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fflWK mmt&mwK&r'- 1 1 in i ii i ii i iii . -? hi mum mil mil 111 1 1 "'A.T, CHAELOTTE, 1ST. C. CE ON THE WEST siDK OF TRADE STREET CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER.- 2 per annum, IN ADVANCE Editor and Proprietor. CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1858. IXTH V 0 L U M E X UMBER 305. fiJtP if Iifsf pirn "''iibitt'ifrf nt-vt ' - w vw r rr w aw w zvv .h mmw ?mm aw aw mw i v - Published ever j Tuesday ,Q) BY HTM. J YATES, Editor and Proprietor. Edwin A. Yates, Associate Editor. oi. s pus AMwywa If Iail in advance, $2 00 If paid within six months 2 50 t n.i'kI utter the exiiiration of the vcar 3 00 Ka Anv person sending us five ROW subscribers, UXOmf lmA 7 tkC advance subscription (10) will receive a sixth cojiy gratis for one year. fif Subscribers and others who may wish to send money to us. CU do so by mail, at our risk. Itntts of Ulverliing'. One square of 14 lines or less, for 3 mouths, $ 4 00 h - " M 0 " 6 00 u i! U u 12 " 10 00 One iiare. or less, first insertion. $ 1 00 Back subsequent insertion 25 Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. ; For announcing Candidates for Office, $5 in ailvance. jr" Advertisements not marked on the manuscript bra specific time, will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordingly. f(ial plotters. SAM: P. SMITH, Attorney and Counsellor at Law MAY ALWAYS RE FOUND AT THE OFFICE of Win. Johnston. Esq. t-tT Prompt attention given to Collections, writing of Deeds. Conveyances, &c. January 1858. lj W. A. OWENS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. WILL practice in the Courts ofthis and the adjoin ing Counties. OFFICE XKAHLY orrosiTK tub Post Office. January 19, 1858. WILHAM J. KERR, ATTORNEY AT LAW fc SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, Charlotte, N. C. WILL practice in the Courts of Mecklenburg and the adjoining Counties. Special attention paid ti collection of claims. frit OFFICE in the building formerly occupied by the State Hank. January 12, 1858. 3m H. La F. ALEXANDER, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, If. C. Office over China Hall. August 1 1. 1857. y Attorney at Law, Charlotte, N. C, Xo. 5, Springs' Hit t iding, Will in future devote his time exclusively to the duties of his profession. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CHARLOTTE, X. C. Jan. 1. 1858. tf. Jttrbttal llotitfs. HUBERT GIBBON, M. D. MEDECIWE A1TD Sl'RGERY, Office No. 5, Granite Row, CHARLOTTE, X C. February 10, 1858. DR. R. WlTSOJVCr, RESPECTFULLY offers his Professional Services to the citizens of the Town and vicinity. April J8. 1857. Office in Springs' Uuilding. DR. L. L. POLLOCK OFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO the citi.ens of Charlotte and vicinity, fcajr OFFICE on Trade street, two doors South of the Court House. December 2'.), 1857. ly I have this day placed in the hand? of SAM'L P. SMITH, Esq., fur collection, all the Notes and Ac counts due me at the Shoe Store. All persona in arrears are requested to call at his Office and settle im Jundiatelv ; in so doing thev will save costs. J. B. F. BOONE. February 20, 1858. 7-tf T. H. BREM & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in HARDWARE. HATS. AND SHOES, CHARLOTTE, X. C. Jan. 1, 1858. tf Sew Millinery AND MANTUA MAK I NO, ESTABLISH!! ENT. 11BRS. P. M. SMITH would inform the public that -"-.she intends carrying on the above business at hei residence, next door to the new Episcopal Church. She would also inform the ladies that she has just re vived a supply of Bonnet Trimmings, consisting of Flowers, Feathers, Broaches. &c. Oct 27, 1857. 80-tf MILLINERY AXD DRESS-MAKING. RS. W II F.ALAN respectfully informs the ladies of '--Charlotte and vicinity, that she has returned, and en her services to her old customer? aud friends. "eidenee one door above the Post Office. Juue 30. 1857. will deliver Lumber of all descriptions in Charlotte at 1 25 per hundred, board measure r $1 delivered on the cars at Fort Mills. W. LAC. L. CLAWS0N. Kbruary 2, 1858. 3m-pd SCARE & CO., vrusgist A: Chemists, No. 4, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C, INVITE the attcntionn of Physicians, Planters, Merchants, Ac, to their new and complete stock of DRUGS, CHEMI- t r . mi e. ine extensive patronage thej have received from the Phvsicians of Char lotte and its vicinity is the best guarantee of the PURITY OF THE DRUGS sold by them. March 30, 1858. GIVE THEM A TRIAL. SILVERS PLASTIC PAINTS: Cheap, Durable and Protective : Weather and Fire Proof. For sale Wholesale an Retail bv BCARR k CO., Fel- 9. Chemists & Druggists. PATENT MEDICINES just received from the Ware house: Avers' Cherry Pectoral, Rogers' Liverwort and Tar, Wistar's Balsan . (Juysott's Sarsaparilla and Yellow Dock, McLane's PillsJ Strong's Pitts, Avers' Pitts, fcc, &c, at April 1st. SCARR & CO.'S, Druggists. Wood's Blair Restorative. A fresh supply ofthis invaluable preparation for the Hair has just been received direct from New York, by March 1G. SCARR & CO. .WAGE'S URSINA, or Caxadiax Beau's Ghease. ?an elegant npplientkni. for imparting a beautiful gloss to the hair, for sale at March 16. SCARR & CO.'S Drug Store. Bouquet D'Orleans, or xx Bourbon, From groves of sweet flowers this perfume was culled, Where deep golden summers exalt the perfume, Where the breeze from the South in the deep glen is lulled, Where flowers exhale, but forever resume To impart this aroma, 'tis the sweetest, the best, It steals o'er the senses like the nectar of Jove, To the bouquet of beauty it gives a new zest, Is the pride of the toilet and the perfume of love. Distilled with great care from the choicest flowers of the South, expressly for the Boudour, Toilet and Hand kerchief. For sale in Charlotte by March 1G. F. SCARR It CO. KID GLOVES. LANCASTER'S KID GLOVE CLEANER, nn un failing preparation, easy and simple in application, removing all stains and grease from the Glove; at March lG. SCARR & CO.'S Drug Store. The U rv.it English Remedy. Silt JAMES CLARKE'S CELEBRATED FEMALE PILLS, PREPARED FROM A PRESCRIPTION OF SIR J. CLARKE, M. D., PlIVSICIAX EXTRAORDINARY TO THE QCEEX. f I 'HiS well known medicine is no imposition, but a -I- sure and safe remedy for Female Difficulties and Obstructions, from any cause whatever; and although a powerful remedy, they contain nothing hurtful to the constitution. To MARRIED LADIES it is peculiarly suited. These Pills have never been known to fail where the Directions on the 2d page of Pamphlet are well observ ed. For full particulars, get a pamphlet, gratis, of the Agent. N. B. $1 and G postage stamps enclosed to any au thorized xVgcnt, will insure a bottle, containing over 50 Pills, bv return mail. Sold in Charlotte by F. SCARR & CO., sole Agents, and by Haviland, Stevenson & Co., Charleston, Whole sale agents. March 2. 1858. y FRESH BAKER'S BREAD. CI UPERIOR Bread baked every morning for families. at J. D. PALMER'S Confectionery, one door above the Bank of Charlotte. February 2. 1858. tf NOTICE. Till' TAX LISTS for 1S5" are now in my hands ready for inspection. I request all persons to in form me of any Taxables which have been listed. Come now and pay your Taxes. X. . DeliiHpients for 1854-'55, do you ever intend to pay your Taxes? If yon do, now is a favorable time: if you do not, come, and I will take pleasure in handing over vour receipts, as thev are accumulating on my hands. E. C. GRIER, Sheriff. March ."!0. 1857. 20-tf A Keliahle IVOTICE. THE Firm of BREM & STEELE was dissolved by mutual consent on the 1st day of January. 1858. The business of the Firm is in my hands for collection and settlement; and I hereby respectfully request all persons idebted to the late firm by Book Account to come forward and settle between this date and the 1st day of July, 1858. as I do assure you that all accounts due the inn at that time will be put in suit for collec- t1011" A. C. STEELE. Charlotte, Feb. 1G, 1858. 4.m T HE subscribers inform the citizens of Charlotte and vicinity that they have established a LUMBER YARD in town, whore thev intend keeping a supply of all kinds of Lumber for building and other purposes. Mr Jonas Rndisill is their agent in town application may be made to him or to either of the undersigned. Oct G, 1857. MILLER & POUTER. NEW FIRM. THE umlersiencd having entered into Copartner ship for the purpose of carying on the CCNFECTI0xERY, BAKEKY, FRUIT AND RKTAIL Grocery Be"- leave to call the attention of the citizens of Char lotte and surrounding country to their New Stand on Trade Street, between Brem's and Frankenthall s, at Spratt & Daniel's old Stand, where they would be pleased to see all their friends and acrpmmtances MOODY & MbBLT. Januarv 25, 1858. 93"tf HOT ICE. BY VIRTUE of a DEED OF TRUST, executed to me bv Alexander Gi iham, I will sell at Public Auction, on Tuesday of April Court, several Valuable Negroes- Also, a PRIVATE RESIDENCE, Wagon and Team, and many other articles. Terms made known on iaj of sale. .i(.ii.ti ( Town Taxes. I now h.-.ve the Tax Lists for 1857 ready for settle Jut Persons liable to pay tax will please ea on the - j fcrthff th. It is hoDed that tnis , ,,,tice will be sufficient, a, the Cdiuue 10, 1857. tf ' Tax CoUector. LfL BOOTS AND SHOES. Spring StocK. BOOXE A CO. ARE now receiving and opening the CHEAPEST stock of BOOTS and SHOES they have ever had the pleasure of offering to the public, and as they wish to do an entire cash busl- nOSSi they will offer Rare Inducements to Cash buyers. In tvry UMflmee where goods have to be charged, an additional charge of 25 per cent, will be made. April 6, 1858. tf BOONE & CO. Ladies .fine black Lasting Gaiters at U ca-sli, at BOONE & CO'S. Gents' fine Calf (kid top) Gaiters, for $2 plain do. $1 75. BOONE &. UO. MILES' best Ladies' Goat BOOTS and Buskins, for SI 40, cash. BUONE & CO. MISSES, Boy's, Youths, children's and infants Boots, Shoes & Gaiters in endless variety, and at unprecedented low prices, April 6,1858. at BOONE'S. GENTS' FINE CALF pegged BROGANS, $1 25 to $1 50 Extra 2, cash, at April 6. BOONE'S. GENTS' Bay State SLIPPERS, $1 00 " Enamelled " 75 " Roan " 65 April G, 1858 BOONE & CO. "H ADIES' fine Kid Buskins and Slippers, at $1 cash, SLA for sale at BOONE'S. Ladies' fine col d silk Lasting Gaiters, $1 25 Con gress do. !pl 50, cash. BOONE & CO. ENTLEMEN who wish a fine pair o'" Boots or Gaiters, and have the CASH, can be suited at BOONE'S for let money than at any other house in the State. We mean what we say. BOONE & CO. FAIR NOTICE. ALL Notes and Accounts due us, not settled by the first of May next, will be put out for collection. April G, 1858. BOONE & CO. Men's un-bound Kip Brogans, Good article, at $1 prime do. $1 25. April 6. BOONE & CO. BOOTEE'S is the only House in town that will sell Miles' fine DEXSS JiOOTS for $7. T. H. BREM & C07 HAVE just opened a magnificent stock of New Goods suitable for the SPRING and SUMMER wear, embracing every novelty of the season. ('uautillv and Brussels Laee, Mantillas, Searfs, Talmas, &c., We have now in Store a magnificent collection of en tirelv new shapes, just received from New York. T. H. BREM & CO. March 30, 1853. 2-tf First Spring; Exposition of Paris Bonnets ard Head-Dresses, Flowers and Ribbons. Ladies arc respectfully invited to examine our stock, as unusual care has been employed to obtain the most recherche articles of the season. We confidently solicit the inspection of the Ladies, satisfied that for extent, beauty and variety, our assortment will be found supe rior to any ever exhibited in the State. T. H. BREM & CO. MOURNING GOODS. T. II. BREM &. CO. have opened a large stock of the above named QoocLt, suitable for the Spring Trade. Ouperior Family Linen Sheeting, Damasks, Napkins, kDovlies, Towellngs, Table Cloths, &c, &c, full Sorinff stock now ready. T. II. BREM & CO. PW SPRINjB SHAWJLS, At Wliolcsale ami Retail. "500 Elegant Stella Shawls just opened, and for sale at very low prices, bv. T. H. BREM & CO. ICH Flounced and Aquilla KOBES. also. Chene. plaid, and Bayadere SILKS, BROCADES, MOIRE ANTIQUES, and every variety of Spring DRESS SILKS, just received T. II. BREM & CO. T. H. BREM & CO have a large stock of Dress and Mantilla Trimmings, Buttons, Braids, &c. Berlin, Zephyr, and Wool Cheniele, Embroidering Cotton, Em broidering Silk, Canvass, &c. rpHE Skeleton Steel Spring Skirt, with 11 springs, i- made of watch spring steel; also, the skeleton Rat tan and Whalebone Skirt; the Balmoral Skirt, or Red Pktticovt, the best ever ofiered, made to order and warranted to fit. T. H. BP EM k CO. T. II. BREM fc CO are offering the most ex tensive assortment of Parasols and Um brellas ever ofiered in the State. BLEACHED and Brown Shirtings. Cotton Flannel, Tickings, Sheetings, Osnaburgs. and domestic Goods in great variety at T. II. BREM & CO. A 4 Beragc Flounced ROBES beautiful Spring eJ$pHl style; also, a full assortment of Tissue, Grenadine, and Board Cambric Robes new designs. n fmP Real Laee Setts, which we are offering very low: also, a large lot of Cambric, Jackonet, and Swiss Collars and Sleeves. Also Jackonet and Swiss Edgings and Insertings, Floun cing. Dimity bauds, &c, just received. h- T. H. BREM & CO. Shirt Bosoms and Collars assorted sizes and in all the different plain and fancy Styles, from the coars est to the finest quality, kept constantly for sale by T. H. BREM & CO. CARPET INGS, Upholdstery, Curtain Materials, Win dow Shades, Gilt Cornices, Curtain Bands, Cords , and Tassals, Lace Curtains, &e., Spring assortment, cheap. ALSO Oil Cloths, Duggets, Rugs, MaV&c, at reduced prices. T. H. BREM & CO. CSPRING Cloths, Cassimeres. Vestings, Linens, Mar settles and Tailor's Trimmings of every description, retailed at wholesale prices by & & FRENCH, English, Chintz ana American rant, Paris Brilliants, printed and in plain colors, Fig'd Marseilles, Organdies, Jackonets, Cambrics, and choice j cotton fabrics in every variety, for Spring wear, at T. 11. BREM & CO. i Western Democrat. CHARLOTTE, N. C. From the Baltimore Sun. MARYLAND CONTESTED ELECTION. We have received a public document containing the papers in the contested election case of the 3d Congressional district. Wm. P. Whyte, contest ant, against J. Morrison Harris, contestee. The matter is presented at length, occupying a volume or three hundred and twenty large octave pages. I It comprises the letter of Mr Whyte, announcing his intention to contest the election ; the reply of ! Mr Harris and other preliminary papers. Then follows the testimony, which includes the state ments and particular examination of one hundred and forty-four witnesses, conducted before Justices Hugh J. Morrison, Daniel E. Myers and John Mc Alistcr. The examination seems to have been con ducted invariably by Mr Whyte in person, and on the part of Mr Harris by Mr R. J. (iittings, his counsel. We have looked through a considerable portion of the testimony, with a view of making some se lections for publication, but we might take a page at random, anywhere, and it would afford a revolt ing exhibit of the whole. The volume is, in fact, a record of the most shameless and audacious vio lations of law, public order, the rights of suffrage and the decencies of society, that any official docu ment presents in the United States. It betrays a systematic and persistent fraud at the polls, thus laid bare to public inspection, and if we are to infer from the manner in which the system was carried out in practice in the lower wards, the same sort of thing in the upper, we must confess that the ag gregate of the sitting members from Baltimore is really the best evidence extant of the extreme moderation of the American party at the Congres sional election. For instead of 7,000 for Mr Davis and 3,000 for Mr Harris, it would only have been at the cost of a little more effort to have doubled the majority in each case. The evidence establishes beyond controversy the exclusion at will of naturalized persons from the polls; the determination to do this; the attrocious manner in which it was done; the deliberate con nivance of the regular police; the outrage and vio lence commited against individuals; the daring frauds by which the ballot boxes were crowded with illegal votes; the perversion of the ballot by striped tickets, and, in short, a history of wrongs so great as to justify the unqualified assertion, that the civil and political rights of the people were utterly subverted by organized ruffianism, through out the whole mockery of the election of the 4th of November. A considerable portion of the testimony is that of well known citizens, men of undoubted charac ter, some acting officially, and some of the most striking facts were elicited from members of the American party, also acting officially. The tone of the wole voluminous record is the same from beginning to end, and the reiterated assertions of the witnesses, together with the overwhelming testimony, is direct to the fact that it was not "possible for the people of the District, at that election, freely and fairly to express their choice for a representative to Congress." The record is a sad commentary upon our boasted civilization and political liberties, for the conclusion is irresist able, that no despotism could more effectually dis franchise a people, and in a manner more humilia ting than the democratic party of Baltimore were disfranchised by mob law at the late Congressional election. The above is in relation to the last Congressional election in Baltimore. It will be remembered that at the time the democrats charged that the know-nothings carried the election by fraud and violence, electing Henry Winter Davis (who always votes against the south) and Harris, whose seat was contested as above stated. ATTACK ON THE SECRETARY OP THE INTERIOR. The "Washington Star" gives the following fuller account of the attack on Secretary Thomp son, mentioned last week : This forenoon, at about 10 o'clock, Mr Peter Bcsancon, Jr., of Louisiana, late a clerk in the Pension office, called on the Secretary of the Inte rior in the Department, and in answer to his in quires, was informed by that functionary, as the reason why he was dropped last year, that he was not reported among the most efficient clerks, when, under the law, it became necessary to reduce the clerical force of the Pension bureau. Besancon then told the Secretary that whoever reported him to be inefficient, was a damned liar ; and the Sec retary txld him he could have no further conversa tion with him on the subject, as it was not proper that he should listen to such abuse of the officers of his Department: Turning to leave him, Besan con followed him, (the Secretary.) exclaiming "I demand to know who was your informant !" when Secretary Thompson again declined to converse with him again upon the subject. Besancon then instantly struck him a violent blow behind the ear, as he, (Secretary Thompson) was walking away. The Secretin' turning instantly, discovered Besancon in the act of drawing a revolver, and seizing him so as to pinion his arms to his side, threw him to the floor with such force as to dislo cate his (Besancon's) shoulder, and, we believe, break his arm also ; the Secretary failing heavily on him, and preventing him from cocking his re volver by seizing his hand and holding it. The bystanders had time to interfere and wrench the weapon from Besancon's hand ; whereupon Secre tary Thompson released him, and he wjus taken up and placed in an adjoining room for safe keeping, by those who had rushed to the scene of the oc currence. Secretary Thompson has made out an order for his admission to the Washington Infirmary, for surgical treatment. It seems to us that the attempt on the secretary's life must have been the result of the derangement of Besancon, whose mind has for seme time past been somewhat unsettled through his domestic dif ficulties. A witness in a Hoosier court being asked how he knew that two certain persons were man and wife, replied : "Why, dog on it, I've heard 'em scolding each other more'n fifty times." The evi dence was held as conclusive. LOTTERIES. It is a strange thing that men will buy lottery tickets. We have before us t he scheme of the celebrated Havana Lottery. There are twenty-five thousand tickets at $20 each making $500,000. Then if a man were to buy all the tickets and draw all the prizes, he would lose just $200,000 ; that is, he would pay the lottery men just thatiunch for the fun of the game, and that is the principle of the whole of them. Now, the doctrine of chances is just as certain as anything else. That is, if one man should buy tickets in that lottery until he had ipent -8500,000, he would lose just 20T),OOO. Ho might draw 100,000 the first time ; but he would in the end come out loser just two-filtlua tC all the money he put in. The misfortune is, that not having the money to keep it up, ho is liable to lose all his mo ney before he draws anything ; and perhaps a still greater misfortune is, that if in the early part of his career he draws a prize, he will come to the con clusion that he is a lucky man, and will not only spend what he has drawn, but all that he can get for the balance of his life. It is on account of the certainty of the operation of the doctrine of chances, that they are able to draw these lotteries so often. Swan or Don Rod riguez advertises a lottery to be drawn in a month. There is one prize of fifty, sixty, or a hundred thousand dollars, and others of smaller size. If you will examine the number of tickets to be sold and the amount of the prizes, you will find that if the tickets are all sold the prizes do not amount to more than about three-fifths of the money. But the tickets are never sold; yet the drawing goes on. Then how are the prizes to be paid ? Why, out of your money of course. Take the scheme which is now before us : There are twenty-five thousand tickets at $20 each; this makes $500,000; the prizes amount to $300,000. Now, suppose half the tick ets are sold that is $250,000; but the whole $300, 000 is to be drawn. Well, you have half the tick ets the lottery man has the other half. His half of the tickets will draw one-half of the prizes; yours will draw the other half. But you have put in $250,000; he has put in nothing. You draw $1 50, 000, and so does he. He pays you and has $100, 000 of your money left to pay towards the $150, 000 which he drew. Now whether he sells the whole of the tickets or a half, a fourth or a tenth of them, is a matter of very little consequence to him. He is just as cer tain of two fifths of all the money he receives as if you were just to hand him $10 and tell him to give you back $6 of it and keep the other four. It is this which makes lotteries as at present conducted so fatal. If they could not drawr until all the tickets were sold, it would be a long time between them; but they can draw every month, and they can make big prizes as well as little ones.. There is only one thing to be guarded against. We have said that his half of the tickets will draw half the prizes. If you could have access to the books of these lottery men, you will find that in a series of drawings he has drawn prizes, both in number and amount, precisely in proportion to his unsold tickets ; but just for one lottery it may happen that the large prize may fall on your side. Then if he has no funds on hand he must be care ful not to draw until he has sold tickets enough to pay the large prize. Now what is the remedy for the evil of lotteries? The evil is this : A man advertises a lottery to be drawn in a month, with a prize of $50,000; tickets $10 each; 30,000 tickets at $10 each make $300, 000 ; the prizes all amount to $200,000. Men who want to get rich, or who arc hard pressed for money think there is a chance, and they spend ten dollars or fifty or a hundred; it is the $50,000 prize that seduces them. If out of the 30,000 tickets the lottery man can sell 10,000, he is safe, and he will clear $40,000 by the operation. Now, what is the remedy ? Why, to repeal the laws against lotte ries. Men will gamble, until they get better than they are now. But how is the repeal of the laws to remedy the evil. By removing the temptation, at least by diminishing it. A hundred men will buy a ticket in a lottery where there is a $50, 000 prize, to one who will buy a lottery with a $10,000 prize. Now, men make lotteries, and they retain two-fifths of all the money. Repeal the laws and others will engage in it, and competition will reduce the profits. They cannot make the prizes so large or draw so ofton. The profits will be so reduced that they cannot afford to advertise and the thing will die out. Columbus Corner Stone. Tiie Righteous Rkvered. The Lutheran Missionary Schwartz had acquired such a character among the heathen that when among a barbarous and lawless banditti, he was suffered to pass witli his catechumens through contending parties, un suspected and unmolested. They said, ''Let him alone let him pass he is a man of Cod." Thus modern apo.stle preserved the inhabitants of a fort from perishing by famine, when the neighboring heathen rafused to supply it with provisions on any other assurance than that of his word. Even the tyrant Hyder Ally, while he refused to negoti ate in a certain treaty with others, said : 'Send me Schwartz; send me the Christian missionary ; I will treat with him for him only can I trust !' What a tribute is this to the influence of the Christian religion. A Situation. Two young officers were trav eling the Far West, when they stopped to take supper at a small road-side tavern, kept by a very rough Yankee woman. The landlady, in a calico sun-bonnet and bare feet stood at the head of the table to pour out. She inquired of her guests "if they chose long-sweetening or short sweetening in their coffee." The first officer, supposing that "long sweetening meant a large portion of the arti cle, chose it accordingly. What was his dismay when he saw their hostess dip her finger deep down into an earthern jar of honey that stood near her, j and then stir it (the finger) round in the toffee, j His companion, seeing this, preferred "shortsweet ening;" upon which the woman picked up a large j lump of maple sugar that lay in a brown paper on ' the floor beside her, and biting off a piece, put it . into the cup. Both gentlemen dispensed with ! coffee that evening. Hook was walking with a friend, when they came to a toll-bridge. The friend asked if Hook knew who built the bridge. "No," replied Hook, j "but if you go over, you will be tolled." i . IN IRE- FRIGHTFUL DESTITUTION LAND. The Catholic clergy of Donegal, some time gv, issued an appeal on behalf of the peasantry of cer- i tain parts of that country, amongst whom, they alleged great destitution and distress existed. In j consequence of the truth of their statements hav- ing been questioned, a special reporter, at the request of the relief committee, has been sent down by the proprietors of the Dublin Evening Poet to make investigation on the spot, and in a communi cation to that paper of Tuesday, the 16th, we find the result of his visit and inquiries. ( I weed ore and Cloughaniely, the districts in ques tion, embracing a territory of mountain and bog, with an occasional strip of land, lying on the north west of Donegal. The weather at the time of the visit was very severe, and the ground covered with snow. On reaching the scene of destitution, says the reporter, "I perceived perhaps one hundred or one hundred and fifty persons, male and female, waiting with petitions and memorials in hand, to be jireseuted lor relief. Of these tho majority were matrons, barefooted and without stockings, and sonic of those who possessed the luxury of stockings had not shoes or brogans. Tho bare limbs of these women appeared to bo swollen and covered with chilblains." He visited some of their houses if houses they can be called. Here is a description : "I entered one on all fours through a hole in the wall, and I there found an aged matron. Father Doherty preceded and led the way, or I dare say I should have been denied udmittance to that abode of mise ry and destitution. She was seated before a fire on the hearth, the turf of which had been dug by the male members of the family. There was no window or aperture to admit the light of day, save the hole by which I enterred. There, and else where, there was no time to be lost. The inquiry was proceeded with by Father Doherty, who snow ed me the bed on which some of tho family lay, and here is a true description : "The head of the bed was in the corner, a few sods of earth at the head and foot to support it ; a board for the side, with a few sticks thrown across, one end inserted in the wall, and the other end supported by stones and turf. There was no bed tick, no clothing, with the exception of a woolen rag, which could not bear the name of blanket, nor was it sufficient in size for a single grown adult, certainly not fit to cover a person of full growth. Here in this hovel, unfit for the habitation of a single human creature, there were seven persons. Of their food he says "In another house we asked what th-jir food was, and they exhibited a metal pot which contained the meal for tho family. This was chopped or pounded potatoes in a pulp, and with this pulp re-heated, and with some sea weed which they exhibited in a wooden vessel, called a noggin, they made their dinner and supper in one meal." The two following pictures of distress, he says, apply to hundreds of cases : "The day was awful ly severe, and all who could remain inside doors without the pressing necessity of going abroad were huddled about the fire. In one of these domieils there was a female, and she was one of many in the fifteen or twenty houses I explored in this part of the Cwccdorc. She was about sixteen, and when called upon by Father Dougherty to como forward, she advanced with an air of confidence, perfectly unconscious of her gracefulness and beauty of her form. This poor helpless child was not clad, unless you could call a shapeless garment, thrown over without inner covering, clothing. "But in this house there was another female, older than the one whom I have just now intro duced. The girl was about twenty, or thereabouts. This poor creature had neither shoe nor stocking, and avoiding the presence of strangers, she shrunk away back into the obscure corner in the dark, from which she had been reluctantly drawn by tho priest she revered. In conclusion, the report states "Whst I have now said of a few cases might apply to all I have seen of deplorable distress in this district of the (Jweedore. But I was informed by many that there are more miserable and desolate in the more remote and isolated parts of (Jweedore." An Official Joker. It is said that Gov. Weller, of California, has perpetrated two jokes since he went into office. One was to recommend the appointment of a night-watch to guard the State Treasury while the Legislature in in teuton; the other was the expression of a hope, in a mes sage announcing to the Assembly the approval of a bill for the change of a woman's name, that as there arc a great many more men than women in the State, hereafter the women will be able to have their names changed without assistance. Lord Te.vdkbden had contracted so inveterate a habit of keeping himself and everybody else to the precise matter in hand, that once, during a circuit dinner, having asked a country magistrate if he would take venison, and receiving what he deemed an evasive reply "Thank you, my lord, I am going to take boiled chicken" his lordship sharply replied "That, sir, is no answer to my question; I ask you again if you will take venison, and I will trouble you to say yes or no without further prevaracation. There is a town out in Texas, in which it is said there is but one grave, upon the slab of which is written this epitaph: Underneath this turf doth lie, Back to back, my wife and I, Generous stranger, spare the tear For the two who slumber here; Happier far than when in life Free from noise and free from strife; When the last trump the air shall fill, If she gets up, 1'Ujustt lie tiU. The ladies say they are opposed to stopping the males on the Sabbath, especially in the evening, unless tbey stop at their houses. People of mean capacities always despise and ridicule more what is above the reach of their own intellect, than that below its standard. One of the most beautiful expressions of Long fellow, is this: "Sunday is the golden clasp, that binds together the volume of the week." Poem. The wind it blew, the snow it flew, and raised particular thunder with skirts and hoops, and chicken coops and all such kind of plunder.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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April 20, 1858, edition 1
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