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HIGH PRICE OF STJOAR A COFFEE-
More Sugar Land wanted Coffee product
uj Brazil Hov are ve to supply our-
trices with Sugar and Coffee.
Thw United States have already begun
to ft-vl the want of more "sugar land." and
l.v of a source from which we may derive
a .-ore supply, at reasonable cost, of coffee.
Our supply of coffee and of imported su
gar costs, annually, about forty three mil
lion dollars. The consumption of botli
articles, not only in this, but iu other coun
tries, has. of late years, been increased in
greator proportion than their production.
brazil is our chief resource for coffee, and
there the product is limited by the number
of slaves, which, under the effects of the
cholera, and of the arrest of the African
slave-trade, has been, or is to be. much diminished-
The price of negroes has been
more than quadrupled iu Brazil since 1650,
from the operation of these causes.
England has ample resources for supply
ing herself with coffee and sugar the Kast
Indies and the west coast of Africa and
is about to take possession, by force, of the
southern provinces of China, which produce
more sugar, und more cotton, too, than all
the rest of the world besides.
Mr J. H. Sigur, of New Orleans, in a
communication to the Delta, treats the
question of the means of supplying the U.
Htates with c-oftVe mid sugar in future. He
suggests the probability that the supply of
coffee from Brazil will be much diminished,
or fail altogether, by reason of the antici
pated or proposed abolition of slavery in
that country. 'How," he asks, "are we to
secure the domestic supply of coffee and
sugar ?" "It can only be done by the ac
quisition of tropical territory adapted to
the caltivation of those articles, and the in
crease Mid extension of labor."
Then he asks the pregnant question,
Will the possession of the island of Cuba
meet this object?" He doubts whether
the purchase of Cuba will advance the fat
terci.ts of the Southern States, or even of
the United States, to the extent generally
supposed. It appears to me that the ques
tion is more a Northern than a Southern
one. The interests of the ship-owning,
commercial, and manufacturing North, and
of the grain-growing and cotton-raising
North-west, are to be directly and greatly
promoted by that acquisition. To the
Cuban planters and slave-owners the change
of ownership would bo worth immediate'
about seven hundred and fifty millions of
dollars, if it be followed, as supposed, by
the immediate improvement of the value of
slaves to tliu extent of three or four fold.
The increase of the value of lands may be
in a greater ratio.
The sugar interest of Louisiana and Tex
as would be destroyed by it ; and there are
also other questions relating to the politi
cal and moral aspect of the matter which
are to be considered, and which Mr Sigur
says he will not undertake to discuss. How
ever, he thinks that two hundred millions
would not be too dear for Cuba. It would
not certainly, be too dear, especially if the
Cuban proprietors will pay the money, as
they ought to do.
ROGER A. PRYOR.
In the last number of Frank Leslie's Il
lustrated Newspaper, we notice a portrait
of the able editor of The South, (from
whose columns we often extract.) accom
panied by a brief biographical sketch, from
which we take the following abstract of his
life:
'Roger A. Pryor is a native of Eastern
Virgi.iia, and is now twenty-eight years
old. He graduated at Hampden Sidney
College, and for several years attended the
University of Virginia, where he studied
law. He commenced his editorial career
in Petersburg, Virginia, as editor of the
South-Side Democrat. He afterwards ac
cepted an invitation to become an editor of
the Washington Union, but left that paper
in less thau one year, in consequence of
the expression of opinion in fuvor of Bussia.
in the Eastern War. in an article which was
published ill the National Intelligencer. He
then purchased an interest in the Richmond
Enquirer, which he edited for three years,
and was in the groat contest between. Dem
ocracy and Know Xothingism in 185a. He
was then sent by Mr Pierce on a special
mission to Greece, and succeeded in set
tling the difficulty between that kingdom
and the United States. He is now editor
and prourietor of a paper in the citv of
Rich mono, bearing the significant name of
The South."
From this it will he seen that Mr Prvor
is quite a young man, and has, if his life be
spared ample time for achieving still greater
triumphs in the editorial harness. We
hope he will long live to advocate, as man
fully as he now does, the cause of the South.
We regard his paper as a great acquisition
to the cause of oui section, and himself as
It bold, spirited and independent writer.
Mr, P. is, moveover, on what we believe,
the right track. Holding himself aloof from
party workings, he yet regard, and rightly
regards, the Democratic party as the only
Southern party. Columbia Carolinian.
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REVIVAL IN RALEIGH.
A very gracious revival of religion is now
progressing in the Methodist Church of
this city. Beside the usual Sabbath ser
vices, meetings have been held every even
ing since last Wednesday Up to last
night. (Monday.) thirty-two persons had
professed faith in Christ ; and th ere weri
forty penitents, still seeking the pe arl of
great prioe. The pastor. Rev. J, H. Wheel
er, has been assisted part of the time by
Brethern Burton, Gray and Andrews, The
correlations are largo, the interest is in
creasing, and it is hoped that the good word
will continue unabated until multitudes
khall be brought to Christ.
The revival also continues in the Bap
tist Church ; and there are tokens of com
ing good in the Presbyterian Church. We
bespeak the prayers of Christians for the
progress of this glorious work of God.
N. C. Advocate.
New York. April 29. Advices, iust
i
received from Jamaica, inform us that a I
British man-of war had captured an Ameri- !
cau slaver having 380 Africans on board, j
bound for Cuba. She was tiken into
Jamaica.
WHO OTJR SOLDIERS ARE.
The standing army of the United States,
as organized by law, numbers, or should
number 12.698 men of whom 1040 are com
missioned officers. By the act of 1850, the
President was authorized to increase the
number of privates in the 481 companies last
year serving on the frontier, to 74 men
each, which addition if duly made, would
give an aggregate of 17,802 men in the
American army. I J" probable, however,
that considering the constant losses of men
by death, expiration of service, dec, our
military force is rarely greater than that
first mentioned.
The whole number of recruits during the
six years ending September 30, 1855. was
80,066, or an annual average of 5,011.
They are principally from our large cities.
New York furnishing her full proportion.
The difficulties of this service may be ima
gined, from the fact, that of the 16.064 en
listed in that city during the year 1852,
13.888 were rejected for various causes.
During peace, the greater number of re
cruits are foreigners ; but in time of war
this is reversed. In the last war with Great
Britain, nearly the entire army was com
posed of Americans. The same may be
said of the Mexican war. Of 5.000 enlist
ments during the year 1840, 3630 were na
tive born citizens of the United States.
Generally these men were far nobler than,
the usual recruits of our peace establish
ment, taller, more intelligent, and less likely
to succumb to sickness and fatigue.
The avernge height of native born sol
diers gives th Stute of Georgia the prefer
ence. The lowest is that of New York.
Of 241 men, six feet and upwards, Georgia
s-nds 30 ; North Carolina 24 ; Tennessee,
Kentucky and Indinnn, each 18; Alabama
and Illinois, 17 each ; South Carolina, Vir
ginia and Ohio, 15; Maine 11 ; Maryland
9: Missouri 8 ; New Jersey and Vermont
6: Massachusetts and Pennsylvania 5, and
New York 4. The tallest man is from
Georgia, 6 feet 61 inches. Close by him
stands one from South Carolina, 6 feet 4i
inches. The avernge weight of American
soldiers is 1484 lbs.
MONEY.
Is money an evil ? No. Some persons
say that money is 41 the root of all evil."
But the Bible and common sense say no
such thing. The Bible says " The love of
money is the root of all evil " not money
itself; money itself is not an evil at all, it is
a blessing, it is designed to bless mankind;
if not, why did the Creator fill the bowels
of the earth with silver and gold metals ?
A man may have no money and yet love it;
and a man may have much money and not
love jt. He may use all he has to the glory
of God. But how shall money bless its
possessor and others? Not by hoarding it
up and keeping it locked up in his iron
box, or in bonds and mortgages, but by its
circulation in doing good. Is it an evil to
increase in wealth? Certainly not. There
may be danger in it, but no sin, if it is ob
tained honestly. The ml consists in the
wrong use we make of wealth. If we use
it to minister to our vanity and pride, to
luxury and sensual gratification, then the
use, or rather the abuse of it becomes an
evil.
As men increase in wealth, they should,
if they would be accounted good stewards
to the great Proprietor of all, increase in
good works in exact proportion as they in
crease in wealth. Money should circulate
in doing good as it increases from year to
year, not hoarded by its possessor to be
distributed by his executors or administra
tors, but by his own hands, as well as by
his own will. Let no man imagine that he
will receive a reward from his Divine Mas
ter, who leaves large legacies, when he
dies, to benevolent objects and institutions,
who refused or neglected to do good with
his wealth while living. His money may
do good to those into whoso hands it shall
fall, but he will have no reward; he held on
to it with an iron grasp until death un
loosed his hold now it must go, it is no
virtue in him. A man may be obliged to
retain his capital while he lives, in order to
carry on his business; this he may leave
for distribution by his executors when he
dies, and be rewarded; but his income shoid
be disposed of by himself while he lives.
Tekribi.k Ottuage ox a Jew. The
Koningsberg Gazette relates the following
disgraceful affair :
'The son of a Jew tradesman of Gutt
stadt, in Eastern Prussia, having lately ter
minated his apprenticeship to a furrier,
gave on the occasion a grand banquet to
all the master furriers of the town. After
a good deal of wine had been drunk, the
conversation turned on the crucifixion of
Christ, and the guests, regardless of the
consideration due to their host, insisted that
he was responsible for the crime of his an
cestors. One of them at length proposed
that as a punishment, the young man should
undergo the operation of having a cross cut
on his person. The proposition was adopt d
with applause, and the young man, in spite
of a desperate resistance, had a cross cut
deeply in his haunch. He would probably
have been further ill treated, if, by an al
most superhuman exercise of strength, he
had not broken from his assailants and
rushed into the street. There he fell sense
less, and was conveyed to his own house.
Medical assistance was procured for hinr,
but the loss of blood was so great that there
is but little hope of saving him. His cow
ardly assailants, all of whom occupy a res pectable
position in society, were arrested
and sent to Heilsburg to take their trial.
Western Oratory. Even the Demo- I
cratic reader can enjoy a hearty laugh over
the following specimen of oratory, which
Little, of the Fredericksburg News, puts
into the mouth of some Democratic candi
date for Congress in "the West :"
"Elect me to Congress," said he, "and
as Shakspeare said when Julius Cesar
stabbed him in the House of Representatives,
'Richard is himself again' an honest man
is a a man; and General Jackson
can outrome old Romulus, out play old
Plato, out Soc old Socrates, and out cus old
old Kus&uth."
INDIAN WAR IN MINNESOTA.
Seventy Persons Killed or taken Prisoners.
The Minnesota papers bring us the par
ticulars of the recent massacre at Spirit
Lake, and other places in Minnesota, of
which accounts have been received by tele
graph :
'Troops left Fort Dodge on the 24th of
March, and after a march of six days ar
rived at a place called the "Colony," set
tled by Irish emigrants. There they found
that the place bad been attacked by a band
of Sioux, and seven persons killed, three
wounded, and four women carried off cap
tives. Among the killed wat Wm. Wood,
George M. Wood. Mr Church and Josiah
Stewart. The attack was without provoca
tion, and unexpected by the settlers. Wil
liam Wood was an old resident of Mankato,
and a trader at Springfield.
At the commencement of the fight Mr
Wood went out to the bank of the river to
talk to the Indians, and as he turned about
to go home he was shot dead, and imme
diately set on fire, his body, when found,
being awfully burned. They next called
at the house of Josiah Stewart, and shot
bin in the head. His wife begged for her
life, to which they replied, ':nepo squaw,"
(kill squaw.) and shot her also in the head.
Her two little girls were killed with war
clubs. John Stewart, a little boy eight
years old, hid himself behind a log, and es
caped. Major Williams has taken him
home, and will bring him up. He has now
a good protector.
They then proceeded to the house of Mr
Thomas. Several families had hero col
lected together, and there were some eight
or nine rifles in the house. Umpashoto. an
old Indian chief, well known in this neigh
borhood, ran past the house shouting, to the
inmates, several of whom unfortunately
ventured to the door to see what was the
matter, when about twenty Indians, posted
behind a hay-stack, about five rods distant,
fired upon them, killing a son of Mr Thomas,
aged 10 years. Mr Thomas was wounded
in the arm, rendering amputation necessa
ry ; David Carver was shot through the
arm, the ball lodging in his side, the wound
is not considered dangerous; and Miss
Drusella Swiver received a ball in her
shoulder, the ball passing out upon the op
posite side.
The doors were instantly shut and barri
caded. Some of the inmates ..engaged
themselves in moulding balls others in
loading the rifles, while John Brndshaw and
a man named Markham fired upon the In
dians without. Their chief and a number of
others were killed the exact number is
not known. It was reported by an Indian
to a man named Shigley that nine were
killed and five wounded. Towards night
the Indians withdrew, carrying their dead
and wounded with them. No white person
was killed after the first fire. One Indian
was shot by Mrs Church, who loaded guns
for the men in one of the houses.
The men sent to Spirit Lake have re
turned. They have buried twenty-nine
bodies, two were found burned, besides, it
is not known, of course, whose skeletons
they were. They first visited the house of
Mr Thatcher, and found two bodies those
of A. Noble and Mr Roan. They then vis
ited the residence of Jonathan House, here
nine bodies were found, dreadfully mangled
men, women and children, all indiscrim
inately murdered. The body of Jonathan
House is reported missing.
The next house was Granger's, near the
Lake. Here, probably, a sharp conflict
ensued. A man named Snyder was found
dreadfully mangled with a broad axe. The
Grangers have one missing, probably both
killed. The body of a man was found upon
the Lake near the house, so mangled that
it was impossible to recognise him. Signs
indicative of a fight were seen about this
house.
They next went to Mattox's house, where
eleven were found. This house had been
burnt. The men and women shot, and
children tomahawked, were some twelve
persons one missing.
The troops found about twenty-five men,
women and children upon the prairie, some
of whom had been wounded by the Indians.
They were without provisions, scantily
clothed and exhausted by fatigue.
The Indians have taken four women pris
oners. It is supposed that about seventy
persons have been killed and taken prison
ers. On the 16th host., the citizens of Mankato,
learning of the outrages committed by the
Indians on the Wntowan, mustered nearly
fifty men, and started for that point. On
Sunday morning they discovered new traces
of the Indians, near the residence of Mr
Slocum. As they approach) d, and the In
dians showing a disposition to light, the
Mankato men fired upon them, killing some,
but the number is not known. Tho Indians
retreated behind the trees. Another con
flict occurred five Indians were killed.
The Indians then retired to a block house,
and, on one of them making his appearance,
he was shot by a Mr Johnson. Just as the
boat was leaving St. Peter's, a messenger
arrived, bringing intelligence of a battle on
the Watowan, about thirty miles above
Mankato, between the volunteers under the
command of Gen. Dodd and the Indians, in
which the latter lost twelve whites none.
Deep River Ikok Ore. The last
Fayetteville Observer contains a letter from
John II. Haughton, Esq., of Pittsboro'
conveying the welcome information that a
Northern Company has agreed to furnish
on Deep River, within two years after the
completion of the contract of Messrs.
Dungan, Cartwright fe Co., iteven millions
of dollars' worth of blade band iron ore,
which will be manufactured on the spot.
Through some mistake, a gentleman, in
the south of Ireland, led off the dance,
at a ball, out of his turn. The person
appointed to the post of honor challenged
the intruder, and received the following
reply: iSii, I cannot understand wbv,
because I opened a ball at night, a ball
should open me in the morning.'
A RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC.
The vastness of the undertaking enlists
various interests political, commercial and
others. Fears are entertained of the feasi
bility of snch a project. Constitutional
doubts are interposed, and the power or
right of the Government to aid in the mat
ter questioned. But most great and impor
tant enterprises are after all carried forward
through individual enterprise, and generally
with more success and certainty than when
dependence is placed on legislative bodies.
The Pacific Railroad is likely to be no ex
ception to this rule. While Congress is
discussing, seeking for and surveying the
most feasible route, and establishing wagon
roads, which are vastly important in them
selves and are the commencement of that
iron chain which must eventually bind us
together in indissoluble bonds, a private
conjpany, having no connection with the
Government, have actually commenced their
operations and are already pushing their
enterprise forward with a zeal and cer
tainty of complete success, that has already
enlisted the feelings of almost the entire
South and the co-operation of many of their
most influential and moneyed men. Of the
early completion of the Southern Pacific
Railroad there is no longer a doubt.
The intelligence from the South and
West in regr.rd to this great scheme of in
ternal improvement settles this question.
Ample means have been provided to build
the first division from the Mississippi River
via Monroe and Shreveport, La., to the line
of the State of Texas, from the line of the
State of Texas to El Paso, a distance of
some 783 miles. Texas gives 70 sections, or
10,656 acres to (he mile of valuable land to
the Company, and also loans to said Com
pany $6,000 in United States Bonds
drawing interest, and which are now worth
a premimm in market, for every mile of rail
road built by the Company. So that the
means at the command of the Company
will build the road and leave a large sur
plus in the hands of the Company.
Upon the first division of this road in
Louisiana, the iron is laid, and the cars
running, and a large force at work to push
on the noble enterprise.
On the first division in Texas the iron
has been purchased is received and will
be laid down without delay. There is am
ple means now in the hands of the Compa
ny, together with the amount of United
States Bonds that will be advanced by the
State of Texas to contract and equip fifty
miles more in that State, without borrowing
a dollar or selling an acre of their lands.
The value and importance of these rich
lands to the road, lying in a State which is
increasing in wealth and population more
rapidly than any other in the Union, can be
better understood by referring to the long
est and most valuable road in the Union.
The Illinois Central which has boen almost
entirely built by bonds of the Company,
the value of which bonds are predicated on
the lands belonging to this corporation.
These lands now find a ready sale in the
market at from $5 to $18 per acre, and
though but a tithe of the quantity donated
to the Southern Pacific Road by Texas,
they will pay for the entire road, and leave
a largo surplus to the Company whose stock
is now worth in this market 131 !
The books for subscription to stock in
the Southern Pacific Railroad, were opened
a few days since in N. Orleans, and $316,
000 paid in cash, and a desire to take a
much larger amount of stock, expressed
by the leading planters and capitalists
throughout the lower valley of the Missis
sippi. Several thousand laborers, in a few
months will be at work to build and con
struct rapidly this gigantic scheme, which
is designed soon to connect the waters of
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The
wagon roads to which we have referred,
when open from El Paso to the Pacific,
will form a natural bed for this great na
tional work. N. Y. News.
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A Citizen of a State axd a Citizen
of the United States. Many of our
cotemporaries, we observe, assert that the
Supremo Court of the United States has
decided, in the "Dred Scott case," that
a colored man cannot be a citizen of a
State. Our cotemporaries cannot have
read the decision in question, or they would
scarcely have hazarded so wild an assertion;
for Chief Justice Taney explicitly admitted
that citizenship of a State, and citizenship
of a federal republic, were two distinct
things, and thus a man might be a citizen
of the one without being a citizen of the
other. There is nothing in the "Dred
Scott" decision to disfranchise persons of
African descent whom a State (as Rhode
Island for example) has declared capable
of voting for its State officers. The
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania might
to morrow, if it choose, make colored persons
full citizens of Pennsylvania, though it
could not make them citizens of the United
States, which is a different republic, and
which alone has the right to determine
who its citizens are. It is important to
keep this distinction in mind. The Supreme
Court of the United States, while it has
the constitutional right to determine who
are the citizens of the National Federal
Republic, would be transcending its powers
to dictate to this or any other State, whom
Pennsylvania or that other State should
endow with citizenship.
Destructive Fire in Oxford N. C.
The Warrenton (N. C J. News states that
a fire broke out at Oxford about 3 o'clock
on Sunday morning last, which destroyed
all the houses on the west side of Main
street, from Mitchell's drug store to Wil
liams' Hotel. It was with great difficult
that the flames were subdued.
C. Herndon's store and stock were total
ly destroyed. As the stock was heavy, the
loss is at least $40,000.
Messrs. Mitchell & Lynch saved their
stock in a damaged state. Mr. Hargrove
succeeded in saving all his books and pa
pers. Mrs. Shelburne's house was much
damaged, as it was on fire several times.
H1UMR LAW IN MISSISSIPPI-
Ti..Ti.utnrA of the State of Mississippi
passed an act prohibiting the passage of all j
bank bills under the denommawuu
dollars, with a penalty of fine and imprison
ment, and an act prohibiting any owner or
overseer of slaves from punishing them with
more than 39 lashes for any offence, with a
penalty for violation of fine and imprison
ment Th citizens of Bvhtlia, Miss., held
a meeting on the 20th ult., and passed a j
series of resolutions, of which the following
are four :
Resolved. That in the management of our
slaves, we regard the right to correct them
as indispensable to our interests as slave
holders, and that there are laws sufficiently
strict to protect the slave from cruel treat
ment. That, generally, our slaves are well clothed
well fed, and managed humanely, and that
the Legislature is either ignorant of this
fact, or willfully misrepresents the consti
tuency, and, in either case, our respect
and obedience is forfeited.
That we are determined to disregard
both laws, and if the attempt is made to
punish us, or any one of us, that we will
resist such attempt per force, and that we
justly throw-the responsibility of what may
follow resistance upon the Legislature, who
are the aggressors.
That we invito our fellow citizens, irre
spective of party, throughout the State, to
unite with us in resisting there laws, which
are useless, insulting and oppressive.
Not Bad. The appended negro story,
copied from a Southern correspondence of
a Boston paper, is not baflJ :
"General C gave his black man Saw
ney, funds and permission to get a quar
ter's worth of zoology at a menagerie, at
the same time hinting to him the striking
affinity between the Simia and negro races.
Our sable friend soon found himself under
the canvas, and brought to in front of a
sedate looking baboon, and eyeing the
biboquadruped closely, soliloquized thus :
"Folks, sure's you're born ; feet, hands,
proper bad looking countenance, just the
nigger, gettin' old, I reckon." Then, as if
seized with a bright idea, he extended his
hand, with a genuine Southern "how d'ye
do, uncle ?" The ape clasped the negro's
hand, and shook it long and cordially.
Sawney then plied his new acquaintance
with interrogations as to his name, nativity,
and former occupations, but eliciting no
replies beyond a knowing shake of the head
or a merry twinkling of the eye, (the ape
was probably meditating the best way of
tweaking the darkey's nose,) he concluded
that the ape was bound to keep non-committal,
and looking cautiously around
chuckled out : "He, he, you too sharp for
them, old feller ; keep dark ; if ye'd jist
speak one word of English, white man have
a hoe in yer hand in less than two min
utes.". A fellow who is considered rather "soft,"
speaking the other day of tho many inven
tions which have been made by the present
generation, exultingly wound up with
"For my part. I believe every generation
grows wiser and wiser; for there's my father,
he know'd more'n my grandfather, and I
believe I know a leetle more'n my father
did." "My dear sir," remarked a bystand
er, "what an old fool your great grand
father must have been."
A little Sweedish girl, who had shared
the heavenward impulse of a late revival of
religion in her native land, was walking
with her father on a starry night, absorbed
in contemplation of the skies. On being
questioned as to the occupation of her
thoughts, she replied by expressing the fid
lowing conception, which is certainly very
domestic, but. still more poetical, and, most
of all, truthful :
"I was thinking," she said, "if the wrong
side of heaven is so glorious, what must the
other side be."
The Atlantic Road Beaufort. The
ship John Frazer with 957 tons railroad iron,
arrived at Beaufort on Tuesday of last week.
This will be sufficient to finish Gov. More
head's contract between Beaufort and
Newborn, and as the work is being pros
ecuted with vigor we may reasonably
expect that the road will be in operation
Letween these two points at an early day.
We hope during the next summer to be
able to visit our friends on the seaboard, to
enjoy moonlight boat excursions in the
vicinity of Fort Macon and receive the
invigorating influence of the sea breeze,
without having our bones powdered bv
staging to reach there.
The Frazer come ii over the Beaufort
bar, drawing 17 feet 4 inches, at low tide.
An abundance of water, and-one of the
most beautiful harbors in the world. Push
forward the work we want a more im
mediate intercourse with Beaufort. Golds
boro Tribune.
Dr. W. W. Foote, of Taylorsville, N. C.f
a few days ago amputated a young man's :
leg some six inches above the knee joint, j
The patient was caused to inhale Ether
for a few minutes previous to the operation
and remained perfectly calm and easy,
regardless of the knife and saw, though
sensible ot all that was going on. After
the operation was over and the wound
dressed, the patient remarked -4I never
felt it"!!
Giving Life to the Desert.-: The
French are engaged in a good work in Al
geria, which will make their conquest a bless
ing to the country. They are sinking artesian
wells in the desert, probably for their own
convenience; but the benefits must be gen
eral The well of Temacin gave 120
quarts the minute; others more. The Arabs
were frantic with joy on seeing fertility at
once restored to their grounds. Speeches
of the most grateful acknowledgement were
addressed by the chiefs of tribes to the
French officers and engineers. Science puts
a power in the hands of man which enables
him to transform nature herself.
CZAR AND AMERICAN GENIUS.
The autocrat of all the Russias is recog
nized as the very embodiment of despotism,
and consequently, the foe of everything
liberal which we Americans hold most
dear. Nevertheless, this exalted poten
tate has always evinced a strange affection
for Yankee land, and in many ways en
courage our men of genius and enterprise
to regard St. Petersburg as a city of golden
reward. The railroads which the govern
ment has found essential to its schemes of
internal improvement has been built and
equipped by men whose local habitation is
in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The most
valuable contracts for the construction of
machinery have been awarded to American
parties over the heads of skilful competi
tors in the land of Birmingham and Shaf
field. And now we find the government of
the Czar, which is working with indefatiga
ble energy to retrieve the disastrous conse
quences of the war in the Crimea, securing
the services of our ingenious engineers to
raise from the harbor of Sebastopol that
extensive navy which it was found neces
sary to siuk, to save from the grasp of the
allies.
Concerning this Yankee expedition to
the Crimea, considerable misrepresentation
has gone abroad, in consequence of the
hasty statements of the Boston press. In
spite of the alleged sailing of a company
destined to forestall those who had been
announced as the lucky contestants for the
contract, we are now positively assured
that the sole contract for the performance
of thi6 mighty task was awarded by the
Court of St. Petersburg to Col. John E.
Gowen, of Boston, who is renowned in his
peculiar vocation of a submarine engineer.
Tho company which has sent vessels to
Sebastopol, in advance of this distinguished
engineer, has merely permission to survey
the harbor and the wrecks, and in case of
thefailure of the contractors, to make an
attempt to accomplish the work. In the
meantime, Coi. Gowen has mado the most
extensive preparations for the expedition,
and from the power and efficiency of his
arrangements, he feels confident of his suc
cess. Besides the two vessels he has en
gaged, there are two transport ships, of a
thousand tons each, several gun-boats,
powder, and an immense variety of all kinds
of materials placed at his command by the
Russian Government. The engines, suits
of sub-marine armor, pumps, floating docks
and other facilities for performing the con
tract, are already complete. The organiz
ed force to be employed will amount to be
tween 1,500 aud 2,000 men. It is stated
that the old method of raising vessels by
means of chains aud screws, which the
"Boston Submarine Company'" profess to
treat with contempt, is sanctioned by Col.
Gowen as the only sure a nd efficient method
of proceeding under the circumstances.
Philadelphia is interested in Col. Gowen's
success. Tho company formed here is
connected with that gentleman's operations,
and moreover, we have the credit of having
the first party at Sebastopol engaged in
surveying the ground, and adjusting the
preliminaries for moro vigorous work.
Much of the outfit of our company is stated
to be already on its way. We intend to
capture Sebastopol, not by the battering
down of another Malakoff, but by the dis
play to the Muscovites of indomitable Yan
kee enterprise and ingenuity. Philadel
phia Ledger.
ARRIVAL OP MORMONS AT BOS
TON. It has already been stated that a ship
arrived at Boston last week from Liverpool,
with 8''K) Mormons. The Courier says :
"Many of the families were possessed of
considerable property. The captain esti
mated the amount of British gold upon the
passengers at 20,000, and said he knew
of more than one person who had 1,000
for his own use and that of his family. Sev
eral had left relatives and friends behind
them. One woman left her husband that
she might go to the land of the saints ; and
there was another beautiful, dark-eyed
young woman, with a young infant, whose
story as told by the captain, was quite
touching. The captain noticed her when
they started, as possessed of great beauty
but lost sight of her in a day or two, and,
supposing she had changed her quarters,
did not inquire for her for 8 or 10 days.
He was then told that she had been very
sick, and was still quite feeble. He had
ber brought from between decks, where she
was, upon the deck, and laid on a matress.
got her some port wine and cake, and tried
to bring her back to health. Under this
treatment she improved much, and in reply
to his questions told him that she had U'ft
a pleasant home, in a quiet village in Eng
land, and a husband to whom 6he had been
married but a year or two, for this journey.
He asked her reasons. She replied, that
she had done so for Christ's sake, who bad
promised that if one forsook father and
mother and husband for him, she should
receive more abundantly in this life, and
in the world to come everlasting life.
As soon as the emigrants had left Liver
pool they formed themselves into 8 divi
sions, with about 100 in each division, and
chose a bishop and an elder to preside over
each company. They had morning and
evening service praying and singing and
in the evening generally a sermon. On
Sundays a sermon was preached to each
section. ,
The African Twins. The Cheraw
Gazette moots a singular question. Mr
J. P. Smith, arrived at Cheraw a few weeks
ago, from Scotland, with the African twins,
of whom some little talk has been made.
During her stay in Scotland, their mother
gave birth to another child, whom she
brought home with her. Now the question
arises, if that child, born on the soil of
Scotland, is bond or free? If born free, how
can it be held in slavery here? And was
not its introduction in this country a
violation of the law prohibiting the foreign
slave trade? The mother became free
when she entered Scotland, but returning
here, she returns to her owners. The
remaining question is, can she enslave her
child in her own return to servitude!
WOMAN AS A PHY8ICIAW pTr-
patriot, O'Brien, in his work on the p
pies of Government, says: "The m'"
art is an occupation peculiarly adapted T
female praotitioners. That women, i
suffering from disease, should be und
ueuessiiy ox consulting men, is a n
obviously repugnant to every natural'
timent of delioaoy. Women, theref"
instead of being excluded from the uie'
profession, ought rather to be encout
to qualify themselves for its exercise S
to practice it under a diploma, fe J
same sanction that is accorded to m a
graduates of the male sex."
Fire. The dwelling house of Mr w
zabeth Crabtree, a one story building jj
ated in the western part of this town w
fire on Thursday afternoon last, and
entirely consumed, with all its conte
including about $125 in Bank notes. i
Crabtree was at work in her garden ofo
by, but the fire was not discovered uatn
burnt out of the roof, too late to save aaT
thing. Just before going out, she IW('M
up the hearth, and set the broom in a cot
ner, which sufficiently accounts for C
origin of the fire.
W e understand that a subscription w
taken up on the spot, and a sum near?
sufficient to rebuild the house was promm
subscribed. Hills. Recorder. ?
"K?" We have heard of some AsfooiiV
cures being made by Prof. De Grain's nJ
trie Oil. It seems to act on the diseased
parts with remarkable effect and in t tl
tnarp nt time health re?ain ira , or:
be had of the agent here, Dr. fi M Pritcluti
occ aiJvtrii.aciutrut ... .iiumci column
March 13. 2m.
DR. R. WYSONG
Charlotte, TV. .
HAVING located in this place, respectful).
,. ',. Iiia Tr.ttjcai .trial Qinr!nn i. .1 .
-a- --UII'tO uia a OK.OI7IOIIH1 kjk l VfVC IU m Mk
zens of the town and vicinity.
0P OFFICE in the new brick buildiw
opposite the burnt district, Main Street.
April 28th 1857.
OPENING OF
CHINA HALL
Something New in Charlotte!
JAMES HARTY & CO. respectfully infci
the inhabitants ot Charlotte and ttit- suiroundic;
country, that they have just opened attbekurwi
Store, on the -west side of Try on street, in tk
Atlieneiim Building, a large and splendid mm !
111 .lit ut
CHINA GLASS AND EARTHENWARE
China Ornaments, Fancy Articles, etc. , jnn
lected iVom the Newest Pat terns .t'EuvoanMe '
uiaerure. a.iso, a lai re vsrieiy oi iooKiuc usf
es, Britannia and Plated Ware, Waiters, Lunju
Candlesticks, etc.
Ia commencing this new enterprise, the all
sen bent beg to assure their friends and th- pnU
that they shall always endeavor try clone i
tion" to tho wants of the people to merit a lib
share of patronacre. They will conduct their
sines on strictly CASH principles, and fa,
deavorto.show that this is the only correct sjn
for both buyer and seller.
JAMES HAKTY & CO
April 14, 1857. 41-tf
NEW STOCK.
KOOPMAM & PHELI
Have just received a large and splendid
of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS
Consisting of
Ready-made Clothing
Which they offer for sale at suiprudng I
n ices.
Amongst their assortment may be found
LADIES
DRESS' GOODS,
Muslins, Lawns, Bonnets, Triramiug,
ALSO,
Materials for gentlemens' summer dotW
HATS AND CAPS,
Boots and Shoes,
Together with a great variety of RafB
made Clothing for spring and summer
An extensive stock of all kiuds of
eg ii Gaols
which thev will sell at cost, with freiirb'
We intend to sell our Goods at snch prifl
will induce purchasers to tradu w ith u.
us a call and we know we can suit you ml
ity and price.
PP Hisrhest market nrices paid fori
Ciiaulotte, N. C, April 20, 185.
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1X111 111'- 111 fll'I 11 an 1.11 1.1 .11 I i j . - -
1 : i it :.: , ,,t ht
i 9MUiai ei vices to ill' ciuz.' "
ana surrounding country, ana resp-w.
cus tneir patronage.
HP Office al J. Bickett's.
AdhI 28. 4:5-3m
V J- A m. J 1111 a.A- -
A UV Jill ! .T I UlIU 111,111 .71 ytj "
Silk, Crape, Neapolitan
STKA W
that we have ever niirehaseil. nd which
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11 V- p ill in . v in t. u i j v rt.
DOUiu too inauy, we win oner nirm--
advaxce os cost, ratin T taan Keep u
MANTILLAS also.
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VERY LOW.
Ladies will find a large and well
arrtek at
JiLilAft as
Charlotte, April 20, 1857. tf
KTVnrY.!ff KIT'S
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it fit ii ti:iiii- Mini
t )nr Xtrw-lr in InrnrA vr.W ana
TONAHLK well made, and oi';
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sold the same way.
i knr urKnlp Stnelr in
UNUSUALLY LARGE, H
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WhriloftAlA or Retail huvere.
April 20, 1857. tf
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Church, is in constant operation. "
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11 ..Am anil r.no titli-l nf I MOIO" 1 ,
and manufacturing purposes kept o
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April 20th, 1857 vt-pd