beautiful workings, to produce its massive trunk and lofty branches; what talea of primitive timei it could tell, could its voiceless lips translate the poetry of its birth, surely they would pause hefore committing such indiscriminate destruction. Deni zens of the sunny South ! save the native trrei around you. The voracious saw mill is not perched on every mountain grove, as well at on every stream of the valley, and the appellation of burning South will bo more appropriate than sun. ny, when not a spreading branch, with its refrain ing foliage, shail break the darting rays "f the sun, but the earth, baked and parched, and men swelter and sweat, as if they were on theconfinee of a Vesuvius or an jEma. The country, whrre is it ? Why, a few miles from town. But all that should characterize a country residence hie been swept away by the destrrrying hand 0 man. It has been said, God made the country, man the city; but if the vandal spirit of arboreous de struction which marks the settlement of it new country, be not stayed, few trace of God's handi work will be found unmarred by the improving skill of man. Woodman ! spare that tree," should be in the mouth of every landed proprie tor in the country, for if it has not sheltered him in his youth, it may his children. Noi only spare the " brave old oaks," but plant the evergreen, cedar, magnolia, bay and holly. The graceful and mourning willow ; the majestic elm ; the lighl and showy dogwood ; the wide spreading chesnut: the terrnted fathered mimosa ; the cupped tulipi the fruit yielding mulberry ; the cork limbed, a" pen leaved sweet gum ; or Carolina proud em blem, the spear like palmetto All, all are beauti ful and appropriate, for there never yet grew perfect tree, that was not ornamental.- -Still the South. Curative Properties of Sugar-cane Jck Dr. Cartwright, of New Orleans, has published in the Boston Medical Journal, an article describ ing the cures effected upon persons afflicted consumption and bronchitis, by inhaling the vapor arising imm boiling cane juice. Jl nppeare th! chemical investigation has discovered two ".T different properties in sugar, the freshly-cut can juice destroying cold blooded animals as quick lightning. From witnessing this remarkable pro perty of killing so rapidly, the doctor srern JJ infer that it would cure equally as effectually,""' he tried the experiment on a consumlive French man, by making him inhale the vapor of boilmt cane-juice. The man got well. The doctor, a fit ol medical enthusiasm, ascribed it to the vi por, and he wishes the world to know the go effects of this remedy, ft has long been observd by overseers of sugar plantations, that weakly of sickly persons soon get robust and strong wn set to skimming the pans during the boiling cane juice. The fragrant cane-juice is perfect respirable, and penetrates into the smallest broO' chial tubes, and producer beneficial effects. 9 there is anything in the discovery, the fact ough to be extensively circulated, for consumption 1 greatest of ul ihe destroyers. Post-Office Notice. NDER the recent PW-Officc law PRE-PAYMENT ir T CM-TCDC ....It I... . .a..J in all ull'l 00 W U after the lt of APRIL next. Lcttere deposited J lit' I H K. ' will in, h.uii v ... . . out pre-i aynient will not be maih d. r r. m. rosp, p. Poet-Office, Charlotte, N. C, ) 3S M&rsh ?7lh, 1855.