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SAMUEL P. SMITH,
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CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Will attend prottly and diligently to collecting and
remitting all claims intrusted to his care.
Special attention given to the writing of Deeds, Con
veyances, Ac.
OFFICE, with Wh. Joiixsto.v, Esq.
jfgjf-During hours of business, niav be found in the
Court House, (.'Hire No. I, adjoining the clerk's office.
January 10, 18CO
J. A. FOX
Attorney x Hsdir,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GEXEIIAL COLLECTISG AC EST.
Office at flu-Court House, I door to the left, down stairs.
Wm. J. Kerr,
A T T O IS i E V A T A V,
CHARLOTTE, X. C.,
Will practice in the Coiiutv and Superior
Courts
of
Mecklenburg. Cii'iob and Cabarrus counties.
Opfick in the Brawlcy building opposite Kerr's Hotel.
January 24, 1600 y
J. M. MILLER, M. D.,
Practitioner of Medicine and Surgery
May 10th. Office oppnite Kerr's Hotel.
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.,
n 1 1 of jii:iicii:
AXI
Offict Xo. 2 Irtcins corner, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
December 14, 1839.
JAS. T. DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Will practice in the Courts of Mecklenburg and the
adjoining counties.
The collection of claims promptly attended to.
March 14, 139 y
rOLLOK B. LF.E.
WSt. H. KEUlt.
LEE & KERR.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
AND SOLICITOUS IX CHANCERY,
Memphis, Tennessee.
B& Office over the (Javoso Bank, on the Corner of
Main and Madison Streets. tj3S
Time of Holding Courts :
Chiscert 4th Monday in May and Nov.
CiacriT 3d Monday in Jan.. May and September.
t oMMOK Law 1st Mondav in March. Julv mid Nov'r.
Criminal 2d Monday in February, June and October
Cuitteiks Litti-riT Court, Auk. id Monday iu May
ana November.
Jan. 3d, 18G0. t
ft. W. BECK WITH
Has constantly on hand
WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C,
Of the best English and American manufacturers.
Call and examine Ii is stock before purchasing elsewhere
Watch crystals put in for 23 cents each.
November 8, 1839 y
PEA MEAL
We keep at our Steam Flouring Mill in this place
Tea Meal for feeding cows and stovk. Also, we have
en haad at all times, Family, Extra, Superfine and
coarse Flour. We warrant our family flour.
Corn Meal and Grits can ahvavs be had at the mill.
"J. WILKES X- CO.
April 19, 1859
The subscriber will pav the
Beef cattle.
highest cash prices for
Those having Pork Hogs for
sale would do well to
five me a call
kind of stock.
as I am desirous of purchasing that
J. L. STOUT, Town Butcher.
October 11, 1S5
NEGROES WANTED.
I wasit to buy Negro Boys anc. Girl from 12 to 18
jears o.d, for which the highest prices iu cash will be
paid.
May 17, 1&59 SAML. A. HARRIS.
COTTON SAW GINS,
Of the best quality, with 10 inch saws, moveable
chilled ribs and tinned brush, and all other nccearv
improvements delivered at any Railroad station in the
State at $2 per saw. These Gin took the premium at
the S. C. State Fair in 1858 and 1859.
Planters wishing to purchase Gins of the snbscirber
will do well to send their orders early, as there is gen
erally a crowd of work late in the season.
J. M. ELLIOTT,
March 20, I860. 6ui Winnsboro, S. C.
Attention, FARMERS !
""gy .- The MAGIC PLOW, (patent-
Vea by J. P. Harris of Mississippi,) !
"Pfsses the advantage of combining !
Four Plows in one. It can be laid five times and sharp- j
ucu tve umes witnout the aid of a Blacksmith. It
can be used the whole season without any additional
expense For sale at the Hardware Store of Cochrane
bample.
March 27, 180 tf
ANOTHER SOUTHER! MOVEM EflT
CUBAN SEGA II MANUFACTORY.
Segars and Tobacco Leaf direct from Cuba.
JOHN S. WILEY has returned to Charlotte from
Cuba, where he bought a large and varied assortment
of SEGARS, SNCF, TOBACCO, &c, for this market,
and is now opening some celebrated brands of Segars,
among which may be found the following :
El Rico Habana, Mucha El Littleto,
Concha's Malos, Rio Ho::dro,
Flor del Tumas, Lasbelas Gnstou.
He manufactures Segars from the 'best Havana To
bacco; and keeps the best Smoking and chewing Tobac
co, . Lynchburg and .Tarkish. Brands ; Maccabas, Rap-
nee and pore Scotch Snuffs; Powhatan Pipe?, snnflF
Boxes, Matches, Blacking, Ac; Meersbaun Segar Hold
ers and Pipes.
He respectfully invites the public to call at the Cn-
ban Segar Factory nearly opposite the Mansion House
January 3, 180 i.
.AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Implements of my manufacture can be found at the
Hardware Store ot COCHRANE & SAMPLE in Char
lotte. Among the various implements for Agricultural
purposes is Wcstingbouse's combined Thresher and
Winnower. J. H. THOMPSON,
Jan 31, 1860 6m Tyro, Davidson co.
THRESHING MACHINES.
The subscriber i3 still Agent for the sale of the
celebrated and much admired combined improved
THRESHER AND WIXNXOVVER, manufactured by
Wheeler, Mehck & Co., Albany, X. Y.
These Machines will thresh and clean from 150 to
230 bushels of wheat per dav, with less work and less
waste than anv other machines known in North Caro
lina.
Prices at the Shop, viz :
Railway Chain Horse Power, $120
Lever, (superior) 100
Improved Combined Thresher aud Winnower, 125
Terni3 cash, or approved note on interest. Warrant
ed to give satisfaction or no sale.
Delivered at any Railroad Depot at the above prices
charges and transportation only to be added.
Addres J. B. TROY, Troy's Store,
March G, 1SG0. 3m Montgomery co, N C.
LOWRIE'S
I receive all the New Pub
lications as fast as they come for
ward from the Press; and keep
constantly on hand a large lot of
hchoof. Academy and College
TEXT-BOOKS, and many useful
reference and recreative works.
I also keep a very large stock of Stationery, plain
and fancy. Having made an arrangement with the
Southworth Paper Manufacturing Company, I am en
abled to sell paper at the same prices by the whole
sale for w hich it can be bought la the Northern cities,
freight added. P. J I OWRIE.
Fb. 15, 1860.
llARTFOKD F1KE INSURANCE CO.,
HARTFORD, Conn.
Incorporated A. D. 1810. Charter Perpetual.
Authorized capital $1,000,000
Capital paid in 500,000
Surplus 300,000
ASSETS JANUARY 1, 1859.
Cash on hand and in Bank StSjS 22
Cash in hand of Agents and in transit, 54,827 09
Real Estate unencumbered (cash value) 15,000 00
Bills receivable, amply secured 73,174 55
2,404 Shares Bank Stock in Hartford, 230,413 00
2,200 " 44 44 New York, 197,750 Oo
710 " " 44 Boston, 74,620 00
100 shares Bank of the State of Missouri, 10,000 0"
State and city Bonds, 6 per cents, 74,245 00
Rail Road Stocks, 16,250 00
United States' Treasury Notes, 14,035 00
$803,769 86
DIRECTORS.
Charles Boswell,
Henry Kcney,
H. Huntington,
Albert Day,
James Goodvin
Job Allyn,
John P. Brace,
Charles J. Russ.
Calvin Day,
Timo. C Allyx, Secretaru,
II. ni'XTiXGTOji, President.
C. C. Lyman, Assistant Secii
Wm. X. Bowers, Actuary.
This old and reliable company, established for near
ly fifty years, continues to Insure against loss or dam
age by Fire uu dwellings, furniture, warehouses, stores,
merchandise, mills, manufactories, and most other
kinds of property, on its usual satisfaetorj- terms.
Particular attention given toi nsuringFarm Property,
consisting of Dwellings, Barns and Out-buildings con
nected, and Furniture, Live Stock, Hay, Grain, Farming
Utensils, Ac. contained in the same, for a term of three
to five years at low rates of premium.
Applications for Insurance mar be made to the un
dersigned, the duly authorized Agent for Charlotte and
vicinity.
Losses equitably adjusted at this Agency, and paid
immediately, upon satisfactory proofs, in funds current
in the cities of S'eie York or Boston, as the assured may
prefer.
E. NYE HUTCHISON,
June 28, 1859. y Agent at Charlotte.
ForxDED 1852. chartered 1854.
Located corner of Baltimore and Charles streets,
BALTIMORE, Md.
The largest, most elegantly furnished, and popular
Commercial College in the Uuited States.
Students in attendance from nearly every State in the
Union.
Every voung man should write immcdintelv for one
of those large and beautiful Ornamental Circulars, re
presenting the exterior and interior view of the Balti
more Commercial College, Penmanship, Ac, which
will be sent by return mail, free of charge, with Cata
logue containing list of students, terms of tuition, opin
ions of the Press on our new system ot liook-keeping, &c.
Faculty.
E. K. LOSIER, Principal Lecturer on the Science of
Accounts, Business, Customs, etc.
J. M. PHILLIPS. Professor of Book-Keeping aud com
mercial calculations.
II. H. DAYIES, Associate Professor of Book-Keeping.
N. C. JOHNSON. Professor of Penmanship.
S. T. WILLIAMS, E.q. Mercantile Law.
REV. E. Y. REESE, D. D.. commercial Ethics.
Trcsteks.
Hon John P Kennedy, Hon Joshua Yansant,
Hon Thomas Swann Wm H Keighlcr, Esq.
Jacob Trust, Esq. William Knabe, Esq.
The time usually
required to complete the full j
course, from eight to twelve weeks.
Large circulars and catalogues stating terms, 4c.
sent bv mail free of charge. Address
E. K. LOSIER, Baltimore, Md.
May 10, 1859 y-pd
WHEAT!
The subscriber is prepared to purchase the new
crop of Wheat at the highest market price. Farmers
will find it to their advantage to call at the CHAR
LOTTE STEAM MILLS before selling.
JXO. WILKES.
July 1858 tf
KINDRED HEARTS.
There are hopes that never blossom,
There are joys too soon o'ercast,
Smiles that light the pensive bosom,
Smiles that beam too bright to last.
Transient as the summer flower,
Fleeting as the twilight's ray?
Joy shines out its little hour,
Then forever fades away.
But where kindred hearts, united,
Feel the immortal fires glow,
They are happy, although blighted
- Every other hope below I ...
Then teach me never to forget it
Tell it to each passing day
Bind it to my heart, and let it
Cheer this life's uneven way.
Care may shroud the soul in sadness,
Yet, despite the present pain,
Do we not in future gladness,
Oft deceived, still hope again ?
Memory, in the darkest hour,
Loves to trace each by-gone scene
Thus if joys' a fleeting flower,
Hope is still an evergreen.
Money I Want, and MONEY I must
have ! Do you owe Jonas Rudasill?
If so, come and pay him. He has many drafts upon
him everyday for lumber and labor. These are cash
articles. Men can't work without eating flour, bacon
lard, Ac, are cash articles. I cannot do work withou
lumber; and have to pay for what I get, on delivery
I have large amounts due me for work done; some have
been due for a long time, and I now most positively say
those accouuts must be closed.
I still continue to carry on the business at my old
stand, and have for sale Sash Doors, Blinds, Ac, and
can manufacture anything in that line to order at short
notice. Orders respectfully solicited, and I promise to
sell cheap for cash as I have always done, and for cash
onlv. JONAS RUDASILL.
March 27, I860 3t
PROVISIONS.
The subscriber keeps always on hand Corn Meal
Flour, Dried Fruit, Eggs, Ac. Also, Tobacco, Snuff,
Segars, Ac Ac, which he will sell at the lowest prices
for cash. M. S. OZMENT,
Feb 28th. Second door above the Jail
fLOTMSG MANUFACTORY,
AT THE
3VE 2E3 O JEL I
RIU
OF
FILLINGS, SPRINGS
A CO.
E have found it NECESSARY
TO ADD A
Merchant Tailoring: Department
To our large and extensive Ready-made Clothing House,
and we respectfully invite our Frieuds and Patrons to
call and examine our Stock of
FRENCH,
ENGLISH,
AND GERMAN m
Cloths,
Black, French and Germm DOESKIN CASSIMERES,
French, English and American FANCY CASSIMERES
A beautiful lot of FINE SILK VESTINGS, Black
and Colored. All of which have just been received, and
are of the latest styles. A good Stock of
Rock Island Cassimcres
kept constantly on hand.
We have secured the services of Mr D. L. KLA, as
Cutter, who is well known as a master of the art.
Orders trom a distance solicited.
HrO$ Call and see us.
E. FULLINGS,
JNO. M. SPRINGS,
JNO. P. HEATH.
Feb. 21, 1860. tf
NOTICE,
My norse, Young Brimmer, can be found the present
season, on Mondays ana luesdays at r. liianKin-
shipp's, near Wright's Ferry; Wednesdays, at R. W
McDowell s, near the lorkrule road: lhursdays, at
J. B. Stewart's, six miles from Charlotte on the Provi
dence road: and on r rida3-s and Saturdays, at W. r.
Robinson's, near Morrow's Turnout. Persons can call
aud judge for themselves of the qualities of this Horse.
A. Ei. UOKDO.N.
March 27, 18G0. 6t-pd
MRS. WINSL0W,
An experienced Nurse and Female Physician, presents
to the attention ot mothers, tier
SOOTHING SIRUP,
For Children Teething:,
which greatly facilitates the process of teething, by
softening the gums, reducing all inflamation will allay
all pain and spasmodic action, and is
Sure ! Ilesiilafe the Bowels.
Depend up'on it, mothers, it will give rest to yourselves,
and relief and health to your infants.
We have put up and sold this article for over ten
years, and cax say, ix confidence axd truth, of it,
what we have ne ver been able to
say of any other
MRS.
WINSLOU'S
SOOTH I NO
medicine ney-
ER HAS IT FAILED,
IN A SINGLE IN
FECT A CURE,
used. Never
STANCE, TO EF-
when timely
d we know an
instance of dis-
one who used it. On the contrary,
with its operations, and speak in
satisfaction b any
all are delighted
terms of commendation of its magical effects and medi
cal virtues. We speak in this matter " What wk do
know," after ten years' experience, and pledge our repu
tation for the fulfillment of what we here declare. In
almost every instance where the infant is suffering from
pain and exhaustion, relief will be found in fifteen or
twenty minutes after the syrup is administered.
This valuable preparation is the prescription of one
of the most EXPERIENCED and SKILLFUL NURSES
in New England, and has been used with'never-failing
success iu thousands of cases.
It not only relieves the child from pain, but invigor
ates the stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, and
gives tone and energy to the whole system. It will al
most instantly relieve Griping in the Bowels, and
wind colic, and overcomes con-
vulsions, which,
remedied, end in
lieve it the best
REMEDY IN
roit
CIIILDRCX
Xcetliiiig.
if not speedily
death. We be
and SUREST
THE WORLD,
in all cases of Dysentery and Diarrhoea in Children,
whether it arises from teething, or from any other cause.
We would say to every mother who has a child suffer
Ing from any of the foregoing complaints Do not let
j Yora prejudices, nor the prejudices of others, stand
j between you and your suffering child, and the relief
j that will be sure yes. absolutely sure to follow the
use of this medicine, if timely used. Full directions
I for using will accompany each bottle. None genuine
j unless the fac-simile of CURTIS k PERKINS, New
i York, is on the ontside wrapper.
Sold by Druggists throughout the world.
Principal Office, 13 Cedar street, X. Y.
Price only 23 cents per Bottle. "8
For sale by E. NYE HUTCHISON k CO., and by
F. SCARR.
March 20 I860, y
A LIST OP WONDERS.
Among the thousands of marvelous inventions
which American genius has produced, within the
last few years, are the following, compiled in an
abstract from the Patent Office Report. Read
them over, and then say, if you can, that there is
nothing new cruder the sun :
The report explains the principle of the celebrated
Hobb lock. Its "unpickability'' depends upon a
secondary or false set of tumblers which prevent
instruments used in picking from reaching the
real ones Moreover, the lock is powder proof,
ad may be loaded through the key hoUnd fired
off till the burglar is tired of "his fruitless work,
or fear that the explosions will bring to view his
experiments more witnesses than he desires.
Doors and shutters have been patented that
cannot be broken through with either pick or
sledge-hammer. The burglar's "occupation's gone."
A harpoon is described which makes the whale
kill himself. The more he pulls the line, the
deeper goes the harpoon.
An ice-making machine has been patented which
is worked by a steam-engine. In an experimental
trial, it froze several bottles of sherry, and produced
blocks of ice the size of a cubic foot when the
thermometer was up to eighty degrees. It is
calculated that for every ton of coal put into the
furnace, it will make a ton of ice.
F rom Dr. I)ale's examiner's report, we gather
some idea of the value of patents. A man who
had made a slight improvement in straw-cutters,
took a model of his machine through the Western
Suites, and after a tour of eight months, returned
with forty thousand dollars. Another man had a
machine to thrash and clean grain, which in fifteen
months he sold- for sixty thousand dollars. These
are ordinary cases while such inventions as the
telegraph, the planing machine, the Iudia rubber
patents, are worth millions each.
Examiner Lane's report describes new electrical
inventions. Among these is an electrical whaling
apparatus, by which the whale is literally 'shocked
to death." Another is an electro-magnetic alarm,
which rings bells and displays signals in case of
fire and burglars. Another is an electric clock,
which wakes you up, tells you what time it is, and
lights a lamp for you at any hour you please.
There is a "sound gatherer," a sort of huge
ear-truuipet, to be placed in front of a locomotive,
bringing to the engineer's ears all the noise ahead;
perfectly distitict, notwithstanding the noL . of the
train.
There is an invention that picks up pins from a
confused heap, turns them around with their heads
up. aud sticks them in papers in regular rows.
Another goes through the whole process of cigar
making, taking in leaves and turning out finished
cigars.
One machine cuts cheese; another scoure knives
and forks; another rocks the cradle; and seven or
eight take in washing and ironing.
There is a parlor chair patented that cannot be
tipped back on two legs,and a railway chair that
can be tipped back in any position, without any
legs at all.
Another patent is for a machine that counts
passengers in an omnibus and takes their fares.
When a very fat gentleman gets iq, it counts two,
and charges double.
There are a variety of guns patented that load
themselves; a fishing line that adjusts its own bait,
and a rat trap that throws away the rat, and then
baits itself and stands in the corner for another.
There is a machine, also, by which a man prints,
instead of writes, his thoughts. It is played like
a piano-forte. And speaking of pianos, it is esti
mated that nine thousand are made every year in
the United States, giving constant employment to
one thousand nine hundred persons, ana costing
over two millions of dollars. Baltimore Exchanqe.
51b Ward's Trip to Pekin. The story was
extensively published in English and American
papers that Mr Ward and his suit were conveyed
to Pekin in a box, closed on all sides, so that they
could get no view of the country. The correspond
ent of the Journal of Commerce, a clergyman,
denies the story in toto, and ascribes it to English
"ealousy at Mr Ward's complete success, which
proved that their attack on the Peiho forts was
needless and barbarous. The writer says:
"Instead of one great 'box' for the whole party,
there was a carriage for each individual, servants
and all, while some besides had horses which they
rode at their pleasure, and then entered their car
riages followed in the train, used Ly the attendant
mandarins and officers who made our escort, and as
many more nearly for baggage and other purposes.
Shut up in a cage, from which we could see only the
sky and the sun, when the front and sides of the car
riages were open ! Deprived ot ail liberty and ob
servation, when at each stopping place for lodgings
or for dinner all wandered about the towns and
villages as they pleased, without the least restraint,
and wheu Mr Ward left the handsome junk the
finest the Government could command whenever
he pleased and his suit with him, and walked for
miles every day along the river, and strolled into
the towns and villages which lined the banks as
freely and securely as though they had been at
home.
Proportions of the Human Figure. The
proportions of the human figure are strictly mathe
matical. The whole figure is six times the length
of the foot. Whether the form be slender or not,
this rule holds good. Any deviation from it is s
departure from the highest beauty of proportion.
1 he Greeks made all their statues according to
this rule. The face, from the highest point of the
brehead where the hair begins, to the end of the
chin, is one-tenth the whole length of the stature.
The hand, from the wrist to the middle finger, is
the same. The chest is a fourth. From the top
of the chest to the highest point of the forehead,
is a seventh. If the length of the face, from the
roots of the hair to the chin, be divided into three
equal parts, the first division determines where
the eyebrows meet, and the second the place of the
nostrils. The navel is the center point of the hu
man body; and if a man should lie on his back
with his arms extended, the periphery of the circle
which might be described around him, with the
navel for its center, would touch the extremities of
his hands and feet. The height, from the iet to
the top of the head, is the same as the distance
from the other extremity when the arms are ex
tended. These are the general measures of the
species.
Adulteration op Liquors. On Wednesday
last Dr. Hiram Cox, Liquor Inspector of Cincin
nati, lectured in New York, at the request of li
quor dealers of that city. In some tests made be
fore the audience, a specimen of "genuine Otard
brandy" yielded prussic acid. A sample of port
wine yielded sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), and
another of sherry did the same. The Times say :
. The lecturer said that he had been Liquor In
spector of Hamilton county, Ohio, for five years
and during that time had analyzed 2,679 samples
of every possible variety of liquors, Including wiues
and malt liquors. , Out of thia Biubbe ho . only
tound dou samples that were really pure, 2ot) were
merely mixed liquors, with alcohol, &c, and in the
balance were found sulphuric acid, red pepper
stramonium, strychnine, and almost every variety
of poison.' In Philadelphia he analyzed samples
from some thirty different stores of wines; ales and
brandies. In one case of lager beer, he found sul
pnuric acid, albumen, sulphate ot iron, salt and
water, but not a solitary per centage of malt, or
the flavor of hops. In the city he did not find
drop of pure brandy. Imitations were made there
which would deceive the best connoi&eurs, and yet
so pernicious that a pint would eat through the
coats of the stomach and destroy a man, and this
appeared onpnst mortem examinations. A'gentle-
man ottered him 51,500 if he found a drop that was
not pure brandy in a bottle he presented him,
$30,000 worth of which he had in bon J. He agreed
to analyze it, and the merchant, offered S500
He analyzed it, and did not find a drop of brandy,
but all whiskey, rot-gut, nitric ether, pepper, &c.
and yet it was marked "Pure Cognac Brandy."
He put a piece ot iron into some of it, and the re
suit was, it was beautiful
corroded.
ink, and the iron was
A Father Outwitted by His Son.
Wheeling Intelligencer is responsible for the
lowing:
The
fol
We noticed, a few mornings ago, the elopement
ot a young couple from liarnsville, Ohio, who
came here to the Metcalf House, and went to West
Alexander in a hurry, and got married. It seems
that the father of the young man, who lives near
Barnsville, had been courting his present daughter-
in-law for some time, and recentlv engaged himself
to her. Having great confidence in the judgment
ot his son, he concluded to send him down in the
countrv where the young lady resided, to take
look at her before the solemnization of the marriage
contract. The son went down, and returning, an
nounced himself as highly pleased with the young
woman, but counseled a short delay. He wanted
time to learn more of his "mother-in-law," and
continued to visit her, apparently for that purpose.
The old man's surprise, when tie found that his
son had eloped with the girh and victimized his
(the son's) confiding parent, may be imagined
A Frenchman, wishing to speak of the cream
of the English poets, forgot the word and said, "de
butter of poets."
-
Awful Alternative. The last will of a queer
old miser who lias just died is much talked of at
Vienna. He cut off all his nearest relatives, and
made a very distant one, an extremely hand
some young girl, sole heiress of his considerable
property. So far there is nothing extraordinary;
but there is a condition added to it. The testator
was a hunch back, and had a club-foot, which
defects probablv had obstructed many attempts of
his to marry, lie has made it, therefore, a condi
tion, sine qua non, that the heiress is to get the
property only when she marries a man shaped as
he was. She is, besides, to live in a convent three
months in each year to pray for his soul. The
heirs-at-law have attacked this odd last will on the
plea that when it was made the testator must
evidently have been mad- As there is, however,
no equity jurisdiction in Austria, they may find
their task not an easy one.
Wedlock in the West. Youths in the West
are thus exhorted to marry by one of our western
Journals:
A good wife is the best, most faithful compan
ion you can have by your side while performing
the journey of life. She can smooth your linen
and your cares for you; mend your trowsers and
your manners; sweeten your moments as well as
3'our tea and coffee; rufle, perhaps, your shirt bosom
but not your temper, les! and if you are too
confoundedly lazy or proud to do such work your
self, she will carry swill to the hogs, chop wood,
and dig potatoes for dinner. He love for her
husband is such that she will do anything to please
him, except to receive company in her evcry-day
clothes. Get married, I repeat, you must. Con
centrate your affections upon one object, and don't
distribute them, crumb by crumb, amongst a host
of Susans, Elizas, Betseys, Peggies, and Mollies,
allowing each scarcely enough to nibble at. Get
married, aud have some one to cheer you us you
journey through this vale of tears somebody to
scour up your dull moments, and keep your whole
life, and whatever linen you possess, in some sort
of Sunday-go-to-meeting order.
Excessive Cleanliness. Even cleanliness
can be exaggerated, as in the case of the Pharisees,
and the late Duke of Queenbury, who would wash
in nothing but milk. Our own Queen uses dis
tilled water only for her toilet; but this is not a
case in point, since it is for the sake of her health,
I believe, with her. A sad case however, was that
of the lovely Princess Alexandriana of Bavaria,
who died mad of over-cleanliness. It began by
extreme scrupulousness. At dinner she would
minutely examine her plate, and if she saw the
slightest . speck on it, would send for another.
She would then turn the napkin round and round
to examine every corner, and often rise from the
table because she thought she was not served pro
perly in this respect. At last it became a mono
mania, till, on plates, napkins, dishes, table-cloth,
and eveything else, she believed she saw nothing
bat dirt. It weighed on her mind, poor thingj
she could not be clean enough, and it drove her
into insanity - English Hand-book of Etiquette:
Mr Forsythe, editor of the Mobile Register, and
late United States Minister to Mexico, has been
appointed by the Governor of Alabama commis
sioner, under the act of the recent Legislature, for
the promotion of direct trade with Europe. The
salary is $4,500.
Fighting in Washington. A scene occurr
ed in Washington on Saturday between Van Wyck,
of New York, and Hindman, of Arkansas, which
is thus described in a despatch:
This forenoon, Messrs Van Wyck, of New York,
(who charged the Southern people with deliberate
ly burning their slaves, and the Southerners sanc
tioning this cruelty,) Stewart, of Pa , arid Lovejoy,
of 111., stood upon the steps of the National Hotel.
Mr Hindman, of Arkansas, approaching the steps,
Mr Yan Wyck offered his hand, and addressed
Mr H., who immediately struck at Mr Van Wyck,
exclaiming, in intense anger, "how dare yoa speakw
to me, youd d Son of a b h."--Mutual friends
immediately closed in and the two members of
Congress yere separated. No blow was struck,
but the affray has excited great feeling.
Another gives this version of the difficulty:'
Mr Van Wyck meeting Mr Hindman on the ave
nue, held out his hand in friendly recognition,
when Mr Hindman refused to take it, saying "Yoa
d d scoundrel, you have delivered a speech not
only insulting to every southern man, but to every
gentleman," at the same time raising; his hand as
if to strike him.
For the last few weeks, it is said, there has been
an increase of bad feeling between northern and
southern members. With many, only the cold
and formal recognition exists, while others do not '
speak at all. Mr Van Wyck's attack upon what
he termed the inhumanity of the whole South has
made him especially obnoxious.
Kansas. The Democrats of the House will it
is said oppose the admission of Kansas nnder the
Wyandotte Constitution, for the reason that the
proposed State boundaries include a direct viola tiou
of the law and a solemn compact with the Cherokee
Nation, whose lands would be located within said
lines.
California News. A correspondent
writing
irom Alba, near V irgima city, on the zytn, says r
' There has been almost every mineral in the world
discovered here; gold, silver, lead, copperas, . an
timony, bismuth, plumbago, etc., and lead and
copper almost in their pure state. Already there
are mines of silver being developed for GO miles
in length and 15 in breadth."
Very exciting accounts continue to be received
from the new gold mines of Southern Oregon.
The quartz found at Gold Hill, near Jacksonville,
was the richest ever discovered on this coast. A
ledge has been opened in two places, and two men
have already taken out $50,000 worth of gold front
one of them, with only the ordinary mining imple
ments. On the 5th 875,000 worth of rock was
taken from the other.
The California Senate had passed a bill appro
priating 6G0,000 to the company constructing
the first line of telegraph from California to the
Mississippi, and $40,000 to the second line.
Joseph Smith, Jr. Effort to place him at
the head of Mormonism. A correspondent of the
St. Louis Republican, writing trom Nauvoo, under
date of the 15th inst., says:
Joseph Smith, Jr., son of the Prophet, is here,
as also the other members of the family. Joseph
is understood among tne saints to oe tne successor
of his father in his prophetic office, and it is hint
ed among the would-be wise ones that he is about
to assume the robes of his sacred office Be that as
it may, it is true that he is now entertaining a dele
gation from Salt Lake, who are using every per
suasion in their power to convince the young
prophet that he is called of God forthwith to assume
the office and to proceed to Salt Lake, and take
the head of the Mormon Council. Joseph is a
man of good strong sense, and should he undertake
the station, I have no doubt would endeavor to
make a reform among his people. He is decidedly
against polygamy, in favor of obedience to law, and
opposed, in any form, to milking the gentiles. It
is to be hoped that he will undertake the task, and
succeed in making Salt Lake the home of upright
and law-abiding citizens, instead of a den of thieves.
Cause of Insanity. Dr. Ronnev. for manv
years past the Resident Physician of the New York:
City Lunatic Asylum, in speaking of the pre
disposing or existing causes of insanity, remarks
as follows :
Misdirected education, by cultivating a particular
acuity or faculties, at the expense of the others,
and thus destroying the balance between them,
ays the foundation of derangement for any slight
exciting cause. 1 be high culture of the reasoning
powers, with an entire neglect of the moral, produces
an intellectual, but a bad man, while the cultivation
of the uheart" at the expense of the "head,"
produces a man of feeling the fanatic. The
emotions hold an important place in the production .
of our happiness, and if they become morbidly
sensitive and particularly separated from intellectu
al control, the harmonious action of a well-balanced t
mind no longer exists, ror the perfection of the
mental faculties, the physical organs must also be
developed. .
Marryino Mania. The Boston correspon
dent of the Springfield Republican relates two cu
rious occurrences which took place in a town in
Middlesex County. In the first case, a young man,
who had slight attacks of abe ration of mind, and
who had during the day been reading one of An
drew Jackson Davis' books of plagiarisms, went,
about midnight, to a neighboring house, called np
the mistress of it, and asked to see a young lady,
a school teacher, who was boarding there. She
was called, and he said he had -been directed by
the spirit of George Washington to marry her,
and had come for that purpose. The young man
was taken care of, and has been sent to an asylum '
for the insane. ,
On th same evening another young man called
upon one of the clergymen of the town and request
ed that he would go with him three or four miles
to a house where another young lady, also a school
teacher, boarded, for they were going to be married
and wanted bis services. Arrived there, the teach
er was informed of his errand, and received the
summons with unmistakable symptoms of surprise,
and the clergyman soon saw how the matter stood.
The seeond young man is also in an asylum for the
insane. The truth of these remarkable coinciden
ces are vouched for by persons cognizant of the
facts.- ' - , ..." ' ' .
What good would centuries do the man who
only knows how to waste his time?
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