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si lis XXXNNNNN XXX XNNXXW XXX office UP stairs opposite scaph s drug store A Family Paper, devoted to Stale Intelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. BY WILLIAM J. YATES, EDITOR AND 1-ROPRIF.TOR. CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. &E. A. TATES5 ASSOCIATE EDITOR. VOLTJME 6. Number 290. TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1858. nm urn m "SSS K: vBTv HiHxvSSS K3 i II IW - x m xx eib xxx am . bbb x v x x annas, W H BM MSSB Hi V' VOnn - X mi - X M XX XX K X ev xv. NxVv XXX THE AztArii axiom ocr At Published every Tuesday Containing the latest New, a full and accu rate Report of the Market! &c. 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THE nndenigoed Ins been appointed Agent f..r the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company tor Charlotte and vicinity. persons wishing to insure their own lives or lives of their slaves will ph ase call on THOS. W. DEWEY, Agent. Jan. 13, K7. y Oxford Female College. The Fourteenth Session will eonunence on the FIRST MONDAY in January, W&l. The Teachers employed are of the first order of abil ity. The coins- of instruction is unusually thorough ami extensive. EXPENSES: Tuition in Elementary Branches . ' " College Classes 14 " V.usie " " Drawing " Painting " " Embnaderv $!." (Ml 2i 00 ! JO 00 1 Kl 00 20 no r oo 10 oo Board and Washing, per month, 13 No extra ebanres will b madi For particulars, address J. H. MILES. Oxford, N.C Nov. :, 1837. 81-121 The Charlotte llttttsal Fire Insurance Contra say, 1 ONTINUE8 to take risks against loss by Pice on Houses, Goods, Produce, &e., at usual rates. MBce nearly opposite Kerr's Hotel. President M. B. TAYLOR. Vice President C. OVEFM N. Sec y A Treas'r E. NYE 1! UTCHISON. M. P. TAYLOR, C. OVERMAN, J. A. YOUNG. WM. JOHNSTON, J. II. CAR N, S. T. WRISTON, F. SCAUR. April 28, 1H."7. tf NOTICE. Having obtained an order of Court for the purpose,! will sell at the late residence of Robe. Hunter, dee'd. K miles North-east ol Charlotte, on TUESDAY the 29th of DECEMBER, leioT, ia i:tsiea:s, ronsisting of Men, Women ami Children, Boys ami (Jirls, mostly young ami likely. Also, at the same lime and place, I will sell a Scholarship in Erskine College, Abbeville Dist., S. C. IjfT' Terms made known on day of Sale. li. U. GARRISON, Adnvr. D c. 1, 1837. -'-",t DISSOLUTION. THE firm of WILLIAMS, GILLESPIE A CO., was dissolved by mutual consent on tin first day of July, lo?. The Notes ami Ac roiints for 1856 mast be paid forthwith. The Accounts for I."i7 can run as usual and will be settled at the end of the year by L. S. Williams who will continue to carry on the business th old stand. The late firm return their thanks to the public for the liberal patronage heretofore received, and their successor hopes, b- 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, ltr7 .100 Head of Beef faille Wanted. Also, 500 HEAD OF A l oo SaHead of HOGS, And 12 or 15 No. 1 Milch lows. I DESIRE to purchase the above amount of Stock. Those having any for sale will do well to five me a all, as I am willing to pay the highest market price. Farmers will find it to their advan tage to sell their Beeves, She, p or Hogs to me instead of butrhering themselves, as I think I can remunerate them as well if not better than it they butchered themselves. W. A. COOK. Charlotte, July 1 4, 1 -v7. Town Butcher. New Millinery and Mantua Making ESTABLISHMENT. MRS. P. ML SMITH would inform the pub lie that she intends carrying on the above busi ness at hiT residence, next to the new Episcopal Church. She would also inform the ladies that she has just receivt-d a supply of Itonnet Trim mings, consisting of Flower-., Feathers, Rouch es, JtC, &c Oct. 27,1857. Su-tf Ufeyroes for Sale. The subscribers, as Administrators of Silas Todd. dee"d, will sell on Friday the 15th of JAN GARY, at the late residence of the deceased, Eight Likely Negroes, One man aud the balance women and children. Terms, 6 mouths credit with note and ap proved security. J NO. L. TODD, ADAM H. TODD, Nov. 17th. 83-9t Administrators- SCAJIR & CO, DRUGGISTS & CHEMISTS, IYo. 4, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C, Invite the attention of Physi cians, Planters, Merchants, &c, to their new and complete stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS, Ac. The extensive patronage they have received from the Physicians of Charlotte and its vicinity is the best guar antee of the purity of the Drugs sold by them. Sept. 1st. Pure White Lead. A superior article, warranted pure, at 10 cents, cash. For sale by SCAUR 6c CO. September 8, 1857. MEDICINES. Just received, from the Warehouse, Ayers' Cherry Pectoral. Rogers' Liverwort and Tar, Guy soft's Sarsaparilla and Yellow Dock, W is tar's Balsam, McLane'a Pills, Strong's Pills, Ayers' Pills, &e. 6cc. SCARR & CO, September 8. DRUGGISTS. Quinine, Quinine. A full supply of Powers & Weightmau's Quinine, low for cash. SCARR & CO., Sept. 1st. Charlotte Drug Store. For the Toiiet. Just received a choice lot of Perfumery and Articles essential to the Toilet. Ivory, buffalo horn, shell and fancy Hair Brushes; tooth, nail and shaving Brushes; buffalo horn, india rubber and lorn Combs; French. English and American Pomades, for the hair; odor boxes, toilet bottles, Lubin's extracts in great variety ; Glenn's toilet waters : German. French and Ameri can Colognes ; toilet soaps in great variety; hair dyes, rice powder, meen fun, tooth pastes, Arc, at Sept. 1st. Scarr & Co.'s Drue Store. For the Iialh. SPONGE of various qualities, Turkish Bathing Towels, Flesh Brushes, Hair Gloves and Belts, at SCARR A; GO'S, Wholesale and Retail Drug Store. Sept. 8, lesf7. Potash ! Potash ! ! For making Soap, a fresh barrel opened at Sept. 8. Scarr y Co.'s, Druggists. EXTRACTS FOR FLAVORING- Creams, Puddings, &c, of the following Varieties: Lemon, Vanilla, Pine Apple, Almond, Rose, range, Nutmeg, Celery, Banana, drc at Sept. 8. Scarr y Co.'s Drug Store. MACCAR NL Tapioca, Sago, Are. for sale at Sept. 8. Scarr y Co.'s, Druggists. Oswego Corn Slnrvli. A superior article of diet for Invalids, at Scarr cV Co.'s Drug Store. Sept. 1st. CHOCOLATE. Schmitz's Sweet Chocolate, for sale at Sept. I. Scarr .y Co 's Drug Store. Robinson's Patent Barley. Strongly recommended by the Faculty as a nutritious aud cooling food for Infants, and is excellent for thickening soup, sold at 2o cents per paeket, at Sept 15. Scarr Co's Drug Store. Varnishes, Varnishes, To be sold low for cash: Damar crystal white, Coach body No. 1. do. do No. 2. Furniture No. 1. do No. 2. Wack leather varnish. Drying Japan. by Sept. 1. Scarr A Co., Druggists. Prime White Vinegar, White and black Mustard Seed, Mace, cloves, Nutmegs, allspice, Ginger, fcc.; yx, Sept. 1. At Scarr & Co.'s, Charlotte. Jg Cox's refined sparkling Oeletine, A very superior and e;jsv mode of making Jellies. Sept. 1. Scarr & Co., Druggists. Segars ! Sejrars ! ! A large lot of Havana Began, various brands, for sale at Scarr Co.'s Drug Store. Sep. 29, 1857. CONGRESS WATER, CONGRESS WATLR, A fresh case just opened at Scarr Co't Drug Store. BLUE STOJi'E, BLV'E STOJTE. Just received, a large supply at SCAKK & CO'S Sept. 8. Drug Store. JiT Effervescing Citrate of Magnesia, an agreeable and refreshing aperient, for sale at Scarr d- Co's Drug Store. German Sand Crucibles, In sets of eight each, for sale at Sept. 8. Scarr Co.'s Drug Store. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., PRACTITIONER OF Office No. 5, Granite Row, CHARLOTTE, It. C IMPORTANT RUMORS!!! M EC K LEX BURG COUNTY AGAINST THE STATE. BLUE STONE. It is stated, and from the authority of Dr. II. M. Pritehard, who has just received from the manufactory, for which he is agent, several hundred pounds of the finest arti cle ever offered in the town of CLarlotte, to be enabled in a short time to supercede in quality and sale any imported article, aud at a less price. Call and see it. Nov. 17, 1857. Irwin's Corner. Tanners, OR TRAIN OIL. For Tanners and Planters use in dressing and preserving Leather and Harness. For sale by H. M. PR ITCH A RD, iov. 21. Irwin's Cornsr. Physicians, Take Notice! Having taken advantage of the pressure of the times, I am receiving, by cash purchases, an immense and selected stock of Medicines, Chem icals, Instruments, Chests, &e.,to which I most respectfully invite your attention. All orders by mail or otherwise, put up with neatness aud dispatch. H. M. PRITCHARD, Nov. 17. 1857. Irwin's Corner. COO Gallons CAMPHENE AND BURNING FLUID, just received from the manufacturers. Also, Lamps and Wieks for binning them, 100 per cent, cheap er and more brilliant than any other light. H. M. PRITCHARD, Nov. 17, 1857. Irwin's Corner. 30,000 SEOARS Just received and for bale at $1.25 per hundred, by II. M. PRITCHARD, Nov. 17. Irwin's Corner. Pure French Brandy, Holland Gin, Whiskey, Sherry and Port Wines, London Ale and Porter, for medi cal use. Sold by Nov. 17. H. M. PRITCHARD. Starch, Black Pepper, Ginger, Baking and Washing Soda, Cream Tartar, Nutmegs, Mace. Cinnamon, Cloves and Flavouring Extracts of every kind. For sale at whole sale and retail, by H. M. PRITCHARD, Nov. 17. Irwin's Corner. Saponifier, OR CONCENTRATED LEY. War ranted to make soap without lime, and with little trouble. The best and cheapest ar ticle in use. Price 25 and 50 cents a can. Sold by PRITCHARD, Nov. 17. Irwin's Corner. Citrate iTaaj?nesia. Ati agreeable refrigerant and laxative, as pleasant to the taste as soda-ater. Sold by II. M. PRITCHARD, Nov. 17. 1857. Irwin's Corner. Aver's Cherry Pectoral, Wistar's Balsam and Lozenges, Royer's Syrup Tar, Hive Syrup, Syrup Squills, Syrup Ipecac and all kinds of Pectoral and Cough medicines. For sale by H. M. PRITCHARD, Nov. 24. Irwin's Corner. SiMJFF. Scotch, Maekaboy and English, Gentle men's SNUFFS, just received, GOO lbs. in bladders and jars. Sold low for cash by II. M. PRITCHARD Nov. 24, 1857 Irwin's corner. Fresh Congress Water, In pint bottles just received from Sara toga Springs, by II. M. PRITCHARD, Nov. 24. Irwin's Corner. 300 gallons of pure liinseed Oil, Just received and will be sold low for Cash by II. M. PRITCHARD, Nov. 17. Irwin's Corner HENDERSON & AUREUS Are daily receiving, aud have now on hand, an excellent assortment of Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS. The cheapest stock of BOOTS, SHOES and CLOTHING in this section of country. HARDWARE, GROCERIES, HATS, CAPS, AND Bonnets. A large and very cheap stock of LA.DIFS' CLOAKS, &c. We offer the following goods at the annexed low prices : Men's stout Shoes, whole leather, $1 3? " Boots, Kip and Heavy, $2 75 to $:i Ladies' calfskin Boots, $1 00 ' Morocco and goatskin Boots, $1 to $1 25 Men's Coats from $-i to $15. Raglans and Overcoats at all prices. . A large lot of Tants, Vests, Shirts, Ties. Cravats, Drawers, Undershirts, Hats and Caps ; a large variety of Blankets, Linseys, Brogaus, pant Stuffs, &c, a large assortment. Famines and others in need of any Goods this fall would do well to give us a call before mak ing their pa rebates, as we are offeritg unusual inducements, particularly to Cash buyers. E3T Store at Springs' Comer. HENDERSON & AH REN S. Oct. 12, 1857. tf- JWc have also a good assortment of Goods at our Store at Morrow's Turnout, where we offer Goodj at Charlotte Prices. HENDERSON & AIIRENS. WANTED, AN OVERSEER to manage 30 or 35 Hands on my Plantation on Rocky River. Good wages will be paid to a man of first rate qualifi cations. ApplJ to W. F. PHIFER. 85-tf Dec. 1, 157. miLLiirVERY AND DRESS-MAKING. M. WMlAKtAM Respectfully informs the Ladies of Charlotte and viciuity,that she has returned, and offers her services to her old customers and friends. RESIDENCE OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE- Charlotte, June 30, 1857. WESTERN DEMOCRAT. Charlotte, N C. BRIGHAM YOUNG ON UNCLE SAM Brigham Yonng has been mtking some speeches, of which the followiig are ex tracts: Brigham on the Utah expedition resistance to the troops. This people are free ; they are not in bondage to any government onGod'stfbot- stool. We have transgressed 10 and we have no occasion to do so, neither do we intend to; but as for any nuticr's com ing to desti y this people, God Almighty being my helper, they cannot come here. The congregation responded by a loud Amen. That is my feeliug upon that point. I do not often get angry, but when I do I am righteously angry, and the bosom of the Almighty burns with auger towards those scoundrels, and they shall be consumed, in the name of Israel's God. We have borne enough of their oppression and hellish abuse and we will not bear any more of it, for there is no just law requiring forbearance ob our part. And I am not going to have troops here to protect the priests and hel lish rabble in efforts to drive us from the land we possess for the Lord does not want us to be driven, and has said, "if you will assert your rights and keep my command ments, you shall never again be brought into bondage by your enemies." Faith recortimendcd to the saints. If there was a perfect union of our faith, our enemies never could cross the Rocky Mountains, or if they undertake to come some other way they never could cross the Sierra Nevada Mountain, nor the Basin Rim on our North, nor the desert on the South. But says one, "I want to fight," Do all such persons know that they are right ? The sending of the troops declared unconsti tutional. If you do your duty in this respect, you need not be afraid of mobs, nor of forces sent out in violation of the very genius of free institutions, holding you till mobs kill you. Mobs ? Yes, for where is there the least particle of authority either in our con stitution or laws, for sending troops here, or even for appointing civil officers con trary to the voluntary consent of the gov ernment. We came here without any help from our enemies, aud we intend to stay as long as we please. Brigham defies thtm. They say that their army is legal, and I say that such a statement is as false as hell and that they are as rotton as an old pump kin that has been frozen seven times and then melted in a harvest sun. Come on with your thousand illegally ordered troops, and I will promise you, in the name of Isra el's God, that you shall melt away as the snow before a July sun. Permission to return to the lTniled Sfatcs If it were any use I would ask whether there is one person in the congregation who wants to go to the United States, but I know I should not find any. But I will pledge myself, that if there is a man. woman, or child that wauts to go back to the United States, if the)' will pay their debts and not steal any thing, they can go ; and if they are poor and honest we will help them to go- The Mormons refuse to leave Utah. When I was writt?n to in Nauvoo by the President of the United States, through an other person, inquiring, "where are you going Mr. Young ?" I replied that I did net know whero we should land. We l ad men in England trying to negotiate for Vancouver's Island, and we sent a ship load of saints round Cape Horn to California. Men in authority asked 'where are you going to?' 'We may go to California or to Vancouv er's Island-" WThen the Pioneer company reached Green river, we met Samuel Bran nan and a few others from California, and they wanted us to go there. I remarked let us go to California, and we cannot stay there over five years ; but let us stay in the Mountains and we can raise our own pota toes and eat them; and I calculate to stay here. We are still on the back bone of the animal, where the bone and sinew are, aud we intend to stay here, and all hell cannot help themselves. We are not to be persecuted as we have been. We can say, "Come as a mob, and we can sweeten you up right suddenly." They never did any thing against Joseph till they had ostensibly legalized a mob, and I shall treai every army and every armed company that attempts to come here as a mob. The congregation responded Amen.' Wrongs upon the Mormons. There cannot be a more damnable, das tardly order issued than was issued by the administration to this people, while they were in an Indian country in 1846. Before we left Nauvoo, not less than two United States Senators came to receive a pledge from us that we should leave the United States, and then while we were doing our best to leave their borders, the poor, low, degraded curses, sent a requisition for five hundred (of our men to go and fight their battles ! That was President Polk, and he is now weltering in hell with old Zachary Taylor, where the present administration will sooa be, if they do not repent. The faint hearted wanted to leave. I have told you that if this people will live with their religion, all will be well; and I have told you that if there is any than or woman that is not willing to destroy any thing and everything of their property that would be of use to an enemy if left, I want ed them to go out of the Territory, and I again say so to-day, forwhen the time comes to burn and laywaste our improve ments, if any man, undertakes to shield, he will be sheared down, for "judgment will be laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet' Now the faint hearted can go iuJWwe", 3&ut should that time come, then "ffrey must pot interfere. Before I will suf fer what I have in times gone by, there shall not be one building nor one foot of lumber, nor a stick, nor a tree, nor a parti cle of grass or hay, that will burn, left in reach of our enemies. I am sworn, if driven to extremity, to utterly lay waste in the name of Israel's God. Preparation to oppose the troops. Suppose that our enemies send 50,000 troops here, they will have to transport all that will be required for them before they come, for here there shall not be one parti cle of forage nor one mouthful of food for them should they come. They will have to bring ill their provisions and forage, and though they start their teams with as heavy loads as they can draw, there is no team that can bring enough to sustaiu itself, to say nothing of the men. If there were no more men here than are in the Seminole nation, our enemies could never use us up, but they could use themselves up, which they will do. The Seminole, a little tribe of a few hundred in Florida, have cost our Government, I suppose in the neighbor hood of $100,000, and they are now no nearer, being conquered than when the war commenced. The cost of conquering Utah It has been asked, "Have you counted the cost." Yes, for ourselves, but cannot begin to count for our enemies. It will cost them all they have in this world, and will land them in Hell in the world to come, whilcj the only trouble with us is that we have two or three times more men than wo need for using up all who come here to de prive us of our right. Gives the President a piece of his mind. It is my faith and feelings that if wo live as we should live they cannot come here, but I am decided in my own opinion that if worse comes to worse; and the Lord permits them to come upon us, I will desolate this whole Territory before I will again submit to the hellish corruption and bondage the wicked are striving to thrust upon us, sole ly for our exercising our right of freedom of conscience. I will say in reference to President Buch anan, that for his outrageous wickedness in this movement, he shall wear the yoke as long as he lives; he shall be led about by his party with the yoke on his neck, until they have accomplished their ends, aud he can do no more for them, and his name shall be forgotten ; and "Old Brigl.t," as Mr. Kimball calls him, shall be free. After doing what they have already done to this people, after sending among us the filth and scum of all creation (as some of the officers were) as officers of the govern ment, contrary to the genius of our institu tions, I want to tell them that though they continue to send poor, pusillanimous curses here to be government officers, we will not submit to it, troops or no troops. I shall tell them this in plainness and simplicity, and they will find that in my simplicity I will try to sustain so righteous a position. Extracts from an address of President Heber. C. Kimball. Heber's opinion on Senator Douglas. Many of you have sustained J udge Doug las as being a true friend to this people, and ho is just as big a damned rascal as ever walked, and always has been ; he has taken a course to get into the chair of state, and that is what he is after ; he will try to acaomplish that if he goes to hell the pext day; but he will not go into the chair of state, he will go to hell. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer tells of a stalwart 3"oung Irishman, who had a friend in a distinguished Virginia member, through whose influence he obtained an appointment under the new Door Keeper of the House: The new comer looked at the man he was about to displace, and discovered that he was a cnppie. asung mm nu n nau become thus mutilated, he was told that he ! 1 . yw 1 i; I I. I 1 I had been shot and cut to pieces in the battle of Buena Vista, left for dead on the field, and only recovered to find himself hopelessly maimed for life. The srenerous hearted fellow looked first at one and then the other, and finally blurted out, as he turned on his heel, "If this man's place is the only place you have for me, rU not have it at all. Such an incident as this is refreshing amid the wild hunt for office. Tobacco. The Methodists as a denom ination, appear to be making open war up on the habit of using tobacco. It is stated that one of the conferences has determined to license no candidate for the ministry who will not forego its use in even form of per sonal indulgence. It is provided iu the by laws of the new Methodist University in Kansas that no professor shall be employed who uses tobacco. REV. DR. TYNG ON OLD WOMEN Rev. Dr. Tyng delivered an eulogy on "Old Women," at the anniversary of the Association for the releif of Aecd Indigent Females at New York. The Tribune's re port has the following : There is a great difference between old women and old men. The Bible speaks of "mothers in Isreal." Does it anywhere speak of ' fathers iu Isreal ?" A man, wheu he gets old and gives up business, or "retires," becomes imperious, uneasy and unpleasant. He withdraws himself into habits of introversion. If he is a cigar-smoker, he smokes all the day long. If he is a newspaper reader, he reads it through every day, advertisements and all Laughter. Or else you will often catch him down town in his own or somebody else's counting bouse. He is uneasy if he is not there, and you will generally find it most comfortable to let him be there. Laughter. The only way to get work out of an old horse is to keep hint at work; and the only way to make an old man worth anything is to keep him busy. An old soapboiler in this city retired from business to a country resideuce on Staten Island to "take it easy ;" but he goon got sick and sent to town for Dr. Hosack. Tho doctor went to see him, and wrote out a prescrip tion, "Go back to New York and take a turn again at boiling soap." Old men get gouty ; they are continually getting cold. The draught somehow always will be blow ing on their necks. This is the reason why we don't hear of "fathers of I sreal ;" but dear me ! I can take you round St. George's Church and show you wholo scores of "mothers in Isreal." True benev olence is kindness towards those who can never pay back. I take up an orphan boy and bring him up I can get my pay out of his hide. But to take an old woman as far as this is concerned, there is nothing to be made out of her. 4,,, SLAVERY IN BRAZIL The New Orleans Delta adduces Brazil as presenting a strong argument in favor of the institution of slavery us 'an element of prosperity and a means of rapid national development. It says that empire, during an independent existence of but little more than thirty years, has been making giant strides towards wealth and prosperity, audit is no exaggeration to say thot in the race of improvement Brazil has almost kept pace with the United States. 'Cut off from the commerce of the word by tho selfish Japa nese policy of the mother country, she was. at the beginning of the present century, a feeble, colonial possession, and a desert waste on the face of the globe. She final ly severed in 1825 the bonds which con nected her with Portugal, and assumed the rank of an independent nation. Orderly, constitutional government was established under a wise and liberal prince, and this now empire b.-gan to flourish aud blossom as the rose. The importation of blacks from tho coast of Africa, commenced un der the Portuguese rule, was continued on the most extensive scale. The coffee plant, introduced early in kthe century, soon be came, thanks to its successful cultivation by the African, the staple of the empire and the basis of its wealth. Coffee and slavery are just as indissoiubly connected in Brazil as cotton and slavery in the South. In order to prove that our picture of the prosperity of Brazil is not overdrawn, we will state that she exported in 1855 more than two millions of bags of coffee, and the total value of her exports and imports in that year was $100,000,000. Such are the results of the successful establishment of this much-reviled institution in a region which, but for it would have remained a howling wilderness to the end of time. "The slavery population in Brazil can not bo very correctly estimated, as no cen sus has ever been taken of that empire. We will not be far from the mark, however in calculating the number of slaves at 500,000. They exhibit there and here the same happy traits of character, basking in the glorious sunshine of that tropical region which may, with truth, be called the Paradise of the negro. Though not so well cured for materially, as in our South ern States, their condition on the whole, as a laboring elass, is an enviable one. Hu mane enactments have been passed for their protection by the Imperial Govern ment, and instances of cruelty toward them pxi.t chi,.fl iot.j travelers." in the writings of preju The Morxox Capital. Great Salt Lake City is laid out on a magnificent scale. It is four miles in length, by three in breadth, the streets running at right angles, and 132 feet wide, with sidewalks 20 feet in width. E.ich building lot contains an acre and a quarter of land ; and a stream of pure water running through the city is made by an ingenious plan, to flow on each side of every street, and to irrigate every lot. Poisoned by Coi ored Candies. At Catkill, New York, on Mon 'ay lat, Mary Lynes, a young lady residing in that village, was taken suddenly sick while at school in the afternoon, and died at 9 o'clock in the evening. She had all the symptoms of poison, and it is supposed that she was poi soned by eating colored candies. FIGHT BETWEEN THE FREE STATE AND PRO-SLAVERY MEN. St. LOOM, Dec. 24 The St Louis Democrat publishes a Kansas letter this evening, showing an increase in tho excite ment, with fighting and bloodshed. On the evening of the 16th I tMfcfj bat tle was fought at Fort Scott betyen, tbo free State and pro-slavery men, in which five of tho latter were killed, incMkng Blake Little, a member of the LeoomRn Constitutional Convention. Many wounded on both sides, including 23 free State men. The origin of the difficulty was the ap pearance of Clnrke, the notorious murderer of Barber, two yean since, in company with the sheriff's officer, attempting to col lect taxes of free State men, and seizing property in default of payment, making the prosecution under the rebellion law. Great excitement existed among the Mis- sourians on the border, who had assembled in strong numbers, aud more fighting was anticipated. The Mania for Office. The Wash ington correspondent of the "South" says : The insatiate office begging lias got to be one of the most immense public nui sances of the day. The extent to which it is carried on in its precincts of the Capitol by whining old men, clamtnorous middle aged men, flippant young men, and jaunty little boys, whom their anxious mamma have scrubbed up and sent to beg for page ships, is absolutely di-gttstiug. The per sons applying for these places about the Capitol are nearly all from the District of Columbia, and there is scarcely a man or boy in this pensionary District who is not an office beggar at every session of Con gress. Every woman who keeps a board ing house in Washington, make it a prac tice of beseiging honorable members with all sorts of attention to secure their influ ence for Tommy, and to pension their lary whelps on the Government. The Siamese and British. Our smok ers cannot fail to be amused at the aston ishment of Victoria's courtiers in taking out their pipes and smoking in her august presence. We admire her Majesty's pru dence in not ordciiug them to tho Tower to be cured for hams. The Court newsman does not tell us all that he might about the presentation to the Queen of the Siamese Embassadors, whose physical quality and political unity are calculated to prolong our associations of the celebrated twins from the same land. The Queen and her Court were assembled in state, and as soon as the door of tho audience-chamber opened, the Embassa dors and their suite, eight persons alto gether, appeared. Having made profound salaams, they threw themselves on their hands and knees, and in a compact body went up the room on all fours to the throne. The royal gravity (her Majesty is known to have as keen a sense of the ludicrous as most people,) was sorely tried by this pro ceeding; but when the principal Embassa dor increasing his prostrations, laid his chin on the step of the throne, and in that atti tude commenced to reud his address, the trial became painful. The exit from the Queen's presence was accomplished by a rotrograde movement on all-fours likewise, the Embassadors keeping their faces al ways to her Majesty. There was a lunch eon served in one of the state apartments, in the course of which their Siamese excel lencies, to the intense horror of the assem bled Court, lit their pipes and began to blow a comfortable cloud. The Queen herself, however, very sensibly and good naturedly laughed, and said nothing about it, notwithstanding her aversion to the fragrance of the tobacco plant. Varieties of the Slave Tkade. We see by the papers that news received in Eng land about the middle of last month, from the Cape of Good Hope and the west coast of Africa confirms the previous advices from the latter touching the briskness of the slave trade. This was, of came, in consequence of the demand for the French Government. Her Britannic Majesty's cruisers, it ap pears, were on the alert lately capturing some slavers, ai.d affording illustrations of the ill-usage to which the poor African i subjected by U-ing taken care of by the af fectionate English. The English sloop Sap pho had driven a slaver on shore, and " res etted 350 slaves, 150 others being drowned or missing." Thus nearly on -third of the cargo were actually drowned by English benevolence, to offer the remaining two thirds the delights of apprentice system in the English collonies. To prevent the barbarities of the African slave trade, and uphold her character as s Christian, she keeps up the light of civiliza tion by burning the slaver, at the same time that she patronizes the Chinese slave trade in the Coolie system, agitates the shipment of the Sepoys as slaves to the West Indies, and occupies her vessels in the transporta tion of Circassian boys and girls for the Turkish market "Nonchalant" means that peculiarly indifferent look which is put on by men, "who never pay" when dunned for raooey. It should be written, none $hell out.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Jan. 5, 1858, edition 1
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