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- : "" i served tinder Gvr.. Taylor, and was at the l-attlo of Bnena Vista. It ia a note-worthy fact that witli a President, an Attorney Gon t ral and a Seen tary of AVar, all made fa mous by the Mexican war. we have now two her. - of BaOM Vita before the House of Ciinnwatatimi as candidates for Speaker. Cot MHr.-lii-.lTmarcla.d his llifluiUBt by land from Momphi-, Temi., to Saltillo. in ; ... IK- started in July, and arrived at ( MMMfJl abut the 1st of November. CoL MankaDflkmi freely in all the fatigues and . ( .-.Ities of the expedition. In 117 he r : i,T."d to iu's farm in Henry county, Ken tucky, anJ was eL eted to Congress by the Vhii: in 1? V.h lie was a very active-.supporter of the compromise meusures. In 1 -.-, 1 he was re elected to the House of Rep rv s. ntatives. In 1038 he was appointed .Minister to China, and resigned his seat in the House of KeprescntaMves. fa 151 he v as recalled from this mission by President Pierce. Lit fajHi he was ele t d to . I . . Coanen by the Americans by a majority T . i ot ujiwarus oi Cai Mar.-hall is u portly, eorpqkat man, with a rosy open cotmtcnam e, and a highly intellectual expresion. Notwithstanding his great size, In- is a man at very ac tive temperament. He h exceedingly compauioii nl.ie, jolly, brave -a good specimen of a K suttM kin. WIL&XAlf A RICHARDSON. 7"Ai Drmt'i raiir f ain'ijtitr for Sjal; r. Mr. BieL.iru.-on was born in Fayette coun- t v, near Lexington, Jfentncky, January lf. Hi- f fh'-r wme : Virginia farmer.- - !! i wIm : Quam w.-.s only ax years . old, leaving four children to the care of their j tentioi. to IM louowmg rcmarss oi uio iuc:i mothcr. She belonged to the Edmondson's, ""'- Enq." : ..mil. ..I I tir-t aim :.-s i.I n-'lltia. i (c r Gather and battle. en of bis brothers died in WilBan' Brthar pro ided by bis will, that his estate should be expended in the tdoca- J...11 oi I.l- ei.l.OP ii, o; l .... t r.f rt was ex- IK-noVd in that wav. William was cduca- t- d at Traaxyivaniii tJntv rsity, Lexington, Kentucky. He eommrncc 3 reading hiw at the age of nineteen, in the oflSee of jLBea At Simpoesi) Winchester, iventu.-ky, and was ihaltted to the her before he was tweatr. I!.- practiced a verv short time at Winches- 1 : - . I I r. ami. at the age of twenty QUO, removed : Illinois, and commenced business in earn est. He was at Shelbyrille a very short t:inc. bat soon w -nt to Ku.-hvil'e, when- he t iota n good practice. In 1:J8 be was 'ectcd State's Attorney for the li.-triet in srhiek be lived, arer Browning, the same man who r-m .r:!int him for Congress two years ngo. I?i lH.'WJ he resigned that edBee, to accept c seat in the Illinois I.egil::ture. As a membi r cf the 1 Hi ; n ! Uonae of Rep-r- s ntativt s he took a h ading part in the di-cioi on of the political piestions of the day, always advocating with ehemcnce mid I'-teniiiiiation the doctrini - of the Demoerat ic j.arty. In Ir'-l? be was elected State Senator of DBncis. For the next nine years h was a member of one Hoaxn or the other f the Illinois Legislature. In 1SI4 he was elected Speaker of the House of Represen tatives. In l")!(i be raised a company of volunteers to join the army in Mexico; was first elected Captain ; -n the field of battle at Peons Vista, after the death of Col Har din, he was unanimously elected Major. In the battle of Boena Vista he greatly distin guished himself. He eras wounded, but did not faint. Before his return from Mexico he was nominated and elected to Congress, and has ever :-inee remained a member of r ie House. He is a Democrat, in the tech- ; ieal sense of the tens, to the backbone : is I in favor of th? fugitive slave law, and all the i ether compromise measures Nebraska and Ponglas. He is what is eaSed "a good fellow," jolly, stout, large, how-fare-you looking and scemiiur. and the most popular man his party eoold have nominated. Mr. Hives."' said ihe Colonel, "you are one ofthe first men I he v." .-v r met whom ru- - nior has not belied: on have not been ren- lu spire of the Colonel's rood looks, the ; " " 1 r- " . . t. t mllowmg anecdote is told by some of the ' ''r l-H-sc of protecting the con- Zr7tZZl Z. r V i i .i i i ot tne I mon, are tenuunr to an ultunate and wage. When he rir-t came to Washington, ."'". '"" -J im"IMlus u' -t- Ai mnt. R" ... o , amon,, the distinguished men to whom he I still r , its worst toes, a frag- JJ- - . , Z. . , , . , ment. and as the result has proved, a mere that the BeParatln 1S onc of thc 'nevitabh ;e mi niuuvru ui's aur. uona v. iinif. resented as worse looking than vou are." i themselves that this created them a national Mr. Hives leaked Wm over defiberateW, and And yet even this same 13th remarked: You must come and see me ; I m0sl ""tisfactory in Its terms, after mv wife once sets her eves on vou, she m0t " assurances to the will never complain of my looks again." : PeoPk of fittLH'n oorereign States of this Now, the Colonel not onlv chews mouth- ' l ,,5on' fcUen w in the estimation fnl of tobacco, hat he has an arersfcm to i ofit,J northern advocates, that but four men . rerything in the shape of spittoons so long ' can W fouI,d in tht' V Cmgttm to as Wilton and BraSaebj carpets can be found h,,w' bJ t,K ,r t,mt thT tiU reUm" as substitutes The story goes that after ; fofble und "'" kering affection for its declar thc f. l. had been talking and chewing for ,ltl"u'i- an hour after dinner. Mrs. H. went up to her "Thc othor- n,ul h' far tlic Skater, divi besbaad, threw her arms round his neck, , 'on of the opposition, have contented then kissed lum, and said. -'Mv dear, I always oither with flagrant assaults upon the Iheesght you were the ugliest man that I ev er saw, but now I think you are quite hand some." The Colonel, as has been remarked, goes for the Nebraska bill and squatter sover- ciciitv. but not for Hilmittmi Stntrs which ! W ST" O " 1 i ITi . : . e s . . anon a 'imuiio in nje, us lie ss liiui is a privilege not enjoyed by the " original i 1 J . . & thirteen." THE SPEAKERSHIP. several .states are clamnng the right j several States are clamnng the right . . . . , . . to the he peakersllp in Congress, through their rspeotive nnrtv organs, it inav be in- er sting to see what States have and what have no been represented through choice of a Speaker: Connecticut has had one Speaker, Jona than Turnbull, for one term. Georgia, Howell Cobb, oae term. Indiana. John W. Pavis. one term. Kent neky lies had three speakers, for nine terms, viz : Heury Clay six terms : John White one term ; Lynn Boyd two terms. Masaaehusetts three Theodore tdg wick one term; Joseph B. Yarnum two terms; Kobt- C. Winthrop one term. New Jersey, Jonathan Dayton two terms. New York, John W. Taylor, two terms. North Carolina. Langdon Cheeves, one term. Tennessee, John Bell, one term. James K. Polk, two torm3 and Virginia has had four Philip P. Barbour, one term; Andrew Stevenson, four ; R. M. T. Hun ter and John W. Jones one term each. Of the States, Kentucky has furnished the greatest number three speakers for nine trrflM WESTERN DEMOCRAT. ft CHARLOTTE T- Tiifsday Morning, Dec. 18, 1855. NO SPEAKER YET. Congress assembled two weeks ago and after 14 day.- wa-ted in balloting, the House is still without a Speaker or an organization. ) ur accounts are up to Saturday evening last, when the election of Speaker appeared to be as far off as ever. Bunks, the Know Nothing abolitionist ot Massachusetts, had on one occasion received as high as 107 votes, but this number was insufficient to j eltet bv about a dnfii votes. The precise state of things, whieh we predicted before- : OaagfBM met, i- likely to prove true. We aid "we should not be surprised if the new- j year came booming upon us, and still find ! the House in a state of confusion ;" and so I. n a tmmmmA mtt V.. Jam. Aa mmbaivm! tin ' 1L HOT lUl.t. '.4 ..'.41. ,F . 1 WW i v limn. .... . . reader who it is, and wh;it partv it is, that is responsible fat the state of things now ; exhibited nt the Capitol of the Nation. The Know-Nothing- bore boosted of their power and .-trcnth in the present Congress, and ridieuh .1 the weakness and want of power ofthe I democrat. Ulon the shoulders ot thosr wko have boested of (i(J majority in j tin- Honoe of Representatives, rests the : odium and responsibility of the scenes now presented us Washington. And we pre dict that the additional odium of an Aboli ' tionist Speaker is to rest upon that party I ..... Iuar jm tJii BnlllAi?! li- invite IlT- , ,v....0- . ! I vwHimuiiu :ioit. At the hour we write, a painful and tkmiiif seen.- presents itself in the Hall ; ( f rj,.1,,VH.1,tativeS) nt Washington City. j . who(. week hfls VAlivi in fruitless strng- , . ! rr. : to ornniM iue jioum1. ami wime me ( i Democracy have stood firm bv the gallant ; , and national Richardson, the free soil eh- ' ' men! has gradually gained strength on each j successive ballot, so that on Saturday, ' I Hanks of Massachusetts, an arrant free ! ! anilnr. nlmftaA riimnali ft... Kiu.Wnflima ' , , 7 , , f elements, received the lanre number of 100 1 rotes, only requiring IS additional to secure his election to the Speakership. We can- not but indubre the fear, that, out of the i heterogeneous elements that compose the I House, he, or some other man tinctued with I abolition, will train the necessary number j of votes and be invested with the powers and responsibilities of that high office. ! Such a result will be ominous of evil to all . p;irts of the eonfi deracy. But, whatever may occur, the Democracy w ill have done j their duty, and w ill be aroused to new and ! united energies in behalf of the Constitu tion and Union. As to the mournful speeta- j el.- now presented nt Washington, we fully ! agree with the Washington Union that '-now j that fhsioa has advanced fro't the limited i theatre of State action to the more extended tii-Id of national power, that which the people have mourned over in the legisla tures controlled by its adherents is to be repeated with exaggerated violence and in justice. The monuments of know-nothing statesmanship, bankrupt cities, fraudulent elections, revolutionary legislatures, and combinations against the laws of the land, have not proved to be admonitions to the followers of fanaticism and the worshippers of the secret oath, but servo rather as beacon-lights to point the way to the abuse of their ill-gotten majority in the national councils. If we recur to the course of the many-named and ever-varying opposition on the single subject of slavery, we shall perhaps obtain a better key to their future designs and a better illustration of their past offences. Unable to agree upon any sound fragment, met at last upon the celebrated 12th section in the Philadelphia convention, and in their insane infatuation congratulated rights of the States, or have staggered along in the vain effort of ignoring the greatest question now before the American people. The melancholv scenes now enaetinsr in the House of Representatives, are the i. ..... .in abundant fulfilment ot the prophecies o I - t!itf Th'irtofr.'i t i c nartv tlmt tin ti n t .i - ti 1 1 'J ' . . t,,e friends ot the Constitution might be , ...... . overwhelmed in their struggles to protect it from spoliation and wrong, yet that the I dav never would come when a bodv of men I ImmuI teU. k. . k.-j i , tl,:Pll!ii,B " ,i.i ua . . "1 . 4 , ... i1 . ffood irir cades would be s t ro n cr enough tn , ... - . , f 1 1 mriu iirc .n-ffiiiin m ui me. 11 people. I But what of the future ? Who can doubt i iSm3 are now recognised be now that, with the melancholv confessions I tVeCn NorthM and our own, I ' rn ti riAvr nn-nm 1... Ivl.ff? AnnvaM T a before all eves confessions extorted from " fc tu the reluctant lips of the leaders of the fusion b? teegaiaa not add in Congress th-y cannot unite, even for U'v u,an-v aggravation, but con the sake of plundJr- that in the contest of , urUe with seeing to it, that when the 1856, the victorv of these elements of revo- . rt?rd hM m ab lution and of anarchy would throw into ! tt MJ hnd M llot uaPri Pared. power a body of men incapable cf admin- i istering the affairs of the Government faith- ! fnUy and honestly ! t "Let ns suppose that they will have votes enough in the coming election in favor of a : Northern candidate for President and it is beyond all doubt thai they can make no headwnv unless they select such a candi dute; the result would be either an aboli tion Executive, or an administration repre senting as many evils as there are factions in the land. "Are the people of this Union willing to encounter the great danger of such a ca tastrophe ? The daily record of the ballot. ings of the House shows always a column of gome seventy-five members voting for the candidates of the Democratic party. With scarcely an exception, it is the whole v te which that party can claim in the present House. Opposed to it there have bi'n some three prominent candidates, and ! ft MWM c.nttnriiin. -rf r. but thn lAAJfl n or . . . . . . far as it is guided by any pretence of prin- ! cip!e wnatcver, cannot tor a moment M BUttaken; it is the element of abolition. We ask our readers to look carefully at the record. The vote for CoL Hiehardson Domes from every section of the Union, ills support is hedged in by no State lines; and the flag under which his friends are rallied, is at once the flag of the constitu tion and the flagof the national democracy. 1 The largest vote obtained by the opposition, has been rallied upon Mr. Banks, who received on Saturday one hundred votes. Not one of these votes from a State south of Mason and Dixon's line. Not only from his poet history, therefore, but from the 1 character of his present support, ho is pointed out emphatically as the candidate Of a section, but it is a section which, of necessity, controls the whole opposition in i f, " , . '".very southern man wno auows uimseii to be embraced in that opposition, stands there only to be submerged by it. Ho cannot remain there without infidelity to his principles, and destruction to his prospects; 1 he cannot remain there without doing vio lence to Ins duty and to bis country; he i cannot remain there without depriving the democratic party of that iuHuence and aid . to which it is entitled by its steadfastness to truth and its determined support of the , constitution, I "Precisely the same reasoning applies, although with infinitely greater force, to the contingencies of a sectional nomination for V.. ,,.1...... y.iniivj . .i House of Representatives dare go back to his constituents, with the appalling record referred to before his eyes, and again say tlsti-t those with whom he has associated in the northern States are to be trusted on the IIHIll and undvin.f issues of the (lav those j ui . i issues wlucn are so moispcnsable to the happiness and to the existence of the people of the slave States. And, on the other hand, no northern fu&ionists who expect to attain federal power wul fail to see that the only way to overthrow the democratic party in the cocaine election is bv consolidating the strength ofthe opposition to the demo cracy in the free Stutes upon a single candidate, and so making the contest in l-."Sti, a contest of the North against the South a geographical contest, animated by no other sentiment than that of disunion and revolution." .' J f S " THE NORTH AND SOUTH. The following is from the Washington cor respondence of the Orangeburg Sou f 'iron : The imbroglio in Kansas is somewhat com plicates the state of things here, and adds venom to parties. A black thundercloud, bordered with edges of blood. now lowers over Kansas, and its shadows are' creeping stea dily but stealthily towards us. When it fully wraps us, we will be in midnight black ness. Well, let the South still steer on by t!ie eternal stars of principle which beacon her right onward. The slavery feeling here is ripe, intense and bitter. A wild gust may soon shake you. Public men here are walk ing upon a thin crust, which covers a ma gazine of explosives ; you will have seen that the free-so ilers in Kansas have risen in insurrection against all law, and trampled down the symbols of authority. Gov. Shan non has requested the aid of Federal troops. When blood is spilt the bands of the Union will be wrenched asunder. The writer ofthe above, says the Charles ton Standard, is a gentleman of intelligence, and is well aware of all the more violent influences which, with the eternal disunion eVCnta m the futare hitor ' of tho country, we are not so apprehensive that it will come for immediate record. The threats of civil war in Kansas are softened in the last ac counts which we have from that Territory, and though the difficulties are not yet settled, it is probable that sober consideration will find some more civilized mode of settlement than a hasty refort to arms, and the shed ding of citizen blood. The sport of fanati cism, too, which has found so large repre sentation in the halls of Congress, does not present that powerful front which was anti cipated by its leaders and apprehended by the conservative people of the country. The repeated triuls for the election of Speak er of the House of Representatives has de veloped the fact that the sentiment of op position to the South is the only bond by which the Northern factions are united, and it is quite possible that the result may jus tify the truth, that the house divided against itself hall not stand. But it may not be It may be that there is cause for all the , , . , . . annre hensioii that in enntainMi m m!m , I wine h we Lnvr miiile. It mnr .othol-M.1 . , ... . . . wm S,,CO m lne ml 011 Ivan- a' or' as the ( ar hap bee11 expressed, even uPn t!' noors of Congress, which will cry out fortcrenge, to the uttermost extremities out tor revenge, to the b ofthe Union. We are assured that the The contest for United States Senator in Missouri stems likclv to end in a coalition 0 the Benton democrats and the whigs, by ; w hich each will have a Senator, as two va- i cancies will soon happen. The anti-Ben- i tonites want Mr. Atchison elected, and they seem willing also to unite with the Whigs, bat Atchison is more objectionable to that party than Benton. Colonel Doniphan, who .-.. v... .v v juiut-vu .u nic .vice! 11 wai, w ill be the Whig candidate. P. S. The latest intelligence- from Mis souri states that the Legislature will fail to elect a Senator the present session. OTJR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND. The following from the Yiashington cor dence of the Baltimore Sun, is in confirm ation of other reports received by telegraph and by mail. We are not, however, in clined to the belief that there is any present cause for apprehension of a serious difficul ty with England : The response of the British government to the demands of Mr. Marcy, for redress on account of the violation of our sove reignty by the eulistment of troops for the English service by agents of that govern ment, is not evasive, as has been stated, but is so fur argumentative that it requires a reply. It meets the question, but instead of complying with our demands for redress, argues that no offence had been given, and also disclaims the intention of giving off-nee. It is for our own government to ac cept this as an apology, or to prove that we have been insulted aud insist upon satis faction. It is not very probable that we shall, in the course of the correspondence, which has thus assumed a new shape, ob tain any further concessions. Serious Occtkbencb at Chapel Hill. We learn that on Friday morning last a dilliculty took place between a young man by the name of White, of Tennessee, and another young man, Singeltary, of this State, (a brother of Gen Singeltary, of I'itt,) both students ofthe University, which resulted quite seriously. It seems that thc parties had had some misunderstanding the day before; and on meeting cm Friday morning, high words were uttered on both sides, when White drew his pistol, fired at Singeltary, and then fled. The ball en tered the lower part of his abdomen, just above his groin, and it was thought at first that ho was mortally wounded ; but we are gratified to learn that hopes are entertained of his recovery. Young White, it is stated, appeared to be making ready to run at the time he fired. He was pursued, but "took to the bushes," and has not been arrested. We have not heard whether Singeltary was armed or not. Ey The citizens of Greensbo rough held a meeting on the Gth Dr. J. A. Mebane in the Chair, ami L. Swain, Esq., Secretary to make arrangements for a grand jubilee on the occasion of the completion of the North Carolina Railroad to that place. The meeting was addressed by Gov. More nead, John A. Gilmer, II. P. Dick, and D. F. Caldwell; and on motion of Mr. Gilmer, it was unanimously resolved, "that on the completion of the North Carolina Rail-road" to that point "the people of Guilford Coun ty, will give a barbecue to their fellow citizens of North Carolina, and of other States, who may honor them with their presence." Committees of Arrangements and of Invitation were appointed, and the authorities of the different Rail-roads were requested to permit the guests to pass over their Roads free of charge. The occasion, says the Raleigh Standard, will be alike important and interesting to the people of Guilford. The festival will no doubt be largely attended, and be promotive of good feeling and of a deeper devotion to internal improvement among all who participate in it. " is ,t J , , MASONIC. At the late annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, which re cently met at Wilmington, the following brethren were elected officers for the ensu ing year : Brothers P. A. Holt, of Alamance, Grand Master; W. K. Blake, Greensboro', Grand Sr. Warden ; Joseph Green, Brunswick, Grand Jr. Warden; C. W. D. Hutchings, Raleigh, Grand Treasurer; William T. Bain, Raleigh, Grand Secretary. The Most Worshipful Grand Master made the following appointments : Bros. A Martin, Wilmington, Dep. Grand Master; Rev. C. F. Deems, Goldsboro', Grand Chaplain; II. W. Dunkley, Char lottesville, Ya., Grand Lecturer; F. M Capehart, Murfreesboro', Assistant for the Eastern, and Alexander Murdoch of Salis bury, for the Western Portion of the State ; B. F. Davidson, Charlotte, Grand Sr. Dea con ; N. A. Ramsey, Pittsboro', Grand Jr. Deacon; E. Smith, Wayne, Grand Marshall; W. S. Thompson, Wake, Grand Sword Bearer; T. J. Patrick, Greensboro', Grand Pursuant ; E. J. Lntterloh, AYil mington, 1 Grand Steward ; D. A. Mont gomery, Alamance, 2 Grand Steward ; J. S. Terrell, Raleigh, Grand Tyler. MP For some time past, there has been in Cincinnati!, a steam fire engine, capable of throwing six powerful streams of water at the same time. A few davs ago, a com pany of firemen from Chicago, visited Cin cinnati to witness the action of this great engine. About 4 o'clock, the time when its greatest power was being tested, the re ceiving chest exploded, instantly killing the engineer, John Winterbottem, and wound ing some other gentlemen. A. B. Latta, inventor of the steam fire engine, was badly scalded in the face and on tho arms. Jeremiah Brant, carpenter at the people's Theatre, was scalded. Horace English, of the Fire Company, was severely bruised. One or two other persons were slightly in jured. Mr. Winterbottom leaves a wife and one child, thirteen mouths old. The force of the explosion was so great that it threw Mr. W. some distance into the air, dismembering his legs and otherwise injur ing his body, which fell some yards from thc engine. 3? Few persons can form any idea of the density of a London fog, from what they occasionally see in tl "s country. On the loth and 10th November a dense fog pre vailed in London and its vicinity, during which steamboats and omnibuses ceased to run, hacks and cabs got on the side-walks, numbers of persons walked over the wharves into the Thames, and were drowned ; simi lar accidents took place in the locks and basins of the several docke, with many fatal results; persons were stopped and robbed in the streets with impunity, and several shops were plundered in day time, without a possibility of efficient interference by the police, so dense was the misty pall that over-spread the monster city. How the Sub-Treasury Works. The Boston Post, says : "It is said that Mr. Guthrie has effected all the transport of specie necessary for the operations of the government during the past year, not only without expense to his department, but under arrangements which has yielded a profit of $10,000 i What an outcry was made against the sub-treasury on account of the immense expense the 'caiiiog of specie' would cost!" Southern Commercial Convention-. A public meeting was held in Richmond, Ya., on Wednesday, last to make arrange ments for the Southern Commercial Con vention, which assembles in that city on the 30th of January next. A resolution was passed requesting the Governors of the several South and Southwestern States to attend the Convention personally, and to appoint a delegation from their several States. 3F A committee of the New York City Council, have reported in favor of the erec tion of a monument on the battery in that city, to be six hundred feet high, with a statue of Washington twenty three feet in height upon its summit, the whole to be constructed of iron and finished within ten years. i!T Mr. Rice, the citizens' candidate for Mayer of Boston, has been elected by 1,800 majority over ShurtlefF, the American can didate. A large majority of the Aldermen and Councibnen are of the same stripe. At Lowell and Huntington, the citizens' candidates for Mayor have also been elected by 800 plurality. At Worcester the citi zens' ticket is also elected. In Mobile, Ala., the Know-Nothing can didate for Mayor has been elected. Mobile b the strong-hold of Know-Nothingism in Aubama. -V' The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, says, that Senators Jones, of Tennessee, Toombs, of Georgia, Benjamin, of Louisiana, and Pratt, of Md, have given in tkeir adhesion to the Demo cracy, and will be recognised hereafter in caucuses and party arrangements. IjeThe Galveston News ofthe 1st inst., says : The San Antonia Texan, Huntsville Item, and several other papers, express the opinion that tie Legislature of Texas should instruct General Houston to resign his seat in Congress, on account of his anti-Southern sentiments. Meetings' have been held in several counties and resolutions passed, strongly condemnatory of the course he has pursued, and instructing their representa tives in the present Legislature to move re solutions to that body , instructing him to re sign his sent as Senator. GF Rev. Dr. AYm. A. Smith, a distin guished divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, is being tried by the Con ference now in session at Petersburg, on tho charge of falsehood, immorality and slander. Dr. Smith's accuser is the Rev. Chas. F. Deems of the North Carolina Con ference. . '-' Governor Minor of Connecticut, has issued his proclamation, announcing that the amendment to the Constitution lately adopted, that voters must be able to read and write, is now part of tho organic law of the State. HP The Philadelphia Argus, of Friday, has the following : "We learn from the best authority that Dan Gardiner, who travelled last summer as clown for Rivers & Derious' circus, is an heir to over a million of dol lars. He is now a resident and property holder of this city, and will be looked up to as one ofthe 'upper ten.' '' . A gentleman who has recently visited the enclosure where the remains of the illustrious Madison are deposited, states that not only is there no monument over tho place, but that there arc no means of identifying the grave. What a commen tary on thc trivial nature of earthly great ness. VW Tn the House of Representatives, of the Tennessee Legislature, on the 3Uth ult., an act was passed to expedite the removal of free negroes from the State, and appropri ating $3,000 annually, for ten years, for this purpose, to be expended under the con trol of the State Colonization Society. iSF Quite large amounts of beef and pork, said to be destined for the allied army in the Crimea, is now in Albany, New York, on its way to Europe. Ids" A beautiful monument has been erect ed in the Hebrew cemetery, at Newport, Rhode Island, to the memory of Judah Tou ro, whieh bears the following inscription : "The last of his name. He inscribed it in the book of Philanthropy, to bo remembered for ever' Wm. I). Roberts, the member elect to the Legislature from Norfolk, who died during the epidemic, has bequeathed to the Female Orphan Asylum there, four brick buildings, valued at $12 000. tdT'Maj. L. B. Washington is forming a Joint stock company in Kanawha county, Va., for emigration to Kansas. IF" Six thousand pounds of bacon were stolen from the meat house of Col. Britton, Petersburg, Va., on Monday night the lllth instant. No ch;e has yet been obtained to the property or robbers. . . The Council Bluff Bugle, of the 20th of November, states that at that place the snow was six feet deep. W The ship Adelaide arrived at New York, on the 14th of October from San Francisco, bringing a cargo of California wheat, barley, &c, which paid a profit to the shipper of nearly 50 per cent, clear of expenses, the wheat selling at an average of $2 per bushel. Catharine Cooper, of Lancaster, Pa., has recovered a virdict of S5,500 against the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany for the loss of her husband by an ac cident on the road, resulting from careless ness on the part of the employers of th company. STUKGES & BLACK. J. T. STURGES, Formerly ot George JOS. A. BLACK, Jr., Late of Columbia, South Carolina. town, 3. General Commission Merchant. BOYCE & CO.'S WHARF, Charleston, S. C. REFERENCES: V M & J. C. Martin, John Caldwell, Charleston, S. C. Pres.'t, S. C. R. R. Hon. D.niel Wallace, Gen. C.B. Griffin. Pres.'t S. & U. R. R- Newberry, S. C. W. W. Elms, Charlotte, N.C. Sept. 18, 1855. tll S. L. Dowell. ol Georgia. R. A. Rogers. of Alabama. TV. D. Doweix of Florida. HOWELL, ROGERS & CO. Factors, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, and SmpriNG Agents, orth Atlantic Wharf, CHARLESTON, S. C. WE piesent great facilities for selling Cotton and especially Flo.ir, Wheat, Corn, and Domes ie Produce. We make arrangements with our inte rior friends to tiansact their business at the very lowest rate of charges, and pledge ourselves to promptness in every transaction. . Liberal advances made on Consignments, strict personal attention to the interests of our patrons, and your favor and influence respectfully solicited. 5" Best of references given. Sept. 18, 1855. 8-ly W. R. BRAILSFORD, COMIHSSHl MERCHANT AN D AG EN T FOR BALTIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA PACKETS. CHARLESTON, S. C. LIBERAL advances made on consignments of produce to my address for such. Sept. 11, 1855. 71y. C. JOHNSON, FORWARDING and COMMISSION MERCHANT, SOUTH ATLANTIC WHARF, CHARLESTON, So. Ca. Aug. 10, 1855. RHETT & ROB SON, FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Nos. 1 and 2 At'antic Wharf, Charleston, C. Liberal advances made on Consignments. Reference: H. B. Williams, President of the Bank of Charlotte. July 27, 1855. LTj W. S. LAWTON & CO. T110S. ALEXANDER , Formerly ot York District. S. C. WI. SEABROOK LAWTON , Formerly of Lawtonville, South Carolina. South Atlantic Wharf, CHARLESTON, S. C. FACTORS. FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, TOR THE BALK OF COTTON, FLOUR, CO EN, WHEAT, RICE, NAVAL ST'iRES, &C. Our Srnior partner Inis been in the Factorage and Commission Business about twenty )-'jrs, and we hope by experience and atteniion to give satisfaction A iv. 1 7. 4 TO S2I1PPERS. HUGH L. TINLEY & CO.. (SCCCESSOUS TO UNLET St IIERBOX,") RECEIVING AND FORWARDING AGENTS, &, GEN ERAL COMMISSION MERCAANfS. IVo. 2, Exchange fctreef, SOUTH ATLANTIC WHARF, Charleston, So. Ca. ('1 IVE their personal attention to the sale of X Cotton as customary, or by sprcial con tract, all other kinds of Produce and Manufac tures, and make prompt I e turns of the same, for ' per cent, commission. We will CONTINUE, as heretofore, to give our special attention to the liccciving and For warding of all goods consigned to us, for 10 cents per package. Machinery, large packages of Furniture, Sic , charged in proportion to trouble and responsi bility; for advancing freights and charges, 2 per cent. 05" Persons shipping Goods or Produce through this house, may rely upon their inter est being POSITIVELY PROTECTED, both against overcharge and loss of good. We have in ni instance, nor will we detain any goods ;br freight and charges. We would respectfully beg leave to refer to the following gentlemen, with whom we have h id business transactions : John Caldwell, President ofthe S. C. R. R., Columbia . U. Pitssaitaigue, Supcrititendant of Public Works, Columbia. F. W. MeMaster, Librarian ofS. C. College, Columbia. P. W. Fuller, Columbia. J.jIiii King, Jr., S. O.R.K. Agent, Charleston. Henry Missroon, Agent ol New York siteain ers. Holmes &, Stoney, Agents of New York Sail ing Packets. H. F. Baker &, Co,, Agents of Baltimore and Philadelphia Sailing; Packet. J. W. Caldwell. Agent oi Baltimore Steam ers and Boston Sailing Packets. joly 13, 1855 1-ly $15 REWARD. KAN AWAY from the sub scriber, residing about ten mika from Charlotte-, on Thursday morning th- 20th instant, 9 NEGROES, namely: ADAM and his wife T E XEY, and a boy named HENRY. Adam is about IX years of ag. dark but not a really black negro, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, and weighs probably from 150 to JG0 pounds. Hi: is a miller, and can read and write. Etc took a variety of clothing, amongst which were a blac k cloth frock coat and pantaloon. TENEV is a likely woman about 20 vears of age, and about the same color of Adam. She was dressed, when she -!0ped, in a striped cotton hock, and took with her one muslin and two cal ico dresses. She is far advanced in pre gnane-. HENRY has a copper complexion, is 29 yean of age, about 5 teet t inches high, and would weigh about 150 younds. He is very intelligent and when spoken to, replies quickly and poUtely; had on when he left, a pair of red-brown wollen pantaloons, a shirt, and a pair of heavy winter shoes; and torjk no either clothing. I will pay $5 for the apprehension of each of these runaways, if secured until I tret them n a fa , albert Wallace. Dec. 4, lo5 19-tf. NOTICE. A UARD1.4N who have not re newed their Bonds within the last tbre-e years, are notified to do so at the January Cotu or notice will be issued according to law - W. K REID, c. c. c rec II, 1855 ft GOOD NEWS IU THOSE Wishing to Purchase HARDWARE & GROCERIES, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps and Bonnets, and ' A GREAT ASSORTmEftx Fall and Winter Article. ELIAS & COHE1V having received their Immense Fall Stock are now prepared to ofler inducements to pur chases, to whom we can display one of the large-t Stocks of Goods in thu State at the smallest profits and prices. We cannot enumerate the different styles of Ladies Dress Goods we have on hand, or the beauty aid variety of our Cloaks, Talmas. JMTanriflM and Shawls, which we have ii abundance Ladies call and see them. Clothing! Clothing!! An unsurpassed Stock of Ready Made Cloth, ing, both for quantity and variety as well aj cheapness. All who have se.en it acknowl edges it to be the LARGEST STOCK ever seen in Charlotte in one season. We have all kinds from the lowest in price totbe Very ITim'fcl nadc Gentlemen call and examine them, and be your own judges of the Goods and prices. In addition to which we have an abundant supply of fine Linen Bosom Shirts and ( ollars, Stocks, Cravats, Hand, erchiefs and Suspen deis, Gloves and Umbre las, Trunks, Valises and Carpet Bags, and every thing necessary to complete your wardrobj. NEGRO SHOES, CLOTHING AND BLANKETS VERY LOW. To those friends who have been kind enough to patronise our establishment it is scarcely necessary to inform them how cheap they can buy Goods of us, but to those who have yet to give us the first trial, we say if you wish to select Irom one of ti e Largest Sto ks of Goods in the State at pi ices so (ow f s t i sur prise yourselves, call i.pon ICIias A Col. en, No. 2, Granite How, immediately opposite Sadler's Hotel. Wholesale Merchants can select from our varied and unrivaled Winter supply, upon better terms than they can buy in Charleston. An examination (four Stock i solicited. Country produce taken as cash in exrhang . KL1AS & COHEN, Oct. 9, '55-tl No. 2, Granite Row. THE WACiON! WWTbj is it Jenkins & Taylor sell Stoves WW so cheap Because they buy them fiom the Manufacturers. JENKINS & TAYLOR WOULD respectfully announce to the inhabi tants of Charlotte and vicinity, that th y have removed 'torn their Old Stand, to one door West of Elms & Spratt's Grocery Store, where they have now on exhibition, just re ceived from the North, one ol the most EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENTS OF Ever offered in North Carolina, among which will be found the celebrated Iron Witch Cooking Stove ! Which has gained such a famous reputation in the Southern Country for the last eighteen months. This Stove we warrant superior to any Cooking Stove now in use. It is simple in its arrangements, consumes less tu I, and does more work in a given time, than any other Stove now in use. We will put one besid any other Stove of the same size in the United S ates, and if it does not do more work in any given time, we wi.l fori" it the price of the Stove, and quit selling and go our death for the be.ter one. All Kinds of Barlour and Box STOVES. We have, and constantly keep an extendi 'e and varied stock of Tin, and Sheet Iron, Japan and Britannia Ware, Brass Kettles, Cast Iron Brd ' Steads, Hat Racks, Cradles tfc., AI! of which will be sold Wholesale and Re tail, cheaper than has ever been before of fered in this vicinity. We would re! urn our thanks to our friends and customers for the vi ry liberal patronage they have bestowed upon us, and they may rest assured, thai we shall endeavor, by close atiention to husiness, together with a deter mination to please, to merit a continuance of the san;e. Our Motto is "Quick Sales and fSsnall Profit." Ladies and Gentlemen are particularly in vited to ca'l and examine our Stock. ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK Attended to with dispatch. N B. We will tell you why we h ad our advertiserm nt "Wait for the Wagon," it is because we have three wagons constantly travel, ng thiough the coui.tiy with Stoves. C7A II orders will be faithfully and prompt ly attended to. Charlotte, Sept. 25, '55-:f LOOK AT THIS SftixxiiDlo Word. AND yet, simple as it is, you hear a jtjl great cry made over CLOTHING! My Yon take up the papeis and almost the first word you see is CLOTHIN6!! You stroll over the city and you will see small samples of A little hpre, a little there, And no assortment anywhere ; Until you get to Fl'LLIKGS Sc. CO.', where every one runs to get G-ood Clotliin-S 2 And why do they run there ? Simply be cause they can get Clothing be;ter made, more F s ionable, and at leas prices than at any House in North Carolina. We make a busi ness of it manufacture our own Goods, and every article sold by us is money returned. "Competition is thc life of Trade," And we are bound to keep the Latest and Most Fashionable Stock of Clothing in the State. We hav-3 afH stock of Childrens', Youths', and Boys' Clothing, at low prices. Also, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, TnUJTKS, FVfifCJBS, CjMUPET BAGS, UMBRELLAS, CASES, Porie-Jtionies, Pen and Pocket IIAIR, TOOTH, AND NAIL BRUSHES, &c, all of which will be freely shown and prices eiven, at the Emporium ot" Fashion, 6 BY FULLINGS & CO. Charlotte, N- C. Nov. 23, 1354. 18-tf . Cash paid for Hides. rpHE highest prices will be paid tor hides 1 by 8. M. HOWELL 3 doors south of Sadler's Hotel. Chariot . Oct. 30-6m M
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