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Tax Receipts, Subpoenas, Jury Tickets,
Administrators1 Bonds and Letters,
Guardian Bonds, Indentures,
Deeds foe conveying Lands or houses,
Prosecution Bonds, Ca Sa Bonds.
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at bhrt notice.
NOTICE.
1 CONSEQUENCE of having lost by the
tire which occurred in this place, n the
uiornais t the -'7th of May last, various Xot.-.s
and daisM against numerous persons in this ;nd
adjoining counties which notes and claims, be
inif the property ot K. C. STEELE, A. 15KTH
t SB & Co., ami others, which were plac ed in my
hand.-, foi wUectittK Ail persons, therefore, against
whom any of aach claims aw still standing uu
ayttkd, are kerchy duly notified, that unless they
nMf inimiliah-lv and close uu the same, by
not.- or eatfc, I -.hall be compelled to til-, tor'h- j
with, Hills m J-.t.uity, aariy n-ycnag sucn
U iTiaui to additional and I nWi J costs.
1 S. V. DAVIS.
Charlotte, June 10, 1836. tf
The Charlotte Jluttial Fire
Insurance Company,
flONTIXUES to take risks against loss by
Fire on Houses, Omuls, Produce, A c, at I
u-ual rat. s. Office in Brawl. y s Building, up
Main.
M. B. TAYLOR, rresidtnt.
S. P. ALEXANDER, Vbw President.
J. A. YOUNG, "I
J. H. WHITE,
J. II. C ARSON, Executive Commune.
C. OVERMAN, I
A. C. STEELE, j
J. II. WILSON, Ascot
E. NVK HUTCHISON, Secretary.
July ii, 1836 1(
Bargain ! Bargains ! !
chinaIdepot.
HE. NIIH0LS & BROTHE R
IMl'ORTKKS OK
CHINA, GLASS & EARTHENWARE.
Also, a gnat variety of Tea Trays. Lamps,
Table Cutlery, Britannia and Block Tiu
Ware, Wood and Willow Ware, and
Housekeeping Articles generally.
NEXT OOOlt TO COMMERCIAL UAN'K,
ton Jl It I t. S. C.
LP Backing warranted.
Nov. U, tt KM in
John Henry Wayt. JI. D.,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Graduate of the Baltimore College of
Denial Surgery.)
flaring located permanently, tenders his pro
fessional services to the citizens of
Charlotte, N. C, and
vicinity.
Dr. Wayt prepares and inserts artificial palates
and obturators, and attends to the correction of
Congenital and accidental deformities of the
teeth and jaws. He is also prepared to insert
artificial teeth, after the most approved methods.
Office on Tryon Street, iu Carson's new
build ing, up stairs.
Nov. 18th. 20 if.
Wanted.
AAAMIimELa of dried reaches,
W pealed and unpealed.for which
the HIGHEST CASH price will be paid by
Dec. 9. 1856 tf T. If. FARROW.
E D G E W O R TH
FEMALE SEMINARY,
Srttnsborougb, ft. .
nHE next Session of this Institution will corn
J. nience on Friday, January 2d, lisST.
The course of study is designed to embrace
everything necessary to aflitfnull;il and
ornamental Edueation. Great pro-1
miuence is given to the SOLID BRANCHES.1
Neither labor nor expense has been spared to I
m-t-uir instructors ot uw highest qualifications in
their various departments, and to make Edge-
uuU to no institution in tin
country,
in everything necessary to
tion.
complete Educa-
For circulars containing Terms, Course of In
struction, dec. apply to
RICHARD STERLING, Principal
Dee. 23, 1856.
EXCUtrGE COLLECTION
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office Up Stairs in new Brick Building op
posite Boone Sf Co's shoe store.
Drafts on New York and Charleston, S. C,
Gold and Silver, and uncurrent Bank Bills
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
And special attention paid to the collection of
claims by
JOIIN McRORUS & CO.,
Oec 23, 1856 5t Charlotte, N. C.
ew More.
J. & E. B. STOWE
HAVING removed to their New Store on
Main-sireet, below Young & Williams'
Hotel, and opposite Boone & Co.'s new Shoe
Store, where they now have on sale a large stock
OF
m m d n ,
and such oiher articles as are usually kept in such
Houses, including their Domestic and
COTTON YARN.
Now in Store 300 Sacks Sail. 40 Bbls. New
Orleans Molasses. 5 Hhds. best Portorico do.
5 hhds. West India do. 5 hhds. Cuba. 5 hhds.
of good Brown Sugar. 40 bbls. Extra do. 15
bbls.Ciushad do. 100 bags good Coffee. Eng
lish dairy and common Cheese, Bagging, Rope
and Twine. Adamantiue and Tallow Candles,
North Carolina and Western Whiskey.
All at the Lowed Prices.
rj"We respectfully solicit a call from buyers.
J. & E. B. STOWE.
Dec. 9, 1956 tf
FAMILY GROCERIES.
SUGARS Loaf, Crushed, Ground, Porto
Rico and B. C.
COFFEE Mocha, old Java, Laguira and
Rio, of various qualities, old and new crop.
TEA Gun Powder and Imperial, a choice
article.
MOLASSES New Orleans. Cuba and Cien-
fugos.
CHEESE Goshen and Pine Apple.
CHOCOLATE No. 1 and La Vanille, the
latter a suneiior article.
SARDINES Half and Quarter Boxes.
RAISINS Whole, Half and Quarter Boxes.
SICILY ALMONDS, Filberts, Currants,
Citron, Mace, Nutmegs, Macarino and Verma
cilla. CANDLFS Star and other Brands, in whole,
half and 6 o boxes.
B I'CKW HEAT FLOUR -Whole and quar
ter Bbls.
CANDIES Assorted and Fancy.
CRACKERS Baiter and Soda.
PICKLED SALMON, Mackerel, Tongues
and Lobsters.
Smoked Tongues and Codfish.
A good Stock of
PRIME Clft.lRS.
of the Washington, O. R. Salbana, Don Pedro
and other Brands,
All of which will be sold low for CASH, by
THOMAS M. FARROW.
Dec. 9, 18.-ifi. 23-tf
A A'ew Tailoring Estab
lishment. JAMES BRIANT informs his friends and
former patrons, that be ha.s reopened his TAIL
ORING ESTABLISHMENT in Spring's new
Buiiding, where hi; will be happy 10 see any one
wanting any thing done in his line. All work
warranted.
Oct. 2Slh, 185G. 17-tf
RATES OF FREIGHTS BETWEEN
Hm i I ! ii mad Wcw York,
By the Palmetto line of Steamers.
watt, s 1(m;m:u & lloyd,
AND
General C4tiaitiiioii 31 -reliant,
Adger's North Wharf,
CMJiMlMLESTOJr, S. C.
f I 'H E undersigned, Factors and Commission
Merchants, offer to receive, forward, and
ship merchandise and produceat the following
rates. The prices here named are those which
are generally charged by all the line of sail
vessels, lait having no control over any other
Line than the one we have an interest in, we
cannot say that the prices here named can
he considered permanent, except by our Line.
By that they are permanent. The "Palmetto
Line" has ten line first class Brigs and
Schooners, constantly running, and will car
ry freights as follows:
Wheat, ti cents per bushel.
Flour, in barrels, 2!) cents.
in sacks, 10 cents.
The dray age, wharlage, insurance, and for
warding commission, per bushel, (or wheat,
is - . -- - 4 ! cts.
Klour, per barrel, ... - 16J cts.
Flour, per sack, - - - - 13 cts.
Freight on all cases, boxes, Ac,
lrom New York to Charleston, per
cubic foot. - - - - 4 cts.
We measure every thing, to prevent over
charges. Every thing shipped by the "Pal
metto Line" of vssels (DoMner & Potter,
New York agents, and Holmes &. Stowry, of
Charleston) am' consigned to us, shall be
freighted for the above prices.
Produce and Merchandise consigned to us
will have the best attention.
WYATT, STOGNER &. LLOYD.
Augnst 12, 1S."6
A HOJIESTEAD FOR $10!
$310,000 worth of Farms and
Building- Lots,
IN the gold region of Culpepper county, Va.,
to be divided amongst 10,200 subscribers, on the
13th of April, 1857. Subscriptions only ten dol
lars each ; one half down, the rest on the delive
ry of the Deed. Every subscriber will get a
Building Lot or a Farm" ranging in value from
$ 10 to $25,000. These Farms and Lots arc sold
so cheap to induce settlements, a sufficient num
ber being reserved, the increase in the value ot
which will compensate for the apparent low price
now asked.
A company of settlors, called "The Rappahan
nock Pioneer Association," is now forming and
will commence a settlement in the spring. Am
ple security will be given for the faithful per
formance of contracts and promises.
More Agents are wanted to obtain sub
scribers, to whom the most liberal inducements
will be given. Some Agents write that they are
making $ 200 per month. Advertising will be
done for every Agent where possible. For full
particulars, Subscriptions, Agencies, &c,
Apply to E. BAUDER,
Port Roval, Caroline Co., Va.
Jan. 13, 1857. 3m
Life Insurance.
THE undersigned has been appointed Agent
for the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company for Charlotte and vicinity.
Persons wishing to insure their own lives or
lives of their slaves will please call on
THOS. W. DEWEY, Agent.
Jan. 13, 1857. 28-5t
furivitiireT"
A lot of Furniture is offered for sale.
Apply at this Office, or to J. M. Sandere.
CHARLOTTE
THE subscribers having formed themselves
into a company, respectfully tender their
services to the people of Charlotte and the coun
try generally iu their line of business. They are
prepared to lurnish Monuments,Gravest ones, Man
tie Pieces, Furniture Marble, Table Slabs, Marble
Steps, to any pattern cut from Marble, according
to the most approved taste and styles, and upon
the most accommodating terms ever ottered in the
Southern country. They will keep constantly
on hand the best description of Egyptian, Italian
and Amercan Marble.
All orders, for any article, addressed to the sub
scribers, will meet with prompt attention, and will
be packed and forwarded with the utmost care
and despatch.
The yard is situated on the north-west corner
of the Charlotte Depot Yard.
WM. TIDDY & SONS.
Jan. 8, 1856. ly
Swann & Co's Lotteries.
FAIR & HONORABLE.
Take all bills on solvent Banks, A T PAR.
Pay all Prizes without
Discount.
"W. H. HUTCHISON, Agent,
ATLANTA, GA.
Now let those buy who never bought before,
And those who always bought now buy the more.
January 20th, 1857. 2m-pd.
WE TOLD YOU SO.
WE have just received a second supply of
Ready Made Clothing,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
and a great many other goods, which together
with what we had on band, makes our Stock
large and complete. And we will sell at a small
advance on cost i o close out our stock of Fall and
Winter Goods by he first of March.
We have a lage siock of
Ladies Dress Goods,
which we will sell at cost for CASH.
All those wishing to buy goods for cash, should
call and examine our slock before buying else
where, as we will sell them goods lower than
they can buy them in the place.
All those indebted to us will please call and
settle by cash if possible as we must have money.
We feel very grateful for the patronage we have
received for the last vear.
BROWN, STITT & CO.
Jan. 13, 1857. 28-5t
F R E S H
GARDEN SEEDS
Scarr & Co.
Have received a fresh supply of
LANDRETITS GARDEN SEEDS,
consisting of eveiy variety sniinule to this cli
mate. Also, an assortment of
FLOTFER SEEDS.
Jan. 13th tf Charlotte Drug Store.
CHEAP SOAP,
Key Stone State Saponifier
OR CONCENTRATED LEY.
One pound of the Ley with five pounds of
Fat will make twenty -five pounds of Hard Soap,
or one hundred pounds of soft soap.
It is admirably adapted for rendering bard
water soft, and is fit for household purposes.
For sale in one pound tius 25 cents each at
SCARR & CO'S
January 13th. tf Drug Store.
Executors' Sale.
THE undersigned Executors to the will of
Wm. Oates, dec d, late of Cleaveland county, N.
C, will sell on the premises to the highest bidder,
300 Acres or Land,
on Persimmon Creek, eight miles east of Shelby,
in Cleaveland county, N. C, on Tuesday the '.id
day of March next. On the 'and Is a good Saw
Mill, a Wool Factory of two Carders, 210 Spin
dles, 8 Looms with other necessary machines for
the nauufacture of fine Cassimeres, Jeans, Lin
seys, &c, with other necessary improvements.
The Land is of good quality, and mostly wood
land, only a few acres having been cleared.
Terms will be accommodating, and made known
on day of sale. P. OATES. lv
W. S. A. OATES, I xcc s'
Muddy Fork, Cleaveland Co., N. C.
Jan. 20, 1857. 29-6w
DISSOLUTION.
The Copartnership of FISHER, BUR
ROUGHS & CO. was dissolved by mutual
consent on the first of January, 1857.
All persons indebted to the said firm are re
quested to make "immediate" pavment to
FISHER & BURROUGHS.
January 13th, 1857.
hbw Wmm.
The undersigned having purchased MrN. A
Hoxie's interest in the firm of F., B. & Co.,
will con'inue business at their OLD STAND.
In r. turning thanks for the liberal patronage
bestowed upon the old firm, they hope-, by con
stant attention to the wants of their customers
to merit a continuance of the same.
JOHN FISHER,
JOHN C. BURROUGHS.
Charlotte, January 13, 1857. 2m
ARCHITECTURE
HHE Subscriber having located in Salisbury,
J- offers his services to the people of Western
North Carolina as an
ARCHITECT.
He will furnish Plans and Specifications in
Oriental, European or American
D?ijsn, and solicits opportunities to prove
that there can be saved on the concomitant
expenses of the present style and mode of pudd
ing in Western North Carolina, at least twenty
five per centum; insuring equal durability with
additional comfort, convenience and beauty.
He will also give Original Drawings for
Frontals, Porticos, Verandas,
Conservatories,
Or for the Remodeling of Residences, fitting up
Stores, and any kind of ORNAMENTAL or
FANCY WORK.
I3F Charges, including personal supervision,
from three, to six per cent, on the cost of the
structure.
REFERENCE Judge Ellis, Jno. I. Shaver,
Salisbury; C. P. Mendenhall, Greensboro'; J. W.
Thomas, Thomas ville ; R. C. Pearson, Morgan
ton. A. B. HENDREN.
Salisbury, Jan. 27, 1857 30-4t
WESTERN DEMOCRAT.
aCHARLOTTE.
Rightikg A WRONG. The Know Noth
ings of North Carolina, are very indignant
because the Legislature of that State have
blotted out the Whig preamble of 1846,
that implied condemnation of the Mexican
War, and threw the whole blame of that
war upon President James K. Polk. The
preamble which accompanied a resolution
appropriating money for defraying the ex
penses of the noble North Carolina volun
teers, passed by the Legislature of 1846
was a stain upon the fair ch-vaeier of the
State, and virtually impeached the gallant
spirits who volunteered in defence of their
country's honor, as going to fight a wicked
and dishonorable war. It was due to the
State, to the noble volunteers, and to the
memory of James K. Polk, that so mon
strous an act of partisan prejudice should
be wiped from the Journals of the Legisla
ture, as it has been done. Richmond En
quirer. EF Hon. Walker Anderson, formerly
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Flori
da, and at one time Professor in our Uni
versity, is dead.
Six Thousand Five Hundred Dol
lars in Hand. It is said that Messrs.
Tiffany fe Co., sold last week a single dia
mond, to be worn in a ring, for $6,500 cash!
It was the central stone of a $14,000 neck
lace, which has been exhibited for some
time past at their establishment. The lady
who wears this ring has a hand worth seek
ing provided the owner is a lady, and pro
vided also she has a hand to give. One
would almost be willing to have his eyes
scratched out during the first week of the
honeymoon with fingers enriched like those.
New York News.
Andrew Jackson and Frank. Pierce.
General Jackson was, if possible, says
the Journal of Commerce, a better abused
man than President Pierce has been.
Truth and justice will yet do for the latter
what they have done for the former. His
defamers will skulk away as General Jack
son's do now ; and very likely will claim to
have been his friends. In our opinion,
President Pierce's administration has been
as honest and patriotic, and about as advan
tageous to the pnblic interests, as General
Jackson's was. What one thing foreign or
domestic, has he undertaken, that he has
not accomplished ; and what one measure
of public policy has he accomplished, that
the nation, ns a whole, would wish to see
reversed ? Richmond Enquirer.
Cold. For every mile that we leave sur
face of our earth, the temperature falls five
degrees. At forty-five miles distant from
the globe we get beyond the atmosphere,
and enter, strictly speaking, into the re
gions of space, whose temperature is 225
degrees below zero, and here cold reigns
in all its power. Some idea of this intense
cold may be formed by stating that the
greatest cold observed from the Arctic
Circle, is from 40 to 60 degrees below zero
and here many surprising effects arc pro
duced. In the chemical laboratory, the
greatest cold that we can produce is about
lot) degrees below zero. At this tempera
ture carbonic acid becomesasolid substance
like snow. If touched, it produces just
the same effect on the skin as a red hot cin
der ; it blister the finger like a burn.
Quicksilver or mercury freezes at 40 de-
greens below zero ; that is 72 degrees below j
the temperature at which water freezes.
The solid mercury may then be treated as
other metals, hammered into sheets, or
made into spoons; such spoons would, how
ever, melt in water as warm as ice. It is
pretty certain that every liquid and gas
that we are acquainted with would become
solid if exposed to the cold of the regions
of space. The gas we light our streets with
would appear like wax ; oil would be in re
ality "as bard as a rock ;" pure spirit,
which we have never yet solidfied, would
appear like a block of transparent crystal ;
hydrogen gas would become quite solid,
and resemble a metal ; we should be able
to turn butter in a latho like a piece of
ivory, and the fragrant odors of flowers
would have to be made hot before they
would yield perfume. These are a few of
the astonishing effects of cold.
Fair Play for Each. We read in the
Normandie, a most extraordinary fact that
has just occurred in the neighborhood of
Conteville, for which scientific men will
find it difficult to account. The daughter
of a fisherman, Marie C , who married
about a j ear ago John D , a negro
sailor, native of an English colony, has just
given birth to twins, a girl and a boy. The
former is white like the mother, and the
latter black like the father.
An Old Chicken. In attempting to
carve a fowl one day, a gentleman found
considerable difficulty in separating its
joints, and exclaimed against the man who
sold him an old hen for a young chicken.
"My dear," said the enraged man's wife,
"don't talk so much about the aged and
respectable Mr. B.; he planted the first hill
of corn that was planted in our town." "I
know that," said the husband, "and I be
lieve this hen scratched it up."
EDUCATION.
We have been often interrogated, by
parents and others interested4 in relation to
the comparative advantage of a public and
private education, by which we understand
to be meant, a tuition that is exclusively,
or, for the most part, domestic, and one
that is wholly, or, for the most part, public.
Our attention having been invited to it,
again, quite recently, we are induced to
give expression to a few thoughts on a sub
ject of no little importance.
We know that the question, relating to
the comparative advantages of a domestic
and public education, is often an embarrass
ing one to parents. There are, unquestion
ably, advantages and disadvantages pecu
liar to each ; but we are fully convinced
that the preponderance is decidedly in fa
vor of the latter.
We will assume that a public institution
is well organised well supplied with able
and faithful teachers, who maintain a wise,
parental, and uniform system of discipline.
We will, moreover, assume that the course
of study, the system of instruction, is judi
cious and comprehensive, and that proper
attention is paid to the manners, the. moral
and religious instruction, the expenditures,
thediet, andphysical education of the young,
and then institute a comparison between
the two modes in question.
At home, surrounded by its endearments
and engrossed by its affections, the boy is
very liable to be injured by excessive in
dulgence. He studies alone, with little or
nothing to stimulate his exertions, no com
petitors or associates with whom to com
pare ideas, and to measure attainments.
The rewards proposed to him are not imme
diate, and, therefore, feeble in their influ
ence. He is confined, for the most part,
to one teacher, who, from the absence it
self, of the proper incentives and stimulants
is also very liable to fall into a dull and
monotonous way of communicating instruc
tion. He may also become negligent or
exacting in the absence of associates, or
competent judges of the manner in which
he performs his duties.
On the other hand, place a youth, of a
good mind and ingenuous disposition, in
College, and you, by the very act, bring
him in immediate contact with the very
elements that are most calculated to excite
his powers into activity, and to evoke his
best exertions. In surveying his position,
he finds himself subject to a government
devised with care, and administered with
impartiality. He rises, studies, recites,
takes his food and rest and recreation sys
tematically, and with those of the same
age. He thus has the opportunity of com
paring his strength and proficiency, his
physical and intellectual power with those
of his associates those destined to be hon
orable competitors for the rewards of suc
cessful study, in subsequent life. Some,
he sees before him ; some about equal ;
others following after ; and thus it is, he is
guarded, on the one hand, from excessive
sef-confidence, and, on the other, from in
glorious and desponding indolence. He
has the superadded advantage of attending
tha instructions of several teachers, whose
various manner and method of illustration,
if nothing else, will sustain his attention,
and whose sense of obligation, responsibili
ty of self-respect always conspire to secure
to him every assistance and encouragement
that can be reasonably desired. His hopes
and fears his ambition his sense of honor
and regard for the wishes and expectations
of parents and esteemed friends, are all thus
kept in constant activity, by a system of
honorable distinctions and moral correc
tives. In fine for we have attempted
nothing more than a mere summary of the
grounds of our preference the student
here dwells in a little community ; a com
munity, however, in which he may learn
much of human nature, may habituate him
self to a right distribution of his time, and
form acquaintances and friendships of the
most valuable and endearing character
friendships which may prove of inestimable
value to him in the toilsome journey through
life. Columbia Times.
HORRIBLE STORY.
Tbe New York correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer writes :
"It will be remembered that the late
Corporation Attorney, Lorenzo B. Shep
ard, Esq., was some three months ago found
dead in his room, after retiring the night
previous in good health. The physicians
reported the cause of his death to be con
gestion of the heart, and the coroners jury
returned a veidict in accordance therewith.
The body of Mr. Shepard was placed in a
receiving vault, preparatory to its final in
terment in the family burial ground. A
few days ago Mrs. Shepard ordered the re
mains of ber deceased husband to be taken
from the vault, but those employed for the
purpose were horror struck on finding the
body removed several feet from the coffin,
the shroud torn into shredsand covered with
blood, giving the impression that Mr. Shep
ard had only been lying in a trance, and
had recovered after being placed in the
vault."
Piety. "Sal," cried a girl looking out
of the upper story window of a small groce
ry, and addressing another girl who was
trying to enter at the front door, "we've
all been converted ; so when you want milk
on Sundays you will hare to come in the
backway."
SPANISH SMALL COIN.
There seems to be much unnecessary
misunderstanding in the community in re
gard to the object of the proposed law iu
relation to Spanish small coin. Most per
sons appear to think it is designed to for
bid the circulation of fractional Mexican or
Spanish coin at anything above the decimal
rates next below their respective denomina
tions. This is an error. The N. Y. Journal
of Commeroe says :
"Those coins are not now a legal curren
cy, and all persons may take them or not.
' at their pleasure. The quarters and eighths
of a dollar were at one time refused at the
post-offices and at all of the banks ; but
after the reduction in the weib..t of the
American silver coin, they were again re
ceived into favor, being, when not too much
worn, intrinsically worth more than coins
of the corresponding nominal value issued
from the TJ. S. Mint. The substantial fea-
: ture of the new law authorizes the reception
of quarters, eighths and sixteenths (two
shillings, ono shilling, and six-penny pie
ces,) at 20, 10 and 5 cents respectively, at
the post-office, &c, and forbids their re
issue. They are then to be turned over to the
Mint for rccoinage with the American
stamp. On an average, these pieces are
worth more for bar silver than the rate fixed
by the pending bill, and if it passes into a
law, they will be bought up by the bullion
dealers for private melting, when they will
yield about $1 23 per ounce. The main
object of the friends of this reform is to
take from circulation the "shillings" and
"sixpences," which are the standing medium
for public robbery by all shrewd dealers in
making change ; and also to eradicate the
habit of reckoning in shillings and pence,
which interferes with the beautiful working
of our decimal system among the masses of
people. We again repeat, that there is no
law compelling any one to take them but
the holders need not sacrifice largely upon
them, unless they arc clipped or worn very
smooth. It will be a great blessing to the
country if they can be driven entirely out
of circulation.
A SENSIBLE GIRL.
Some years since a young lady, remarka
ble for her maturity and good sense, daugh
ter of a distinguished lawyer and a member
of Congress from Worcester county, was
placed at a young ladies boarding school in
the neighborhood of Boston. Her unaffect
ed manner and sprightliness won the affec
tions of many of the young ladies, who were
full of their kind offices, until one day they
inquired the occupation of their fathers.
Our young friend perceiving the drift of
their inquiries, gave them to understand
that her father was a shoemaker, when
many of them were struck with horror at
her vulgar origin, and a change took place
in their conduct towards her. She how
ever, though fully understanding them, re
mained quiet.
After a while the father of the young lady
visited the school. As he was a good look
ing man, and as they observed the principal
and others treating him with such great
deference and respect, the scholars were
led to inquire of their instructress who he
was and what was his business ; and on be
ing tedd that he was the father of Miss H.,
and that he was a member of Congress,
they were filled with amazement, and im
mediately made an attempt to renew their
attentions as formerly ; but it was too late.
She looked upon their conduct with such
contempt that they were obliged to keep at
a respectable distance, while those who
treated her kindly, without regard to her
father's supposed occupation, were ever
afterwards her favorites. Boston Journal.
THE BTEMOLOGY OP A LADY.
The statement of Col. Benton, that the
word "lady" is nowhere used in the Scrip
tures, is, so far as the orignal is concerned,
literally true. The word itself is of com
paratively modern invention, and there is
no word in the original of the Scriptures
that has any signification corresponding
with that of the word "lady" as at present
received. In view of the subject, the fol
lowing 'clip' is from an old Scotch publica
tion, called "The Christian Teacher" :
"A Lady. The word lady is an abrevia
tion of the Saxon Lajfday, which signifies
Bread giver. The mistress of a manor, at
a time when affluent families resided con
stantly at their country mansions, was ac
customed once a week, or oftener, to distri
bute among the poor a certain quantity of
bread. She bestowed the boon with her
own hands, and made the hearts of the
needy glad by tbe soft words and the gentle
amenities which accompanied her benevo
lence. The widow and the orphan 'rose up
and called her blessed' the destitute and
the afflicted recounted ber praises all
classes of the poor embalmed ber in their
affections as the Laffday the giver of
bread and dispenser of comfort a sort of
ministering angel in a world of sorrow.
Who is a lady now ? Is it she who spends
her days in self-indulgence, and her nights
in the dissipation of folly ? Is it she who
rivals the gaiety of a butterfly, but hates
the industrious hum of tbe 'busy bee V Is
it she who wastes, on gaudy finery, what
would make many a widow's heart sing for
joy, and who, when the rags of the orphan
flutter before her in tbe wind, sighs for a
place of refuge, aa if the pestilence were in
the breeze ? This may be a woman of
fashion' she may be an admired and an
admiring follower of the gay world."
From the New York Herald.
HUGHES PRINTING TELEGRAPH
anticipated revolution in the tkle
graphic world.
Our reporter has seen the famous Hughes
instrument he has seen a pair of them
working together at the same moment of
time, each with the closest and the most
wonderful sympathy of movement with the
other.
Those machines were at the office of the
Telegraph Company, iu Wull street, where
by the courtesy of the inventor and the
managers of the Telegraph Company, our
reporter was afforded erery facility to in
spect their operations. He confesses to a
surprise not at the wonderful feats which
he witnessed, for he was partly prepared
for that but at the admirable simplicity of
the arrangement from which such startling
results were elicited. The Hughes instru
ment, in size, is scarcely larger than a fam
ily Bible, and might be easily packed away
in a segar box. Four cog wheols, a chain,
a magnet, a steel governor, a pin here and
another there, and you have about the whole
description of a machine that will talk to
you thousands of miles und tolling you a
story iu your own language and in plain
printing letters four times faster than the
most rapid penman can write it down. Its
capacity for speed, in fact, is limited only
by the limited power of the operator. This
capacity was tested, in the presence of our
reporter, without the intervention of an
operator, when he saw one of the machines,
by its own volition, roll out twenty eight
hundred letters in one minute. This extra
ordinary capacity is of course of no prac
tical use, as no operator could read with
anything like such rapidity, even if he
could touch the keys fast enough in the
right order for spelling out the words.
Another and perhaps the most wonderful,
certainly tho most ridiculed, faculty iu
these machines, is their capability of writ
ing or printing both ways at tho same
time.
Two machines were placed side by side,
with an operator at each, who sent message
after message to each other, over the same
wire simultaneously, without the least jost
ling, and without the slightest error either
of word or letter. Since our reporter saw
this fact demonstrated, in company with
representatives from nearly all the city
journals, at the office of the American Tel
egraph Company, the machines have been
subjected to the several tests on a line ex
tending from New York to Bangor, Maine,
and thence back to Boston, (making a cir
cuit of about eight hundred miles,) and
every trial has shown the most satisfactory
results the instruments working as per
fectly through eight hundred miles of wiro
as in a circuit of one or two hundred miles,
and with a strength of current so slight as
to have not the least perceptible effect upon
the magnets used by the Morse and House
system.
There arc other and very great practical
advantages in this Hughes instrument over
all others hitherto in use such as its ca
pacity of always keeping in working order
in the stormiest weather, its freedom from
the disturbing effects of atmospheric elec
tricity, its ability to write secretly ; that
is, the communicating office can, without
the consent of their operators, at pleasure,
and instantaneously cut off all offices ex
cept those to which it wishes to communi
cate, and at pleasure can communicate to
all offices on the line ; its exceeding simpli
city, which enables an operator, howerer,
inexperienced, to transmit his message cor
rectly and with considerable rapidity ; its
arrangement, by which the presence of an
operator at the receiving office is dispensed
with, as his instrument can bo started at tho
wish of a distant office, and will stop of it
self when the dispatch has been received ;
its cheapness, the price being about four
hundred per cent less than the House ma
chiue ; its compactness, Ac, Ac
The patent for this important invention
(which, we believe, is destined to effect
complete revolution in the telegraph busi
ness of this country,) is owned by tho
American Telegraph Company.
Wonders Will Never Cease. We
have long since exhausted our faculty of
wonder. Hence we are not at all aston
ished from the following advertisement clip
ped from the N. Y. Herald :
"Matrimonial Guide Book and Fortune's
Register." Containing the name, address
and personal description of the most fash
ionable belles, not only in the Fifth Avenue
of New York, but iu all the large cities of
the Union, together with reliable statements
of the exact fortune (whether in their own
right or in prospect) of more than five thou
sand marriageable ladies. As but u limited
number of this truly unique and valuable
work hare been published, and no second
edition will be issued, and it cannot be pro
cured at any b .ok store, persons desiring
a copy forwarded by mail, post-paid, to any
part of the United States, should eucloi
one dollar without delay to the address of
, New York Post Office."
Long Sermons. At the South Carolina
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church the presiding Bishop decided long
sermons, except on very special occasions,
to be improper, contrary to the discipline,
to the practice of the "Fathers," aud, to
some extent, subversive of the ends of the
Christian ministry. The limit, on ordinary
occasions, according to the Bishop, should
be from thirty to forty-five minute.