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The next Session of this Institution will open on the
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Pkok. J. II. Foote, Pkok. Wm. Koyali..
m rinan will be taught as an extra study. French
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lowed to it.
The Trustees feel that thev have secured an able
and well appointed Faculty, and the College stand
deservedly hiirh for the high-toned morality and studi
oils habits of Us young men.
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A saving of 20 per cent, by going to PALMER'S to
buy your CanJies, as they are manufactured at his
CoHtVctioucry, always fresh and free from all poisouous
Coloring.
est India Fruits, Raijins, Nuts, IJavana Segars
Niutt; Fine cut. chewing and smoking Tabacco; French'
English and German Fancv Goods: Musical Instrument?
elosipedes, Cabs, Willow Wagons and Baskets of the
finest quality, Christmas Tots. Cake Trimming, ic,
which the public will please call and examine.
ftsg- One Door above the Bank of Charlotte.
DkC- 6 15. J. D. TALJIER.
NEW
FALL AND WINTER
GOODS.
Koopmann &. Phelps
HAVE received and are receiving a large stock of
jLricX Groceries
Suitable for the Fall and Winter Trade, to which they
invite the attention of their customers and the public
generully.
They assure those who may deal with them that they
will endeavor to give satisfaction both in price and the
quality of the Goods, as they are determined to sell
at such low rates as will tend to the great advantage
of purchasers. They have in store
A large lot of Ready-made Clothing
of various styles and qualities at reduced prices.
GROCERIES, Hardware, 6tc,
Of all kinds, kept constantly on hand and for sale on
the most reasonable terms.
They invite purchasers to give their extensive stock
an examination before buying elsewhere.
KOOPMANN & PHELPS.
October 4, 1859
C. S. Barhee. C. C. Barbee
Mlctropolitaii Line,
Shortest noute.
WE are running a daily line of
two horse Coaches between Fayette
ville and Raleigh, N. C, connecting
with the Raleigh aud Gaston and X. C. Raihoad at
Raleigh.
Best two horse line of Mail Coaches in the State.
New Coaches thoroughly lined. Young, strong, and
well-broke horses, with careful and accommodating
drivers. Supper at Mrs. Barclay's. Through in 12
hours. Oflioe at Fayetteviile Hotel, Fayctteville; X. C
1 lekets sola to elaon. Uthce at larbroitgh. House,
Raleigh, X. C. Leave the latter place 5. o'clock, P. M.
Leave Fayetteviile It o'clock, P. M., and i o'clock P. M.,
Sundays. Extra baggage must be pre-paid, to have
attention.
C. S. BARBEE & BRO., Proprietors,
Barclaysville, X. C.
December 2t, 1859. 2m-pd.
WHEAT !
The subscriber is
crop of Wheat at the
prepared to purchase the new
highest market price. Farmers
will find it to their advantage to call at the CIIAR-
LuTTE STEAM MILLS before selling.
JXO. WILKES.
Julv 26, 185S tf
WINTER'S
PATENT SAW-MILL.
fHlIIE undersigned invites the attention of Mill Own
JL ers, or those going into the Milling business, to
an examination ot the above .Mill, one of which can be
seen in operation at Mr J. B. Stewart's, within five
miles of Charlotte; said Mills are capable of s.i ing
from three to five thousand foot per day, with half the
power required to drive the circular mills, and much
less than that required to drive the Sash-saw,
doing their work perfectly smooth and beautiful.
In addition to the above, I will furnish all kinds of
gearing aud shafting: Iron Water-wheels; Patent Saw
mill Dogs, Mill Spindles; French Burr Mill Stones, with
patent balance: best anchor Bolting Cloth; in short.
any thing pertaining to the Milling Business. The
above are made with all the modern improvements, and
will be sold on the most reasonable terms.
Mr J B. Stewart can be consulted with reference to
the above mills or machinery, and orders through him
will receive prompt attention. A list of prices, to
gether with circulars containing certificates from per
sons using my mills, will be scut on application.
A. WINTER.
X'. B. The great simplicity of mv Mill offers induce
ments to the infringement of mv patent; and to prevent
litigation I give this notice, that the law will be rigidly
enforced against any person using or manufacturing
any jiart of mv inmrovement. A. W.
Charlotte, Dec. 13. 1859. 3m-pd
Charlotte, Dec. 13. 1859.
I am now using one of Mr Winter's Patent Mills at
my place live miles from town, ami hint it all it i
recommended to be, doing the work both fast and
smooth, and with le.-s water than any other mill. I
cheerfully recommend it to all mill-owners as superior
to any that has come under my notice.
J. B. STEWART.
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The Charlotte Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company,
COXTIXUES to take risks against loss by fire, on
Houses, Goods, Produce, ic, at usual rates.
President A. C. STEELE,
Vice President V. OVERMAN,
Attorney JOS. II. WILSON.
Secy $ Teas' r E. NYE HUTCHISON.
DIRECTORS:
A. C. STEELE, S. T. WRISTON,
JXO. L. BROWN, WM. JOHNSTON,
M. B. TAYLOR, F. SCARR,
CIIAS. OVERMAN.
Executes Committee S. T. Wriston, F. Scarr, Jno.
L. Brown.
April 20, 1830.
THE TWO BARRELS.
There's a barrel I have in a corner so snug,
Well charged with the best of good ale,
With a tankard of that how the lime will slip by,
With a pipe and a song or a tale;
If a friend from just over the way should step in,
lie's hailed with a hearty good cheer,
And never repents, as he tastes the contents
Of an Englishman's barrel of beer.
There's a barrel I have, but stronger than beer
Is the charge which for that I intend;
It hanps by the chimney, in readiness uear,
For A meant it my heart to defend,
If a foe from just over the way should drop in,
We'll meet him with three hearty cheers;
But I think he'll repent when he tastes the contents
Of the barrels of stout volunteers.
And thus double-barrell'd, my boys, let ug live,
Prepared for our friends or our foes:
The hand that in friendship we readily give,
Is as ready as need to give blows.
And whether the spigot or trigger we draw,
Our barrels won't fail us, I wean;
So tankards and rifles let's charge, hip-hurrah I
For our Freedom, our Country, and Queen !
Sam'l Lover.
ANOTHER SOUTHERN MOVEMENT
CUBAN SEGAR MANUFACTORY.
Sjars and Tobacco Leaf direct from CuLa.
JOHN S. WILEY has returned to Charlotte from
Cuba, where he bought a large aud varied assortment
of SEtlARS, SNUFF, TOBACCO, &c., for this market,
and is now opening some celebrated brands of Segars,
among which may be found the following :
El Rico Habana, Mncha El Littleto,
Concha's Malos, Rio Ilor.dro,
Flor del Tumas, Lasbelas Gustou.
He manufactures Segars from the best Havana To
bacco; and keeps the best Smoking and chewing Tobac
co, Lynchburg and Turkish Brands ; Maccabau, Rap
pee and pure Scotch Snuffs; Powhatan Pipes, snnff
Boxes, Matches, Blacking, Ac; Mcershaun Segar Hold
ers and Pipes.
He respectfully invites the public to call at the Cu
ban Segar Factory nearly opposite the Mansion House.
January 3, 18J0.
S.IO REWARD !
AXAWAY from the subscriber on the 1st October,
a mulatto boy named SOLOMON. He is near six
feet high, about thirty years old, tolerably bright, rather
slim, and weighs about 175 pounds. He has a down
look when spoken to. The end of the forefinger of his
left hand has been cut off, and a sharp hard knot has
grown on the end of it. I think he is lurking about
Rocky River, in the lower end of Cabarrus county,
where he was raised. Br35" All persons are forewarned
not to harbor or assist him, under the penalty of the
law. I will pay the above reward for his delivery to
me, or his apprehension and confinement in any tail so
I can get hiui.
WILLIAM HAMILTON.
Xegro Head
December 13, 1859.
Depot, Union
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Co., X. C.
KOOPJIAIVX'S
ANTI-DYSENTERIC AND ANTI-DYSPEPTIC
13 I "37 "3? 3S2 3FL 2S ,
PREPARED BY B. KOOPMANN,
Charlotte, N. C.
These unrivalled Bitters possess peculiar curative
properties in all A flections ot the Bowels. 1 hey will
be found effectual in the cure of Dysentery, Diairhae,
Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach, and all those painful and
troublesome diseases arising from "a derangement of
the digestive organs and irregular action of the func
tions of the stomach and intestines. They will also be
found a
Safe Remedy for Chills and Fevers.
These Bitters are prepared from Roots brought from
Germany, and for over a century have been found
effectual in that foil n try for the permanent cure of the
diseases enumerated above. They contain no delete
rious dr'ig, but are compounded entirely from roots,
and are perfectly safe at all times.
A simple trial is all that is asked, as a cure will
laturally follow, and that is the best certificate of their
superiority over every other lemedy tor those particular
diseases.
They arc manufactured b B. Koopmann, Charlotte,
X. C, and arc for sale by
KOOPMANN & PHELPS.
Scarr's and E. Nye Hutchison &
Also for sale at F.
Co's Drug Stores.
Nov. 29, lti59.
JONAS 11UDIS1LL,
Architect and Builder.
(DESIGNS FURNISHED AND BUILDINGS
COMPLETED ON THE MOST REASON
ABLE TERMS, AND IN EVERY
STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE,)
On College street, corner 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
prepared to furnish DOORS, BLINDS AXD SASH, to
the public on the most reasonable 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. 25, 1658. tf
Slat" or X. Carolina Lincoln County.
Superior Court of Law Fall Term, 1859
j Wm. Lander, propounder, vs A. G. Williamson, et al.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that
i Sherman Converse is not an inhabitant of this State,
I but resides beyond the limits of the same, it is ordered
j by the Court that publication be made for six weeks in
the Western Democrat, a newspaper printed in the
town of Charlotte, notifying the said Sherman Converse i
or Ins heirs to dc ana appear ai me next term oi mis
Court to be held on the 8th Monday after the 4th Mon- f
j dav in February next, then aud there to make himself
I or themselves parties to the above stated case, or t'e
i case will be heard and decided without his or their
I Ix.'mor mflr?p nnrties thereto.
Witness, V. A. McBee, clerk of our said Court, at
Office in Lincolnton. the 8th Monday after the 4th Mon
day in Angusj., A. D. 1859.
D4-i;t (adv. S5.) V. A. McBEE, Clerk.
Notice.
F. SCARR having purchased the entire interest in
the firm of F. SCARR & CO., the Business will here
after be continued by him.?!f personally.
JGr-g"" All Notes and Accounts due the late firm of
F. Scarr & Co., to January 1st, 1859, must be paid ia
to F. SCARR by July 1st, or they will be placed in the
band of an Attorney for immediate collection.
May 17, 1859. tf
THRILLING NARRATIVE.
A Friend of the Widow.
John Taylor was licensed when a young man of
1 to practice at the bar of . He was poor,
but well educated, and possessed of extraordinary
genius. The graces of his person, combined with
the superiority of his intellect, enabled him to win
the heart of a fashionable beauty.
Twelve months afterwards the husband was em
ployed by a wealthy firm of that city to go on a
mission as Land Agent, to the West. As a heavy
salary was offered he bade farewell to hi3 wife and
son. lie wrote back every week, but received not
a line in answer. Six months elapsed, when the
husband received a letter from his employer that
explained all. Shortly after his departure for the
West the wife and her father returned to Missis
sippi. Then she immediately obtained a divorce
by act of Legislature, married again forthwith, and
to complete the climax of her cruelty and wrong,'
had the name of Taylor's son changed to that of
Marks that of her second matrimonial partner.
This perfidy nearly drove Taylor insane. His
career from that moment became eccentric in the
first degree sometimes he preached, sometimes he
plead at the bar, until at last a fever carried him
off at a comparatively early age. The following is
an account of one of his efforts at the bar;
At an earlv hour on the 9th of April, 1840, the
Court House in Clark.sville, Texas, was. crowded
to overflowing Save in the war times, there had
never been witnessed so lartre a Catherine in the
Red River country, while the strong feeling ap
parent in every face, will sufficiently explain the
matter following.
About the close of 1839, Geo. Hopkins, one of
the wealthiest planters and most influential men in
Northern Texas, offered a gross insult to Mary
Ellison the young and beautiful wife of his princi
pal overseer. The husband threatened to chastise
him for the outrage, whereupon Hopkins loaded
his gun, went to Ellison's house, and shot him in
his own door.
The murderer was arrested and bailed, to answer
the charge. The occurrence produced intense ex
citement, and Hopkins, in order to turn the tide
of popular opinion, or at least to mitigate the gen
eral wrath which was first violently against him,
circulated reports infamously prejudicial to the
character and standing of the woman, who had
suffered such cruel wrongs at his hands.
She brought suit for slander. And thus two
cases one criminal and the other civil and both
out of the same tragedy, were pending at the April
Circuit Court for 1810.
The interest naturally felt by the community as
to the issue, became far deeper when it was known
that Ashley and Pike, of Arkansas, and the cele
brated S. S. Prentiss, of New Orleans, each by
enormous fees, had been retained by Hopkins for
defense.
The trial of indictment for murder concluded
on the 8th of April, with the acquittal of Hopkins.
Such a result might have well been foreseen, com
paring the talents of the counsel engaged on either
side.
The Texas lawyers were utterly overwhelmed
by the arguments and eloquence of their opponents.
It was a fight of a dwarf against giants.
The slander suit was set for the 0th, and the
throng of spectators grew in number, as well as ex
citement. And what seemed strange the current
of the public opinion new ran directly for Hopkins.
His money had procured witnesses who served his
powerful advocates. Indeed, so triumphant had
been the success on the previous day that when the
slander case was called Mary Ellison was left with
out an attorney. All had withdrawn.
The pigmy pettifoggers couldn't brave the sharp
wit of Pike and the scathing thunder of Prentiss.
"Have you no counsel?" inquired Judge Miles,
locking kindly at the plaintiff.
"No, sir; they have all deserted me, and I am
too poor to employ any more," replied the beauti
ful Mary, bursting into tears.
"In such a case will not some chivalrous mem
ber of the profession voluntccri"' asked the Judge,
rlaneinr around the bar.
The thirty lawyers were silent.
"I will, your honor," said a voice from the thick
est of the crowd, situated behind the bar.
At the tone of that voice many started half from
their seats, and perhaps there was not a heart in the
intense throng that did not beat somewhat quicker
it was so unearthly sweet, ringing and mourn
ful. The first sensation, however, was changed into
laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral figure, that
no person present remembered to have seen before
elbowed his way through the crowd and placed
himself within the bar. II is appearance was a
problem to puzzle the sphynx herself. His Jiih,
pale brow, and his small, nervously twitching face
seemed active with the concentrated essence and
cream of genius; but then his infantile blue eyes
hardly visible beneath their massive arches, look
ing dim, dreamy, almost unconscious, and his cloth
ing was so shabby that the court almost hesitated
to let the case proceed under his management.
"Has your name been entered on the rolls of the
State?" demanded the, Judge, suspiciously.
"It is immaterial about my name being on your
rolls." answered the stranger,. his thin hps curling
up into a fiendish sneer. "I may be allowed by the
courtesy of the court and bar. Here is my license
from the highest tribunal of America,' and he
handed Judge Miles a parchment.
The trial immediately went on. In the examina
tion of the witnesses the stranger evinced very lit
tle ingenuity- as commonly thought. He suffered
I each one to tell their own story, without interrup-
t; fc . he cneranv )ana;c.d to make each
- . - . TI .
e 11 it over two or three times. He put a few
cross questions, which with keen witnesses
oniy
served to correct mistakes, and he made no nots,
which in mighty memories, only tend to embar
rass. The examination being ended, as counsel for the
plaintiff, he had a right to the opening as the clos
ing speech; but to the astonishment of every one he
declined the former aud allowed the defence to
lead off.
Then a shadow might have been seen to flit ac
ross the features of Pike, and to darken the bright
eyes of Prentiss. They saw that they had 'caught
a Tartar but who it was, or how it happened, was
impossible to guess.
Col. Ashley spoke first. He dealt the jury a
JiiL of that coarse, dry logic which years after
wards rendered him famous in the Senate of the
Union.
The poet, Albert Pike, followed with a vein of
wit and in a half torrent of ridicule, in which neith
er the plaintiff or her ragged attorney were forgot
ten or spared.
The great Prentiss concluded for the defendant
with a glow of gorgeous words, brilliant as a show
er of falling stars, and with bursts of oratory that
brought the house down itf cheers, in which even
the sworn jury themselves joined, notwithstanding
the stern order of the bench.. Thus wonderfully
susceptible are Southern people to iL'e charms of
impassioned eloquence. ,
It was the stranger's turn. He had remained ap
parently abstracted during all the previous speech
es. Still, and strait, and motionless in his seat, pale
smooth forehead shooting high like a mountain
cone of snow, and but for that continued twich
that came and went perpetually in his face, you
would have taken him for a mere man of marble,
or a human form carved in ice. Even his dim,
dreary eyes were invisible beneath those grey,
shaggy eyebrows.
But now at last he rises before the bar, not
behind it and so near the wondering jury, that
hemi"rht touch the foreman with bis lon, bony
fingers. With eyes lialf shut, and standing rigid
as a piller of iron, his thin lips curled as if in j
measureless scorn, slightly apart, and then the
sound came forth.
At first it is low and sweet, insinuating; itself
into the brain, as an artless tune winding its way
into the deepest recesses of the heart, like the
melody of a magic incantation, while the speaker
proceeds without a gesture or the least signal of
excitement, to tear to pieces the ar2unient of
Ashley, which melts away at his touch as frost
before a sunbeam. Every one looked surprised
His logic was at once brief, and so luminously
clear, that the rudest peasant could comprehend it
without an effort.
Anon he came to the dazzling wit of the poet
lawyer Jike. llien the curl ot his lips grew
sharper, his smooth face began to kindle up; and
his eyes to open dim and dreamy no longer; but
vivid as lightning, red as fire globes, as glaring as
twin meteors. The whole soul was in his eye. In
five minutes Pike's wit seemed like foam of folly,
and his finest satire, horrible profanity, when
compared with the inimitable sallies an4 exter
minating sarcasm of the stranger, interspersed with
jests and anecdotes that filled the forum with
laughter.
Then, without so much as bestowing an allusion
upon Prentiss, he turned round short at the
perjured witnesses of Hopkins, tore their testimony
into atoms, and hurled into their faces such
invectives that all trembled as with ague, and two
of them actually fled in dismay from the Court
House.
The excitement of the crowd was becoming
tremendous. Their united life and souls seemed
to hang upon the burning tongue of the stranger.
He inspired them with the power of his own
passion. He saturated them with the poison of
his own malicious feelings. He seemed to have
stolen nature's Ion? hidden secret of attraction.
He was the son to the sea of all thought and
emotion, which rose and tell, and toiled in the
billows as he chose. But his greatest triumph
was to come
His eyes began to glance furtively at the assassin
Hopkins, as his lean taper fingers assumed the
same direction. He hemmed the wretch with a
circumvallation of strong evidence and impregnable
argument, cutting off all hope of escape.
He piled up large bastions of insurmountable
facts. He dug beneath the murderer and slanderer's
feet, ditches of dilemmas, such as no sophistry
could overleap, and no secrets of ingenuity evade;
and thus having as one might say, impounded his
victim, and girt him about like a scorpion in a
circle of fire, he stripped himself to the work of
massacre.
Oh ! then it was a vision both glorious and
dreadful to behold the orator. His actions before
graceful as the waves of the golden willow in the
breeze, grew impetuous as the motion of an oak in
i
a hurricane.
His voice became a trumpet filled with wild
whirlpools, deafening the ear with the crashes of
power, and yet intermingled all the while with a
sweet undersonsr of the softest cadence
His face was as red as a drunkard's his forehead
glowed like a heated furnace, his countenance was
haggard like that of a maniac, and ever and anon
he flung his long and bony arms on high, as if
grasping after thunderbolts.
wie drew a picture or murder in such appalling
Colore, that in comparison, hell itself might be
considered beautiful. He painted the slanderer i
so black that the sun seemed dark at noonday,
when shining on such an accursed monster, and
then fixing both portraits on theshrinking Hopkins,
he fastened them there forever. The agitation of
the audience amounted almost to madness.
All at once the speaker descended from his
perilous height. His voice "Wailed out for the
murdered dead and living the beautiful Mary,
more beautiful every moment as her tears flowed
faster till all wept and sobbed like children.
He closed by a strange exhortation to the jury,
and through them to the bystanders. He advised
the panel after they should bring in a verdict for
the plaintiff not to offer violence to the defeudant,
however richly he might deserve it, in other words
not to lynch the villain, but leave his punishment
with God.
This was the most artful trick of all, and the
best calculated to insure vengeance.
The jury rendered a verdict of twenty thousand
dollars, and the night afterwards Jlopkins was
taken out of his bed by lynchers and beaten almost
to death.
As the court adjourned the stranger made
known his name, and called the attention of the
public with the announcement John Taylor will
preach this evening at early candle light.
The crovd all turned out, and Taylor's sermon
equalled if it did not surpass the splendor of his
forensic effort. This is not exaggeration. I have
listened to Clay, Webster and Calhoun to Dewey,
Tyng and Bascom but never heard anything in
the form of sublime words even remotely approxi
mating to the eloquence of John Taylor massive
as a mountain and wildly rushing as a cataract
of fire. And that is the opinion of all who have
heard this marvelous man.
THE PRESIDENT'S WOBE.
The Washington correspondent of the
New
York Times (an opposition journal) speaks as fol
lows of the industrious habits of President Buchan
an, whose robust health and activity at his advanc
ed age, excite no little wonder:
He enters his office at 8 a. m. every morning,
having taken a light breakfast at 7J; and there
works steadily at his desk, receiving visitors, read
ing letters and writing messages and orders until
4 o'clock each af ternoon, except on days when tho
Cabinet is called together for the transaction of
special business. These Cabinet meetings generally
commence at 1 p. m., sometimes'last four and five,
and oftentimes six hours. Each evening again
the President has to devote several hours to receiv
ing visitors on public and political business, sup
ervising reports from the departments, and pulling
up any arrearages of labor which the day-hours
may have left unfinished. Never was there a more
laborious man in the same high office and never
one, perhaps, whose real and earnest desire to serve
the public interests has been sd disastrously mis
conceived. Another letter says,
He is the hardest working man in Washington.
The dial that points the hour of repose to clerks,
and even to secretaries, show nono to him. lie
is the master spirit of tho Government and when
the time comes that his work is forever over, and
the public trusts are confided, as they must be, to
less experienced hands, justice will ba done to the
character of the really great statesman, the last of
his school and generation, who, through difficulties
with few parallels, has carried the country peace
fully and successfully onward.
The Harper's Ferry Investigation.
I'ealf, old Brown's Secretary of State, has arrived
in Washington. He is looked upon as a most im
portant witness in the Harper's Ferry investiga
tion, as he has indicated that he will make a clean
breast of the affair, and it is understood he will im
plicate prominent persons in New York and other
Northern States.
Contested Elections. A pamphlet of over
331 pages, embracing the testimony taken by the
contestants of the two delegates from the city of
Baltimore in the lower house of the Maryland
Legislature, has been printed. It portrays, from
beginning to end, a hideous maus of fraud and
outrage perpetrated upon the elective franchise
and individuals such, there can be no doubt, as
was never paralleled before, even in Baltimore
as it goes ahead considerably of the exhibit made
two years ago by Mr Whyte, in his endeavor to
contest the seat of Mr Harris in Congress. In
addition to the scenes of riot and outlawry open to
the view of all, special cases of illegal voting and
the prevention of legal voters abound throughout,
with brutal beatings, false swearing, corrupt acts
of judges of flection, intimidation, &c., down to
open and cold-blooded murder.
Small-Pox and Vaccination. The Boston
Journal condenses the following facts from various,
authorities, directing the attention of the public to
the necessity for general vaccination :
1. Infants should be vaccinated without fail,
between the sixth week and the fourth month of
their age.
2. Every one should be vaccinated, particularly
those between fifteen and thirty five years of age,
who were first vaccinated in childhood. This is
especially desirable during epidemics; and the
rule holds good even when the disease may have
been taken.
3. In general, without regard to special seasons
of danger vaccination should be practiced at least
once in fourteen years, and better still, once in
seven or eight years.
4. I he prejudice against taking other diseases -
with the vaccine matter is almost entirely destitute
of foundation, where care is taken by physicians to
take their matter from healthy patients. JN or does
the condition of the person from whom the matter
is taken materially effect its protective power.
Privileges of Leap Year. On the evening
of the 3d inst., the young ladies of Forsyth, Ga.,
gave a leap year party to the young gentlemen.
The ladies engaged the company of the gentlemen,
went after them and gallanted them to the Chapel,
took care of their hats, overcoats and walking canes,
gave them a seat and entertained them with good
chat. When a lady wished to promenade she
sought her own partner, engaged his company, gave
him her arm, and paced the floor by his side as
nimble as a nymph. After promenading with one
a while they would scat him and take another.
The young ladies administered a very sharp re
buke ta the gentlemen in showing them that all
ought to be noticed without distinction.
Mr Meriara of Brooklyn, New York, writes as
follows :
Our memoranda of lightning in the year 1859
contain a record of seventy-six (76) deaths' on the
land, and forty-one (41) persons injured by
lightning, of whom three were not expected to
recover. No death by lightning is reported in the
field of our research, within tho year 1359, in a
building or vessel furnished with metallic lightning
conductors, reared for the purpose of protection.
Persons within steamboats, within railroad cars,
iron vessels and iron buildings, and telegraph
operators while operating with the wires, continue
to enjoy absolute protection from lightning, no
death by lightning ever having been reported in a
steamboat, railroad car, iron vessel, or iron building,
or to telegraph operators, since the introduction of
these several useful inventions.
jSTew Drag Store,
IRWLVS CORNER, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
12. IVye Hutchison & Co,
Wholesale nd Retail Dealers ia Foreign nd Domestic
Drriqt, Medicines and Cluniicals,
ARE NOW RECEIVING fresh and genuine Drugs from
the New York Market, which bare been purchased
upon such term? a to be sold low for Cash. We woold
respectfully call the attention of the public to our
large and complete stock of Drugs, Medicines, Chemi
cals, Perfumery, Oils, Paints, Varnishes, Putty, Win
dow Glas3, Kerosine Oil, Burning Fluid, Turpentine,
Alcohol, Lamps, Pure Liquors, Congress Water, Can
ton Teas, Tobacco, Segars, Ac, Ac. , -
j- A large stock of fresh FIELD and GARDEN
SEEDS just received.
Jan. 17, 1860. J
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