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CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON" PROPERTY OF THE OTHER.
IN ADVANCE.,
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7 Published every Tesday,Q)
BY
H"M. YATES, ElHTOB AMD PrOWUBTO.
Knu'iN A. Yates, Associate Editor.
tl" i. -.i.l in :l.l:UI'
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If paid within nnHrtbs 2 "
,) j, .i.l aAer ili.- expiration of the yer, Qu
x .., person Madiag ss five kkw sabaerihera,
nmpanied l.v lb ;idane ?ulcriiim will
sixth "y gratis fof oik' year.
Mil, erihen and other who awry wish to scad
.i 1 1 i .in ! so by DMtil, at our risk.
Transient advertisements must Ik- paid for in
Advertisement not marked oh the manuscript
time, will be Inserted until forbid, ami
crnnli flii i v.
.1. M. MILLER, M. D.,
Practitiomrr of Mt-mciiic and Surgery,
yAx Oth. Office opposite Kerr's Hotel.
D. B. RE A,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CHARLOTTE, N. '..
Will give prompt attention to all busiuess entrusted to
bis I'r.iiVs-ional ran.
OrricE uirostTB Kerb's Hotel.
March 1 I. 1859 J
A. C. WILLIAMSON,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR. AT LAW,
I t i ken an i. Ili jointly wUh .1. A. Vox, Esq, up-stairs
ilnor to tin- Conrt House, where he will In- con
antly present to attend to all calls on professional
i-imss made tor himself or lor Mr Fox when he is
absent.
January I. 1839. tf
,1. A. FOX,
Attorney "t JLmxjv,
i in.:.-, next door fa the Coarl tfoaxe, Cp-Stair
A. C. WILLIAMSON. Eso., who '' :1 .i"i,,t occapanl
itfthc office, and arbo will be uniformly present, will
attend to professional business lor c in my absence.
December 2 I , 1858 tf
ROBERT GIBBON, H. I)..
PRACTITIONER OF M EOICI HE
AN 1
Office A ". - Iricim'n eetruer, CllARlOTTE, X. f
Ifccemler 1 I. 1858.
.IAS. T. DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Wiil practice in the Courts of Mecklenburg and the
adjoining counties.
:-. flu- rolleetion of claims promptly attended to.
March I 1, 1859 v
T LI. IS RE A & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
HEALERS IN
British, Frrach and American
Dry Goods,
Carpets, Hardware, Hats and Shoes,
Charlotte, X. C.
THOMAS II. BRRW,
J, A. SADLER. Jr.
Nov 9, 1858. T. LAFAYETTE ALEXANDER.
KAN KIN & MARTIN
o m in i s s i o u 1 1 1 j) a n ts ,
Wilmirgfon, N. C.
RRT.C. RANKIN. ALFRED MARTIN.
Aug. .'.. 1859.
I3.KLT8 ! BELTS !
1 or Wheat Threshers, Fans, cot'.on dins. Saw Mill-,
a -i I machinery of every aeseriptroa; the best ueifmg
u iii neanii far suerior to leather in many respects.
t'fl .ft l ii I'll, m- ilfiiir i,u niie -ifr (M It it tin r.
THE SI N W ILL NOT AFFECT IT.
!: ;a or water casm t injure it: it requires no oil:
i it si will aol cul it: your negroes will not steal it
r striag or shoe suit-.; von can get any length you
wish -. in one iccc uitlioiit joints, and aithgoo3 care
ii will h.-t any tanner for ta'enty years.
Or.iei a. . ..uii.aui. .1 with the rash "ill n reive
prompt attention, au.l the freight paid to any point on
:. mil 'r stagr line.
CASH PRICED-
- inch.
t
i cents per foot.
..I.
1 9
12
I ply
.i
j Seamless lielts manufitrtured to order at .-liort
n 'lice.
CondneTTtip Ifosr of nil si7 . for water or ptenni
pressures, ordered direct from the Manufacturers. Also,
Packing of all oVs. riptiou, at ."j Cents per pound.
J. B. F. BOONE,
June 7. 1859 Charlotte. N. C.
CERTIFICATES.
I .l.i herein rcrti'v thai I have tin er Cum Kelts, which
I got of Mr .1 I! F Boone, in use in my machinery in my
Tan Yard, aad hare been in use for the last eight or
t ii months and as fc.r a. 1 have trieil tiiein, I like them
! tter than the leafnbr belts. Yours respectfully.
c. C. HENDERSON,
June l..".: Lincolnton, N. C.
Tiit i- to errtify that we have been using the "Rab
b r Belting' sold by M- .1 1 F Boone, and find it has
proved all that he represents it to he, ami have no hesi
iou in reeoinmeii'ling its use to the pal.lie.
fOlJSG .V WIMSTON.
Proprietora of the Rock Island Wool Mills.
July :i.
I hereby certify, that the Imlia Rifljoerlfeltirfg nnBpht
me of J I! F I". Kmc, has been ased in my cotton Fac
I ry from 1- to Ui mouliis, and has given entire satis
aetiom; JwlydS, ia: T. R. TATE.
Magic Oil Magic.
A Fresh supplv just received and for alehv
K. NYE IH'TCniSON & CO.
June 28, 1859.
and Proprietor.
WHEAT !
The Bnbscriber is
crop of Wheat at the
will find it to their
LOTTE STEAM MIL
prepared to purchase the new
highest market price. Farmers
advantage to call at the CHAR
.S before Belling.
JN'o. WILKES.
tf
Jalv 2C, 1858
Notice.
F. SCARR h iving purchased the entire interest in
the firm of P. SCARR .v CO., the Business will here
after be continued by himself personally.
All Notes and Accounts due the late firm of
P. S. ai r k Co., to January 1-t. 1859, mast be paid in
to F. SCARR by July l-t. or they will be placed in the
hand of an Attorney for iiumediate collection.
May 17, lf.V.L tf
The Charlotte Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company,
C CONTINUES to take ri.-ks against loss bj fife, on
Houses, Goods, Produce, &c. at usual rates.
rrtiJrHt. C. STEELE,
y;,-. v. ..'. OVERMAN,
Altarmetf JOS. H. WILSON,
.W.y .- 7' F.. NYE HUTCHISON.
DIRECTORS:
A. C. STEELE, S. T. WRISffOV,
.INC. L. BROWN, WM. JoiINtVrON,
II. B. TAYLOR, F. SCARR,
( HAS. OVERMAN.
Executive Commit tee S. T. Wriston, F. Scarr ,J no.
L. Broa n.
April 20, 1859.
TAXES.
The Tax Lists for the year 18oS arc now in my
hand- for inspection. Those liable to paj taxes win i
please come forward and settle.
E. C. 9RIER, Sheriff.
April 12, lf59. .
BY J. R. KKKR, Proprietor.
n . . . . , ,t..,.fl, .r. I Til IV .. (Tn.llnfl 1,
E fi I I A I ' 1 'I T TWA I I . ' -. ruuiu .lit
l.atross af the Charlotte Hotel.
mm
;5"flggw At tHi Hotel is Ivept the
Stages from Charlotte to A.-: ville.
Uet. 1, 1838.
line ot uauy
. B. KERR.
OKTH CUtOLIW
MILITARY INSTITUTE,
Charlotte, N. C.
THK KxHtcues f this Institute will commence oi
the 1st loiter next.
FACULTY E'.ECT:
M -.j. I. IT. HILL, Superintendent.
!.. r. C. C. LKE. Commandant,
C. iVESTILL, A. M., I'riucipal of Primary Depart
raeut.
Course of Studies:
la t if IVnnaiv D.na it mint, sueh as to qualify a
S Uadeat to enter any College.
fa tbe Scientific Department the West Point Cur
i will be elosely followed. 1 1. will lie the aim ot
the Professors to make Surveyors, Engineers, Chemists,
and mm tit lor the practical bosiuesa of life.
In addition to the usual farreine at Military Schools,
the tnlht of August and September will he spent in
" i painting through the mountains of North Carolina.
The A'aihinic i'mr will comiaence on the 1st
i'.av fit October, anil will embrace twelve months. A
lur'.o'igh of two months i Aug. and Sept.) will be given
to Cadet at the nd of I heir second year.
I'artieular attention will he given to the moral and
r.Hgiou latlrucli ii ol Cadets.
EXPENSES:
The las tit ate will provide Board, Fuel, Lights, Wash
ing, Anns. Kaaiati -n t and Uniforms, and all cloth
ing except uWercJ ithes, for $300 PER ANNUM,
one-half pHWible in advance; the balance in six months.
Xo ettr rUetrgr. No remission of charges to those
who leave unless on the score of health.
TEMMX F ADJIISSIOX:
No one will "be adm to d into the I'kimakv Dcpaht
mknt under Twelve years of age; nor into the Scikx
TtriG Dei'autkxt un ler Fifteen nor over Twenty-one
vears of age. AM co.inecteil w ith the Scientific De
partment tvill l rnjnii .to board in the Institute; thore
in the l'riniaiy Impart, nt may do aa if they ehoo.se.
RE MARKS;
Th" Institute Uhildin - are the largest, most elegant
and eonunodious for t aeeommodat ion of Cadets !
the Southern eoantry: ai 1 the Hoard of Directors trust
that under the nianai m it of the Superintendent and
Commaiidaok (hpiA of o,n are Graduates of West
I.i5iii :inH rtina exner: i- in the Arniv. and in the
husiness ot instruction.) th
on a true Military bais an.
r - ----- --- .
Institute w ill he established
conducted on true Military
principles. The hoard, will
is a Graduate of thjC Vi
perienced Classical teacher
irther say. that Mr ESTILL
inia University and an ex
Thev would further state
that it is their intention
to mere
ise the nomber of
teachers in both Departlncnb
the patronage of the
public may require. j
This Institute was granted a liberal Charter by the
Legislature of Ni rth Carolina, with the power of con
ferring Degrees upon those who complete the pre
scribed Course of Stmli-s.
j,.-.y- Applieatioai for' admission will be received
until the 1st of Scteiid.. and must be directed to
Dr. C. .1. Fox, President of vthe Board, Charlotte. N. C.
For further particulars MC Circular.
C. J. Ft'X. 1
U P. IKW1N.
II. LaF. VLEXAVDER,
JAf. H 'AUSON, j
TIMb5. II BE EM, 2
W. A. OWENS, Com.
ol Charlotte,
J. P. BfcRP. Intendant
April 12, 1S50. I'm ot charlotte.
UNITED STATES MAIL LINE
From
Charlotte to .V.ieviIIc,
..aw
UitiM'
The subscriber would call tbe atfen.ovn of the Trav
, eling public to the above line of DAILY STACKS, con
! neciing at Charlotte with the ltr fr.v.u on the
! Charlotte and S. C. and North Carolina Railroads.
To persons going East this is the eh.i,csi us well as
! the most direct route: and pa.e lbrourfa uiit of the
most romantic and beautiful region of etftern North
Carolina. Running in full view of '.rated
HICKORY NTT FALLS V
in davlight, the traveler has an opportunity of aewmg
that magnificent and wonderful work of nature. 4 fine
view is also obtained of the loftiest peak of the wrld
renowned BLACK MOUNTAIN.
Many other noted localities cannot I ail to interact
i the traveler.
New and splendid Coaches, line Stork and the very
beat Drivers, will insure the comfort, safety and Speed,
of passengers.
Office at Charlotte: KERR'S HOTEL.
" tsbeville: GUDGSKS HOTEL.
J. F. SCLLIVAM,
July 12, 159. CtB. jCoitracW.
il-TXA FIRE LSIKAXE tOMPASY.
CASH ASSETTS, $1 ,750.000.
K. NYE BCTCHIsy, -geni.
Charlotte. April 17. 1S5: J
CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4,
YOUNG LADY FOR SALE.
The lines below, from the Charleston Courier,
are quite readable, though ihey contain what is
not very true. There are few ladies who can be
bought with money. Indeed, there are not many
gentlemen in a lix to purchase, most of them being
themselves for sale:
Here's a maiden for sale; who is willing to buy?
The price which is asked you ma' deem to be high,
IJut when you reflect it is a bargain for life,
You will not think it much for a beautiful wife.
id high, my lads, it would be a sin and a shame
To induce a coy maiden to alter her name,
'Less the value received, as the price of the marriage
Is able to purchase a silver tipp'd carriage.
Oh ! think you, my lads, with magic and art,
To gain or to wheedle a young maiden's heart;
We've read of such charms; but, away with a sigh,
If you wish to get married, my laddies, bid high.
I care very little where you gather your gold,
For that is your secret, and it need not be told,
The sale is public, and the money once paid 1
Whether w orked fur or stolen has purchased the
maid !
Then my loving young laddies, for woe or for weal,
If your stout hands labor or your light lingers steal,
Quick, gather the money; 'tis the wonderful art
That can win and retain any young maiden's heart.
HATS! HATS!!
Come to the Clothing Emporium, and buy you a nice
fashionable Hat or Cap.
We are receiving a large stock of the above goods
at cxeeedinglv low prices.
FULLINGS, SFKINGS & CO.
August 30, 1859 tf
To Farmers and Country Merchants j
!
J. Y
ARE now offer in;
. i2kvc;e & co.,
to the public the largest and best as-
soitment ot GROCERIES
ever brought to tli is
market, consisting of
COFFEE, SL tl Alt, MOLASSES, SALT, &c.
The best kind ot Bagging, Hope and lwine.
Also, 15,000 pounds good country-cured Macon,
10,000 ' ' Tennessee sides,
2,000 " :i Tennessee Lard,
All of which will be sold low for cash or country Pro
duce. Call and examine our stock, as we don't charge
for looking.
Charlotte, August 2.!, 1859.
F. SCARE,
(Late Smrr , Co.)
Chemist & DinTg-g-it
4 h:irloltc, Mm 13.,
RESPECTFULLY" invites attention to his complete
stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS and -MEDICINES,
select.-.! with great care and without regard
to price: purity and quality being especially regarded.
To Physicians.
New Chemicals and Drugs just received. Hypnphos
phites of Soda and Potass. Tilden's Fluid Kxtiacts.
Churchill's Syrup of the Hypophospbites, Amnion
Ferric Alum, Perchlorate of Iron (solid,) kc.
Country Merchants
Will find at. this esUblismeut a full assortment
article.- in the Drug line at Charleston Prices.
ot
Babbit's Pure Potash, in tins.
Concentrated Lye,
Soap Potash, in barrels.
Vinegar,
Nutmegs,
Allspice,
Cloves.
Mace,
Cingcr,
Pepper,
o Cinnamon.
O I
Linseed
Sperm
Lard
Oi
Train Oil.
Tanners'
Sweet u
A full supply of Paints.
White Lead, Ked Lead,
Paris (Jrcen,
Chrome ( Ireen,
Chrome Yellow,
Prussian Blue,
Haw and Burnt Umber,
e . g Terra de Sienna, kc,
Elegant Preparations lor the Hair.
Burnett's Cocoa.
Savage s U rain a,
Bazin's Ox Marrow, ke.,
At SCAUR'S Drug Estaldishmtnt.
May 31, 1S5T
NEW
Turnip Seed!
t KOP.
Turnip Seed ! !
-A large supply ot
uperior lurmp oeeu
Flat Dutch,
lied Top,
Rata Baga,
Large Globe.
Just received from the North, nt
SCARE'S
July I86.
DRUG STORE.
Choice Salad Oil.
Eagle Brand.
a FRESH supply of this delicious and pure Oil ju
. receired and for sale at SCARR' 8
Jane 7 Family Drug Store.
The Great Embassador of Health to all Mankind.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.
DYSPEPSIA. The gn at scourge of this coMim nt yields
quickly to a course of these antiseptic Pills, and the diges
tive organ
what hiih
. are restored to tli'iv proper tone ; no matter in
ana sbffbe this hvdia of disease exhibits itself,
this searching and unerring lemciiy disperses it tromine
patient's svsteni.
Emtsipelas, Salt Unci m, Bad Legs, Old Sokes
AND TJLCERS. Cases of many years standing that have
pertinaciously rr-fused to yield to any other remedy or
treatment, have suvcnmaed to a few applications of this
powerful umrncnt.
BILIOUS DISORDERS. This anti-bilious m dieine ex
pels the hidden SC ds ol the complaint, and n nd is all the
tlnids and secretions pure and ffuent, cleansing and resus
itatiug the viral functions of the body.
GbkeRAL Dehimtv axi Wkaknlss. From w hatever
can,,-, low in ss of spirits, and other signs of a diseased
livcr.aud other disorganization of the system, vanish un
set th. eradicating influence of this all powerful antiseptic
and detergent remedy.
Sold at the manufactories of Professor Holloway, 80
Maiden Lane. New York, and by ail dealers in mcdieine
through. nit the V. States and the civilized world, in boxes
t 16 cents, 63 cents, and $1 each. Directions for the
guidance oi patients are affixed to each box.
j Par sale in Charlotte by E. NYE HUTCHISON
' & CO. April 18, 18E9. y
iBtstmi 33 cm omit.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
A Millionaire. llobt Wickliffe of Kentucky,
recently eUjceased, is said to have been the wealth
iest man in that State. He commenced business
in life as a laborer at 50 cents per day, studied law
at night by the light of the fire, and afterwards be
came an eminent lawyer, and by operations of va-
. - .
nous Kinus aecumuiateu property aa.o -
fotiCJiiilhons of dollars. As a laborer it is saiu ae
was noted for industry and faithfulness at the
whip-saw he was unequalled, and on many occa
sions cut down the timber and split out 500 rails a
dav.
Mr Wickliffe, unlike many others, was never j
ashamed to acknowledge las humble origin, but
thought it an honor to
have the credit
of being a
Wickliffes
It is not
working man. Wonder
it the young
looked on the matter in the same light
likely
they bragged much about their daddy's
being a wood-sawyer, especially when in company
w ith the slick-haired, hairy-faced, perfumed gen
try of incorruptible upper-tendom !
KlSSINO. Those fond of this lovely pastime j
and rather disagreeable job, sometimes, will please j
read the following and ovem themselves accord- I
U V .
inglv :
"A trial has just terminated in England result-
ing in
establishing a law relative to kissing. A
rntleman undertook to kiss a lady because she
said he couldn't. A tussel ensued, both fell on
the floor, and in the melee she bit the man's nose
o kut did not get kissed. He brought suit lor
damages, and the Court ruled that a man has no
right to run any such a risk with his nasal organ
I unless he was w illing to stand what damages might
come from such atrial of strength.
Walking on Water. Since the perform
ance of Blondin's foolish feats of rope-walking at
Niagara, for the purpose of drawing visitors to the
Hotels at that place, several adventurers have
. . .11.1- . . 3
sprung into notice, tne last uemg a man nameu
llickok, who professes to walk ou water by means
I of an apparatus (of his own invention) attached to
1 his feet. This apparatus, or shoes as it is calledis
made of tin, and is about four feet long, to be fas
; tencd to each foot. Of course this will do away
j with the necessity of bridging rivers, creeks, &c.
A MOMENTOUS QUESTION.
Will France and England go to War? The
news by the Arabia is significant of the possibility,
if not the probability, of such a deplorable event.
I Another of those ominous and mysterious leading
' articles has appeared in the columns of the organ
of the Fteuch government, and it has given rise
j to a good deal of angry comment in the London
journals. A letter has also been published in a
paper at Brussels, of a still more menacing charac
ter, slating m ettect that the fan per r made peace
with Austria merely for the purpose of putting
down the naval supremacy of Great Britain, and
that unless the English Cabinet would tamely sub
mit to having their naval estimates fixed by France,
there must be a war between the two powers.
What gives this letter a greater importance than it
would otherwise have, was the fact that it was
written by an extraordinary Paris correspondent,
supposed to be in the confidence of the Emperor
Louis Napoleon, himself, from the noto.Worthy
circumstance that the paper containing it was ad
mitted lij authority at the frontier, whereas all
the issues of the same paper containing articles
bearing on the relations of France and England
have heretofore been stopped. Meanwhile the
preparations for an increase of the navy of England
hare been going on as vigorously as ever, and the
dockyards of Plymouth and Woolwich ring with
an "anvil chorus".
A T T E T IO., FA It JI EUS!
The Magic Plow, ( patented by .1. P. Harris of Missis
sippi.) possesses the advantage of conihining FOUR
FLOWS IN ONE. It can he laid five times and sharp
ened twelve times without the aid of a Blacksmith. It
can he used the whole season without any additional
expense. For sale at the
July 19, 139. tf CHARLOTTE FOUNDRY.
Til E.I S I it E MI'S O FFl CMS,
Wil., CLar, iy liim-rfoi'ri Railroad,
YVjlmi.s-utos, Sept. 12, 1850.
The ANNUAL MEETING of the Stockholder of the
Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad Com
pany, will he held in the Towii of Charlotte, on Friday
the 14th dav of October next.
794t I S- COWAN, Sec y.
REMOVAL
WE inform our friends that we have removed to the
aid stand of Springs & McLeod. corner of College and
Trade street, and are now receiving a large stock of
F.IJfHLY ;( LMFS. which will be
sold low FOR CASH at retail or wholesale.
L. FEASTKR,
E. A. McLEOD.
Charlotte, N. C. Aug. MO, 1&T.9 3ra
MEDICAL BOOKS, &c.
sdect Medical Library (second hand) for sale,
cheap, at the Drug Store of E. N YE HUTCHISON k CO.
Also, two cases Surgical Instruments Apply soon.
August 2, If 39 tf
I will expose to public sale at the Court Hou-sc in
Charlotte on Tuesday of the County Court, in October
next, the TRACT OF LAND on which Archibald Frew
now lives. A credit of six months w ill be given for
Note and security.
JAMES W. OSBORNE, Trustee.
August 23d. 2m
PEA MEAL
Wf keep at our Steam Flouring Mill in this place
Pea Meal for feeding cows aud stock. Also, we have
on hand at all times, Family. Extra. Superfine and
coare Flour. We warrant our family flour.
Com Meal and Grits can always be had at the mill.
J. WILKES i CO.
April ?. 1S:0
1859.
EIGHTH
CHALLENGE TO M. BLONDIN.
The local editor of the McKcan Citizen, throws
out the following laughable challenge to J. lilondin:
A single telegraph wire shall be extended from the
American to the Canada shore, without a single
guy, directly over the cataract at Niagara Falls.
The "Local" of this paper "caring a pair of
cowhide boots and dressed in the costume of a
female Dutch cook, will proceed to the middle of
the wire, with a common clay pipe as a balancing
pole, driving before him a hog and cow, and
carrying on his back a cooking stove, a coop of
chickens, a bed and bedding, a keg of lager beer,
a barber's chair, and various cooking otensils. lie
will then unload himself uud immediately go to
bed.
After a snooze of fifteen minutes he will rise,
rQ prv i r
chi(.-kes bcd and be(idin
i.i' hocr. milk the cow.
k.n- ' j CQok fresh pork for
i-catfjf after which
he will eat a wolt s meal.
He will then throw one hundred and tliirty
summer saults, sucking an egg while in the air
at each evolution, alighting the last time on the
cow's horn, and while in this position will take the
chicken coop, and after having taken the chickens
out one at a time and wrung their necks con
secutively, will balance the coop on the tip end of
his nose, balance the cooking stove on his right
hand thumb, balance the bed-stead on his left
thumb, at the same time finishing the beer and
making a Butch speech to the admiring crowds on
either shore. After which after the manner of
Levi North's celebrated one horse act the "Local"
will perform the one cow act. The foreman of
this paper will then come out on the wire,
blindfolded and shackled, walking on his hands.
Then there will be a representation of Hcenan and
Morrissy's prize fight, in which the "Local" and
foreman will exchange sundry knocks and kicks,
and black eyes. The last scene will be both parties
standingon their heads, and will, in this predicament,
play a rub of twenty-one games of old sledge for
the treat of all hands. The whole to conclude
with a representation of some of the loving scenes
in llomeo and Juliet.
The above feat will beat Blondin's rope walking
but will prove that the performer is just as great
a fool.
mm -mMmm
Triplets. The Wilmington Journal learns
that a few days since, a young colored woman, be
longing to Mr David J. Middlcton of Duplin co.,
gave birth to three fine male children. Mother
and family "doing as well as could be expected."
The
old.
woman, or rather girl, is about fifteen years
North Carolina Dried Frlit. A corres
pondent of the Fayctteville Observer says: "From
the 1st of July up to the 17th of September, there
was sent off from High Point Station, on the N. C.
Railroad, 27 7,879 pounds of dried fruit. 500 lbs.
of this quantity was sent to Indiana About $1000
worth of dried blackberries have been sent to one
man." The correspondent suggests that dried per
simmons might be made a profitable article of
trade, as they command a high price. They are
as plentiful as seed-ticks iu this State.
BrS The freshet by the late rains has done a
good deal of damage on the creeks and rivers in
llowan, Davie, and perhaps Iredell. We learn
that almost entire crops have been destroyed on
Hunting creek and the South Yadkin. One gen
tleman in Rowan, J. D. Johnston, estimates his
loss at 2,000 bushels. We hope it will be found
that these reports arc exaggerated. ticrftsburt
Watchman.
Bui Snake. Mr Samuel Hawkins, living in
3It. Crawford, Rockingham county, A'a., shot an
enormous bull-snake a Few days ago, about a mile
from Mt. Crawford, in what is known as Cedar
liidge. The suakc, says the Register, was eleven
feet in length, and its body was over a foot in cir
cumference. It was in pursuit of a younger broth
er of Mr Hawkins, making a kind of bellowing
noise peculiar to this serpent, when it was shot. Its
teeth were an inch in length.
From the Newborn Progress.
FALLING LEAVES.
BY SUSAN J. HANCOCK.
The leaves are falling one by one,
Seared by September's burning sun,
And pattering on the window sill
The clouds their cooling drops distill,
And here I sit and muse alone
On hopes, like summer flowers, flown.
My little ones have crept away,
Scared by the lightning's vivid play,
And hushed is every sound of mirth,
While rolling thunders shake the earth;
The little birds have sought their nest
The rushing winds are awed to rest.
Rut now more slowly drops the rain,
The thunder peal dies o'er the plain;
The air is hushed and scarce a sound
Breaks on the stillness so profound,
Rut hark! there sighs a gentler breeze,
And a faded leaf whirls from the trees,
A faded leaf, withered and sere
Harbinger of the dying year;
It speaks in tones that all may hear,
Prepare, the winter draweth near;
The summer's gone with bird and flower
The luscious fruit and genial shower.
E'en now the chill autumnal breeze
Is sighing its dirge among the trees;
It tells us mortals we must die,
All faded on the cold earth lie,
It warns us life though bright is brict
And withers as the falling leaf.
It tells us how frail are the bright things of earth,
How fleeting its joy. how short lived its mirth;
To day in his glory man rears his proud head,
Disease breathes upon him, and Jo! he is dead.
It bids us be watchful, be pray'rful, be true,
Re up and a-dotng what our hands nnd to uo
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It tells us hopes wither as fast as they bloom
That life's but a snan from the birth to the tomb.
It bids us remember time's passing away
That all things created tend fast to decay.
A snrinr with its verdure and irarland of leaves
itbiisfinit-cluster d trees,
And summer, in turn, yields to autumn the palm,
While winter, bleak winter, soon brings up the van.
VOLVH V. S UMBER 881.
REWARD OP HONESTY.
Beautiful and Touching Incident.
Johnny Moore is the name of a bright-eyed, jolly
faced lad, twelve or fourteen years of age, whose
invalid and widowed mother, living on Morgan
street, he helps to support by the aale of newspa
pers and by such errands and small jobs as he may
chance to tall in with. Johnny, who is the hero
of the pleasant and truthful incident we arc about
to record, is extremely neat iu his attire, though
his clothes may not have always been the best, and
may have shown in sundry patches and mended
rents, the results of both poverty and frugal care.
In short, Johnny is just such a boy as we used to
"read about" in Sunday School books. Yesterday
morning he was trudging along Uroadway, between
Trauklin Avenue and Washington street, when ho
chanced to stumble against a large pocket-boc4,
which he picked up and found to contain a large
number of bank notes and papers. While ho was
meditating on the sudden riches he had amassed,
and which he had slid into a capacious pocket, or
perhaps racking his youthful mind whether to seek
the owner or conceal his fortune, a gentleman
rushed by hint in an anxious hurried, nervous
manner which convinced the boy he was looking
for something, and he thought he knew what.
"Have you lost anything?" asked Johnny.
"Yes my pocket-book," was the gentleman's an
swer: "have you seen it?"
The little fellow "expected" he had he didn't
kuow, though. What kind of pocket-book was it?
This led to an adjournment to a neighboring
store, where the flushed and almost breathless in
dividual "of the lirst part " proceeded to say that
the pocket-book was a large black one, containing
one thousand two hundred dollars in bank bills,
and some accounts, a strip of red morocco binding
underneath the flap being inscribed " llobert
Thomas, Covington, Ky." The description tallied,
and Johnny's eyes snapped with cheerfulness as
he placed the treasure, just as he had found it, into
the stranger's hands ; and we opine there was
greater joy in that one act than ten thousand dol
lars could have purchased, at the expense of a
guilty conscience.
.Mr. Thomas hardly seemed to know which to
feel most relief on the recovery of the money and
papers, or gratitude to the lad and admiration of
his honesty. Taking Johnny by the hand, whose
bounding heart (he knew not why) had by this
time " splashed tears into his eyes," the gentleman
took him to a clothing store and dressed him from
top to toe, in a bran new suit. Then, proceeding
to a jewelry store, purchased a good silver watch,
upon which he directed to be engraved these words:
" llobert Thomas to little Johnny Moore. St.
Louis, Sept. 'Jd, 1850. Honesty is the best policy."
Not even content with this, the generous stranger
placed iu a jieat beed purse five twenty dollar gold
pieces, which he directed the lad to give his mother.
We shall not attempt to portray the feelings of
the boy. If his quivering lips, and choked utter
ance, and the smile that strove so hard to get thro'
the great watery globes that trembled in his eyes,
failed to tell what was going on in his heart, how
shall we tell it? it. Loin's Jlejiullican, Sept. 5.
A HORRIBLE KIND OP SLAVERY.
The German papers of New York and California
are commenting upon a white slave traffic carried
on in this country of the most revoltiug and terrible
description. It is a regular traffic carried on in
young girls, generally from eight to fifteen years of
age, who are annually imported from certain Ger
man districts to the large cities on our Atlantic
and Pacific coast, where they are ostensibly em
ployed by day as street beggars, with accordeons,
guitars, or tambourines, but who are secretly a
source of immense profit to their owners by being
prostituted to the worst class ot rogue.
The villages of Neiderveisch, llochweisel Few
crback, and Minster, are those from which they are
mostly exported. The authorities do not connive
at this atrocious busiuess; on the contrary, they
make the most vigorous efforts to suppress it, and
the men who take the girls, (called laudloaer, or
vagabonds,) whether with or without the consent
of their parents, are punished, when detected, in
the severest manner. Some of them are said to
have amassed twenty or thirty thousand dollars by
this iniquitous traffiic in a few years. According
to one of the journals which describes this most
monstrous of slave trades, it is a custom of the
laudloaer to buy up debts which the poor, simple
peasants owe, and then give them the alternative
of suffering their daughters to go to America or
Australia, holding out the prospect of what in
Germany is a handsome annual income. Califor
nia, it is said, has been filled with these wretched
little beings, who, under the name of apprentices,
are really slaves, and have no redress against beat
ing, plundering and personal violation. In Aus
tralia they arc protected by law, but in this coun
try they have no protection.
The New York Alend Zcitung says that they
are "not slaves merely in the sense that they must
work for their masters ; not merely that they arc
slaves in the body, but also slaves in spirit and in
soul; they must, without hope, suffer every germ
of goodness to be extinguished in them. At night
they are sent to dance-cellars, into the very hot
bods of sih aud corruption ; by day they must
swarm the streets, and so they wander over the
land, everywhere, in closest intimacy with cruelty
and vice. If they amass a few hundred dollars,
their masters take them away by force; when they
complain, they are cast aside with the information
that they are slaves in body and soul."
Whilst the abolition philanthropists are making
a terrific outcry on the alleged importation of a ship
load of African savages to a country where they
will be clothed, fed, civilized and Christianized,
why do they not launch, their thunders at this trade
iu the eoub as well as bodies of a civilized and
Christian race carried on under their own eyes?
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Texas Pacific Railroad. The Southern
Pacific Railroad has been sold under execution,
and was purchased by Gen. Richardson and his as
sociates. Mr Fowlkes is paying off the debts, and
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preparing to reorganize me company. rugir
; Thomnaon Ken. will m-obablv be elected President
tu h tnA in unite tuitb the VA Pa.SC
The Company intend to unite with the El Paso
company and continue the construction of the road.
A wag has invented a new telegraph. He pro-
noses to place a
line of women fifty steps apart,
j and commit the
! secret.
news to the first of ihcm as a