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je Wtsltxn SJrmorrat. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Prairie Farming in the West. An Englishman, James Caird, member of Par liament, has been traveling in Illinois and other Western States, and thus gives his impres&ions C OI I that part of the country : From Bloominjrton I proceeded southward to Sprinirficld. the capital, and not far from the cen- ter of the State of Illinois. This is a fine town, with good streets and shops, and the neighborhood is diversified by timber. It is, like all other place in this part of the country, surrounded by the wide prairiu. The view from the top of the State House vcrv much resembles that of the plain of . . , .a have cut out for themselves hollow passages wind- r? ' imr about on the panoramic landscape spread be fore the eye. The inhabitants of the town, like those in the country, are not this season exempt from ague. I visited the County Cattle Fair or Show which was then being held in a field close by the town. The best short-horn stock were exhibited by Mr Brown, a celebrated cattle breeder of this State, whose acquaintance I had the good fortune to make iu the show ward. He exhibited a short-horn cow, bred by hinihelf, six years old, which had had five calves, a large, fat, handsome animal, which would have been a prize-taker at an English show. He showed also a three V'ear old short-horn bull from Lord Dane's ehck, imported last year. The large stock farmers of the West, who arc the real- ly moneyed men, are taking great pains to improve the oualitv of their cuttle bv the importation of the best English blood. It is an excellent policy, - . . .. and they arc already abundantly reaping the re ward of their enterprise. For, though at this au tumnal season, the prairie grass looks coarse and innutritions, a stranger has only to examine the cattle which are fed upon it to convince himself of its feeding qualities. And, as this grass is every where to be had here for nothing, the grazier con- suits nis own interest by incurring some expense in improving the present breed of cattle, and thus obtaining earlier maturity, better finality, and quicker returns from his extensive grazing. )f the cattle common to the country there were sev eral specimens exhibited, of enormous size. One red and white ox with wide upturned horns, four and a half years old, measured 2,700 lbs. weight. He handled well, though very strong in bone and limbs. Another of 2,000 lbs. gross weight was reckoned on the spot worth .14 at the current price of beef, viz: about 3d. a pound dead weight. Mr Brown has been many years in the country engaged in farming. He farms largely, and be lieves that money may be made and has been made in this this State by stock farming and corn grow ing Nor is this remarkable, inasmuch as grazing land on the pairies could be had for nothing, cost ing neither rent nor taxes, while corn land must be bought, inclosed, and cultivated, and labor has hitherto been expensive. However, till very re cently there was no outlet for corn. Railways are rapid' altering the former state of things, and Indian corn is no longer unsalable at 6d. a bushel. He has found short-horn stock the most profitable which is no doubt chiefly owing to the high prices he is cnab'e I to realize in the sale of well-bred at ck f jr improving the breeds of the country. Bu: he has not found them so success ful on the natural prairie grass, of which on his own lands he has no longer any. Though the prairie grass may be extirpated in time by close feeding, he has found it the best practice to break it up, and, after a course of tillage, to sow the land out with blue grass and clover. The blue grass is a rich, thick, succulent gras of a bluish colour. which grows with great success on the limestone soils of Kentucky, and is found to succeed admira bly on the prairies when laid down as pasture. It improves every year, and yields feed for 6 months, beside half feed during the Winter, whereas the natural prairie grass is in its best state only fur the first four months after Spring. Mr Brown has all his lands now laid down in "tame" grass, as the sown grosses are commonly termed here. He keeps no stock except his thorough bred short horns, and lets his surplus grass for grazing at $1 a month for each animal, during the Summer and Autumn. He feeds his own stock during Winter on the pastures, giving them corn and hay in time of snow. As he can buy Indian corn in his part of the State at an average of 8d. a bushel, he has no doubt that this is the kind of farming which best suits Illinois. He had tried sheep, and found them to do well, but having no taste for them, he keeps exclusively to cattle. There were various novel agricultural imple ments exhibited iu the show yard. Plows moan ted on an axle, with high wheels, the only advan tage of which seemed to be that a seat was thus provided for the driver. There were seed planters of ingenious construction, a circular self-cleaning harrow, which always goes round about while be ing dragged forward little hand-machines for washing clothes poa, which are said to economize labor 100 per cent and a chain-bucket pump, an extremely simple, cheap and efficient article. I drove a few miles out of town to visit the farm of Mr M'Counell, who was recommended to me by the Governor of the State as a man of great intel ligence, integrity, and experience. 1 walked and drove over his farm, examined his stock, and ic ceived from him very clear and distinct informa tion. He is a practical man who has been all his life engaged in farming, and has fought his way up to a very comfortable independence. He left "the old country" in 1811, farmed in a small way fur thirty years in the State of New York, where he first settled, and moved thence to Illinois sev enteen years ago. He had always preferred sheep farming, and brought his small flock of merinos with him. They have been remarkably healthy, increase one-third every year, and his flock now number 25,000- His fleeces average four to five pounds eneh, and the wool sells for Is 8d. to 2s. a pound. He bought his farm at l an acre, and could now sell it at 10, as it is in a good position, near the capital of the State. But he is so firmly persuaded of the rapidly-growing wealth of this fine State, that he has no doubt of his farm being worth 20 an acre a few years hence. He con siders the land for 100 miles round Springfield to be the best in the world. Mr s Conned sends his flock to the op n prai- j ries in April; places about 1,200 undei the charge ' of one shepherd, who tends them and supply them with salt. They need no other food for six months, He brings them to his closed rround in Winter. 1 and gives them hay when thev need it. and a little corn. His flock has never suffered from an v epidemic. ! nut on the contrary have been extremely free from disease. His original flock grew one-fourth iu weight and sire after being brought from New York State to this better soil. He prefers the merino to the Southdown fir this climate and soil, and has found from trial that the merinos yielded as much mutton A far better wool, fie imports pure ixunbardy as seen Irom Mie JJuomo ol .Milan, ex- ; SC1VCB to the soil below, and the moment the snow siock. xie aiso pianis a iew cuunary vegetables cept there is nowhere a boundary of mouutains. ; Jisappearg , they .being already imbedded in the ! and potatoes. In the end of August he sows his But there is the same rich, far-stretching plain, damp soil, spring up at once, and take the start of j wheat, and, when that is completed, he harvests with trees in Hnos and groups, the timber becom- ' a other vegetation. Late in March add two j his "sod" corn. This keeps him out of the mar inir denser alony the banks of the streams, which ; mi - r,,r.sJ r arrp. and a cood hav I kct the verv first winter, as it is often made to merino rams from Germany and Spain to improve his flock. Mr M'Connell finds that by feeding prairie grass close with sheep, it, in a few years, gives way to blue eTass and white clover which come natural ly of thpmsplvfts and without beinc sown But .1 i. 1 fx- .l.trn itifn rrrvnrl IIJC Hull nC i VL Uin MiTTnfl Mjk ia j nig v. vw . v. 3 1 . 1 ka co51 snma nieaaow aUU Iiar-luic, in iu up ninnrinv find i.nstlire. 18 to break UP ! . r ,1 tUr tlTOC DClWeCn ine lUIUUli; Ul ..'liljl ouu iuv mmuii, v . i . 1 . 1 July (a tew davs earner or later may ou ioictuiuu, mnrp xs it nraine Janu is oruten oui 01 r . . . . cason the labor is worse than lost). Sow wheat :n pnfi nf n(rnst or 8t of September: the follow- ;nf, seasonj aftcr wheat, take a crop of Indian corn i wkich must be kept clean; after the crop is re- j luoved, level the ground well, and in February sow 1 one 'j. 0f timothy to the acre if on the snow 1UC, the better, as the dark seeds attract the Rlin's and rraduallv melt a passage for them- 1 J ' ' 9 iiuuinio ui v.iu w j o j croD W1ji ve cemin. I can testify to the success of this manaceinent, as I walked over a meauow oi manv acres on tliis irentleman's land, on which there was ricked a crop of at least two tuns an acre of very excellent mixed clover and grass hay. The aftermath was rich, close, luxuaiant clover, on which a flock of lambs were grazing, just such clover aftermath as we should find in this country on Mint land after the first cron of hav. I thought it had been the first crop, but learnt to my sur- prise that the meadow had been sown out twelve ; years asro, that it had little manure all that time, had borne a crop of hay every year, and been fed ! : close afterward with sheep, during Winter and : i 8prine, till the prairie grass grew. I have never seen land in Britain that would bear a close clover aftermath at a period so distant from the time of j being seeded, and cannot withhold my belief in the fertile oualities of a soil capable of doimr so. Mr ----- i . . . . . . M'Connell has no doubt that the prairie land - A would benefit by the occasional application of manure, but he never met with any other soil so constantly productive without it. He has known the first wheat crop to pay the price of the land, with the cost of fencing it, and all the labor, and leave a small balance over. With regard to sheep farming, his opinion is that corn and hav suould nrst be provided by a i ftW vcar's cultivation before going largely into a flick. The prairie trrass will furnish Summer must -be keep at little or no cost, but provision made for Winter. Good merinos can be boujnt i i fur s. to 12s. Gd. a head in flocks. There is pro ' bably no kind of farming on the prairies from ' which the returns would be so regular and certain. Mr M'Connell had tried a timber country before coming here, and was very energetic in expressing his opinion of the superior advantages to a settler on the prairie. When in the capital I did myself the honor of ' visiting the Governor, who lives in a handsome house provided for by the State, who also grant him the modest revenue of 500 a year. He was a distinguished soldier in the Mexican war, and had long been one of the Senators of Congress. He has the highest hopes of the future of Illinois, and he, like other men of character and position to whom I have put the question, expressed the be lief that fever and ague in this State are on the decline, though from special causes there had this year been an exceptional prevalence of both. I visited also the State-House, where the two branches of the State Legislature held their sit ; tings, and in which are the bureaux of the various ! State officers. The Secretary of State very polite , ly showed me over the building; the State Auditor supplied me documents showing the valuation and j taxation of the State; and the Treasurer, who locks up the money and disburses it exactly like the clerk in a bank, for which he is paid a salary of 400 a year, explained to me the rate of taxation in the State, the desire they all had to pay off their debt, the present increase rate to which they sub ! mitted for that object, the probability of a future de crease in expense, and the general frugality of the ' management. There is a total absence of form i and ceremony about these gentlemen, who are high officers of State. The Secretary of State acts also as librarian. He and his clerk conduct the public correspondence and business. While I was there a man, about thirty, with his hat on and his hands in his pockets, came lounging in, and, after listening to our conversation f r a while, asked if this was the Secretary, because he wanted to get some information about an old country road of which no record could be found in his county, but which he "reckoned" would be posted up at the capital in the books of the State. The Sec- I retary immediately went oft' to "fix" him about the road. In the same way the Auditor was at ! everybody's call, and the Treasurer also. The , officers of State are not above doing their own ! work here. If there is not much official ceremony, there is a i total absence of it in the manners of the bulk of ; the people. Tlie nasty habit of chewing tobacco, ; and spitting, not only gives them a dirty look, but makes them disagreeable companions. They eat so fast, and are so silent, and run off so soon when they have finished their meals, that reallo cating in this country is more like feeding of wild animals than men. The food is both various and : plentiful, but it is generally badly cooked and served. Violent thunderstorms are not unfreqnent. Every house on the prairie is fitted with a light ning conductor, but I did not hear that accidents from lightning were very common. Again taking the railway, I proceeded to Deca tur, a station thirty miles east of Springfield, and drove for a whole day through the prairie country in that neighborhood. After driving a few miles through the inclosed fauns which surround the town, we reached the open unbroken prairie, and turning short off the track on which we had hitherto been driving, we stood across the great plain which stretched out before us. The horses ! struck without hesitation into the long coarse j grass, through which they pushed on with very I little inconvenience, although it was in manv ! places higher than their heads. It was not thick, : and parted easily before them; then sweeping un- der the bottom of our wagon it rose iu a continu ous wave behind us as we passed along. The sur face of the ground was firm and smooth. We had fixed our eye on a grove of timber on the horizon as our guide, and drove on for an hour in a straight line, as we believed, toward it. But stopping now ; and then to look at the soil and veiretation. we found that the grove had disappeared. Without knowing it we must have got into a hollow, so we pressed on. But after two hour's steady driving we could sec nothing but the long grass and the endWc nr-irie. which spmd in risi sli.rlitlv nil I round us. 1 advised the driver to fix his eye upon a cloud right ahead of us, the day being calm, and to driver straight for it. Proceeding thus in about half an hour we again caught sight of thc grove, still very distant, and the smart young American driver "uwned up" that he had lost his way. One of the horses stepped a little quicker than the other, snd we had been dilligent ly driving in a circle for the last two hours. We soon struck up- WESTERN DEMOCRAT, CHAELOTTE, on a track whioh led us toward the rising ground and among some new settlements. One man here had entered to an eighty acre lot last Spring, had built his house, broken about ten acres and sowed it with wheat, and had his little crop of "sod" corn gathered and stacked out nf harm's wav. close to his dwelling. The first , j - - - rare nf an American settler on the nrairie is to . 1 : prairie nrnviilp for thp first. Winter If he starts in May . . .. - j I U ..l.n ., f... nnmo nn nrtA nnTlimnnllT nlnnto . nc ("un ich uviv..-, U, uu v,......Uv...v fmuvu xnuiuu emu uu ujr a om. tt.i. ..i a t0 ooara mere, xarnsu lurcuieueu iu anc . i . l ; .1. i. J it.'... . . ... . i ; the tough upturned sod, into which he drops the : seed. Rude though this preparation appears, it is generally followed by a crop, sometimes a very good one. Having thus started his "sod" corn, he constructs his house, and spends the rest of the ! Summer in "breaking" the prairie in preparation for a wheat crop, and in cutting and making some ! prairie hay for the Winter provindcr of his live 1 T 1 1 1 O 1 ' .11 i rr . ' suffice for the food both of the family and the live bmc- ts "u """ J uunueui the only food that the settler has to set before his j guest during me nrstyear oi nis possession And though homely it is wholesome. When the crop of Indian corn is secured, there is time to begin making fences. The neighbors have a mutual in- terest in this, and assist each other. The fences are made of posts and sawn pine timber; the posts : of cedar, seven feet long, cost od. each, and both posts and rails are prepared in the forest, so that the settler buys them ready for his purpose, at either the nearest railway station or grove of tim ber, whichever happens to be the most convenient. The holes for the post are not dug out as with us, but are bored with an auirer made for the purpose, and the work of fencing thus goes on with much neatness and regularity, and the fences, being all lil.-iUU ill IUU OBUIC HHUIHCI illlU Ullll UUlUl'l Ul MIC same dimensions, are "very uniform and substantial. At this settlement we found the owner with four of 1 1 ... t 1 . . ! V i 1 . . . his neighbors all busy in the work of fencing, and the one boring, one driving in the posts, others sorting and nailing on the rails. The "snake" fence, which is common in all the timbered parts of America, is seldom met with or. the prairie, and there only in the neighborhood of a timber grove. It is a very substantial and ex cellent fence, but consumes too much timber in any country where that article is somewhat scarce. In this day's ride, all the older settlers with whom we met, complained of the wheat crop as a raiiure mis season, out uie inaian corn was preuy good. One man who had settled here two years ago on good land, for which he then paid 30s. an acre, offered to sell it to us, with his "improve ments" as they are called, viz: his house anda little bit of inclosure which he had made, at 62s. Gd. an acre. He was a considerable distance froo a rail way station. My next stop was at Pana, about thirty miles further south, where a junction is made with a line of railway which leads to the Mississippi, opposite St Louis From this point I traversed the coun try some fifty or sixty miles, and found the prairie in many districts almost unbroken. Here and there patches of uninclosed corn are seen, and sometimes incipient towns. The face of the coun try is generally beautifully undulated, with groves of timber in sight, thc soil of blackish color on a gray subsoil. It seemed a very desirable locality, and commands the market of St. Louis as well as that of Chicago. A French gentleman, a sugar planter in Louisiana, three years ago bought a large tract in this quarter, of about 25,000 acres, at 4!s an acre, which he is settling with a colony of French Canadians. He brought 400 people the first year, and nearly as many more the next. He ?e'ls to them in small lots at (!0s. an acre, and it is said that the settlement is likely to succeed. The difference of price is not all profit, as he in curs sundry outlays in starting thc settlers. Money VERSUS Hi sbands. A correspondent of a Worcester paper relates the following incident: Just as the train was about starting for Green field on Friday morning, on. the Vermont and the Massachusetts Bailroad, a sprightly little woman with a child took a scat in thc car near where I was sitting. Thc cars were beginning to move, and the little woman looked anxiously through the end window of the rear car for her missing hus band who was in the depot attending to the pur- i chase ot tickets, dec. 1 he speed of the cars in- creased and the woman looked more anxious. 1 he husband now appears, and commences to run. He gains on the cars at first, but they are too far ahead of him, and soon are leaving him behind, although he "did run well for a season." It is now the wife's turn to try what she can do. In agony she implored the conductor that her husband is left, but he can't help that. "I am starting on a journey; can't get along without my husband." "Then let him attend to his business next time," was ine coiu answer, "uut, savs the keen l an- kec woman, "I have no money with me." The brakes were applied, and the ears brought to a stand still, and the panting husband enters the cars, to thc delight of all the passengers, especially of his wife. Moral money will stop a train of cars much quicker than husbands. Horrible ATKOCITY. We translate from Le Droit, a French paper of influence, the following account of cruelty practised iu Hamburg, which is truly heart-rending: " It appears that some months since the police of Hamburg had their at tention directed to the residence of Dr Canard, a quack doctor, who had accumulated over two mil lion thalers by the manufacture of his nostrums. II is neighbors said that at all hours they heard the most excruciating cries proceeding from this house, and a descent was made, when a scene pre sented itself which is beyond description. In one room was a poor boy, whose body had thc appear ance of having been roasted before a hot fire. There was scarcely a place on his body which was not marked by heated irons, applied by the doctor to try the efficacy of his salves for the cure of burns. In another room a young girl was discov ered whose head was shaved, who was a victim to the doctor's hair restoratives, and who said that bet hair had been ruined while testing hair dyes, and had finally been sacrificed by the doc.or to i test the value of his new discovery. Children with ; decayed teeth were also found, who were used to perfect drops for the toothache; and one innocent girl, originally white, had become a martyr to an article for beautifying the otmplexion, which had resulted differently from what the doctor intended. Ike doctor, whose name is Herr A. Piilfoo, it is 1 said escaped to thc United States. Deatii of a Kino. The news brought from j the Old World by the Canada announces the death of his Majesty the King of Dahomey. He was remarkable as having been a ferocious brute, i if an expression so strong may be applied to a personage so exalted, and for having maintained a body-iruard of female warriors a troon nf Amazonian Ebony. And when he died the Kingdom of Dahomey showed tiie sinceritv of Its affliction by sacrificing, with the most unni'eirarly sacrifice, eight hundred niggers to his honored manes. " w MURDER. The trial of Erastus H022 in Raleigh for the killing of Sherwood G Parrish at Winston's Hotel jn that city some time in January, was brought to ' a dose on Thursday the 7th inst., by a rendition 1 0f a verdict of euiltv of murder in the first degree. iarriih wok a clurt at thp abnvfi house, and Horer i t. ' . v. . " j t t .a l.,vi,-.L. Snmi. Hlffinnltv having occurred nao c. isvuiv.. w... v j n i i, nmnrlninr nf Hio imisp t.n ULnniu mv- nu, nv jji --. -... , : 1 It L C .,!!..- II..,,,- nnntinnn ni'i nrcu Lin inu. 1. 11 v. uivlfiiw v . - -w. - piease .rarrisii, reiuscu to unuw w jf he again appeared at the table, and took a posi- tion at the door to prevent him from going to the ; eUpper table. As Hogg passed in Parrish snapped a pistol at him, whereupon he turned and stabbed ( parrish, killing him almost instantly, The prisoners counsel asked for a new trial on (he ground that one of the State's witnesses had been allowed to narrate the circumstances of a dif- 1 . ... ficulty which had occurred between the witness and the prisoner 12 years ago, in which the wit ness had received a stab from the prisoner. It was contended that this circumstance hud preju diced some of the jury against the prisoner. J udue Dick overruled this point, and on Friday proceed to pass sentence. His honor commenced by asking the prisoner if he had anvthintr to sav why sentence should not re passed upon him, and receiving no reply, he J besought him to look well at his awful situation, fle had been tried by a jury of his own choosing, 1 atlj that iury had found him guilty of murder. ue yarned him not to place too much confidence in the hope that he would get a new trial at the hands of the Supreme Court, assuring him that his chance were meagre and against him. He admonished him to make his peace with his God and prepare for death. He then continued, "The Judgment which the Court now pronounces upon you, is that you be remanded to the prison from : whence you came, and there remain until the 20th day of May next, on which day, between the hours ' . . . . . a n mjr .i . l , i 1 1 1 of 10 A. M.. and 2 P. M., the Sheriff shall take you to the place of public execution and hang you by the neck till you are dead. And may God have mercy upon your soul." From this judgment the prisoner's counsel took an appeal to the Supremo Court. Peculiar "Americanism," commonly called know-nothingism, is not extinct yet, as will be seen by the following resolution passsd by the opposition Convention of Tennessee : "0. That we are in favor of a reasonable exten- g;on Qf thc peri0J 0f probation now prescribed for the naturalization ot foreigners, and a more ririu i enforcement of the law upon that subject the prohibition of the immigration of foreign paupers and criminals, and the prevention of all foreigners not naturalized from voting at elections." Bev. Mose I). Hoge, D. D. pastor of the Fifth Street Presbyterian Church, Richmond, was ten dered the pastorage of the church in Brooklyn, the pulpit of which has recently been made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Bcthune, but promptly declined. Thc inducements for accepting were a salary of $8,000 per annum, with the free use of a parsonage, the annual rent of which is 2,000, and furnished at an outlay of 15,000. Storms at tiik South. During the past fort night violent hurricanes and hail storms have swept over many of the Southern States, in some instances causing great destruction of property. Sudden Death. A. G. Gorrcll, Esq., of Greensboro', N. C, died suddenly at .Jarratt's Hotel, in Petersburg, Ya., on Wednesday last a fit, caused by intemperance. Useful Hints to Young Men. TIow many young men ignorantly deny themselves a fortune There is scarcely a young man of good sense in this town who cannot save 100 easily from his annual earnings, and if he will forego cigars, cock tails and toddies, ho can save double that amount. Figures sometime produce almost incredible results. Thus, for instance, if a young man upon his twen tieth birth-day will invest $100 in any stock, paying ten per cent., and annually thereafter will invest the same amount and the accumulation of interest, he will be worth, when be is thirty years old, 1,753; when forty years old, 0,o00; when fifty years old, 18,150; when sixty year old 18, 700. How simple, then, is thc plan by which a youth of the present day can pass his old age in to regulate his comfort and luxury. He has only expenses so as to save an hundred dollars each year from his income. An Expensive Family. The Turkey has thirt3-six wives and seven and eighty female slaves, which cost hi seven millions of dollars a year. u;tan 1. 1 hufiderd n forty- A Irish Liquor Dealer in Dublin paper, that he has a small announces in an quantity of the by (Jeorge IV.. whisky on hand which was drank when iu Dublin- A Lawyer Stumped. From legal gentleman writes as follows : Tennessee a On one of the Eastern Circuits our .Judge was well versed in the law, upright, and liked a joke. An important will case, involving some fifteen thousand dollars, was before the court for trial. Able counsel were trying to break the will, on the ground that undue coercion was used by thc testator's wifeover him, he by his will nianumittin several slaves, as the heirs held against his own wish. All went on smoothly for a time, when Sam Roberts attorney for the plaintiff's, asked witness ! if he had heard thc deceased say anything about ; making a will? j "Yes." "Well, what did you hear, Mr Jackson?" j "I heard him say he wauted to see his negroes free, and " i "You may stand aside," hastily interrupted Sam. "The witness stood bewildered; the bar was , convulsed with laughter; witness glanced up and down uneasily, till at length bis Honor summoned enough of gravity to tell the witness thaf. his evidence was not as Mr Roberts wanted, and that he might stand aside. During the progress at the same trial, Sam was caught again. He was attempting to show by a witness that the deceased did not waut to make a will. "-Mr llson." said Sam, ' did you IT . i . . J ever hear liorion sa' anything about a wiUr "Yes, sir." "Well, what was it, Mr Wilson?" "He said he did not want to make a will." "Did he give auv reasons?" "Yes, sir." "Well, what were they? Give us his words." own ' II -r bm en, i will, lie said he did not want that rascal of a lawyer, Roberts, comin over there with a bale of sacks to take awav his nfonev'" Poor Sam was dumbfounded: the bar finrk- roared; when the Judge, either from a spirit of tun, or because he did not hear, requested the witness to repeat. The merriment became general. it, is nccuiess to auu that the will was sustained CONVICTED OF 1ST. C. A HORRIBLE CBIMB. Last Saturday, we learn from the Wabash (Ind.) Intelligencer, a man named William Joy was con victed of burning his own child to death, and sentenced to eighteen years confinement in the penitentiary. The principal witness against him was his little daughter Nancy, whose story to the b . . T . 1 1 ' i iurv is thus eiven bv the lutelligencer: Hpr little brother Joliti. a cnnu UUUUL 1 jr . j , - 1 m 1 . four - - -r . ! mnlltlia nil! V99 OHlt.f linWI'll. UIKl tl U I DCCO SO IOT . j -1 1 . ( sumi, u""' j - I J :.l k.l J : Un ,,;,,lt on.l Hiatiiphfd crieu contMuvrauiv uurniK ic m"v uio. her father. Early in the w morn in"; ier father She did told her to cret ud and make a fire. so made the fire principally of brush, because there was no other wood prepared. After the fire began to burn, the child continuing to cry and fret, her father became enraged, and suatched the child from its mother's arms, tore every particle of clothing off it, and then took it by one arm and one leg, and held it over the fire until it was burned in several places to a blister. He then struck the little sufferer two blows with his hand, leaving upon its body the marks of his fingers, and then threw it into the cradle or bed. His wife and daughter struggled to get the child away from him, but were unable to do so, and when Mrs. Joy found that he was going to burn the child to death, she ran out of the house to prevent seeing the sight, and get out of the hearing of the child's screams. Joy took down his gun and pointing it at her compelled her to come in. He then left the house and did not return, as we understand, for a day or two. Four days after this terrible scene the little suffering child died and was buried. None but Joy and his wife and two young daught ers knew anything about the cause of its death. The neighboring women, who came in and assisted to lay out the child, found it so mortified and decayed that they could not wash it, or even take off the clothing upon it. Joy told his wife and daughters that if they ever said a word about it he would kill them, and they believed him, and so kept the horrible secret. Fatal Accident. A fatal accident occurred in the upper part of this county on the 11th inst., by the discharge of a gun. The particulars are as follows: Mr J. L. Murphy took his gun andstepped into his garden to shoot some birds, and getting short of amunition, went into the house and direct ed a very valuable house girl of his to get some powder and shot out of the closet, which she did, and on turning away to put the remainder back, and while Mr Murphy was placing a cap on the nipple the lock slipped from his thumb and dis charged the entire load in the girls head, literally cutting the entire top of her head off and scattering it in fragments upon the floor and surrounding objects. -Ve icb cm 1 rogres. Distressing Accident. We regret to learn that Mr. A. A. Hall, of Wilkesboro,' one day hist week, happened to a serious accident, in the following manner: 31r. Hall was mounted on a young horse which had not been fully subdued to the saddle, and, by some means fell off, his foot getting entangled in the stirrup the horse ran, dragging Mr. II. some distance upon the ground, inflicting serious, if not fatal, injuries, upon the head and chest. At the last account 31r. Hall was speechless and not expected to live. JStates cille Jjrjress. Texas. The Houston Telegraph, of the 1st instant, in its weekly commercial review, remarks: '1 he accounts from the interior are everywhere favorable, crops are universally starting well, and are in a considerable degree more forward than the average seasons. With no set back we may expect to see the first bale of new cotton in our market by the middle of July at farthest, and some plant ers have set their stakes by the 1st of July. The wheat crops had, up to the latest dates, sustained no injury from frosts, and thc season has now so far advanced as to render the danger of such injury very slight. The crop promises fe be a larger one than that of any previous year. The Wheat Crop. The accounts of the wheat crop from all sections of the Union are most favora ble. In northern Georgia and in Tennessee they anticipate a larger yield than in any former year, while at the North and West the prospect is equal ly flattering. North Caroina Tobacco. T;he Winston, X. C, Sentinel says that the farmers in that region are turning their attention to the cultivation ., I.i VHUin much more than heretofore: and that they wii. this veur have a larger quantity ready for market Tut disease Hod Cholera. We learn that this !&se i.-- playing sad havoc among the hoes in th lower portions of the District A jrcntleinan ifuui meu us on sales i. j i day that he had lost upwards ol eighty-head, and that many of his neighbors were losing numbers of them from the same disease. Can any one suggest a remedy? If so, for the information of our vubseribers, we would be pleased to have them communicate with uson thesubject. Bar it well (& C.) Sentinel. The Way they settle it Geogetown, Del., Messenger in Dclu icare. The says last week thc wife of a man in Dagsborough Hundred, Del., left ner husband, and with a young man took up her residence in Millsboro. The husband made his appearance one day, and the two men proceeded from the house and sat down upon a log and calmly talked the matter over, regarding it in all its bear ings. Thc result was, that the young man who was in posession of the wife agreed to gie the lawful but injured and forsaken husband, the sum of seven dollars and a dog for his wife. Thus was the difficult and dangerous business compromised to the full satisfaction of all parties concerned and the former husband, having abandoned all right, title, and claim in favor of the lover, took his de parture immediately. VALUABLE TESTIMON Y. Geneml Jh H n, a Piactissii!; Attorney in Cas County, Georgia, and Proprietor of ilie "Standaid," at Cassville, over h s own signature : and Editor writes thus. Casvii.i.k, (la., February 6, 1658. Messrs. Seih VV. Fowle A; Co., Boston iVIass., Genllenien: At the request of your travelling agent, I nive you a tatenieni t4 my experi ence in i he use ol Dr Wisiar'e Balsam ol Wild Cherry. I have been Ming it .r two years in my family, fur Colds and ( oiigliH, and have l.juud ii the most efficacious Remedy that I have ever tried. For Cmmhsaud Colds in children I know it to be an ex celleut medium- Keapectfully youts, JOHN RICE. None genuine unless sigmd I. BUTTS on the wrapper. Prepared only by Set VV. Fowle & Co., Boston, Mass., to wh .ni ail oiderg should be addressed, and for sale by their Agents. Sold iu Charlotte by E.NYE HUTCHISON & Co April 19, 185'J ftCT" THE great draw back to persons emigrating to the exijeme south and western country, is the fear thev have of the Fever and Ague ihe most fearful of all diseases. kvrry day we hear of persons attacked by this disease and made helpless in a short time, without any means of af lordtng rehet In vuw of the great demand for a remedy Ur Ilosietier has presented his celebrated "Bitters" whose curanve p..weis lor all diseases of the stomach have been u.nversai.y bckiiowl aged. I he "Bittets." nreoared aher exnel l nce and deep study, have received the encomiums Z?oZ& v,r"l,S al1 we can say is to try them, and jude for them eTeryUhXC!fU'ly' S'd by dru'818 and dealere generally. S )!d in Charlotte by Dr. E. Nye Hutchison & Co. TTorip ivti t 'nR v An lnlorocflnn e the Philadelphia Press, was developed at the Ut! meeting of the Agricultural Society. Dr. Klwj called the attention of the members to the fL that the wheat craps of this country were fMt diminishing, so far as the number of bushels raised to the acre was concerned. He stated that in Ohio a State but little over fifty years old, the cron had fallen off from forty bushels to the acre to about sixteen while in the best portions of New York where thirty bushels used to be considered a fir crop, only twelve bushels are now raised. The falling off in other States had been equally ed; but while this was the fact with the when crops, he was glad to know that the amount 0 corn produced to the acre had largely increased and was still increasing enormously. WORTH CAROLINA MILITARY INSTITUTE. Charlotte, N. C. THE Exerci3C3 of this Institute will commence on the 1st October next. FACULTY ELECT: M.vj. D. H. HILL, Superintendent. Lieut. C. C. LEE, Commundaut, C. P. ESTILL, A. M., Priucipal of Primary Depurt. ment. Course of Studies : In the Primary Department, such as to qualify Student to enter any College. In the Scientific Department the West Point Car ricuhttn will be closely followed. It will he the aim of the Professors to make Surveyors, Engineers, ChemiiU, and men fit for the practical business of life. In addition to the usual Excrcisrs at Military School, the months of August and September will be spent in Campaigning through thc mountains of North Carolina. The Academic Year will commence on the kt day of October, and will embrace twelve months. A furlough of two months (Aug. and Sept.) will be given to Cadets at the end of their second year. Particular attention will be given to the moral and religiou-i instruction of Cadets. EXPENSES: The Institute will provide Board, Fuel, Lights, Wash ing, Arms, Equipments and Uniforms, and all cloth ing except underclothes, for $300 PEB ANNUM, one-half payable in advance; the balance in six montW. Xo extra charges. No remission of charges to those who leave unless on the score of health. TERMS OF AD3IISSIOX: No one will he admitted into the Piumahy Depart mk.nt under Twelve years of age; nor into the Scikx tific Dkpartmext under Fifteen nor over Twcnty-nne years of age. All connected with the Scientific De partment will be required Xo board in the Institute; those in the Primary Department may do so if they choose. REMARKS; The Institute Buildings arc the largest, most elegant and commodious for the accommodation of Cadets in the Southern country; and the B.iard of Directors trust that under the management of the Superintendent and Commandant, (both of whom are (iraduates of West Point and of long experience in the Army, and in the business of instruction,) the Institute will le established on a true Military basis and conducted on true Military principles. The board w ill further say, that Mr BSTIU is an A. M. of thc University of Virginia and an ex perienced Classical teacher. They would further statu that it is their intention to increase the number of teachers in both Departments as the patronage of the public may require. This Institute was granted a liberal Charter by the Legislature of North Carolina, with the power of con ferring Degrees upon those who complete the pre scribed Course of Studies. Beg Applications for admission will he received until the 1st of September, and must be directed to Dr. C. J. Fox. President of the Board, Charlotte, X. C. lor further particulars see Circular. C. J. FOX, JAS. P. IRWIN, II. LaF. ALKXANDER, JAS. II. CARSON, TIIOS. II. BREM, S. M. BLAIR, DAVID PARKS, Charlotte, April 12, 1850. Notice. On Monday the ICth of May next, nt thc late resi dence of Jonathan Burleyson, dee'd, I, as Executor of deceased, will sell on a credit of Six months, thc lands of said Jonathan Burleyson: being the tract on which he resided at his death, containing THREE or FOUR HUNDRED ACRES, on six-mile creek in Union county; also a tract of about 50 Acres near the late Aaron 11. Howie's residence. And I. as Administrator of Jasper J. Burleyson, dee'd, will sell at thc same time and place the personal property of the said Jasper J. Burleyson, consisting of Beds, Furniture, and various other articles of personal property belonging to deceased. SAM L II. WALK! P. April 12, 1851). 5t FASHIONABLE ItllLLlXEKY BY MRS. IIAWLEV & AVINDLE, First Boor West of the Charlotte Bank, Try on Street, VHJtil E, OTTE, JIT. C, JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF THE iiT isf ss1 fSss PRICKS ranging from SI to 820. Head Dresses, Collars, Infants' Hati, and a splendid assortment of Bonnet and Dret Trimming The Empress Patent Expansion .Skirt, together with a variety of Bridal and Party Ornament. &c. &c. ftir Please call and examine our Stocli.""&i March 22, 1859 tf 9 E have received an unusually large Stock Spring and Summer Dry Goods Hardware, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, S'ra Coods, and all hinds of Good usually kept in Store; all of which have been carefull selected, and will be solu as cneap as the clieape-t. We hope that persons wishing to buy Goods will favor U3 with n call before baying elsewhere, as determined not to be undersold. We invite the atten tion of Wholesale buyers. BROWX & STITT, April 12. 4t ZiCW STOKE at Morrow's Turn-Out. The subscribers respectfully inform thc citiiens Morrow's Turn-out and neighborhood, that they li oirucu a siorc in tnc iiuiming formerly occumc -.( Henderson k Ahrens, where they will keep a large anil new assortment of Spring and Summer Millinery Goods, Clothing, Shoes. Boots, Hats, Caps Groceries. As we bought our Stock at New York and PhiW' lihia f. ir fMali .- . ..I I.. 4. tl ihcal" .... ...... v auic IU BCI1 UUi UU""' , ., than any store in the country. We respectfully o!,tl a share of patronage. All kinds of Produce taken in exchange for Goo at market prices. HAMMERSHLAG & MENDELS- April 12. 2t NOTICE IS HEREBY GIYEN to all fox-hunters and other are in the habit of throwing down my fences, r'0 through 1113- fields, or otherwise trespassing 011 m-v ,1., that I will, in every instance, prosecute thcin for CHARLES E March 2f, 1850. Im-pd
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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