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fiifiii mssm ml PUBLISHED WEEKLY. J A FAMILY PAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MINING, AND NEWS. PRICE $2 PER YEAR In Advance. ROBERT P. WARING, Editor. "Cfje Itatffl Distinrt as ijre plain, but one tye fen." I JUTl'S M. HER RON, Publisher. VOL. 3. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1855. NO. 41. attorney at l.atr. Office in Loncrgan's Brick Building, 2nd floor. . CHARLOTTE, X. C. J. B. F. BOONE, WHOLESALE AND EETAIL DEALER IN BOOTS & SKOES, SOLE I I .1 Tlli St (.11,1 SJKfJTS, LINING AND BINDING SKINS, SHOE TOOLS OF EVERY DK8CR1P I ION, Charlotte, N. C Oct. 20, 1854. Iy ELMS &, JOHNSON, forwarding aud Conimission Merchants. NO. 10 VENDUE RANGE, CHARLESTON, S. C. W. W. ELMS. C. JOHNSON. June 23, '51. 8tf. R. HAMILTON, O 1 JIISSIO M B : It II V T, Co.ruer of llicuir'lson and Laurel Stretts, COLUMBIA, S. C. June 0 1SS4 ly BREM & STEELE, Wholesale eft? ""FLotxil in it g a a n t s . TRADE STREET, fcearl opposite Kims Sc. Siratt's Grocery. CHARLOTTE, N. C. I). r 15 20ti BY JENNINGS B KEan January 28, 1858. 28tf BOUNTY LAND BILL. S. W. DAVIS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ( IM.1M.OTTE, Jt. C. 1.L collections or otlw-r busiuc.-s attended t iritli lrin;inM ; particularly stub as relet U the proM -cution ff f sins Claims, Lund Warrants, mini donations at BwOBlf Laud against th-j General GoTi-xumcnt, no il, r he- late liounty Land Law d Marcli 3d, 1855, giv ii 160 Acresof Land to all Ol'iccrs, Land nd Naval, t'l.ui iniiiMoni d or n usn missioned, all Soldiers, Sea ,i,. n, Cl.-rKs, er other f era, who nave served in any ol Ike Wara in which the United States have been en. ngtd since 179U ; and al.-o to all Of&cera and Soldiers nf tbc KevwIatMMaary War, their widows ai.ei minor Lkildren. Persona having Mich claims, by presenting SJiein im mediately, may secure an early issue- ot their certifi cates, odi;-, 3 doors south ! Sadler's Hotel. tt."i0 Respectfully Your.. ! rpUE un.-ictll d business of Pritckard 6c Caldwell, for 1 1051, has hecu placed in the hands f S. W. Davis t..r en lection and settle saent. Those indebted for that rear will be doing us a great favor by dosing their Ac conn la immediately, aa we have invariable easfa to pay, aud " .Money now, aa all must know, is a bard thing to borrow." HUTCH A RD & CALDWELL. April I Bi 3.F Save jour CcbIs ! 'PHI 1 th HE Notes and Accounts of the late li in of A. Be- hum V ("o. has been placed in the bands ot S. . Davis. Esq., for collection and settlement. Those in debted either by Note or Account, are requested to make an immediate arrange saent. as farther indulgence can not and will not he granted. ALEXANDER & JOHNSTON. April 7. 1 ".. Notice MY Notes and AtllldnlS having been placed in the hands of S, W. Davis, Esq., for collection, those who are indebted tonic individuajly, or as one of the eld lii in of Steele & tlarty, arc respectfully request ed to make settle Sit by April four!, if not i r. A. C. STEELE. F- b. 9, 18C5. --' ii HOORS .V.RTII OF KF.Rk'S HOTEL. LL Dresses cut and made 'ey the celebrated A. D. C. Method, and warranted tc lit. Bonne ts Irimsand in the latest style at the shortest notice. April SO, I 55. 39 if. A. BETHUNE, No. 5, Springs' Kow, I DOORS EAST OF THE CHASLOTTE BANK, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Feb. 1G. l?o5 30 if W. S. LAWTON & CO., factors, Fonvarding ami Commission MERCHANTS, Soirii Atlantic WiiARf, CHARLESTON, S. C. Jf. S. LAWTOX. THOS. ALEXANDER. .. ZtX. Nforinciit RESPECTFULLY offers his professional services to , the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. He hopes by elevoting his entire attention to the duties ot his prolession to merit patronage. He may be founei at all hours, at his office opposite the American Hotel, when not prolessioually engaged. march 2, 18.:5. 32tf RV. BECK WITH has removed his Jewelry Store to No. S, Johnston's Row, three doors Semth of Kerr's Hotel. Feb 16, 1S55. ;0- ly MECKLENBURG H01SE, HAVING purchased the buileliiiir em the cor- ailUD nrr t". t -A . .. . r . ...tl. i II.... 1 1 I : , fm nw-n en mil & iinti i, unu repaired and ntu-d it up in hrst-rate style, I would rcspcctlully inform the travelling public that it is now open tor the reception of regular and transient boarders. Drovers will find ample accommodations at inv hoiuc. Jan. 12, If 5.5. 25-ly S. H. REA. Tilt: jii:ri hotel., CHARLOTTE, N. C. I1JEG to announce to my friends, the public, and pres-e-nt patrons of the above Hotel, that 1 have leased the same for a term of years from the 1st of Jana iry next. After which time, the entire property will be thorough ly repa'-ed and renovated, and the house kept in first sjsjs htyle. This Hotel is near the Depot, and pleasant, ly situated, rendering it a desirable bouse for t.-avelleis-and families. Dec 10, 1853. 2?t C. M. RAY. The Battle of San Jacinto. ( The day was now wearing away ; it was three 'c,ock -he afternoon, and jet the enemy kept concealed behind his breastworks, and manifested no disposition to come to an engagement. Events had taken such a current as Houston expected and desired, and he began to prepare for baitle. Those who expect a minute and accurate ac count of this engagement, from the writer, or any one else, must be disappointed from no such des- ! cription can over be written. It was a slaughter more than a buttle. We can only give the reuder j an idea of the position of both armies when the engagement began fill up the interval of the next j few nmutes with blood, and smoke, and cries and j slaughter, and then iell the aimosl incredible re j suit. The two armies were now drawn up in ! complete otder. There were seven hundred I 'n -i - i i . i exaiis on tne neia, ana Oanta Anna s troop9 num bered over eighteen hundred. Everything was now ready, and every man at his post, waiting for the charge. The two six pounders had commenced a well-directed fire of grape and canister, and they shattered bones and baggage wherever they struck. The moment had at last come. 1 luus'.on ordered the churge, and sounded out the war cry, Remember the Alamo. These magic words struck (he ear of every sol dier at 1I13 same instant, aud ' the Alamo J' the Alamo?' went up from the army in one wild scream, which sent terror through the Mexican host. At thai moment a rider came up on a horse covered with mire and loam, swinging an axe over his head, and dashed along the Texan lines, cry ing out as he had been instructed to do, 7 have cut down I'licc's bridge note fight for yam licx aiid remember the Alamo.' and then the solid ilnnx, which had been held back for a mom-, til at the announcement, launched forward upon the breat-vork like an avalanche of fire. Houston spurred his horse on at the head of the centre column., right into the face of the foe. The Mexican army wa3 drawn up in perfect order, ready to receive the attack, and w hen the Texans were within about sixty paces, and befon they had fired a rifle, a general flash was seen along the Mexican lints, and a storm of bullets weui flying over tho Texan army. They fired too h gli, but several balls struck Houston's horse in the breast, raid one shattered the General's an kle. The noble soiotal staggered for a moment, but Houston spurred him on. If the first discharge ot the Mexicans had been well-directed, ijj uultl have thinned the Texan ranks. liul thevfHsV'c! on, reserving their fire, till each man e.ould choose some particular soldier or his target; and before the Mexicans could reload, a murderous discharge of rifle balls was poured into their bosoms. The Ti x in soldiers rushed on. They were without bayonets, but they converted their rifles into war clubs and levelled them upon the heads of Santa Anna's men. Along the breastwork there was 1 i i tit- more firing ufF muskets or rifles it was a dVspera-e struggle, hand to hand. The Texans, hen they had broken off their rifle s at the breech, by smashing in the skulls of their enemies, fluiiij i hem down, and drew their pistols. They fired them once, and having no time to reload, hurled tin m against the heads of their foes ; and then drawing forth their bowieknives, litteraly cut their wav through dense masses of living flesh. It would ho a gross mistake to suppose that the Mexicans played the coward thut day for they were slain by liunf' ieds in the ranks where they stood when the baitle began but the fierce ven- geance of t be Texans could not be resisted. They louoht as none but men can light, when they are striking for the ir homes, their families and their died kindred. The Mexican ollicers and men stood firm for a time, but the Texaus stamped on them as last as they fell and trampled the prostrate and the dying down with the dead, and clambering over ihe groaning bleeding mass, plunged their Knives into toe bosoms ol those in tiio rear. hen tin y siw that the dreadful onset of their foe could not be resisted, tlu-y either attempted to fly, ami were slabbed in the back, or fell on their knees lo dead for im rcy, crying " me no Alamo " " me no Alamo " " tne no Alamo " These unfortu nate slaves of the Mexican tyrant had witnessed thai brutal massacre of brave men, and now they ci uld think of no other claim for mercy, but the plea that they were not there ; for they knew the day of vengeance j'or the Alamo had at last come. Bui before the centre breastwork had been car ried, the right and left wings of the enemy had been put to lout or t he slaughter. The .Mexicans, however, not only stood their ground at first, hut made several bold charges upon the Texan lines. A division of their infantry of more than five hundred nrv n, made a gallant and well-directed charge upon the battalion ol Texan Infantry. Seeing them bard pressed, by a force of three to one, the Commander-in chief dashed between them and the enemy's column, exclaiming : ' Come on, my brave fellows, your General leads yotr' The battalion halted and wheeled into perfect order, like a veteran corps, and Houston gave the order to ire. It the guns of ihe Texans had all been moved by machinery, they could not have been fired nearer the same instant. There was a single explosion the battaiion rushed through the smoke, and those who had not been prostrated by the bullets, were struck down by the cleaving blows of uplifted rifles ; and the levelled column .was trampled into the mire together. Of the five hundred, only thirty-two lived, even to surrender as prisoner of war. GEN. HUSK'S SToRY OF THE OLD TEXAN. 1 On starting out from our camp, to enter upon the allack, I saw an old man, by the name of Curtis carrying two guns. I askod him what rea son he had for carrying two guns. He answer ed : D n the Mexicar.s ; they killed my 6on and son-in-law in the Alamo, and I intend to kill two of them for it, or be killed myself.' I saw the old man again during the fight, and he told me he had killed his two men ; and if he could find S-m:a Anna himself, he would cut out a ra zor strap from his back .'" DEFEAT OF THE MEXICANS. The flight had now become universal. The Texans had left on the ground, where the battle began, more than their entire number, dying and dead ; and far away, over ihe prairie, they were chasing tfie flying, and following up the slaughter. Multitudes were overtaken and killed as they were making their escape through (he deep gras. The Mexican cavalry were well mounted, and after the event they struck deep their spurs into their fleet horses, and turned their heads towards Voice's Bridge. They were hotly pursued by the victors, and when tho latter came up, the most appalling spectacle, perhaps, of the entire day, was witnessed. When the fugitive horsemen saw that the bridge was gone, some of them in their desperation, spurred their horses down the steep bank; others dismounted and pluoged into the stream ; some were entangled in their trappings, and were dragged down with their struggling steeds ; others sunk at once !o the bottom; while those whose horses reached the opposite bank fell backwards into the river. In the mean time, while they were struggling with the flood, their pursuers, who had come up, were pouring down upon them a deadly fire, which cut off all escape. Horses and men, by hundreds, rolled down together , the waters were red with their blood, and filled with their dying gurgles. The deep, turbid stream was literally choked with the dead ! THE SrOILS OF VICTORY. Thus ended the bloody day ol Sin Jacinto a battle that has scarcely a parrellel in the annals of ar. Its immediate fruits were not small for the spoils were of great value lo men who had nothing in the morning but the arms they carried, scanty, coarse clothing, and the determination to be free. About 900 stand of English muskets, (besides a vast number that were lost in the Morass and Bayou,) 300 sabres, and 200 pistols, 200 valuable mules, a hundred fine horses, a good lot of provisions, clothing, tents and paraphernalia for officers and men, and twelve thousand dollars in silver, constituted the principal spoils. But the booty was esteemed meaner than nothing, in comparison with t lie great moral and political consequences that attended the victory. On that well-fought field Texan independence was won. A brave, but an outraged people, in imita tion of their fathers of the last age, had entrusted their cause to the adjudication of battle, and Gd took care of the issue. For our own part, we can find in the whole range of hisiory no spectacle more sublime. A L.i(tle Gt'i'iiam: Story. A countryman one day returniujj from the citv took home w ith him five of the finest peaches one could possibly desire to see, and as his children had never beheld the fruit before, they rejoiced over them exceedingly, calling them fine apples with rosy like cheeks, and soft plum like skins. The father divided them among his four children, and retained one for their mother. In the even ing," ere the children retired to their chamber, their father questioned them by asking : How did you hke the rosy apples. ' Very much, indeed, dear father,' said the eldest boy ; ' it is a beautilul fruit, so acid, and yet so nice and soft lo the taste ; I have care fully preserved the stone that I may cultivate a tree.' 'Right and bravely done,' said the father; ' that speaks well for regarding the future w ith care, and is becoming in a young husbandman.' 4 I have eaten mine and thrown the stone away,' said the youngest, ' beside which, mother gave me half of hers. Oh ! it taeted so seet and melting in my mouth.' Indeed,' answered the father, thou hast not been prudent. However, i' was very natural and child-like, and displays wisdom enough for your years.' ' I have picked up the stone,' said the second son, ' which my little brother threw away, crack ed it and eaten the kernel; it was sweet to the taste, but my peach 1 have sold for 6o much mon ey, that when I go to tho city I can buy twelve of -ihem.' The parent shook his head reprovingly, -saying, Beware, my boy, of avarice. Prudence is all very well, but such conduct as yours is unchild like and unnatural, Heaven guard thee ; my child, from the fate of a miser. And you, Edmund ?' asked the lather, turning to his third son who frankly replied : ' I have given my peach to the son of our neigh bir. the sick George, who had the fever. He would no' take it so I left it on his bed, and have just come away.' Now,' said the father, 1 who has done the best with his peach V " ' Brother Edmund !' the three exclaimed aloud; ' brother Edmund !' Edmund was still and silent; and the mother kissed him w ith tears of joy in her eyes. i i-ii ii ii lay:. As this is the season of the year when prunning ought io be attended to, we make the following suggestions taken from The Country Gentleman, a periodical devoted to horticulture and kindred subjects. The writer says: Peach trees are much benefitted by prunning, as, if commenced while young, the tree will al-w-ys, remain bushy and close, while if left to it self, it will become, in a short time, an ugly, straggling tree, with a few bearing shoots at the top. Cut out all week, spindly growth, except were wanted to fill up a vacancy, and shorten in the leading shoot of each branch. We prefer do ing this to shortening the branches we intend to leave. If the tree is inclined to be crowded, a third of the young wood may be taken out with advantage. It is better to leave the prunning of peach trees till all danger of excessive cold is past, as the fruit buds in extreme cases are killed by, frost, and where this occurs, prunning must be done accordingly. The same writer also says : The native grape vinos that have remained uncovered and.unprun ed may be done at any time. The fruit will come much finer and suffer less from mildew and other pests, if ample space is left for the development ol the foliage. Under no pr utn'ng should the branch es be nearer each other after they -re done, than eighteen inches three feet is better. These hints are appropriate for those cultivating the peach and grapevine in this city. We notice a number of gardens having in them unpruned trees and vines. The season is advancing too rapidly to admit much delay in attending to these matters. Alwavs take the part of an absent person who is censured in company, so far as truth and pro priety will allow. JTude Saunders and the Know No. things. Having alluded, a day or two since, to the charge recently delivered by Judge Saunders to the Grand Jury of Buncombe County, against the Know Nothing organization, we feel bound, as an act of justice to the Judge, to lay the document before our readers. We copy also ihe piesenl Dient upon which the charge was based : State of Noktii Cakolina? Buncombe County. Superior Court Sj)ring Term, 1855. The Jurors for the Stale, upon iheir oaths, pre jent that they have reason to believe that a com bination of men, -commonly called "Know Noth- exist in this county, one ef the objects ol winch is, by binding men with ext ra judicial oaths, secretly administered, and by other secret obliga tions, and by threatening those of their members who oiler to withdraw from their order, to control citizens of this county in the exercise of their right to vole conformably with their own free will, as contemplated by ihe Constitution and laws of this Slate. And the said Jurors are ready, if the Honorable Court shall so advise, to furnish for ihe information of the Court and the Solicitor for the State, a list of witnesses lo prove these facts. And whether this is a violation ol the criminal law, and what is their duty in the matter, they, ihe sitid Jurors, are ignorant, and pray the advice of the Honorable Court in the premises. D. J. ROGERS, Foreman, and others. CHARGE OF JUDGE SAUNDERS. The Grand Jury applied to (he Judge for in structions as to whether it was an indictable offence-, if it should appear that a Society had been formed in this county, the object and design of which was, to influence men to join the Society and then by oaths to bind its members to secrecy, and to compel them to vote against their will, for or against a particular candidate. His Honor re plied in substance, that it had been said by high authority, that few things are involved in greater doubt in I he criminal law, than the point at which a combination of several persons in a common object becomes illegal. If this be so in England in regard to associations of a political character, still more must it be so in this country. It is the combination or agreement of a number of persons to do a particular act, that constitutes the gist of the offence. But to make the conspiracy or agree ment criminal, the act proposed must be unlawful'. or the combination and agreement must be to ef- feet a legal purpose by illegal means. TIip ad ministration of an oath to the members of any Society not to divulge it secrets, or to do or not to do any particular act, is no binding obligation, and in a moral point ol view decidedly wrong. I he law only authorizes the Judge or Magistrate to administer an oath, in some legal investigation then penning, ana ol wmcli tne Magistrate may have jurisdiction ; and unless thus administered, .i I- i-ii m r . Ihe party, even should he swear falsely, could not be convicted of perjury. If a party's word of honor could not bind h:m, an unauthorized oath would not be likely to have the effect of doing so. In England they have an act of Parliament de claring '.he Society of United Irishmen, and some other Societies, ns unlawful, and forbidding the administration of an oath to its members, accor ding te the rules of the Society. But weve no such statute in this State, and whatever may be l bought of such oaths by christian men, they can- not be treated as criminal. In this country parties ana associations may unite together to carry any political object by fair reason or argument, and even hold out personal honors or advantages to unite in the support ol particular men or measures. Bat il any set of men should conspire together to elect or defeat any one, who might be held up for any public trust, by forcing the voter to vote against his will, by threats or otherwise, the act would be unlawful, and therefoie criminal. And il the Grand Jury should know that any such act had ben done, it would be their duty to present the oflenders. So if ihe Grand Jury should know or have reason lo believe lhat there existed in the county any association of m'-n, combined together to effect such a purpose, it would be their duty to investigate the matter and net accordingly. But the Jury should not institute such an investigation, urdess they had .sufficient grounds to suspect that such a conspiracy did exist, and that for an un lawful purpose. i . .i One of the articles of Faith of the Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church it is believed has an Article of similar import declares "that vain and rash swearing is forbidden christian men by our Lord Jesus Christ. But that a maji may swear when the Magistrate requireth." Woman's Sphere. Charles Dickens never vjJte anything more beauti(uleand true than the following: " The true woman, for whose ambition a hus band's love and her childen's adoration are suffi cient, who applies her military instincts to the discipline of her household, and whose legislates exercise themselves in making laws for her nurse ; whose intellect has field enough for her in com munion with her husband, and whose heart asks no other honor than his love and admiration ; a woman who does not think it a weakness to at tend to her toilet, and does not disdain to be beau tilul ; who believes in the virtue of glossy hair and well-fitting gowns, and who eschews rents and raveled edges, slip-slop shoes and audacious make-ups; a woman who speaks low and does not speak much ; who is patient and gentle, and intellectual and industrious ; w ho loves more than she reasons, and rarely argues hut adjusts with a smile ; such a woman is the wife we have all dreamed of Qnce in our lives, and who is the mother we still worship in the backward distance of the past; such a woman as this does more for woman's cause than all the sea captains, barris ters, judges and members of Parliament put to gether. God-given and God-blessed as she is." Letter Whiting. Several good suggestions have been made in relation to the new postage law. Now that letters not prepaid will not be for warded, they who write to others on iheir own business, requiring an answer, should enclose a slamp. Stamp your business addresses on every envelope, and if by accident a letter gets into the post-office unpaid, it can be immediately returned to the w riter. Cuba and the United States. From all that we cun gather from the Demo cratic press of the South, we are inclined to be lieve that the Democratic party is unanimously in favor of the immediute seizure of Cuba by the Government of the United States. The patience of the most conservative of our people has been exhausted by reiterated and unprovoked outrages upon our flag, our commerce, and our ppople, by the Spanish Government. Our sympathies have been aroused by the cruelty, injustice, and op pression, to which the native inhabitants of the island are the daily victims. Our love of liberty and detestation of tvranny urge us to aid in the o verthrow of a dominion in sight of our coast w hich is maintained by force and disregards the righ's nr man, the comity of nations, and the offices ef irood neijtihorbeod. Tho Govpmn.. i .i ik. n nited Slates has exhausted every peaceful means to preserve friendly relations. Forbearance has ceased to be a virtue we must stand by our arms. And the srajner the blow is struck the better for all parties concernede" Having once obtained pos session of the island, the United Suites can either annex it, and thus add another State to the Union, or hold it until Spain will consent to respond to ail our just demands, and give ample guarantees against future outrages upon our citizens and Gov em ment. We copy from the Constitutionalist and Repub lic the following article. In reply to a query pro pounded by the Journal and Messenger, the edi tor says, and but gives expression to the views of the great body of the Southern people of all par ties : To the question embraced in the last sentence, we reply promptly and emphatically, that our sympathies are with that class of Georgia Demo crats who prefer the seizure of the Island of Cuba to its purchase at a fair price. We cannot speak for Marcy on this point. We are utteriy opposed to the policy of paying uny price for Cuba except the amount il would take to equip a fleet and ar my sufficient to take and keep possession of the island. After this was done, we would be in a good position to negotiate a peace with Spain.. Then, if it suited the. views of policy and magnan imity inspiring the Administration to grant a do ceur in the way of money to console Spain and soothe her wounded honor, we would not oppose a treaty embracing that feature. We would con sider the reasons which induced the United States to give to Mexico fifteen millions of dollars lor f that part of her territory which we retained, after having virtually conquered it all, and it had all of right become our property, as measurably appli cable in this case. The lime was, and not many months ago. when we would have preferred the purchase to the sei zure. Now, were the former even practicable, we infinitely prefer its seizure by" force ol arms. Virtually a state of war already exists between Spain and this country, though no blood has been shed. But the outrages repeatedly perpetrated on our flagon the high seas, and against the contin ued repetition of which we can have no assurance, are wholly inconsistent with the idea of peaceful relations between the two countries. The right of visitation and search was claimed by Great Britain, and the exercise o( it against our mer chantmen brought on the last war between us and that country. In the confidential message of President Madi son to Congress on the 1st of June, 1812, just ' eighteen days before the declaration of war, is the following significant and trudiul laneuaye. Af ter referring to the fre quent violations by Great Britain on the the high seas of ihe.sanctity of our flag, he say s : We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Brit ain, a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain." The President was rightly enough opposed to a continuance of this one sided game. The people were with him, and a declaration of war was the immediate consequence. The same state of things now exists as regards Spain. Wa are impatient to see a termination of it, and an-opening ol the war w loch i alike inev itable end proper. War wiih her is only a ques tion ol time, lor any mind of common sagacity must sec that nothing short of war will teach Spain a decent respect for our flag. She will never concede to us the peaceful navigation of the high seas as long as the trade of our vast com merce in the Gull of Mexico lies in the vicinity of the coasts of Cuba continues to be the property of Spain. The longer we postpone the issue the longer vve shrink from the vindication of our in sulted flag the longer must become the catalogue of our wrongs, and the more exemplary most bt the punishment to our insolent foe. Columbus Times. A Lesson from the Drought. We have en deavored occasionally to impress upon the farmers and planters ol tins country tne importance o: adopting a more thorough and judicious tillage, than at present generally obtains. During t lie present season, in passing through different parts of the Sta;e, we have been more than ever con vinced of the evil of close culture, especially in the production of corn. We notice this suije-ct now, that our agricultural friends may be duly impressed with the importance of planting hereaf ter more sparsely, plowing more deeply, and pre paring more thoroughly the soil. We beg them, I in the preparation ol their lands for wheat, corn, oats, and indeed all important crops, to try the ays- ; tern of subsoiling. We have seen it tested in Floyd county, in a wheat crop, with ihe most satisfactory results. Upon this subject the Chattanooga Gazette adds its testimony. After stating the stntosl en tire failure iA the corn crop in that'section, it says: ! "The experience jf this fatally dry season ought to convince every farmer of the importance j of deep plowing, even subsoiling fields that have been thus cultivated, have stod the drought won derfully, and will make a tolerably fair yield. ' Farmer if- Planter. Plague at Sebastopol. A report is said, by the London Economist, to be current in Paris thai ihe plague, with all its hideous symptoms, had made its appearance in ihe allied army. Ji h id been caused by the great number of corp-ies which were buried very negligently. The way to make a mm short ' is to ask him to lend you a hundred dolhrs. From the North Carolina Standard. 'One Horse can't poll a man t liesc Days." In walking the streets a few days since I heard a negro nuke the above remark. At the same time I saw B little man riding in a buggy driving two large horse?, which was the cause of the re mark. The man, I suppose, would weigh about seventy-five, bur seemedfully convinced that his horses had as much as they could pull ; and I believe if elephants could be procured he would drive two of them. Such is not peculiar to that little man alone. We see i: everywhere, and are naturally led to in quire, whence this great propensity for M showing ofT?" Whence this extravagance ? Whence this luxury ? Is it the result of ignorance ? By no means. If we go among the most ignorant we ..- T, nr mnn mnviner in his tifht suhere. The simple fact that a negro noticed mis shows that it is not tolerated by the ignorant. The most ignorant are the most natural ; and this sim ple fact satisfies me that the object of the abova remark w as something bordering on the ridiculous. Although this was an idle remark, yet there is much connected with it. In the first place it shows that our people are falling into luxury, which, from examples in history, is proven to be a dangerous thing. Secondly, luxury and virtue are not usually found together; hence virtue, that amaranthine flower on earth," is sadly decreas ing. Thirdly, if virtue is decreasing in the mid dle of the nineteenth century, the most enlight ened age of the world, we may argue successfully that " the propressive spirit of t ho age dios not tend to enhance virtue." Fourthly, if knowledge and virtue cannot go hand in hand, as seems to be proven, had we not betler abandon knowle dge ? Virtue is required lo ensure happiness hereafter? Fifthly, the more knowledge we get the more wo appreciate the attributes ol Deity, and the more we promote the ends of man. So we uroevidenl !y in a dilemma. We wonder, we revolve all our thoughts in our mind, wc are unable to solve if. Thus, from this small duce important things. occurrence we might de ll is certainly one of the and when we behold luxu components of luxury ry and its concomitant, vice, around us, we can not but pause, and consider where it will end. It seems lhat aristocracy, a strong foe to republics, is also grow ing up. " A coach nnd four " will soon be in vogue, and then death lo the one horse, hi loto.' R. K. A French H onnui. The French woman's characteristics are gene rally that she is unexceptionably shod ; that she wears inimitable gloves; that she has a toilet of two colors only with a distracting way of wearing it; that her manners are bewitching full of small grades and delicately shaped coquetries, and nev er wanting in the nicest appreciation of external proprieties, to which her flirtations are always subordinate that she has a marvellous facility of walking clean through the dirty streets of Paris, and as marvellous a knack of holding up ber dress with one hand over the left hip; that she has a bewitching habit of mistakjng her friend's husband for her own. These are popular char acteristics, and few people allow her any other ; but those who know her know that other thoughts besides dress and flirting work beneath those smooth bands of glossy hair, which look as though they had taken a lifetime to bring them to their present high condition of polish and intricale ar rangement, and that the hands in their present close-fitting gloves can do something better than make up caps and crochet purses; that she is not only an agreeable woman of society, but also n careful housekeeper, an affectionate mother and a submissive wife. A French woman cleans her gloves, light boots, silks and laces, and at the cost of a few cents and with a surprising success. They pass lor new on any inspection but the clo sest, and are worthy to do so. A French woman never buys a lining for a new gown ; she cuts up her oid gowns and worn out petticoats instead. She unpicks and stitches up again, turns, irons, and renews, until every inch of the stuff baa served half a dozen purposes, and (here is not an unworn thread in the whole garment. A French woman is always noticeable' lor her clean linen cufl's and collars always white nnd fresh ; but ihcn she works them herself, and thus procures ano ther largo feminine luxury at small cost. It is the same with her table linen. Napkins nt break fast, napkins at dinner, and fresh table-cloths or supper napkins constandy renewed. Cuba. The Captain General of Cuba seems to be gradually enlarging his force of black troops. A proclamation has jusi been isnued for their or ganizitioo, in which it is staled lhat ther'; will be sixteen companies of ' disciplined militia,' of free mulattoes and blacks, each company numbering one hundred and twenty-five men, or in all two thousand men. They are to bo officered by the white officers of the regular army, which latter force they are to join as soon as ormed, so that, in effect, they will not be militia, but something more advanced. The companies arts to be organ ised in different parts of the island. An intima tion to them that they were fighting for their free dom would give the filibusters something to do whenever they attempt to land upon the island. Mb. Caliioi n's Father. The New Orleans Orleanian says : "The faihtrof Mr. Calhoun was a member of the Legislature of South Carolina an adopted ci tizen a gentleman of lale-ut and ability; but he disliked the pedantry t.f certain young lawyer who were accusiomed to interlard their speeches with Ciceronian quotations and scraps of adaged Latin ; and rising one day in the assembly, he observed that there were several plain common sense men in the Legislature who were unacquain ted with foreign' languages, and if the objectiona ble course was persisted in, to their annoyance, ho would speak in a tongue which would be a puzzle to the most erudite among them, viz: his native Irish. The threat had its effect, and Latin was rarely had recourse to alterwards' A Picture. A tall ladder leaning against a house a negro at ihe lop, and a bog scratching himself against the bottom. G'way g'wadjr. Yo'm rr.akin' mischief.' The great Ar-esian woll in Charleston hat en tirely failed.