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VOLUME 4.
NUMBER 41.
l&Cfilxa. Street,
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1856.
ONE DOOR SOUTH OF SADLER'S HOTEL.
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bane the
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where he int. ud to keep constantly on hand a
apply of
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dventures j
BLANCHE DEARWOODa Tale ofModern
life.
EVENING TALE8 brine a selection of
wondertul and supernatural Stories, translated
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compiled by Henry St. Clair.
LEXICON OF FlH-:i: efTflL i
MASONRY, T V !
Containing a definition ' JJUBSsT ,
of all its communicable loam j
The True Masonic Chart, by J. L. Cross, G. L.
irie rree-Masons Manual, by Rev'ud K. J.
Mi'wan
Maek.'y's Ahicun Rezou of South Carolina.
The New Masonic Trustle Board.
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Stock for Sale.
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HAVING located in this place, respectfully
offers hi.t Professional Sen ices to the citi
zens of the town and vicinity.
lyOFFICE next door to" Messrs. Drucker &
Somnjers' Store. April 22, 1T6. tf
A Professional Card.
HAVING located in Charlotte permanently,
wirh the view of practicing Medicine, I
would lespectfullv tender mv services to the pub
lic C. A. HENDERSON, M. D.
rFOffice at the American Hotel.
April 1866. tf
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.
OFFERS his professional services to the pub
lic, in the practice of SURGERY, in all
its various departments.
lr. Gibbon will operate, trmt, or give advice
in all cases that may require hi.- attention.
'trOftice No. f, Granite Range, Charlotte.
Feb. 19, lru ly
. W. DAVIS,
Attorney dc Counsellor at Law,
Jan- 1, 1856. tf
ROBERT P. WARHtt,
Attoijit-y at Law,
(Office in building attached to the American Ho
tel, Main street,)
Charlotte, N. C.
Jan. 29, 1856 tf
FEMALE SCHOOL..
THE second Term,
or Summer Session
' of Miss Sarah F. D -vinsoN's
SCHOOL., will
commence on the 3d ol
: March next the 1st Mon-
I dav of the month.
I Charlotte, Feb. 96, 1858. tf
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Trimmed in the latest style, at
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Mrs. W. A. Young
will be pleased to give
instructions to a few
pupils on the PlAHO
F NKTE. Terms made
known upon applica-
tion to her at th
.Mansion
House, (formerly Sad-
let's Hotel.)
March 11, lr.fi
3m
ENCOURAGE THIS KNOCKING
V fllllL undi reigned begs leave
M to return his thanks to those
who favored him with a call dar
ing the hist year ; and he would
respectfully inform the public that
he has removed to the Machine
Shop formerly occupied bv Messrs. George &
i Whisnant, adjoining Mr. J. Rudisill's Steam
. Planing Mills, where he is prepared to execute
I all work in his line a.s cheap and as good as can
: be done in the State.
Turning, CattiBg Screws, Repair
ing Boilers and Engines of all
descriptions, Makine: and Re-
A
PAirm": .Mill
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Spindles,
Wood !
M
Plainer.S, Making Ploughs, Iron-
inp; Wagons: antl in Horse-Shoe- !
inS, &c, we will yield to no one !
f... neatness, wear, and dispatch. Inter- I
fining Shoes .$1 2T, common ditto $1, cast-j
steel toes, or steel plate, $-2.
I have also erected an Air Furnace for mend- j
hx Brass, which answers finely. The public can j
now get brass and composition eastings by call- j
ing at the above establishment, and furnishing I
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patterns. rtu nrass meiien overai areouceu price,
with neatness and despatch.
Brass wanted.
Old Copper and
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Charlotte, Jan. 1, 1866. tf
Kalcigli X Gaston Rail Koatl.
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Schedule for Mail Train,
On and after Tatesday, the first
day or April, 1&5.
ON AND AFTER TUESDAY NEXT. J
the Mail Train, leaving the North Caro
lina Railroad Depot, on the arrival of the Cars j
from the West, at 5. 17, A. M. (as at present.)
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this City, unti1 7 o'clock, allowing ample time !
tor paaacngera front that Road to take breakfast j
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oi ciia r;re.
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at Wei don at 1 1.40, A. M., in full time for all j
Trains oing North, and also lor the Wil- j
mington I ram, going South. Ketnrnin
Will lofit-A I Af o. , a i
! of the Petersburg, Portsmouth, and Wilming-
wi if t ittuii hi v a. ,tiM aiit.i uir ai i n ill
,on Trains, and will reacii Raleigh at 6.45.
P. M.
R. A. HAMILTON, President.
April 8. 1 in.
Wilmington, Charlotte, &Ruth-
erfordton Rail Road.
Pursu
ant to an
order ot the
Board of Di-
rectors of8ttZ5j
the Wilmington, Charlotte and U uthertord-
ton Rail Road Company, hooks are ngain
open lor subscriptions to the Capital S;ock
of said Road, at the Rock Island Store, .ind
tnc offices ot Wm. Johns'on, C.J. Fox, anil
W. Davis. All who feel interested in the
nonor and prosperity of the old N rth Sta'e,
are solicited to come forward and aid in this
great work, the only real public enterprise
that has ever sprung upon our people.
CHARLES 3. FOX,
S. W. DAVIS,
WM. JOHNSTON,
JNO. A. YOUNG,
JOHN WALKER,
LEROY SPU1NGS,
B. H. DAVIDSON,
Commissioner!.
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Senator Douglas Kansas Bill. The
Washington Star says that Senator Douglas'
bill for the admission of Kansas, while it
will pass the Senate by a large majority,
will have a clear majority in the House of
Representatives. It provides, that when
Kansas has the requisite population, she
may enter the Union with such a constitu
tion as she may adopt, without reference to
the slavery question.
Bledsoe on Slavery. The book of
Professor Bledsoe of the University of Vir
ginia, op Liberty and Slavery, is attracting
great admiration. It might justly be en
titled "The End of Controversy" on the
slavery subject. All who have read it agree
that it is a master piece of argument; irre
sistible and unanswerable. Professor Bled
soe is one of the first intellects of the age.
This book is for sale at the Book Store of
Messrs. Lowrie 6c Enniss, Charlotte.
Tiikir Love for Poor Sambo. The
Free State Conventton, which recently as-
j sembled at Topeka, Kansas, inserted a
clause in their Constitution not only pro
hibiting slavery in Kansas, but forever pre
venting jOc0 blacks from taking up their a
bode in the future State. This is, to say
the least, inconsistennt with the boastings
of the par excellence "friends of freedom,"
considering that their "greater lights" ad
vocate tho equality of the races ! The free
soil members of Congress are striving to
admit Kansas, as a State, into the Union
: with this same Topeka Constitution.
Negro LECTURING. "Miss Ellen Wat
kins, a strong minded woman of African
extraction, is edifying the good people of
Maine on political economy, party politics,
and the abolition of slavery. Ellen argues
that the surest and quickest way of placing
the colored race in a position to live with
out labor, is, for the white folks to abandon
j the use of sugar and cotton, and other pro-
; ducts of slave labor."
.
A Whole Souled Commonwealth.
e have heretofore noticed the statement
that a tax of fifty cents per capita upon
each slave is assessed by the citizens of
South Carolina for the purpose of raising
funds to detrr.y the expenses of Southern
emigration to Kansas. This tax is a volun
tary contribution from the people, and it is
of rare occurrence that any citizen does not
freely and promptly pay it. By means of
the sum thus raised three hundred young
men were last week forwarded to Kansas
from Charleston.
The Weather. The AshevilleNews of
the 24th instant, says: The weather from
being mild and spring like, on Sunday last
changed to very respectable winter, and
gave us a blast that would do no discredit,
to November. On Mondav mornimr last
the mountains Southwest of this place wero
covered with snow, and in town we were
blessed with a fair share of frost and ice.
u is foarcd ,the fruit is sono be'ODd r-
den'Ption' ile garden "truck" that had
ventured above ground, looks like the K.
X's will after the election kinder flat.
Reported Defalcation. W. C. Labatt,
late city attorney of New Orleans, is re
ported to be a defaulter to the city to the
amount of a quarter of a million of dollars.
CONVICTED. Col. Meekins Reynolds,
a wealthy farmer, was tried, at Patrick
county, (Virginia,) circuit court, last term,
for the murder of Green D. Satterfield, and
found guilty of murder in the second de
gree. He was sentenced to the State Pen
itentiary for ten years. The trial excited
much interest, -and caused the examination
of more than' sixty witnesses. There are
two sons of the prisoner yet to be tried for
tho same offence. Col. Reynolds has been
placed in the Penitentiary at Richmond.
Fatal Accident. On Saturday after
noon, as some workmen, in the employ of
Mr. W. C. Carlton, 12 Beach-street, were
in the act of filling a vessel from a carboy
of nitric acid, or aquafortis, the vessel was
accidentally broken, spilling the contents
on the floor. Instead of leaving the room
the workmen remained and attempted to
absorb the fluid by throwing sawdust upon
it. They soon became so affected by in-
hUn,. the noziooa effluvia, that they were
O
obliged to leave the room. They subse
quently repaired to their homes, without
making any special complaint, and nothing
was heard of the matter at Carlton's shop
until yesterday morning, when it was re
ported that two of the men were dead, and
others had become seriously affected.
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Cut this Out. A correspondent of the
London Literary Gazette, alluding to the
numerous cases of deaths from accidental
poisoning, adds: 'I venture to affirm there
is scarce even a cottage in tnis country that
does not contain an invaluable, certain, im
mediate remedy for such events; nothing
more than a dessert spoonful of made mus
tard, mixed in a tumbler of warm water, and
drank immediately. It acts as an emetic,
is always ready, and may be used with
safety in any case where one is required.
By making this simple antidote known, you
may be the means of saving many a fellow
creature from an untimely end."
It is stated in the papers that Spea
ker Banks "positively declines the Presi
dency!" "Wonder whojnade him the offer!
THE UNWRITTEN HISTORY.
The Baltimore Sun thinks there must be
an "unwritten history" concerning the con
cessions made by Russia to the Allies. The
readiness of both France and Russia to con
clude a peace, and the sagacity of one party
in making just such propositions as the
other was perfectly willing to accept are
truly wondertul. i ne bmiiuhbi wnicn nas
appeared, professing to declare the basis of
the treaty, implies nothing but Russian
concessions. In the tJiacs sea nussia is
reduced to a mere cipiier. And at this day
destruction is at work with all formidable
demonstrations she has elaborated upon its
coasts. In other points hfl surrenders all
0
that she has been fighting ibr, and tho allies
seem to have it all their own way, except
in exacting from Russia the cost of tho war.
This little item, doubtless, annoys John
Bull and affects his spirit, so that he cannot
rejoice to lustily as his ally over the declar
ation of peace. The result, however, seems
to bo generally acceptable; but there is an
unwritten history illustrative of this hasty
peace and these Rossian concessions which
the future will aloae produce.
The Effect of Peace. A letter from
Hamburg, of the 20th, in the Brussels In
dependence, says: Since peace has been
considered certain, merchants and negotia
tors have arrived almost daily from all parts
of England, with the object of establishing
factories in some part of the Russian Em
pire. It is a remarkable fact, that of all
the people of Europe the English shov,- most
eagerness to renew business relations with
Russia. It is now in contemplation to form
a great Anglo-Russian Company, which,
with considerable capital in its hands, will
solicit the imperial gcvernment authority to
turn to profit on a vast scale the territorial
and mineral riches of the Russian territory.
Royal Nonsense. The Empress Eu
genie, of France, having expressed a wish
to preserve the pen with which the treaty
of peace was signed, the gallant diplomatists
made use of one plucked from the wing of a
living eagle, and the relic is now in her pos
session, ornamented with gold and diamonds.
In addition to signing the principal docu
ments, each of the plenipotentiaries had to
put his name to eighty-six separate para
graphs. The treaty might have been signed
on the 29th ult., but Louis Napoleon, who
affects the Napoleonic fondness for anni
versaries, desired that the ceremony should
be deferred until the 3Uth of March, the
day on which the Allies entered Paris in 1814.
INDIAN HUNTING. IN FLORIDA.
FOUR INDIANS KILLED.
The Tampa Peninsular published an
extra on Monday evening, containing the
following intelligence :
On the afternoon of the 6th instant, the
Indians who had attacked Dr. Braden's
residence and plantation, on the Manatee,
(seven in number,) on the 31st March, were
overtaken, by a party of Florida volunteers.
They were encamped on the south bank of
the Big Charley Apopka Creek, and ap
peared to be confident of safety. The
party approached so near the enemy as to
overhear their conversation ; they then fired
and killed two Indians on the spot. The
remainder retreated to the Creek ; two were
shot while in the act of jumping into it, and
fell corpses; their bodies sinking imme
diately. The remaining three escaped,
wounded badly. They were pursued some
distance by the blood which plainly marked
their retreat, but were finally lost in a ham
mock. The surprise was complete, as the
enemy did not take time to fire a gun. The
negroes (eight) which tho Indians had car
ried off, and the threo mules were re-captured.
One Indian pony and several rifles
were taken. The two Indians who were
shot down at the first fire, were scalped.
One scalp was sent to Manatee with the
party who conveyed the stolen property to
its owners, and the other was sent to Cap
tain Hooker, at this place. The latter has
been exhibited to all persons having the
curiosity to examine it. One of the Indians
who was scalped was not instantly killed,
but mortally wounded. He could talk very
good English desired to be taken to a
doctor said that Okchau, the sub-chief
who led the attack on the 18th January,
near Fort Denaud, met them there; that
the Indian pony captured belonged to
Okchau, and that he jumped into tho creek.
He also said that Bill Bowlegs had as many
warriors as he wanted that he (Billy) had
sent him to Manatee to capture the negroes.
After sounding the Creek, the bottom of
which could not be reached with "a ten foot
pole," and burying tho Indian baggage,
which would have loaded a wagon, the party
started to Manatee with the negroes, mules
and wounded Indian. They had not pro
ceeded many paces, however, when the
Indian fell, and was unable to proceed
further. He was then ordered to be shot,
which order was obeyed.
From the above, it would appear that the
whites, claiming to be civilized and chris
tianized, in Florida, are no better than the
uncivilized and barbarous savages of the
forest. The reading of the above in relation
to scalping and shooting a wounded prisoner,
induces us to believe that there are white
as well as red-skinned savages in Florida.
The Indians we fear, are as much sinned
against as sinning in Florida. Be this as
it may, the conduct of the whites is disgraceful.
A CASE FOR GENERAL SYMPA
THY". In the House of Representatives on Wed
nesday last, the following affecting subject
was brought forward. We copy from the
condensed report of the Washington Union.
Mr. Oliver, of New York, from the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions, reported a bill
, rf Tfflm.; which
j was read twice.
I Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, asked the
attention of the House to a few remarks
j which he wished to make in behalf of the
j bill. The bill was the unanimous report of
the committee to which was referred the
petition of Mrs. Tillman, a widow lady of
his district. When a requisition was made
I upon South Carolina for services in the
Mexican war, she gave to her country every
member of her family capable of bearing
arms, her husband and three sons. All
went, but not one returned to dry a mother's
tears, and gladden a mother's heart with
.the gallantry of her soldier boys. The
bones of one now lie at Saltillo, another fell
at Jalapa, another lay buried by the castle
walls of Perote, and the last found the close
of his earthly career and the goal of his
youthful ambition at the capital of Mexico.
By a strange fatality, the only remaining
son, a boy too young to provide for the sup
port of the family in the absence of his
father and elder brothers, by an accidental
fall from his horse injured his spine, and
was now a paralytic for life. This lady
was thus left in the decline of her age with
a helpless child and a little daughter, en
tirely dependent upon her exertions for
their and her own support, and the bill pro
posed to give her a pension of $8 a month.
This was a narrative of her petition, and
on it she based the hope that her country
would remember her sacrifices and reward
her services. By the laws of society a par
ent was entitled to the services of a child
while a minor, and they who were tho rep
resentatives of the country, and had been
benefitted by the services of the husband
and sons of this lady, ought not to forget
what was due to her.
It was his misfortune to be a witness to
the facts he had stated. One of her sons
enlisted in the Alabama regiment, and the
remaining sons were mustered into the ser
vice of the United States in a company un
der his own command, and it was but the
pure reflection of that friendship which that
father and those boys bore to him that con
strained him to do for their mother what she
would not do for herself. She appealed not
to their charity, but to their magnanimity;
and he appealed to both. He asked them
to put bread in the mouth of the widow and
the fatherless. She appeared before them
with the confidence and the dignity of the
mother of this modern Gracchi, and de
manded that her name should be recorded
on the statutes of her country ; and he ap
pealed to the generosity and the noble in
stincts of the members to come forward in
her aid.
Mr. Mace, of Indiana, moved to amend
tho bill by striking out $8, and inserting
$20.
The question was taken, and the amend
ment was agreed to. .
The bill as amended was then read a third
time and passed.
CLAY AND RANDOLPH.
Tho story of the duel between Henry
Clay and John Randolph is familiar to most
persons ; not so their subsequent reconcilia
tion, and the manner of its accomplishment.
It took place many years after the hostile
meeting. In regard to it Mr. Clay wrote to
a friend, in the year preceding Mr. Ran
dolph's death, as follows: '"You ask how
amity was restored between Mr. Randolph
and me. There was no explanation, no in
tervention. Observing him in the Senate
one night, and looking as if he wero not long
for this world, and being myself engaged in
a work of peace, with corresponding feelings
I shook hands with him. The salutation
was cordial on both sides. I afterwards
left a card at his lodgings, where I under
stood he had been confined by sickness."
In the last public speech that Randolph
made, after dwelling on the then threatening
danger of disunion, he is reported to have
said: "There is one man, and one man
only, who can save this Union that is
Henry Clay. I know he has the power; I
believe he will be found to have the patriot
ism and firmness equal to the occasion."
The couse of the duel between these dis
tinguished men was the following insulting
language used by Randolph towards Mr.
Clay in secret session of the Senate in 1825:
"This man (mankind I crave your par
don) this worm (little animals, forgive this
insult) was spit out of the womb of weak
ness was raised to a higher life than he
was born to, for he was raised to the society
of blackguards. Some fortune kind to
him cruel to us has tossed him to the
Secretary-ship of State . Contempt has the
property of descending, but she stoops far
short of him. She would die before she
would reach him ; he dwells below her fall.
I would hate him if I did not despise him.
It is not what he is, but where he is, that
puts my thoughts in action. This alphabet
which writes the name of Thersites, of black
guard, of squalidity, refused her letters for
him. That mind which thinks on what it
cannot express can scarcely think on him.
An hyberbole for meanness would be an
ellipsis for day."
OH, GIVE NOT UP TO SORROW.
BY EDGAR W. DAVIES.
Oh, give not up to sorrow,
And never know despair
Let Hope light up the morrow,
With all its holy cheer.
Why should we mar the moments
That past us swiftly fly,
By cruel, dark forebodings,
When Joy itself is nigh f
Though dark misfortunes meet us,
And friends and fortune fail,
And many objects greet us,
To tell the sadden 'd tale
Let's view it as our share of toil.
That's nobly to be borne
And light will be the burthen,
Howeer thr Lieart was torn.
Oh, give not np to sorrow,
And never know despair
Let Hope light up the morrow,
With all its holy cheer.
He who can light the darkness
Will every care disarm
The storm of life will rage to-day,
To-morrow bring its calm.
MISCE
THE GIRLS.
When a young man enters the arena of
the world in search of a wife, he should ask
three questions before entering into court
ship ; first, is she intelligent ? second, is
she kind and benevolent ? and thirdly, did
she ever get up before breakfast in the
morning? If all these interrogatories be
answered in the afHrmitive, no other qualifi
cation is indispensably necessary ; for with
such a wife fortune and fame can easily be
acquired. Such is the wife for the laboring
man, such should be the companion of one
fortunately possessed of wealth, and such
should be the, wife of him who aspires to the
highest stations that society can bestow.
All this information can be easily obtained
from the girl you have in view ; for many
boast of their indolence, and think no higher
compliment could be paid than by calling
them delicate in health and feeble in mind.
If she is weighed in the balance and found
wanting, pass her with contempt, and look
to other resources for future happiness.
But marry, let the risk be what it may it
gives dignity to your profession, it inspires
confidence, and commands respect. With
a wife the lawyers are more trusty, the
doctors more esteemed, the merchant gets
a bigger credit, and the mechanic throws
the hammer with- increased power, and
shoves the plane with a more dexterous
hand; in short a man who has no wife, is
no man at aU. She nurses him while sick,
she watches for him when absent, and loves
and cherishes him when in health. Gentle
men, get a wife, a pretty one if you like
them best a good one if she is to be found
and a rich one if you can get her. Then
youth will pass in visionary pleasures, as if
on a bed of flowers, middle age will be en
joyed in the bosom of a happy family; when
your head is silvered o'er with the frosts of
many winters, you can reflect back with
the happy consolation that you have spent
your life in usefulness to yourself, and to
the benefit of your fellow-men.
THE FIRST MARRIAGE.
Adam's Wedding. An English Journal,
the Britannia, has an amusing article under
the head of "Adam's Wedding." The
editor says that he likes short courtships,
and in this Adam acted like a sensible man
he fell asleep a bachelor, and awoke to
find himself a married man. He appears
to have "popped the question" immediately
after meeting Ma'mselle Eve; and she
without flirtation or shyness gave him a kiss
and herself. Of that first kiss in this world
we have had, however, our own thoughts,
and sometimes in poetical mood have wished
we were the man that did it. But the deed
is or was done ; the chance was Adam's
and he improved it. We like the notion of
getting married in a Garden; it is in good
taste. We like a private wedding, and
Adam's was strictly private. No envious
beaux were there, no croaking old maids,
no chattering aunts and no grumbling grand
mothers. The birds of heaven were min
strels, and the glad sky shed its light upon
the scene. Our thinking about the first
wedding brings queer ideas into our heads,
spite of scriptural trfith. Adam and his
wife were rather young to be married ; some
two or three years old according to the
speculations of theologists mere babies
larger but not older without a house, with
out a pot or kettle nothing but love and
Eden !
A PEEP AT HERSELF,
Fanny Fern, in her "Peeps from under a
Parasol," which she contributes to the New
York Ledger, has taken a peep at herself.
Hear her rattle :
"And here, by the rofcd, comes Fanny
Fern ! Fanny is a woman. For that she is
not to blame; though, since she first found
it out, she has never ceased to deplore it.
She might be prettier, she might be younger.
She might bo older, she might be uglier.
She might be better, she might be worse.
She has been both over-praised and over
abused, and those who have abused her
worst have imitated and copied her most.
"One thing may be said in favor of Fanny:
she was not, thank Providence, born in the
beautiful, backbiting, sanctimonious, slan
dering, clean, contumelious, pharaaaical,
phiddlcde-dee, peck-measure city , of Boston .
THE HOLT LANCE.
The lance which opened the side of our
Divine Saviour is now kept at Rome, but
has no point. Andrew of Crete, who lived
in the seventh century, says it was buried
together with" the cross, and St. Gregory of
Tours and Venerable Bede testify that in
their time it was kept at Jerusalem. For
fear of the Saracens, it was buried privately
at Autioch, in which city it was afterwards
found, and wrought many miracles, as
Robert the Monk and many eye witnesses
testify. It was first carried to Jerusalem,
and then to Constantinople, and at the time
the city was taken by the Latins, Baldwin
II. sent the point of it to Venice as a pledge
for a loan of money. St. Louis, King of
France, redeemed it by paying the sum for
which it was pledged, and had it conveyed
to Paris, where it is stiM kept in the Holy
Chapel. The rest of the lance remained at
Constantinople, after the Turks had taken
that city, to the year 1492, when the Sultan
Bajazet sent it by an embassador, in a rich
and beautiful case, to Pope Innocent VIII.
adding that the point was in the possession
of the King of France.
SAD PICTURE
OP A ONCE BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY FEMALE.
A Mrs. Howard, was found, a few days
ago, lying in a stable, in Buffalo, New York,
intoxicated. The police arrested her, and
took her to tho watch-house, and the Mayor
ordered her to be sent to the work-house,
as a vagrant. The "Courier," of Buffalo,
gives the following melancholy history of
this poor woman.
Some may censure, but we are disposed
to pity this unfortunate woman. Loss than
a year ago she was living in New York
with her husband, who held a position of
honor and trust in one of the large mercan
tile houses in that city. She was admired
for her beauty and intelligence, moved in
an exalted sphere, and was surrounded by
friends and relatives, who respected and
ioved her. Last fall her husband was sent
upon a collecting tour, and she accompanied
him. On their way hither the husband fell
in with a company of "confidence" or
"patent safe" men, and was induced to join
in their nefarious business. In this city
his guilt became known he was arrested,
convicted, and sentenced to the State
prison, at Auburn, for a term of years,
where he now remains. This fact becoming
known to her family and friends, they at
once disowned her, leaving her alone in the
world, and surrounded by the disgrace
which her husband had brought upon her.
In her desperation she resorted to the wine
cup; and is now a poor, dissolute, drunken
wretch fit only for pity and compassion.
Her trunks, which were filled with fine
clothing and other articles, are detained at
a hotel as security for tho payment of bills
contracted by her husband. Her jewelry
was long since left at a pawn-broker's, and
she is without friends, without a home, with
out money, without everything tliat waa
once hers. Lost, lost, lost !
SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING.
A young lawyer residing at M , in
this State, seeking to be extra polite to a
very pretty, young and interesting woman
on the cars, a few evenings since, took her
infant to hold, while she stepped forward to
see to her baggage ; the train started, and
the lady was left. The youthful Blackstone
was in a fix. 'He left the cars at M ,
with the infantry at full shoulder, and pro
ceeded to the gate of his law partner, where
he set up a vociferous howling. He dare
not go further, for the gentleman of the
house had a cross bull dog, so he stood
there in the winter midnight wind, and
howled for his partner to chain up the dog,
and come out and help him nurse the child.
Detroit Advertiser.
READING.
Of all the amusements that can possibly
be imagined for a working man, after daily
toil, or in the intervals, there is nothing like
reading a newspaper or a book. It calls
for no bodily exertion, of which tho mind
has had enough perhaps too much. It
relieves his home of dullness and sameness.
Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's
work, and gives him something to think of
besides the mere mechanical drudgery of
his every day occupation; something be
can enjoy while absent, and look forward to
with pleasure. If I were to pray for a taste
which would stand by me under every
variety of circumstances, and be a source
of happiness and cheerfulness to me through
life, and a shield against its ills, however
things might go amiss, and the world frown
upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Herschtl.
What's in a Name. The Darlington
(S. C.) Flag says that a child in that Dis
trict, not long since, received the following
name : Frances Cornelia Amarinthia Olivia
Sarah Rebecca Sophronia Julia Josephine
Victoria, Queen of South Carolina.
Wanted. A New York journal publishes
the following remarkable want :
Wanted "by an ancient maiden lady, a
local habitation and a name."
It is always in your power to make
a friend by smiles what a folly to make
enemies by frowns !
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