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INTERESTING FROM CHINA. I, met of Hie London Time. nttomt Hoxu Koxr,. June S3. Wo mini n peneoful country to trade with rind a strong government to treat with. Yet every success short of actual occupa tion of the city only weakens the authority without breaking the ob.-tinney of the j ulers. Tin- rumors thnt mt us from the j. terior nil say that the rebels are making hel again, nnd that some (nmniii course ,.f actio,! Iim he.n established hetween b.di. s which hud hefore BCted independently of each other. I place no absolute faith in any statement of fact made hy a Chinese mbomA his own country. The merchants h re hnve the most important pecuniary in terests in obtaining ieformntion as to tin movements of flu- rebel. Whether certain road- are open, unii wb ther the produt of certain i r.v;nees can come down, are ques tions i if i tfj import. To them knowledge is dollars, lint I have heen told hy the brads f the most enterpi i.-ii g houses tliat tbis ii.fonnation cannot he bought. Tbej rod out their spies, and the spies, having pa.-M d their time at the nearest spot oyt ot sight in drinking aaamsbou, d sleeping in the aha let cine hack with tmnt unireue in fcigaialiiia perhaps, for tbis has happened, with a doeunieiit purporting to he a copy of the la-t memorial addres.-ad hy Veh to the I'.mi eior. Time, however, sle ws that all this i- falsehood und forge i v. it i- false hood and it is forgery, not because the spy could not get real information fr money, hut bacaose be can invent it for nothing. I put no faith, therefore, in specific news from the interior. When I o:n told tha envoys from tbe re beta have held interviews with the elders of all the villages nnd t.viu mi tlteir western hue of iu trcli, and that a conipact lias hr-eii entered into bp their advance shall ho unresisted. th;. private property shall be spared, and tliat none hut mandarins shall be massacred 1 do not re ceive it, although coming from the best availahle uuthoiify, as reliable intelligence. But these rumors aro so consistent with the natural seqneuce of clVect from cause tl.at I believe the v have boom fouudatioB in fact. Tbo rebrlliua fos queue bed for a time in the hlood of the H MUM 10 buman creatures arbo in the years 1855 and 1S5G were put to death iu the execution ground of Canton, Subsequently more favored criminals were turned into hovels built cxr proas J- for that purpose, and found there a knife, a fata dose of opium, und a rope, and were told to spurt' their families the ig nominy iif a public execution by 1 voluntary death. Jjiit tbe West has again ri.-cn to protect tin- fugitives who come aniuiig them with dollars in their pockets, and fhe East has found new proselytes to legitimacy and plunder. Meanwhile scarcity presses more or less heavily upon the whole population. In Canton the rich are flying, and the poor are starving. Even in Pekio (f speak oi the authority of a memorial which the au thorities ailow to appear in the Gazette) a man iS labor will hardly suffice to procure rice for his own belly, whereas formerly it : would feed him and his family. While : physical distress thus swells the ranks of J the insurgents, Yeh remains Impassible as i ever. During the bombardment of Canton ! be was accustomed to retire within a grotto i made of English cotton bales and smoke his pipe calmly while the shells were fall ing. He preserves his usual habits. How qua goes to him and states the necessity for yielding ; Veh stares at him and says noth ing ; tJowqoa retires and some days after Comes back with other Chinese merchants to beg that the trade may at least be opened with Cacao, so that the tea may go down and be exchanged for rice. Yeh still answers only hy a silent stare. The Chi nese now remember or invent a romantic history for their proconsul. They say that : Yell's first wife and all her kin were mur- i dercd by the Cantonese, and that in long past days he vowed to be revenged by the j destruction of their city, a fiction by no means improbable so far as the murder is concerned, for tbe Cantonese would murder any one, hut somewhat incompatible with the notorious fuet that by his vigorous measiires lie preserved the city from being , sacked by the rebels. This state of things cannot long continue. One mail. With a few hundreds of lirateS and robbers connected with soldiers, can. ' not keep down a flourishing population of a millionuf people, especially when every one : of that million has seen the fires and heard the explosions that told the destruction of the Imperial fleet. If we delay to take Can- I ton, it is to be feared that the rebels will unticipate us. If tbis should happen, what are we to do ? They are not much better affected to the "outer barbarians" than the mandarins are. We shall then have no one to fight with and no one to treat with. In driving out the rebels we shall only be doing the work of the Emperor, and our claims to compensation would be presented to an exhausted Treasury. On the other hand, we ought to know more of Chinese polities than the best informed among us yet know, before we undertake toguaranteetheTartar dynasty in return for commercial advanta- 6"- Some doubt was expressed as to whether we really bad the great Wang himself for nn adversary at Fatshnn. This is now abundantlv cleared up, for among the doc- uments brought to the admiral some days after the battle, was an ornamental paper carefully encased in a double pewter envel- ope. Upon being spread before the all-ex- pounuu.g sax uue. no at once read it off as Wang's commission. Poor Wang ! all our officers pity him as a foeinun worthy of their steel. He once went into action against some pirates on the paddlebox of au English steamrr. and then wrote a letter to say that he had re- ceived some aid trom too barbarians. He is lurking somewhere in close concealment, for Yeh is said to have declared that he will decapitate him directly he can lay hands upon him. Our sailors are just lik big sehoolbovs. The ( Chinese lie ribands round their cannon, ami Jack, when he boarded the junks, usu ally untied this ornament and transferred it to his own gan in the hows of his booni boat. As Lieutenant Hallowes was steering his boat hack from Katshan. he had to pass be tween two junks already blazing, and with guns pointed across the boat's course. -Give way, men," he said, expecting that the junks would go up or the guns go off before he could get clear; but his crew, although they had good stores of flags, had forgotten tbe ribands. "Beg pardon, sir," said the coxswain, speuking for the rest. we've got no ribands on the gun. might'nt we just go and take away them things?" To their great ehagria the officer did not I think it quite consistent with his duty to get his men blown up for such an object. Some men were left all night in charge of the fort, and as they had but little to eat and nothing to drink, it was difficult to make a jolly night of it. They hit upon the ex pedient of collecting all the gingals and Chinese spear rockets together, lighting a fire under them, and sitting iu a half circle. As the giug.d- from time to time heated, and the flames reached the rockets, they exploded ; so the garrison of the fort had excitement and fireworks half the night through. The naval exploits have, of course, heen upon a smaller scale since the 1st of June. Tin Sampson, however, managed to secure five pirate junks which had sent detach ments on shore to plunder a village. On the approach of the Sampson's boats the pirates as usual, fired their guns and jump ed overboard; but the villagers, meanwhile, had turned out to see the fight, and as the pirates landed they were knocked on the bend with bamboo poles. Captain Corbett, also, in the Inflexible, got bold of a pirate. a notorious scourge. Ten junks, laden with rice, were sailing gaily up the river to Canton, when it was intimated to the Commodore that they had verv much the cut of mandarin junks. They were accordingly detained. Great was the indignation of the Chinese of Hong Kong. Tin y were declared to be Hong Kong property. Innocent traders were being ruined ! There ought, at least, to have heen some notice of a blockade. "Why for you no sendchit ?" Orders were sent to release them, but Keppel, who is tenacious in bin opinions, was not quite satisfied. He ordered some of the rice bags to be brought on deck, and when this was done the junks were found to have each a fair cargo of guns, soldiers' jackets, and other warlike stores including, it is said, several cases of revolvers. Such are the little incidents of the war which Queen Victoria is waging against Mr Commissioner Yeh. . , , , t ATROCITIES IN INDIA. The English papers give numerous ac counts of the atrocities perpetrated on Europeans in India. A letter from Bagalore says : "We have had an awful time of it, I can assure yon, though we ourselves have been mercifully kept from alarm and danger. No word c?n express the feelingof horror which pvevades society in India, we hear so many private accounts of the tragedy, which are too sickening to repeat. The cruelties committed hy the wretches exceed all belief. They took forty eight females, most of them girls of from ten to fourteen, manv delicately nurtured ladies violated them, and kept them for the base purposes of the heads of the insurrection for a whole week. At the end of that time they made them strip themselves, nnd gave them up to the lowest of the people, to abuse in broad daylight in the streets of Delhi. They then commenced the work of torturing them to death, cutting off their breasts, fingers and noses, and leaving them to die. One lady was three days dying. The- flayed the face of another lady and nutdo her walk naked through the street. Poor Mrs. , the wife of an officer of the regiment, at Mecrut, was soon ex- pecting her confinement. They violated her, then ripped her up, and, taking the unborn child, cast it and her into the flames, No European man, woman or child, has had the slightest mercy shown him. I do not believe that the world ever witnessed more hellish torments than have been in- dieted on our poor fellow-country-women. At Allahubab they have rivah d the atroci ties of Delhi. I really cannot leli you the f.mrfiil Krnnllll tluuui dnmmw tinvo lomi guilty of cutting off the fingers and toes nf little children, joint by joint, in sight of their parents, who were reserved for similar treatment afterwards. FlGHT WITH THE Indians. The Austin (Texas) Gazette, of the S2d alt., has an ac- Count from Fort Lancaster, of two engage- rnents between the Indians and U- States troops. It says: Hi the first engagement Serg't Theodore, of the 8th Infantry, was killed and scalped, He was uo of a party sent out to escort the Fort Davis mail, and was attacked by the Indians about 20 miles from Fort Lan- caster. Capt. R. S. Granger, of the 1st Infantry, stationed at the latter fort, very I promptly sent out a detachment of forty cn in wagons to overtake the Indians if possible. They were hidden so well under the canvass of the wagons, that the Indians could not see the force brought against them, and were induced to make an attack, The men got into position as soon as possi- ble, and fought bravely, killing two Indians without injury to themselves, but they were wholly unable to strike an effective blow, , The Indians were mounted and armed with Sharp and Minie rifles, and when they got ; tired of the heht rapidly fled. During the . o engagement the command saw a body of Indians passing up the Pecos, on the other i side, with between fifty and seventy-five j horses, doubtless all stolen ; and though at only a distance of eight hundred yards. I the United States troops could do uothiu" because they were on foot. The Texan learns that Capt. Whiting, of the 2d Cavalry, who went in pursuit of the Indians tha attacked Capt. Wallace and hia party with the San Diego mail, had over taken the Indians and captured all the mules and horses taken from the train. The edit .r of an Ohio paper publishes the names of his subscribers who pay up promptly under the head of ' Legion of Honour." FAMINE IN AFRICA Information has been received at the Methodist Episcopal Mission Rooms in this citv, that there are apprehensions of a ! general failure in Liberia; that already ; several of the poorer people have died of j starvation ; that some of the missionaries on the country stations are without any other food than green plums, and that around some of the settlements the natives are cutting down the palm trees, for the sake of the palm cabbage to sustain life. j pow publish it that all may have an oppor One of the missionaries there remarks that : tuuitv of reading it : this state of things has been coming upon them for years, and attributes it mainly to three causes, first, the great number of idle and worthless persons in the community, who will not work and who live hy beggary; j nanijai through the agency of Mr. Horatio second, that this class of persons is certain- j j-il)rt ,)f t,e j0;.t Qffice Department, to ly increased by the emigration from the i wlioni jt iat been entrusted. From the dis united States, numbers ot immigrants con- t;ngu;sbed source whence it proceeds, as suming a great deal and producing nothing; j well flg -lts p0Culiar character, I have deem aud third, to the failure of the native rice ( j it pr0per to flepartfrom my general rule crops several years ago, owing in part to a j m gjeo caseSi nm to give it an answer, bad season, but mainly to the natives, i y(u fost assert that " the fundamental 'general attendance upon the Devil Bush j principle Qf the Constitution of the United when they should have heen upon their j gtatos anj 0f oar political institutions is farms. They have never heen able to re- j that the p0Opic snal make their own laws cover themselves. What rice has j ac elect their own rulers" You then ex- gathered for a year or two past has ot j been enough for food, so they have saved none for sowing." This is a gloomy prospect, and the mis sionary who gives the information the Rev. J. W, Home predicts a yet worse condi tion of things, and that "the end of all things out there is at hand." The distress does not seem to be confined to the natives, for he commences his account in the words : "We in the republic have been and are in a fearful condition for want of food, at some points worse than at others. -Y. Y. Commercial AJ vcrliser. a -- WHY PROVISIONS HAVE BEEN DEAR. The Pennsylvanian has compiled some statistics which serve in part to explain the extraordinary high prices of all kinds of provisions which have ruled the past year or two. In 1840, for instance, the United States produced 84,8-20,000 bushels of wheat. 108,000,000 bushels of Irish and sweet potatoes. 14,970,000 head of cattle. Hud agriculture remained simply station ary considering the increase of population it ought to have produced in 1850 1 15,240,000 bushels of wheat, 140,000,000 bushels of potatoes. 20,349,000 head of cattle. Instead of which it only yielded 100,480,000 bushels of wheat. 104,000,000 bushels of potatoes. 18,378,000 head of catt le. Thus the diminution of those articles dur ing the period of ten years amount to about; 15,000,0li0 hashels of wheat, which is a falling off of 1-7 . 41.000,000 bushels of potatoes, which is a falling off of . 2,000,000 head of cattle, which is a falling oft" of 1-10 of the production i'l 18411 duly taking into calculation the increase of popu lation. Here, then, we have one reason for the advance of piovisions. While agriculture thus proved unable to keep pace with the growth of the popula tion, the exportation of breadstuff's increased prodigiously ; which, of course reacted upon the home market. The value of breadstuff's and provisions exported averaged per annum for the period from 1830 to 1840. 812.000,000. From 16411 to 1850 27,000,000. From 1850 to 1850, $41,000,000. Thus the exportation more than doubled in ten years, and nearly doubled in the last seven years. These facts, taken iu connection with the dispersion of laborers over the wild and non-producing lands of the West by the railroads, will go far to explain why the provisions forafamily cost more than twice what it cost ten, or even five years ago. There has been an immense temptation drawing the laboriug classes to the West. Before they left they used to produce more than they consumed. Now that is for the first year or t wo after their emigration they consume more than they produce, or what they produce is not within the reach of cus tomers. It will not always nor long bo so, we hope. The Scg au Cane in Texas. George W. Kendall, who owns a ranch in Texas, and has been verv successful in raisinof the Chinese sugar cane, writes to the New Oilcans Picayune as follows : Many of my friends in this section are sanguine that this new grain or plant will drive all others out of the ground, or that ( it will at least effect a perfect revolution in : the way of fanning in Westerp Texas. They are saving the seed to plant for bread, and they are making syrup and sugar of the juice of the stalk, they are feeding it out as green fodder and saving it for dry. No part of it is wasted; cattle, horses, sheep and hogs eat it clean, from the ground upwards, when the stalk is ripe, and gain strength ami grow fat upon it. An immense quantity of it will be planted i next year. In speaking of an elective judiciary, the j National Intelligencer says: "That the I first effect of this system, as seen in the present instance, is to repel from such a distasteful and humiliating competition the men who, by their legal lore and forensic ability, would grace while they fill this fleets no credit upon the character of our responsible station' The instance referred ! c"ntry- let the blame fall upon the to is that of David Taul Ihown, of hends of the uiit-v" Whence did this ne rhiladelphia, who, declining the nomination cessiry arise ? A portion of the people of of a Know Nothing Convention for the Kansas, unwilling to trust tire ballot-box office of Judge, says: UI trust I am already the certain American remedy for the redress too good a judge, at least in one sense, to of all grievances undertook to create an accept a judicial position in the Court of independent government for themselves. Common Pleas, or any other court that is . IIad this attempt proved successful, it dependent upon the elective franchise, or 1 m e . u a u i - i o,.f,- e r . ' . would, of course, have subverted the exist polmcal or party feeling." W herever it . ., , , . may be found, an example of this character Sy eminent, prescribed and recogn.sed should be commended to favor an imitation. ! b ConSref:5!- substituted a revolutiona Never was a greater stride made upon the ; "7 government in its stead. This was a downward road than when the election of i usurpation of the same character as it would judges was assumed by the people. j be for a portion of the people of Connecti MR BUCHANAN'S LETTER. Below we publish the reply of the Presi dent to the abolition Ministers and Profes- sors in Connecticut, who have undertaken to lecture hiin for taking a stand in fa or of the rights of all the States. In the South. Mr Buchanan is accused by the enemies of democracy with favoring free soilism ; in the North, he is slandered and persecuted as a friend of the slave driver. We alluded to this letter last week, and Washington City, Aug. 15, 1857. Gentlemen : On my reeent return to this city, after a fortnight's absence, your me morial, without date, was placed in my p,ess your grief and astonishment that I should have violated this principle, and, through Gov. Walker, have employed an army, one purpose of which is to force the people of Kansas to olicy laws not their ou-n, nor of' the United Stat(S, but laws which it j is notorious, and established upon evidence, they never made, and rulers they never elected." And, as a corollary from the foregoing, you represent that I am "openly held up and proclaimed, to the great dero gation of our national character, as violat ing in its most essential particulars the solemn oath which the President has taken to sn pjiort the Constitution of this Union." These are heavy charges proceeding from gentlemen of your high character, and, if well founded, ought to consign my name to infamy. But in proportion to their gravi ty, common justice, to say nothing of Chris tian charity, required that before making them you should have clearly ascertained that they were well founded. If not, they will rebound with withering condemnation upon their authors. Have you performed this preliminary duty towards the man who, however unworthy, is the Chitf Magistrate of your country ? If so, either you or I are laboring under a strange delusion. Should this prove to be your case, it will present a memorable example of the truth that political prejudice is blind even to the plainest and most palpable historical facts. To these facts let us refer. When I entered upon the duties of the Presidential office, on the 4th of March last, what was the condition of Kansas ? This Territory had been organized under the act of Congress of 30th Ma-, 1854, and the government iu all its branches was in full operation. A governor, secretary of the Territory, chief justice, two associate justi ces, a marshal, and district attorney, had been appointed by my predecessor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and were all engaged in discharging their respective duties. A code of laws had been enacted by the Territorial legislature ; and the judiciary wire employed ia expounding and carrying these laws into effect. It is quite true that a controversy had previous ly arisen respecting the validity of the el ection of members of the Territorial legis lature and of ti e laws passed by them, but at the time I entered upon my official duties, Congress had tecognised this legislature in different forms und different enactments. The delegates elected to the House of Kep presentatives, inder a Territorial law, had just completed his term of service on the day previous ti my inauguration. In fact, I found the gorernment of Kansas as well established as that of any other Territory. Uuder these circumstances, what was my duty? Was it not to sustain the govern ment ? to protect it from the violence of lawless men, who were determined to either rule or ruin ? To prevent it from being overturned by force ? in the language of the Constitution to "take care that the laws be faithfully decided ?" It was for this purpose, and tins alone, that I ordered a military force '.o Kansas, to act as a posse comitatus in aiding the civil magistrate to carry the laws into execution. The condition of the Territory at the time, which I need not portray, rencered this precaution absolutely necessary. In this state of aft'iirs, would I not have been justly condemned had I 'eft the marshal and other officers of a like character impotent to execute the process and judgments of courts of justice established by Congress or by the Territorial Legislature under its express authority, and thus have suffered the gov ernment itself to become an object of con tempt in the eyes of the people ? And yet this is what you designate as forcing "the people of Kansas to obey laws not their own, nor of the United States;" and for which you have denounced me as having violated my solemn oath. I ask, what else could I have done, or ought I to have done ? Would you have desired that I should abandon the Territorial government, sanctioned as it had been by Congress, to illegal violence, and thus renew the scenes of civil war and blood shed which every patriot in the country had deplored ? This would, indeed, have been to violate my oath of office, and to fix a damning blot on the character of my admin-i-tratiou. I must cheerfully admit that the necessi ty for sending the military force to Kansas to aid in the execution of the civil law re- cut to untertake to establish a separate gov ernment within its chartered limits for the r .JaamaVmi n rttr avS A 9 ATI A A . TPS.! purpose or reuic"t UJ or imaginary, of which they might have complained against te . legitimate State government. Such a principle, if carried into execution, would destroy all lawful au thority and produce universal anarchy. I ought to specify mere particularly a condition of affairs, which I have embraced only in general terms, requ iring the presence of a military force In Kansas. The Con gress of the United States had most wisely declared it to he "the true intent and mean ing of this act (the act organizingvthe Ter ritory) not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it there from, but to leave the people thereof per fectly free to form and regulate their domes tic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States." As a natural consequence, Con gress has also prescribed by the same act that when the Territory of Kansas shall be admitted as a State it "shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission." Slavery existed at that period, and still exists in Kansas, under the Constitution of the United States. This point has at last been finally decided by the highest tribunal known to our laws. How it could ever have been seriously doubted is a mystery. If a confederation of sovereign States acquire a new Territory at the expense of their com mon blood and treasure, snrely one set of the partners can have no right to exclude the other from its enjoyment by prohibiting them from taking into it whatsoever is re cognized to be property by the common constitution. But wdien the people the bona fide residents of such Territory pro ceed to frame a State constitution, then it is their right to decide the question for them selves whether they will continue, modify, or abolish slavery To them, and to them alone, does this question belong, free from all foreign influence. In the opinion of the Territorial legisla ture of Kansas, the timo had arrived for entering the Union, and they accordingly passed a law to elect delegates for the pur pose of framing a State Constitution. This law was fair and just in its provisions. It conferred the right of suffrage on "every bona fide inhabitant of the Territory," and, for the preventing fraud, and the intrusion of citizens of near and distant States, most properly confined this right to those who had resided therein three months previous to the election. Here a fair opportunity was presented for ail the qualified resident citizens of the Territory, to whatever sides they might have previously belonged, to participate in the election, and to express their opinions at the ballot box on the ques tion of slavery. But a number of lawless men still continued to resist the regular Ter ritorial government. They refused either to be registered or to vote ; and the mem bers of the convention were elected, legally and property, without their intervention. The Convention will soon assemble to per form the solemu duty of framing a Consti tution for themselves and their posterity ; and in the state of incipent rebellion which still exists in Kansas, it is my imperative duty to employ the troops of the United States should this become necessary, in de fending the Convention against violence whilst framing the Constitution, and in pro tecting the "bona fide inhabitants" qualified to vote under the provisions of this instru ment in the free exercise of the right of suffrage when it shall be submitted to them for their approbation or rejection. I have entire confidence in Gov. Walker, that the troops will not be employed except to resist actual aggression or in the execu tion of the laws ; and this not until the pow er of the civil magistrate shall prove una vailing. Following the wise example of Mr. Madison towards the Hartford Conven tion, illegal and dangerous combinations, such as that of the Topeka convention, will not be disturbed unless they shall attempt to perform some act which will bring them into actual collision ivith the constitution and the laws. In that event, they shall be resisted and put down by the whole power of the government. In performing this du ty, I shall have the approbation of my own conscience, and, as 1 humbly trust, of my God. I thank you for the assurance that you will "not refrain from the prayer that Al mighty God will make my administration an example of justice and beneficience.' You can greatly assist me in arriving at this blessed consummation by exerting your influence in allaying the existing sectional excitement on the subject of slavery, which has been productive of much evil and no good, and which, if it could succeed in at taining its object, would ruin the slave as well as his master. This would be a work of genuine philanthropy. Every day of my life I feel how inadequate I am to perform the duties of my high station without the continued support of Div ine Providence ; yet placing my trust in Him, and in Him alone, I entertain a good hope that He will enable me to do equal justice to all portions of the Union, and thus render me an hum ble instrument in restoring peace and har mony among the people of the several States. Yours, very respectfully. JAMES BUCHANAN. Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, D. D., Rev. Theo. D. Woolsey, D. D., LL. D., Hon. Henry Dutton, Rev. David Smith, D. D., Rev. J. Hawes, D. D., and others. - MalMtf S- A Remedy not in the Books. An epicurean dyspeptic applying to a physician for advice, was told to steal a horse. He would be put iu the penitentiary, the diet and exercise of which would restore him. 'Paddy,' says a joker, 'why don't you have your ears cropped they are entirely too lonj; for a man?' 4 And yours,' replied Pat, 'ought to be lengthened they are too short for an ass.' The Boston Tost perpetrates the follow ing : It is said of Eugene Sue that "'though a professed Socialist, lie Jived like a prince." In the same way some of our people, through professed Christians, they live like the devil. CANADIAN ANNEXATION. A British Review, on the authority of Judge Haliburton, of Nova Scotia, accuses the Congress of the United States of having sent an agent to inspect the fortifications of Canada, ascertain the character and num bers of the militia, and examine into tbo condition of the arsenals of the province. A secret plot to aunex the Canadas is bold ly asserted. It is gravely declared that the United States have their covetous regards fixed upon both Canada and Cuba, and are only waiting a favorable opportunity to devour them both bodily. It is scarcely possible to conceive that such a charge can be seriously believed by any one outside of Bedlam. If J udge Hali biirtoa has made the statements attributed to him, h must have known them to be without foundation. Such extraordinary allegations surely demanded some sem blance of jroof, and we should like to see the proceedings of Congress, which can be produced, in support of the astounding as sertion. The past action of Congress is always with open doors and in full view of the world. If it ver ordered an agent to Canada, for the pNurposes indicated by Judge Haliburton, or fW anf other purpose it must have been kncNs to the whole world, and the people press of the United States would be quVe as likely to know all about it as Judge Ha'Hiburton. INTERESTS ON DEPOSITS: The Boston Advertiser is dnfeussing in a very able manner the practice of the New York banks in paying interest on dsposits, a system not allowable in Massachusetts. The subject being one of general impor tance, we quote a few paragraphs to shoNy the mischievous results which follow: "The banks in the city of New York are anxious to secure deposits of money, even if they pay say four per cent, interest on amounts less than $5,000, and five per cent, on larger amounts. They think this a profitable business, because they expect to loan the money again at a higher rate of interest. The offer appears tempting to individuals who happen to have money on hand awaiting investment. More particu larly, country banks are allured by this promise of interest to deposit with banks in the city of New York all the funds which they do not require for immediate use. They are even solicited to do so, by circu lars sent out by city banks. Such country banks, at particular times, of course have on hand a considerable fund after they have discounted as many notes as they dare, and it seems to be a harmless act to put this money in New York, where it will draw in terest, rather than let it lie "idle" in their vaults. It can be recalled from New York, it is supposed, at any moment when it is needed for the redemption of bills. The city banks, in thus appearing as borrowers, go beyond the line of their legitimate busi ness. So far the practice is bad enough, but it is worse in the next stage of its consequen ces. The New York city banks, by their successful solicitations for these deposits, lind themselves possessed of a considerable amount of funds, on which they are paying four to five per cent, interest. They, on their part, like the country banks, dare not use this money in discounting notes with even a short fixed period to run, for they know that it may.be recalled at any moment by the depoiters. So they are glad to lend the funds to brokers, on de mand, taking any sort of security that may offer. They begin a second series of solici tations to find borrowers outside the ranks of their regular customers. The third stage of the business, accord ingly, witnesses brokers, without any sub stantial means, invited and tempted to bor row their spare funds, on demand, at seven per cent, interest. The brokers give some sort of Railroad shares as security, and enter into speculations with the money they have thus obtained. When their specula tions fail, the security which they have of fered must be pressed upon the market ; it of course proves unavailable to cover the debt, whereupon the bank goes down, and the uususpecti.ig depositer loses his money. Here we see a common cause for the near ly simultaneous failure of three distinct classes of operators." The recent events in New York have precisely illustrated this effect of the system. The whole difficulty arises from too great eagerness to make money productive." Cause of the War of 1812 -The manner in which a pig caused the war of 1812 was as follows: Two citizens of Providence, R. I., both of the Federal school of politics, chanced to quarrel. They were neighbors, and one of them owned a pig which had an inveter- ate orooensitv to nratnhiila in t,a r,P. 1 r j 1 v ... . t ' . . den of the other. The owner of the garden complained that his neighbor's pig-sty was insufficient to restrain the pig, and the neighbor insisted that the garden fences were not in good repair. One morning as the pig was taking his usual ramble, he was surprised in the very act of rooting up some valuable bulbous roots. This was the "last feather," and the owner of the garden in stantly put the pig to death with a pitch fork. At the coming election the owner of the garden was a candidate for the Leg islature, and his neighbor, who, but for the quarrel, would have voted for him, voted for the Democratic candidate, who was elected by a majority of one. At the elec tion of a United States Senator a Demo crat was chosen by a majority of one; and when the question of a war with England was before the Senate it was declared by a majority of only one Hist. Magazine. DR. B. C HEARS Having located at MONROE, tenders his pro fessional services to the citizens of the Town and surrounding country, aud respectfully soli cits their patronage. -I3P Office at J . Bickett's April 28. 43.3m Dissolution. The firm of MILLER 4 QRR was dissolved yATt T'Sw T th, Gth of July. Those indebted to the. late flr,n ...:n . diate payment. T-Z. " "U1 Piease maKe imme H. S. MILLER. rrei . lieUrath's Electric Oil 7 THE ELECTRIC OIL. Electric ( Pain is the promonitor of deatb rel pain anil you check the disease ' "Ve tlle Prof. DeGrath's Electric Oil is h. of the age, for the following (nn 'rv1 thing) : 8' (not very. Cures RheumatUm often in a day, Cures Neuralgia, Toothache two min, Cures C ramp in Stomach, five minut ; Cures Burns, Wounds, Bruises, one il.t! days; 10 tfree Cures Headache, fifteen minutes Cures Earache, Stiff Neck, Ague Cures Piles, Swelled Glands, ten day. ghti Cures Felons, Broken Breasts Salt h' two to six days ; "oeun Cures Hemorrhage, Scrofula, Absces to ten days ; ix Cures Irosted Feet and Chilblains three days ; 1 one to Cures Ague and Fever, one to two d and all nervous and scrofulous affections Cures Dea'ness in one to four days ' Cures all Pains in the Back, Breast & in two days. ' c, As an example of the estimation in Wk it is held by one of the ablest jurists and ters on law, Ac, in this country, We zl give a letter received by Prof. D, Graik r John Livingston. Esq , Editor ot the known Monthly Law Magazine, 157 gf way, New York, a word of such testimonv of more weight among the best classes if the country, than volumes from unknown sources : Girarp Hot'se, Philadelphia, May 7 aR Prof. harles DeGrath 1 freely giv'e it my opinion that your "Electric Oil" i8 arno,,' the most wonderful remedies of modern times. At the earnest request of a lady wh alleged she had been relieved of a most paln lul affection by its use, I was induced to try a bottle, though at the time of purchasing 1 fully believed it to be a quack medicine and a catch penny humbug. But a trial convin c s me that i does possess a magic power" and its use will prove a blessing to a sutfer.' ing humanity. 1 recently took a cold from sleeping ia damp sheets, and my neck became so much swollen and painful, that 1 cuuld not turn mv head. y After using, without success, everything prescribed by my physician, I last evening tried your Electric Oil. This morning lm Well, the relief having been as complete is it-was instantaneous. Yours very truly, JOHN LIVINGSTON, Ed. Monihly Law Magazine. CaiItiox. There are numerous imitation? springing up on the reputa'ion that myarti. cle ha4 acquired. The public must beware! They ae worthless. 03- Yr sale in Charlotte by Dr. II M PBITCHARD, Druggist, sole Agent, and by Druggists and country merchants gen erally ifrj the United States. Sept. 15. 2 m. AT COST. A chance is now offered to the commu nity to obtain rare bargains out of our varied Stock of CLOTHING and Furnishing Goods, AT NEW YORK COST. 1 is entirely unnecessary to tell yoo what we have, but would request you to came and see for yourselves. ' Perhaps it will be a.-ked why we nre sell nx oil' at cost ? VVe don't do it because L'it is fashionuble, but because we have con nected ourselves with a large Manufac turing House at the North, to take effect the 1st Jan., Ib5ri ; and we don't want any of our present stock on hand. So comi'. one and all, buy our goods at COST, pay the CASH, and help us on in our lionist designs. SPRINGS Ic HEATH. Sept. 1st. 72-tf HEAD-QUARTERS, ) Chari.ottk, N. C, July '28, 18.V7. j' GENERAL ORDERS Xo. 1. Commissioned and von-conimissioned ('fl eers and Privates of the G2d ami tS6& Regiments of the Will Brigade of IS. C. Militia. ATTENTION ! FOR the purpose of a more complete Military organization of the G2d, 68U1 and ttKh BegrnetU of the 11th Brigade and the 98tb Kegiar&trf the 14tb Brigade N, C. Militia, yon mfcrfcf ordered to appear before meat your resptsctit plan s of Revitrw 3 as follows, viz : The Officers and rank and tile of tLe fi'ili Regiment to appear at the Court HoiuenJkj Town of Charlotte, N. C, on the l?tb day of September nest, at 1 1 o'clock, A. M.: kad tk Ofhcws and rank and file of the (ttd Jfgin t-nt to appeal1 at tiie Court House in the town rfCf cord. N. C, on the 19th of September est. t 1 1 o'clock, A. M., to elect Colonels, Liratessst Colonels and Majors to till the varanciei in tLe respective offices aforesaid in said Regunedts. SAM I EL H. WALKlT, Brigadier (Jenend, Commanding 11th Brigade K. C. Militia. State of North Carolina, cleave land county. Wbereaf, Whitman Blouton attd irifeTkebe, B. P. Davis, H. H. Davis, J. . Davis. N. D. Davis, (irigg and wife Phebe, ami EUSSk Davis, Micajah Davis, Polly Ann Davis. Isaiah Davis, Sarah Davis, Beoj. Davis, sad Adeh Davis, infants, by their next friend I!. P. and N. D. Davis, and Devam y PupnaB vvili- Rosalie, have til.'d in the oflio of the Ck ami Master in Equity for Ch avi laml eoantT, Bill of Complaint against Joseph Bridge! the State of South Carolina, Moses Bridgelt,' the Stat.- of Mississinoi, and Sarah YarboroBjAi I Lewis Yarborough, Linsajr Jenkins sad F : JJetpbia, Kdward Jenkins and wite iraaces.w : V.li ilu.tli riuvta ..f I 'I..-., ..I ,.,.in,tv . (' j Notice is hereby given that Jo- oh ana M Bridgers, non-iesul.-nts of this State, are reQBtfeu j lt ' on th.- 11th Monday after tin-4th MondsT I September next, then and there to plead. 1 . . or demur to Complainants' Bill, or tli' &nv will be set for hearing exparte as to them, au1 heard accordingly. O , lfDt.f WITNESS, Thos. Williams, Clerk anu r.f .-,,.. ,...- .. L',...:... C..T- tin. puiiiitv 0.kui(i a.t. ,.fvrti, r-.rniina.atoW j jn Shelby, the 11th Monday after the 4th Monday in Mnrh A T 1r.7 THOS. WILLIAMS, CM. B. Shelby, Aug. 24, 1857. T2-6t STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. CLEAVELAND COUNTY II. F. Schenck el al. ) vs. VO. B. Injunction. John Cline. ) Whereas H. F. Sehenek. J. G. Williamson and John II. Peeler, have tiled . 1 hi. .... ii .1 f 1 l a t . . n i'..- I'limV uie iera ana master iu equity en (- , rlanu county, a Hill of complaint ayaiust jonu the State of Texas, praying, among other tliiD? - that the said John Cliue may be enjmoe ? restrained from reniovin g from the Bo m 7 P . :.i 1. ill mmmM Carolina certain Negro slaves in ai.J bill And the said II . F. Schenck and oth r, 1 tiff's, having entered into bond as requir "J act of Assembly ami the fiat of ai Honor, " 'n Battle, J, S. C; Therefore, notice ben M ' to Defendant, John Cline, and mnd em person acting as his agent, that they an ' "J"' u and restrained from removing the fclaV'." ! tioned in the Bill, or auv om- or more t m from this State, and that the said John ( .', f. and appear at the next Term of tie- court r-H tv for the county of Ch-aveland, to be . Court House in Shelby on the llth t-r the 4th Monday iu September next, 7 ' thereto plead, answerer demur to l'lal""" ' ' or the case will be set for beariug cxp u m him, and heard accordingly. iVmmW Witness, Thos. Williams, Clerk W of our said court of Equity fur the co n Cleavelaml, IN , U., at "v . jj ... A A I.. M:l- . 1- " . . r . ri: wim i.v in Monday alter tne iiu 'V u E 157. THOS. WILLIAM-, ( Aug. 4, 1857 DAVID ORR. sueiDy, v., .tvu. i.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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