North Carolina Newspapers

office up stairs opposite scarr'S drug store A Family Paper, devoted to State Iatelli? b, the News of the World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. BY WILLIAM J. YATES, KIHTOR AND PKOPKfETO. CHABLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. A. YATES, I ASSOCIATE EIHTOR. ' cv I N VOLUME 6. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1857. UMBER 274. THE OS Published every Tuesday t iningthe latest News, n full and accu rate Report of the Market?. &e. i' ,- r, if panel in advance 00 j. . within six months, fit r the expiration of the year, 2 50 :i oo Anv person nontling -. accompanied lv tll five nfii' sub advance stth- ii ($10) wiU cvoeivoa tuxtkoopysrrai . r :. J :ir- U!.- ribors and others' who may wish , ; .- to u. can do M by mail, ut ADVERTISING. - or less, for 3 months, $J on ( O IH) " 13 11 111 80 -.1 line, -r Irs, first insertion, 81 ' " j ., zi) i Transient atlvortwementa must be J u .i. in" Candidates f- office, 4 t. uonucing Candidates for A i.n:. rmt market! on ft T . scr8c lillle, will t t'i.. in- ' frbi d chill .r' ordi. igfy WILLIAM Xc&rxd For Sale. Tli- anbaeribers tt . 2Ciw Acres of i. tn.1 fac boJy (ono tha tn'l of is in wood) r . iij it rni .:: ti.n i, tun fnimty fn rwth stdecftn'- oath t.f the Catawl.. KW, i; - .. .;.-k . -.i 4ii t.,.:.,!ott . at.-j w.'tma tZi i nl tlielinrot" Btu!ruad now bi iidinjr I. ,i : ClnuJotteHi 1 iucoiutoB. . I .- i Iluuibvd Aci't-a, one-third of wbtt-L i ! . rultival .on. ' . .- t'.'- South Fork iu gOvd , . i i'r. : i. t , I, :, Co... FarmiBi; Lnnds, and will , ' in lots to miil pntrhasera. T'-mu ay. ! ; .( tin- hrarl i there is a wnt.'r pt.wet i ahfa command at' the whole Rii. I huir to eJinn tliese Lands wj.l iit i to bv tut; partitu at Staweavita, J. &. E. li. SIVE. ..:!.; rt, JOOO ltf57 4-tf .lOO Hrad oi' Beef Cattle Wanted. 300 HEAD OF SHEEP &. 100 I VMcad of HOGS, XOt m 12 or 15 No. 1 Nilch Cums. I I K 11 M". lu pamlianr fair abare amntiRt ol St-H-k. TImmm- fiav h aary for sab- will da well to elv.- sae a :ill. as 1 am willing la pay the higheat ,, (, ,riiT. Farm' n will ftad it to their adraav- . . -.1 .11 ... t:t-j- losell tie a Im . v. -. .-n. . p ..i nugn w tmc in.-;, .id : haieln-rinj; tliensl ve. as I think T j ran renam rati them "i wHI it not betrertlutnd ili. v hatclieivd th .- i W. A. COOK, Chart 1 Tow u Uutcher, BOOTS & SHOES. Just Received SPRIMv & SUMMER TRADE, A fine an Assortment of Boots and Slioes As li:ts ev-r 1m-. SouUit'ru '.til and see them at r, kNE AS- Terms, CASH. March 17. 1857. i offered People to a dc CO'S STORE, tf DR. R . WYSOHG, C harlotte, T. . W INt: locat. .1 in this place, resnectfully wftVrs hi l'r.d. .--ional S. ivies to the citi- II :. of the town and vicinity. I ,- OFFICE in tbe near brick building, oprmidte the barut district, Main Stn t. Ajiril -Jrth l-."7. III! KM & STEELE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers IN IDiry G-oodLs, Hardware, HatN, and Shoes, CHARLOTTE, JV. C. May S, L.. 4l-tf 11. La P. A 1. i: X A W K BS. Attorney at Law, CHARLOTTE, II. C. Office over China Hall. Au. jut 11, 1 857. j VALUABLE PLANTATION FOli SALE. The rabscriber being uesirama ol removing to th- Wet, od. is for sale his aluabie TRACT OF LAND, ly ing 4 aaihi sontb of Charlotte, on the Charlotte and Cafasaabla Railroad, containing about 400 Acros- 130 is in cultivation. To ef which is fresh land. Tin- balance is woodland ejkcepl acres. n the preiuises is a good Dwelling House and all ikvos- sary ont-hoiis. o, Oin-Hoitse and as II Screw, Ate. There is an exceOent Well of watec in tbe yard. A liold Mime I.iln bvn opened on the land. PerasHS aarioaa of porchasias s Phmtatioa w ith almost ev. iy avlvantagv, wonld da wet! to j call and examine tbe premis. s, it is seldom that such property is oaa red the public. Negroes will be t::k u in whole or for a jiart , of the i'urchae aaoneT. 1 will take pleaaatra in it -1 showing tin- Land to any one aVaiium of pqj ehaaahR. POjaaeaalsn (iven by the 1st of Janu ary, lroo. B. K. SMITH. Aug- II. i?:,7. C'.-tf CITY OF MOREIIEAD!!! GREAT SALE OF LOT ! ! ON THE ELEVENTH (lira DAY OF November next, at ihe City of ?l,.thead, w!il be aulil at public auction, the Lotao' nui 'y- Ths is the new City .aid off ay the "tsl.epard's Point Land Campany," at the te.i minus of the At lan'ic and North Carolina Rati Road, at Beaulort Harbor, N.C., imnediateii m. the Atlantic Ocean. The various Ret. ma of "ftie I'. S. Coast Siirvty establish the great exctlWhciea oi th.s Harbor, tor laeiluy of entra e,de yih of wi'. r and security from wind or wavt, nift Fort :acon completely comnaDdfl the entr co. The interior coiumi, ica'iop ''' water nnd land must mak tbia a greu C-o-.mnerci ! City. The vast jrixb tioira i trie lei.p. valley? of the Roan oke, 1'ar hiid Ntuae Rival and the commerce of tli;jo great inland oeaa the Albemarle, Currituck, Craoiao) and Paml.cu Bounds, will reach this fine Harbor tbroeipn Core ound on the north, whilst I!." ue Soundwill bear on its bosom the am iciillur i. , ducLs, lumber, '.aval stores and tine shi iim I t il the regions lyin youth. ffie Av&. N- C Rail Ruad which will be ready tor uae toy the not ol January uf At, passes through the et.tWe leiigtl. of the City tu ns wharf in 18 feet watfrr nt low tiJe, and connects with the great N. C. Rad Road (of which it is a nri million) at Nfc. Rail Road, anion- the bam in the Union, 1 'J miles Ion-, is Completed to Charlotte, where i connects tlir'ii:li the South Carolina and I lieu: ' j Rail Road.- with Atlanta ai.d the south- ai.d by its western t Atension, now in lapid pr. -;ress, it in contemplated to lwcfa the tiade of Memphis and the .Mississippi Valley ly the net wot k ol all the rail ways that connect at Atlanta, Camitaaooga, or with tl.e East Tennessee Rail Road. i The Tort of Ilcatifort, Chattanooga, Memphis and St. Oieo in the Pacific, arc about the same I parallel of iatntude; and it that parallel be extt-nd-i id across the 1'acific, it will reach Shanghai, the f neai M great Pad on the eastern Continent: th re I ore, if the Pacific Radroadevtr beconsttuct ad (god thai ahouJd be done forthwith) why may not ' this n w City boenma the Atlaatic mart for the cammeTceof t!i' Fast Indies? Two .-ti'irt Railroads will conned thn two great ! Coal Fields ol the State, hing on 'he north and Booth of the North Carolina Railroad, with that oad ; and it is confidently rapecud i hat a vast , iOal trade will he earned on througi the new city: 1 rl -o, may not Beaafocl hacome a ureal coaling i J HI, not oniy lor purposes of cosameiea. but to 1 t.i.:tli ill" w 1 1 r . u tit t . i tin. i t.tiL.ii.r t- near tie. entrance goia north and south j m ! may not aae new city become that ereat entre deoot le- rwet the north and south, to w hich our able and dwtM'giitsbed country maa, Lieut. Maury, raters in h.r unrivaled Statesmanlike paper on the eoan i.n n of the Amazon, South America and the (jolt o' .Mexico ! The - it y of Motehead is situated on a beautiful hack o: land or dry plain, almost entirely surromid d ariaa salt water: its climate is salubrious ; its aea-Vt i ise and oaa bathing deitghtfu; its drink wg wa"r g .id, and its line chalybeate tpring strongly itsmatgaated with sulphur, will make it a pleasant wi".imi; lace. Anno" a lot has leen or will he sold until the I day dp sale, ail will "have an cjaal chance to j iiei the aaat lots and to suit themselves. It wtll be the tiist instance of aa entire new I ei:y onvthi !,n, coast being braaghl into 1 tuarkr' aa once ; and capitalists may never have j aeai such ai opportunity for pond invesmieuta. t lor a XI:' MtV must and vvill be (nit at ihis place. J M. M OR CI IE AD, I lent of Shepperd's Poiut Land Co. Septemb!r , 18."7. Hw T, sSri . 1 layTri J3a.Saw Cu. -r.nsiion and Forwarding HERt 11 AT, IM'.KKRS T) T i ' F. EIlTl OK Till PAPER. Wilmington, Feb i3, 18.17. Waagd State of North Carolina, UNION COLN'I Y. Court f Picas and Quarter atawtaaja, July Term, lt7. Stewart, Hou-ton, and "j Covington, Original vs. , Attachment. Wyatt Austen. J lr appe irinr tothe satisfaction ol ihe Couit that the Defendant, Wyatt Austen, is not an inhabitant of this State, but resides beyond the limits of the same; it is therefore ord. red that publication be made for six weeks in the Western Democrat, notifying said de fendant to be and appear at the next Court, to lie held for the county of Union, at the Couit House in Monroe, on tbe first Monday of October next, then and there to plead, answer or demur, or final j ud - ment will be taken against him. Witness, J. M. Stewart, Clerk of our said Court at otfice, 1st Monday of July, 1S-37. CtJ J. M. STEWART, Clark A Word to the South!!! AJuIj classi s ol jieixms are well aa an- that the North, i n ) i. n t ion ,t tin United St::t s. consisting of all persona Nor. h of Mason and Dixon's lim is oppo" ! to the S..;:th and her institution, and are at ; n war against hex right-. still are an so blind to our inter, st that are are enc on raging them 10 wield their intlll'-nce israimt us bv our aidmsr in buiHimcr un ttwir tan'rehanta and mainifatlini n to ;.n opnknce not excelled by any in Europe. Money is power, and they naTe it, and the grea"J portion is ob ain. d lioin the South, and it is done is this way: our Mil ft bantu and men of wealth lto there and buy of their in iiiufacttir. is. iVc. all articles that th.v newd, consisting ol ag icultmal nnple merits of all kinds, boots, shoes, leather, and not hast of all is the purchase of Ready Made CLOTH I A" G, which tiny buy ami bring to the South, and sell at an under value defrauding and depriving the poor tailor of that encouragement which, as a citizen of the South he is justly entitled to. As II IT amplr. ,u"' subscriber to this article is a Tai lor by trade, and is every way qualified to carry on the Tailoring Establishment as any person North, but owing to the suicidal mode of pur chasing this ready made Northern slop work, be is actually asafiermg for the namasnrarn off life.no encouragement, no patronaov jriv. a him. all classes buy the North, in slop work, which costs them move than double in tbe Jong run than that same work don.- by a boanc mechanic would do. 1 propose, to warrant all my work, that it will fit the person, and wear well, and also that I will work as cheap as any otln r Ta lor in the South or North. Give me a trial. Call at my shop, 1 Door East of T. M. Farrow's Grocery Store, where yon will find meat all limrfi ready, and pn p-red with the latest London and I'aris fash ions to tit yon in the latest styles. Yours, Reap ctfnlly, D. L. REA, Tailor. Aug. 25, l-'u. tf K. M. MI KCHISOX. A.J. HtM KLL. MURCHISON At HOWELL, ft XX t i $ 5 I" 'a x LIN Ji'o. 104 MVtf Street, JT Feb. 3d, UBT. ly STILL THEY COME. 3ReOelf7Ci this day another sup ply of fresh DRUGS, MKDICINES & CHEM ICALS. Also, a splendid assortment of Sur gical Instruments, consisting in part of Post Mort m, Trepan'mg and Amputating Cases, Teeth Forceps, Speculum Enenata Sets, (entirely new style; spring and thumb Lancets, Scarificators, Clipping Glasses, and many other articles in this line ot goods, all of which Prac titioners of medicine aud Surgery are respect fully invited to call and examine. For sale at extremely short profits, at PRITCIIARD'S Wholesale and Retail Sept. 8. Drug House, Iru-in's corner. Another Supply Of the most unique and magnificent Toilet Arti cles, consisting in part of hair, teeth, nail, flesh, hat, cloth and other Brushes. Turkish Colognes, Extracts, Soaps, Bohemian Pnngents, Frankipane, Sec, etc., which will be Fold low at Priichard's Fancy Drug Store, Sept. r!. Irwin's Corner. WOODLAND CREAM! WOODLAND CREAM ! ! An Unequalled and exquisite Pomade for the hair. Just reeeh -d from thS manufacturers, at Pritcliard's Drug and Chemical House, Sept. Irwius's corner. Tooth Ache. Another supply of Cummings & Flagg s Nerve Anodyne, an instantaneous cure for the tooth ache, at PRITCBARD'S, Sept. 8. Sole Agent for Charlotte. Country Merchants Are respectfully invited to call and examine my Wholesale Prices of CHOICE AH'B IWKDICINES, put up in any style to order, by PRITCHAKD, Drvggist and Apothecary, July 28, 1857. Irwin's Corner. White Lead. I O.OOO Lbs. White Lead, in oil, just received and for sale at PRIICHARD'S Aug. 18. Drug House. Paint or Linseed Oil. 300 Gallons just received and for sale at the lowest market prices, at PRITCBARD'S Aug. 18. Drug St Chemical Store. VARNISHES ! VARNISHES ! A large stock now on hand, consisting of Demon, Furniture, Copal, Coach-body, Ja pan, &c., which will be sold lor cash lower than any othr!r House in Chariotte, at H. M. PRITCBARD'a Wholesaled. Retail Drug Store, Aug. 18. Irwin's Corner. Condition Powders. Farmers and others interested in fine Stock, are assured that these preparations are unsur passed as a h. alth-givmg remedy for Horses, Cattle, and all kinds oi Siock. For sale at Pritchard Wholesale and Retail Drug House, Ju!y 28. Irwin's Corner. Patent Medicines. at PRITCHAKD S DROG STORK Call Irwin's Corner, for the most approved and popubir medicines of the day. July 28. ras Seeds!! lira Seeds!!! A large assortment just received, comprising the following varieties: While Clocer, Red Clover, Timothy, Millet, Blue Grass, Lucerne, yr. The above seeds are warranted to be FRESH and GENUINE. For sale at Priichard's Wholesale Sf Retail Drug House Aug. 25, 157. Irwin's CoatKEK. EXECUTOR'S SALE, Lands, Mills and Town Lots. Pursuant to the Will of the late ANDREW HOYL, dee'd, the undersigned will sell ou the premises, one mile east of Dallas, H. C.,the very valuable property known as the HOYL'S MILLS AND PLANTATION. The tract of Land contains about FOl'R HUN DRED ACRES, and is a very productive and valuable Farm with excellent Meadow. The Mills are newly repaired, and consist of a Flour Mill with French Buns: Cora and Saw Mill with a large custom. Sale at the Mills, on the SIXTH of OCTOBER 1"7, on nine months' time, with interest from the 1st of November. Also, will he sold on the premises in the town of Dallas, on the 27th of OCTOBER next, TWO IMPROVED LOTS, now occupied by John H. Roberts. Terms same as above. Also, a tract of 61 Acres, on Little Catawba Creek, known as 'Frederick's Ford." Sale on the tith of October, IS'u. Terms same as pre- CeUIll"'. TH08. GRIER, E W. P. BYNUM, I Meentore-7-J-Gt Anj BOOKS Sale AT TIIK CHARLOTTE BOOK STORE. TBE .Mr.Rli N Sportsman: containing hints to Sportsmen, notes on shooting, and tbe habits of the Came Birds and Wild Fowl of Ann riea, by LEWIS. Thk GOLD KB Lko.uV: a story of Life's Phase. Bills from the Foi xtaix of Life, or Ser mons to Children, by Rev. R. NEWTON, D. D. THE D.usv Chain vr Aspiration: a Family Chronicle. Shoepac Recollections : A Way-Side Glimpse ef American Life, by WALES M arch. KaTHK Braniie: a Fireside History of a Quiet Life, bv HOLME LEE. HOTSEBOLB Mysteries, by Lizzie Pitt. El. Grixoo, or New Mexico and her IVople. 1'a!-l Fane, bv N. P. Willis. Veva. or the War of the Peasants and the Conserrph two interesting Romances bound hi one volume. The Napoleon Dynasty, or the History of tbe Bonaparte Familv: an entirely m w work, by the Berkley Men, Vith twenty-two authentic Portraits. Call at R J. LOWRIES Hook Store. March 31, 1857 . 39-tf WESTERN DEMOCRAT. CHARL0TTE.'3 A Question. A new idea with regard to the Chinese Suo-ar Cane, of which we hear so much now-a-days, is suggested by the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail. It is, that the cane will degenerate into broom corn about the third year of its culture. It is a matter of importance to the planters every where, mauy of whom have considerable quantities growing, and some of whom have purchased machinery for grinding their crop, that this question should be deter mined. It would be well, if every person w ho has a field of the cane would examine it and see if a portion of it is not in all respects like broom corn and entirely without the saccharine juice. The Mail knows this to be the case in at least two fields, and hears that it is the case in others. Mrs. General Gaines. We learn from the Philadelphia Evening Journal that Mrs. General Gaines, who for years past has withstood the combined efforts of lawyers and enemies to ruin her, visited Philadelphia on Friday last, and instituted inquiries to obtain some facts relative to the time of the death of her grandmother Clark, who long lived in Germantown, and whose remains now lie in the lower cemetery of that place. She says she has been in court twenty-three years lias completely gained her cause, and all she has got to do to obtain possession of her father's property s simply to institute suits of ejectment, w hich will be done unless a satisfactory compro mise is effected. Mrs. G. looks well, is still young and as energetic as ever. Immense Fortune. The Philadelphia American states that a fortune of an im mense amount, embracing lands, tenements mines, cvC, the majority of which is in N. jersey, has lately been discovered to belong to somebody besides the present holders, by the turning up of some old papers in that city. It appears that one Judge Thos. Leonard, a resident of Princeton, New Jersey, before the revolution, became the owner of immense estates, as appears by his will, which is said to be on record in due form at the office in Trenton, N. J. mi! loft tkosn estMes to his mnlo descen dants as long as the name of Leonard existed and, after the name of Leonard ceased to be, to the female descendants, preferring the males tothe females, thereby entailing the property to a time indefinite. The said estates have lain to the present time and have become very Taluable, em bracing about 1,500 acres on Deep Run, towards Ainboy ; 10,000'acres at the head of Great Egg Harbor river ; 35') acres in the city of Princeton, extending from the centre of the town along both sides of the road to wards Rocky Hill, now called Princeton street, and embracing some of the finest improvements ; GOO acres on Cape Fear river, North Carolina, a valuable coal mine in operation on it, and properly in various other locations. This may be a happy windfall to the heirs, if they ar able to gain possession of the estates, of which they have the most sanguine hopes. Tom Chisolm got Cured or Courting. "Uncle Tom," said I, "why did you never get married ?" "Well, young man, I will till you why : "When I was just grown up, I fell in love with a girl iu the neighborhool ; but being very bashful, I never found an opportunity to say anything to her about it, till one day, my father, going to kill a beef, sent me over to the house of her father to borrow some salt. When I got there I found no body at home but Nancy ; so I thought it a good time to court her a little. The house built of logs, was standing high off the ground; and the back door-shutter opened outwards, as you have seen them sometimes, young man, and was fastened with a string on the inside. Nancy was leaning against the door facing, and after passing a few compliments. I drew my chair up along side of her, right in front of the door. "Well young man, not noticing where I was, I leaned snddenly back, the string broke, and I was landed in a duck-puddle that nearly buried me ; and it was so foul that I could fairly see myself stink ! Well young man, before I could get up and go into the house, the dogs came at me from around the corner, and I had no way to escape but thro' the cow pen. The cows j heard the dogs coming, and frightened for themselves, came bellowmg towards me, I and I had to climb a big brush heap to ! escape the dogs and cows. "Nancy came out, called off the dogs ; but that adventure, young man, cured me of courting !" Washing Silver Wake. A correspon dent of the Germantown Telegraph says: Some thirty years since I was informed bv a proprietor of one of the largest and ofdest silver establishments in the city of : course of experiments, with every precau Philadelphia, that "housekeepers ruined . tion to guard against error. Professor Lo their silver by washing it in soap suds; it Cftnte was convinced that solar light cxer makes it look like pewter; never put a j cisej) no sensible specific action on the rates? particle of soap about your silver, then it of combustion. and that, under equai cir. will retain its original lUMre. wuen it wants polishing take a piece of soft leather and whiting, and rub it hard." I adhered strictly to his advice, and fjund a great difference in the appaarauce of the silver. IMPORTANT INQUIRY ABOUT IRON The Secretary of the Treasury has issu ed to the iron manufacturers of the country the following importautcircular, from which a body of information is likely to be deriv ed of great value to the country : Treasury Department, August 31, 157. Sir : This Department has been furnish ed with unboubted evidence that there is a great difference between iron from differ ent mines in the United States iu the de gree and rapidity with which they become oxydized. Congress, during the last ses sion, appropriated the sum of $2,500 to test the different irons in this country in that particular. If these experiments shall es tablish the important fact that we have irons entirely or nearly proof against the corro sion of oxygen, it will multiply the uses of such iron to a considerable extent for pur poses to which it is now applied, and give it the preference over the other irons for many purposes for which iron is now used. The very large extent to which this mate rial is superseding the use of wood and stone in the public buildings erecting, at a cost of many millions of dollars annually, under this Department, renders it of the greatest importance to know what irons re sist for the longest period the action of oxy gen. It is hoped that the great interest the iron-masters have in the result of this ex periment will be considered a sufficient apology for requesting samples of their iron and the ores from which they are made. I have, therefore, to request that you will forward to this Department, by mail or ex press, two or three small samples of iron and a sample of ore from each of the mines worked by you ; the samples of iron not to exceed a quarter of a pound each, and the ore not to exceed a half pound in weight. I would also request information on the fol lowing points, viz : The extent of the ore deposite ; facilities of mining ore: its dis tance from furnace, and distance of furnace from market, and mode of transportation thence ; the fuel used ; relative cost of char coal, coke, crude, bituminous and anthra cite iron ; kind of flux and its cost, &c, the capacity of the establishment and the amount of iron produced during the last year, and what it would be capable of pro ducing under a ready salo and remunerat ing prices ; any peculiarity of the iron pro duced ; whether there are rolling mills in the vicinity, and what description of iron they roll ; to what purpose most of the pro ducts of your furnaces are applied, and what description of iron the establishment mostly produces ; when did your work first go into operation ; what has been the an nual production, and what the ruling prices each year since j'our work were first start ed. You will please give the State and county in which your iron mine is situated, and the distance your fuel is transported. As it is the intention of the Department to furnish you with the result of the experi ments, you will please name the post office through which to address you. If you know of any one in your neighborhood interested in the iron business who does not receive a copy of this letter, if you will for ward his address one will be sent to him. You will realize the value of the information when you reflect upon the growing impor tance of the iron interest of the country a fact attributable, in no small degree, to the introduction of iron as a substitute for other materials in our public buildings. The policy of affording encouragement to this great interest, by promoting its pro duction and increasing its consumption, has been commenced by the Government, and I am desirous of obtaining all the in formation which can be had.on the subject, with a view to its further development. This circular will be addressed to per sons not immediately connected with iron establishments, as it is believed that there will be not a willingness but an anxiety on the part of every one to advance the object which the Department has in view. I am desirous of obtaining the informa tion asked for at the earliest practical mo ment. Very respectfully, your ob't serv't., HOWELL COBB, Secretary of the Treasury. Influence of the Svn ani Moon UFON Fire. Among the proceedings at the Scientific Convention was a paper read on the influence of the sun and moon upon fire : "Professor John Leconte, of South Caro lina College, gave an account of 'Prelimin arv Researches on the Alleged Influence of Solar Light on the Process of Combustion.' He observed that mot physicists have re garded as a fallacy the popular opinion that the influence of the sun upon fire tends to retard the process of burning ; but that Dr. McKeevor bad. after a series of ex periments, come to the belief that the rate of combustion in the dark exceeds the rate in the sunlight by from five to eleven per cent., while momilight exerts no influence. After having repeated Dr. McKeevor's rnm,tance9. thev are Dreciselv the same. Froressor j.ecome remamtu upon tne influence of barometric pressure, and the temperature, ujon the rates of combustion: which are very decided. The presence of aqueous vapor also retards combustion." TATTLERS. "Oh, could there in this world be found Some little spot of happy ground, Where villnge pleasures might go round, Without the village tattling! How doubly blest that spot would be, Where all might dwell iu liberty, Free from the bitter misery Of gossip's endless prattling." Every community is cursed by the pres ence of a class of people who make it their business to attend to everybody's busiuess but their own. Such people are the mean est specimen of depraved humauity which an all-wise Providence permits to exist on this sin cursed earth. It is well known that almost every person is sometimes disposed to speak evil of others; and tattling is n sin from which very few can claim to be entirely exempt. But the object of our present article is to speak of that distinct class of tattlers who make tale henring the constant business of their lives. They pry into the private affairs of every family iu the neighborhood, they know the exact state of one neighbor's feeling towards another ; they understand everybody's faults, and no little blunder or misdemeanor ever es capes their vigilant watchfulness. They glido quietly from gentleman to lady, from mother to daughter, from father to son. and iu the ears of all they pour their dark, bitter whisper of slander and abuse, and at the same time pretend to be the most sincere friend of those they talk to. Their black and nauseous pills of malicious slander are sugar-coated with smiles and honied words of friendship. Tattlers are confined to no particular class of society. They belong to all class es, and operate in all. We find them among rich and poor, "upper ten" and the "lower million," in the church and out of it. They are people who have no heart and less brains who have no higher ambition than to be well informed in regard to other peo ple's private business, to retail scandal to their neighbors and exult in fiendish tri umph over the wounded feelings and bruis ed hearts of their innocent victim. Beau less old maids and childish matrons make the most accomplished scandal-mongers in the world. They seem to take to tattling trom the promptings of a natural instinct, and they prosecute it with an energy that I would do internal honor to their great leader the Prince of Darkness himself. Our contempt for such graceless creatures knows no bounds, and we can find no words in which to express its infamy. What pun- ishment they deserve we cannot know ; but God knows, and as sure as his eternal jus- tico reigns, they will receive a retribution : u...i.. ..c 4i.. r til .IIUU1 IJiru i. UH' MlLLllllMUe Ol 1114 11 Ol- fences against the laws of God and the in terest of humanity. LORD JEFFREY AND THE SHORT ER CATECHISM. There was a simple-minded country parson, whose parish lay upon the Frith of Clyde, and so became gradually overspread with fashionable villas, to which families from Edinburgh and Glasgow resorted in summer and autumn. This worthy man persisted in exercising the same spiritual jurisdiction over these new comers, which he had been wont to exercise over his rustic parishioners before their arrival. And, in particular, in his pastoral visitations he in sisted on examining the lady and gentleman of the house, in The Shorter Catechism, in the presence of the children and servants. It happened one Autumn, that the late Lord Jeffrey, after the rising of the Court of Sessions, came to spend the long vaca tion in the parish of L . Soon aftor his arrival, the minister intimated from the pulpit that upon a certain day ho would hold a diet of catechising' in the district which included the dwelling of the eminent Judge. True to his time, he appeared at Lord Jeffrey's house, and requested that the entire establishment might be collected. This was readily done, for almost every Scotch clergyman, though the catechising process has become obsolete, still visits each house in the parish once a year and collect the family to listen to a fireside lecture. But what was Lord Jeffrey's con sternation when, thcentire household being assembled in the drawing-room, the worthy minister said in a solemn voice, My Lord, I always begin my examination with the head of the family. Will you tell me, then "What is Effectual Calling ?" Never was an Edinburgh reviewer more thoroughly nonplussed. After a pause, during which the servants looked on in horror at the thought that a Judge should not know big Catechism, his Lordship recovered his speech, and answered the question in terms which completely dumfoundedthe minister. "Why, Mr. Smith, a man may be said to discharge the duties of his calling effectual ly, when he performs them with ability and success To explain Mr. Smith's consternation, it may be well to give the question and an swer iu the form in which they are familiar to Young Scotland. Question. What is Effectual Calling ? Answer. Effectual Calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable ua to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us iu the Gospel. t a Temi erature of the Earth. By experiments made during the last year by Professor Smyth, at Ediaburg, with a scries of earth-thermomeiersv imbedded in th earth at varying depths, it was proved that there was a gradually increasing heat of one degree, Fahrenheit, for every forty feet of depth; so that at less than two and a half miles, water would be at boiling beat and at less than one hundred miie depth, all thiu:r" must be in a state of fusion. ' Tub Great Ki.kvatob. A Southern gentleman, at a Northern hotel, perceiving that the dining room servant, a negro, wns bestowing his attentions elsewhere, to his own neglect, called up John, and accosted him in this wise : "John, I have servants at home, and am waited on as a gentleman should lie. lam neglected here, and am tired of it. I give yoa fair notice that 1 will whip you like a dog unless you behave better." The consequence was that John becanio very attentive during the few days that the gentleman remained. On goingaway, John was called up and presented: with a dollar or two, which he thus acknowledged : "Thank ee, massa. Southern gentlemen always so lick us like blazes if we dont wait on 'cm well, but, when dey go, dey allers gib us a dollar or two. Now, deso fbolition gemmen mighty hard to suit, and w.it much waiting on, an' when dey go 'way sh:tke yer hand, look up to de wall au' say, od bless you, my unfortunate friend, an' doAvte you in the stale ob humanity,' or sometiing like that, but dey nebcr gib us a dollar or two to elewate us wid." "First das? in Orient Philosophy will stand up. Trit bets, what is life?" "Life consists of money, a horse and a fashionable wife." "Next, w hat is death?" "A paymaster, who settles everybody's debts and gives them a tombstone as a receipt in full of all demands." "What is poverty?" "The reward if merit Genius generally receives from a discriminating public." "What is relig;on?" "Doing unto others as you please, without allowing them u return the compliment.' "What is fame?" "A six line puff in a newspaper while living, and a irtune to your enemies when dead." Ton.vcco Poison. The French poet, Santeuill, was killed by a little snuff being thrown iiuo his wine glass at the Prince of Conde's Jrible. Bocann', of Belgium, was murdered in two minutes and a half by a little nicotine, or alkali of tobacco. Dr. Twitfhell believes that sudden deaths and tobacco are found together, and he sustains this opinion by an array of facts altogether conclusive. The names of scores of men can be given, who were found dead iu their beds, or fell dead in the street or elsewhere, ! wno nau oeen me victims oi mis poison. j "What has brought you here?" said a j lone woman who wab quite ' flustrated," ti,e othcr morning, by an early call from a bachelor neighbor who lived opposite, anJ wh n Jcu wjth peculiar favor, L. , " . , ' .lXI . , , ; 41 came to borrow matches." "Matches! that's a likely story! Why don't you make a match yourself! I know what you came for," cried the exasperated old virgin, as she backed the bachelor into a corner, "you came here to kiss mo almost to death! But you shan't, without you are the strongest, and the Lord knows you arc!" A little stealing is a dangerous part, But stealing largely is a noble art; 'Tis mean to rob a hen-roost of a hen, Butstealing millions makes usgen-tle men! Unmarried Women in Great Britain. It appears from the census of Great Britain of 1851, that in that year there were in the country nearly six million of women above 20 years of age of whom one million seven hundred and hixty-seveii thousand were unmarried, and seven hun dred and ninety-five thousaud widows. Another Convention. As this is an age of conventions and fast youths, it is understood that the boys intend to hold a convention to revise the ten commandments, particularly the fifth, which is to be amended thus: "Parents obey your children." fiT 'A sub-editor lately announced the illness of his principal and piously added : "All good paying subscribers are requested to make mention of him in their prayers; tbe other class need not do so, as the 'prayers of the wicked availcth nothing' according to good autbority.'- "You need a little air" said a physician to a maiden patent. "If 1 do," was the cute reply, "I'll wait till I get married." Bolus looked thoughtful. A Long Term. A convict was discharged from Sing Sing prison on the 5th inst, who had spent thirty yearn in the State prison. lie was sent to the old City prison in 1824 for the term of fourteen years. Ho was one of a chain gang sent to Sing Sing in 1828, to build that prison. At the expiration of his terra he was out about three years., then sent back for ten years. He was out only three montlis; wa drunk all the time; was then Uken up and sent for six years, that time expired on the fifth. He has leen a good convict, has been punished only once during the entire thirty years. He is now in good health, is fifty-six years of age, and is a superior maon and stone-cutter. Ho intend to devote the balance of his life to biraaelf. Syracuse Journal. Horses. The age of a horse is now more easily told by his eyes than his Ueth, in this way: After the borae is nine years old, a wrinkle cornea on the eyelid at the upper corner of the lower lid, and every vear thereafter he has one defined wrinklo for each year over nine. If, for taaUMaM, a horse has three wrinkles, he is twe.ve; if four, he is thirteen; add the numU-r of wrinkles to nine, and you will always get it. So says a writer, and he is confident it will never fail. a great inanv Peophl bue boraea over nine it is easily tneo.