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YATES, Editor A: Proprietor. C II A RLOTTE. Tuesday Morning, Dec. 23, 1856. rm-KTMAS. IJcfore another number of our paper shall have reached our subscri bers, the Christmas Holidays, with all their pkasaut concomitant.-, will have passed ly. Our friends in this section are as well r.ri- ared for enjoying the festivities of the peMoa, as those of any other region of h this beautiful earth can bou.-t. j land that Aowetli with milk and honey, where beef and pork abounds, and where all the 0-mforts and luxuries of life are brisked with an unspairing hand upon the ...l.;t:mts. surely affords, sufficient inate- UJI1..V-. jjj for the gratification and enjoyment of ; and every one. Uut while we are thus ........vino- the bounties of Providence, let us not forget the soarcfl from whence all our comforts come; hut let us Mt our thoughts, KCCornpanieJ with our heart-felt thanks, to the "giver of every good and perfect gift," who tupplblh ms with benefits, and feedeth the voung lions when they cry unto him." Ami let us not forget those who, in humble circum-tances, may need our assistance, recollecting that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." Our acquaintance with our Patrons has been short but pleasant only a few have we had the pleasure of speaking to face to face: we would like to make the acquaint ance of all; for as "iron sharpeiieth iron." ko doth the face of a subscriber brighten that of his friend, the Editor. We invite all, therefore, to call at our sanctum when convenient. Meanwhile we wish each and every one a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. ..... . TOWN FINANCES. We publish to day the Reports of the Town Clerk and Town Treasurer, showing the receipts and disbursements for the past vear. The Report shows the financial con dition of the town of Charlotte to be in an extraordinary good condition. The out atnndiht; debt is not precisely known, but it is thought it does not amount to more than fifteen hundred dollars. To offset this debt, there is due the town upwards of eigfcieeu hundred dollar? for taxes, dec. . COUNCILLORS OF STATE. On Wednesday last, the X. C. Leghda- ture elected the following gentlemen to compose the Coaucil of State : C. G. Merchant, D. G. W. Ward, Win. 1. Bethel, N. M. Long, C. M. Avery. A. A. Me Roy, John Walker, of Mecklenburg. Co.ii'TKoi.M-.K. The General Assembly of North Carolina on the- loth, elected ('. II. Itrogdea State CompetroDer for the next two rears. The vote stood Itrogdea 12J, .1. II. Lindsay 59, Mr Brooks (present in- easahent) 3. Mr Brooks made a good officer, and lor ourselves we must say that we are sorrv he was not re-elected. 28T We had the pleasure of a eall yes terday from Geo. Cop way, the Indian Chief and Lecturer, and Native American, in in. -I. senses than one, who is on a Southern toor. It was Mr. Copwav's design to de liver a lecture or lectures in this place, but he eoocladed not to do so until his return, lb- li ft for Raleigk in the afternoon to take n irlanee at the assembled wisdom in the Capitol. Wilmington Herald. It seems to us that we saw it stated that the individual mentioned above was engag ed in Making aboKtion speeches at the North within the last two or three years, or he advocated abolitionism in a paper which he published in Now York. If we are cor rect the sooner he is bnrried out of the State the better. We may be wrong in our opin ion if so we would like to know it. VtT The Legislature of South Carolina adjourned on Saturday last, after a session 01 tour weeks. A GOOD Law. A bill has been passed by the South Carolina Legislature requiring the registration of births, deaths and mar riages. A proviion of the act requires the Tax Collector to require, with his tax return-;. n oath, a report of all births, deaths and maniages within his family or care. For aedect of duty the Tax Collector is liable to a fine of five dollars for each ease, and for the dinhoif,H of his duty he is allowed three cents for eaeh entry. CauvuKMA. In this State the State of ficers and both Congressmen are Demo cratic. Senate le Democrats. 12 Know Nothings and .! Republicans. Assembly 60 Democrats, 8 Know Nothings ami 1J Rr public aw Fonmoa News. The steamer City of Baltimore has arrived, with Lirerdoo dates to I eCeinber 3d. She reports the Cotton market firm prices unchanged. Sales of four days IHK bales. Breadstuff firm quotations unchanged. Prorisiuua dull. Another Jluel. Washington Dec. 15. It was reported in the House to-day that Mr. Stephens, of (Jeorgia has sent a challenge, or note pre liminary thereto, to Mr. Hill one of the Fillmore electors of that State. Their dif acuities grew out of a question of veracity concerning the terms agreed on by tbem for conducting public discussion during tl. presidential contest. John Van Duren. in a letter to a Demo-! cratie Committee in Boston, says that Gen. Scott voted for Buchanan. At the recent Alabama State Fair, the premium for the largest production of cot ton from one acre of laud, (3,(110 lbs.) was given to Dr. Kennon Jones, from what county of the State we are uninformed. The premium for the largest production of corn from one acre (95 bushels) wa riven to Charles A. Peabody. The Agricultural Society passed a reso lution offering a reward of $10,0t() foe the discovery of a mode to secure the cotton planter from the ravages of the boll worm.. VM- J- ayettevHjLE and coal field RAILROAD. The bill to aid in the construction of the Railroad from Fayetteville to the Coal Fields in Chatham county, was under con sideration in the Legislature last week, and was lost in the House (we are sorry to say) by one vote. When we consider the mineral wealth that will be developed by the proposed Road, the small and inconsiderable aid asked from the State, and the injury Fayetteville and that section of country has sustained by the building of other Roads by the State, we are surprised that the bill should meet with such unrelenting opposition ; and some of those who oppose it ought to be the last ones to undertake to defeat the measure. For instance we find A. If. Lewis, Esq., of Wake, speaking against the bill. This shows a narrow and contracted public spirit on his part. As an evidence that Mr. Lewis knew but little if unything of the matter under consideration we refer to his remarks where he said he was in favor of improving Deep Hirer instead of aiding in the con struction of the Road. The State has al ready spent several hundred thousand dol lars on the River and the work is no nearer completion now than it was three years ago. A resolution has been passed by the Legis lature for employing an Engineer to inspect the work and report upon its practicability ! This is late in the day to talk about the practicability of the scheme after the State has already wasted u lar'e amount in pro secuting it. Yet -Mr. Lewis is in favor of appropriating more aid to assist in building dams across a river that have been and will be swept away by -very freshet, and oppos ed to granting the name of the State by way of security to aid in constructing a Road that will do more to derelope the resources of North Carolina than any work heretofore completed or commenced. Rut we did not intend to offer opposition to the River improvement when we com menced this article. We have been led to these remarks by seeing a disposition on the part of gentlemen (Mr. Lewis among the rest) whoso sections have been sustain ed and built up by State aid, to defeat and kill of a simple act of justice to Fayetteville und that section of the State section which pays a larg-e amount into the Treasu ry but ha received no benefit in compari son with other portions of the State. We hope the bill will pass as a matter of justice if nothing else. All know the value of the coal mines in Chatham county, and all profess to entertain a desire to have our resources developed, therefore let proper assistance be rendered to the scheme under consideration and to all other laudable schemes, and the time will soon arrive when the Old North State will support her gov ernment with the dividends derived from works of internal improvement, without re sorting to high taxation. - . . GREENSBORO AND DANVILLE RAILROAD. There is a bill before the Legislature to charter this Road. It ask.- for nothing but a charter, which we hope will be granted. The measure no doubt will meet with op position on the ground that it may injure other works in which the State is interested: but that is certainly not a good reason for refusing to allow the people of any portion of the State to expend their money on works of internal improvement. Are not c people the State, and why set up one portion and keep down another ? Are the citizens of a particular section to be deprived of the benefits of a Road upon which to transport their produce to market, mere ly because the State might not derive quite as large a divi dend from works in which she has invested if the proposed charter was granted Away with such a contracted policy. We find a communication in the Standard of Saturday, signed ,WV in opposition to granting a charter, which we may have occasion to re ply to hereafter. - - m CONGRESSIONAL. Tn the House of Representatives on the 15th. resolutions in opposition to the slave trade were adopted by 93 majority. Mr Orr, of South Carolina, submitted a resolution that it is inexpedient, unwise and contrary to the settled policy cf the United States to repeal the laws prohibiting the African slave trave. It was adopted ; yeas 183, nays 6 Messrs. Harksdale, Bennett of Miss., Brooks, Keitt, Quitman, Shorter, Wright of Miss., Walker. Rut little business has been transacted in either House. There is a bill before the House of Representatives for the better or ganization of the army, in which provision is made for an increase of tin-compensation of the officers. This is earnestly pressed. The Senate bill to authorize the construc tion of tin (steam) sloops of war, stands prominent on the House calendar. In the House on the IGth, Mr Campbell reported a bill to amend the tariff of 1843, so as to prohibit the importation of indecent and obscene prints, transparencies, statu ettes. Ac. The bill was passed. On mo tion of Mr Campbell the bill reducing the duties on imports, reported last session, was postponed till the first Tuesday in January. Tost Office Department. Tbe Post master General's report shows the number of Post Offices in June 30, 1856, to have been 25565 being an increase of 4,661 in four years. On the 30th of June there were in opt ration nearly 8.000 mail-routes, the length of which is estimated at 239.642 miles, costing 8356,474, divided us fol lows: 0.3J1 miles of railroad. 14,!.l 1 of steamboat, and 50,453 coach lines, and marly 154.000 miles of inferior grades. Tin- increase during the last fiscal year was nearly 20,000 miles of railroad, and J"-2 miles of steamloat. 1,250 miles of coach lines, and 8,200 miles of inferior grades. In Nebraska and Kansas 239 miles were added to the length of routes. Between the 1st of July. 1852, and the 1st of July. 1856, the railroad service was increased ; 10.177 miles, exhibiting tiie fact that within that time this description of service was more than doubled. On the 1st of Decern- ! her. IcTrti, the length of railroad routes had increased to 21310 miles, and the total cost for this service at that date amounted to 2.-103.747. The whole cost of the in- j land service on 1st of July was $6526,028. LEGISIiATIVE PROCEEDINGS. Correspondence of the Western Demicrat. RALEIGH, Dec. 19, 1856. Mli EorroR: In the Senate, to-day, the bill regulating the standard weight of grain was taken up.aud discussed at considerable length by Senators. It was, on motion of Mr Cunningham, postponed for further con sideration until the 4th of March next, by a vote of 27 to 7 ; this of course killed the Bill. The House, after having consumed three or four days on the bill to charter the "Peoples' Bank," has just taken a vote on its second reading 57 for to 55 against passing it by two votes. This question, to a considerable extent, has assumed a party aspect. It is to be regretted that an Insti tution of this kind, affecting so largely the various interests of the State, should assume a party character. By reference to the charter you will observe that it is quite a different thing from the charter cf the "Peoples Bank " as proposed two years ago. The only feature different from other Banks and common to all similar institu tions is that of a pre-emption right of cer tain classes of our people to all the Stock of said Bank. It proposes to prefer to this enjoyment, the Stockholders in all the Bail roads of the State, provided the entire length of said roads are within the limits of the State. In the Senate, the Bill to construct the Cheraw and Coal Field Railroad, after con siderable discussion, was lost by several votes. A motion was made to reconsider, pending which, a motion to adjourn pre vailed. The Bill to re-charter the State Bank was made the special order of the day for Monday. Notwithstanding the pas sage of the "People's Bank" on its second reading, and the efforts being made on the part of the friends of that Bank to destroy and defeat the State Bank charter, I have but little doubt of its passage there can be no doubt of it in the Senate at least and I cannot believe it is possible to prevent its passage in the House. The greatest possible amount of opposi tion is being brought to bear against the Danville Road. You will observe a com munication in the Standard, which is de signed to array opposition against the pas sage of the Bill. If this unjust legislation is persisted in, I hope the people in that section of the country will go to work, in defiance of Laic, and construct that great work. Were it in Mecklenburg it would be built. There are stout hearts and strong arms enough in the home of Liberty to re sist wrong and oppression come from what ever source it may. They would go to work with pick in hand, and rifle, if necessary to the enforcement of right and the putting down of the exercise of an arbitrary and unjust discrimination. It is not sufficient that taxes are enforced for other works of internal improvement, but we are prohibited from the poor privilege of employing our own means in a way that we may think is likely to result to our advantage. This is downright oppression oppresion that no free people could be expected to submit to. X. In the Senate on the 15th, Mr Wm. It. Myers introduced a bill to amend the act of 183d incorporating Davidson College. Mr Sharp a bill to incorporate a Bank at Eagle city. Iredell county. The bills to amend the charter of the Western Plank Road Company and the Charlotte and Statesville Plank Road were passed ,'ld time. Mr W. Ii. Myers introduced a bill authorizing the examination of the wife as a witness in cer tain cases n open court. A bill was intro duced to incorporate a Bank to be located at Raleigh also, a bill to make railroad companies pay for stock killed by their engines. In the House, a resolution to adjourn on the 8th January was rejected. Mr Sharpe offered a resolution to loan $10,000 to Con cord Presbyterian Female College, which was referred to the committee on education. Senate. Pith, 17th and 18th. The Com mittee reported against repealing the clause prohibiting the issue of small notes. Mr W. II. Thomas indroduced a bill instructing the judiciary committee to inquire into tho ex pediency of uniting the X. C Western and the Charlotte Railroads. Mr Reeves intro duced a resolution to expunge from the Statute book the "Mexican preamble." In the House, the bill to repeal that por tion of tho revised code which relates to fire hunting at night, was passed. The bill to incorporate the Greensboro' and Danville Railroad was introduced into the House. It was agreed that no bill or resolution of a pnblic nature should be considered from the 24th instant to the 1st January, in or der to allow members to spend the holidays at home. 3"' The bill introduced by Mr Waddill relative to widows, U one of great impor tance. It provides that all of the property which may have come by the widow, in marriage, and its increase, in case there be no child, shall be hers, and not descend ' to the nearest of kin on the husband's side. And in case there may not have been any j property coining into the estate, it does not ! interfere with the existing law which now gives her half the estate. A law of this sort, if practicable in its , provisions, would surely do justice to those to whom sufficiently small protection has ; been heretofore given. e would almost approve a law still more comprehensive, and favorable to the widow, viz: that all the propertv of the deceased husband, however acquired, after paying his debts, should, under such circumstances, be hers ab solutely. Raleigh lit tgifltr. Editors. The N. H. Telegraph is of the opinion that an editor who cannot stop right in the midst of one of the finest trains of thought that he is putting on paper, to minute tho dimensions of a huge pumpkin, or write an advertisement of dog lost, or enter the name of a new subscriber, or take pay for an old one, and after all. to resume 'the thread of his discoursa,' and carry out the idea in its original force and beauty, is next to no editor at all. COMPTROLLER'S REPORT. We acknowledge the receipt from Wm. M. Matthews, Esq., of a copy of the Report of the Comptroller of Public Accounts for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 185G. From this valuable document we extract the number of acres of Lrol and its value, and amount of town property in each County named below: Anson County Acres of land 3"24,722, valuation $1.502,097 town property, 00, 550. Cabarrus Acres of land 218,408. valua tion $1,602,469 75 town property, $121, 880. Catawba Acres of land 245,994, valua tion $1,044,327 town property. $24,599. Cleaceland Acres of land 208,140, valuation $965,146 town propertv, $0, 908. Craven Acres of land 506,338, valua tion $d75,701 town property, $015,800. Cumberland Acres of land 585,075, valuation $1, 244, 247-towu property, $721 980. Davidson Acres of land 302,089, valu ation $1.G37,481 town property, $54,555. Davit Acres of land 163,961, valua tion $913,991 town property, $01,150. Gaston Acres of land 217,044, valua tion $940,780 town property. $25,575. Iredell Acres of land 312,724, valua tion $1,271,205 town property, $80,875. Lincoln Acres of laud 181,100, valua tion $839,980 town property, 141,045. New Hanover Acres of laud 076,743, valuation $1,142,177 town property, $3, 260,355. Jiowati Acres of land 314,696, valua tion $ 1 ,687,545 town property, $395,6 11 . Union Acres of land 300,500, valua tion $1,038,196 town property, $44,533. Wilkes Acres of land 404,092, valua tion $835,416 town property, $20,875. Wake Acres of land 577,903, valua tion $2,526,173 town property, $713,550. MECKLENBURG COUNTY. The following is a statement of the taxes collected from Mecklenburg county: Acres of land, 310,686 Valuation of land, $1,(589,513 Town propertv, $498,075 Number of Polls, 4,264 State Taxes. Eand, Town propertv, Poll, Interest received, Dividend and profit, Lawyers, Physicians, &c, Mortgages, Deeds, Arc, Stud Horses. Marriage License, Pistols and Knives, Dirks and Canes, Gold Watches, Silver do. Pianos $60, Plate 24.10, 1,998 44 599 37 1.711 60 1.793 37 85 1 1 194 00 35 00 41 00 20 00 8 00 1 00 231 00 61 25 84 10 428 50 13 75 844 38 90 00 165 00 Pleasure Carriages Playing Cards, Merchants' Capital, Pedlars $60, Taverns $30, Circuses, Arc, Retailers $200, Billiard tables $100, 300 00 Livery Stables, 30 00 Privileged Voters, 16 40 Liquor Traffic, 267 70 Auctioneers, 2 73 Insurance Companies, 100 00 Collateral Descent, 565 05 Total amount. $9,687 35 County Taxes. Poor, 7 cents per $100 value real estate, and 15 cents per poll, $2,170 91 Common Schools, 5 do., and 10 do. J. 520 19 County expenses, 11 do., and25do. 3,472 34 Total amount, $7,I0U 44 The commissioners of Charlotte valued the Town property, at the last asfcssment, at five hundn-d and ninety-five thousand two hundred dollars. SUICIDE. We received tho following communica tion from a gentleman in Chatham, giving us the particulars of a dreadful act of self destruction : This will inform you that Malcom Sin clair of this county, aged 75 or 80 years, committed suicide by cutting his throat on the 18th ult. He was a single man ; never was married, and resided with his sister, a lady without any family. These two persons being the only members of the family, the sister being also between 70 and 80 years of age, and so much afflicted at the time that she was not able to get off her bed without help. In this situation he (Malcom) left her on the day before named, telling her he was going to a neighbor's house and would soon return. She remain ed alone until the next day at 10 o'clock when some person passed near her house and heard her cries. Search was then made by the neighbors for Malcom. When found he was about a mile from home ; his own razor bloody in his hat, and he a few feet from the hat, with his thr at cut to the bone, dead. No cause for the rash act is known. He was a man of good character and had plenty to support himself comfortably on. Fayette vil le Ca rol inian. mm Pay of United States Army Offi CEItS. -The Committee on Military Affairs in the House of Representative's have re ported a bill which, it is stated, increases the pay of all commissioned officers, t the rate of $20 per month, with the addition of 10 cents in the commutation of rations. The equity of this measure, it is further i-tatcd consists in the proportion of increase of pay to the young officers, whose limited income make them the objects of so manv hardships. The Lieutenant gets his $20 a month, equally with the Colonel or General. An officer whose pay is $40, gets $60 under the provisions of this bill being an in crease of 5d per cent. while the officer who now receives $200. receives $2x!0 an in crease of 10 per cent. The 10 cents addi tional on the ratio preserve th-e equality of compensation under the longevity ration principle. Preacher Married in his own Pul pit. The congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in Louisville, were considerably startled a few evenings ago, it is said, by the Rev. Mr. Newman, the pastor of the church, descending from the pulpit, after closing his discourse, and se lecting a young lady who had consented to become his helpmeet, to whom he was im mediately joined in the holy boads of wedlock. POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT. The New York Journal of Commerce has a table, which contains, in effect, the whole vote of the United States for President, ex cept a few counties, townships, plantations, etc., which were excluded on account of informality, or were returned too late to be counted, or not returned at all. Omitting these, the total vote For Buchanan, is l,859.7k For Fremont, 1,336.815 Buchanan over Fremont, Buchanan and Fillmore over Fremont, Fremont and Fillmore over Buchanan, Fillmore's vote is Total number of votes return ed in season to be counted. Exclusive of a few hundred Gerrit Smith. Buchanan's vote is larger by of a million than was ever before Presidential candidate. 522,951 1.393,097 347.195 870,146 4,066,727 votes for a quarter given for THE WESTERN TERRITORIES. There are now open for settlement the territories of Minhessotn, Oregon, Nebraska, Washington, New Mexico, Utah and Kan sas. These territories contain, according to a compendium of the census of 1850, the following area : Minnessota 166,025 square miles. Oregon 585,035 M Nebraska 335,882 Washington 123,022 Utah 209,107 Total, 1,286.000 Kansas.... 114,798 The first named six territories contain 1,386,196 square miles of land and a total area of all the States and territories belong ing to the Union is 2,036,166 square miles; they comprise nearlj- one-half of the whole. They run through some seventeen or eigh teen degrees of latitude, and embrace mil lions of acres of the finest land, and mineral deposits, in the finest climate, and 011 the finest river in the world. Lar;k Sale of Slaves. The Raleigh Standard states that some 230 slaves of T. P. Devereux, Esq., were sold at Halifax, in this State, on the 2d inst., and brought an overage of about $60U each. The most of them were taken by the planters in Hal ifax and surrounding counties. A letter from Lexington, Ga., December 2d, to the Augusta Chronicle, says: About $100,000 worth of property was sold here to-day land and negroes. Some of the sales were ahead of anything we have ever heard. A negro girl 13 years old, sold for $1,280; another girl, 14 years old, sold for 1,280 dollars; another girl, 14 years old, for 1,305 dollars; another girl, 18 years old, for 1,500 dollars; a boy, 18 years old, for 1.200 dollars; a fellow, 22 vears old, for 1,500 dollars. Paying a Member for doing Noth ing. The act of last session for compen sating members of Congress pays members about 25 dollars per day for attendance, and deducts .$8 33J for each day's absence ; so that a member who stays away during his whole term, will henceforth be entitled to draw about 4,000 dollars from the treas ury. This is a pretty good premium for doing nothing. If the principle is right of making a deduction on account of absence, the amount deducted should at least be equal to the amount received for being pres ent. Phil. Ledger. y An expedition, comprising 500 Irish men, is fitting out in New York, it is said, for Nicaragua. It proceeds via Omoa, Honduras. DECLINE IN THE PRICE OF IRON. A writer in the Manchester, Eng., G uardian, complains ofthe gloomy prospects of the iron trade and says that uuless some improvement takes place, several firms w ill have to reduce the number of hands and work short in a time. He says: The decline in the demand for iron from America, has been one of the chief sources of depression. In 1853-4 there was an exceedingly large demand for iron from America, an increase of one third having taken place in the value of the exports from 1 852-3. The American crisis of 1854 caused a reaction, which tbe magnificent crops of the last and present year have removed. The stocks in the States are known to be small, but notwithstanding this fact, the orders have been on a scale much below tho average. This state of things has ruled in Staffordshire as well as in these counties, and the important question of a reduction in prices will force itself upon the attention of iron masters at the ensuing quarterly meetings. While bar iron con tinues at i per ton the iron makers in the United States become formiable competitors with the English manufacturer; and if the price of iron were reduced to $ per ton which will, in all probability be the case at the next Electing the American demand would to a great extent be regained. Indeed we have heard it contended that the juice should bo reduced to 7 per ton. It is impossible for iron masters at the present price of labor and material to make iron remuneratively at less than 9 per ton It follows, therefore, that whatever be the amount of tbe reduction in price, a corres ponding decline will be made in the wages ofthe men a step very undersirable during the present high prices of provisions. THE COMMISSIONER'S ELECTION. The entire American ticket for munici pal officers was yesterday re-elected with out opposition. The following is the votes : 0. G. Parsley 1214 1. Northrop,'. 212 Ceo. I);tvis. 213 211 21 212 210 T. M. Gardner, . II . P. Russell, .. L. A. Hart Win. Sutton, .... Whole number of votes polled 210 : Scattering 5. The exceeding slimness ofthe vote shows tbe lack of interest felt in this election. The town can poll probably five times the number cast on yesterday. Wilmington Herald, 10th. A Sentiment. The Ladies. May their virtues exceed even the magnitude of their j skirts, while their fault. are btill smaller , tbau their banuet. MARRIED, In Duplin county, on theltith int., Mr Daul. Herring, aged 62 years, to Miss Lydia J. Kas burry, agvd 20 years. Id Anson county, on the 14th iust., Green Ii. Lisenby to Miss Ellen Sikes. In Montgomery county, on the 9th inst, Re Z. Rush of the X. C. Coiit'en-ncs to Miss l ahitha Jane, daugbn-r of Dr Josrph Kwinjj. lu Rowan county, on On- Ttli iust., Mr Moses . . .... . . -, . . , . I J. mn to .Miss r.iixancui oniunjrtou. aiso, on me 11m nisi.. -ir Kurotn . w.mik 10 mmm mry Ann Owen. In Wilmington, en tin' lf"th instant, Mr James D. RadclirTr, formerly of Columbia, 8C, to Miss Elizabeth Drane. DIED, In this town, on the loth inst.. Mary Puuliuc, infant of John and Catharine C. l'ln lan. mje4 months. At his residence, in Union county, on the I8tb instant, Joshua Sikes, Esq, High Sheriff of the county, after a protracted illness of one month. Another pood man is rone, and the citizens of Union deprived of a kind-hearted and efficient officer. Com. In Davie county, 011 'j:d ultimo. Miss K. II. Frost. She graduated with ttv- fit si honor in Greensboro F. College. Her end was peace. In Guilford county, on 4th inst. Key Thomas Jones, a member of the M. E. Conference. Also, recently, Col John M Cunuiugman, aped 45. In Rowan county on the 3d inst., Mrs Susan nah Seaford, in the 81st year of her ape. Also, on the 8th iust., Martha Catharine Beaver, aped 4 years. In Iredell county, Elizabeth Patten, wife of Daniel Bra w ley, aped about 50 years. Also, 011 the 29th ultimo, Mr David Keid, aped 82 years. To Hire. THE negroes belonging to J. B. & H. B. Lowrie, (minors.) will be hired for the next J'2 months, on the first day of January, 1857, at the public square in the town of Charlotte. P. J. LOYVK1K, Guardian. Dec. 23, 1850. 25-'2t NEGRO WRING. 30 valuable rVegroefs to Hire. On the first daj of January, 1857, 8 VALUA BLE GOLD MINERS, belonging to the heirs of John McLeary, dee'd, will be hired out. H. B. WILLIAMS, Guardinn. Dec. o:iu 25-2t Ifotice. On Tuesday the 3Uth December, the Negroes will lie Ilfrctl and the Laud Rented belonging to the Estate of Win. Lee, dee'd, for the ensuing year. Also the Saw Mill will be Rented. J. W. BARNETT, Adm'r Dec. 23d. 25-2t i ESTATE I will sell, on Moudav of January Court, the STORE-HOUSE and DWELLING attached, known as the J. K. Harrison property. Also, 4 Unimproved Lot in the. Town of Charlotte, and 500 Acres of Land in Union County. r& ' Terms male known on day of Sale. H. B. WILLIAMS, Trustee. Dec. 23, 1856. 25-Ct C HAUL O T T E, N. C. Office Up Stairs in new Bride Building op posite Boone Co's shoe store. Drafts on New York and Charleston, S. C., Gold and Silver, and uncurcent Bank Bills BOUGHT AND SOLI. And special attention paid to the collection of claims by JOHN McRORIE & CO., Dec 23, 156 5t Charlotte, N. C Whig copy lm NEW CASH STOliE. We have just received and are now opening the Largest Stock ot Imported CIGAKS ever brought to this market, viz: Emperatus Eugenia, La Real Londres, Flora de Charleston, Consoles Opera, Rio Hondo, Washington, Jenny Lind, Plantation, Regalia, And others, All imported Cigars, also, a large lot of common ones, so those that want can smoke at any price, from to 10 cents a piece. Also, a fine lot ot Tobacco, for chewing and smoking. To the Ladie we would say, call and see our Confoctionaries, and get something good for the Holidays. PINK APPLKS, ORANGES, COCOA-NUTS. RAISINS, AND NUTS, CANDIES of all KINDS. TO TIIE BOYS We would say we have a large lot of Fire Works That we are determined to sell cheap for cash. DON'T FORGET to call at N.Wilkinson &. Co's New Stand, on the burnt district, op posite Uoone Co-s shoe store. N. SV1LK1NSON & CO. Charlotte, Dec. 23, 1856. 2m INTotice. Whereas Ceorge Wilson, a white indentured Apprentice to me, has absconded from ruy em ploy without my eonwni, this is therefore u notify the public against crediting him on my account as I will not be responsible tor any debts he jn.-ty contract. All persons are forewarned against employing or harboring him. Any one delivering him to ate will be mutably rewarded. He is about 18 years old. CASPER HARGET. Dec 23, 1856. It Notice. 1 WILL expose to public sal to the highest bidder on Friday tbe 2d day of January, 1 837, the following property, vis : The Rpa House ar.d Lots attached ; also, the Hunter Houses and Lots, together with other unimproved Lots. Terms of sale, negotiable paper paya ble at the Branch Bank of the State of N. C, at Charlotte. Sale will positively take place at the public square in Charlotte on the day set lorth. Any person desirous of purchasing will do well to examine said property previous to sale R. M. STERLING. Dec. 23, 1856. 2."-2t Annual Settlement. Those indebted to this Office tor subscription advertising or job work, will tind their account ready. A settlement is resp etfnlly tennmnei bv the commenceiiM-nt mf the New Year, or as soon thereafter a eonrrnu at. W J. YATES VALUABLE HOTEL IX CHARLOTTE, Y virtue of a Deed of Trust to me executed, -M will otter st public sab-. DfKHl the pceMbrPi at 1 o'clock. P. M.,011 tbe V7lh mf J III J Meat, i being Tuesday of County Court, the UuteJ known as the 1AX& ROAD KOTISi, situated contiguous to tbe depots of the Chart Ofte and Sooth Carolina mid the North Carolina Rail Roads in Charlotte. The Hotel building is en tirely new, commodious and isstv in ap-nr.-ince, and so located as to fire commanding advantage for tin- patronage of the through travel tf both Rail Roads. TEJZMS The purclmser will gie notes with approved security, din- one half in six and the other in twelve months, briag interest troin date. JOHN A. YOUNG, TiaeHir. IV eember !:&(. 5-t Sale of Negroes. EIGHT LIS ELY NEOMOES Full SALE at public outcry, on the Slflt inst., at 8tW Faeiorv, in CaMon County, bv order of Court. JASPER .STOWE, Guardian. Dec. 2:t, I8S6 3t To Exchange, TOWN Lots improved or anunpivrid aaVf Negroc. Appiv at this orBc. Dec. 23, 18&6. '.to-It . EDGEWORTH FEMALE SEMINARY, (Svctnsborottgjr, $). . rMlE next Session of this Institutionwiil eottr inencc on Friday, January '2d, JK"i7. The course of study is designed to cnibrac everything necessary to a Ntlbftlll ntlll! and oriiaitM -iitul i?l million. Gnat nro- inilience is given to the SOLID BRANCHES. Neither labor nor expense has been spared to secure Instructors ofthe highest qualifications in their various departments, and to make Ldgc worth second to no Institution in the country, in everything necessary to a complete Educa tion. For circulars containing Terms, Course of In struction, Vc. apply to RICHARD STERLING, Principal. Dec :, Idoti. 25-4t THE MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY BY T. M. FARROW. Charlotte, Dec. 23, 1856. . - B.I CON, Hams per lb J2 to 19 Sides, per lb 114 to 11 Hog round 1 1 t 00 Hugging, rotton, per yard 88 D,,f, per lb 4to T IhUter, per lh 15 to 18 Uccsu-uj , per lb 20 U 12 Itrans, per bushel 75 BRA SD Y, Apple per gal 50 " Peach " "b COTTOX, new, pei lb KM to 1 Jdj Co fee, per lb Rio 12 to lh " Java IHto20 CANDLES, Adamantine 'S3 to 37 " Sperm 40 to 60 Tallow 20 to 88 CORN, pr bushel 6 to 68 Chickens, each 124 ot 15 CIA) ill, Copperas 12 to 1 " Linsey 25 to 30 Fin's, per dozen 15 to 20 FLOUR, per 100 lbs 3 00 to 3 I8J perbbl 0 25 to G 50 Feathers, per lh 33 to 374 llcrrinus, per bbl B4 to 8g l.anl, per lb 124 to 00 Mutton, per lh 5 to R Muekeret, per bbl $10 to 24 MOLASSES, Sugar House lb Common 60 to 7i SUGAR, Loaf 1H to 20 Hrown 124 to 164 Tea. per lb 75 to 2 00 Stuiie-irare, per gal 10 to l!i Salt, per sack 1.90 to 00 Meat, per bushel 60 to 65 Mullet, per bbl (Wilmington) 89 to 104 Xails, per lb 5 to 6 Oat, per bushel 45 to h0 Fork, per lb 7 Feus, per bushel 60 to 65 FOTA TOES, Irish, per bathe 50 to 00 Northern, per bushel, (non.) " Sweet, per bushel 30 Whemt, per bushel 1 .20 to 1 .30 Wliiskry, Western, per gal 60 to 6h WOOL, beat washed, 27 to 28 " unwashed 23 Yam, bale 90 to W Clorrr Seed, per bushel 12 to 09 REMARKS. Cotton has advanced ; tho receipts of tho past week have been largo at prices ranging from 103 to 114- Flour has advanced; we quote family at $6 65. and common to extra brands at $6 to $6 50. Wheat firm at $1 20 to $1 30. Produce of nil kinds in bringing fair prices. COLUMBIA MARKET. Dec. 19 Our market continues brink. All Cotton offered i. freely taken at yeRterday'a quota tions. Four hundred bales were Isold to day at from II to 11 cents. CHARLESTON MARKET. A correspondent sends us the following remarks on the Charleston market : Cotton Our cotton market is very firm and prices tending upward. Sal -sat 114 to 124e. Fr.oi;R Superfine Hour is in fair demand at 74 to $8 per bbl ; fine 7 to $74; extra family 84 to RtCE 34 to 3 cts. per lb. The Bank ot'C harlot le, . V. 9tu DECEMBER, 1888. THE Hoard of Directors have this day declar ed a dividend of 4 per cent on the" Capital Stock ofthe Raid.. Tin- same will he paid to thn Stock holder on and after tin: 1st Monday in Jan nary next. V. A. LUCAS, Cashier. Dec. lf, 1856 2w TO HIRE, ON the first of January next, at the public square iu Charlotte, IN or 0 .ffrocN, belonging to Mary A. Williamson, one of the minor heirs ot John Williamson, deceased. J. M. HUTCHISON, Guardian. Dec. lfi, 18.00 .'it R4.K STOCK and Slate IIoiicIm tor Sale. WILL be ottered for sale to the highest bid der, on a credit ot aix mouths, on Tuesday the 15th day of January next, at the Court House iu the town of Wadesborough, 191 Sliarcs of the Capital Stock of the Bank of Wadesbo rough, of the Capital Stock ot the Bank of Charlotte. Also, le ive S'ate Bonds of Oav Thousand Dol lais each, the property of the la-.e Mrs. Anr. V. Leak, dee'd. W. K. LEAK, I .. J. A. LEAK. J Executort. Dee. 16, 18.'6 3t Take .otiee. All persons indebted to the old firm of R. KOOl'Sl ANN & CO., either by Note or Ace, tint, will save cost by settling on or Ix-fore January Court, as longer indulp uee rsnnt be X'veii D r 2d. 1856. 22-".i
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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