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4 place without artillery to batu-r hlMM, or-1 rod a retreat. Get Andrew Xeal, (of York. S. C) a ynung man of great promise, a Imach re-retted, ami two others, were killed aud six wounded. (Among the -wounded as A!"jcr.nder Hnynes. yet living in the South nd of Meckl. nburg, who, ha- t'r.-d his rifle twice from heliind the echo, kmu Wded hi gum the third time, and peeping past the side of the black rock for an object, his face being white, became an object for the lawj'i iHwksmeu, ene of rliom Ao4 him under the eye, the. hall ramrod under tbe brain, but Biawa 1,0 j vertebra of toe neec it was ouui ... i killed, but Mjtinglife was in him, when .1 . .... I n ri.ttn- l.i- Ci I !1 1 11 1 I". fl' - ... , i .nrrled .ua ,..T. He urea eared, thoacfa he I lost bis eye. It run out shortly eftdr he was wounded.) The enemy did DOt attempt to annoy him ea the retreat. He novea up the river, ana tho next uay 4;rosseO ft l.unu a ruu, .j.n; ue dwi I i g i 1 : .. , . . I , ' - '..ii Fh i i'i p '.rtli o rd .i i. Iah - . ... . . . . i . - i L 1 MM p.. " '.in i... ... Uie HWtUllimicUii nii'i iidii iini ii. to ittg m leia earlier after the ord.er i.-sued at Clem's Branch, o.lth July. By slow movements he kept up Waxhaw Creek until he for wnrded his wounded to the hospital at Charlotte Some other small parties con- i i ...l 1... i . l 1 .. .lliueu iu j'Mii, .i:io. lie uvwiiuiuvu i aiiui.fi t : .: a i .1 . : l .u..L the enemy at Hanging Bock. He had di -covered that his men w bile marching aud lighting, aad fighting and marching, would keep with him, but to encamp and remain .stationary, he t.iight calculate with certainty that his force would diasuush; therefore, : he failed his enterprise, the loss to the country would only be those who were killed and w-tuded. The remainder mipit be orgau.'.ed in a abort time as formidable c.s beh.te. If he succeeded, it would con sider ablv weaken the enemy's effective laroe, and have enaahlerabta weight in the , lonerationa which he expected shortly would t ike place. Having made all tie necessary arran"' meutfl eircamstances would permit, the General order, d the troops to BtarchoB lbs evening of the 5th of August, with a view to at? ark the enemy early on the next i Assyria. Morj thc.n two thousand years Banning. The enemy'd force was estimated have gone by, since, the two -'great cities," at more than 500, and upwards of half were renowned for their strength, their luxury, Regulars. ' and their magnificence, have crumbled into Gen. Sumter marched in the night 1C (ut, leaving do visible trace of their exis miles, and early on the Gth of August the ! tence, their very sites forgotten. A chance found of horse bells, and the smoke S4 ttling traveller, Layard, riding through the Meso alang the ralley of Hanging Bock creek, 1 potamiaa valley, discovered "the buried apprized them that they were near the j city," aud with a success that will immor enemys encampment. I talize his name, has commenced to unrol I the book of Assyrian history and civiliza- Ilere the narrative stops. If it be con- j ion wnic t,f an the histories of the first tinned in a subsequent number of the "Ma- ! .,c.rioj Qf the world, is most clearly con garine,1 we will ahw continue its pablica- Ilf.tt,.j -ith the subsequent destinies of the tion.l human race. The discoveries already made, A MAN WALKING UPSIDE DOWN. This extraordinary feat ras accomplished at the Broadway Theatre, in New York, a few days ago. The Editor of the "Post" tti that city with hundreds of Others, suw the ieat performed, and says then was no deception practiced. The man walked with his feet up and head down across a ceiling several yards iu extent. Tbe "Post" de snribes how this astonishing feat was per formed : Ho had a pair of peculiar flat-soled sandals attached to his feet. The soles ot the sandals we had no opportunity of ex amining, but presume they were of a finely polished metal, or like substance, and sup ported the performer by their adhesion to the prepared and polished surface of the "ceiling;.'' When it is remembered that the adhesiveness of surfaces is in proportion to the Completeness of their contact, the fi at s reduced to the aaeahaaical preparation of the surfaces of the shoes and the "ceiling" in question. The atmospheric pressure upon stu b surfaces, we beliove, is set down at forty-one pounds to the square inch. The surface of one of the shoes used on this occasion might present an extent of twenty square iiiches. If we may assume this natural principle to be the basis of the feat, the support which the performer would gain from each foothold, in case of n complete contact, would be over eight hundred pounds against a vertical movement; quits a multiple of his hanging weight. Against a horizon tal movement, or that of Stepping forward, there would of course be no resistance. There was en extended net beneath the performer which was quite a relief to the anxiety of the spectator, as he stepped slowly forward. At the termination of his "walk " he was quite black in the face, and reached for his support as if he could not make another inch of progress. HONORS TO A BEAR. The people of Rochester, N. Y., a few years :g, were "sold." by some wags, in tho following manner: "In ISoS (says a writer iu tiie Buffalo Republic) 1 came to Rochester, and was there when that sublime farce was enacted on Mount Hope. A wng at Mount Morris I found a quantity of bear bones, which he palmed off as the b.mes of Col. James Boyd and company, of Revolutionary celebrity, The military took it up. and completed the humbug. A pompons funeral was planned, and Gov. Seward invited to deliver the funeral address. The cheat was discovered by some of the Rochester faculty a day or two before its consummation, but such was their fear of those military wbocrats that they kept the secret to themselves. Never had poor Bruin such a pompous funeral. It is supposed that seven thousand persons followed in the procession. Gov. Seward was particularly eloquent on this farcical occasion. "Fellow citizens," said he in his exordium, "there is a history contained in the mouldering bones deposited in that urn." He was right. There was a history. Not of battle, blood, and Indian massacre, but of devastated cornfields, murdered porkers, and unfilial cubs ; a theme as fruitful and diversified, if not as spirit-stirring and in teresting. In a few days the secret leaked out the joke was too good to keep, editors wrangled, doctors quarrelled, the military swore, but they had no redress, they had no remedy, they had been most unmercifully sold, and to this day you cannot touch an inhabitant ot Rochester in a more tender t,. nslc bim if be made one of the V ... bear procession to .Mount Hope, or u he m particularly edified with Gov. Seward's oration over Bruin's sacred remains.' ! TABLE DELICACIES. Eatiug is but a matter of taste, and varies with the climates, latitudes, and boundaries of the world. The Roman considered the ' braius of peacocks and the tongues of ; i"htierlfilthfi choicest delicacies possible. ; . ) -i The greatest delicacy in tho estimuti- u of u Gri.tnlamK.r a purt of a whale's tail rendered soft and easy of digestion by being : halt putrid The Laplanders live upon b-ar j meat, and drink whale oil. In XoraZeniMa . the blood of the reindeer and its raw flesh j land is there any epiestion which has dis are highly esteemed. Tho Calmac Tartars I tinguished parties r divided politicians! eat raw iack meat. The Chinese nigury , - . Mttl balls I saucu vat in wyi-n - . . . , . , , - ,i nuuM ot slunk s nils. Dounueu m.h: . ""J i worms of immense size things however, are for the aristocratic Celestials. .Mr. Donelson was the proprietor and editor The lower classes consider cats and dogs I of the Uziom newspaper during the grea first rate, and deem a rat a dainty morsel, ter portion of the Fillmore administration, The Siamese devour, without distinction, j and this Philadelphia fragmentary Conren- rats, mice, putrid fish, serpents, and all The Casfrea in Africa oi is ot - ... , . uevoui VWlll gliBW --, ants, irrasshoppers, snakes and spiders. Some of our Indian tribes have a penchant for sliced rattlesnakes. Crocodiles, lizards, and tbe Sloth are held in high estimation by South American epicures. And Americans go for things more palatable, such as Mince Pi.. rm.l M,,.h and Milk. And so it is the world over. Our tastes recoil at these recitals of the food wharewith the great majority of the human race is sustained. P?8 tlv v re -aid us and our diet in the same llht ASSYRIA. Of all tho mighty empires which have .ft a lasting impression on the memory. ... ., . r I artshed as that ot . uonc ias so completely pe i furnish ample testimony to refute the sceptic C lonel 1 i I and unbeliever of Scripture trutl Rawtinson, who is at present engaged in lM ' ii orosecutiniE the discoveries commenced ty i 1 ' . . Layard and Botta, and in exhuming from .i. ,1 . r 4l.,-i l.-inrr-lrxf rival cities of Uie mouuu ui Xineveh and Babylon, tbe instructive re- j mains of this once gigantic power, has lately j discovered, in a state of perfect preserve- tion, what is believed to be the mummy ot u ., .... i Xebucbadnczzar. The face of the rebellious .uuuuiimuv!, I monarch of Babylon, covered by one of i idwuuvu J . I thnio "old masks usually found in Assyrian j uosegviuuHuw j . I tombs is described as very handsome the luran. , h uuuiuu. j torencau nign anu commauuin, w- marked and regular. This interesting relic of remote antiquity is for the present pre served in the Museum of the East India Company- POPULAR LIES. Rev. E. H. Chapin, in his lecture before the Mercantile Literary Association last week, upon "Practical Life," hit off one of the popular vices of society lying in a very effective manner : "Lies of action (said Mr. C) are blood relation to lies of speech, and oral lies con stitute a small share of the falsehoods in the world. There are lies of custom and lies of fashion ; lies of padding and lies of whale bone ; lies sandwiched between bargains ; lies in livery behind republican coaches, in all the pomp of gold band and buttons ; and lies in the name of glorious principles that niitrht make dead heroes clatter in their graves. "Need we say what an uneasy, slavish vanity was that which won't let a man np pear as he really is, hut makes him afraid of the world and himself, and so keeps him perfectly at work with subterfuges and -hams. He is dissatisfied with Nature's charter, and so issues false stock. .h, how much better for himself aud the world, for man to be brave and true, what God and unavoidable circumstances have made him to come out and dare say I am poor, of humble birth, of humble occupation, or don't know much! What ti cure this ingenuous l l e i j 1 ness would be for social rottenness and i rt,.:.,...;,.! .v,r.l.r,L'o, H.- ,.,M. I ter and purer these actual rills of capacity : and dos session than this great brackish , rirer of pretension, blown with bubbles, and evaporating with gas bow much better j than this splendid misery, these racks and , ' tliumu-screws that belong to the inquisition j of fashion, and thousands of shabby things. ! ' the shabbiest of all being those too proud .ii i i. ..... to Beem just what they arc. - " A Good Answer. "Why did you not pocket some of those pears ? said one bov j to another; "nobody was there to see." ' -Yes. there w:,s 1 tW- . ! self and I don't ovcr mean to see myself do a mean thing Under all Ponder on that, voung readers circumstances, maintain your self respect, and keep a clear conscience. You cannot have a worse companion than the erer pres- ent remembrance of a bad action. And for every wrong deed you take to your bo- I aoaa anch Companion. Think of this. rjjijij jjjj. iSf 1 ne following anvertisemeut appears . . , ,, , in a Pans journal : "The parents of a ,,J jr,, , younE l Buy, kbq -i. uauusome ana won : educated, and possesses 4,300 francs per annum, but affected by St. Vitus's dance, offer to unite her to a doctor from 40 to 45 ,j , ... . . years old, ho will pay her incessant at- tention.' E R X DE M OCR AT. " .fn nOAPT flTTP VP' 3Jo vUXlllJJU Jk X - TllCSllay MornillSf, March 11, 1856 - - - --- ' " FILLMORE AND DONELSON. Xhe nomination ofthese two political an- tipodes, on the same ticket, creates no little surprise. The Richmond Examiner says : "It is a droll Jesuit, indeed; miery ac- quaint a man with strange bed-fellows. , We should like to know on what single prin- j ......... eiple of public poKrj that has divided men j daring the last thirty y rs. Fillmore t and Donelson are not the notorious ante- podes of each other? Is it bank, is it tariff. is it internal improvements, i it tne puouc during the present generation, on wmeu utu two men are not antipodes of each other by J , . ...i . tl.r mnof uJomn a ne 'umi-a 'vii ... iterations of conflicting sentiment? Why, tion has committed the blunder, the stupi dity, the intense stolidity, of selecting as the companion of Mr. Fillmore on their tick- j et, the very man who was the foremost, the j most constant, and the most undiscriminat- I big assailant of all others in the Union, of j the whole policy ot Mr. 1 ulmore s aa minis tration and every part and parcel of that policy. But, the ' American party' claims to have erected itself "out of the ruins of the old and corrupt parties" which pre ed it in the control of the affairs ot this Union. Well, formed of debris and dilapi dation, we cannot imagine a more appro priate brace of men that could have been chosen for its standard-bearers than the resurrection Mr. Fillmore and the defunct Mr. Donelson." The "Washington City "Star" says : "He (Donelson) resided here for many years, v ' . J J aud is well remembered, especially on ac count of General Jackson's memorable say ing, that every body had his pest ; for his art, if it were not for Donelson, he should have nothing in the world to trouble him. The truth is, Donelson was his ?tIonsicur Malapropos. Being a family connection of his wife, the General was forced to tolerate him about him, and to rin aud bear with all the philosophy he could muster, the 'scrapes and difficulties into which Donelson was constantly getting him. Donelson's most remarkable trait is an abiding want of com mon sense, which luis prevented him, not withstanding the prestige of his relationship to the wife of Jackson, from having the least Puca' weight where personally known. I In MitAjl Av,m tin. I Inlltii',,.. f !i narti- I I , j . I l I - ' . I twin ,i. ''' V It ll. I'll! I IJJL . " cause President Pierce refused to take him . ... e , and certain members of his family for office, at his own valuation. For months before hp ft KnQlv Nofhi thc W.0focos rf NashviUe were cracking jokos about his lamentationa ovcr .(js fai,ure tn 4 what he rf AJiaiurut. , and . nified and impotent personal abuse sbower- , , e ed bv him at the street corners for the ben- ent of street corner audiences, on the Pre- TI. ... . sident. II is nomination is worth to the . . . rp Know Nothing cause in Tennessee, at least ,.ur- 1 oss ot some ij.oUU votes; for the mental and political calibre of Major An drew Jackson Donelson, is well known throughout all portions of that State." DONELSON rs. FILLMORE. Donelson's virulent hostility to Fillmore's administration has left on record, in a paper edited by himself, charges, denunciations, and, in fact, every variety of materials for partisan warfare ; which the present editors of the Union proposes to exhume and use against the ticket. Had Mr. Donelson fore seen, during his editorship of the Union, that such a contingency as the present was possible, he would, no doubt, have dealt more gingerly with the Whig administra tion. MILLARD FILLMORE, A SWORN KNOW-NOTHING. A State Council of Know Nothings was in session at Canandagua, New York, last week. During the proceedings the state ment made at Philadelphia, that Mr. Fill more was not a member of the Order, was contradicted by the President of Council 171, of Buffalo, who gave the assurance that he himself was present when the obli gate n of each of the degrees was adminis tered to Mr. Fillmore ; and that he is a member of the Order in good standing. ANDREW JACKSON donelson. Parson Brownlow savs it is arranged to , : . .1... C l " f -.r. ouii me name oi ins nominee lor ice 1 11 1 President in the above style in order to make him run well. Hear him : 'It has been understood, as arranged. that Major Donelson would be put on the ticket with Andrew Jackson in big letters, and 'Donelson' hivisibe. and then the old in.t . ; ..,'... . -i- ... .. . . i.i ii.i. - ---- - "1U J had come to life again." IT" ''Tt,T A mn , ---v,. , The Macon Citizen, one of the most zeal ous of the Georgia Know Nothing papers, ; haV " words to exPre8a our mor- j Hfioation at the result of the nomination for ' j Vice President. Mr. Fillmore will do for j j 1 resident, though he is not our choice ; but as ,or oneson' how it came to pass that i s a third"r,ltc ,nan- with no Intensions I 5tate8manshiP' ouM havo received the j nonii,,ation' surpasses our comprehension. I We presume, however, that the authority of ' the Convention will be disregarded by the : ; great oou or tne .-vmerican party. "To I i sn.v notning ot tne repudiation ot the 12tb j section of the Platform of 1655, the nomi- ' e i t-, , .,, , nation of such a man as Donelson will be . . . . I tlie "ether millstone that will drag the nom- inee for President, and the partv with him, down to perdition. There can be no en- ': thusiasm manufactured for such a ticket on - r""v"" ; .miiuuni council j have submitted for tho one ostnhKd w venr." r I THE ENGLISH DIFFICULTY". The Washington Union denies that an apology has been tendered by England to the United States, for the wrong done to their laws and sovereign rights, and that our Government has refused to accept it as alleged by the English press. An effort is made by the organs of the British ministry to impress the English people with the belief that President Pierce's administra tion is unreasonable; but the documents, says the Union, will enable the people of the United States to judge of the merits of the case, and of the grounds on which Lord Clarendon's accuracy is impeached. If we are not much mistaken as to the disclosures which will be made by the documents, it will be found that our laws and territorial rights have been openly violated by British officials within our jurisdiction; and not ouly has no offer of satisfaction, or even acknowledgment of an error, been made, but acts most manifestly in violation of our law are defended and justified. For exer cising the privilege of complaining, and respectfully suggesting that we are entitled to some redress foi a fatal blow struck at our sovereignty, we are threatened by the organs of the British Ministry with the visit of the British fleet to burn our cities, de vastate our coasts, and kindle the flames of a servile war. To make this bluster a little moie redoubtable, we are told that the French ileet is to take part in this plcasent pastime. With France our relations are, as all the world knows, on the footing of cordiality and friendship; and it is believed that there is a mutual desire tlia they should so remain. It is not, therefore, very pro bable that the Emperor of the French will accommodate his ally with his fleet for such an enterprise. sr - THE ARBITRAMENT. A very curious fact is brought to light in the .Senate proceedings of Friday. The British Government had claimed the credit of magnanimity, on the ground of their hav ing offered to submit the dispute about the Central-American question to the arbitra tion of a friendly power, some months past, and that no response had been made by the American Government. It turns out that the British Minister at Washington never .communicated the message till the 27th of February, and that consequently there was no proposition for arbitration till that time. In all this there seems to have been a trick. Why was Mr. Crampton instructed, and why did he fail to explain his instructions ? We see but one explanation : that he was expected to adapt his instructions to the emergency ; and if he found one would not do. he was to resort to another. It is a perilous kind of diplomacy, and especially so with the United States, where the whole people almost instantly re-act upon the Government. Charleston .Mercury. f S s S r " VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS. The following are among the resolutions adopted by the late Democratic State Con vention of Virginia : That Congress has no power to appro priate, directly or indirectly, the proceeds of the sale of the public lands, or to grant, directly or indirectly, the public lands to the purposes of internal improvement. That specific duties, taxing, as they do, the low-priced necessaries of the poor as heavily as the costly luxuries of the rich, are unequal, unjust and odious ; that duties designed tor protection, foster one branch of industry and cherish one section of the country at the expense of others, and are utterly inconsistent with justice, sound pol icy, and Democratic principles; and that we are opposed to any increase of the du ties on imports, especially on articles of general and necessary consumption, such as iron, coal, sugar, salt and coarse cot tons. That we reaffirm the resolution of the Baltimore Convention of 1852,' as far as applicable to the present condition of the country. That the vote of the State in the Cincin nati Convention ought to be given for such candidate as will command the greatest strength in the Democratic party through out the Union, and whose principles are known to conform most strictly to the car dinal tests of the Democratic Republican faith. That we approve of the act known as the Kansas Nebraska act, repealing as it did the Missouri restriction, which was unjust to the South and in conflict with the con stitution and the equalitj- of the States. That this Convention approves fully and endorses cordially the principle contained in the aforesaid act, which secures to the citi zens of a territory in applying for admis sion into the Union as a State tho right to establish their own form of government with such powers, limitations and restrictions as. they may think proper subject only to the constitution of the United States, which requires the form of government to be Re publican. That while this Convention disclaims anv knowledge of preference of the democracy of this State among the distinguished gen tlemen who may be presented for the Cin cinnatti nomination, they have no hesitation in deciaring their cordial approval of the cardinal measures, and the bold and able State papers of President Pierce, by which the fundamental principles of the democrat ic faith have been illustrated. KANSAS. The Independence Dispatch stilted that the militia of the border counties of Missouri were to rendezvous at Fort Scott, in Kansas Territory, on the 20th ult. Military or ganizations have been in progress every where alone? the border in Missouri, con sisting generally of mounted riflemen. Gen. Atchison, in his late speech at Platte City, told his friends to be in readiness for the 4th et march: that their services would then be demanded; that they would be called upon to march into the territory. Comixo Home in Juke. A correspon dent of the New York Herald, writing from Rome, says Mr. Fillmore will return to the United States in the month of June. CONGRESS. March 3. The Senate considered and passed a bill to construct ten steam sloops of war. During the debate, it was said by several J gentlemen that the passage of the bill should ! create no alarm on the subject of war, as ; the vessels were actually necessary to pro 1 tect our commerce : and this was the design of the measure. Mr. Hale, of New Hamp 1 shire, and Adams, of Mississippi, opposed ' the bill. Mr. Adams had no confidence in tbe recommendation or judgment of the . Secretary of tho Navy, since that depart ! ment had taken such a strange course with ! regard to the Naval Board, i Mr. Reid, of North Carolina, spoke in defence of the Secretary of the Navy, and replied to the objections of Mr. Adams. The Senate considered the Illinois elec '. tion case; the seat of Judge Trumbull being j contested; but the debate was not con cluded when the Senate adjourned. " The House of Representatives considered ; the Deficiency appropriation bill, and with j out coming to a conclusion thereon, ad 1 journed. March 4. The Senate passed a bill ap- rpropriatmg $80,000 for new fortifications j for the defence of the entrance of Galveston harbor and bay. in Texas. Tbe House referred a bill from the Sen- ate, for the construction of ten sloops of war to the Committee on Naval Affairs, aud passed the Deficiency appropriation bill. March 5. After discussion, tho Senate declared Lyman Trumbull the duly elected Senator from Illinois after which, Kansas affairs were under discussion until the Se nate adjourned. In the House, a bill was reported from j the Committee on Elections, declaring that 1 Reeder, the free-soiler, is entitled to a seat j in Congress, instead of Whitfield, in whose I favor the minorty of Committee reported. ; The consideration of this exciting question j was postponed, and other questions in relu i tion to Kansas were discussed. MARCH 0. In the Senate the fortification bill was passed and Mr. Brown introduc ed a bill for the construction of a railroad and telegraphic line from the Mississippi to the Pacific at San Francisco, for which' purpose the bill grants 40,000,000 acres of public lands. It was referred to the spe cial Committee on the subject. In tbe House the debate of the Kansas question occupied the chief portion of tho day. Marc h 7. In the House, Mr. Oliver, of Missouri, spoke in opposition to the resolu tion of tho Committee on Elections, who asked for leave to send for persons and papers relating to the Kansas election case. He maintained that on Gov. Reeder, and all others who joined in the extraordinary move ment of getting up emigrant aid societies and procuring Sharpe's rifles, rests all the strife and bloodshed that had taken place in Kansas; their single object being to defeat what they termed the infamous Kansas Nebraska bill. These things were calcu lated justly to excite the indignation of the people of Missouri and Kansas. He in dignantly repelled the term of "Border Ruffians," applied to the patriots who were conscious of their rights aud with nerve enough to maintain them. Mr. Cumback defended the Emigrant Aid Society, and favored the resolution of the I Committee. ; Mr. Cullen and Walker, opposed the re ; solution, contending that the Legislature of 1 Kansas was a valid one, and was proven so by Reeder's action in signing bills adopted ! by it; and furthermore, that Reeder, in not I being a candidate at the regular election, is entirely precluded from any claims to the ; seat now contested by hiin. i The House then adjourned to Monday. General intelligence, AWFUL CATASTROPHE. The St. Mary's Banner states that a fire broke out in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, on Sunday. 24th February, which not only laid waste the principal portion of the town, but was attended by a fearful loss of life. The lire originated in a stable in rear of Mr. Fontanette's store, to which the flames euickly reached, and spreading themselves in their destructive progress, in a short time the entire square was a mass of flame ! This square embraced the principal business bouses of the town, some of them fine brick buildings, containing a quantity of valuable merchandise. In one of these stores were forty kegs of gunpowder, which exploded with a tremendous report, blew down the walls, carried in the roof, and buried in the ruins twenty-three persons who were in and about the store at the time, endeavoring to save what they could from the conflagration. All these persons are said to have been instantly killed ! The probable loss tf property is about $200,000. Riot ix Jail. The Charleston Meroury states that on Friday evening, a number of the prisoners in the Charleston (S. C.) jail, who are allowed the privilege of walking about the building and yard, commenced quarrelling among themselves, and ended in a general fight. On Mr. Milligan, the Jailer, attempting to put a stop to it, he was assailed by George Simmons, one of the prisoners, who drew a knife and attempted to stab him. Mr. Milligan warned him to keep off or he would shoot him, but Simmons persisted in attacking him, when he drew a pistol and fired, the ball taking effect in Summons's left shoulder; this put an end to the fight, and the parties engaged in it were secured in the cells. Simmons, though severely, is not dangerously wounded by the pistol ball. m i Shooting Horses. We learn from the Chicago Press, that Julius Kurth was re cently tried in that city, and convicted in the Court of Common Pleas on an indict ment for shooting a number of horses which broke into his enclosure. Three of tho horses had their eyes shot out, and two others were seriously injured. The- court sentenced the prisoner to three month's im prisonment in the county jail and a fine of $100 the full extent of the law. TAXES OP NORTH CAROLINA The Raleigh Standard :is publishing the Comptroller's Report, showing the amounf of Taxes paid by each county of the State, in 1855. We give the exhibit for Catawba and Cleaveland counties, and will publish the amount for other counties in this section, when received : CATAWBA COUNTY. Polls, 1-600 Acres Land, Valuation-do, $785,829 Do Town Property, 18,009 Gp.oss Tax. Land, Town Propertv, Poll, Interest Received, Lawyers, Physicians, ice. Mortgages, Deeds, ccc. Stud Horses, Gates, etc, Pistols and Knives, Gold Watches, Silver do, Pianos, Plate, Pleasure Carriages, Playing Cards, Merchants' Capital, Pedlars, rr!5 v-o'n s 943 00 22 33 028 00 i 159 36 ' 3 00 9 00 70 00 ! 12 50 6 00 I 17 00 12 25 4 00 . 75 I 53 00 j 2 25 91 32 30 00 30 00 Retailers and other Liquor Venders, 20 00 -Auctioneer::, jl o By Distress on Delinquents, 13 32 Arrears for 1853, 1 27 Total amount, $2,130 15 CLE A V E LAX D COP N T Y Polls, 1,702 Acres Land, 201.004 Valuation do, $539,832 Do Town Property, 52,48 Gross Tax. Land, 617 73 Town Propertv, 74 97 Poll, 094 4!) Interest Received, 72 20 Lawyers, Physicians, &c, 20 00 Mortgages, Deeds, tec, 11 00 Stud Horses, 80 00 Gates, ojc, tl 50 Pisfols and Knives, 0 00 Dirks and Canes, 5 ' Gold Watches, 23 00 Silver do, l." f)U Pianos, 4 00 Plate, 1 53 Pleasure Carriages, 47 00 Playing Cards, 9 00 Merchants' Capital, 132 84 Pedlars, 30 00 Taverns, 10 00 Circuses, &c, 50 00 Retailers, 0J 00 Auctioneers, 10 35 Total amount, 82,008 40 FARMING IN PICKENS, (S. C ) Some time since, iu conversation with Mr. Bowen, a farmer of Pickens, near tho Cedar liock, he informed us that he had a field of corn last year, which yielded him sixty two dollars per acre ! He actually srdd the corn for that amount, exclusive of the crop of peas, fodder and pumpkins. Tho ground produced fifty bushels per acre, and ho sold the corn, at Abbeville C. H., for one dollar and twenty-five cents per bushel. No doubt the fodder, peas and pumpkins were worth ten or twelve dollars per acre more. In fact, Ave think Mr. Bowen stated that he regarded the product as being, in value, seventy-five dollars per acre ! Why should a man move off to Texas when he can make such crops in Pickens? One person may cultivate twenty acres of rich land, which would yield him fifteen hundred dollars.' A pretty good year's work, even in Cali fornia picking up gold! To be sure, we must deduct tho expense of hauling off the corn, which is considerable, and so is the expense of hauling off a crop of cotton or j anything else. Greenville. C.) Patriot SHOCKING MURDER. The Lowndes county, Miss., Chronicle of the 25th ult., has the following account of a bloody tragedy which occurred in Hancock county, a few days before: "One of the negro men of Mr. Lamkin became offended with the overseer, and struck him cm the back of the neck with an axe, killing him instantly. The negro then dragged the body off some distance, and cut off both hands. He then started for the house of Mr. L., and met at the door Mrs. Lamkin, and told her that he had killed the "d d overseer, and intended to kill her," at the same time drawing a revolver. Mr. Lamkin was sick in bed unable to rise. Mrs. L. ran into the house and got a double barrel gun, and told the negro if he moved a foot she would shoot him, and kept him standing in the yard until she sent, for some of the neighbors. They soon came to her assistance, caught the negro and hung him." Mr. Dallas. The Collins mail steamer Atlantic left New York for Liverpool n Saturday, with fifty-one passengers, among whom are th Hon. George M. Dallas, Minister to England, and family, including his son, who goes out as Secretary of Lega tion. The Baron de Richsofer, Prussian Minister to Mexico, is also a passenger in the Atlantic. Row at Yale College. A letter in the N. Y. Herald from New Haven states that about fifty of the students in Yale College, having bscn offended at F. P. Brewer, a tutor, proceeded to attack him on the night of the 3d instant. They broke in all the windows of his room, sruck him with a club over the head and beat him with their fists, after which they dispersed. North Carolina Ixsaxe Asylum. We learn from the Raleigh Standard, that ; the Asylum for insane persons, near that City, is now ready for the reception of for- i ty patients ; and that in the course of a few ! weeks apartments will be ready for a much larger number. Weather ix Florida. The Pilatka Democrat speaks of the delightful Spring weather ; many of the earlier leaved trees and shrubs are clothed in living green. The Alligator Advertiser s.iys : The cropping season is fast approaching, and our planters are getting ready for it. We saw a field of corn planted two weeks ago. The annual burning of the woods has just commenced, and in the upper part of this county the range is thoroughly burnt off. LATER FROM EUROPE. arrival opjTBE Baltic. Nothing of the Pacific. She steamship Baltic, which sailed from Liverpool on the 20th February, has arriv ed at New i ork. PEACE CONFERENCE, The Peace Conference was to meet in Paris, on tne r eoruary. All the Efc. voya had arrived. Confidence in the establishment of Peaca still continues. RKEAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA. mmm The excitement on the American question in England had partially subsided awyiv " ""Tr" 13(0(4 I., ,.,.., t iio t nr it ' r v i t rttAiii .. j. i concentrated in Canada THE STEAMER PACIFIC. Nothing has been heard from the missing steamer Pacific. . COMMERCIAL. Cotton unchanged and quiet. Sales for three days prior to tho steamers sailing a mounted to 26,000 bales. BrcadstufTs ad vanced slightly. Money more etring.-nt. Consols Dili toOOg. A new loan for 5, 000,000 was to be brought before Parlia ment. Three Days Later from Europe. The steamship Africa, from Liverpool, with dates to the 23d, arrived at New York on Saturday last. Middling and lower pial ities of Cotton at Liverpool, are 1-lGth of a penny lower. The sales of the week amount to 13,00 ) bales, of which speculators took 7,000 bales. Breadstuff's have slightly ad vanced. Consols 91. The Peace Confer ence is progressing favorably. The Roth schilds, it is said, will take the whole of the English loan. The Africa brings no tidings of the missing steamer Pacific. LEIRY & CO.'S HATS, lfy the i'achage. AT no ptriod ssince the establishment of our Firm iu IS.'S, Ii ivc we been able to supply cus toowra in thia In audi oi our business wiih hc qua, ily and style of Hal nrtw being packed. Possessing a pei lcct knowled': ol markets at home and abroad, in which to otiiain material m ihe raw, comprising their several parts a larizc mnnulaciuring depart. meat, in wawn wc employ a moiety oi inn u-fsi workmen in the S.ate, under the supervision ol the talent and ta-tc employed in productni The Celebrated Winch tor years has aecn red to us the enviable re putation of f-e:ide-s of Fashion for (icntlcmen'i Hats ibroughoul the L'uitid States. Wo solicit or ders by the Packane, LEtRl Sc co. Hafters, A stop. House, N. Y. City. New-York, l-Yb. 0, ISSrl twlf i otic: 8). A IX PERSOXS subject to pay a Poll Tax J:W. to tho. State of North Carolina, who resided within the limits of the town of Charlotte, on the first day ol February, 1856, or who had been principally employed in tiny profession or voca tion in said Town, for three months or more im mediately preceding the said tirst day of Februa ry, and all isons who owned or were pone J of Taxable Property Within said town, on the first day of February, ar hereby notified to fin in to the Town Clerk, before the last day of March, 1856, a list of laveir said Poll and Taxable Prepertr. Th. said list shall state the numbers and local situation the Lots or parts of Lots piven in, with the valat of which they are assessed for taxation by tbe State, the aumbcr of white taxable I'olls, of taxable Slaves, and of taxable Free Negroes, residing on the first of February, on the lands of pewOM giv ing in said list. J. B. KERB, Town Clerk. March 1, 18S6 . It S- Howell, N ADDLE And Harness Manufacturer. (Three doors south of Sadler's HoUl,) CUAKLrOTTK, N. C. TIIE subscriber, thanklul for the very liberal pa tronage bestowed upon him during the past year, has now made more extensive pre paration lor the luture de mand lor work in tns line, and will endeavor to furnishj all that may want Saddles and Harness, with a superior article at the lowest possible prices, lie has now c.n ham! a very large assortment ot :u!ti 2s, Bridles, HaraeMN Saddlery Hardware H'hips, Buffalo Robes, Saddle Cloths, Skirtings, IJ"X Skins, Patent EnameUta and Harness Leather, together with every thing usually kept in my line of business. CFA1I kinds of Saddles and Harness mad at tbe shortest notice. DS" I'epairing promptly executeir? S. M. HOWELL. Oet 2.3, 1855, 13-tf By MILLER &. ORR, OAS been refitted in a style of ueatiKf surpassed hy any in the Southern Si6 and wln-re c:m be found the liogest stock of Wiiios, ft ' . Cordial Brandies, 'iim-. AN" EVER MMMJCtfff TO THIS MARKf.T. Thankful for past favors, they would solicit a cot;! tinuance of toe same from all their friends "thereat of mankind' Puff! PiTfT! Puff! We have no allusion to a newspaper P"jfl to a puff as is a puff, on a genuine imported1' gar such as you can find at the Eale .aoon Old Crescent Ifrandy, Vintage of lr'lO.to he found at the Eagle Salof Pinett's Old Castilian Brandy Vintage of ll, at the Eagle Saloon. P. IS. ftoodw in i Con Brand? A superior article for medical purpowes, far $m the Eale Saloou Wines. A Madeira, Port, Malaga, Sherry, and Teaer. a superior quality, can always be found Eagle Saloon. Albany Cream ALE and XW1 CIDER- (A superior article) to be had at the Eagle S , Sardines, Lobsters, Pickle Catsups, 6tc, &c, For sale at MILJLJbK & v-- Eagle &M.00 Charlotte, Feb. 26, 1356 tf
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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March 11, 1856, edition 1
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