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CHARLOTTE, .N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1859.
SEVENTH VOLUMENUMBER 354.
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ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.,
PRACTITIONER OF ?li;i)ICIC
ANI
Office A. 2 Iririn's corner, CHARLOTTE, X. C.
lecember 14, 1Sj8.
A. C. WILLIAMSON,
ATTORNEY AXI) COUXSELLOR AT LAW,
I!:is taken an office jointly with J. A. Fox, E.q, up-stairs
next door to the Court House, where lie will be con
jointly present to attend to all calls on professional
business made for himself or for' Mr Fox when he is
absent.
January 4, lsr.O. tf
J. A. FOX,
OjRrf next d or to the Court llotixe, Ufi-Sliiir
A. C. WILLIAMSON. Esq., who is a joint occupant
of the office, and who will be uniformly present, will
attend to professional business for me in my absence.
December 21, 1S.18 tf
IMS. FOX & WHITE,
Medicine and Surgerr
J&if" Office up Stairs in Springs' I.iiilding.
C. J. Ft IX, M. D. W. E. WHITE, M. D.
April
IfC.s.
3-tf
IVOTBCF.
A LL those indebted to the subscriber will make 1111
.Y. meiliate settlement, or their Notes and Accounts
will be placed in other hands for collection.
April :i18.-)8. 3-tf C. J. FOX.
C. KELLEY &. J. L. GARDNER,
Commission Merchants,
And lealors in Iry tioixls, ( Jroccvios, Hardware,
Uoots and siloes, Hatd and Caps, &c,
IVvirhcrii, IV. C
ErT Promjd and personal attention given to the sale
of all kinds of CofNTitY PuoDick. iJl
April 20, 1.")8. ly-lJ
P. SAUKS,
Architect and ISuildcr,
Will furnish Designs, Plans and Drawings for Public
Iiuiblings, Private Residences and Villas. Particular
attention will be paid to building Flouring Mills, Corn
Mills, tc. Office in 3d story of Alexander's Ruilding,
front room, over China Hall.
Charlotte, Oct. 11, 1858.
J, AND FOR SALE,
On Tuesday the 2!lli of April next, (being
the week of County Court.) I will sell at the Court
House door in Charlotte, 218 ACRES OF LAND
lying 011 the waters of Long Creek in Mecklenburg coun
ty, eight miles west of Charlotte, known as the Cathcy
tract, and adjoining the lauds of James Deatty, Naucy
Cathey and others.
This Land is superior for farming purposes, but is
more highly prized for the valuable pine Timber there
on. There is a Saw Mill within one mile of the tract, and
the line of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
Railroad runs within one-fourth of a mile of it.
Terms: Twelve months credit note and approved
security required.
WM. J. HAYES,
Executor of Catharine Hayes.
February 8, 18r9 3in
' JONAS JUJDISILL,
Architect and Builder.
(DESIrtXS FURNISHED AND WILDINGS
COMPLETED ON THE MOST KEASOX
AHLE TERMS, AND IN EVERY'
STYLE OF ARCIIITECTCUE,)
On CoU'ge ttrrrt, conifr of Eighth street.
Charlotte, N. C.
WOULD most respectfully announce to the Citizens of
Charlotte and surrounding country, that he still con
tinues the above business in Charlotte, where he is
1-repared to furnish DOORS, BLINDS AND SASH, to
the public 011 the most reasouable terms, and on the
shortest notice.
Having a great many small claims for work done,
scattered all over the country, he is determined to
change his method of doing business and hereafter will
require CASH for all work done in his Machine
Shop, before removal.
Jan. 20, 16j8. tf
""'LANDFOR SALE.
Two Hundred Acres of fine farming Land, lying on
tlie line of the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad,
is offered for sale. Terms will be made accommodating,
lor further particulars apply to
SAME. A. HARRIS.
December 28, 1S58. tf
Exclusively Wholesale
Dni, Paint and Oil Warehouse. I
ftANTOS, WALKE & CO., wholesale dealers
in DRUGS; Lamp, Machinery and Paint OILS;
Garnishes. Paints, kc. kc.
36, Ironrjiit, West ti!e, Market Square,
NORFOLK, YA.
lg- Goods shipped from New York, Philadelphia, or
l.altuuore, to Charleston, when required.
November 9. lftr.s.
c oo ! ';JSuftjJ
10 oo i hra c
T. H. BREM &-CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DEALERS IN
Brilili, French ami American
Xry Groods,
Carpets, Hardware, Hats and Shoes,
Charlotte, JY. C.
THOMAS II. P.REM,
J. A. SADLER, Jr.
jv-O, 1858. LAFAYETTE ALEXANDER.
SCAEE & CO.,
Druggists fc CEiemiwts,
No. 4, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C,
INVITE the attention of Physicians,
Planters, Merchants, &c, to their NEW
and complete stock of DRUGS, CHEMI
CALS, kc The extensive patronage they
liave received from the Physicians of Char
lotte and its vicinity is the .best guarantee
of the PURITY OF THE DRUGS sold by
them.
January 1, 1S."0.
Til (I en's
Fluid Extracts.
SCARR & CO. call the attention of the Medical Pro
fession to these elegant Preparations so admirably suit
ed for the extemporaneous prepration of Tinctures
Syrups, ines, kc, securing ye desirable object o
uniformity of strength.
No Physician should be without them.
For sale at SCARR k CO S
Jan. 25. 18jy.
Drug Store, Charlotte.
To Physicians.
Dr. Churchill's ncu Itemed is for Consumption
Hypophosphitos of Soda ami Potash. Also, Com
pound Syrup 01 the Ilypophosphites, at
SCARR & CO.,
Dec. 21. Charlotte Drug Store.
skews: skews::
LAXDRETITS XEW CHOI' GARDEA' SEEDS,
Just received a full supply of these celebrated Seeds
direct from Landrcth's, embracing even' variety of
Vegetable Seeds. With
Asparagus Plants by the hundred, and
VICTORIA RHUHAR15 ROOTS.
Also FLOWER SEEDS 20 choice varieties.
SCARR & CO.,
Dec. 21. Charlotte Drug Store.
Window Glass, '
Putty, Whiting, Oil. Varnishes, Dye-stuns, Paints, 4c,
Low lor casn by BCAiat to,
Jan 25th Druggists.
r.V J. 15. KEK1S, Proprietor.
-rr ERV ACCOMMODATION afforded the
Jilt patrons of the Charlotte Hotel.
At this Hotel is kent the line of Tri-wecklv
Stages from Charlotte via Monroe, N. C, and Lancaster
."i. C, tolaiiKleu. S. t .
Patrons of the Charlotte Hotel conveyed to and from
the Depots free of charge. (
Oct. 1, 1858. J. B. KERR.
miimmmmwz mem.
J. D. PALMER,
One Door uhovc the lionlc of Charlotte,
Resncctfullv informs the nub-
--AU -i. lie that he has just received
4. -- .
K fZrr - n splendid assortment of Con
v, -
fectioneries, West India Fruits,
SEGARS
SLCS "VtSSj- smokiufr Tobacco, SnufF, Ac.
Vi'-taJj&jNS a Triety of Musical Instru-
ments, Yankee Notions. &c.
A PINE LOT OF WILLOW WARE.
He is constantly receiving fresh supplies of the above
doods and uianv other articles not enumerated.
CANDY MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber is now manufacturing an excellent
article of Candy, free from poisonous coloring, unlike
the New York steam refined caudv. Call and see and
try it. J. D. PALMER.
"November 9, 1858 tf
TO THE LADIES.
SPLENDID assortment of FRENCH CANDIES;
Desfilles. &c, for Diessing Cakes, at
J. I). PALMER'S.
HAVANA ORANGES,
Just received at
J. D. PALMER'S
Feb. 8, 1S59. Confectionery.
6 CASES Pure SMYRNA FIGS,
t for sale low for cash, at
J. D. PALMER'S
iTWEST INDIA FRUITS, PRESERVES,
V V Pickles, Brandy Peaches, kc, at
J. D. PALMER'S.
g BBLS. NEW
YORK APPLES,
low for cash, at
J. 1). PALMER'S.
Hew Books.
History of Fiiedkrick the Great, by Thos. Carlile.
Mizhah: Pravcr and Friendship, by L. C. Loomis.
Col KTsitip axo Matbimo.ny, with other Sketches, by
Robert Morris.
The Minister of Life, by M. L. Charlcsworth.
The Sociable; or 101 Home Amusements.
The Life axu Times of the Great High Miller, of
Scotland, bv T. N. Brown.
Axsals or TnE American- PiLriT, by Dr. Sprapue.
LirnscoTT's Pronoincino Gazetteer, or Geographi
cal Dictionary of the World,
Dora Dean or Maggie Miller, Mrs M. J. Holmes.
Scoi-rix-g of the White Horse, or the long Vacation
Ramble of a London Clerk.
The Kn. Peiter, Papers by Jacques Maurice.
Di-st and Fome, or Three Oceans and Two Conti
nents, hv T. Robinson Warren.
I also "have a few copies of Hawks' History of N. C,
Vols. I and II.
Cantwell's Jcstice and N. C. Form Book.
P. J. LOWRIE.
Feb. 13, 1839.
NEW STORE TTtTuYIDSON COLLEGE.
S. FRANKENTUALL & CO.
Take pleasure in informing the citizens of Davidson
College and surrounding country, that they have open
ed a Branch store at the stand formerly occupied by
Helper & Henderson, where they will always keep on
hand a larsre stock, consisting of
'Dry Goods, Ready-made Clothing,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Hardware, Groceries, 4c. kc.
which thev will sell at Charlotte prices.
February 8, la39 3m
m j
t II M
I i 3 , Ma
Tiik Conjuror and the Yankee. Anderson,
the wizard, met with a Yankee who stole a inarch
on him one day, after the following pattern eutcr
Yankee:
"I say! you, Professor Anderson?"
'Yes, sir, at your service."
"Wa'al, j-ou're a tarnation smart man, and I'm
sunithin' at a trick too, kinder cute, deu you know."
"Ah, indeed, and what tricks are you up to sir?"
asked the professor; amused at the simple fellow.
'Wa'al, I can take a red cent and change it into
a ten dollar gold piece."
"Oh, that's a mere sleight-of-hand trick, I can
darthat, too."
-Ntf you can't. I'd like to see you try."
"Well, hold out your hand with a cent in it."
Yankee stretched out his paw with a cent lying
on it.
"This is your cent is it sure?"
"It's nothiu' else."
"Hold on to it tight Presto! change. Xow
open yoftr hand."
Yankee opened his fist, and there was a gold
caule shiuino; on his palm.
"Wa'al, you did it, I -declare; much ohleeged
tew yeou," and Jonathan turned to go out.
"Stay," said the professor, "you may leave me
my en dollars."
"Yourn! warn't it my cent; and didn't you turn
it into this ere yaller thing, eh? Good bye" and
as he left the room he was heard to say, "I guess
there ain't anything green about this child."
She Persevered. Persevere, persevere," said
an old lady friend of ours to her help; "it's the only
way you can accomplish great things." One day
eight apple dumplings were sent down stairs, and
they all disappeared. "Sally, where are those
dumplings?" "I managed to get through them,
ma'am," replied Sally. "Why, how on earth did
you manage to eat so many dumplings?" "By
persevering, ma'am," was the meek answer.
GARDEX SEEDS
From Ijandreth tfc 'Thorium's,
Received and for sale by
Charlotte, Jan 1 0, 1859. E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO.
Linseed Oil, pure Sperm, Lard, and
TANNERS' OIL,
For sale by E. NYE HUTCHISON.
J6 Churchill's preparation of the Hypophos
phates, CURE FOR THE CONSUMPTION, for sale by
E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO.
Fresh Burning Fluid and Linseed Oil,
Low for cash by the Bid.
E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO.
Tanners' Oil
From S3 cents to $ 1 23 per pullon.
E. NYE HUTCHISON k CO.
t!?2L Enplish, French and American BRUSHES,
Lubiu's EXTRACTS, Genuine Cologne, for sale by
E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO.
Varnishes,
Coach. Furniture, Copal (three qualities), Damask, Ja
pan, kit &c. E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO.
New Remedy,
A sovereign cure and preventive of the Piles.
E. NYE HUTCHISON k CO.
E2READ mid CAKES.
Having secured the services of a No. 1 Baker, we are
now prepared to furnish the citizens of Charlotte, and
mankind iu pcneral, with something nice to eat.
Ifeiy Wedilinps, Parties, kc, furnished at short no
tice to order and dispatch.
1st Door from the Court House.
HOUSTON & HUNTER.
Nov. 2H, 1838. tf
East Notice.
All those who arc indebted to Thos. Trotter & Sou
or Thos. Trotter, cither by note or account are reques
ted to come forward by April Court aud settle up, as
further indulgence cannot be given.
Jan. 11, 1838. 43-3m. THOS. TROTTER.
The
Charlotte Mutual Fire
Insur.
ance Company,
CONTINUES to take risks against loss by fire, on
Houses, Goods, Produce, Ac, at usual rates. Of
fice nearly opposite Kerr's Hotel.
President M. B. TAYLOR.
Vice President C. OVERMAN.
Secy & Treas'r E. NYE HUTCHISON.
B. TAYLOR, C. OVERMAN,
M.
J. L. BROWN,
F. SCARR.
WM. JOHNSTON,
S. T. WRISTON,
A. C. STEELE.
Exeeutit e Committee. J 110 L Brown, S T Wriston, A C
Steele.
April 27, 1858. tf
LOWRIE'S
BOOK TOES En
I receive all the New Pub
lications as fast as they come for
ward from the Press; and keep
constantly on hand a large lot of
School, Academy and College
TEXT-BOOKS, and many useful
reference and recreative works. ,
I also keep a very large stock of Stationery, plain
and fancy. Having made an arrangement with the
Southworth Paper Manufacturing Company, I am en
abled to sell paper at the same prices by the whole
gale for which it can be bought in the Northern cities,
fri-ijrht added. P. J LOWRIE.
Feb. 15, 1850.
THUS.
ji. s.
WITH
C&3
1CILETT,
S T 0"7V7,
c O -A- "5T
srccKSSoKS to STOW & SMART,
Imiinrtcri Jobbers and Dealers in
I3n rd ware, Cutlery, Onus, Shovels,
Nails. Hollow Ware, &c.
3Y lTARRRX St., NEAR BROADWAY.
Ivt'ur. 1. .mc .a x , iety lOrk
GEO W. STOW J A,t
an. 23, 1831'. 3m-pd
EXPERIENCE THE BEST TEST!
II EDO MAN, CLARK & COS
GEXCIXE COD LIVER OIL
1 1 . 1 li knet
II
:i hern oroveu OV twelve years ii icucmr luc.-i
remedv for Consumption, Scrofula, kc, and is recom
mended by Uiemost eminent Physicians.
Cai-tiox. Beware of preparations pretending to pos
sess the properties of the Oil in concentrated form, as
inanv of them are worse than useless. The Pure Oil
has "been found to act better and have more speedy
effect than any jelly or other preparation of it.
Sold bv Driirrist3 ircnerallr.
Feb. 22, 1359.
3ui-pd
The Western Gold Mines A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Timet, who has just returned
from Kansas, says the river towns in Kansas and
Nebraska are now crowded with strangers, of every
nation, tribe and people, wandering about with a
forlorn look, bearing rifles on their shoulders, apd
making inquiiies in regrad to routes to the mines
outfits &c. All the hotels are crowded to repletion
and every western train and steamboat is filled
with people. Trains are now starting daily from
every important town on the Missouri river, in
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, aud Missouri. While
travelling five or six miles on the great Military
Road leading from Fort Leavenworth to
Fort Laramie, on Thursday last, he met four trains
en route for the mines. In two of them the wagons
were drawn by mules and oxen; in the third, eight
men were attached to a hand cart, which contan
ed their outfits, and was so constructed as to fioat
over the streams. They designed to draw it the
whole distance 700 miles to Pikes's Peak. The
fourth was composed entirely of pedestrians, with
their packs upon the"5r shoulders. What will not
men do for gold'
Sensation Preaching. A correspondent of the
Baltimore Christian Advocate relates of a New
York minister, who desired to make a sensation in
preaching on the crucifixion:
He instructed the sexton when he got to that
part of the discourse where he describes the dark
ness overspreading the heavens, to draw down the
gas, giving light only enough to make the darkness
visible. The sexton, however, put the gas out
altogether, which so confounded the preacher that
he was unable to proceed. Some of the trustess of
the church hurried to the sexton in the lobby, and
inquired what was the matter. Greatly to his
chasrrin and mortification, as well as that tf
the preacher, he was obliged to explain.
Fatal Result of
Hasty Marriage. The
Troy, (N. Y.) Whi
death of a stranger in that city, named Northrop
Allen, under very singular circumstances. On
Wednesday week, Allen engaged board at a tavern
kept by a notorious character named Mooney, on
the following Tuesday, married a domestic employ
ed in the house, named Ann Mahon; and on Fri
day was found in his bed a corpse, having died un
known to anybody. He was a returned Californian
and seemed to have plenty of money. To add to
the mystery his wife didn't even know his christian
uame, and when asked what she married him for
said "for the soap." It is thought that he was
purposely poisoned, whilst others think that he
repented of his hasty marriage and thought better
of a bad bargain by self-murder.
"John," said a cockney solicitor to his son, "I
see rou'll never do for an attorney, you have no
henergy." " Skuse me, father," replied John,
"what I want is some of your chicken-ary.
Getting Out of Close Quarters. A corre
spondent sends us this:
Governor 1) , of Florida, was as celebrated
for his waggery as for his executive qualifications.
Giving a crowd of gaping listeners an account of
the strangs things he had seen during his pere
grinations through the far West, he said: "Fact,
gentlemen, the trees are so close together in Ar
kansas that you may travel for days without finding
them more than three feet apart; and 'then the
game! such vast numbers of buffalos and bears
and wild cats, but in all the world I never saw such
deer!"
"What of the deer, Governor D ?" asked a
squint-eyed descendant of Niuirod, who, to use his
own expression," 'd ruther hunt nor eat any time,"
aud so he had.
"O, the bigest bouncing bucks you ever saw!
Why, my dear sir, the woods are perfectly alive
with them, charging about with great branching
horns fuW four feet apart."
"Well, but Governor D , if the trees arc on
ly three feet apart and the deer's horns four, I
want you to tell me how they get tjirough."
"O; well that's their look out I have nothing
to do with that!"
TO RK.vr.
A HOUSE and LOT for rent in town, adjoining
Col. B. V . Alexander s. Apply to
WM. JOHNSTON.
March 8, 185!).
tf
NOTICE.
All the old business of DRCCKER & SOMMERS is
now in the hands of J. A. Fox, Esy., for settlement.
He is authorized to collect and receipt for us. Persons
indebted to U3 will make immediate payment to him, or
they will be sued by uext return dav.
DRUCKER k SOMMERS.
Feb. 1, 1850 tf
IVOTffCE.
All those indebted to me, by Note or Account, will
ploasc come forward and settle the same by Cash.
Febuary 8, 1859 ROBERT GIBBON.
New and Fashionable
urniture
WAEE ROOMS,
Charlotte, X. C.
J. M. SANDERS & Co., are constantly re
ceiving from New York, Boston, kc, a general assort
ment of fine and fashionable FURNITURE, which they
will sell at extremely low prices for Cash, and every
article warranted to give satisfaction. Those in want
of good Furniture, at very low prices, will please give
them a call.
Also, ou hand, JFisk's JTlctullic Burial
Cases. J. M. SANDERS k CO.,
Feb. 22, 183D. Charlotte, N. C.
G110CERY AND C03I3IISSION HOUSE,
250 Richardson Street,
Columlaia, S. O.
The subscriber begs to inform the citizens of Char
lotte and the public iu general, that he is fully prepared
to supply them, at moderate prices, with every descrip
tion of goods incident or pertaining to the grocery
business. Orders and inquiries attended to with
promptitute.
Having ample facilities for the sale, on advantageous
terms, of consignments, such as Cotton. Flour, Corn and
produce generally, making liberal cash advances on the
same, he respectfully iuvites a share of public pa
tronage, j""
Feb. 22, 1859. 2m W. L. REILLY.
Referexcks : non. Edward Arthur; Jesse Drafts,
Esq., Cashier Exchange Bank, Columbia; Capt. James
P. Adams; Dr. Thomas S. Goodwyn; Messrs Chambers
k Marshall; Hon. James D. Treadwell; T. J. Murray.
SIAMESE WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Up to the age of.ten years, Siamese children of
either sex are not troubled with any superabun
dance of clothing, it is seldom that : a child is
seen wearing the smallest sbrcd of a garment, ex
cept on days of : festivals. Jewels, sometimes, of
very great value are put on young children.
Among higher classes, girls and beys up to the
ageCt twelve, wear a number 0$ gold chains,
sometimes four, six, or seven at a tlm, all differ
ent, and e .ch having some amulet or ornament at
tached. The hair is allowed to grow long on the
front part of the head, but the rest u kept shaved,
leaving this circular patch to be twisted-into a
knot which is kept in its place by a long ornamen
tal pin. Often a wreath of the while jessamine is
twined to fit closely about this kuot, and the effect
is pretty. Both boys and girls are dressed (if
their scant measure of clothing may be called
dress,) exactly alike, so that it is not easy to dis
tinguish them.
At the age of 12, the lock of hair is cut off, leav
ing a patch which bears a strong re.-emblance to a
small black hair brush. This, in the man, is comb
ed back, and allowed to grow a degree longer than
in the woman; not so much so, however, as to sug
gest any marked difference to a stranger. The
women keep their locks carefully oiled, combed,
and gummed, to stand upright, and they take in
finite pains to keep the top of this brush smooth as
velvet. A Siamese lady's hair is held to be in
perfect order when she can plunge into the river,
a-id duck her head many times under without dis
turbing the smoothness and uprightness of her na
tional hair brush. The ceremony of cutting off
the lock of hair is kept with entertainment and re
joicings. It is the great event in young Siamese
life, and resemb'es the coming out amongst young
ladies in other countries; for jn Siam children are
supposed to reach years ot discretion rather early.
After a girl marries she gives up the wearing
of ornaments and trinkets. These are set aside
and reserved for her children in their turn. Hoys
as I have mentioned before, have an opportunity
of learning to read, by entering themselves as
neophytes, or attendants on the priests. Whether
girls have any schools or persons authorized to
teach them, I do not know; but it is not uncom
mon in Siam to find women able to read or write.
I met with three or four myself, and these were
persons of the lower ranks. The occupations of
the females are various and far less circumscribed
than any other parts of the Eat-t. In. fact, the
women in Siam occupy a moral position many de
gress superior to that of their s:s!ers in neighbor
ing countries. The wife of a Siamese has no un
important voice in the domestic arrangements of
the family. She is cash-keeper, and seems to
possess the right to claim all her husband's earn
ings. The women, as a race, are very intelligent
and v ry observant; thts3 Lelonging to the
higher classes seem to have pleasing and modest
manners. The head wife of the prime minister is
a very interesting woman; she is not young, but
U by no means wanting in personal attractions.
She has no children; but that does not seem to
d'sturb her husband's affection, or her influence
over him. She came with her attendants, by invitation-,
ti lunch with us, and altho -gh our talk
Wii? limited for want of words, she could contrive
to make herself agreeable. It was the first time
that a Siamese lady of rank had ever visited on
equal terms a foreign funiily, but it would have
been difficult tj guess this from her perfectly easy
and quiet demeanor. She sat at the luncheon
table, with the gentlemen; and, although she had
probably never before used a knife and fork,, or
any of the appliances of an English table, she ac
quitcd herself with perfect propriety and good
breeding, even to the overwhelming act of taking
wine with her host. Jler step-son, (the Siamese
admiral) accompanied her, and she was attended
by about thirty maidens, two of whom were her
youngest sisters, very pretty girls: the rest were
slaves. The whole body of attendants remained
sprawling on the ground during her visit.
An absurd little incident will serve to show
how dilligently these people ob. erve the custom
of prostration. The lady requested permission to
visit the sleeping apartment, in order to see
how English people arrange rooms; she was ac
cordingly taken up stairs, followed by the entire
body of maidens and her step-son, who did not at
all see why he should not have the benefit of a
peep as well. She expressed hr satisfaction at
all the arrangements, and especially her delight
at a small iron crib belonging to my child, which
seemed to strike them all as a device of luxury
and refinement not to be equalled, finally, when
everything in the room had been duly handled
and examinod, she inquired, in a perplexed man
ner, where we kept our money, as she could not
see a strong box of any kind. It should be men
tioned, that on a previous visit to her own house,
I had been shown over her private apartments,
and in the sleeping room saw four large iron
safes, which she pointed out as seeming to add
much to the honor of the family. There hap
pened to be a box of mine in the corner, however,
covered over with the. usual arrangement of cush
ions and frills; this being shown hert she seemed
greatly relieved to find (judging from the size of
the box, which, however, was empty at the time,)
that we had, or appeared to have, some wordly
pelf, and was delighted at such a charming way of
covering it up. As she was about to descend
the stairs, a commotion disturbed the whole bevy
of damsels, to whom it appeared suddenly to oe
cur, that by going down first, their mistress would
place herself beneath them; a thing not to be to
lerat.dfora moment. Accordingly, with a sud
den rush, the young ladies passed her, on their
hands and knees, just as she was about to descend,
and the whole twenty scrambled down etuirs hcad
formost, with a hurrying and scurrying, a laugh
ing and giggling, that was as amusing as it was
surprising.
The Siamese women as well as men, are terribly
disfigured by the effects of constant and exces
sive betel chewing. It is carried to a disgusting
extent amongst people of all ranks and ages. Even
little children may be seen with their lips dyed red
and the crimson juice running out at each etde.
Their mouths are never, by any chance, empty; as
soon as one quid is disposed of, another takes its;
place, so that a Siamese always Bpeaks as with a
pebble in his mouth, and that no small one. The
effect of the incessant chewing oflarge quids, is to
enlarge the lips considerably, to dye them a sort of
black red, and entirely to alter the shape of the
lower part of the face. The Siamese say that the
chewing of betel acts as a continual stimulant, and
that they could not exist withont it. It is highly
injurious to the teeth, but I think it does, not de
stroy health to any great extent. . Smoking w
another habit carried to an extreme in Siam; men,
women and children seem to live upon cigarettes
and tobacco-rolled up in palm leaf. I wa told 'as
a fact by a lady, that she had seen a nursing child
of two years old, taking whiffs of its mother's ci
gar, alternately with its own more natural nurish
nicnt. For this, however, ! will not vouch. But
I have frequently watched a very pretty little, girl
of five years old, smoking a cigarette, while she
made mud -pies. Most ot these inveterate binokcaa
carry a reserve cigar stuck belaud each ear, as
clerks carry pens.
A WIDOW IN TROUBLE.
The Memphis Appeal publishes the following
very romantic story, and assures its readers that
the occurrence related is strictly true :
A friend of ours, who does business on Main
street, in this city, was traveling a few weeks ago
in Arkansas some 50 or GO miles below Memphis.
As night came on at the conclusion of a long day's
travel, he arrived at a solitary house, where it
appeared the residents within were already preparing
to retire to rest. He knocked at the door; a head
was protruded from a window, and in reply to a
question from the owner of the head, he said he
jvished to stay for the night. The head wm
withdrawn, and a consultation apparently took
place with some one within, and after a little delay
the head was again advanced, and our friend asked
his name. We will not give the name stated
that of "Fulkerson" will answer the same purpose.
"Fulkerson," repeated the" man with the head out
of the window, as if surprised, and not agreeably
so. "Yes, John Fulkerson," was the reply, in a
tone that had an expression of impatience about it;
for the traveler was hungry as well as tired, and
not being a priest, fasting never smoothed his
temper. The head was again withdrawn at this
announcement, as rapidly as an Irishman once
withdrew his, when he knelt and took a drink out
of one of the boiling springs of the State in which
the adventure we are relating took place. Some
time now 'elapsed; the night was Bcold, and our
hungry friend found his quarters in front of the
solitary house not at all to. his mind. At length
he hammered violently at the door several times,
and uttered a series of ejaculations, more indicative
of a flexible tongue than ol profound piety. . He
then took a look round the premises, to ascertain
if possible, the reason of this unaccountable delay.
He discovered a man stealing silently away in the
rear, who jumped over the fence and set off in a
run, that sKkc well for his agility, in the direction
of the timber. The front door was opened at this
moment, and a negro girl called to him to come in.
On cnteringhe could discover nothingsuspicious;
a good supper was set before him, and he was at
tentively waited upon, lie noticed, however, that
the negro was very curt in har replies to his quesT
tions, and that when he. asked anything about the
inmates of the place she manifested an emotion
that looked liked alarm. He retired to bed, too
greatly fatigued to reflect much upon the fiingu
larity of this conduct; he slept well, and in the
morning was at an early hour eating his breakfuxf,
when he observed a pair of eyes inteutly gazing
at him from a chick in the wall that divided tho
room in which he sat, from an adjoining passage.
Determined to know the meaning of tho singular
be haviour he had observed in that place for every
individual about it, whom he . accoeted, answered
him with trepidation in the fewest possible n'im:
ber of words, and then hurried away from him as
if in fear he lushed into the passage and catch
ing hold of the man whose eyes had been so busi
ly engaged, he demanded the reason of his singular
scrutiny. The man appeared overcome with agi
tation, and asked in a voice the interrogator at
once recognized as the same he had heard on the
previous night if Mr Fulkerson intended to stay?
So, Mr. Fulkerson would go as soon as he had
finished his breakfast and paid his bill, but he -insisted
upon knowing why so much spying and whis
pering were going on ? "Why, are you not Mr
Fulkersou that owns this house?" asked the man.'
".No, I never saw the house before," was the reply.
In a moment a look of intense satisfaction beamed
from the man's face, which had before worn a
troubled expression, and without another word he
rushed up stairs, three or four steps at a time, and
quickly returned, bringing with him a portly look
ing dame, whose eyes were red, ns if from weeping,
and exclaimed in a tone of joyous surprise as rtboti
as she caught sight of our bewildered friend, who
could not for the life of him guess what had bewil
dered the folks "It 13 not John ?" '
An explantion then ensued, from which it ap
peared that the house in which our friend had
spent the night had formerly been the property of
a man of the same name as himself. This man
had been absent for some years. As nothing had
been heard from him during all that time, his bet
ter half, the lady who appeared so much pleased
that he was not "John? had resolved to take,
another husband, aud the new knot was to be tied
that very evening On the previous evening her
intended second husband was paying his attentions
to a lover, when the announcement of the name of
"John Fulkerson" from, our friend, in a moment
spread dismay and consternation where all had
been joy and anticipation. The lover stoic off the
back way, to be beyond tbn reach of dauber; tho
lady had spent the night in weeping; once she had
mourned her husband's absence, now she grieved
over his return. The quietness of the unexpected
and unwelcomed guest had, however, somewhat
reassured the distressed couple, the lover had cau
tiously returned to the house and was making" his
observations, whe i bur friend unceremoniously
seized him. The t idings were quickly spread, and
laughter and mirMi soon filled the dwelling
that had been doleful with disappointment and
sorrow. The traveler was heartily invited to stay
and .partake of the wedding supper; his business
called him away, however, but he has since learned
that the marriage took place without interruption.
II the real John Fulkerson, of Arkansas, should be
alive and see this, let him take warning and never
approach the house be has deserted for he is most
emphatically not vanting.