North Carolina Newspapers

A Family Paper, devoted to State Intelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Sonthern Rights, Agriculture, Uteratnre, and Miscellany. Q2Y JOEN I PALMER, l EDITOR ASP (PROPRIETOR. ) CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. Office on Main Street, ? ONE DOOR SOUTH OF SADLER'S HOTEL. $ VOLUME 4. NUMBER 40. TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1856. U"oT7ir Seriei of nu TERMS OP THE PAPER: (L too Dollars a near, in btaittt AND I-- r. Having recently visited New-York, and se lected from the old and elegant Foundry t" i Brace, Esq., a quantity oi' 3!ruj anii miljionahlripr, We are now prepared t Execute III tlic Best Stylo, ALL or --.". Jiulliply the JWmmu, mtrf you di nil i it iff the lit Hulls,"' I- one of the established in 8 Kunsof business - IKOEl K K PAMPHLETS, HANDBILLS, CAEDS, CIRCULARS, LABELS, I CLERKS' BLANKS SHERIFF'S do. I CONSTABLES' do. i MAGISTRATES. ! ATTORNEYS' do. OB for b'lJi'Jin Stusra) VQ&IS Reqnirod by the business Community, WIIX BE EXEI ITT ED WITH NEATNESS, CQHBECTKESa n l S I A T C H A N L Various it inds of BLANKS, 5N V ALWAY HAND. S3 Or o-vcfiitrb to rtfr; SvV flrai iMim 1 1 c:im:i-:ist SUA IV rWIAKL? m. public this oupwlnnhy of informing the eaoauy, and ail who intend Kuinc w iv.ni-.e- .u parucuiar, tnat nc intends to con tinue (h-- Saddle and Harness Basiiess. At his old stand, in Springs' Corner Building, ' where he .,u. nds la keep oonstanUv on hand a supply e! Sathlies, BridJe,Elarne,&. W Every Description, His fri -nds nr.- Smpectiullv invited to call -o,, ' supply th n.sclxes. as every article in his line . mil be afforded on the most reasonable terms. : KEP.4IBIXG done st the shortest notice sn-I with oeatness and dispatch Charlotte, Feb. 26, 1856. tf - - . . BOOKS For Salo X AT THE CHARLOTTE BOOK STORE. I m- NEW PURCHASE, or Early Yeam a ix the Pah West Jl Rafcrl Canfeaa. . OIL ADVENTURES OF MA.T.II BABA 'n I in key, Persia, and Russia Edited by James STANHOPE BURLEIGH, Th,- Jcmkn in ,,.,.,.,.( ,h,-,ot int. reatine Novels n:is o-, i) Ohm. miUea in manv yean bv Ilrlm rHP. RUSEUR of Kem.ivW ible nd Tnt-rest- and im'.'b n ' "' " IIki Adventures JtLANCHE IT-AHNVnoD-a Tale of Modern tvtM.Wi TALES b. won denial and "UK a selection of stlU-Tllatural St.;.., . . i i Z-z: iiuii, itom, aua niiian. wfutu uy iiniry Llmr. LEXICON OF FREE MASONRY. Contaiuinsr a definition all its communicable terms. Jne True Masonic Chart, bv J. L. Cross, G L Th.- Free-Maaan'a Manual," bv Rev ud K. J. otewan W i . Atnnan Kezou ot South Carolina. riirC onic trusts Board. 11 o FELLOWS' MANUAL, bvthe T A. B. Giaah. th t x. . COWRIE & ENNI88, Charlotte, March 4, 1856 Book-Sellers. Stock for Sale. IS l SHAKES of BoouVCarolinaRful-Roi Charlotte and Oad Sto.'W for aol.. Charlotte.. Feb. -?6. lSi S. A. HARRIS, Agem. ii s Mr KIM 4 nttmtfVWHjB and A Professional Card. ! AV1NG located in Charlotte permanently-, H H with tlic view of practicing Medicine. I would respeetfullv tender niv MTMCf to the pub lic. C. A. HENDERSON, M. f. fiPOffice at the American Hotel April 8, 1 ?.".". tf ROBERT (i IB BON, M. D. O i ITERS his lii uf.'ssiiiual services to the nub ile, iu the practice ol SURGERY, in all its various d.-partuients. Dr. GrnnOW prill operate, tr.at, or give advice in all CMd that in:y require hi- attention. Office No. .", (iranite Range, Charlotte. F. b. 19, 1-50. ly ROBI1RT P. WIRHG, Allorix-v a I Law, (Office in building .-.t sehe.' t jn) Amerean Ho- ' Charlotte, N. C. Jan. 29, 1856. tf . W. II vis. Attorney At Counsellor at Law, t;nttiiArri jr. c. J-m- 1 , lti6. tf FEMALE st ;hool. T' (HE second Term. or Summer Session of Miss Sarah V. Da viosos's SCHOOL, will eonuni nee on the :M of March next the 1st Mon day of the month. Charlotte, Feb. '2t, I 56. -tf III. AVUEALW, Malier, Opposite tli- lof-OIB V- LL DRESSES cut and made hv the celebr.'it. d A O J method, and war ranted to fir. BONNETS Trimmed in the latest style, at the shortest notice. Charlotte, Feb 12, 1856. tf E.W01 KAGE THIS liOi lllXG T HE nnders! d ben leave to return his thanks to those who favored him with a call dur ing the last year; and he would nswcctfnlly inform the public that he lias removed to the Machine Shop formerly occupied by Messrs. George & bisnant, adjoining Mr. J. Rudisill s team Planine M:lls, where he is prepared to execute all woik in ins inn- as cheap and as good as can be done in the State. Turning-, Cattiig Screws. Repair- ill Boilei S Ulld lOllSrJllCS of all descriptions, Making and Re pairing Mill Spindles, Wood Plainers, .Making Ploughs, Iron . ing Wagons; and in Horse-Shoeing, &c., we will yield to no one for neatness, wear, and dispatch. Inter fering Shoes .-si 25, eonxnon ditto $1, east steel tO s, or steel plate, I haw- also erected an Air Furnace for mend ing Bra8, which answers finely. The public can now get brass and composition castings by call ing at the above establishment, and turnishing patterns. Old Brass Melted overal a reduced price, with neatness and despatch. Old Conner and Brass wanted. S J. FF.KKY. Charlotte, Jan. I, 1856.- -tf PIANO FORTES. .i Colombia, S. O, Pinwo Fwrle & Mmtlc Denier, is ronstantl v reciv- ii2 a good supply of Pianos withthe LATEST IMPROVEMENTS, which has given them the premium over a 1 1 others. f and 6 octaves from $250 to ?00. 61 to 7 (300 to $400. 7 tr $100 to $450. Carved wor. anil Grand Pianos troin $ j00 to $10110. .Mr. R. beini a practical Piano Maker can insure to his customers a perfect instrument. Columbia, June 2 , lco-5. -PJly SaleiIi A Cnston Kail ISond Ootick li. A (J. R. IJ. Co. Raleigh, .March 39, IS. she. MM Schedule for Mail Train, On and after Tuesday, tint first day of April, Irti. ON AND AFTER TUESDAY NEXT, the Mail Traiii, leaving the North Caro i lma Railroad Depot, on the arrival ol the Cars from the West, at 5. 17, A. M. (aa at present,) : will stop at the Northern (or eld) Depot, in I this City, unti' 7 o'clock, allowing ampic time tor passe njr rs from that Road to take break fast ; ;,t the hotels in Haleigh, to and from which : they will he conveyed by the proprietors, fret ot charge Leaving at 7 o'clock, the Train will arrive i -it Weldoa at 11.40, A. M., in full time for all Trains eoiiig North, and also lor the WW ; miogton Train, jroinjr South. Retarninc will eave Weldoa at 3 P. M., after the arrival of the Pelt rsbara , Portsmouth, and Wiloiin loa Tr..i.is, and will reach Ralaifh at 6.45, P. M. R. A. HAMILTON, President. A pril S. I in. Wilmington, Charlotte, & Ruth- erfordton Rail Road. Pu r k ii ant to an order ot the Board of Di rectors of. tne v iimineton Charlotte and uiiiertoiu- ton Kail Koad Company, l ooks are again ; open , !or subscriptions i to the Capital Stock ; ot sanl Koad. at the Rock Islam) More, and tie-offices ot Wm. Johnson, C.J. Fox. and o. . Davis. All who feel tntereste i in the honor ami nrntnuriiv tl, nil' V rth SJta'p. , 7 r- t -"j - - - -- oncneii to come forward and ant in this s;,r11 work, th o dy real pnldic enterprise thdt haa ev sprung upon our people, rniur.ee i vt-.v CBAKLES J. W. DAVIS. A ,!., WM. JOHNSTON, JNO A YOUNG, JOHN WALKER, LEROY SP INS, B. II. DAVIDSON, Commissioners. 13-tf Oct, 1S5.V 93. ' ..2SwajaAv itiik A . 1 . t . - - nav I A. A - Utas of tit Ban. NEGRO STEALING. Last week, we copied a paragraph from the Columbia Times, stating that a mer chant residing in Sumterville had been arrested on the charge of negro stealing. The annexed details of the theft and the tragedy of the miserable criminal, William F. Byrd, we copy from the Sumter Watch man. Byrd, the guilty man, has only an ticipated the sentence of the court which would be passed upon him after his trial. From the Sumter Watchman. CRIME ani Sliclue -Since our last iss-ue, a ease involving circ .'instance of deep and exciting interest hag been developed in our very midst exciting in every detail from the beginning, but doubly more so in tho tragical issue. Our readers will remember to have seen, some time since, an advertisement in the Watchman, by our townsman Col. F. J. Moses, of two slaves who were missing from his premises. Their long absence, which could not be accounted for on tho score of any provocation or indignity offered them, i , . or oi anv expressed dissatisfaction on tneir part, taken in connection with the mysteri ous disappearance, some time before, of a negro boy of another one of our citizens, soon induced the belief in the minds of most persons that they were stolen. Various circumstances fixed tho suspicious of the eommunitv iinim a nartieulur individual r,,. .. JF . i r I tie matter vh s k ent still, however. t ir some time, until at last, after some finessing, a sufficient clue was obtained to the where abouts of the negroes, to warrant a gentlo man of our town in taking u trip to the town of Americus in the lower part of Georgia. Arrived there, he was not long in discover ing tho person to whom they had been sold, ami in identifying the negroes. The pur chaser, Mr. Hooks, upon being convinced that he had been victimized, readily yielded them up, and upon the suggestion of the gentleman who had gone in quest of them, consented to return with him to this place. They arrived here on Tuesday evening, the 8th instant. i After some delay in making out the neces sary papers, Mr. Hooks, accompanied by our efficient .-herirF and others, strolled by the new storo of Bvrd and Louis. It was brilliantly lighted up, and was filled with a jolly company. Immediately, and without hesitation. Mr. Hooks declared, that, in the person of Win. Friendly Byrd, he recog nized the individual from whom he had purchased the slaves. The sheriff then entered the store, accompanied by a friend of Mr. Hooks. Telling him, that there was some dissatisfaction about the titles fo cer tion property that he had sold, ho was easily persuaded to make a confession of judg- mem. ii is saiu xnai ne unoersroou me J. I . ? 1 . 1 , . I 1 . T .1 ' allusion to be to another transaction; but of that we cannot speak. This accom plished, the Sheriff produced a warrant, arrested him on the charge of negro-stealing, and lodged him in jail. The Grand Jury returned a verdict of "true bill" on the indictment, the next day, and the prisoner was at once arraigned. But, at the request of his attorneys, the trial was postponed until Mondav. In the meantime, C'tipt. Friersen, the lmi-itV AkcAwa1 ovnf v liviipfl tit!rn ilif ' . . 1 tue-Keepinrr 01 tno prisoner. ne was eon- . . I There are no iron cuffs for the ankles in the I jail, and accordingly it was necessary to bind a common chain about his ankle, and secure it with a padlock. It will be seen at a glance, that it is impossible to adjust the onpliant links very closely to the limb with out injur- to it still, he was thought to be Becurely bound. This was deemed neces- j sary at lirt, from several considerations, but especially so afterwards, when there were croud reasons to believe that he medi- ; tated mischief upon himself. A note to his wife, written in pencil on the margin of a ! newspaper, was intercepted. In it, he im- j plored her to send him" strychnine or lauda- nam, savins: that he wished to die ; that the whole world was against him ; that the sheriff had confined him so closely that he i could see no one out of his presence. On Monday morning, when the jailor j opened the door of the cell to give the j prisoner his breakfast, he was startled with j a horrid spectacle. Suspended from the iron grating of the window, with a sheet twisted into a rope and tied about his neck, was the unfortunate man dead. By dint ; f hard squeezing, of which his feet after- 1 wards shewed the marks, he had forced them ; from the loop of the chain. The rest was ; easily done. He climbed to the window; j fastened the sheet to one of the bars ; passed a slip-not over his head: tied his feet; secured his hands behind his back with a I "11 i C 11 . n 41 T nanuKercnier, ana leaped to me noor. im- i mediately upon the discoverv, a physician fc fa fe ; d reach ; - . of remedy. Miserable man ! A jury ot in- quest was impannelled by Coroner Nettles, ! and a verdict rendered, in accordance with the circumstances that we have detailed The Virginia Search Law. The steamer Maryland, which was detained at Norfolk because the captain refused to sufier her to be searched tor absconding slaves, in accordance with the law receutlv ! passed bv the State Legislature, was re"- ! leased last Friday, the captain having paid j the fine of $300. THE KANSAS FREESOILERS. We have already informed our readers of the cowardly move of the mock free-soil Legislature of Kansas, ns soon as they dis covered that Governor Shannon was ap proaching to arrest the members, on a charge of treason. They immediately adjourned, to meet again on the 4th of July, and dis persed. On this subject a late letter from Kansas to the St. Louis Republican says : "The Legislature of Topeka was a misera ble and ludicrous abortion, and its members are hiding themselves from judicial proces ses, like frightened ostriches. Some have fled to Ioa, some to Missouri, and the rest are hiding themselves :n bushes, in the vain hope of security. The Grand Juries of the Circuit Court, under the instruction of the Judge (Lecompte.) have indicted not only the members, but all the judges of election, and it is the intention of his Honor, at his term in Douglas, which begins next week, to have bills found against Gov. Robinson, Lieutenant Gov. Roberts, and all the exe cutive officers. It is thought by some, that when the sheriff enters Lawrence to arrest I , -, I and bloodshed ; but I apprehend nothing ot ; , 'lie Kiiiu. x uc laruictu uueuipi 10 uuiu a Legislature, and ridiculous pretensions that have been made to amend the laws of the Territory, and to set up an independent government which should supersede tho present, have disgusted many of their own party, who see the absurdity and utter fu- i tility of all such efforts, and are determined J henceforth to recognise the existing author ities. Besides which, many of the people of the North who came here with the stron gest prejudices against slavery, have seen the error into which a one-sided view of the subject had led them, and are now its war- mest advocates, not onlv on the erround of profit and convenience, but of utility and humanity. They have ocular and experi mental demonstration that it is better, both for the whites and blacks." SOUTHERN STUDENTS IN NORTH ERN COLLEGES. The New York Tribune, the most popular of all the Northern newspapers, has the following: "We know of eminent persons, long con nected with our most distinguished univer- j si ties, who rerrard the Southern students as ! f p. &nd who would j , . hl oWLJ Uvr .wk : t,, barbarians, with most of the vices, if with ' some of the virtues, of savages, and unfitted i by their previous training for association with civilized and Christianized youth. Of course there are exceptions of well-mannered, well-bred Southern youths, in whose society there is no necessarv contamination. Rat ftre rre oneg aud enorally to be - w - r ,-, , , , , . i iuuuu iiiiioii luou no liuvo otren uaUETUI young and reared at the North." We commend the above. INTERESTING CELEBRATION. The birth-day of Henry Clay was cele brated on Saturday last on a grand scale in his native county of Hanover, Virginia, at the Slash Cottage, situated immediately on the railroad between Fredericksburg and Richmond. A large crowd was in atten- ! dance, among them Senators Crittenden, of j Kentucky, Butler, of South Carolina, Jones, rr, -rw i . -r. . ot Pennsylvania, Jones, of Iowa, and Ma- . . i sou, oi iijoiici , unu mo luuumug nieui i bers of the House of Representatives : Un derwood, of Kentucky, Cadwallader, of Pennsylvania, Harris, of Alabama, Davis, of Louisiana, and Caskie, of Virginia. At torney General Caleb Gushing; Sydney Webster, Esc ., Private Secretary of the President: P. Barton Key, U. S. District Attorney ; U. S. Marshal Hoover. A splen did dinner was served up, and eloquent speeches were delivered by Messrs. Cush ing, Crittend n, Butler, Douglas, Jones, Bigler, Mason, Jones Caldwell, Botts, Wreb stcr and Key. The ceremony of christen ing the Slashes by the name of Ashland was performed with great fervor, Mr. Botts con ducting the services peculiar to the occa sion. The company sepamted at an early j hour in the evening. LYNCH LAW IN CHINA i ne ew ion. commercial tms the tol- lowing extract of a letter from China, dated ! ni tr i rt i , ., . , December 6 ..-v 1 , L . i. -uur peaeeanie snout us were a scene ot thingness ! Else why is it that the aspira unwonted uproar yesterday afternoon. A Hons wWJl ipan likp anroh. from t.h tri Canton man quarreled with a Fuh Chan man in the street and killed him on the spot. He was instantly seized by the mob, and with his hands tied behind him, taken to the top of the hill back of the foreign hongs, and bound to a pine tree. The wife of the murdered man took a nail and drove it into the body, shoulders, breast, temple and eyes of the writhing culprit, aided and abet ted by a furious multitude in her bloody re venge. Tho man was just alive at sun down, several hours after. I saw the man- gled body this morning. The head was a I perfect mass of gore. Ihe conduct of the j -..,-.-..,., : I.!- onnUiJoii K,- . : i, woman is loudlv anplauded bv the native Xew Counterfeit. Five on the Mer- . , t, , x- t v -, chants Bank' Newborn, North Carolina, are m circulation in and about Pittsburg. The vignette is an Indian, and a female on I the right end. SPRING. BY A. IIAIGHT CHASE. Come, beauteous Spring, with birds that sing, And beauteous flowers that bloom With balmy air and blossoms fair Dispel old Winter's gloom. Come with thy sheen of living green, And gentle zephyrs soft Thy green leaved trees and light winged bees That wing the air aloft ; Beneath thy shield the heath and field Bud forth with life anew The murmuring stream so brightly gleams 'Mid sunset's golden hue. Thy balmy breath dissolves in death Stem Winter's chilling power The leaf expands beneath thy wand. And blooms the beauteous dower. Thy genial glow makes streamlets flow Iu gladness through the vale ; The grass so green is plainly seen. And beauty decks the vale, The songster sweet his song repeats A song so full of glee ; 'Tis sweet and clear the Spring is here, The Spring has charms x me. Oh ! Spring most fair, with charms so rare, We ever love thy sway And while we live we'll ever give To thee our sweetest lay. OF WHAT WOMEN ARE MADE. "Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse ot human life." Simonides, a poet famous in his genera tion, who flourished some time ago, tells us, that the gods formed the souls of women out of those seeds and principles which compose several kinds of animals and ele ments ; and that their good and bad dispo- j sitions arise in them according as such and such seeds and principles predominate in their constitutions. He says: "The souls of one kind of women were formed out of those ingredients which com pose a swine. A woman of this make is a sloven in her house and a glutton at her ta bic. A second kind is of the fox, foxy, and has an insight into everything, good or bad ; some of this class are virtuous, and some vicious. A third kind of women were made up of canine particles ; these are scolds, always barking and snarling, and live in perpetual clamor. A fourth kind wer0 made out of the ettrth. Web tho lnWU b tU,, r,mn i : i a whole Winter, and apply themselves with alacrity to no kind of business but eating. The fifth species of females were made out of the sea, and are of variable, uneven tempers, sometimes all storm and tempest, sometimes all calm and sunshine. The sixth species were made of such in gredients as compose a jack or beast of bur- . ,1 . t ,tf..i -l-a: uuu , iiit-ao iitiiui tin y muiuiui uuu uusu nate, but, upon the husband exerting his authority, will live upon hard fare, and do everything to please him. The cat furnished materials for a seventh species of woman, who are of melancholy, froward, unamiable nature, and so repug nant to the offers of love that they fly in the face of their husband when he approaches them with conjugal endearments. Ihis species of woman are likewise subject to little thefts, cheats, and pilferings. The eighth species of female were taken out of the ajye. These are such as are both ugly and ill-natured, who have nothing beautiful in themselves, and endeavor to detract from or ridicule everything which appears so in others. The ninth and last species of woman were made out of the bee ; and happy is the man who trets such a one for his wife. She is altogether faultless and unblameable. Her family flourishes and improves by her good management. She loves her husband and I is beloved bv him. She brings him a race ! of beautiful and virtuous children. She distinguishes herself among her sex. She never sits among the loose tribe of wo men, nor passes her time with them in wan tou discourses. She is full of virtue and prudence, and is the best wife that Jupiter can bestow on man." rs" AN IDEA TIU'E AND BEAUTIFUL. "I cannot believe that the earth is man's abidi place. It cannot be that our life Jl u - ! icoi out uuiu ins coi iineinenr m muta is cast up by the ocean ot eternity to float a moment upon its waves and sink into no- ple of our hearts, are forever wandering about unsatisfied 7 Why is it that the rain bow and the cloud come over us with a beauty that is not of us, then pass off and leave us to muse upon their faded loveli ness ? Why is it that the stars who hold their festival around the midnight' throne are set above the grasp of our limited facul ties, forever mocking us with their unap proachable glory ? And, finally, why is it tVint forme of linmnn unnlv m-. -. rr. . . ,1 : . puicu i to our view, and thea taken from us, leav- I :nt, ,iin tbonnd etrpmC of oo- aftnnna to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our . . . r heart ? We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth ; there is a realm where rainbows never fade; where the stars will be out btfore us, like islets that slumber on the ocean , and where the beings that pass bo fore us like shadows, will stay in our pres enoe forever! B?tWr. LAW. Upwards of eighty years ago, there was in the town of Hatherlught, in the county of Devon, an inn known by the name of the Client's artus. There was a swinging sign-board, on one side of which was a man, stripped of his coat and waist-coat, exclaim ing, "I've been to law and hare lost.'' And on the other side of tins sign-board was painted a man stark naked, crying out, "Oh ! what shall I do ? I have been to law and have won." The origin was this : Two men had a dispute about a little spot of land, respecting which they could not agree. Recourse was had to legal proceed ings, which ended iu a verdict of a jury. The man against whom tho verdict was given could not pay the costs, and the win ner had to pay all his own. In fact, the loser was stripped of all his property. The victor was obliged to sell his little estate; then took an inn, and set up tho above, mentioned sign as a warning to others Some of the descendants are now living, whom we reckon have no fondness for law. Columbia Carolinian. PHYSICAL RECREATION. An Italian gentleman, who recently made the tour of the United States, said, on his return, that he would not live there to be owner of them, adding "What an unhap py people, if their faces express their feel ings ! I never saw a man in the street that didn't seem unhappy, and walked as if driv en ; nor scarcely a woman in the house without a care-worn and figety air." A little exaggeration is one of tho privi leges accorded to travellers from time im memorial ; hut there is, nevertheless, more of truth in the above description of the A mericans, as a people, than we are at all times willing to admit. Perpetually ab sorbed in business, with our mental facul ties constantly on the stretch ; with notes to meet ; moneys to collect, and projects to carry out, wo exhaust the powers of life by overstraining them, and only think of relax ation when it becomes too late to reap much benefit from the change. The freest nation in the world, wo are yet the most fettered. Bending all our energies to tho one object of making money, wo reject salutary-recreation as interfering with more important duties, and toil on, tortured by anxieties of our own creating. Though too frequently troubled with dyspepsia in some ono or other of its protean forms, and otherwise nervous, excitable and restless, we never seek that repose and relaxation which nature de mands, until the worn out physical struc ture is incapable of renovation, and prema ture old age admonishes us of the folly we have committed in the thoughtless disre gard of those natural laws, the observance of which is absolutely essential to health and longevity. WHY SATAN NEVER DISTURBS A WOMAN. Mohammedans relate the following story as an authentic and veritable piece of tradi tion, illustrative of the fact that the Devil himself has duties to perform in the world, and that all things would go wrong if he were idle and neglected them : "In the days of Mohammed there was an Arab who had a very pretty wife. The Devil formed himself into so exact and ac curate likeness of her husband that sho could not for the life of her tell which of the two was her husband. Both claimed her, that is, the real husband and the Devil in his likeness. The case excited much interest in the neighborhood, but no solu tion of the difficulty could be obtained. At length tho case was brought before his Majesty, the Prophet. Mohammed, after a "le reflection, held up a certain earthen pot in his hKnd' with a 8Pat like a teapot, a,ld aid to them both' "Now' whichever is the ronl husbad will enter this vessel by the spout and thus establish his claim to the woman." The Devil, as having more capacity in that way than the sturdy Arab of real flesh and bones, entered at once into the pot as suggested. The moment he entered Mohammed closed the top of the spout and kept him shut in. But by the time Mohammed had kept him shut up for a few days, it was ascertained that the world was getting wrong in all its machinery. Mohammed was therefore constrained to let U- Tk.,:l c.... .. u:.. ct a . i his t. mn hlS PIace ln management of the affairs of the world. But before restor ing him to his liberty again Mohammed ex torted a solemn promise from him that he .vould never trouble the "fair sex" any more, but confine himself to what he could do amongthe "male sex." A nd this the is reason whv Satan never di.sturljs a woman. High Sense oe Hoxok An English nobleman ran away with a married woman, and after she was divorced from her hus band married her. Sometime havingelaps ed, his lordship was surprised at not receiv ing a challenge from her former ' 1 - and being anxious to make reparation, sent 1. A. 11 m - louowiug oner or sausmooon : "Sir: Having done you the greatest iniurv that one man can do another. I think- it in.im S .UpOU me t?1ffer -V(M1 the satisfaction wnicn one srentleman owes to nntlar one gentleman owes to another in such circumstances." The husband re plied : "My Lord, in taking off my hands a woman who has proved herself a wretch, you havo done me tho greatest favor that one man can do another, and 1 think it in cumbent upon me to offer you the acknow ledgments which one gentleman owes to another in such circumstances." COL. FREMONT AND THE PRESI DENCY. Col. Fremont has addressed a letter to Mr. Robinson, the "Free State" Governor of Kansas. The Colonel sympathises warmlv with the Governor in his efforts to "maintain the freedom of Kansas," and promises to do whatever lies in his power to sustain tho cause with which Mr. Robinsons's name is identified. Ho says the stato of affairs in Kansas will require great firmness on the part of the Governor, as the President, sup ported by the army, will probably recog nize the government whioh is opposed to tho Free Stato movement, and concludes by referring to the me.it ion of his own name In connection with the Presidency. This has been done, ho thinks, by the partiality of, friends who think of him more flattering than he does of himself. Fremont, like Benton, his father-in-law, may flatter the free-soilers, with tho hopo that 'thrift may follow fawning," but neither of these Southern traitors, we predict, will reach the goal of their ambition through the disgraceful means adopted. .HENRY CLAY, NOT A KNOW-NOTHING. The following letter from Henry Clay, who was the life and soul of the great Whig party of this country, shows that he could not have been a Know Nothing if he had lived to see the rise of the new "Order" upon the ruins of his old party. Mr. Clay, it will be seen, believed that a man's reli gious belief had nothing to do with his pa triotism. The letter which follows was ad dressed to Gardner Jones, president of the University of Notre Dame du Lac, near South Bend, Indiana: Washington, March 23, 1350. Dear Sir : 1 have received and attentive ly perused the letter which, at the instance of the president and faculty of the Univer sity of the Notre Dame du Lac, you ad dressed to mo the 4th inst. In that letter they have done me the honor to express their approbation of a speech of mine in tho Senate of the United States, tho object of which was to heal all differences, and ami cably to adjust all controversies, arising out of the existence of slavery in tho U. States. Such testimony, proceeding from a highly respectable body of gentlemen, retired from the world, and regarding justly the inter ests which belong to another and future state of existence as paramount to all others, affords mo an inexpressible degree of satis faction. Nor is this at all diminished by the fact, that we happen to profess different religious creeds; for I have never believed that that of "the Catholic was anti-American and hostile to civil and religious liberty. On the contrary, I havo with great pleasure, and with sincere conviction, on several pub lic occasions, borne testimony to my per fect persuasion that Catholics were as much devoted to civil liberty, and as much ani mated by patriotism, as those who belong to the Protestant creed. I am not surprised that, in the seclusion of those whom you represent, great solici tude should be felt for the safety and pre servation of that Union which is our surest guarantee of peace, order, liberty, and pub lic happiness. I hope and believe that dangers which appeared to threaten it have diminished ; but there is still great occasion for the exercise of a spirit of concord, mu tual concessin, and harmony. I request you to present to tho president and faculty assurances of my respectful ac knowledgments, and acoept yourself those of your respectful and obedient servant, 11. CLAY. THE PROSPECT. The N ew York Journal of Commerce, a neutral paper, alluding to the great acces sions to tho democratic party, as evidence in the recent elections in tho North and South, uses tho following language: "The immense gains of the Democrats in our large cities and towns, and in those States where elections havo been held this spring, although opposed by a combination of the Know-Nothings, Republicans, and Abolitionists, show very clearly which way the wind blows. A year ago, in each of the States alluded to, viz: New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut the Demo crats were defeated by an overwhelming majority. This year the combination against them has been more extensive and complete than before, yet in each case they press very closely upon the heels of their oppo nents. Until last vear. there hnd tmmm hcon an- Abolition or Freesoil party, which " o neither sided with the Democrats ncr with the Whigs. But, at the last two elections, they havo fraternized lovingly with tho other opponents of Democracy; and tho consequence is, that although the Demo crats, in each of the States mentioned, polled a vote nearly, if not quite, unpre cedented, they are still slightly in a minority. But they now see the full strength of the enemy, and the amount of work to bo done. All that remains is to do it And the oppo tunity is near." David Wilmot, of proviso notoriety, has turned up again. He comes out in a letter requesting the friends of freedom in Pennsylvania to meet in Pittsburg (dark place, that Pittsburg,) on the 26th of June next to nominate a Nigger Worshipping State ticket.