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DAGVEBBEIAH GALLERY.
Rooms, Third Story, (ir;inite
Kaagc jwsediately over Trot
ter & Son's Jewelry Store.
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manently located in Charlotte,
respectfully invites the attcn-
lioa of Ladies and Gentlemen to his superior
ami would respect I ally say that he is now tak- J
img DdgMllluf jpra upon mm improved plan,!
rhich will notonlv add to the - I
BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE
ul the Picture, but vill render it
IH'RABLE AND liHIi.I.IAXT FOE AOF.S.
He RooU also rcspectlully invito strangers I
risiiiog Charlotte to call and timin his spt- i
riawns, a he id determined they shall com
pare favorably with any that can be taken i
North or South. !
P""?- f nt rnr-l iilM f lirmn t Ii ntwl iiri ri i 1 I
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fivca in this bcuulilul art, and all materials
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FASHIONABLE TAILORINiJ.
TIIK subscriber announces
to the public generally, that he
is now receiving large assort-
nt of new
Cloths, f assiinercs
AND
for Gentlemen's wear, and will
be sold lr Cash at n tumll profit,or made toor
dei aeeorilinff to the latest stylos. Shoj next
deaf t- F.lm-' i.'rocery St. re.
s. pt. 29, 1854. lO-ll D. L. REA.
CARRIAGE SHOP.
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SUBSCRIBER BEGS leave to in-
lorm his friends and the publ ic geneially, that
he is sti 1 carrying on the Carriage
likiiiU ltuiiM'NN in all its various
branches with all the increased facilities af
forded by modern improvements. He ha now
on I and a large number of BOGGIBS. CAR
RIAGES, HOOKA AYS, fcc., made on the
most approved styles out of the best material,
to which he asks the inspection of purchasers.
His establishments is on College and Depot
streets, where he will be glad to see L.s
friends.
JOHN HAHTY.
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July 28, 1S55.
SADDLES & HARNESS.
THE Spbscribkrs
JYYD
AV have entered intoco.
JJtAJeartnershin ami nncn.'
ta ii w saddle :md Harm s
AT K. SHAW'S ODD STAND,
In Skints' Brick Corner Bcilding,
where they have constantly on hand a large
and splendid assortment of
Saddle, Bridle. Ilariics.&c
ot every description, according to the most
approved style and fashion of the dav. They
are also prepared to manufacture anything in
their line in the most substantial and work
manlike manner and better than the best.
We respectfully invite the public to call
and examine for themselves.
pairing done at short notice and with
neatnes., aml dpatch.
li.k SHAW & PALMER.
.March 2, ItSS. 32 tf
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TO
THE
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MR- RAMSEY of'11" heart-strings are entwined
Columbia S. C i "boat the life of the little ones, and the
Piaiiu Prtc it I ouls f the little ones are dead without the
iTInsic ilcsilci love of father or mother. Say those chil
is constantly reciv- ! dren should not have been horn ! Wiio can
ing a good supply of j
Pianos with the LATEST IMPROVEMENTS,
Wnich has given them the premium over all
oiners. 6 and 6$ octaves from 2o0 to $300.
to 7 $300 to $400. 7 to 7J $400 to $450.
Carved work and Grand Pianos Irom $50U to
$luiH).
Mr. R. being a practical Piano Maker can
insure to his customers a pefe' instrument.
OF THE
BOOK An JOB
Having recently visited New-York, and se
lected from the old and elegant
Foundry of Geo. Brace, Esu,.,
A QCAKTTTY OF
We are now prepared to Execute
In tla.o Best Stylo,
A I.I, KINDS OF
LPEjDEt?DEI
srt -B-
''Multiply the JHeanas, and you
multiply the Results,"
Is one of the established maxims of business-
ORDERS FOR
PAMPHLETS, ! CLERKS' BLANKS
HANDBILLS, SHERIFF'S do.
CARDS, j CONSTABLES' do.
CIRCULARS, I MAGISTRATES'do.
LABELS, I ATTORNEYS' do.
on inn
Required by the basineas Community,
WILL UK EXECUTED WITH
T . y t t n-v
D I S 1 A T C EI
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Various li.ind.s
BLANKS,
ALWAYS ON HAND.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
A STRANGE SCENE.
We were witneas yesterday morning to
a scene mt very common in this part of the
; world. A whole family, consisting of seven
j persons, father, mother, and five little ones,
rather poorly dressed, stopped at the pomp,
I - j a, , rm . -l .
owner or amain ana l una streets, to get ,i
drink. Tliev had come afoot all the wa
from North Carolina, some seven hundred '
miles, and were on their way to Arkansas.
The wind was blowing cold yesterday,
and the little ones with their bare feet and
just from ti warmer clime, seemed ill able
to bear it, but they mar inured not. Some
of our charitable citizens gathered around,
and in a few minutes collected and gave
them s-J0 in money and some shoes. Who
hall say what hardships they have passed
through on their long journey ? Who shall
tell the weariness of those little feet when
night came on how heavy their bright
eyes grew or how soundly they slept till
early dawn 1 The mother carried on her
bead a bundle and in her arms a babe, not
more than six months old ; one little boy
bravely bore up under a heavy bundle on
his head, douhtless changed with one of his
companions; a little todling girl of three
or four years, with red hare feet, moved
glibly along, as brave as the bravest.
Eouiville is, doubtless, the first great city
they ever saw, atul the ten thousand ob
jects of interest at every step, could not
fail to attract their constant attention, al
lowing them for a time to forget the weary
distance they had come, and the tt ill
longer journey before them.
Disciples of a certain school of economy
will make a text of this incident, to preach
against matrimony for the poorer classes.
What right have the poor to bring inno
cent little creatures into the world to suffer,
to starve, or beg, or steal, or die miserable
deaths 1 Is it not better that they should
deny themselves than be the cause of
wretchedness to one human being ? Thus
they question. And what shall we say ? Is
there naught but misery among the poor
naught but wretchedness ? They are human
beings they have hearts they have souls.
Experience blunts their perception of hard
ships experience in the cold selfishness of
the world, drives them into closer bonds of
family love. They bear each other's bur
dens, and cheer each other in misfortune.
Tall, to that father or mother about giving
up one of their little ones. Thev could
read the future ? Who can tell what mighty
intellect may be there .' The jrreatest men
the world ever knew sprang from the
humbler walks of life generations yet
unborn may have cause to Idess the name
of that little boy with the bundle ou his
head, or of that wee todling little girl, with
her red feet and scanty garb. Hut we
didn't intend to moralize, and shall snv no
more. ljuisriUc JJcmocrat, ZO-sh inst.
ONE BY ONE.
One by one the sands are flowing
One by one the moments fall ;
Some are coining, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each ;
Let no future dreams elate tbee,
Learn thou first what these can teach.
One by one, (blight gifts froiu Heaven)
Joys are sent thee here below ;
Take them, readily when gi en,
Ready, too, to let them go.
One by one thy griefs shall meet tbee,
Do not fear an armed band ;
One will fad,- m others greet thee.
Shadows passing through the land.
Do not look at life's long sorrow ;
See how small each moment's pain ;
God will h.-lp thee for to-niorrow,
Every day begins again.
Every hour that Beets so slowly,
Has its task to do or bear ;
Luminous the crown, and holy,
If thou set each gi m with care.
Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despond .'
Nor, their daily tot forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyond.
Hours are golden links, God's token,
Reaching; Heaven, but one by one,
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Kre the pilgrimage be done.
MISOELLANY.
FROM THE LADIES' PARTERRE.
WHITE HANDS & MUDDY COFFEE.
Henry Thornton had her n a married man
just two months. He was proud of his wife's
glossy ringlets, her brilliant eyes, and last
of till, hor small white hands. He never once
asked himself if these same hands could iron
a shirt, make bread or mend a pair of socks.
Not he : it was enough to know that they
could make trills on the piano, work worst
ed dogs and horses on crickets and otto
mans, and paint something styled a land
scape. She was not literary either. Henry
Thornton couldn't tolerate that kind of ub
snrdity. In his opinion a woman had much
better be asleep than putting her thoughts
upon paper. He thanked fortune, too, that
she never took to dry disquisitions, tedious
essays, or egotistical hooks. Besides, his
Helen didn't care about politics, being a re
gular 'Know Nothing' in regard to the item
of who stood the chance of being the next
President. As to the war in the East, she
could not tell positively whether Sebastopol
was up or down ; or whether it was in the
hands of the Allies or Russians. Reforma
tion topics she never broached, either. Tem
perance was only fit for drunkard's wives to
talk about. So it will be perceived that
Helen Thornton was not a 'strong minded'
female; a fact upon which hor husband fe
licitated himself not a little.
We have said that two months comprised
the married life of the latter. It would be
gratifying to add that his happiness was
complete, that he had nothing to wish for;
but candor compels me to say that he had
discovered a little alloy in his gold. To he
sure it would pass for pure metal, but close
examination disclosed the fact. In a word,
his coffee had been exceedingly muddy for
more than a week, and when he cautiously
dropped a hint to the effect that if her per
smal attention was given to the matter the
evil might be remedied, she rather tartly
responded that 'coffee-making was not her
business,' moreover shutting herself up in a
chamlicr, in a miff, thus dep' .ved him of her
precious company for the rest of the day.
A kiss and a new scarf set the matter right
the next morning, however. ? Thornton
throwing in gratis tin apology for his ill
timed suggestion. He remembered that all
mankind (and we may as well include wo
man kind) seldom attain perfection ; that
r oses always grow in the immediate vicini
ty of thorns, and that rainbows and black
cknids are often seen together.
It is a curious fact but no less true, that
love scarcely ever outlives bad bread, smo
ky tea, tbich coffee, hard boiled eggs, dis
colored silver and soiled table linen. After
all the romance and rhapsody laid to his j
charge, the little gentleman deals in practi-
cabilities. He likes bread and butter, and !
he wants the bread light and the butter !
sweet. He is a little exacting, too ; insist- j
I
ing that gaiters look better neatly laced
than when open and flapping at the sides,
with the strings, trailing on the ground. He
was even known, once, to take an abrupt
leave of a lady on the ostensible plea of dis
similarity ; but the shrewd people suspect
ed that the true reason was because she
wore dirty collars. He may be whimsical,
fliirhtv and extravagant sometimes, but he
is just as sure to leave his air castles and
settle down quietly to the three meals a day
and a cigar in the evening, as a feather is
to obey the laws of gravitation. He writes
tender poetry, too : but generally inspira
tion seizes him after eating heartily of roast
beef; the sly rogue knows that an empty
stomach is not favorable to smooth rhyme
or soft sentiment.
The bone-ymoon had just expired, or
rather the mouths allotted to that interest
ing period ; for it has been ascertained that
thai season can be protracted by proper
means, to an indefinite length of time. The ;
twaiu were seated at the breakfast table. j
Mr. Thornton looked dubiously at the j
burned and dried steak on the platter before
him, and made a wry face at his cup of cof
fee, took one mouthful of the clammy-, leath
ery toast, and then spoke :
'My dear Helen.'
'Well, Mr. Thornton
'Did you ever eat any of mother's bread?'
Xo why do you a.-k ?'
'Becaaae she makes the best biscuit I ev
er saw.'
'Undoubtedly ! A man's mother is gen
erally his wife's superior in everything. I
only wonder he is ever persuaded to leave
her ." responded Mrs. Thornton drily.
It was the first time she had ever spoken
sarcastically, and Henry was puzzled.
'I merely referred to my moth' because
she superintended the bread making herself.
I wish you could be induced to do the
same.
The lady lifted her taper fingers.
'Do yon really wish ine to putty my hands
with pie crust, and to bury my arm in dough,
Mr. Thornton ?'
'No not exactly, ray love ; but you could
overlook Biddy, and teach her to make bet
ter stuff than this,' he added, pointing to the
toast. 'That wouldn't spoil your hands,
would it ?'
'I don't know how ; besides, Biddy don't
want me in the kitchen, and I am not parti
cularly attracted there. 1 dm't mean to
spend my life doing housework, or fretting
about servants. I'm not abb to do any
thing more than wait upon the table and en
tertain visitors.'
The bride sighed and leauad back in her
chair.
'But your cousin Mary keeps no help aud
still gets time to '
'My cousin Mary is very foolish to do so
much more than sin; need to. And then her
hands are as brown as a gypsy's.
'I never happen to notice them. I only
remember she makes dedicate pastry, aud
plays the piano nearly as well as yourself,
rejoined Mr. Thornton, soothingly.
'I wisli you wouldn't quote .cousin Mary.
I don't like comparisons. She's a drudge
and a blue. You said you didn't like blues.'
'1 don't blondes arc my favorites ; and
you are as pretty a blonde us I ever saw.'
'She's an advocate of woman's rights, too.
How often you've said you were glad that I
didn't interfere with subjects which dou't
concern my sex. And now you are finding
fault with my housekeeping.'
'That's the very idea, my love. I'm only
regretting your non-interference in matters
that do concern your sex.'
Mrs. Thornton 'defined her position1 im
mediately. She did not design burying her
self in the kitchen, or attaching herself to
Biddy. She had married for a home and
maintenance, not to spend her time in roll.
ing pie-crust or moulding bread.
Henry Thornton looked surprised, and no
wonder, for he felt surprised. That his a
dorable Helen could be perverse when it
suited her, he well knew ; but 'hat she
would 'put down ner feet so detertiinedly,
set him to thinking. The young husband
did not wish his wife to perform tie duties
belonging to the domestics, but he hoped
she would take the general supervision of
matters ; he was a clerk with a modest sal
ary, and prudence was indispensal le to his
situation. The story need not be lengthen
ed. Waste and improvidence in the kitchen
soon brought pecuniary embarrassment,
while in the parlor incapacity and ignorance
of what constitutes a true woman and real
lady, laid the foundation of much discord,
whkh time did not lessen. The charm of
the 'white bands' had departed. Mere per
sonal beauty, without intellectual attain
ments, a fund of common sense tuid moral
worth, cannot prove long attractive. Think
of it, ye Benedicts, in search of connubial
felicity.
-- 9 f"
LIFE.
Life is beautifully compared to a foun
tain fed by a thousand streams, that perish
if one be dried. It is a siler cord twisted
with a thousand strings, that part asunder
if one be broken. Frail and thoughtless
mortal are surrounded by innumerable
dangers, which makes it more strange that
they escape so long that they almost all
perish suddenly at last. We are compassed
with accidents every day, to crush the
mouldering tenement which we inhabit.
The seeds of disease are planted in our con
stitution by nature. The earth and atmos
phere whence we draw the breath of life, tire
impregnated with death; health is made, to
operate its own destruction. Tin- life that
nourishes contains the elements of decay ;
the soul that animates it by vivifying first,
tends to wear it out by its own action ;
death lurks in ambush along the paths.
Notw ithstanding this is the truth, so palpa
bly confirmed by the daily examples before
our eyes, how little do we lay it at heart ?
We see our friends and neighbors among
us die, but how seldom does it occur to our
thoughts that our Knell shall perhaps give
the next fruitless warning to the world !
This life will not admit an equality ; but
surely that man who thinks he derives con
sequence and respect from keeping others
at a distnnce, is as base-minded as the
coward who shuns the enemy from the fear
of an attack. Comjtnnion.
Two Things to he Kkpt. Your Word
and your Temper. The former when deal
ing with a printer, and the latter when dis
puting with a woman. This may be diffi
cult, but it can le lone by getti.ig a couple
of chapters of Job by heart.
TEARS OF TO-DAY.
There is a tear of joy and a tear of grief.
The tear of to-day may not be forced by
the same cause wduch overflowed the eye
yesterday. A tear may be sent up from
the heart by joy or sorrow. It is the same
liquid diamond in either case. A little tear
drop on the cheek has a language id its
own. Its speaks to persons of all nations.
It is interpreted readily by persons of all
countries. The face, down which a tear
run, tells whether it springs from the foun
tain of joy or grief. A tear draws forth the
sympathy, because it is the emblem of Love,
of Hope or of f : n f. When it is grief, our
pulse beats faster, for our heart is agitated
and touched deeply. The true feeling of
the heart is seen in a tear which lingers in
the. eye, that little bright window of the
soul ! The tears of to-day, if they do spring
from grief, may to-morrow be wiped away
by rainbow hues of peace, happiness and
prosperity. Nil desperandum. Never de
sjmir. Fireside Jo urn id.
BE GENTLE TO YOUR CHILDREN.
Some one whose heart runs over with the
milk of human kindness thus eloquently
discourses :
Be ever gentle to the children God has
given vou. Watch them constantly, re
prove them earnestly, but not in anger. In
the language of Scripture, ' be not bitter
against them.' Never scold them. Scolding
never did any body good. It hurts the
child ; it hurts the parent ; it is evil and
only evil, every where and always. I once
heard a kind father say, " I never beat my
boys
I talk to them seriously and tear-
fully, but I do not like to beat them. The
world will beat them badly enough by-and-bye."
Yes, there is not one child in the
circle around your table, healthy and hap
py as they look now, on whose head, if
long spared, the storm will not beat. Ad
versity may wither them, sickness may
waste them, a cold world will frown on
them, but amidst all let memory carry them
back to a home where a law of kindness
reijrued, where the mother's reproving eye
was moistened with a tear, and the father
frowned more in sorrow than in anger.
It takes a father's or mother's heart to
feel what is here said, and to follow out in
thought all its suggestiveness.
BFAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.
The beautiful extract below is from the
pen of George S. Billiard :
I confess that increasing years bring w ith
them an iiipreiisiiip- resnect for those who
' - - o i
do not succeed in life, as those words tire
commonly used. Heaven is said to be a
place for those vho have not succeeded
upon earth ; and it is surely true that
celestial graces do not best thrive and bloom
in the hot blaze of worldly prosperity. Ill
success sometimes arises from a superabun
dance of qualities in themselves good from
a conscience too sensitive, a taste too fas
tfdinna. n self-forcctfulncss too romantic, a
modesty too retiring. I will not go so far j
as to say, with a living poet, that the "world
knows nothing of its greatest men," but
there are forms of greatness, or tit least ex
cellence, which "die and make no sign ;"
thre are martyrs that miss the palm, but
not the stake ; there are heroes without the
laurel, and conquerors without the triumph."
JUST FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.
The first book ever printed with a date,
appeared in 1455, just four centuries ago j
this very year. Nine years atter, tne ioran ,
began to be publicly read at Constantinople,
. .i i-
and at the same time the Bible was sent
forth on the wings of the press, to the four
quarters of the world, to counteract its
influence. And from that day to this, the
civilized world of Europe and America, is
indebted for that superiority which no
second night of ignorance can darken, no
new incursion of vandalism can overthrow, : pressiou of intemperance,'' to be unconsti
to an enlightened, conscientious, independ- ' tutional, illiberal, and oppressive in theory,
cut press.
Those four hundred years have :
changed the face of the world.
A REMARKABLE MAN.
A correspondent of tho Kentucky States- j
man gives the following sketch of an old
citizen in Pulaski county, named Elijah
Deny, who is, perhaps, the oldest man in ;
Kentucky :
He was 118 years of age on the 10th of
September, aud is as active as many men of
40. He informed the writer that he hail
never drank but one cup of coffee, ami that
was in the vear of"14d. He served seven
years in the war of the Revolution, aud i faithful public officers, and hy its appoint
was wounded at the siege of Savannah and : ,oout "f incompetent and unprincipled men
, , ... c v i. i i i to so large an extent iii their places bv Its
at the battle of Lutaw .springs ; be Was also , , , . ... r,. ',
1 . palpable misrepresentation ot the public
present at the battles of Camden, King's j sentiment of the State upon national ques
Mountain and Monk's Corner. He served j tioas of vital importance, and by its ruth
under Col. Horev and Col. Marion, aed w h-s invasion of the sacred rights of indivi-
an eye-witness of the sufferings and death
of Colonel Isaac Hayne, of South Carolina,
an early victim of the Revolution. He is
sprightly aud active, and would be taken
at any time to be a man of middle age. Ib
is a strict member of the Baptist Church,
and rides six miles to every meeting of his
Church. He has four sons and five daugh
tres, all Irving, tho eldest being now in his
seventy-eighth and the yoaagest in Ids fifty
first year. Such is a brief sketch of tlu
aged soldi', r and republican, who is, perhaps
the only surviving soldier of Fraucis Ma
rion, Sumpter and Horey.
THE GRANITE DEMOCRACY IN
STATE CONVENTION.
The Democracy of New Hampshire met
in Convention at Concord on the Nth inst.
Ex-Governor Hubbard was chosen tempo
rary and Hon. Harry Hihhard permanent
president. Messrs, Rix, Baldwin, and Rob
inson vrcre chosen secretaries, with ten vice
presidents. The Hon. John S. Wells was
nominated for governor, receiving on the
first ballot "233 out of the 275 votes. The
nomination was received with much np
dutis". Mr. Wells is one of the first men
in New Hampshire. He served a -hort lime
as Senator in the last Congress, and was
distinguished for the ability with which he
discussed some of the most important ques
tions which engaged the deliberations of
the Senate. It is understood that he will
take the stump and give New Hampshire u
thorough canvassing. Of the result, under
such circumstances, we can entertain no
doubt.
Tlic Resolutions.
The national democracy throughout the
Union will read with profound satisfaction
the noble rosclutionfl unanimously adopted
by the convention. They are drawn with
singular felicity, and will command an ap
proving response from every true democrat,
whether at the North or the South. Tin
endorsement given to the administration of
President l'eirce was cordial and emphatic.
The whole proceedings give full assurance
of a brilliant democratic triumph in the
Granite State in March next. The follow
ing are the resolutions :
Jicsolftd, That while the shifting organ
izations of our opponents have neither per-
iimmiiu.v . .t nimfl iiiir e i ii t cue - ti iLw.
t - . th imrit'llIld tht -ior-
J 0f tu. democratic party that its great and
guiding principles are immutable, its pur
poses fixed, and its name time-honored and
unchanging.
Resolved, That we hold to a strict con
struction of the constitution, abstinence
from the exercise of undelegated or doubt
ful powers, an economical administration
of the State and federal governments, and
a scrupulous observance of the reserved"
! rights ot States and ot individuals.
Resolved, That democracy has no secre
cy, and requires no oaths ; that while it
publicly avows, as a fundamental principle,
freedom of conscience, without distinction
of religious faith, the political equality of
all whom the law recognises as American
citizens, without reference to the accident
of birth, it relies for success upon open dis
cussion and the intelligence of the people;
we, therefore, denounce the know nothing
organization, so-called, as intolerant in its
warfare upon the freedom of religious be-
j liet and the sacred rights ol conscience, un
; justly exclusive in its requirements of birth
; and blood, and anti-republican and danger
i ous in its methods of secret political action,
J as corrupting in its encouragement of se
1 cret combination and falsehood, reprehen
sible in its objects, and unmanly and dis
honorable in the modes by which it seeks
their accomplishment
Resolved, That we believe in the car
dinal doctrines of State rights and popular
sovereignty ; that we recognise in its broad
est sense, as just and salutary, the princi
ple that to the people of every organized
State and Territory belongs of right the
prerogative of regulating for themselves
their own domestic and local affairs within
the limits of the constitution ; and that w
denounce all violations of this principle,
whether by the interference of the aboli
tionists of the free States or by the aggres
sions of their abettors in the work of sec
tional agitation from the slave States.
J'esolved- That the constitution of the IT.
States is founded upon the fundamental
principle of entire and absolute equality a
mong ad the States of this Union ; and it is
not competent for Congress, or any other
power, to impose upon new Stutes coming
into the Union any condition or restriction,
in respect to their domestic institutions or
internal concerns, which the federal eon-
gtitution has not imposed upon the original
States; and that any effort on the part of
Congress, or anv- other power, to violate
this principle should he met and resisted by
all good citizens as an attempt to trample
upon the constitution and destroy the I'n
ion. lie solved, That we arc in favor of a judi
cious regulation of the sale of spirituous li
quors; but we believe the law id' the hist
legislature, miscalled 'An act for the sup-
anu caicu.aieu in practice to aggravate tue
I therefore, advocate its immediate repeal
Resolved, That the overturning of the es-
tablisbed judiciary, and the substitution in
its stead of the discarded project of the fed
eral party of 1813, by the dominant fac
tions in the last legislature, was in deroga
tion of the organic law, in disregard of the
wishes and to the detriment of the interests
of the people of the State. The people will
restore the integrity of the constitution and
reinstate the judiciary upon its ancient
foundation.
Resolved, That the know-aothing admin
istration in this State, by its illiberal, vindic-
; rave, partisan, and unconstitutional legis
lation by its unparalleled proscription of
duals have shown it to be unworthy of the
confidence of a just and patriotic people,
and deserving of the severest condemna
tion ; and we have abundant evidence that,
at the next election, the people will hurl
these unfaithful servants from the seats they
have disgraced, and restore honest men aud
patriotic party to power.
Resolved, That the present national ad
ministration has bean true to democratic
principles, and, therefore, true to the great
interest of the country. In the face of the
most determined opposition, it lias main
rained the laws, enforced economy, fostered
progress, aud infused integrity aud vigor
into every department at home. It has
signally improved our treaty relations, ex
tended the elds of commercial enterprise,
vindicated the rights of our citizens abroad,
and gloriously illustrated Ainericon honor.
It has asserted, with eminent impartiality,
the just claims of every section, and has
dared, at all times and under all oircum
stauces, to be faithful to the constitution.
We, therefore, proclaim our unqualified ap
probation of its measures nnd policy, and
our unabated confidence mid regard tor our
honored fellow-citizen who stand, at its
head. And we commend the name of
Frank Pierce to the approaching Demo
cratic National Convention for n -nomination
to the office of President of the United
States, believing that, in a crisis like tho
present, the surest guarantee for the safety
and success of the future is to be found in
the comprehensive statesmanship and un
faltering fidelity to duty which have been
so thoroughly teiifd and approved in tho
past.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THE
PRESIDENTS.
The Boston Trunseript mentions some
curious coincidences noticeable in contem
plating the names and lives of the first
Presidents of the United States Washing
ton, John Adams. Jefferson, Madison, James
Monroe, John Quinev Adams nnd Jackson.
We quote some of the mo-d striking of
these :
" Four of these were from Virginia. Two
of the same name were from Massachusetts,
and the seventh from Tennessee. All but
one were sixtv veins old on leaving office,
having served two terms, and one of those
who served bat one term, would have been
sixty years of age nt the end of another.
Three of the seven died on the 4th of July,
and two of them on the same day of tho
year. Two of them were on the sub-committee
of three who drafted the Declaration
of Independence, and these two died on the
same day and year, nnd on the unniversnry
of the Declaration of Independence, and
just half a century from the day of the
Declaration. The names of three of the
seven end in son, yet neither of these trans
mitted his mi mo to a sux. In respect to
the names of all, it may be said, in conclu
sion: The initials of the seven were the
same, and still two others were the same.
I'he remaining one, who steads alone in this
parlicular, stands alone in the admiration
and love of his countrymen, and of the
civilized world -Washington. Of the first
five, only one had a son, and that son was
also a President."
A SILVER GOBLET.
We have seen a very handsome silver
Goblet which was manufactured under tho
directions of the Columbia Flying Artillery,
to he by them presented to our fellow citi
zen, Dr. J. M. POWEUL, as a testimonial
of their great regard for his kind and skilful
services rendered to their fellow soldier, A.
SIDNEY CUPTOX, who w as so badly injured
during the celebration at King's Mountain,
by the premature discharge of a cannon.
It is a beautiful tribute most worthily be
stowed, and alike creditable to the donors
aud the recipb nt. It bears the following
inscription :
Presented to
Dr. JT. M. POIVCLL
by the
Columbia Artillery.
In token of
Their Gratitude for his
Kind attention,
To their unfortunate brother soldier
A. Sidney 'liftoe,
October 4th, 1855.
Cm roli net Times.
A CRUCIFIXION IN CHINA
An American, writing from China to the
New York Times, after giving an account
of the numerous executions of the rebels,
says :
' Two weeks since, to vary the scene, thoy
had a crucifixion. A woman was sentenced
to be crucified tot the crime of having given
birth to one of the rebel chiefs. If a father
is a rebel, his family is considered the same,
and the whole family, from tho old man of
four-score to the child of four years, share
the same fate. The- poor woman was nailed
to the cro-s while living, a gnsh made across
the forehead to the bone, and the skiu
pealed down so as to hang over the eyes;
after which the breast were cut off; they
then proceeded to bri nk every bone in her
body; a large knife was next thrust into
the throat and passed downward, cutting
tho chest open. The executioner then
thrust in his hand, and grasping tho heart,
tore it from its socket, and luid it boating
and reeking before the judge. At Shanghai
thev drown them bv dozen."
BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE.
In a late article in Frazer's Magazine this
brief but beautiful passage occurs : 4 Edu
cation does not commence with the alphabet.
It begins with a mother's look with a fath
er's smile of approbation, or a sign of re
proof with a sister's gentle pressure of tho
hand, or a brother's noble act of forbourauno
with handsful of flowers in greon and dai
sy meadows .with birds nest admired, but
not touched with creeping ants, and almost
imperceptible insects wifh humming bees
and glass bee-hives with pleasatit walks in
shady lanes, aud with thoughts directed ui
sweet and kindly tones, aud words to ma
ture to acts of leufcvolence, to deeds of vir
tue, aud to the source of all good, to God
himself.'
Wc want but Uttle hero bdav,
Nor waut that Uttle long.