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- A OFFICE ) OX THE V WEST SIDE OF TRADE STREET S per.'-animm - IN ADVANCE. 1 CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OF THE ONE 13 THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER.- CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1860. 3. h IB. A. YATH!, Editors and Proprietors. eightd VOLUME NUMBER 414. 4V" (ffll ill iP Mc: ' ' 1 Iffl 1 - - - . i. : - i 3 OPublifhed every Tuesday,) I1Y WILLIAM J. & EDWIN A. YATES, BDITOR3 AND PROPKIKTOBS.. If paid in advance, ?2 00 If paid within 3 months - 2 o0 If paid after llie expiration of the year, 3 00 ITAnr person sending ns five xbw subscribers, accompanied by the advance subscription ($10) will rtceive a sixth copy gratis for one year. gay Subscribers and others who may wish to send Money to us, can do so by mail, at our risn. o gf Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. ggy Advertisements not marked on the manuscript for a wpeeific time, wili be inserted until forbid, and barged accordingly. SAMUEL P. SMITH, Attorn')' :md Cimi'!or si t Law, CHARLOTTE, N C, Will attend promptly and diligently to collecting and remitting all chum intrusted to his care. Special attention given to the writing of Deeds, Con veyances, Ac. OFFICE, with Wm. Johsstos, Ksq. t6T During hour.-" of business., may be found in the Court Houta, Office No. ljadjoiniug the clerk's office. January 10. IStiO J. A. FOX, Attorney iaw, CHARLOTTE, X. C. GEXEHAL LOU.ECTISC. AC EST. Offite at the Court House, 1 door to the left, down stairs. Win. J. Kerr, ATTOK 4 K V A T I- A W, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Will practice in the County and Superior Cf.urts of Mecklenburg. L'nion and Cabarrus counties. Orric in the lirawley buildiug opposite Kerr's Hotel. January 24, 1800 " y J. M. MILLER, M. 1)., Practitioner of Medicine and Surgery, &t?'jf 2, rr s MJ 10th. Office pjf.site Kerr's Hotel. ROBERT GIBBOX, M. D., pu.tcTi'rionrii of :vil:iicii: AM) tr.paaiA'.rjTa s'uiiiir.a'.iiTi, Office So. 2 Iricins corner, CHARLOTTE, N. C. December 14, 18.10. .ias. t. Davis ATTORNEY AT LAW, CHAULOTTK, X. C., Will practice in the Courts of Mecklenburg and the adjoining counties. t&" The collection of claims promptly attended to. March 14, IK.VJ y roLLOi a. Ltc. Wll. H. KERR. LKK & KERR. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, AND SOLICITOUS IX CHANCERY, Memphis, Tennessee. Office over the Gayosu Hank, on the Corner of Uaiu and Madison Streets. Time of Holding Courts: finriiT 4th Monday in May and Nov. C'ikccit 3d Monday in Jau.. May and September. Caiman Law 1st Monday in March. July and Nov'r. Ctmikii 2d Monday in February, June and October. CaiTTiKDKSi Circu it CoruT, Auk. 2d Monday in May and November. Jao. 3d, 1300. t It. W. BECK WITH Has constantly on hand WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C, Of the best Euglish and American manufacturers. Call aod examine his stock before purchasing elsewhere. Watch crystal put in for 25 cent? each. Novembers. 18.)! y PEA MEAL. We keep at our Steam Flouring Mill in this place Pea Meal for feeding cows and stovk. Also, we have kaad at all times, Family, Extra, Superfine and arse Flour. We warrant our family Hour. Cam Meal and Grits can always be had at the mill. "J. WILKES & CO. April 19, 1S.-.3 The subscriber will pav the highest cash prices for f cattle. Thoe having Pork Hogs for sale would do well to give m a call, as I am desirou of purchasing that kind of suck. , , J. L. STOUT, Town Dutchcr. October 11, is;,0. NEGROES WANTED. 1 t0rbUy ?.'KTO U"-vs -irl from 12 to 18 j.ar. old, for which the highest prices in cash will be aid. May 17. 13M SAML. A. HARRIS. COTTON SAW GIXS, Of the best quality, with 10 inch Mws moveable ckilled ribi and tinned brush, and all other necessary improvemcnU delivered at auy Railroad stati.i in thc ?-!lVi.2 Per,.f T,he-' :i"V"k premium at S. C. state Fair in 1858 and i.50. Planters wishing to purchase Gins of the subscirber will do well to send their orders early, as there is gen erally a crowd of woik late iu 4he season. u J. M. ELLIOTT Mrch 20, 18G0. Cm Winnsboro, S. C. Attention, FAKJIEKS! ! The MAGIC PLOW, (patent-' '.t by J. j. Harris of Mississippi,) , Four I lows in one. It can be laid five times and sharp- j ned twelve times without the aid of a Blacksmith. It can be used the whole sea.n ,..;ti,...,f .i:.:i ' ipense For sale at the Hardware Store of CocUraue 1 Mrh J?, isc tf Private Surgical Hospital. We, the undersigned, having opened a private Surgi cal Infirmary in the town of Charlotte, are now pre pared" to furnish comfortable quarters to those Patients from a distance who may require our professional ser vices in the treatment of Surgical diseases. The above Institution is located on Main street, in a quiet part of the town. The building? are new and well ventilated, with good out-buildings for the accommoda tion of negroes. All diseases of a contagious character will be strict ly excluded. " Communications through the Post Office, addressed to Caldwell k Gibbon, will receive prompt attention. P. C. CALDWELL, M. D. ROBERT GIBBON, M. I). April 1", l?Co. J. W. CALDWELL, M. D. JOHN HENRY WAYT, Surgeon Dentist, (GRADUATE IN MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY,) Office in Braivley's Building, opposite Kerb's Hotel, SURGICAL OPERATIONS, as Cleft Palate, Hart Lip, Tumors vf mouth and Jaws, performed. Fbacti ues and Dislocations of the Jaws treated. Teeth filled with Gold, Silver, Tin or Amalgam. ARTIFICIAL TEETH inserted in the best manner. A very superior Tooth Powdkr and Tooth Wash on hand. Prices moderate and all work done satisfactory to tha patient. A stock of Dentists materials always on band. Oold and Silver Plate of any fineness gotten out. February 28, 1800 tf x ii i: i? U 1 Xii 11 ACHIEVES. The subscriber is still Agent for the sale of the celebrated and much admired combined improved THRESHER AND WINNNOWER, manufactured by Wheeler, Melick k Co., Albany, X. V. These Machines w ill thresh and clean from 150 to 250 bushels of wheat per day, with less work and less waste than any other machines known in North Caro lina. Prices at the Shop, vu : Railway Chain Horse Power, $120 Lever, (superior) 100 Improved Combined Thresher and Winnower, 125 Terms 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 onlv to be added. Addres J. B. TROY, Troy s Store, March C, 1H00. 3ni Montgomery co, N C. A:OT III; It SOUTHER ITIOVKMCftT CimX SEGA II MANUFACTORY. Scgars anil Tobacco Leaf direct from Cuba. JOHN S. WILEY has returned to Charlotte from Cuba, where he bought a large and varied assortment of SEOARS, S.VCJi'K, TOBACCO, &c, for this market, and is now opeuiug some celebrated brands of Segars, among which may be found the following : El Rico Habana, Mncha El Littleto, Concha's Malos, Rio Ho: 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 Turkifh Brands ; Maccabau, Rap pee and pure Scotch Snuffis; Powhatan Pipes, snuff Boxes, Matches. Blacking, Ac; Meershaun SegarHold ers and Pipes. He respectfully invites the public to call at the Cu ban Segar Factory nearly opposite the Mansion House. January 3, I860. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Implements of mv manufacture can be found at the Hardware Store of COCHRANE Jfc SAMPLE in Char lotte. Among the various implements for Agricultural purposes is Wcstinghouse's combined Thresher and Winnower. J. H. THOMPSON. Jan 31, 18G0 Cm Tyro, Davidson co. 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 ot School, Academy and College "TEXT-BOOKS, and mauy 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, 1 am en abled to sell paper at the same prices by the whole sale for which it can be bought in the Xorthern cities, freight added. P. J LOWKIE. Feb. 15, 1860. IIUUTOKD F1IIK IXSUitANCE CO., UAIilTOIil), Conn. Incorporated A. D. 1810. Charter Perpetual. Authorized capital $1,000,000 Capital paid iu 500,000 Aurplus 300,i0 ASSETS JANUARY 1, 1853. Cash on hand and in Bank $43,455 22 Cash in hand of Agents and in transit, 54,527 00 Real Estate unencumbered (cash value) 15,000 00 Bills receivable, amply secured 73,174 55 2.404 Slums Bank Stock in Hartford, 230,41 00 2,200 " " " New York, 197,750 00 710 " " " Boston, ' 74.20 00 100 shares Rank of the State of Missouri, 10,000 Of State and city Bonds, 6 per cents, 74,245 00 Rail Road Stocks, 16,250 00 United States' Treasury Notes, 14,0H5 00 $803. 7C1 8G DIRECTORS. H. Huntington, Charles Boswell, Job Allyn, Albert Day, Henry Keney, John P. Brace, James Goodvin, Calvin Day, Charles J. Russ. Timo. C. Ally.v, Secretary, H. HfXTixGTOX. President. C. C. Lyman, Assistant See'y. Wm. N. Bowers. Actuary. This old and reliable company, established for near ly fifty years, continues to Insure against loss or dam age by Fire on dwellings, furniture, warehouses, stores, merchandise, mills, manufactories, and most other kinds of property, on its usual satisfactory terms. Particular attention given toi nsuring Farm Property, consisting of Dwellings, Barns and Out-buildings con nected, and Furniture, Live Stock, Hay, Grain, Farming Utensils, Ac. contained in the same, forn term of three to five years at low rates of premium. Applications for Insurance may 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 proof's, iu tuuds current in the vities 'A'rw Ytrk or Jiftston, as the assured may prefer. E. NYE HUTCHISON, June 2S. 1859. v Agent nt Charlotte. WHEAT! The subscriber is prepared to purchase the new , crop of Wheat at the highest market price. Farmers j will find it to their advantage to call nt the CHAR- j L.niih S1EAM MILLS before selling. JJCO. WILKES. July 26, 1838 jf DAYS OP MY YOUTH. Days of my youth, ye have all glided away, j Hairs of my youth, ye are all frosted and gray; J Eyes of my youth, your keen sight is no more, j Cheeks of ny youth, ye are furrowed all o'er; ! Strength of my youth, all your vigor is gone, ; j Thoughts of my yoath, your gay visions are flown. ! Days of my youth, I wish not your recall, Hairs of my youth, I ni content you should fall; Eyes of my youth, you much evil have seen, Cheeks of my youth, bathed in tears you have been; Thoughts of my youth, you have led me astray, Strength of my youth, why lament your decay ! Days of my age, ye will shortly be passed; Pains of my age, yet awhile you can last; Joys of my age, in true wisdom delight, Eyes of my age, be religion'your light. Thoughts of my age, dread re not the cold sod. , Hopes of my age, be 3e fixed on your God. Immense Attraction! AT THE Great Clothing Emporium OF Fiir,i,i:G$, SPKIACJS & CO. They are now opening at their large aud capacious Store Room, the HANDSOMEST and CHEAPEST Stock of Ready-made Clothing ever offered in the State. Their stock comprises all the different kinds of Fancy Cut Linen and Marseilles Business Suits, English and French Drap d'Ete and Alpacca Frocks and Sacks; a large variety of Cttvsimere Pants Fancy and Black; also, Fancy and Black Silk, Cassimere and Marseilles Vests in endless variety. Gents' Furnishing Goods, Trunks, Valises, Hats and Caps, &c, &c. All of the above goods are of the latest styles aud patterns. MANUFAC I UK I AG DEPARTMENT. FULLINGS, SPRINGS & CO. have also added to their Ready-made Clothing Stock, a Merc4iaut Tailoring De partment, to which they call the especial attention of their many friends and customers. They intend making this department second to none in the State, either in style and quality of Goods, or in the manufacture of Garments. At all limes will be found a good stock of Black and colored Cloths, English, French and American Cassi meres, and a variety of Vesting?. Also, an assortment of Rock Island Cassimeres. They feel confident of their ability to undersell any other house in the State, from the advantages they have in getting their goods. Their goods are bought by the quantity, by one of the Firm who resides in the Northern markets, which gives him the opportunity of taking advantage of th prices of goods, thereby saving at least Twenty-five per cent to the consumer. JPSDimes saved are Dollars made !tfci2 So try us. E. FULLINGS, JNO. M. SPRINGS, JNO. P. HEATH. April 10, 18G0. tf T. J. CORPEIVIIVG, Surgoon IDezitist, (Graduate of the Baltimore Dental College,) Can be found at his Office on Tryon street, opposite China Hall, w here he will be pleased to receive the calls of those who may require his professional services. February 21, 1860. Cm Large Arrivals OF SPRING & SUMMER GOODS, AT K003TIAIV:V fe PIlEIiPS They have received and are receiving a large stock of Millinery and Ladies' Dress Goods in endless variety, suitable for the Spring and Summer trade. Particular attention is called to their assortment of Lace Shawls, Points and Mantillas. They have a LARGER STOCK of FINE GOODS than they have ever kept before. They asiiire those who may deal with them that they will eudeavor 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. HARDWARE, &c, 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. April 10, 1860. DISSOLUTION. The firm of T. H. BR EM & CO. is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The books and papers are in the hands of T. II. Brem at the Hardware Store ofCochranc k Sample. All persons indebted to said firm will call and settle the same with him; and all persons having claims will present them to him for payment. T. 11. BREM, J. A. SADLER. Jr, March 2G, 1SG0. T. L. ALEXANDER. Madison Furnace, LINCOLN COUNTY, N. C. THE IRON WORKS, G miles East of Lincolnton and 13 miles South of Newton, are now in operation, where all kinds of Castings, such as machinery, cooking ware, , ic, will be done with dispatch, by superior workmen, ; at as cheap rates as possible. When the Blast Furnace is not in operation, casting will be done with the cupola. I I will also have Hammered Iron made, and can furn- : ish farmers and mechanics w ith anything needed in that line. Also, good Pig Inm for sale. ! Old metal and Produce takeu in exchange for work : or Iron. JONAS W. DERR. Spring Hill Forge P. O., Lincoln county. February 14, If 00 4m-pd LIfe iKsiuJCAxrE. The undersigned, as Agent, will receive applications I for Insurance in the North Carolina Mutual Life Insur ance Company. This Company is the oldest in. the State, and has been iu successful operation for several years. Its rates are moderate, and all looses promptly adjusted. Persons wishing to insure their own lives or the lives of their Slaves, in this Company, will call at the office of the Agent At the Branch Hank pf North Carolina. Slaves insured for f.wo-thirds if their .value. ApI3, I860. 3m T. W. DJ5YVEY, Afft. MR CUSHING'S SPEECH. The following is the speech in full of Gen. Cushtng, delivered to the delegates of the National Democratic Convention, on its adjournment: "Gentlemen of the Convention: Allow me, be fore putting the question of adjournment, to ad dress to you a parting word. I desire, first, to say, and in saying it to bear testimony to your con stituents and . to - the people of the whole United States that, considering the vastness of the assem bly, the impartial interests involved in its delibera tions, and the emotions thus naturally awakened in your bosoms considering all this, I say, your sessions have been distinguished by order, by free dom from personalities, by decorum, and by the observance of parliamentary law In competition for the floor, in the zeal of gentlemen to promote their respective opinions by motions or objections to motions, in the lassitude of the protracted sit tings, occasions have occurred of apparent, but only apparent, confusion. " But there has been no real confusion. No de liberate : violation of order. I am better able to speak than any other person to speak knowingly on this point, and t j speak impartially; and I say it with pride and pleasure as a thing especially proper for me to say from the chair. I desire further to say for and in behalf of myself, that I also know, by a knowledge of my own heart and conscience, that, in the midst of circumstances always arduous, snd, in some respects, of peculiar embarraasment, it has been my steady purpose and constant endeavor to discharge impartially the duties of the chair. If in the execution of these duties, it shall have happened to me to address any gentleman abruptly, or not to have duly recognized' him, I beg pardon of him and the convention. Finally, permit me to remind you, gentlemen of the Convention, that not merely the fortunes of the great constitutional party, which you repre sent, but the fortunes of the Constitution, also, are at stake on the acts of this convention. During a period now of eighty-four years, we, the States of this Union, have been associated to gether in one form or another, for the objects of domestic order and foreign security We have traversed, side by side, in the wars of the Revo lution and other later wars, through peace and war, through sunshine and storm. We have held our way manfully on until we have come to the great republic. Shall we cease to be such? I will not believe it! I will not believe that the noble work of our fathers is to be shattered into fragments. This great republic to be but a name! A history of a mighty people once existing but existing no longer, save as a shadowy memory or a monumental ruin by the side of the pathway of time! I fondly trust that we shall continue to march on forever, the hope of nations, as well in the Old World as in the New, like the bright orbs of the firmanent which roll on without rest, because bound for eternity without haste, because predestined for eternity so may it be with the glorious con federation of States. I pray you, therefore, gen tlemen, on your return to your constituents and to the bosoms of your families, to take with you as your guiding thought the sentiment of the Con stitution and Union. With this, I cordially bid you adieu until the period of our reassembling." Mr W. B. Astor is worth at least 25,000,000, and every dollar of the income, over and above ex penses aud charities, is re-iuvested. Mr A. is still a hale and hearty looking man, and will probably live to be as old as his father. He has an office where he works harder than a dry goods clerk. Six or seven gentlemen act as book-keepers, but he holds the thread of the complicated skeiu in his own hand. His room contains in bound vol umes the records and maps of his vast estate, and he can readily turn to any piece of property and find the rent and other particulars. TAXES. The TAX LISTS for the year 1859 are now in my hands for inspection. Those liable to pay Taxes will please come toward and settle. E. C. GRIER, Sheriff. April 3, 1860. MORE EXCITEMENT. An army of 10,000 People can be svpplicd with BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER, HATS AI CAPS, AT WM. TRELOAR'S Doot and Shoe Emporium ! rOlRELOAR keep3 French Calf Boots, all sorts and JL sizes. Treloar keeps Gentlemen's Fine Shoes, all sorts and sizes. Treloar keeps Ladies' Cloth Congijsss Gaiters, all kinds. Treloar keeps Ladies Fine Shoes, all sorts and sizes. Treloar keeps Boys' and Misses' Metalic-Tipped Shoes and Boots. Treloar keeps Youth's and Children's Metalic-Tipped Shoes. Treloar keeps Fashionable Hats and Caps, all sizes and sorts. Treloar keeps Sole Leather and French Calfskins, all kinds. Treloar keeps India Rubber Belting, all sizes. Farmers and owners of machinery are invited to call and examine my superior stock of India Rubber Belt iDg, the best and cheapest now iu use. Also, the above named articles, all of which I shall offer very low for cash or on time to pun'-tnal dealers. Dry and Green Hides taken in exchange for goods. WM. TRELOAR. Xo. 4 Granitt Row, April 21. 6t-pd. Stale of N.CaroliiiH, :iea land County Court of Please Quarter Sessions, March Term, 1860. D. Wbisnant, Adm'r. of A. C. Collins, dee'd, vs. T. S. Pagan & Co. Attachment Lcried on Town Lot Xo. 28, northwest Square. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the Defendants are non-residents of thi State; it i there fore ordered that publication be made six successive weeks in the Western Democrat, a newspaper pubish ed in the town of Charlotte, notifying said defendants to be and appear at the next term of this Court, to be held for said County, at the Court House in Shelby, on the 1 1th Monday after the 4th Monday in March, 18C0, then and there to show cao6e, if any they ba?e, why jngdment be not confirmed and the property levied on condemned, and ordered to be sold to satisfy Plaintiff's debt and cost. Witness, Silag Williams, Clerk of said Court, at Of fice, 11th Monday after the 4th Monday in Dec, 1859. S. WILLIAMS, Clerk. ;06t. pr.ai'.v. $6. A REMINISCENCE. During the Administration of President Jack son, there was a singular young man employed in the public service at Washington. His name was G.; he was from Tennessee, the son of a widow, a neighbor of the President, on which account the old hero had a kind feeling for him, and always got him out of his difficulties with some of the higher officials, to whom his singular interference was distasteful. . Among other things, it is said of him, that while he was employed in the General Post Office, on one occasion he had to copy a letter of Major II., a high officer, in answer to an application made by an old gentleman, of Virginia or Pennsylvania, for the establishment of a new Post Office. The writer of the letter often used classical language; in this letter he said the application could not be granted in consequence of the applicant's "prox imity" to another office. When the letter came into G.'s hands to copy, being a great stickler for plainness, he altered "proximity" to "nearness to." Major II. observed it and asked G. why he altered his letter? Why, replied G., because I don't think the man would understand what you meant by proximity. Well, said Major II., try him; put in the "proximity" again In a few days a letter was received from the applicant, in which he indignantly said: "That his father had fought for liberty in the first, and he himself in the second war of independence, and he would like to have the name of the scoundrel who brought the charge of proximity or anything else wrong against him!" "There," said G., "did I not say so?" G. carried his improvement so far, that at last Mr Barry, the Postmaster General, said to him: "I do not want you here any longer; you know too much." Poor G. went out, but his old friend, the General again got him into another place. This time G's ideas underwent a change, lie was one day very busy writing, when a stranger calling in, asked him where the Patent Office was. "I don't know," said G. "Can you tell me where the Treasury Department is''" said the stranger. "No," said G. "Nor the President's House?" "No." The stranger finally asked him if he knew where the Capitol was. "No," replied G. "Do you live in Washington, sir?" said the stranger. "Yes, sir," said G. "Good lord ! and don't knot? where the Patent Office, Treasury, President's House and Capitol are?" "Stranger," said G., "I was turned out of office for knowing too much. I don't mean to offend in that way again. 1 am paid for keeping this book. 1 believe I do know that much; but if you find me knowing anything more you can take my head." "Good morning," said the stranger. Incendiary Documents in Maryland. The Kent county (Md.) Observer says that Judge Carmichael has decided that it is not necessary for postmasters to inspect each issue of a newspaper to see if incendiary sentiments are contained therein; that if the general reputation of a paper is of that character, a postmaster is justified in withholding such paper, knowing its character or tendency, renders himself liable to all the penalties enacted for circulating incendiary documents. He also directed the Grand Jury to notify each postmaster in the county of this decision. The several postmasters, in pursuance of this decision, were directed to refuse all application for the New York Tribune, they (the jury) decided that paper to be an incendiary sheet. Postmasters delivering said paper, will be prosecuted in eve-y case. The Beard. The deaths by consumption have decreased some fifty per cent per annum among the stone-eutters of Quincy, Milton, llockport, and the marble works of Vermont, since they have ceased shaving aud given nature her sway in matters that she may be supposed to understand. Workmen in western flour mills; colliers in the numerous mines of the middle States; miners at Galena, Dubuque, and the copper regions of Lake Superior, employees in drug mills, drivers, engineers, arctic navigators, residents in low, wet countries, and thousands of artisans whose employment is prejudicial to healthy lungs, generally wear the mustache as asattiturt rather than an ornamental appendage to the face of manhood. 11 A Neio York Declaration of Independence. The suggestion to establish a new State out of the most powerful and conservative portion of New York, is again urged by one of the leading journals of that city. The New York Express declares that New York is no longer a free State, and rays the time has come when the people of Southern New York including Richmond, Queens, King?, Suffolk, and the river counties ought to take into serious consideration the necessity of the division of the Southern part of ihe State from the Western part. It enumerates a succession of acts of injustice, spoliation and despotism, to which no municipality in the old world would ever have submitted. See how the Black Republican Legislature of New York has placed the patriotic metropolis jn the condition ofca conquered province, and judge what will be the condition of the Southern States when this party gets possession of the Federal Government, and has its feet upon the neck of the South, as it uow has on the Empire City. Sumptuous Folly. A wealthy lady died the other day in Philadelphia. It was determined that although she departed from life like other people, yet she should be buried in a style far above the vulgar prevalent one. So the coffin in which her remains were encased was of more than ordinary magnificence, being decorated with handles of pure gold, and powdered with screw-caps of the same metal. We are told by the public journals that the sum of 800 was expended in these and other ostentations ornaments of the coffin. Steam Communication to New York. A contract has been effected by the Cape Fear and Ocean Steamship Navigation Company for the building of one of the iron steamers to ply between Wilmington and New York. Until this steamer is finished, a propeller will run regularly between the two ports twice a month, or oftener it the busi ness requires it. Merchants in the interior will find that their goods will be received with greater dispatch than heretofore. The Wheat-growers in the interior will find this route cheap, safe and expeditious for the export of their crops to the New York market.-- Wil. I Journal, ' LIFE ON THE MOON. Until quite recently the surface of the moon has been supposed to be a vast lifeless desert. Astrono mers have abused the moon in every possible way. They have said there was no heat in moonshine. They have deniecl to the moon an atmosphere, and consequently water and organic life. They have made us believe that a residence on the moon would be exceedingly undesirable. The old faith in the Goddess of the Night was quite overturned in scientific' circles, and the fascinations of moon light were departing day by day. ' ' " ". ', But this is all changed. Knox and Melloni have shown, by very exact observations, that there is heat in the moon's rays. Zantcdeschi has dis covered that this heat produces a sensible ef fect upon the mimosa. An English philosopher has found that the earth is colder during the first quarter of the moon than it is in the second. Upon the growth of plants the moon exercises a remarkable influence. The chemical action of light is necessary to their principal work, the ab sorption of carbon from the carbonic acid gas. of the atmosphere. This work all plants carry on during the day, and in the night they sleep ex cept when the moon shines. She makes them and sets them at work. So the farmers who plant only just before the full moon are right, and the scof fers who call them superstitious, arc themselves the foolish ones. For, if sown before or near new moon, the 3'oung plants get above ground just at the full, when the tender things need sleep. But if sown just before the full, they come up about new moon, pass their babyhood under the soothing influence of dark nights, and when the full moon comes are sturdy urchins, able to work night md day. The moon-worshippers are right, also, in regard to the influence of the moon upon the weather. Herschel, Arago, and Whewell, recognized that the raooa had some slight power in dispersing the clouds. The sailors go fuithcr, and say that the moon eafs up the clouds. At the last meeting of the British Association it was shown that the weather, through a long series of years, depended a little very little upon the phases of the moon; and now Quetelet, the Director of the Brussels Observatory, has shown that between the first and last quarters of the moon, more, and not less, rain falls, than during the remainder of the time. How ever, fine weather and greater rain-fall may go to gether. . . Finally, Webb, after careful comparison of tho present appearance of the moon with the very pre cise maps made by Madler some twenty years ago, has shown that there has been considerable changes. Some of the small craters, in particular, have a notably different form from what they had when Madler observed them. The changes show the ex istence of water and an atmosphere. Father Sec chi, Director of the Roman Observatory, after much observation, has come to the conclusion that the peaks of the highest mountains on the moon are covered with snow. And, to make us still more at home on the moon, Dc la Rive, the owner of the Observatory at Crawford, near London, gives it as his opinion, that what were at first matked down as eas, and afterwards supposed to be barren plains, are in fact extensive forests. In support of this conies up a great astronomic authority, Schwabe, the discoverer of the periodic times of the sun's spots. Besides these great smooth plains, which were called seas, there aie a number of furrows or wrin kles, nearly a 'hundred, the nature of which was entirely unknown. Their length varies from three to thirty-five miles, and their greatest breadth is about five thousand feet; most of them are consid erably narrower. Their sides are parallel and smooth, some run in straight lines, aud some arc gently curved. Ordinarily they arc separate, but sometimes they cross each other; often they crow. craters, but occasionally they seem to be cut off by them. They arc found all over the moon, except the highest mountain chain. Of these furrows Schwabe has made careful stu dy at various times. He found them to consist of very fine pa'allel dark lines, separated by clear .spaces. A few months later the lines or streaks had disappeared, but after a while they returned, again to disappear. In this periodic change of time he thinks that he finds proof that these lines are rows of trees, and the clear streaks between them are the bare ground peon when the trees are leafless. When the trees are in full leaf, the ground is so covered as to produce a uniform shade, and the lines dis appear. Nothing is more natural than to suppose that the dark 6pots on the moon arc forests; but how shall we account for the growth of these trees in right lines? With the aid of photography, which will secure for us accurate pictures of the moon from time to time, we may hope that the question will be solved, and that we may really find out what is going on upon the surface of our satellite. The AilanthusTree. The annual war basal ready been commenced upon the ailanthus. A cot respondent contends that the blossoms of the ailanthus produce malaria, and says that hundreds of our citizens are greatly annoyed and made ill at this season with the effluvium diffused by the flowers; and he hopes that the Council will frame an ordinance requiring all such poisonous trees to be cut down. Wu have always regarded the outcry against this shade tree as a species of prejudice. The odor of in flowers is not pleasant, it is true, and it may, in consequence, be objectionable as a tree in close proximity to our residence; but there is no evidence that its exhalations is of a poisonous nature. It Is unequaled as a fast growing and beautiful shade tree, and but for the odor of its flowers for a couple of weeks at most, in mid surri mer, would become here the universal favorito in its native elime, especially in airy locations, Iti il adelphia Prex. High Prices for Tobacco. -We learn from the Milton Chronicle, that the oropg of tobacco raised by S S. Harrison, Esq., of Caswell county, N. C, were sold last week, in Danville, Vo., at forty dollars per hundred, for the home prop and twenty-five dollars per hundred for that raised on another plantation. These fine prioes were paid not as in some cases of brag sales, for a handful of good tobacco, while the bulk of the lot went for scarcely anything at all but for the entire crops, lugs as well as top leaf. 5
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 22, 1860, edition 1
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