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0FFI3E up-stairs OPPOSITE scarr'S drug store j A Family Paper, devoted to Stale Intelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Sonthern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany.
BV WILLIAM J. YATES,
EOITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
$2 PER ANNUM
In Advance.
E. A.
YAT
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TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1857.
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VOLUME 5.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
NUMBER 49.
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BOOTS & SHOES,
Just Received
it ins
SPRING &. SUMMER TRADE,
A- fine an Assortment of
Boota -riiTLOl Shoes
As has ever taen offered to a
.Southern Peoples
' ill and see them at
BOONE & CO'S STORE.
jar Terms, ( ASH.
Mir.h 17, 1857. tf
Notice,
HAVING returned to Charlotte, I am agaia at
ll,.- li-jj..-al of those ulio may reijuire my servi
r in the practice ef Medicine and Surgery.
BOBEST GIBBON, II. D.
IV. 34, 1857. Sl-tf
K.M. Ml K IIISON. A.J. HOWELL.
MURCHISON & HOWELL,
. ... joTa-M (fv om a ttc
JTfe lO I kWtfJ Street, J 1.
r. b. :5J, 1867. ly
D R. K . Y V S 0 N (i,
Charlotte, If. C.
1 I AVIN'C located ha this pine-, r. sped fully
I l otft-rs his I't'oti ssimial Services to the citi-y.t-ns
of the town and vicinity.
Ew4" OFFICE in rh- u'w brick bnilding,
oppanitti the basal district, Main Street.
April 28th 1657.
1U: KM & STEELE,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
IN
Dry Ooods,
Hard ware, al, and Shot,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
May :., ls:.7. I l-tf
FOR SAI-K.
Tu- natwirribrr paVra lor sale the
plaaMkm apoa whieh he hti rly
livi il ! on tin- Watt IS of Mc-
Miihai l's Creek, on the I'toviJeuce
i miles liw PhiUlli . f iintainiiifhnat
3.0 or 300 lert s
T
.1
th
1 1
M Laul U well inirov"d. about one-half
are,l anil in a gaed st.it,- of t-tilttx ation, ami
m I hinl well llaalu n 1; with goad
irelliag House, three pood Kitchus, Jhun
an
I Staples, all m rood repair; also, a nrst rate
Mouse anl Screw; Cotton Gin, Thresher
and Fan: also, a
First rate Saw Pilill
in pood repair, all of which I eflet with the brad.
Ti'- Land can be divided to advantage to
suit lnirchastTS.
Aaj pi raaa wiabiag to purchase would do
wi ll t call and examine the Plantation, as I
am determined to sell. Tin y can call on Mi
N. Bffiicb. who Bvea adjoiniag, ou the main
I'rovid.-uce road, when- Mrs Hutchison fovmeily
livwd; he will show the pTeariera with pleasare
and direct any iniormatiou about said laud to the
sabaeriber in Statesville.
J AS. H. KENNEDY.
May r.th, 1857. 41 Gin
DR. B. CHERAS
Haviag located at MONrJOE. tender kis pro
fi'MiaasI siTvices to the citizens ot the Town
mmA surromidinp: euuHtry, and respectfully soli
cits their patroaago.
Z& Often at J. Kckett's.
April 2d 4;?.3m
Notice.
HAVING obtained Letters of Administration
npoa the . state ot V. r. Trotter, deceased, I
pw notice to all pi-rsonu indebted to the late firm
of T. I'rotter &, Son, by note or book
aeeaaat for tke last four or five yi-ars, to come
forward and pay the saia-' without d lav. and
rtierehv sa-e co?t. as the concent must be set
Uedap. jjBOS. TKOTTEK. Adtn'r
atd Sareirhaa Partner.
Feb. 3d. 1S57. at-tf
The Watch and Jewelry business will in the
future he conducted hy the subscriber, who will
para no pains or expense to give general satis
faction. Watch repairing done in a superior man
ner, and at the shortest notice.
THOS. TROTTER.
W. & BRAILSFORD,
AND A(i EN r Ft)lt
EAI.TIMOKE ASH PHILADELPHIA PACKETS.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
LIBERAL advances made on cousigniaeBta of
produce to my address for such.
ipt. U, 1855. 7ly.
X3T For the Cheapest stock of Clothing
you ever saw go to the Emporium of Fash
wnof FULLINGS fe CO.
KumL
Slate of JYortli Carolina.
Whereas, the last General Assem
bly, by an act entitled, 44A supplementary
act to take the sense of the people of the
Stute relative to the proposed amendment
of the Constitution," did enact as follows:
Whereas a bill to amend the Constitution
of the State of North Carolina, has been
read in eacli house of the present General
Assembly on three several days, and agreed
to by two-thirds of euch house respectively,
in the precise words following : "A bill to
uinend the Constitution of the State of North
Carolina
Whereas, at the session of the last Gen
eral Assembly, begun ami held in Raleigh,
on the third Monday of November, in the
year of oar Lord one thjoaeand eight hun
dred and fifty four, a bill, entitled "a bill to
amend the Constitution of the State of North
Carolina." was read three times in each
house of the said General Assembly, and
agrcM'd to by three-fifths of the whole num
ber of members of each house respectively.
And whereas, the bill so agreed to hath
been duly published six months previous to
the aleetioa of the members of this present
General Asseniblv, according to the clause
of section one of article four of the amend
ed Constitution, and the directions con
tained in the second section of the said bill;
and it is the intention, by this bill, to agree
to the preamble and first section of the bill
aforesaid, containing the said alteration of
the Constitution of this Stsitt : And whereas,
a large number of the people are disfran
chised by the freehold Qualification now re
quired of voters for members of the Senate; !
therefore. Re it enacted bi the General As- I
at mlly i if the Stale gfNtrtk Carolina, and it
IS Herein) enacted by the authority oj the same,
tiro-Oards of the whole number of numbers of
each house concurring. That the second
clause of the third section of the first article j
of the amended Constitution, ratified by the
people of North Carolina, on the second
Monday of November, in t!:e year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-five, shall
be amended to read aS follows : l'Everyfree
irhitc man of the age of twenty-oat years, be
ing a native or naturalized citizen of the
United Stales, and who has been an inhabi
tant of the State for twelve months immediate
ly preceding the day of any election, and
shall hart paid public taxes, .shall be entitled
to rote for a member of the Senate fur the dis
trict in which he resides."
And whereas, it was further provided by
the said act, "that the foregoing amendment
to the Constitution of this State, as embodi
ed in the preceding section, be submitted
by the Governor to the people on the first
Thursday in August, 157, sixty days no
tice having been given in ten newspapers":
NOW, THEREFORE, I do hereby give
notice to all persons entitled to vote for
members of the House of Commons, that
polls will be opt ned on the first Thursday in
August next, by the Sheriffs of the respec
tive Counties, at the election precincts
within the same, to take the sense of the
siiid voters as to the ratification of said
amendment to the Constitution of the State;
those for ratification t vote with a written
or printed ticket "Approved ;n those op
posed thereto to vote with a similar ticket
'J'of Approved.
Given under my hand, as Govern
or of the State of North Carolina, at
L.S. the Executive office in the City of
Raleigh, on the 18th day of May,
A. D.. 1857.
By the Governor: TIIOS. BRAGG.
Pulaski Cowplr, Pr. Seo'y.
May 20, 1837. 2m
BOOKS
F"or Salo
at thi:
CHARLOTTE BOOK STORE.
Tin: American Si'ortsman : containing
hints to Sportsmeu, notes on shooting, and the
habits of the Game Birds and Wild Fowl of
America, by Lfavis.
Tut. GOLDEN LEO ACT: a story of Life's
Phase.
Bills from the Foi ntain of Life, or Ser
mons to Children, by Rev. R. Nkhtox, D. D.
THE Daisy Chain or Aspirations: a Family
Chronicle.
Shoe? AC R ecollej TWKS : A Way-Side
Glimpse ef American Life, by Wai.fr March.
Katbie Kit asoe: a Fireside History of a
Quiet Life, by Holme Lek.
Household Mystehbss, by Lizzie Pitt
El GkccGO, or New Mexico and her People.
Paul Fane, by N. P. Willis.
Vf.va. or the War of the Peasants and the
Conscript: two interesting Romances bound in
one volume.
Tin: NafoLEON Dynasty, or the History of
the Bonaparte Family: an entirely new work, by
the Berkley Men, "with twenty-two authentic
Portraits.
Call at P. J. LOWEIES
Book Store.
March 31, 1857. 39-tf
B. Dowler Co's
CELEBRATED
WHEAT FANS.
The sabseribett are now engaged at Monroe,
Union county. N. C, in putting up the above
named Fans. In their manner of construction
and op- rations and entire adaptation to the pur
poses for which they are designed, these Fans
are uwV'qualhd by any that have heretofore been
ottered to the public. They are constructed ot
the best materials, and aoae but the best work
men are employed. An experience ot five yean
in the business justifies the belief that entire
satisfaction will be given.
All our woik is warranted.
I W All orders will receive prompt attention
aud the machinery delivered according to order.
Jief rencrs:
D. A. Coviugton, J'. P. Houston, Munroe, N C.
James P Robinson, Penj Morrow, Mecklenburg
county.
Win G Smith, Dr Wadkms, Anson county.
iiOSE cfc STEEL.
Monroe, U -ion county, March .0th. 6m
SOHifiTOSIS HSSS5SH5.
A Xew Tailoring Estab
lishment. JAMES BR I ANT informs his friends and
former patrons, that he has reopened his TAIL
ORING ESTABLISHMENT in the up-stairs
of the Building next to the Bank of the State,
where he will oe happy to see all those wanting
any thing done in his line. All work warranted.
Oct. 28th, 1856. 17-tf
Ready-Made Clothing
AND
Furnishing Establishment.
SPRINGS & HEATH
RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and
the public generally that they have received and
are receiving an extensive assortment of Ready
Made Clothing at their old stand on the north
side of Mint street, to which they invite atten
tion.
Gentlemen's COATS:
Among their stock may be found Black Cloth
Coats, single and double breasted; black and
drab Alparca in Sacks, Frocks and Raglans;
French aud English Drap-d'Ete; plain and lan
cy Casshneres, rotten up in nice suits; plain and
fancy Linen Marseilles, in suits; white Linen
Drill and Linen Duck; each style embracing
the different cuts, Sacks Frocks and Raglans.
PANTALOONS ;
Pants of French and American Cassimeres,
black and fancy; black and fancy Alpacca, steel
cloth and French and English Drap-d'Ete; plain
and fancy Lim n and Marseilles of all grades.
They would call especial attention to their lot
of
VESTS,
both single and double breasted, embracing black
and figured Silk, black Satin, and the prettiest
lot of Marseille Vests ever offered in this market.
Gents Furnishing Goods,
The largest lot in this market, consisting in part
of plain and fancy Linen and Cotton
Collars, Byron & Bishop; linen ;.nd cotton Draw
ers ; plain and fancy Hosiery ; Gloves, silk, kid,
&c; a variety of Cravats, silk and linen ; Hand
kerchiefs, silk and linen ; Suspenders, &c, &c.
ALSO,
A fine lot of HATS for the Summer wear, em
bracing all the latest styles of the Silk, Cassimere
aud Felt Hats; Straw, Leghorn, and Panama do.
They offer the above Goods
VERY LOW FOR CASH,
or to punctual dealers on time, with the express
understanding that accounts are due when they
want the money.
They return their thanks to their customers for
the liberal patronage heretofore bestowed upon
them, and hope to merit a continuance of the
same by diligence in business and untiring ef
forts to please. Call aud examine their Goods.
SPRINGS 6c HEATH,
Charlotte, N. C.
4U-tf
April 7, 1857.
Temple of Fashion
IS NOW OPEN.
Something; Entirely New.
GENTLEMEN, one aud all, young and old,
wno wish to wear Good, Fine Clothes, goto
J. W. COLE'S
NEW CLOTHING EMPORIUM,
First Door above Kerr's Hotel,
formerly occupied by Lowrie's Book Store,
where you can get the best fits aud the finest
clothes for the least money than anywhere else
in the State. The goods are all made up to
order expressly for this market. Everything is
gotten up in the very latest and neatest sty les,
and the making of every piece is
Warranted.
to last, or otherwise made good. Let all go
and look at his well selected stock of Ready
made Clothing, and be sure to examine his
prices; he will put you up a suit so low that you
will be compelled to wear fine clothes.
Gentlemen wishing any particular suits, by
leaving their measures, can have them in 12
days. warranted to suit or no
aujtsj.
He intends to sell very low and conduct a
strictly Cash Business. The purchaser will
certainly find the Cash System at least 20 per
cent, in his favor. His motto is "quick sales
and small profits," for CASH ONLY. Yes, if
you want the worth of your money come to me.
J. W. COLE, Ag t.
Charlotte, April 23, 1857. 6m
Dlt. II. M. PR! Tt HARD'S
KCCr STORE
IS REMOVED to the Stand on the North
corner of Public Square, knowu as Irwin's Cor
ner, where he will be glad to see his friends and
customers.
May 12, 1857. 45-tf
Cigar, Tobacco,
FRTJI T J3 TORE.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the citi
zens of Charlotte and surrounding country, that
he has just received a spleudid assortment of
SPANISH CIGARS
of the choicest brands. Also, a fine article of
CHEWING TOBACCO,
FRUITS CONFECTIONERIES.
JAS. D. PALMER.
Opposite Booue & Co.'s Shoe Store.
Charlotte, April 7, 1357. 40-tf
A Rare Chance
To get Bargains at Flint Rock,
Catawba county, N. C.
The undersigned, not having sufficient
water-power to drive all their machinery
profitably, are determined to sell the ar
ticles named below, and therefore offer
them at the very low prices annexed:
A complete sett of Carding Machines. $400.
Power Loom $40, and Cotton Gin $40.
Apply to T. fc M. M. MOSER.
Flint Rock, X C, April 7. Gm-pd
FOR THE LADIES
TOILET.
A large assortment of Fancy Hair and Tooth
Brushes of every quality: French, English and
American Pomades for the liair; Lubin's Ex
tracts of Jockey club, violet, marechale, tea
rose, cedar, heleotrope, rose, new mown hay,
sweet scented shrob, sweet pea, mouseline,
bouquet Napoleon, summer, blossom, milleflow
ers, upper ten. jasmine, Caroline, musk.
Cologne, Verbena, Jasmine, and Geranium
Waters, &c. Just received at
SCARE & CO'S
April 14th. Drug Store.
Soap Potash.
Jost received a fresh barrel of Potash, at
SCARR & CO'S
April 14th. Charlotte Drug Store.
FASHIOX !
Fashion ! ! Fashion ! ! !
Well, Who Cares About Fashion?
to; mil bqbt,
AS A MATTER OF COURSE.
Well, Where do You get the Fashion?
Why, at
FULLINGS & CO.'S
EMPORIUM OF FASniON,
As Hundreds can testify who have been
there the past week and fitted themselves
out in
at less prices than at any other house in the
Sta)e. Now kind reader if you want to
see the neatest, prettiest, cheapest, most
fashionable and largest Stock of
Clotnins
you ever saw call at FULLINGS 6c CO'S
EMPORIUM OF FASHION,
next door to the Mansion House, Charlotte,
N. C, where one look will satisfy you that
it is the place for good and fashionable
Goods at low prices. We could go on and
tell you about the different styles of Goods
on hand, but our Stock is so large, with
such a variety of styles that we will just
say to you all. come and take a look and
satisfy yourselves as our goods will be free
ly shown and prices given. We know it
has been a subject of great astonishment to
a great many how it was that we were ena
bled to sell such
Fashionable GOODS
at such
Very Low Prices.
Well, it is simply because we import our
own Goods, manufacture them ourselves
and sell them to our customers at the same
prices that other dealers pay for them in
Philadelphia or New York, and then we
give them an article better made and
WARRANTED
to give satisfaction or money returned.
We return you our sincere thanks for the
iiberal patronage bestowed upon us, and if
selling good and fashionable Goods at very
low prices will insure a continuance of the
same it shall be done at the EMPORIUM
OF FASHION by
FULLINGS 6l CO.,
Try on Street.
May 19, 1857. tf
J3T For the Largest stock of Clothing
vou ever saw go to the Emporium of Fash
ion of FULLINGS & CO.
BELTS! BELTS!! BELTS!!!
India-Rubber Belts from the Boston Belt
ing Company, at manufacturer's prices.
3 inch, 3 ply
4 o
17 cents per foot.
OO .4 ..
5 44 " 27 44
6 4 4 4 4 3 2 44
7 4 4 4 4 3 3 44
1 0 44 44 C0 44
12 44 " 73 44
12 " 4 ply 92 44
BOONE & CO.
Charlotte, April 14, 1857. 3m
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
UNION COUNTY.
Court of Fleas and Quarter Sessions April
Term, 1857.
Ferington Little and others vs. A. J. Littlo,
Executor of George Little, dee'd.
Petition for Settlement.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court,
that Nancy Little resides beyond the limits of
this State It is therefore, ordered by the Court,
that publication be made for six weeks in the
Western Democrat, notifying the said Nancy to
be and appear at the next term of this Court, to
be held tor the county of Union, at the Court
House in Monroe, ou the first Monday of July
next, to plead, answer or demur, or judgment
pro confesso will be taken against her, and the
prayer of the petition heard. &c.
Witness, J. M. Stewart, Clerk of our said
Court, at office, in Monroe, the 1st Monday of
April, 1857. J. M. STEWART, Clerk.
May, 1857- 6t-47 (Pr's fee $6)
.State or North Carolina,
UNION COUNTY.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions April
Term, 1857.
Jacob G. Long vs. John Cuthbertson.
Original Attachment.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Coi'.rt,
that the defendant. John Cuthbertson, is not an
inhabitant of this State, but resides beyond th-;
limits ot the same. It is therefore ordered by
the Court, that publication be made for six weeks
in the Western Democrat, notifying the said de
fendant to be and appear a the next term of this
Court, to be held for the county of Union, at the
Court House in Monroe, on the first Monday in
July next, then and there to plead, answer or d
mur, or judgment final will be entered against
him, and an order of sale granted.
Witness, J. M. Stewart, Clerk of our said
Court, at office, in Monroe, the 1st Monday of
April, 1857. J. M. STEWART, Clerk.
May, 1857. 6t-47 (Pr's tee $6)
Slate or IVorth Carolina,
UNION COUNTY.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions April
... . - -s
1 erm, ico
Joel Hashing vs. Samuel Pounds.
Original Attachment.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court,
that the defendant, Sanr.n d Pounds, is not a citi
zen of this State, but resides beyond the limits of
the same. It is therefore, ordered that publica
tion be made for six weeks in the Western Demo
crat, notifying the said Samuel to be and appear
at the next Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
to be held for the county of Union, at the Court
House in Monroe, on the first Monday of July
next, to plead, answer or demur, or final judg
ment be taken against him and an order of sale
granted.
Witness, J. M. Stewart, Clerk of our said
Court at office, in Monroe, the 1st Monday of
April. A. D-, 1857.
J. M. STEWART, Clerk.
May, 1 857. 6t-47 L Pr's fee f 6
MRS. M. J. CRAIG,
Three doors below Trotter's Carriage Manufactory
H.tllLOTTE.
April 22, 1856. ly
WESTERN DEMOCRAT,
For the Western Dctnocrat.
TO THE MEMORY OP MY BROTHER.
And hast thou gone, my brother dear.
And hast thy spirit fled;
Shall we no more behold thee near.
Or list thy manly tread ?
Ah no ! thy form no more we'll see
At morning or at night,
Tor thou no more with us can be,
Or in our joys delight.
Brother, our lo9s is deeply felt
By us who loved theo well;
And now our hearts with sorrow melt,
When thy brief life we tell.
Thy sister mourns her absent one,
T hy parents miss thy voice;
The' weep to think that thou art gone,
They weep, but yet rejoice.
Thy kindred too, their loss do feel,
Ah, yes, we've lost a friend;
Thy memory in my heart I'll seal
Till my own life shall end.
Ah, little did we think that death
Would goon among us stand,
And take the one we loved so well
From out our household band.
When those we love arc snatoh'd away
By death's resistless hand,
Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,
That friendship must demand.
M. M. R.
Sharon, June, 1857.
McLean, who was committed to jail about
six months ago for placing obstructions on
the track of 'the N. C. Rail Road, was sen
tenced to imprisonment for a term of six
months longer last week by Judge Dick.
His counsel plead that he had suffered a
sufficient penalty in his being imprisoned
thro' the intense cold winter and prayed the
mercy of the Judge to be extended to the
culprit who did the act when in a state of
beastly intoxication, and not through malice;
but his Honor said that "it was his duty to
himself and the public to put the seal of his
disapprobation upon such a "crime, which
might have resulted in the destruction of
many lives." Salisbury Banner.
Brigham Young in Close Quarters !
We take the following from an extra of
the Calaveras (California) Chronicle:
Mr Thompson, the daring and intrepid
Carson Valley Expressman, arrived at.
Mokelumne Hill, via Murphy's and Big
Tree Road, from Carson Valley.
From private letters received from Salt
Lake, Mr Thompson learned that the schism
in the Mormon Church had assumed a for
midable character. The Gladenites, or
apostates from the Simon Pure faith, as
enunciated by Brigham Young and his
adherents, have of late wonderfully in
creased their numbers, and grown so re
bellious that the Prophet is forced to en
viron himself with a trusty guard of tlje
faithful. The letters state that his house
is guarded night and day by his friends,
and that, so bitter are his enemies against
him, that he is afraid to show himself in
public. He has deserted the Tabernacle.
The Mormons of Carson Valley, on ac
count of difficulties apprehended with their
Gentile neighbors, had been peremptorily
ordered to Salt Lake by the Prophet, but
thinking it easier to negotiate a peace thau
to sacrifice their homes, they have shaken
hands with the Amelikites, and buried the
tomahawk.
m
Entry of the Great American Cir
cus into Liverpool. Yesterday from an
early hour, the streets of Liverpool were
thronged with thousands of persons to wit
ness the public entry into town of Messrs.
Howe and Cushing's Great American
Circus, announced some days past to take
place. The procession started from the
old Swan about 11 o'clock, and drove along
Castle street and past the Exchange at 2
o'clock, headed by an immense and highly
decorated vehicle, drawn by a 4-team" of
forty splendid cream-colored horses, the
ladies and gentlemen of the company fol
lowing in phaetons and other vehicles, con
structed in that peculiarly light and grace
ful stylo for which the American vehicles
are famous. A striking feature in the cav
alcade was a sort of hut or wigwam, drawn
on wheels and covered on the outside with
emblems of Indian life and warfare. The
Indians, who form part of the troupe, did
not, however, appear, to the evident dis
appointment of a majority of the specta
tors, who appeared to expect a sort of ex
tempore war huut as a part of the display.
The forty horses were harnessed four
abreast, but in the neighborhood of the Ex
change the crowds were so dense that the
procession had a difficulty in making a way
through. London Times, May 2d.
The Lafayette (la.) Journal pub
lishes the following frigid extract from a
reply by a Boone county subscriber to a
dunning letter :
"Sorry to say, old hoss, that I can t pay.
J ,i i l . r
I am very tight up, wluch is to say I ham t
nary red. Ef lard oil was ten cents a bar-
rel, I couldn't buy enougL to grease my
bar. Don't worry it, I freely forgire you
the debt. i
RACES OF MEN AND THEIR AMAL
GAMATION. It cannot be denied that there arc differ
ent races of men. having some qualities in
common, but in many respects wholly dis
similar, and as unlike as the persons who
compose them. These races l ave ever oc
cupied various relations to each other, with
varying consequences to themselves.
Whenever they have come in contact, one
or the other has been compelled to give
way, or one has absorbed the other. The
population of the earth has been continual
ly changing, either its locality or the rela
tive importance of the races which make up
its aggregate. The number of races, their
individual importance and relative merits,
we do not propose to discuss. Universal
history teaches us that one race has pressed
upon "mother, and displaced its locality, or
occasioned its extinction. Races have
never amalgamated without virtual destruc
tion. Wherever it has been attempted, al
most without an exception, the superior race
has sunk to the low and degraded position
of the inferior. The differences which
mark them have, to a great extent, been of
a character to preserve them intact and
prevent the attempt at amalgamation.
The white races of Europe have never
become identified with the colored races of
Asia, or the blacks of Africa. Few English
have commingled their blood with the In
dians of America, while the French, who
did so, have disappeared with the tribes
with whom they unnaturally united, or have
abandoned their loathsome embrace. The
Spaniards in Mexico and Central and South
America, who left their equals and united
with squalid and cringing inferiors, have
either been dropped from recollection or
observation, or sunk below all consideration
among civilized men. While their condition
denies them the consideration and comforts
of civilization, they, as well as those of the
inferior race, have dwindled to insignifi
cance in numbers, and less in the charac
teristics which elevate and dignify civilized
men. Wherever the attempt lias been made
to elevate the Indian race to the social po
sition of white men, Mr Squires, in his
44Notes on Central America." truly says, it
4,has entailed eternal anarchy, and threatens
a complete dissolution of the body-politic."
He further remarks:
"To the understanding of intelligent and
reflecting men, who are superior to the par
tisan and sectional issues of the hour, these
considerations cannot fail to appeal with
controlling force ; for if the United States,
as compared with the Spanish American re
publics, has achieved an immeasurable ad
vance in all the elements of greatness, that
result, is eminently due to the rigid and in
exorable refusal of the dominant Teutonic
stock to debase its blood, impair its intel
lect, lower its moral standard, or peril its
institutions by intermixture with inferior
races. In obedience to the ordinances of
Heaven it has rescued holf a continent from
savage beasts and still more savago men,
whose period of existence has terminated,
and who must give place to higher organi
zations and a superior life. Short sighted
philanthropy may lament, and sympathy
drop a toar as it looks forward to the total
disappearance of the lower forms of human
ity, but the laws of nature are irreversible."
In another place he adds:
'"Neither the statesman nor political
economist can safely overlook or disregard
these" results, since, by the course of events,
and the multiplication of moans and facili
ties of communication, nations and races
are more and more brought in contact, and
the question of the nature and character of
their relationship made of immediate and
practical importance.
44It may bo claimed without hesitation
that the wide physical, intellectual and
moral differences which all history and ob
servation have distinguished as existing be
tween the various families of man, can be
no longer regarded as the consequences of
accident or of circumstances; that is to say,
it has come to be understood that their phy
sical, moral and intellectual traits are radi
cal and permanent, and that there can be
no admixture of widely-separated families,
or of superior with inferior races, which can
be harmonious or otherwise than disastrous
in its consequences. Anthropological science
has determined the existence of two laws of
vital importance in their application to men
and nations.
"First. That in all cases where a free
amalgamation takes place between two dif
ferent races unrestrained by what is some
times called prejudice, but which is. in fact,
a natural instinct, the result is the final and
absolute absorption of one in the other.
This absorption is more rapid as the races
of families thus brought in contact approx
imate in type, and in proportion as one or
the other preponderates in number that
is to say, nature perpetuates no human hy
brids, as, for instance, a permanent race of
mulattoes-
"Second. That all violations of the natur
al distinctions of race, or of those instinct
which were designed to perpetuate the su
perior races in their purity, invariably en
tail the most deplorable results, affecting
the bodies, intellects, and moral perception.
. , , . . . , . . . .,
1 of the nations who are thus blind to the
wu" " . . .
j design, of Nature, and unmindful of
, her law. In other words, the offspring of
i such combinations or amalgamations are not
I only generally deficient in physical consti
tution, in intellect, and In moral restraint,
but to a degree which often contrasts unfa
vorably with any of the original stocks."
These laws of nature, so clearly stated,
are illustrated by the history of the human
race, and are as applicable to the negro as
to the Indian. Each race must be preserv
ed distinct from the other, or soon disap
pear Hie inferior from the face of the earth,
or the superior from ita position among civ
ilised men. No intermediate race ha ever
continued long to exist ; but. on the contra
ry, all such have soon disappeared. Those
whose blood is a mixture of the white man
and negro, instead of rising to the level of
the former, have fallen even below the lat
ter, and will form pass away. Those pro
fessed philanthropists who propose toelevate
the negro to the position of the whites, by
commingling blood by intermarriages, will
find the result of tfie experiment written in
the history of the past.
Those who counsel and advise a collision
between the races are no true friends of
either. They have either not reflected upon
or care not for the horrors which would
ensue. If they consult history, or apply
reason, the result cannot be doubted. The
inferior race must be the principal suffer
ers, and, in the end, Ve exterminated. The
theories of the Black Republicans aud Abo
litionists all tend to one of those conclu
sions. They would amalgamate the races
and reduce the whites to the level of the
negro, or so shape things as to produce a
servile war to destroy one of them, whieh
no sane man can douht. Those who wil
lingly contribute to such revolting and
monstrous results are no real friends to
either raco. They would sacrifice both,
and our priceless Union, in their struggles
for political power aud official position.
Let the true friends of both races and of
our institutions reflect upon the subject,
and so act as to secure results which Heaven
and all mankind must approve. Washing
ton Union.
A BEROXC ACTION.
A gentleman from Caswell, of unques
tionable verac"'ty, related to us the following
remarkable instance of maternal heroism,
as having recently occurred in that county.
Mrs. Butler, the wife of Mr. William
Butler, was engaged in conversation with
two lady visitors, when she heard a sud
den cry of distress from her child in the
yard, a boy of five or six years old. She
ran out, and discovered that he had got
into the bucket which swung over the
mouth of tho well, and that his weight had
sunk him to the bottom, a distance of forty
five feet. She called and the child an
swered her. Without aid from her two
friends who fled to alarm the neighbors,
the mother seised the well rope, and ulided
down to the surface of the water, where
h found her hoy clinging to a crevice iu
the rock wall. He at once said, 44 1 ain't
wet much, mother." Clinging by the rope
and the wall, eke seized the child under
one arm, and by aid of the other hand, sbo
clambered rapidly and safely to the top of
the well. As she fell over the curb upon
the ground and knew her child was safe,
she -swooned away, and awaked to the con
sciousness that he lived, rescued from
death, by the risk of ber own life. Tha
child was unharmed, except by a slight
bruise on the head, and the mother escap
ed without injury, except that the skin
was abraded from the inside of her hands
by the rapid passage of the rope, as she
descended, the well. How strong is a moth
er's love ! The peril of her boy aroused
the timid woman into a heroine, and in
spired an action wiser, greater, braver, than
that of the warrior who slays a thousand
enemies.
And yet the love of God fcr his people
is stronger than the love of a mother for
her child. 44Can a woman forget tier euck
ing child, that she should not have com- .
pass:on on the son of her womb 1 Vea,
she may forget, yet will I not forget thee."
Isaiah xlix. 15. N. C Christian Advocate.
Vert Curious. We find the following
very singular statement of facts in tha
Pennsylvania Times :
Olympia. April 26, 1857.
Afr- Editor : My father and mother-in-law
were married on my grandmother's
birth-day ; my father and mother were
married on the birth day of my husband ;
I was married to my husband on the birth
day of my youngest aunt, February 7, 1841).
I am now the mother of four children, that
were born the 16th, 17th. 18tb and 19th of
February, March. April and May, 15 .
'52 '54 and '56. Thin is something wbie i
I regard as very singular a thing probably
without a parallel in the United States ; st
least, I challenge any mother to produce
like record of facts. Yours, truly,
NANCY J. ROGERS.
44 T H ERE' S MOB ABOUT HERE ! "- A
friend reminded us yesterday of a joke that
used to be told of a very wealthy, penuri
ous old planter of Chambers county, that
is not bad :
Going homeward, from Columbns. with
his wagon, one if his negro boys who was
along, picked up a dime in the road. The
master took the coin out of the boys h o,d
and sliding it into his own pocket, remark
ed. "Keep your eyes on the ground. Beu ;
there's mora about here !'
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