North Carolina Newspapers

ri PUBLISHED WEEKLY. J A FAMILY PAPERDEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MINING, AND NEWS. PRICE $2 PER TEAR In Advance. w4fyi Itatfs Uiriinrt as fa 3SiIlDtn, but one us ft Ira." RUFUS M. HER RON, Publisher. R0IERT P. WARIVG, Editor. VOL. 3. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1855. NO. 37. wmm business Curbs, &r. jr. r. w Aians, .ttlorney at Kaw, Office in Lonergan's Brick Building, 2nd floor. CHARLOTTE, N. C. THOMAS TROTTER & SON HAVE just opened a splendid stock of WATCHES and JEWELRY, SILVER &. PLATED WARE and FANCY GOODS of all kinds. OP" No. 5, Gran ite Row. Oct. 27,1854. 14tf J. B. T. BOONE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN BOOT 3 & VBOIS, SOLE JL H.t THE Ml. C.ILF JSJCf-TS, LINING AND BINDING SKINS. SHOE TOOLS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Charlotte, N. C. Oct. 20, 1854. ly ELMS 6l JOHNSON. Forwarding and (oniniissiou Merchants. NO. 10 VENDUE RANGE, CHARLESTON. 8. C. W. W. ELMS. C. JOHNSON. June 23, '51. 8lf. R. HAMILTON, Corner of Richardson and Laurel Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. lune 9 1854 ly BREM & STEELE, Wholesale c3 Xlctail KKICHAITS. TRADE STREET, Nearly opposite Elms &. Spratt Grocery. CHAliLOTTE, N. C. Dec 15 23i f CAROLINA IW, BY JENNINGS B. KERR. Charlotte, JT. C. January 29. Ia53. 28 tf u Mining Machinery." CIORNISH PUMPS, Lifting and Forcing, Cornish J Crusher, Stamps, Steam Engines, and general Mining work, mads by the subscribers at short notice. LA NO, COOK &l CO.. Hudson Machine Works, Refer to Hudson, N. V. Jas. J. Hodge, Esq., New-York. june 2, 1654 43-y ZLSToirx-lss JVor r isfotr n , Venn. 1MIK subscribers manufacture Mining Machinery, as ("Hows, viz: Tata Cornish PmriNi: Enhim, high and I w pressure Pumping, stamping ami Hoisting Stb m BmiltBS Cornish 1'imis, Stamps, Cm sht.rs, Wu hes, Iron Blocks, P-m.eys of all sizs, and every variety of Machinery tor Mining purposes. THOMAS, CORSOfl & WEST. june 2, 19r)4 -IS-ly Till: AMERICAN HOTEL., CHARLOTTE, N. C. I BEG to announce to my Iriemis, the public, mid pres ent patrons of the above Hotel, that 1 li.vi-lra.su) the same lor a term of years from the lt of Jand.ry next. At'ter which time, the entire properly will be thorough ly rep'ed and renovated, and the house kept in first class style. Tins H-itcl is near the Depot, and pKusant ly situated, rendering it a desirable boue for travellers and families. Drc 16, 1833. 22t C. M. RAY. Mrs. Shaw gSfSw BEGS leave respectfully to announce T JnP to the Ladies of Charlotte and its vicinity fJ 9K that she has opened a large assortment of new consisting of the Utcst styles of BONNETS, CAPS, AND HEAL) DRESSES, and a well-seb cted stock of Dress Trimmings and Patern3. She also continues to carry- on the DRESS-MAKING BUSINESS, and bels she can give satisfaction in both blanches. No pains will be spared (o please. (Li ' Orders promptly attended to. Oct 17, 154 I3if RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public irt iit-rally, that he carries n the Tililol -a? Ins Iltti tie, and Is prepared to execute or ders in the neatest and most fashionable style. JJ&rinxitfj J1 be made lo order, in strict sonformity ii- uu the present prevailing Cssssisma and styles of the day. Warrants his work to fit, and well made. Shop in No. 4, Springs' Building, Robinson' old stand. Charlotte, Feb 3 38tf MEfKLENBlKG II01SE, HAVING purchased the building on the cor ner, a few doors north-east of Kerr's Hotel, and repaired and fitted it up in first-rate stvle, I would respicUully inform the travelling public that it is now open tor the reception of regular and transient boarders. Drov ers will fiod ample accommodations at my house. Jan. 12, lt53. 25-ly S. H. REA. A. BETHUNE, No. 5, Springs' How, A DOORS EAST OF THE CHARLOTTE BATIK, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Feb. 16, 1655. 30if W. S. LAWTON & CO., Factors, Forwarding and Commission South Atlantic WiiAar, CHARLESTON, S. C. V. S. LAWTON. THOS. ALEXANDER. RESPECTFULLY offers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. He hopes by devoting his entire attention to the duties of his profession to merit patronage. He may be found at all hours, at his office opposite tt.e American Hotel, when not professionally engaged. march 2, 1855. 33tf RV. BECK WITH has removed his Jewelry Store to No. 2, Johnston's Row, three doort South of Kerr's Hotel. Feb 18, 1855. 30-ly BOUNTY LAND BILL. S. W. IMYI, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CHARLOTTE, JT. C. ALL collections or other business attended to with promptness; particularly such as refer to the prose cution of Pension Claims, Land Warrants, and donations of Bounty Land against the General Gov rninent, un der the lute Bounty Land Law of March 3d, 1655, giv ing 160 Acres of Land to all Officers, Land and Naval, Commissioned or non-Commissioned, all Soldiers, Sea men, Clerks, or other persons, who have served in any of the Wars iu which the United States have been en gaged since 1790 ; and also to all Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, their widows and minor children. Persons hiving such claims, by presenting them im mediately, may secure an early issue of their certifi cates. Office, 5 doors south of Sadler's Hotel. tl36 Charlotte Marble Yard. HAVING disposed of our entire interest in the Mar ble Yard lo Messrs. Wm. Tiddy &. Son, we rccom iiic.d llicui to our friends. STOWE &. PEGRAM. September 2G, 1854. ' I ' II E subscribers having bought out the interest of 1 Messrs. Stowc &. Pegram in the Charlotte Marble Yard, respectfully tender their servicf s to the people of Charlotte and the country generally in this line ot busi ntss. They are fully prepared to furnish Monuments Gravestones, Marble Steps, Table Slabs, und other patterns cut from Marble, according to the DHMtt approved taste and styles, and upon the most ac commodating terms ever offered in the Southern coun try. The Yard is situated on the North West corner of the Charlotte Depot Yard, where the subscribers, or their agents, may always bt found. WM. TIDDY & SON. September 26, 1S54. 10tf CHESTER, S. C. By J. R. NICHOLSON. Til E subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public gcnerall-, that his house, kno.vn as the " Railroad Hotel," opposite the Chester Depot, is s'ill open for the reception of regular and transient boarders and the travelling public ; and that he is making every exertion to deserve and secure a continuance of Ltte kind and liberal patronage which has hitherto been extended to hi.n. He flatters himself that every needed arrangement has been made to pro mote the comfort of all who stop with him: his rooms are airy and well-furnished, his servants are attentive and obedient, and his table constantly supplied with llic best of the season, so that his 'riends will not want any attention necessary to make their sojourn pleasant and agreeable. His stables are furnished with good host lers and an abundance of provender, and he is prepared at a moment's notice to supply his customers with pri vale conveyances of every sort, to any part of the sur rounding country. He dsiri to return his acknowledgements to the public for pist favors, end solicits for the future an equally liberal share of patronage. Aug 20,1854. 5tf JOHN R. NICHOLSON. WILKINSON'S DAGUERREIAN GALLERY. THE subscriber having permanently located in Char lotte, respectfully invites the attention of Ladies and Gentlemen to his superior and would rcspi ct fully say that he is now taking Da tuerreotypis upon an improved plan, which Will not only add to the BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE of the Picture, but will render it DURABLE AND BRILLIANT FOR AGES. He R-ould also respectfully invito strangers visiting Charlotte to call and examine his specimens, aa he is determined they shall compare favorably with any that can be taken North or South, Rooms, fiord Sory, Granite Range, immediately over Trotter & Son's Jewelry Store. 0 ' Instructions, thorough lind practical, given in this beautiful art, and all materials furnished. NEAL WILKINSON, January 26, 1855. 27-tf CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS. (LATE FISHER & HEINITSH.) CHARLOTTE, If. C. MESPECTFCLLV inform the inhabitants of Char 1 lotteand vicinity, that they have just received a fresh supply of MEDICINES, which are offered with confidence to their approval, regard having been paid more to the purity ai:d strength of the Drugsthan to the price. A full stock of the various Proprietary Medicines constantly on hand. Brandy; Port, Sherry, Madeira and Malaga Wines, 6elected for Medicinal purposes. Paints, Yarnisiies, Fluid, Camphene, &c. La-ndreth's Garden Seeds. F,,b 10, 1855, 30-tf Ox KOTo JEn-y. THE undersijrned respectfully informs the pub lic, that he has opened a BL ACKSMITH SHOP on Colleire street, opposite the Charlotte &, is. C. Railroad Depot, where he is prepared to execute all kinds i of Bl icksmithing, Horse Shoeing, Repairing Boilers, i making Mill Irons, &c. All orders to J. R. Hand or Messrs. Irwin, Hugging &. I Co., or myself will be speedily attended lo. Refer to Mr. C. Davis, on the North Carolina Railroad, and Win. : Glaze fc Co., Palmetto Foundry, Columbia, S. C. S. J. fbnli Y . march 2, 1655 32 Gin FASHIONABLE TAILORING. THE subscriber announces to the public generally, that he is now receiving a large assortment of new Cloths, Casimeres AND for Gentlemen's wear, and will be sold for Ca$h at a small profit, or made to order according to the latest styles. Shop next door to 'Daniels A Allison. lOif D. L. REA. 29, 1854. A Notable Fact 0 UR unsettled accounts for year before last, and Inst vear. we must have closed by Cash or good Notes " ripht straight along " without respect to persons. Our creditors make us Face the music," on alt occasions, and we "earnt" dance by ourselves ant lo.ngcm. "Talk enough." PRITCHARD h CALDWELL, march $, 185. 93tf No 8 Granite Row. Visit to a Volcano. The next morning by nine o'clock we were off for Vesuvius. By the same carriage road as the day before, and with many of the same sights around us, we drove to Resina, where we were beset by the motliest and sturdiest set of guides, b' ggars and boys, we had yet encountered. The guides were ready to furnish horses and conduct us to Vesuvius. The beggars wanted money, and the boys, would sell us sticks to walk up i he moun tain, or they would go along and help us. We had been advised to find Vincent Cozzolino, who had conducted Ross, Forbes, Humboldt and other great men, and was then ore the man for us ! We inquired for him, and one guide claimed to be his brother, and another his cousin, but the real Coz zolino was not lo be found. His house was near, and thither we went. He was absent, but we four.d his son, a smart young fellow, who pro duced nis book of certificates, and among ihcm one from Professor Silliman, whose commenda tion was all-sufficient, and we committed ourselves a: once to his care. Giovanni, for that was his name, supplied us at once with horses, and we set ofT with the whole gang of boys, beggars, and guides in full cry after us. They assured us that one guide would not he enough, we should need help in climbing the mountain, and each one had some particular service to render which was quite indispensable to our success. By dint of hard riding we managed to get away from them, and by a road that was well paved and had been for a thousand years, we rode on for an hour, and then commenced an ascent by a winding but easy path, which, after another hour, brought us to the table land, where stands the Hermitage with refresh ments for travellers. Our way had led us through fields in which men were at work, and many wo men saluted us as we passed. Vast strata of lava were lying in great ridges, along the sides of which the vines were growing luxuriantly, where the waves of liquid stone had once flowed and cooled, now stretching in long row like rivers from the mountain to 'he sea. We often paused on our up ward way to look hack on the enchanting pros pect the neat white cottages on the hill-sides, the villag' s on Ihe plain, the ciiy, the bay, the islands, and the blue sea. A glorious vision, every mo ment growing more beautiful as we ascend and take in a wider view. Now we observe succes sive layers of lava, with the common earth be tween ; on I he border of a ravine we could thus count the four strata deposited by as many over flows of the boiling caldron. After leaving the Hermitage we crossed immense fields of lava, over which a path for the hor-si-s has been made, and in single file we made our way to the loot of ihe cone of Vesuvius. We are now between Monte Somtua and Vesuvius. They were one in olden times, till the great eruption of A. D. 79 left this valley aflfr the mountain Ipid flowed down lo the plain and (he sea, ai.d buried the cities of HcTCiilaneum and Pompeii. At the base of the cone a dozen .fellows were awaiting the arrival of travellers, and with sedan chairs would carry those to the summit who .preferred that to walking; and when we all refused to be carried, they follower) us, insisting that we should allow them to haul us up with a handkerchief about our waists. Taking the track along the side o! a ridge of lava, now and then leaving it for the ashes, into which we siink and slipped back about as fast as we got up, we climed as perpendicularly as up a ruined stair way of some old castle. From time to time I was obliged to sit down on the ragged piles of lava, and gather strength for the ascent, for the summit seemed lo recede as we approached it. But we did it in forty minutes from the base of the cone. Now on the rim of the crater, the ground on which we are treading is opened with seams or cracks, Irom which smoke or steam issues continually, and tf we listen we can hear the roar of the internal fires beneaih our feet. We went a few steps be low the verge to get some protection from the cool winds that blew too freshly on us in our heat, and there w placed a lot of eggs in t he crevices o( the earth, and made Vesuvius cook them for our dinner. Refreshed and rested, we descended a hundred Aei into the crater, and, standing on a ledge of rocks, we could see down into siill lower depths, from which the smoke was rising, but no fire was perceptible. After the interior of the crr.ter has been cleaned out by a great eruption, it is easy to go down into it and make such an ex ploration ; but it is gradually filled up by the up heaving of the boiling mass, ar:d when full it flows over and runs in rivers down the mountain side, or a mighty eructation throws it up into the air to descend in a storm of red-hot stones and scoriae. Enveloped in the thick sulphurous vapor that rose from the abyss, we were sometimes unable to see up or down, and appeared to ourselves to be lost in the vestibule of some purgatorial cavern, Irom which deliverance was doubtful. For a few mo ments lh clouds would clear away, and we then launched huge stones into the abyss, listening to hear their roll and bound after they had passed out of sight. I write these lines sitting on thn rocks as near the bottom of the crater as I could reach. It was harder to get out of it than in. But once more on the verge above, we pursued our footway around the craier, perhaps a mile and a half in circum ference i but the strong sulphur clouds of smoke and steam so nearly choked me, that I was obliged to cover my face with my handkerchief, and trust to the guide to leud roe through. Happily the wind was favorable, and whjn we came around to the western side we were relieved, and could look off' on the magnificent prospect which the summit of Vesuvius commands. It was an entrancing sight. There is no other like it in the earth. If this has been said of a score of other scenes, let them be all unsaid, that the view from Vesuvius may bear the palm. We can now look far off into the country, where cities have been, and white villages now are, and smiling vineyards, down into whose bosom these black streams extend from '.he sides of the mountain. And here is beau'iful Naples, girdling the sea with its suburban villa ges ; and there lie the islands of Capri and lochia, and this ' great and wide sea." But we must not be looking off. We plunge our walkingsticks into the ground, and out rushes the smoke and sulphurous gi:. We walk on and find new open ings, and hot steam issues, beore which we could not hold our hands. We step across wide fissures from which the scalding vapor was ascending, and we could distinctly hear the roar of the boiling caldron below. At last we completed the circuit of the crater's rim, and sat down again to rest and ttiink. What a wonderful past has been around this burning mountain! Before this Phoe nicians came hither these flames had been burn it and the Syriac language gave the volcano its name. Jupiter Tonans, the Thunderer, once had a temple on the summit "'tts' Vesuvio sacrum, D. C." Pliny's graphic storyTf that awful erup tion which destroyed the cities of the plain we read while in full view of all the localises which ) he describes. It gave a terrible reality to the scene. Other cities are now lying nearer to this crater than Pompeii, and are thoughtlessly treas uring up wrath against a similar day of wrath. May God save them from such a doom! It is time to descend. The sun is on the down fc,sH, and we have a buried city yet to see. Away we went through the soft ashes which had been soaked by a heavy rain the night before, and now made a yielding bed for our feet, as by sue- cessivs lead's of tn or fifteen feet at every bound j we carae down, and never paused to look back, and hao no need to rest till we were at the foot of the cone This operation did not occupy more than ten Tiinutes, and was full of excitement. Mounting our horses, we were called on to pay a man who was dressed as a soldier, marching : around wiih a gun on his shoulder. What for, pray 1 " Oh, the rascals who are here pretending to be guides wuld plunder every body who fell into their hands, if it were not for th' guards which the governtmnt places here for your protection." This bein& done, and half a dozen more being paid for some sprvice or other, we hardly knew what, we got away, and had an easy and pleasant ride down aga;n to Resina. Travels in Europe. Why Epidemics Rage at Xiglit. It was in one night that four thousand persons perished of the plague in London, It was by night the army of Seunacharib was destroyed. Both iu England and on the continent, a large proportion of cholera cases, in its several form, have been observed to have occurred between one and two o'clock in the morning. The danger of exposure to the night air has been a theme of physicians from time immemorial ; but it is re markable that they have never yet called in the aid of chemistry to account for the fact. It is at night tlpu ihe stratum of air nearest the ground must always be the most charged with the parti cles of animalised matter given out from the skin, and deletirous gases, such as carbonic acid gas, the product of respiration, and sulphuretted hy drogen, the product of the sewers. In the day gases and various substances of all kinds rise in the air by the rarefaction of the heat. At night, when this rarefaction ceases, they fall by an in crease ol gravity, if imperfectly mixed with the atmosphere, while the gases evolved during the I night, instead of ascending, remain at aearly the j same level. It is known that carbonic acid gas, ul a low temperature, partakes so nearly of the nature of a fluid, that u may be poured out of one vessel into another. It ris s at the temperature at Which it is exhaled from the lungs, but its tenden cy is towards the floor, or the bed of the sleeper, in cold and unventilated rooms. At Hamburg, the alarm of cholera at night in some parts of the city ws. so great that many re fused to go to bed, lest they should be attacked unawares in their sleep. Sitting up they probably kept their stoves or open fires burning for the sake of warmth, and that warmth giving the expansion to any deleterious gases present, which would best promote their escape, and promote their dilution in the atmosphere, the means of safety were then unconsciously assured. At Sierra Leone, the natives have a practice in the sickly season of keeping fires constantly burn ing in the huts at night, assigning that the fires keep away the evil spirits, to which in their igno rance they attributed fever ano ague. Latterly, Europeans have begun to adopt the same practice, and those who have tried it assert that they have now an entire immunity from the tropica! fevers to which they were formerly sub jected. In the epidemics of the middle ages fires used lo be lighted in the streets for the purifica tion of the air ; and in the plague of London, in 1685, fires in the streets were at one time kept burning incessantly, till extinguished by a violent storm of rain. Latterly trains of gunpowder have been fired, and cannon discharged for the same object ; but jt is obvious that these measures, although sound in principle, must necessarily, though out of doors, be on too small a scale, as measured against an ocean of atmospheric air, to produce any sensible effect. Within doors, however, the case is differ ent. It is quite possible to heat a room sufficient ly to produce a rarefaction and consequent dilu tion of any malignant gases it may contain, and it is of course the air of the room, and that atone, at night, which comes in contact with the lungs of the person sleeping. Westminster Review An Old Man's Secret. An ltulian Bishop struggled through great difficulties without repin ing, and met with much opposition without even betray ing the least impatience. An intimate friend of bis, who highly admired those virtues which he thought impossible lo imitate, one day asked the Bishop if he could communicate his secret of being always easy ? Yes," replied the old man, I can touch my secret with great facility ; it consis's oi nothing more than making a right use of my eyes." His friend begged him to explain himself. " Most willingly," returned the Bishop ; in whatever stale 1 am, I first of all look up to Heaven, and remember that my principil business is to get there. 1 then look down on the earth, and call to mind how small a space I shall occupy in it when I come to be interred ; I then look abroad on the world and observe what multitudes there are in nil respects more unhappy than myself. Thus I learn where true happiness is placed, where all our cares must end, and how very little reason I have to repine or complain.'" To tii e Girls. Mrs. Swisshelm says : The secret you dare not tell your mother is a danger bus secret, one that will be likely to bring you sorrow.' To the Boys.' Married men are greatly preferred to single ones for reasonsible positions in banks, and other financial institutions, and com mand higher salaries. From Kansas Terrltoi j. We are permitted (says the South Carolinian) to publish the subjoined extracts from a letter re ceived from a young Carolinian, addressed lo his uncle in this pace. It will be seen that he is quite enthusiastic in his praises of the Territory, and especially of the town of Leavenworth, where he has located. He also expresses his confident belief that Kansas will be a slave State, and hopes that some of the Carolina boys may be persuaded to emigrate to Kansas. We subjoin a few extract from the letter : I have established myself in this town (Leav enworth) permanently. It is altogether a new town like the country. It is situated about two, miles below Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri river: was laid out about four months ago. It is a beautiful and charming location the prettiest site I have seen for a town. It is on an elevated position, commanding a fine view ol the noble river; the whistle of the steamboat is always heard, as the river is at all times navigable. There are now about forty houses in the town, and new ones goinjj up daily. It is the largest town in the Territory and will always be, and it is generally conceded that it will be the largest town west of St. Louis. It has every natural ad vantage, and is surrounded by a rich, fertile and benuiilul country. Indeed I can say that the country back of this town is the most beautiful, pictureque and richest country I have ever be held. It is ous continued undulating, benuiilul prairie country, interspersed with timber. Six mon'hs ago all of this beautiful country was to tally unoccupied one brond hunting-ground for the wandering red man. Now for miles back the country is dotted over with the cabins of the squ t. Its, built to secure their claims. This is indeed a noble country for hundreds ol miles into the in terior a country rich in all ihe resources neces sary to the comfort and convenience of man. Noble streams course over her broad bosom. We find wood and prairie alternately, between which the settler may take his choice; while we find imbedded in its bosom inexhaustible mines of coal, which supplies the difficulty which the settlers might have in obtaining wood. Rock is abund ant along the rivers, creeks and branches, with which the settler can build his fences, and thus again remedy the want of wood. The soil is rich, loamy and loose, and the climate is the most delightful and pleasant, healthy and salubrious. It is my humble opinion that it is the place lor the poor man of every occupation and profession ; and the natural advantages of the country are greater and offer greater inducements to the larmer, either wealthy or poor, than most any other por tion of the Union. The title to the lands are free and unincumbered of the Indian title, at least most of it. It is fast se.ilmg up with noble, energetic, and good men ; indeed the rapidity with which it is settling is unparalleled in the history of any Territory formerly eettled in this Union. The soil and climate are well adapted to sla very, and it will in all probability be a slave State. Slaveholders are already here are coming still. In the spring and coming summer we will have a large emigration of the adventurous spirits of Ken tucky, Tennessee and other slave States. We are determined to make it a slave State, and if the South will do her duty we will have no difficulty in accomplishing our purpose. Whitfield, our delegate to Congress, is a pro-slavery man, and was elected upon that issue by a large majority. These facts being known to every person residing here, I can confidently say to my Southern friends that they are safe in coming here wiih their prop erty come all that can, for Kansas is certain to be one ol the glorious constellation of slave States. We have not had an election for Legislature as yet, conseqeently we are, strictly speaking, with out law ; but I can say to the honor of Kansas pioneers, that there cannot be found anywhere a more orderly, honorable, quiet people. The set tlers themselves have established what they call a " squatter's court," for the trial of all disputed claims. We have not all the comforts and conve niences of the old States, nor can we expect them ; difficulties and hardships are incident to a new country." Ireland. The Dublin Nation contains a horrible picture of the condition of Ireland, from the pen of Mr. Duffy. He says : " No words printed in a newspaper or else where will give any man who has not seen it a conception of the fallen condition of the west and south. The famine and the landlords have ac tually created a new race in Ireland. I have seen on the streets of Galwoy creatures more debased than the Yahoos of Swift creatures having only a distant and hideous resemblance to human be ings. Gray-haired old men, whose idiot faces had hardened into a settled leer of mendicincy, simious and semi-human ; and women filthier and more frightful than the harpies, who, at the jingle of a coin on the pavement, swarmed in myriads from unseen places, struggling, screaming, shriek ing for their prey, like some monstrous unclean animals. In Westpor', the sight of a priest on the street gathered an entire pauper population, thick as a village market, swarming arouud him for relief. Beggar children, beggar adults, beggars in white hair ; girls w ith faces gray and shrivelled, the grave stamped upon them in a decree which could not be recalled ; women with the more touching and tragical aspect of lingering shame and self-repeci not yet effaced ; and among these terrible realities, imposture shaking in pretended fits, to add the last touch of horrible grotesqueness to the picture ! I have seen these accursed sights, and they are burned into my memory forever. Away from the town, other scenes of unimagin able horror disclose themselves. The traveller meets groups, and even troops, of wild, idle lunatic-looking paup"rs wandering over the country, each with some tale of extermination to tell. If he penetrate into a cabin, and can distinguish ob jects among filth and darkness, of which an ordi nary pig-sty affords but a faint image, he will probably discover from a dozen to twenty inmates in the huts the ejected cottiers clustering to gether, and breeding a pestilence. What kind of creatures men and women become, living in this dung-heap, what kind of children are reared here to grow up into a generation, I have no words to pajnt." A Sensible Reply. Not long since a young gootleoaaa of this town, cot tremendously righteous hisnself, but rather on the n icked order of things, beginning to apprehend great danger to hi country from Roman Catho lic, and wishing to call in the aid ol some of bis fellow men to put down the whole church, called upon a middle aged gentleman of this place, re markable for his firmness, and strict member of the Methodist Church, and a christian, and sub mitted to him the usual know nothing catechism, to wit : Young Gentleman. Mr. are you not opposed to Roman Catholics? Mid. aged Gent. I am sir. Y. Gent. Well, would you not like to join a society that has for its object, to put down Po pery ? Mid. aged Gent. Why, sir, you seem to mani fest unusual interest in religious matters ; great concern for the protestant churches ; have you joined either of them ! Hs your heart undergone a change, and have you reformed your ways ? Y. Gent, (rather uneasy and looking very wild.) No, sir ! Mid. aged Gent. Well, sir, I will tell you a better way to put down Roman Catholics than the course your council pursues. History has taught me, that oil sects persecuted for their religious opinions prosper and increase. Now, if you will join some protestant church, become a christian, and show Roman Catholics by your pious wjs and good works, that yours is the (rue religion, you may put them down, hut you never can other wise. This really occurred in this town, and there is too much sense in the above reply to need com ment. The young know nothing vamoused, and m was heard of in his midnight assemblage, kneeling before the Grand Mogul of the council, asking absolution lot the sin of knowing so little as to at tempt to lead a man who had his eyes open. Wddetboro Slur. Remarkable Prophecy. The following re markable prediction was made by Friar Bacon, who was born in the year 1214, some 640 years ago. ' Here,' says a certain writer, ' is poetry and philosophy wound together, forming a woo drous chain ol prophecy' 4 Bridges unsupported by arches will be mads to span the foaming current. Men shall descend to the bottom of the ocean, safely breathing, tread ing with a firm step on the golden sands, never brightened by the light of day. Call but the so cret powers of Sol and Luna into action, snd be- hold a single steersman sitting at the helm guiding ! the vessel which divides the waves with greater j rapidity than if she had been filled with a crew of i of mariners toiling at the oars ; and the loaded i chariot, no longer encumbered by the punting steeds, shall dart on its course with resistless force and rapidity. Let the simple elements do thy labor ; bind the eternal elements and yoke them to the same plough.' Cincinnati, March 16, 1855. The Know Noth ings are losing ground here as a political body. They have suffered defeat in Newport, a city op posite Cincinnati, while last year they had a large majority ; and in this city the public opinion seems to have changed totally Irom that of last fall they will unquestionably be defeated here. The Maine Liquor Law is in force to a certain degree here. The Sunday traffic is totally suppressed. The bars are allowed to sell wines manufactured from the Catawba grape, and the Germans are allowed to drink lager bier. It was expected that if they were prohibited from drinikng bier they would have drowned themselves in a little mudhole here, which they classically denominate the Rhine. The Burnett House, the best hotel in the West, is being renovated and elegantly frescoed- The brothers cob man are increasing in popularity as hotel caterers. Grape Culture, in the United States, has been long regarded as rather a speculative enterprise than as fraught with any practical consequences of magnitude Yet nevertheless ihe culture has been gradually extending at the West until it has become an important interest. It was stated in one of our exchanges that during the present year there will probably be raised in the Oluo valley a grape crop sufficient lo make 600,000 gallons of Catawba wine. The demand for that article fsr exceeds such a product, notwithstanding that it is but of recent manufacture, and the experience of our American wine producer must necessarily be limited. According to a paper now before us, if the product slated nbove were doubled every year for five years to come, the market for Catawba wine would not be overstocked. The profits of the culture are said to be such as to offer much encouragement lo agriculturist to undertake the crop, and it is stated that until there shall be five millions ol acres planted in vines, the price of the wine cannot be reduced to a minimum in the United States. Hon. T. L. Clingxan. It will be seen from a highly interesting letter in to-day's paper, from Franklin, that Mr. Clingman his declared himself a candidate for re-election. We sre sincerely re joiced at this not because the office can confer any honor upon Mr. Clingman, for his reposition is not bounded by District or State lines, but ex tends to the whole continent ; we are gratified that ihe South is to have the benefit of his talents, his influence and his firmness in the next Congress, in beating back (he tide ol fanaticism snd corruption which Know Nothingim and Abolition combined will pour into that body. Such men as Mr. Cling man men of nerve, before whom ihe hords of lanaticism quake and tremble will constitute the only hope of the South in that God-forsaken as semBlage. Let the people of Iho South look to this matter in time, and see that none but moo tried and true men who have stood fire -are sent to the next Congress. An error here may be fatal. We have no doubt of Mr. Clingman's election. The people of this district are too well acquainted with the nature of the crisis shead to dispense with the services of one who has acquitted himself so well, and who has so gallantly beaten back the foes of the South on many well contested fields. Ashevillr Newt. Rev. Dr. Lacv. of Raleioh. N. C. has accepted the Presidency of Davidson CollT.