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,. the Wilminelon Journal. THE TARIFF AND THE INDEPEN DENT TREASURY Ii in but . I.l.-in. in those latter days that :,. ,i inucli comp l.-iint made against the i.i. ;.. ..dent u. aui v. aud still more seldom t! iit utcrv i rnid in favor of the ex- i...i.d doctrine of a protective tariff, by which t k-eii-late the rwhm of all other claef the- community into tne nanus ui j t,roaa wave of victory is spreading lt the manufacturers of certain favored sec- f over the land. The advance of General tious. Ii:d. . d. w.- have ht-ard of frequent Havelock,g coumn frrtm Allahabad has expressions of gratification arising out of been one chain of victories. In our last the fart that the credit of the Union was ' w(? mPntion, (1 that General Havelock had . . . . , i j r . not at the wercy .f speculative corpora- tions, nor its tunas a sea in iorm m " for a further inflation of a currency and credit svstem. to whose undue expansion, .....d lis nrlrnvriminrp and provoked, all our present difficulties are IIIU W w ii aBJ I uttributaldu The people of the country are potting truly tired of tbe idea of artificial regulation of tli.-ir trade nr currency. They are res tive uioi.-r the coatrol now exerted by a set of broker and Monetary institutions in Wall Street, New York. The fori the evil and nrepuldiean tendency of such Using, and tbey know that to the patting and 1. lowing, hulling" sad bearing" oper ations of speculative parties, much of our fctflici-1 derangement is due. They sec enough of that to be rather disinclined to place a .-till more despotic power over their business enterprises, in the hands of some new Nicholas Kiddle. The Democrats never set up the Inde pendent Treasury as a "Great Regulator," as the Tayetteviile Observer seems to inti mate. Tin y knew that the withdrawal of government funds from the custody of banks, would take away one strong stimu lant to undue expansion, and they insisted on that withdrawal. Had the banks been the depositories of the government funds, had these funds, too, gone to swell the tide of speculation and extravagance, the Lord only knows how high that tide would have run or where it would have stopped. The very locking up of some of the specie may not have been altogether harmful, especial ly when we see it now unlocked at the pro per moment. Like water in a reservoir, abstracted from a too swollen flood, it has remained to pour forth its .-(reams at the hour of need. Suppose that one or two years ago, this specie, the much talked of surplus had found its way into the banks instead of the vaults of the Treasury, who j they got clear ot the village the enemy doabta but that it would have given a still j aain Pencd nrc P" our troops from a greater impetus to the speculative move- f,r,,n 110 ,,nd. when wo had to lie down meats which are the real cause of the presJ u,,u wait for our artillery; but the bullocks rat difficulties ! The revulsion would have! being quite knocked op, only one small gun been correspondingly increased, there would ' of no u0 the enemy's bigene could have been no fund to come forth at tho j bo Sot into position. General Havelock into of a million a week at the proper time, I at once the difficulty, and instantly and a ten fold ruin would have ensued. g the order to take the gun, which was For there is this great and marked differ- done in brilliant style by tho Light Compa euce between tho Hanks and the Treasury. 0' f the 7Sth under a heavy fire, which Both are afl'ected by the pressure, but in different ways. The Hanks are forced for self-protection to draw in most tightly, when the necessities of the cummuuity are loudly calling for assistance. On the other hand, at such times now the money goes slowly into the Treaeoty, luf comes out rapidh. The surplus accumulated in flush times, passes away from the vaults of the Treasury into the hands of the public. We have already said that the Indepen dent Treasury, by withdrawing tho funds of the government from the control of Hanks, withholds from these institutions one stimulus and temptation to over-expansion, it cannot withhold all. Its power is simply incidental, and not meddlesome. It also imposes a check in another way. Uy demanding the payment of duties in specie, it constantly imposes the necessity of being able to meet the demands for that purpose. This is most important and con servative in its character. It is said that the Government has tempt ed the people by low Tariffs, to buy more foreign goods than they could pay for. etc., etc., at b ast so the Fayettevllle Observer says. To meet all this, we need only point to the fact that bills on London can to-day be bought greatly under par that sterling exchange is offered in New York at a dis count of six to seven per cent., and that ex changes with foreign countries have been in our favor during the whole Full, show ing that we are not situated with respect to foreign countries as the Observer would have us to think. Nay more than this, the great curtailment of our imports, as com pared with our exports has arisen under the reduced Tariff' which went into operation on the 1st day of July, 1657. Gold is want ed here and gold will come and in large quantities. We do not say that extravagance has not prevailed. It would bo folly to deny that extravagance has prevailed, but in what has that extravagance mainly shown j itself? We say it has shown itself mainly in those classes of articles which are the ' mcessary- ne Utsiory ot ttie world ut most highly taxed, or protected, if you ora no parallel to the terrible massacres choose to use the latter term. In silks, wn'cn during the last few mouths have de btees, French millinery, embroidery gin- . ?olateu the land. Neither age, sex, nor cracks generally, which are heavily taxed, Condition ueen spared. Childreu have and sold at exhorbitant prices. It is uou- 1)VU compelled to cat the quivering flesh seuse to talk about protection, as long as of t,ier murdred parents, after which they values continue unnaturally inflated, and "Orally torn assunder by the laughing the fact is shown by the very class of arti- ne"ds who surrounded them. Men in many cles which have been mainly instrumental i,,stai,oes have been mutilated, and, before in giving color to the charge of oxtrava- oein absolutely killed, havo had to gaze gance. those articles having been generally BPn tno last dishonor 'of their wives and "protected" enough in all conscience. I dauSut,r- previous to being put to death. To institute a parallel between the tate I liut rea we cannot describe the brutali of things in this year of our Lord, 1657, and that existing in 18:17. is all nonsense, and fruitless panic in a age ring. There is no parallel at ull. There is not one-tenth the real cause for trouble now as there was then. What is a Spfcie-payixg Baxk? Is it a bank which pays specie so long as no body wants it; but the moment there is a special call for it, M will not submit to a run.'' From the example of Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Providence, Scc, we would say that in their view this is the proper definition of a specie-paying bank. If it be a correct one. the wh.de idea of a sp.--;e paying bank is a humbug. Wash ington 'Ji'o. THE WAR IN INDIA. THE RE-CAPTURE OF CAWNPORE. From the Bombay Telegraph. The news by this mail is of a more cheer ing nature than any we have yet sent home since the mutiny commenced. Although Delhi is still in the hands of the mutineers, and the most dreadful atrocities continue to he committed in vari mis parts of India, yet , - rawmrc. but we were unable to give details of its capture. The column marched from its encamping ground at daylight on the morning of the IGtb, and after a thirteen miles1 journey halted to ,rfakf;lst withjn two miles of the enemy's position in front of Cawnpore. After rest ing three hours it advanced to the attack. Gen. Havelock had with him 1.300 Euro peans and about 700 or 800 Sikhs against 13.000 mutinous Sepoys armed and discip lined in every respect like his own soldiers, and commanded by the arch-fiend Xenu Sahib in person. The General, seeing the enemy's position, determined to take him in flank. For this purpose the 7Sth High landers were sent to the front with some of the Madras Fusileers on the left flank to cover the movement. Iler Majesty's G4th and remaining companies of the 84th Foot, with the guns, were on the right of the col umn out of the enemy's view. While per forming this Hank movement- the Highlan ders and Fusileers were under a heavy fire from the eiieiny's-nrtillery, which, however, did no damage, save killing the horse of Colonel Walter Hamilton. When our troops got properly on his flank the col umns were wheeled into line and advanced, under a heavy fire of grape shell and mus ketry, to within 50 yards before they fired a shot. Our men then opened fire, and the 76th charged up to the muzzles of the guns and captured them three 24 pounders, loaded as they wero. Leaving them in charge, on they pressed nothing but death could stay their avenging hands when once raised to smite. The 76th next carried a village at the point of the ba'onet ; this was on the right of the enemy's position, and his flank was then completely turned. The columns then moved on to their left position after clearing the village. As s-jon .a a j. a .a wns wt 11 kept UP- Tni:5 e"ded the affair, and our victory was most complete. In the absence of cavalry the line was halted, and tho General went up to the Highlanders and paid them a well-merited compliment on their performances. The whole force behaved most noblv, and every soldier was eager for the fray and did his -duty manful y. On tho evening of this engagement the column encamped outside the walls of Cawn pore, and on the morning of the 17th our soldiers entered the city. Accustomed as they had been to scenes of slaughter, the spectacle that met their eyes nearly petri fied them with horror. They marched straight to a place where they wero told 175 women and children were confined, but on their arrival they found that they had come too late ! They only found the clothes of the poor victims strewn over the blood stained ground. The scene of the horrible catastrophe was a paved court yard, and one of the Highlanders in writing to a co temporary say s : "There were two inches of blood upon the pavement, and from the report that we got from the residents of the dace it appears that, after we had beaten the enemy the evening previous, the Sopoj-s and Sowars entered the place where the un happy victims were, killed all the ladies, and threw the children alive, as well as tho ladies' dead bodies, into a well in the com pound. I saw it, and it was an awful sight. It appears from the bodies we saw that the women were stripped of their clothes before they were murdered. Miss Wheeler, daugh ter of Sir H. Wheeler, they say. killed five of these fiends with a revolver before they could get near her. What an heroic spirit she must have had ! The sight of the place where these poor ladies were murdered is indeed awful. Long tresses of hair dress es covered with blood hero and there a workbox or bonnet." A feeling more ter rible than vengeance arises in the heart at reading this, and even tho most reverent sm,uuVr when they think that omnipotence COl,lti uave deemrd 8ucn a terrible ordeal ties that have been committed; they pass the bouudaries of human belief, and to dwell upon them shalces reason upon its throne. If ever a nation was made the in strument of vengeance of an insulted Deity, that nation is England ; and we trust that she will strike and spare not. We hope that by this time her ships are not only on their mission of vengeance by way of the Cape, but that thousands of her soldiers are by this time marching across the desert upon Suez. Not a moment should be lost, and long before Christmas the whole of In dia will be lying at our feet. Hefore eva cuating Cawnpore, Nena Sahib blew up the magazine He then retired upon Ibthoor, j to winch he was followed by a portion of our troops. On arriving at the palace however, they found that the bird had flown. They fired the palace, rasing it to the fee- dations, and carried away at tbe aame time 15 guos. Nena Sahib it is said, bad an in tention of going to Lucknow, bot when be got as far as the river his cavalry and In fantry deserted him. Rumor has it that he then destroyed himself and family ; but the general belief is that he is still alive, and the sum of 5,000rs. has been offered for his capture. - ' r S S - trSf From the Washington Union. EDUCATION IN NORTH CAROLINA We have before us a pamphlet copy of the address delivered in July last before the State Educational Association of North Carolina, by Win. W. Holden, Esq., of Raleigh. Mr Holden is favorably known to the country as tbe able and accomplished editor of one of the most influential Demo cratic journals in the South. In the new character in which he now appears he has not only laid the citizens of his native State under obligations for his gratifying exposi tion of tho present commendably liberal system of public instruction in North Car olina, but bo has brought together an array of startling facts in regard to the school systems of other States, the publication of which, we think, will lend to the most bene ficial rc.-ults. A large portion of the address is occupied with facts and figures in relation to the common-school system and common school fund of nearly all the States. From these facts aud figures Mr Holden deduces the following results : The average length of the schools of Maine, whose system :s in a highly-flourishing condition, is four months and three weeks ; of New Hampshire, five months ; of North Carolina, four months. Maine distributes about 70 cents to the head of her white population ; New Hamp shire about the same; Virginia, Scents; Connecticut nearly one dollar; North Car olina, about 50 cents ; Pennsylvania nearly the same as Connecticut ; and New York and Ohio a fraction over one dollar each to their total white population. North Carolina, though her white popula tion is 200,000 less than that of Kentucky, expends nearly as much as she does for ed ucational purposes. North Carolina has a larger school fund than Maine, or New Hampshire, or New Jersey, (by $1,500,000;) or Maryland or Virginia, (by $000,000;) or Massachusetts, (by 8500,000;) or Georgia, (by 8 1,000,000.) North Carolina has as many colleges as Georgia, more academies by 100, and 2,000 more common schools. The two States are about equal in white population. North Carolina has more Colleges than South Carolina, more academies by 100, and nearly three times as many children at school. Virginia has 340,000 white population more than North Carolina; yet the latter has quite as many Colleges as the former, as many ecademies, and five or six hundred more public schools. Kentucky has 200,000 white population more than North Carolina; yet the latter has as many colleges ns tho former, as many academies, more common schools by 1,000, and as many children at school as she has. The same is substantially true in the comparison between Tennessee and North Carolina. ft must also be borne in mind that North Carolina has no large cities, like Virginia, Tennesse, Georgia, and Kentucky, to build up and sustain Colleges and high schools. Upon a calm review of the entire facts, it is neither immodest nor "unjust to assert that North Carolina is clearly ahead of all the other slaveholding States with her sys tem of public instruction ; while she com pares favorably in several respects with some of the New England and North-wes-tern States. But, though our educational condition and prospects are thus cheering, we have only made a good beginning in the great work. There are now from fifty to sixty thousand children in the State who never go to school. Hut we must reach these also, or the most of them ; for in ten years near ly all of them who are males will be citizens, and will vote to make laws to govern you, themselves, all of us. What if they grow up in ignorance and vice,, they will not be the only sufferers ! Tho intelligent, the virtuous, and the owners of property espe cially, are all deeply concerned in this movement ; and it behooves them to do eve lything that can be done, justly and with reason, to prevent, as well as to diminish, vice and crime. Ignorance creates injus tice and crime; injustice and crime create courts of law, courts of law create taxes ; and men of substance havo these taxes to pay. Elopement Case. From the Shelby villo (Tenn.) Banner, we clip the following: A young sprig from Kentucky, who has beou iu this vicinity for several months, became acquainted with the daughter of one of our citizens living a few miles east of town. A mutual attachment sprung up between the parties, which resulted in a proposition of marriage. The parents as sumed the responsibility to reject the suit, and the disappointed lover was notified to discontinue his visits. A secret interview was obtained, and the young parties made engagements to elope, Accordingly, on Sunday night, the damsel had succeeded in getting from under the parental roof, and had scarcely reached the arms of her lover a short distance from the bouse, when a discovery of the flight was made. An alarm was immediately raised, and all bands, women and dogs, were iu hot pursuit. The fugitives sought refuge in a corn field, where they accidentally became separated, but the cohesive power of attraction soon brought them together again, but not with out losing time in the race. The pursuers were now so close upon them that they were compelled to drop their luggage, which consisted of two carpet bags, con taining the outfit of a twn mock' They mauaged to epjde however, and doubtles by this time have become the victims of matrimonv. FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS ON GILA RIVER. Tbe Santa Fe Democrat of the 30th of July, comes to us with the particulars of the recent notion of Col. Bonneville's com mand with the Apaebes on the Gila, said to be tbe most decisive engagement of our troops with the Indians. As they neared the Gila the country be came more level, and spies soon discovered signs of Indians, aud it appeared that, the euemy was near at hand. Their speed was now increased, and in a little while they came in view of an Indian camp upon the bank of the river, partially surrounded by thick bushes. The charge was immediate ly sounded, and the troops rushed to the fight. Lieut. Monro led the van of the column, charging through the village and across the river, and taking up a position to cut off the retreat to Mount Turnbull. Lieut. McCook joined the head of the col umn in tho charge, and rendered valiant services in the action. This completely broke up the camp of the Indians, and all who were able fled into the neighboring bushes, where they made their defence. Iu the meantime the right column, under Lt. Col. Miles, at the head of which Col. Bonnvillo marched, was coming up as rapidly as possible. When the report of musketry first announced the battle com menced, it was about a mile and a half from the scene of action, slowly descending the mountaiu, down a rocky and tushy pathway. As soon as it was known that Capt. Ewell was engaged with the enemy, the order to gallop was given, and the charge made, Col. Bonneville leading the van to the field of battle. The whole command was now upon the ground, and took part in the action. The dragoonshavingcut oft the retreat of the In dians to the mountains on the left bank, the Mounted rifles charged on the right bank, and prevented escape in that direc tion. The 3d and Sth Infantry under Lts. Whipple and Steen, and Lts. Jackson and Cook, assisted by the liifles and Dragoons, now attacked the Indians in the bushes on opposite sides of tho river, and after a severe conflict succeeded in killing or cap turing nearly the wholo party. The field of battle extended about a mile and a half on both sides of the Gila, and was covered with a thick g.owth of bushes, which en abled the enemy to fight with great advan tage. Of the Indians, twenty warriors and four women were found dead in the field, and twenty -seven women and children were taken prisoners. The loss of the enemy is supposed to be much greater than indicated by the dead bodies found upon the field of battle, as two prisoners taken after the action both report that the camp consisted of forty warriors, of whom but two or three escaped. Of our troops, two officers, Lts. Steen and Davis, and 9 men were wounded. 1 e i A BIT OF ROMANCE. Ten years ago a young Englishman ran away from London, where he was highly connected, came down to Liverpool, took a ship that was up for New Orleans, and in duo Course of tlm ln,J" J Ulo nHr -l,k a light heart in his breast and between one and two hundred pounds in Bank of Eng land notes iu his pocket. He had been a mauvais sujet at home, and, between wine and women, had managed to squander a large fortune, besides involving himself seriously in debt. He had taken the pre caution to provide himself with letters of in troduction to respectable parties in this city, and by this means he soon formed the acquaintance of a young lady who, by the death of her father, had been left sole heir ess of a largo estate. A warm attachment soon sprung up between the two, and our jAiung Englishman one fine day made the lady a formal tender of his hand and heart. The answer he received was the following : "I love 37ou and will marry you, but only on these conditions, and these only: 1st, you must stop drinking ; 2d, you must pay your debts; 3d, you have squandered one fortune, you must set to work and make an other." The lover entreated, but the lady was inexorable. Just then the gold fever broke out, and our hero determined without loss of time, to try his fortune on tho shores of the Pacific Ocean. He sat dewn, wrote a letter to the lady, in which he announced his determination, assured her of his unal terable affection and begged her to be faith ful to him, and without further adieu started for New York and took ship for San Fran cisco, via the Cape. In California he led some time a wandering, dissolute life, and finally joined the unfortunate expedition wh'ck Raott-set do Boulbon fitted out for the conquest of Sonora. It was known that he was among the few who escaped to tell the fate of their heroic leader, but noth ing further was heard of him or his where abouts until last Saturday, when a friend of his in this city received a telegraphic des patch from him, stating that he was among the fifty persons saved from tbe Central America aud brought into Norfolk by the bark Ellen. The despatch further stated that the writer had lost 8150,000 in gold, which was in the hands of the purser, but it was luckily insured for its full value in a Loudon office. We learn that tbe lady to whom he was engaged is still unmarried, and it would not be strange if, in the course of human events, we should be called upon to indite a paragraph with that fashiona ble heading, '-Marriage iu High Life." V. O. lite. Hon. James C. Wilson. This distin guished gentleman, who has been promi nent before the country, through the inter position of his friends, for tho office of U. S. Senator, and with flattering prospects of success, "has published a letter in which be decliues the candidacy, aud retires alto gether from political life. He intimates that a sense of duty induces him to this course. By private correspondence we learn that it is his determination to devote himself to the Methodist itinerant ministry. He re cently assisted at the meeting at Gonzales. Wo rejoice at this determi nation, and es pecially in the excellency of the example it involves. Many men, in all departments of life, are sinning against God and their own souls by refusing to obey the call to preach the gospel. Texas Chris. Advocate. New York, October 5th Sated from, the Wreck of the Central AnuricaThe Bremen Bark Bremen, ar rived here to-day, with J. Clce, second en gineer; Alexander Grant, fireman, and G. W. Dawson, passenger on the steamship Central America, and wb'were rescued by the British Brig Mary, from Cardenas to Queenstown; but were transferred to the Bremen. Tice drifted on a plank seventy hours. On tbe feurth morning be drifted to a boat and succeeded in getting into it. On the fifth day he picked up Grant, who swam from a part of the hurricane deck, on which he floated since the sinking of the steamer. Both of them then pulled to the hurricane deck and took oft' Dawson. There bnd been ten others on the same deck, but they all died-foflr of ffiose were George Buddington. 3d engineer; John Banks, coal heaver; Patrick Card, coal heaver ; and Evans, fireman. The other six were pas sengers. Tice, Grant and Dawson were eight days without provisions or water, the sea meanwhile breaking over them. The second day after the disaster they saw a number of the passengers on pieces of the wreck, but could not assist them. .The rescued aro in a bad condition. Their bodies are bruised and covered with biles. From Mexico. We have interesting news from Mexico. The ecclesiastical malcontents in Peubla had fomented an other outbreak, which was only suppressed by the troops of the republic. Many arrests were made. Disturbances of a like charac ter in various parts the country are report ed. A formidable revolution had broken out in the province of Gaudalajara, but we are not advised aa to its origin or objects. Reports were rife of another filibustering invasion of Sonora from California. Con gress met at Puebla on the 14th, in what is called the preparitory session; forty-five members present. The regular session was to open on the 16th, with great cere monies; the new order of things, inaugura ted by the new constitution, going into operation on that day. .yl) fs,. Handsome Present from President Buchanan. The Norfolk Day Book says: A magnificent gold pocket chronometer and chain, has been forwarded to Sam'l T. Sawyer, Esq., collector for this port, by James Buchanan, President of the United States, to be presented to that noble vet eran of old Ocean, Capt. A. Johnson, of the Norwegian barque Ellen, who so gal lantly went to the rescue of the passengers of the Central America. This magnificent watch and chain is said to be one of the best the world can pro duce, and coming as a present from such a source as the President of the U. States, must make an indelible impression upon the mind of future generlafions of the heroic behavior of Capt. Johnson ou that perilous occasion. It is supposed that its cost could not have been less than $330. $ k The Love of Gold. This master pas sion was terribly illustrated in the late Cen tral America disaster. One of the survi- vora ,kyaT fclwPVPr;il prwr fellowe nrout to tio bottom with rolls of stolen f,old around their waist !" In another place he re marks, "I believe I sorrow to say it that M and some of his friends went below to play, and that they went into the pres ence of their Maker with cards iu their hands !" Will. India kb Re-Conquered bt the British ? In answer to this inquiry, a foreign correspondent Of the! Nfew York Times writes : "India will never be re-conquered by British arms. The war will be carried on for a time, say two or three years, with vary ing success, but without decisive result. The necessarily enormous increase of taxa tion, together with the drain of men and forced enrollment of the militia, will, after awhile, raise an opposition at home as pow erful as the now prevailing thirst for ven geance. The Government and army in India will then be illy supported. The pro-India party, already existing among British residents in India, though now weighed down by the humiliating feroci ties of the Sepoys, the nurslings of company's civilizing care, will soon be raised again by the worst barbarities in contemplation by European vengeance. They will be joined by the European residents of other nation, who are all opposed to British misrule, and by the daily increasing number of all who are oppressed by the unscrupulous tyranny of the East Indian Government." On the first sign of weakness on the part of the Government, this party will openl' espouse the cause of the natives. The hostilities will then assume the character of a civil war, which cannot,' dure not , last. It will be ended by a compromise, the nature of which will depend in a great measure upon the momentary strategical positions of the two armies, but which will destroy forever the rule of the British Government in India. Englishmen will then, for the time, co operate and assimilate with the natives in a community of interests, and on a footing of something like equality. The real conqeest of India by the English race will then begin. But India will never be re-conquered by English arms. Western N. C. Rail Koad. A laro-e quantity of Iron lias arrived at this place for this Road. We have not learned how soon the Company will begin to lay the Iron down, but presume it will not be long A large number of sills have been delivered along the line. Salisbury Herald. Diamond Cut Diamond. A couple of patent "safe1' sharpers got hold of a supposed green-horn yesterday, near one of the hotels, whom they found to be so extraordinarily verdant that caution ou their- part was entirely laid aside. Greeny was ready enough to go it blind on their "safe," but his wife had all bis money and he wanted 1 a gooa pretext to get it out of her. So he borrowed a gold watch of the sharpers, in order to show to his wife as a desired purchase entered the hotel stepped out of another door and sharpers have not seen biro since. New York Sun. WORTH Thorniest Mackhetry. " Eds Northwestern Farmer J Per bans it may not he generally known that in Kb mourtaneous parts of North Caro ina many fruifi re found growmg-in a stateof nature, that will be great acquisitions to our gardens when once they are introduced and properly cultivated. Among this class vou may rank the North Carolina or Cher okee Thornless Blackberry, which, from the heighfh at which it Is found growing, (5,000 feet above the sea, and lower), would justify the opinion that it wouia prove hardy as far North as the northern bound ary of Iowa. It is found growingin patches on the mountains, varying in quarmry iron. ngle cane to several acres in body, an le of the canes that I have seen, hav d a si som . , in io r lonnth. jtnd ave measurea rrom ;: " r in sneueitru ?- -rv . . , i i . . . I criinrinna rnpv I wini .'"im1 io.w8 irreeu durinc the entire winter. fThe cahes are as enHfty destitute IUU1UO HO mm 7 aF j smooth, so that the cattle feed on them du ring the entire winter, and sometimes do very well without any other food. They are later than our common blackberry from three to four weeks, so that when oi.e ' is gone the other is just beginning to. come in to perfection, and then the fruit is twice the size of th common, and the very sweet est of the blackberry kind. Seeds are small and set in a large quantity of the pulp, thus making this berry a much more desirable article than anything else of the kind that I have ever seen described, as the ladies' greatest objection to blackberry sweetmeats is the greatest amount of seeds there is in proportion to the pulp. A New Contributor. Murphy, N. C., Match, lb7. m m9 CHINESE SUGAR CANE. Caution Required in Selecting Seeds of the Chinese Sugar Millet. Within the last few days I learned, from a more careful observer than myself, that there are plants growing among the Chinese Sugar Cane or Millet which have no saccharine juice, and yet are so similar that they would not be suspected to be dif ferent, without tastiofip the sap. Air he crops observed to be thus intermixed, are of the second year's growth, from seed sup plied from the Patent Office. It may be that this intermixture (or degeneracy ?) is not general. But every cultivator will do well to examine his plants saved for seed, and to be sure that all such noji -saccharine plants are excluded. The counterfeits may readily be known by tasting the sap of the green stalk. Even without this surest test, one who has well compared the two plants, may distinguish them by the age. The sweet or true plant has its seeds covered by a close fitting sheath or envelope, which, when-ripe, is perfectly black and glpsey on the outside. Sffmo of these sheaths (but not generally) have a fine and soft hair, less than a quarter of an inch long, extend ing from each. The other plants have most of the seed-coversof a brownish, black color, not glossy, except on a few of the seeds, and with a hair about half an inch long, standing out from every seed-cover. The pith is white, comparatively sapless, and without sweetness. These plants are generally the tallest and strongest, and stand erect in many cases after all the surrounding- true canes have been prostrated by the wind. The heads of the worthless plant are usually larger, fuller, and more beautiful, and hang slightly and gracefully drooping to one side. Specimens of both plants hve been placed in. the office tf the State Agricultural Society. These is a rule for selecting seeds of the true cane, whether African or Chinese, which it may be well to observe, or at least to test, but which I report upon information, without any personal or experimental knowledge of the facts. From Mr Eeonurd Wray, the introducer of the Natal Sugar Millet (or "Imphee") into France and this country, I lately heard that the practice of the .Kuifirs (directed by long experience) is to cut off the heads designed for seed when they are barely' ripe enough for the seeds to germinate. The proper time is whn the seed is still partly iu the milky state, and when the solid and hardier part of each seed may be mashed between the finger and thumb. The theory is, that un ripe seeds produce a growth that goes nioet to form sugar, and, (as I infer.) the most perfect or fully ripe seeds are more produc tive of seeds than sugar. If this African practice is correct, and the opinion on which it is founded, the counterfeit Chinese Sugar Millet may be the result of successive plantings of well ripened seeds. Either this plant is a new production, (degenerated as to sugar, but improved as to grain,) owing to this or some other qause, or otherwise there must have been- some few seed of this different oor flhum, not distinguishable among some of the true seeds of the Sugar Millet distribut ed from the Patent Office. EDMUND RUFFIN. September 28th, 1857. TRUSTEE SALE, 15 or 20 Likely NEGROES. On the 20th day of October, at LINCOLN TON, I will offer at public sale, 15 or 20 Likely Negroes, Men, women ami children, house servants and field hands ; among the former is an excellent seamstress. Sotne of said Negroes will be sold for cash and some on a credit. h. E. THOMPSON, Trustee. jC- I have also 8 or 900 Acres Of Land lying on both sides of Clark's Creek, which i WaH sell ft private sal.; in quan tities to suit parchssera. Said Land lUis about one mile from Lincolnton. , L. E. T., Trustee. October 6, 1857. 77-3t v..nB. t mttv corn BtatK anu ua Brem & Steele Arc receiving their FALL Sc. WINTER SUPPLY 3? vBJ)a)0 October 1, 1857. 4t Lumber Yard. The subscribers inform tbe citizens of Char lotte and vicinity that they have established a Lumber Yard in town, where they intend keep ing a suppljrefcaB khide of Lumber for budding and other purposes. Mr Jouas Rudisill is their agent in town application can be made to him or to either of the undersigned. Oct. 6. MILLER & PORTER. DAILY EXPRES Between Charlotte and Colombia EACH WAY. TH ADAM 8 EXPRESS CO. havte 'com- meneea running a Uaily Line of Express be tween Charlotte and Columbia and all interme diate points. Leaving their Office in Charlotte at 7 o'clock a. m., arriving m Colombia at 3 p. m. Leave their office in Columbia, 117 Richardson street, at 8 o clock, a m, arrive at Charlotte at li.40 p m. Freight' intended for this line must be left at the Office before 7 o'clock, a m. Merchants and others ordering goods by this line, will had it a safe, speedy and cheap mode ot transportation. r Bankers will nnd it to their interest to patron ize this hne, as there w Bot the kt possibility of a loss. The patronage of the public is solicited. r 1 5 REA. Agt. Charlotte. Office 5 doors North of Springs' earner. a- waJ :ZELL, Agt. Columbia. September 8, lti57. 2m Steam on Common Rr. Uttd locomotive, baift bv'M, pudgeon, has for seWal day3 b in Grand street. Bmi ' '"S thoroughfares, and has made v.. ana her trP to Uf rlem and back. Its speed is ah..., to the average speed of horses in gtaL qUal seems to be controlled with as muV, 'Hnd and more certainty. The popular ' that horses would be alarmed b v vehicles, and that they cannot ascend T on account of their wheels npoE refuted by the performance of this en' 8? which has met with no case of difiUif n this nature, although it has of' considerable part of several days in crow ij streets, followed bv ormv.U e - - . Jed streets, followed bv crowds of nrt;. v AT Vnrl Pn,t ' J3 " ' - GOLD MINES" IRON WORKS & NEGRO For Sale. BS By virtue of a mortgage and p0Wpr t sale therein contained, executed bv Pun? W. Oroot of the city of Albany, to And P Hoyl and his Executors, for and in hJwu of the High Shoals Manufacturing c pany, the undersigned wijl proceed (o Tu to tbe highest bidder, for ready money ! the High Shoals in Gastou county, q On Thursday the Slst December, I857 ' That extensive, well known, and VAIit BLE PROPERTY known as the A" High Shoals, Embracing about FIFTEEN THaty SAND ACRES OF LAND, a large 1 tionofit productive grain-growing Lti Also, several rich tOLtt 1lf , opened and now being worked. Also, many inexhaustible bodies ftf MROJr ORES which have been profit ably worked. r Also, a WATER-POWER unsurpM9ea by any in the South. . Also, Sixteen JTECROtlS, U, bat one, Fellows and Mechanics. THOMAS GRIER, W. P. BYNUM, -: , m Ex'rs. of A. Hoyl October 6. 1857. 3m J HOUSE & LOT H For Sale. ONE of tbe most desirable residences in Charlolrtet, situated orrTradastreet, directly opposite the residence of Gen. J. A. Youuy, and in the most pleasant and healthy put of the town. Buildings all in complete order, and will bo sold very cheap, as the owner is going West. For particulars, en quire of J. TOWNLY, at FULL1NGS & CO.'S Clothing Emporium. Sept. 29, 1857. tf . NEW GOODS" AND xsr J. E. STENIIorSE. JOHN STENHOl'Sl. The undersigned are now opening a lurg and well assorted Stock of PAHSfcY WieiHM. in Springs' brick building 2d door from Mr Bryce's Store? Which they will sell low fir cash. They will pay the HIGHEST MAR KET PRICES for Cotton, Wheat m.d country produce generally. J. E. STENJ10USE fc CO. Charlotte, Sept. 21, 1857. tf FEMALE SCHOOL Charlotte, IV. . TIiIS school will open on the 15th of Oclobr under the superintendence of Rev. R. Bl'K WELL and lady, assisted by a corps of compe tent teachers iu al' the branches usually taught in first class female schools. The scholastic year will be divided iuto two sessions, wh'mjk pumediately Mioeeed eacfeotbi-r, with a short rece.-s dining the Christmas holiday. Pupils are charged from Me time of entering, but no deduction mad'' for absence except rn dor f protracted sickness. Young ladies tlnm a ot tance will be n-quired to beard with tbe priueil, except under peculiar cironiustanceK. Kith boaraer will be expected to furnish her own table napkins aud towels, and to have her clothes ilii tinctly 111:11 ked. Terms, payable half in advance. Board aud Tuition per Session... $HU00 Music, on I'iauo or Guitar a" W Use of Instrument, 5 AO Drawing and l'akiting, 10to2U 10 French and Latin, each .'. 10 00 Day Scholars, 10 to 18 00 Sept. 15,1857. tf Land and Mills FOR SALE. Tire subvef-iber offers for sale ONE THOUSAND. ACHES OF LANG lying on both sides of the Charlotte Railroad, fourteen miles f.omtol- UlnUlu: One iiuttdre Acres in culnvttlW. with a neaf DWELLING ilOUSE and " necessarjr ont-bfrtrdings. ' ALSO, Another tiact two and a half miles from w Kailroad, containing ELEVEN HUNuKKD ACKiiS, lying .on Crane free.., atoiit J HtfndrVd'Acres in a high state of cultivation, with a comfortable DWELLING f!0Us with seven rooms; and other necessary out buildings. ALSO. A SAW an&GRlST MILL propelled by water power. ALSO, A Twenty-five Horse Power Circular STtAM SAW MILL that cannot be excelled mtb State, recently put in operation, and M abundance of fine Timber. ALSO, , Another tract of land containing about M THOUSAND ACRES, running in abt quarter ot a nnie of aid Kail road, w,t" THliEE SAW MILLS on it; two of tbr lately erected; one oftbem about a mile1 a hall from said Road, a Circular Saw wbicb will cut trom four fcp jix thousand U ' JJ Lumber per day; ifcfeT Mill with Grist d Sash Saw, two and Half mi .et tiorn Hoad. A Iso. another, thrsW aid a h'f nily from said Road, with a twenty-five teet bat shot Water-Wheel Circular Saw, which c saw more lumber titan any Mill in tha t " Tie above Mills have a never-failing power, and any quantity of good 'f imo'" The lands will be divided off to ittfl W chasers. ALSO. , .. Will sell MULES. OXEN, ami WAO0. belonging to said mills, if purchasers wi them ' The above will be sold on accommodate terms to suit purchasers. A tmsll amoonj cash paid on sale. Anv persons wia . ml ' enga. age la the Lumber business wouiu u -cair antT examine the Mills- to seen at my residence 14 miles above toi bia, and will take great pleasure in bL the premises to any person wishing to P1 chase. ke OP-My old customers will P,e,,ef,7j notice that all account must b set" either by cash or approved bank not- 1 - .. - Kirh gbOlll" novc a gieai many ccuunii ui have been settled long apo. Ii the sbov not complied with. 1 will b compel s put them in the hands of an attorney collection. , LEVI T. SHARP October 1, 1857. 3m
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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