North Carolina Newspapers

f f In I ' V I B 1 t" swx I Bsfc I LnB SBKx WWW SWWVw office UP stairs opposite SCARR'S DRUG STORE f A Family Paper, devoted to State latelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. BY WILLIAM J. TATES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. "ftfE. A. YATESP ASSOCIATE EDITOR. VOLUME 6 Number 278. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1857. THE Published every Tuesday Containing the latest News, a full and accu rate Report of the Markets, &c. For the year, if paid in advance,. . . .$2 00 If naid within six months, 2 50 If paid after the expiration of the year, 3 00 Any person sending us five new sub scribers, accompanied by the advance sub e -rition ($10) will receive a sixth copygra tis for one year. jr Subscribers and others who may wish Id money to us, can do so by mail, at i.jr risk. ADVERTISING. Cine ire of 16 lines or leas, for 3 months, 4 00 .. " - 6 " 6 00 ' " U 10 00 Qje. 4 ii&rr, 16 lines, or less, first insertion, f 1 00 Kaeb subsequent insertion, 25 rf Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. ry for announcing Candidates for office, $5 in advance. Cy Advertisements not marked on the manuscript for a specific time, will be in serted until forbid, and charged accordingly WILLIAM J. YATES. For The subscribers offer for sale 1200 Acres oi Land In one body (one thousand of which is in woods) lying in Gaston county on both sides of the South Fork of the Catawba River, 14 uiiies N'orth-west of Charlotte, and within fere miles of the line of Railroad now building from Charlotte to LiaMfcttOB. A .Two Hundred Acres, one-third of which i u .ultivation. A - -'.".0 Acres on the South Fork in a good fi oi i nltrTatiiiM 'J be mbove are good Farming Lands, and will in lots to suit purchasers. Terms easy. "h nae of the tracts there is a water power of f-et, with command of the whole River. I'- mens wishing to examine these Lands w ill L' a:.' i.J.d to hy the parties at Stow eg vi lie. J. &. E. B. STOVVE. Charlotte, Jane 2, 1357. 4d-tf 500 Head or Beef Cattle Wanted. Also, 500 HEAD OF SHEEP 6l 100 Head of HOGS, And 12 or 15 No. 1 Milch Cows. I DESIRE to purchase the above amount of Stock. Those having any tor sale will do well to give me a caB, as I am willing to pay the highest niark-'t price. Farmers will rind it to their advan tage to sell their Beeves, Sheep or Hogs to me instead oi batchering themselves, as I thiuk I ran remunerate them as well if not better wan it they blltv Leied tliellUJtiveS. W. A. COOK. Charlotte. July 14, 1 J".7. Town Butcher. Special Copartnership IN THE SADDLE L HARNESS BUSINESS. E. H. ANDREWS & CO. have entered into the above business, and appointed R. SHAW a special Agent to carry it on in all its Various Branches. VhM door be km Granite Row, on Tryon Street. Cbailutie, July '2$, WS7. 07 -tf DR. R. WYSONG, Charlotte, IT. C. HAVING located in this place, respectfully offers his Professional Services to the citi-t--us of the town and vicinity. I'F' OFFICE in Springs' building. April Hh 18:7. BR EM & STEELE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers IN Hardware, Uat. and Shoes, CHARLOTTE, N. C. May 5, IjJ47. 4-U John Henry Wayt, HI. 1 SURGEON DENTIST, Graduate of Die Baltimore College of Dental Surgery,) Iliv.ajr located permanently, tenders his pro fessional services to the citizens of Charlotte, N. C, and vicinity. Dr. Wayt prepares and inserts artificial palates ud obturators, and attends to the correction of congenital and accidental deformities of the teeth and jaws. He is also prepared to insert artificial tnrffc, after the most approved methods. V5F Ladies waited on at their residences if on Tryon Street, in Carson's new DUUOiug, up stairs. Nor. r. ISth 20 tf. VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE. m The subscriber being desirious of removing to the West, offers for sale his valuable J TRACT OF LAND, lying 4 miles south of Charlotte, on the Charlotte and Columbia Railroad, containing about 10 is in cultivation, 75 of which is fresh land A ue balance is woodland except 30 acres On the premises is a good Ml dwelling House and all neces ry out-houses, a Gin-House and bcrew, &c. There is an excellent Well of water in the yard. A Gold Mine has been opened on the land. Persons d-srious of purchasing a Plantation with almost every advantage, would do well to call and examine the premises, s it is seldom that such property is offered to the public. Negroes will be taken in whole or tor a part of the purchase money. I will take pleasure in showing the Laud to any one desirous of pur chasing. Possession given by the 1st of Janu ary, 1868. 8 B. B. SMITH. Aug- 11, 1857. 69-tf STILL THEY COME. this !av another suo- piy or iresn UBUU8, MEDICINES & CHEM ICALS. Also, a spleadid assortment of Sur gical initmmeNH, consisting in part of Post Mortem, Trepaning and Amputating Cases, Teeth Forceps, Speculum. Enemata Sets, (entirely new style) SDnner and thumb Lancets. Scarificators, Cupping Glasses, and many other articles in this line of goods, all of which Prac titioners of medicine and Surgery are respect- iuny mviiea to cat: ana examine. For sale at extremely short profits, at PRITCHARD'S Wholesale and Retail Sept. 8. Drug House, Irwin's corner Another Supply Of tfiemost unique and magnificent Toilet Arti cles, consisting in part of hair, teeth, nail, flesh, uat, clotn and otbet Brushes. Turkish Colognes, Extracts. Soaps, Bohemian Pungent, Frankipane, dec, ice, which will be sold low at Pritchard's Fancy Drug Store, Sept. 8. Irwin's Corner. UOODLAD CREAM! WOODLAND CREAM!! An unequalled and exquisite Pomade for the hair. J ust received from the manufacturers, at Pritchard's Drug and Chemical House, Sept. 8. Irwins's corner. Tooth Ache. Another supply of Cummings & Flagg's Nerve Anodyne, an instantaneous cure for the tooth ache, at PRITCHARD'S, Sept. 8. Sole Agent for Charlotte. Country Merchants Are respectfully invited to call and examine my Wholesale Prices of choice AI H1EOICINES, put up in any style to order, by PRITCHARD, Druggist and Apothecary, July 28, 1857. Irwin's Corner. White Lead. 10,000 Lbs. White Lead, in oil, just received and for sale at PRITCHARD'S Aug. 18. Drug House. Paint or Linseed Oil. 300 Gallons just received and for sale at the lowest market prices, at PKITCHARD'S Aug. 18. Drug Sf Chemical Store. VARNISHES ! VARNISHES ! A large stock now on hand, consisting of Demon, Furniture, tonal, Coach-body, Ja pan, &c, which will be sold for cash lower than any other House in Charlotte, at II . M. PRllCHARD's 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-giving remedy for Horses, Cait'e, and all kinds ot Mock, for sate at Pritchard's Wholesale and Retail Drug House, July 28. Irwin's Corner. Patent Medicines. at PRITCHARD S DRUG STORE Call Irwin's Corner, for the most approved and popul-r medicines of the day. July 28. Crass Seeds!! Grass Seeds!!! A large assortment just received, comprising the following varieties: Wliite Clover, Red Clover, Timothy, Millet, Blue Grass, Lucerne, fyc. The above seeds are warranted to be FRESH and GENUINE. For sale at Pritchard's Wholesale Sy Retail Drug House Aug. 25, lcJ67. Irwin's Corses. WHITE LEAD. At PRITCHARD'S you can buy, for cash, pure White Lead at 9 cents per lb. Drug Store, Irwin's Corner. Another Decline In Quinine At Pritchard's Large Drug and Chemical House, Irwin's Corner. This article may now be had at $2 50 per ounce, for Cash only; DISSOLUTION. THE firm of WILLIAMS, GILLESPIE & CO., was dissolved by mutual consent on the first day of July, 1857. The Notes and Ac counts for 1856 must be paid forthwith. The Accounts for J 857 can run as usual and will be settled at the end of the year by I.. 8. Williams who will continue to carry on the business the old stand. The late firm return their thanks to the public for the liberal patronage heretofore received, and their successor hopes, by manifesting a spirit of accommodation, to merit a continuation of the same. WILLIAMS, GILLESPIE & CO. Charlotte, Aug. 4, 1857 tf ALL persons having claims against the late firm of WILLIAMS, GILLESPIE CO., will present them to the undersigned for settlement. L. S. WILLIAMS. August 4, 1857 Cigar, Tobacco, AND FRUIT ST ORE. THE subscriber respectfully informs the citi zens of Charlotte and surrounding country, that he has just received a splendid assortment of SPANISH CIGARS of the choicest brands. Also, a fine article of CHEWING TOBACCO, FRUITS d- CONFECTIONERIES. JAS. D. PALMER. Opposite Boone & Co.'s Shoe Store. Charlotte, April 7, 1857. 40-tf Female School. The Fall session of Miss S. F. DAVIDSON'S school will commence on the first Monday of Oc tober next. Terms as heretofore. Sept. 29, 1857. 3w A Valuable Plantation, Fifteen miles west of Charlotte, in Gaston county, within two miles of the Plank Road between Charlotte and Lincolnton. Said Plantation is on the west side of the Catawba River, con taining about FOUR HUNDRED ACRES: about eighty-five acres, River Bottom; ten acres. Meadow land yield ing an abundant crop of hay twice a year; one hundred and twenty-five acres good upland, lying very level, and the balance in woodland, well timbered, and extending within two hun dred yards of a Saw Mill owned by John R. Johnston, Esq. On the place there is a lame Brick House, Kitchen, Negro Houses, Bt Cribs, Stables, a new Urge and spacious Barn, Blacksmith Shop. Cotton Gin and Screw. There is also a large Orchard of peach and ap ple Trees, worth at least one thousand dollars; and in addition a good vegetable garden. The Plantation is well known as the residence of the late Robert Johnston; having been care fully cultivated and from the manner in which it lies, is capable of indefinite improvement. The place is well'waterwJ, having three very excellent Springs, "illwfS jh in different parts of the plantation. at&t&Btffr Any one wishing to exanjine the plantation can do so by applying to JnbT R. Johnston, Esq., residing within one mile of the place, or in his absence, to Dr. Sydney X. Johnston, two miles distant at Cast an la Grovs, on the Plank Road above mentioned. Possession of the premises given on the 1st of January, 1858, and to any purchaser desirous of sowing wheat, permission will be granted to do so at the proper season. This has always been regarded as the best plantation on the Catawba River, and my busi ness arrangements being such that I cannot occupy it at this time, it will be sold during tho ensuing season; therefore early application would oe auvisaoie. Price and terms will be made known by ad dressing me at 27 Murray, and 31 Warren Streets, New York City, care of Churchill, John ston &. Co., until 1st of November; after that date, at Columbia, S. C. BUFUS M. JOHNSTON. Sept. 29, 1857. 2m 40,000 PAIRS OF BOOTS, SHOES, BUO;tS AND OVER SHOES. EMBRACING every variety of Ladies, Gents, Misses, Boys and Childrens' Shoes and Boots that can be found in any wholesale or retail es tablishment in the Southern Country. Our goods are manufactured expressly for us, aud weaie satisfied they wUt tflve better satisfac tion and at less prices for th: same quality of goods than at any other establishment in the South. It is only necessary to examine our stock and prices to be satisfied that this is the place to buy Boots and Shoes. Cash, one price only. BOONE & CO., Sept 29. Charlotte, N. C. AT COST. A chance is now offered to the commu nity to obtain rare bargains out of our varied Stock of CLOTH IN G and Furnishing Goods, AT NEW YORK COST. It is entirely unnecessary to tell you what we have, but would request you to come and see for yourselves. Perhaps it will be asked why we are sell ing off at cost ? We don't do it because it is fashionable, but because we have con nected ourselves with a large Manufac turing House at the North, to take effect the 1st Jan., 1858 ; and we don't want any of our present stock on hand. So come, one and all, buy our goods at COST, pay the CASH, and help us on in our honest designs. SPRINGS & HEATH. Sept. 1st. 72 -tf REMOVAL. THE undersigned respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte and vicinity that he has re moved his CONFECTIONERY and BAKERY to one door above the Court House where he will be glad to see his friends and customers. J. C MOORE. Sept. 8, 1857. 73-tf Second Annual Fair OF the STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, to be held at COLUMBIA on November 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th, 1857. The Executive Committee of the State Agri- cultual Society of South Carolina, respectfully call the attention of the people of the Southern States to their approaching fair, at wmcn Premiums will be awarded for all articles of Agricultural, Horticultural or Mechanical inter- est, as well as in all departments or jaaies Fancy Work and Domestic Economy, enumer ated in an extensive Premium List, which can be bad on application to COL. R. J. GAGE, Sec'y, Fair Forest, 8. C. The Society has erected the best and most commodious Halls in the United States, for the convenience of Exhibitors; and fine Stalls are prepared for animals. All articles and animals will be transported to and from the Fair by the Railroads in South Carolina, free of charge, at the owner s ris. A. P. CALHOUN, E. G. PALMER, J. F. MARSHALL, D. L. HARLEE, A. G. SUMNER, J. A. ADAMS. R. J. GAGE, Executive Committee. Sept. 29, 1 857. 76-4t Dissolution. The partnership of BARRETT &- RAM SOUR was this day dissolved by mutual consent All persons indebted to the said Firm are notified to make immediate pay ment to the subscriber. AH persons having claims against said Firm are reouested to present them to the undersigned. J. A. RAM SOUR. U shtSSi Sept 5, 1857. 75-M WESTERN DEMOCRAT. CHARLOTTE. Iredell County. A correspondent of the Petersburg Express thus speaks of the adjoining county of Iredell and surround ing country: " Sapid changes have been going on in this part of our State for the last few years. Ten and fifteen years ago, land sold in this county for from 50 cents to $2 per acre. Now it is worth from $10 to $ 50, and some soils even as high as $75 per acre. Our internal improvements, together with the improvements in agriculture, have been mainly instrumental in producing this great change. There is no better grain-growing land in the country than is to be found in Iredell and the adjoining counties. The wheat and corn crops all through this sec tion this rear, are very large. Wheat is now worth from 80 cents to $1 per bushel here, and corn will not be higher than 35 to 45 cents per bushel. Until the Rail roads were opened, thus affording mar ket facilities, the people here did not know the value of their lands, because there was little or no demand for their grain. But now that the market can be reached, and a good price obtained for the productions of the soil, this hitherto obscure and un interesting section of the Old North State, is beginning to develop itself. But few persons now owning land here are disposed to give it up to look for Edens South and West." FALL FASHIONS. For the benefit of our lady readers we have to say that the Fall fashions promise in no wise to detract from their "fair pro portions." There is no probability that hoops will be relinquished during the pres ent season. All the new robes require the same amount of extension to produce their usual brilliant effect, and the annoyance of clinging skirts, after being accustomed to hoops, is so great, thr.t it will be long before ladies will consent to resume them. In the new fall hoops we notice some modification in the size, which renders them more desira ble for the season, plain heavy materials not requiring the amount of expansion per mitted to light summer fabrics. Handsome morning dresses are made of black and whit check silk and wool, with a plain skirt, deep jacket, and wide sleeves, bordering with a bright contrasting color, such as cherry, deep blue, maroon, green. This is a fanciful caprice, but it is very For the purposes of decoration, velvet, buttons, and cbiuille trimmings are mostly in vogue, and are prepared in every variety of style. Poplins have made their appearance this season in quite a new form, the central colors being wide stripes of dark purple, green, or brown, plaided at immense distan ces by narrow stripes of orange colored silk or cherry. The prominent feature in all the designs for the season, is their large, bold, and striking character; for small, modest people, no provision seems to have been made. A very handsome cloak has made its ap- pearance this season. The shape is a shawl circle, pointed back and front, and sur mounted by the pretty three pointed hood, which we have mentioned in a previous number. To each of these three points handsome tassels are attached, to the points of the cloak before and still larger tassels are suspended with very stylish effect. The material is a very fine napless cloth, in all the favorite shades of drab and brown. In trimmings a great deal of taste will be displayed this season, the materials being very rich, and combined in beautiful forms. The advent of chenille has proved quite an era in the manufacture of various kinds of decorations, its susceptibility to charming effects having rendered it an important aux iliary in combination with other materials, aside from the great number of elegant novelties in which it forms the prominent feature. We have often heard that a thing was worth its weight in silver, but did not think we would ever see negroes sell for such a price. A few days since a gentleman of this place paid $1200 apiece for five negro girls, from twelve to fifteen years of age. Reckoning silver at twelve ounces to the pound, which is troy weight, the negroes, allowing them a hundred pounds weight each, cost just their weight in silver. The crazy prophecy of some man that negro fellows would, in five years, bring $5,000, will, we believe, be fulfilled. Eutaw (Ala) Whig. Bank Accommodations. The money editor of the. Journal of Commerce has the following notice of a Bank operation in Philadelphia: There is much written and uttered about the illiberality of the banks, but those who complain most would be perhaps equally loud in their condemnation if any trouble should come through a want of prudence on the part of these institutions. We doubt if any of our city banks have been as "close as some ot tneir sister institu tions in Philadelphia. It is reported that one banc tnere became so costive that a customer, a little irritated at the picayune policy, drew a note for five dollars at thirty days, covered it down the back with firt class endorsements from his fellow suffer ers, pinned it to a ten dollar bill of the same bank, as collateral, and then offered it for discount. This is what Jedediah Tompkins would call '-hintin around." JUSTICE IN ALGERIA. Translated from the French for the "State." BY A DUMA8. In the Ferdj 'Ouah lives a Scheick named Bou-Akas-ben-Achour, a descendant of one of the oldest families of the country, as we find by Ibn-Rhadoun's history of the Arab and Barber dynasties. Bou-Akas is a perfect type of the Arab of the East. His ancestors conquered Ferdj 'Ouah, (fine country ;) ha has consolidated and reigns over it. After deciding to recognize the power of France, he sent a horse of Gada in token of submission, but has constantly refused to go to Constat! tine, alleging an oath he has made against it ; the fact is, he fears to be retained as a prisoner. He pays a tribute of 80,000 francs. Every year after harvest, at the same day and hour, by the same gate, enter the camels that bring the money ; not even a cent is ever want ing. Bou-Akas is forty-nine years old, dressed like the Kabyles, in a gandoura of woolen, held by a leather belt, with a fine cord around the head ; he carries a pair of pistols by his side, the Kabyle flissa, and a little black ki.ife about his neck. Before him stalks a negro with his gun, and a large hound bounds at his side. When one of the twelve tribes he rules has done him any wrong, he merely sends his negro to their chief village. The negro displays the gun of Bou-Akas, and the damage is repaired. There are two or three hundred Tolbas in his pay, who read the Koran to the people. Every individual making a pilgrimage to Mecca, on calling on him, receives three francs, and remains so long as he likes in Ferdj 'Ouah, at the Scheick's expense ; but if he discovers a feigned pilgrim, two emis saries find him wherever he may be, throw him face downward, and bestow on him fifty strokes of the bastinado. He has some times three hundred persons to dine ; he then walks around overseeing the domes tics ; if there is anything left, he eats, but always last. When the governor of Constantine, the only authority he acknowledges, sends him a traveler, he gives him his gun, his dog, or his knife, according to the importance of the traveler, or the ungency of the recom mendation. If he gives his gun, the strang er shoulders it ; if the dog, he takes it in a leash ; if the knife, he throws it around his npni. , with ono or other of these talis mans, each of which specifies the degree of honor to be rendered, the traveler goes through the twelve tribes without danger, and is lodged and fed gratuitously, for he is the guest of Bou-Akas. When he leaves the Ferdj 'Ouah, he turns over the gun, dog, or knife to the first Arab he meets If the Arab is huntine he quits the chase ; if farming, he drops bis plough ; if at home, he leaves it. to carry the pledge to his Scheick. The well-known little knife with the black handle has given its name to Bou Akas Bou-Djenoui, the man with the knife; for it is with this he cuts off heads, if he thinks the necessity for prompt justice de mands it. When he came into power, there were a great many robbers about ; the Scheick adopted the plan of disguising himself as a simple trader, and letting fall a douro, of which he never lost sight ; if the person who picked it up put it in his pocket, Bou-Akas made a sign to his executioner, disguished like himself, and off went the culprit's head, The Arabs say that a child may now traverse the twelve tribes with a crown of gold on his heed, without risk. Bou-Akas has a high respect for women, and has ordered that, whn they fill their goat-shins at the fountains, the men are to turn aside, and not pass beforo them. Wishing to know what the sex thought of him, and meeting a pretty Arab girl along the banks of the stream, he approached her, and entered on light chat. The woman looked at him in astonishment, and said : ''Leave me, handsome chevalier, for you do not know the risk you run." As he still continued to annoy her with his nonsense, she resumed : "Have you come from so great a distance that you do not know you are in the country ot 'the man with tbe knifa,' where women are respected?" One day the Scheick heard that a Cadi of one of his tribes rendered judgment worthy of Solomon ; like another Haroun-al-Rachid he wished to know for himself. Disguised as a simple horseman, without his distin guished arms, mounted on a thorough-bred horse, which, however, betrayed nothing of the greatness of the owner, be started. Now it happened that he arrived at the fortunate city in which this Cadi dispensed justice on the fair-day, consequently a court-day. At the gate of the town he met a cripple who asked alms, clinging to tbe Scheick's burnous as did the beggar to St. Martin's cloak. "What more would you have ?" asked Bou-Akas. "You asked alms, and I have given it." "True," replied the cripple ; "but the law does not merely say, -thou shalt give alma to thy brother,' but also, 'thou ahalt do all that thou art able for him.' "Well ; what can I do for you ?" "You can save me from being trampled under foot by the crowd of men, mules and camels, in the town." "And how ?" "By taking me up behind you until we get to the market-piace, where I have business." "So be it." And th some difficulty he mounted the oripph behind him. The market-place reached, "Get down," said the Scheick. "Get down yourself," said the cripple, "To help you ? Certainly' "No ; to give me your horse he belongs to me." "We shall see." "We are in the city of the just Cadi." "I know that." "And yoa will have me taken np before him ?" "It is very likely." "And do you suppose, when he sees you with sound legs, and me with crippled ones, he will not say the horse belongs to him who has most need of him?' "If he says so." replied Bou-Akas, "he will no longer be the just Cadi, "for he will have erred iu his judgment." "They call him just," rejoined the crip ple, laughing, "but not infallible." "Good !" said Bou-Akas to himself ; "here is a fine opportunity for me to judge the judge." So he pushed through the crowd, leading his horse by the bridle, the cripple perched like a monkey, and reached the tribunal where the judge was dispens ing justice after the Oriental mode. The first cause was between a Taleb and a peasant that is, between a man of letters and a laborer. The peasant had carried off Taleb' s wife, and insisted that she was his. The woman would not ac knowledge either as her husband. The judge listened to both parties and then said : "Leave the woman with me, and re turn to-morrow." 1 be men saluted and withdrew. The next cause was between a butcher and an oil-seller; the latter was covered with oil, the butcher spotted with blood The butcher began : "I went to buy oi of this man ; 1 took out my purse to pay him ; it was full of money ; he was tempted by it. and seized me by the wrist. I shout ed 'thief! but he would not let me go ; so we come together before you, I clenching my money, and he my wrist. Now, I swear by Mahomet that be is a liar, when he says I took his money : tbe money is mine." Then spoke the oil-seller : " 1 he man came to buy a bottle of oil of me ; and after I had filled the bottle, he asked me if I could change a piece of gold. I took a handful of money from my pocket, and laid it on the threshold of 'my shop ; he snatched it and was going off with the oil and money, when I seized him by the writ. and shouted thief." In spite of my shouts he would not give it up, and I have brought him here that you may ludge between us. 1 swear by Mahomet that this man is a liar, and the money is mine. The Cadi made each plaintiff repeat his story ; neither varied. "Leave the money with me," he said, "and return to-morro Now came the turn of Bau-Akas and the cripple. "My lord judge," said the Scheick, "I come from a distant city to buy merchan dise in this market. At the gate of this town I found this cripple, who first asked alms of me, and then begged me to take him up, as he feared he should be trampled in the crowd of men, mules, and camels. Arrived at the market-place, lie would not get down, but claimed my horse ; and when I threatened him with justice 'Pshaw, the Cadi is too sensible a man to doubt that tbe horse belongs to him who needs him most,' he replied. I swear by Mahomet, this is the simple truth, my lord." Next rejoined the cripple : "My lord, I was coming here on business upon this horse of mine, when I saw this man seated by the road side, as if half dead. I stop ped to ask if he had met with any accident. He answered no ; but that he was exhaust ed with fatigue, and begged me for charity to bring him to this city, where he bad business. I did so ; but what was my sur prise, when he ordered me to dismount, and said the horse was his. So I brought him to you. This is the truth, I swear by Mahomet." The Cadi made each repeat his deposi tion. "Leave me the horse," he ordered, "and return to-morrow." The next morning not only tbe parties concerned, but a great crowd, led by curi osity, appeared at the tribunal. The Taleb and the preasant were called first. "Take your wife off," said the judge to the Taleb, "she is certainly yours." Then turning to the executioners, he or dered them to give the peasant fifty strokes of the bastinado. The butcher and oil seller were next summoned. "Take your money," said the Cadi to the butcher ; "you certainly took it from your pocket, and it never belonged to that man;" and he ordefed the oil-seller fifty strokes of the bastinado. The third cause came on. "Should you recognize your horse among twenty others ?" asked tbe judge of Bou Akas. Certainly." "And you ?' to tbe cripple "Certainly." "Come with me," he continued to Bou Akas. They went together, and the Scheick pointed out his horse among the twenty. "Go back to tbe tribunal and send me your adversary." The cripple hurried to the stable as fast as his legs would let him; but his eyes were good, he also recognized the horse. "Very well.", said the judge ; "now follow me to tbe tribunal.' The judge returned to his seat, and everybody awaited the slow return of the cripple with impatience. At last be appear ed all out of breath. "The horse is yours." said the Cadi to Bou-Akas : "go to the sta ble and take him fifty stripes on that man's back," be ordered for the cripple. The Cadi, on reaching home, found Bou Akas waiting for him. "Are you dissatis fied ?" he asked." "Quite the contrary," answered the Scheick ; "but I want to ask by what in spiration you render justice ; for I cannot doubt that the other judgments are as equitable as my own. I am Bou-Akas. Scheick of Ferdj 'Ouah ; and having heard of yotT.TwIsh to know you." The judge would have kissed his chiefs hand, but Bou-Akas would not permit it. "Come, I am in a hurry to know how you discovered the truth in those three cases," ho suid. "It is very simple. You know I kept the woman, the money, and the horse through the night. WhII, at midnigh. I had the woman awakened and brought to me. 'Fill my inkstand .' I mid to her. She took the inkstand, took out the cotton, washed it neatly, replaced it iu its case, and poured in fresh ink. Then I said to myself : 'The wife of a peasant would know nothing about inkstands; she is the wife of the Taleb." " Good !" said Bou-Akas ; "but tbe money." "Did you observe that tbe oil-seller was covered with oil, and especially how greasy his hands were ?" "Yes ; well ?" "WeU, I put the money into a vessel of water ; I examined it this morning ; there was no sign of oil on ths surface. Conse quently, I decided that the money belong ed to the butcher. Had it belonged to tbe l-seller, it would hare been greasy, and e oil would have floated on the water." "Good ; but my horse ?" "Ah, I was greatly puzzled about that, until this morning." "Then, the cripple did not recognize the horse ?" "Yen, quite as boldly and positively as yourself. But my idea was not to see if you would recognize the horse, but if he would know you. Thus, when you ap proached him, he neighed ; when the crip ple came near him, he lashed out. 80 I gave him to you." Bou Akas reflected a moment, and then said : "The Lord is with you .' You should have my place, and I yours. Yet, on the whole, although I am sure you are worthy to be Scheick, I am not certain that I am fit to be Cadi." Anybodt Like Me. "Anybody like roe!" I aint anybody I'm married I aiut a bachelor any longer. This isn't my home; 'tisn't my carriage, my horses, my opera box; oh, no! they're Mrs. Smith's. I'm not John K. Smith, the richest broker on Montgomery street, but that fashionable Mrs. Smith's husband! Nelly came down to the office yesterday. Sweet Nelly! She always consoles papa for all his cares clustering curls, blue eyes dear Nelly! Whose lovely child is that?" "Mrs. Smith's." Of course she is! There it is! She don't belong to me; ob, certainly not? I wish I felt a little more clear on that point That expensive plate just going home is Mrs. Smith's. What if I did pay for it! Don't I belong to Mrs. Smith? Poor op pressed woman! They have not only all their own property and half of their hus band's, by law, and the rest by possession; but they need more rights. Where rights are wrong, I wonder what rights the petitioners would use? And then the idea of calling me "any body;" I'm an animalcula; I'm a bubble, a jack-o lantern, a vision. I'm absorbed, swallowed up, extinct! Sal7' and its PaoPEaTiES. The August numbe. of DeBow's Review contains an able article on the subject of salt, its w manufacture, properties, uses and varieties, from the pen of Wm. C. Dennis Esq., of lonua. ine principal ooject proposed oy Mr Dennis is to show tbe cause of the failure of the salt treneraHv U9ed in Dreservino' meats to perform that office, and to point out the method of remedying the eviL No one who has the slightest acquaintance with the immense loss occasioned every year in this country by the spoiling of butter fish and cured meat, particularly bacon, will he disposed to undervalue any effort to analyze the reason of the fact and designate the method of prevention. Tbe cause of the evil Mr Dennis finds in the imperfect crystalization of all salt made by boiling. n which is included the Liverpool salt, the variety most used in this country. The substitution of salt produced by evaporation, a process the slowness of which insures the perfection of that chemical process where final result is complete crystalization, is the proposed remedy. m A Yankee gentleman, escorting a British friend around to view the different objects of attraction in the vicinity of Boston, brought him to Bunker's IlilL They stood looking at the splendid shaft, when the Yankee said, "This is th place where Warren fell." uAfa!" replied the Eng'i oil man, evidently not posted up in ioc:'' historical matters, '"did it hurt him much A man with one eye laid a wagrr with another person that be (the one-eyed penton) saw m're than the other. The wager was Hccepted. '"You have lost," :tys t'i" first; I can see the two eyes in your lace; and, you can see only one iu mine."