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si ' In ffrSXWMf PIOE ) . S S3 per annum ..IN ADVA.VCE. . ON THE WEST SIDE OF TRADfi STREET CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT 13. TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GL03T OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF TBI OTHER.' W. iff. YITBi Editor and Proprietor. CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, I860. INTO V OLCUE NrSIBEU 429. i "v i i m. & m ie THE (Published every Taesdaj,(o) BY WILLIAM J. YATES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ff paid in advance, $2 00 If j.aid withiu 3 months, - 2 50 If jiui I after the expiration of the year, 3 00 IJra? Any person sending us five new subscribers, n. romp inied by the advance subscription ($10) will receive a sixth copy gratis for one year. g-y Subscriber and others who may wish to send itmncr to u.-, can do so by mail, at our risk. &f& Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. Advertisements not marked on the manuscript rtr a specific time, will be inserted until forbid, and ;h urged accordingly. SAMUEL P. SMITH, Attorney :inl CiMiuxlor at Law, CHARLOTTE, X C, Will attend promptly and dtlijtnihj to collecting and remitting all claims intrusted to his cure. Special attention given to the writing of Deeds, Con veyances. Ac. jgtaJ-During hours of business, mav be found in the Court Hons. Office No. 1, adjoining the clerk's ofiice. January 1S6D J. A. FOX, .A.'t'tomoy txrt "SLavJV, CHARLOTTE, X. C. G EXE UAL COLLECTIXG A G II XT. Office at theCourt House, I door to the left, dow n stairs. VVrm. J. Kerr, A T T O K N E V A T E A W, CHARLOTTE, 2s. C, Will practice in the County and Superior Courts of Mecklenburg. I'uion and Cabarrus counties. Or-KicE in the Hrawley building; opposite Kerr's Hotel. January 24, I860 y R0BEUT (iICB0, M. DM IMMCTITIO-ICU OF JIUOICISlE AND fuTirt No. 2 Incin's corner, CHARLOTTE, X. C. December 14, 185'J. roLLUE . LF.K. WH. II. KKIIR. LEE & KEHH. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, AND SOLICITORS IX C1IANCKKV, Memphis, Tennessee. Office over the Cayuso Hank, on the Corner of .Main and Madison Streets. fa Timf IIul'Hii' Courts : Ca.vNCERY lib Monday in My and Nov. CmnciT P.d Monday in Jan.. May and September. Common Law 1st Monday in March. July and Nov'r. Ckiwinal 2d Monday in February, June and October. C!:iiTKiKN CiitniT Cockt, A UK. 2d Monday in May and November. Jan. 3d, 1.SU0. V " K. W. BECK. WIT II Has constantly on hand WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C, Of the best Engli.-h and American manufacturers. Call and examine his stock before purchasing elsewhere. Watch crystals put in for 23 cents each. Normher 8, IS:9 y John T. Butler, PRACTICAL Watch asnl Clock Hakcr, Jew eller. Arc., OrrosiTE Kerr's Hotel, Vhrltte, X. C. (Late with R. W. Beckwith.) Fiin Wsitclie, Clock Ac Jewelry, of every description, Repaired and Wai ranted for 12 months. Oct 16. 1860. tf J. G, WILKINSON 6c CO., DEALERS IN atclies, silver & plated Ware AND FANCY GOODS, No. 5, Granite Range, Opposite the Mansion House, CHARLOTTE, X. C. Attention given to Repairing Watches and Jewelry. September 18, 1860. y JIEIKLEXBUUG IL0X WORKS, Charlotte, N. C. ALEXANDER 6c Mc DOUG ALL. Tlie uudersigned beg letuc to inform the citizens of Charlotte and vicinity nd the public generally, that they have opened the above Establishment at the foot of Trade Street, a4p.ini,,., the track of the North Carolina Rail Road and oppose John Wilkes' Steam Mills, and are prepared to furnish all kinds of t short notice and on r.-aouabie terms. Steam Engines from 8 to 80 Horse Power. Their SHOP contains tools selected with great care, and is provided with all the improvements required to do their work in a first rate manner. Castings, in Iron or I5rass. made to order HOliSK-SHOEING and BLACKSMITHS work of all kinds. REPAIRING in their line attended to. Agents for Dr. E. O. Elliott, for Winter's Patent Mulay Saw Mill, which has the advantage, along with many others, of doing at least twice as much work, and doing it better, than any other Mill in use it can be run by Steam, Water or Horse Power. The Mulay may be seen at the Shop at anr time. II EX It V ALEXANDER. MALCOLM McDOUG ALL. N. B. Old Iron, Brass, Copper, &c, bought or taken in trade. September 25, 1860. 31-tf. Choice Flowering Bulbs. HYACINTHS, TULIPS, &c, at New York prices, For snle at SCARR'S Oct 23. I860. - Drugstore, Charlotte, i MEDICAL NOTICE. DRS. M. B. TAYLOR and J. M. MILLLER have associated themselves for the practice of MEDICINE, in all of its various branches. Bu. Office at Dr. Milller's old stand. October 23. 1860. MERCHANT TAILORING. The subscriber begs to inform the public that he has just received a full and complete assortment of goods adapted to men's wear, consisting in part of Cloths, Cassimeres and Westings, Of French, English and American manufacture, which will be MADE TO ORDEJR According to the latest fashions, as cheap as the same i stvle of "roods can be bought in the State. I ' J. S. PHILLIPS. Charlotte, Oct. 2d, I860. 3m 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. JNO. WILKES. July 26, 1858 tf Quinn's Rheumatic Remedy Has effected cures of Rheumatism that were considered hopeless, certificates to prove which can be exhibited. The suffering are invited to give the medicine a trial. Orders addressed to the undersigned at Charlotte wil receive prompt attention. W. W. QUiNN. April 10, 1860. Price SI 50 per bottle. "NEGROES WANTED. I want to buy Xegro Boys and Girl; from 12 to 18 years old, for which the highest prices in cash will be PMay 17, lS.-)f SAML. A. HARRIS. Hardware ! ! Hardware! ! A. A. N. 31. TAYLOR WP ESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the pub J3Ltt lie generally, that he has added to his extensive stock of Stoves and Tin Ware, a large and complete stok of Hardware, consisting in part as follows: Carpenters Tools. Circular, mill, crosscut, hand, ripper, pannel, prun ing, grafting, tenttou, back, compass, webb, and butch er SAWS; Braces and bits, Draw Knives, Chissels, Augers, Gimlets. Hammers, Hatchets, and Axes: Brick, plastering, and pointing Trowels: Saw-setters, Screw plates, Stocks and dies, Planes of all kinds, Spoke shaves, Sieel-blade bevel and try Squares; Spirit Levels Pocket Levels, Spirit level Vials, Boring machines, Gougcrs, and in fact cverthing a mechanic wants, in great variety and at very low juices, at TAYLOR'S Hardw are Store and Tin-ware Depot, opposite the Man sion House, Charlotte, N.C May 2t, I860. tf Blacksmith's Tools. Such as Bellows, Anvils, Vices, hand tuid slide Ham mers, Buttresses, Farriers' Knives. Screw-plates, Stocks and dies. Blacksmith's Pincers and Tongs, Raspers and Files of every kind. Cut horseshoe and cl'nch Nails, Borax; Iron of all t-izes, both of northern and country manufacture; cast, plow, blister and spring Steel: &c, for sale very cheap at TAYLOR'S, opposite the Mansion House: AT TAYLOR'S you can find the largest assortment of Cutlery. Guns suid PUtoIs, of all the celebrated makes. GLASS, of .-.II sizes and qualities both French and American. Also, Putty by the keg or pound. WOODEN' WARE, " Brooms, &c, of all kinds. Rope ! Rope ! ! 5.000 pounds of Manilla. Juto and Cotton Rope, from inch to 3 inches, at TAYLOR'S Hardware Store, Opposite the Mansion House. Ludlow's Celebrated Self-Sealing Cans, of all the different sizes, at TAYLOR'S Hardware Store, opposite Mansion House. Agricultural Implements of all kinds. Straw Cutters, Corn Shelters, Plows, Hoes, Shovels, Spades, Forks, Axes, Picks. Mattocks. Grubbing Hoes, Trace Chains, Wagon Chains, Log Chains, Pruning and Hedge Shears, Pruning and budding Knives, gar den Hoes and Rakes, with handles; Grain Cradles; grain, pr.-tss and brier Scythes, Bush Hooks, Wagon boxes; Hollow ware, such as pots, ovens and lids, skillits, spi ders, stew-pans and kettles, Cauldrons from 20 to 120 gallons each; Iron and brass Preserving Kettles, Sheep Shears, Ac, at TAYLOR'S Hardware Depot, opposite the Mansion House. Tin and Japanned Ware, A large assortment; Block Tin, Block Zinc, Tin Plait, Babbit metal, &c. Stoves, the largest Stock, of all sizes, at TAYLOR'S Hardware, Stove and Tin ware Depot, opposite Mansion House ToOREWARI ! R ANA WAY from the subscriber on the 1st October, a mulatto boy named SOLOMON. He is near six feet high, about thirty year- old. tolerably bright, rather slim, and weighs about pounds. lie lias 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 Rockv River, in the lower end of Cabarrus county, where he was raised. S?" All persons are forewarned not to harbor or assist him, under the penalty of the l.iiv. I w ill pay the above reward for his delivery to r e, or his apprehension and confinement in any jail so I can get him. WILLIAM HAMILTON, Negro Head Depot, Union Co., X. C. April f, I860. tf 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, I860. Reef Cattle Wanted. JIthcst Cnsh Prices paid for Beeves ar, a Shep I am still engaged in Butchering, and desire to pur chase Beef Cattle and Sheep, for which I will pay the hio-hest market prices. Those having stock tor sale will find it to their advantage to give m a call In- quire at ur. tayiors j au mm. Anr. 21. 1800. 26-tf J. L. STOUT. NOTICE. Taken up and committed to the Jail of Mecklenburg count v. on the 8th day of September, 1 860, a Xegro I dpv about 18 or years oi "K1 l " or8 iuches high, lie says his name is JIM, and that j he belongs to John Worthy of Gaston county: that his I master moved to Texas early last Spring, at which j time he ran away from him. Jim appears very dull: lean scarcely communicate anything about hie master j or home with any intelligence. He has a scar on his j right fore finger, made by a cutting knife. The owner e icijuwitu iu come lorwaru, piu't pi"-.' ty penses, and take said boy away, otherwise he will be disposed of according to law. Oct. !), 18B0. tf E. C. GRIER, Sheriff. A PEW MORE YEARS. A shadow falls in the 6unny yard, On the grass where the children play, And fairy fabrics their fingers raise, But no "Castles in Air" leave they. A few more years, and these radiant hours, Like dreams, will bave passed away. A cloud obscures, for a moment, the sun, And darkens their golden hair, A breeze uplifts their feathery curls From eyes which have known no care; A few more years, and shades of thought Will have left an impress there. And whilst with flowers they people the realms, They rear on the velvet grass, A sigh escapes my heart as I gaze And whisper Alas ! Alas ! A few more years of dissolving scenes O'er the magic lamp will pass. And childhood's smile will be mellow'd then, In the calm of maturer years, And oft the light in those eyes of blue Be darkened, by sorrow's tears, A few more years, and that yielding trust Be lost in a maze of fears. That trusting love which is now all ours, We may yet unto others resign But, oh ! it the oak extends its arms, Where the ivy may climb and twine, Their after years may yet be blest, May be bright, indeed, as mine. The Great Clothing Emporium Fiillings, Springs Sc Co., DEALERS IX ALL KINDS OF Ready-made Clothing-, Furnishing' Goods. Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, &c, &c. FULLINGS, SPRINGS & CO. Would call the especial attention of their friends and patrons to their New Stock of Clothing, now opening. They think they can offer greater in ducements to buyers than they have ever done, their goods being bought at reduced rates atid at such prices as they feel confident no house in the State can com pete with. They are offering very nice Cassimere Suits at from S12 to $25. All manner ot CASSIMERE PANTS, Cassimere, Silk. Matalasse and Velvet VESTS, OVER COATS of all grades and styles. The above Goods cannot be surpassed in style and make, having been manufactured under the constant supervision of one of the firm. FULLINGS, SPRIXGS & CO. Sept. 25, 1860. MERCHANT TAILORING. FULLINGS, SPRINGS & CO. have also added to their Ilcadv-made Clothing Stock, a Merchant Tailoring De part ment, 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 ol Goods, or in the manufacture of Garments. At all times will be found a good stock of Black and colored Cloths, English, French and American Cassi meres, and a variety of Vestings. 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 the prices of goods, thereby saving at least Twenty-five per cent to the consumer. j6aDimes saved are Dollars made !"U So try ns. Orders from a distance solicited. Cutting done on short notice. Sept 25, I860. FULLINGS, SPRIXGS & CO. NOW OPENING FALL AND WINTER GOODS. ELIAS & COHEN Are now prepared to display to their customers and the public generally, the most EXTENSIVE AND BEST SELECTED Ever offered in Western North Carolina. There is no hnmbnr about the size and prices of our Stock of Goods they speak for themselves. Every department is full and complete. DRY GOODS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. CLOTHING AND TOBHIBBIH6 GOODS. Hardware and Cutlery. BOOTS AND SHOES. AND MILLINERY GOODS. wiwy mtm k H0M0HS. GROCERIES, &c. A call and examination of our stock is respectfully solicited at- Brem's old Stand, Trade street. Charlotte, Oct. 9, 1860 tf PEA MEAL. We keep at our Steam Flooring Mill in this place Pea Meal for feeding cows and atoek. Also, we have on hand at all times, Family, Extra, Superfine and coarse Floor. We warrant oar family flour. Corn Meal and Grits CAn always be had at the milL J. WILKES ft CO. April 19, 1859 &jr ffitstern Brmorrnt. CHARLOTTE, N. C. A Suggestion. We suggest that as there are a great number of lazy, unfortunate beings crowd ed up in the jails of North Carolina, doing noth ing, and consuming the fruits of the labors of hon est, poor, industrious men, there be some means devised whereby these jail-birds may be compelled to work for their living and earn something fur the support of their families where they have any. In the absence of a Penitentiary, let the chain gang be instituted in North Carolina, and these men can work the streets of our towns and villages, and en joy better health and more pleasure than they can possibly do in the walls of a prison. If it can be done it should be done by our next Legislature, and the man who moves in the matter and those who help pass it into a law will equally be entitled to the thanks of their constituents. Goldsboro Rough No'ex. Suicide. The body of Mr Daniel McPherson, a respectable citizen, residing about three miles from Fayetteville N. C, was found in the woods a few hundred yards from his house on Monday morning last, with his throat cut and a razor lying near. The Observer says: There appears to be no doubt, as the Coroner's inquest ascertained, that he had committed suicide. He was a single man of perhaps 50 years of age, in comfortable and even opulent circumstances, of a gloomy habit of mind; and on Sunday morning had sat down to breakfast, but ate nothing; rose and walked out, without exciting any particular attention, and was not seen again till his body was found next day. SSF' Advices from Washington city state that the Administration does not feel called upon to take action in the present state of affairs at the South; but while enforcing the laws, will cautious ly avoid any act which might, by any possibility, exasperate the public mind. - 5 Patents have been issued, recently, to J. W Barnes of Murfreesboro, N. C, for an improve ment in attaching horses to vehicles, and to Mi chael E. Rudasil of Shelby, N. C, for improvement in machines for cutting stalks. Cotton in North Carolina. The total num ber of bales of cotton raised in North Carolina for the year ending August 31st, 1860, was 182,907, valued at 9,000,000. This .is more than ever be fore produced in the State by 25 per cent. The next year's crop, ending in August, 1801, it is supposed will reach as high as 200,000 bales. This is a remarkable yield for the cotton lands of the Old North State. Repudiated. In all the counties in Mary?a'id, from which returns have been received, in which the act for the enslavement of free negroes was .submitted to the people, the voters have emphati cally and signally denounced the law. The ques tion has been met and decided without any refer ence to party politics, and the law is defeated by majorities amounting almost to unanimity. Smoking Seed Corn At a late discussion of a farmer's club in Illinois, a gentleman said that he selects his seed ears in the field before frost, hangs them in a smoke-house the more smoked the better. The pyroligenous acid imbibed by corn will bring it up in dry, hot weather, and at the end of four weeks the growth will be twice that of corn planted at the same time without smoking, and will be let entirely alone by mice, squirrels or worms. So far as the voting was concerned, the election on Tuesday pissed off quietly. The work of the day, however, wound up with a tre mendous row, and a miscellaneous fight, origina ting in causes outside of politics. We boast that our town has no licensed liquor houses, and yet, somehow, people manage to get mighty obstreper ously drunk on cold well water! Asheville News. A. W. AI,fr:XAHDEK, Dcntit. All styles of DENTAL WORK executed in a satisfac tory manner. Persons desiring it can have work done at their residence by informing him in person or by addressing him at Charlotte. By means of a recent invention, Artificial Tekth are inserted on a Vulcanized India-Rubber base. This method, besides possessing many natural advantages over all others, is also cheaper. Specimens of this work will be shown to those wishing it. Officb in Granite Row, over Adams' Exprcs ofiice. June 5. 18C0. tf Sketches or the SAfe of Ilarland Bone, alias Edward Icetn, A native of Jackson county, Georgia, who was hung at Dallas, Gaston county. X. C, May 25th, 1860. Printed in very neat form 19 pages, containing the murders of I- letcher, Under, Runnels. Smith, and Cornelius, as given by himself. A copy will be sent by mail on receipt ol 25 cents. Address, D. A. LOWS. Caytania Grove, Lincoln co., X. C. B5& Copyright secured. ' Nov 6, 1860. Im-pd GROCERY STORE. The subscriber informs the public that at his STORE near the Jail, he keeps on hand a good snpply of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, ShcIi as Sugar. Coffee, Molasses, Meal, Bacon, Chick ens, Butter, Eggs, Potatoes. Ac. Those patronizing him will be accommodated as to quantity, quality and price. Give him a call. Oct. 30, I860. tf. 535s Notice is hereby given that ap plication will be made at the next session of the Gen eral Assembly of North Carolina, for an act to extend the corporate limits of the town of Monroe, and for a special act for the better regulation of said tows. Nov. 6, 1860. t ItlECKIiEIYIWRO HOTEL, Next to the Post Office, Charlotte, N. C. The subscriber begs to inform the public that he is still prepared to accommodate transient and permanent boarders at the Mecklenburg Hotel. He has good Sta bles and careful Ostlers, and will see that all proper care is taken of the horses of those who patronize him. He solicits a share of patronage, and will at e every effort to giTe satisfaction. JOHN DORAN. Ang. 28, 1860. 3 in From the AshevilU Spectator. LETTER PBOII TEXAS. We publish below a portion of a letter received by a friend a few days since from s gentleman in Texas. The writer once lived in Nflrth Carolina, and studied law, we learn, under our fellow-citizen, J udge Daily. The extracts following may prove interesting to many of onr readers! It would be but an agreeable occupation to a young man "just from the States" to mount a pony buckle his six shooter around him and ride over the State to find a locality to uit himself viewing as he goes the " ripening bee'uties" of the most inviting country in America. He would take the six shooter along to anvise himself with shoot ing deer and antelope on the prairies, turkeys and wild cats and wolves in the " bottoms," and, if he should penetrate very far on the frontier, as a means of protection against any rascally gang of m j t i ? .1 . i' . i wuu muiaiis mat mtgni scare mm up. Negro property is exceedingly valuable all over lexas. (rood field hands will hire readily in this part of the State at 15 to $25 per month, and when you get among the heavy cotton and sugar plantations, they bring considerably more. The planting interest has been somewhat depressed for the last three years in this country, west of the Gaudalupe, by the severe droughts, and once or twice during that time, we have been pretty nearly inundated with grasshoppers, but the prospect is fine just now for a very heavy yield to the planters and farmers. Being on the ' borders of the varia ble zone," I do not consider this section of the State as very safe for the planter, for the seasons cannot be depended upon. When it rains we pro duce such crops as no North Carolinian can com prehend, but when it does not rain, if we have not the means of irrigation, we produce no crops at all. I am told by old Mexicans who have lived in this country for many scores of years, that the droughts are periodical, or rather exceptions to the general rule that they have witnessed as many as twenty most splendid crop years in succession, when every body produced more than they could possibly con sume, and then there might be as many as five very bad years following. This accords with my own experience, though if I intended to till the soil in Texa?, I would not care to settle very far west of the banks of the Gaudalupe. The seasons in all other portions of the State are even admira ble. Stock raising is the main remunerative business a man can go at in this section. Sheep raising pays exceedingly fine, while mules, hogs and cows do pretty nearly as well. It is not an uncommon thing to see several thousand sheep in one herd, while the cows and mules, fcc , may be seen in armies almost as numerous. The prairies are always coated summer and winter with the most magnificent range, and it costs no more to raise a fine horse or a mule hers, than it does a chicken in North Carolina. They never require to be fed unless when worked when they have no time to be let to graze. This is a pleasant life and the most independent a man can lead. Very large crowds are continually pouring in from the old States to engage in this business, and the great majority of them, I am happy to say, are people of education and refinement. " Ranches" near the city of San Antonio cost rather dear, in proportion to what they may be ob tained for a day's travel from it. At that distance, a dollar and a half to four or five dollars per acre would purchase one to suit the most fastidious. Further North of us, or in the direction of the Rio Grande, they may be had much cheaper, and it is a most delightful country to live in, provided one will not allow himself to be too much annoyed with the fear of Indians, who sometimes come down upon our " rancheros" and play the mischief in the way of stealing horses, shooting cattle, and running off with young women or children. 'Tis not often they do this latter thing; but they sometimes do. They are not much to be dreaded if one goes well armed with a rifle and six shooter, and when he meets them docs not display too much readiness to run. They are very arrant cowards, take them as a general thing. The health of western Texas cannot be surpassed, if equalled, anywhere in the world. I do not know of any diseases to which our people are subject. I never saw a case of typhoid fever or pneumonia here, and just at this moment, with a large acquaintance. I do not know of a sick person in the State. The women are about the only people in this part of the world who suffer from occasional interruptions of health, and I suppose their woes, if they Call them such are to be attributed solely to the fact of Eve's having tasted the devil's apple. I warrant you, if you ever visit western Texas, you will see the healthiest looking people on the globe. I cannot say as much for eastern Texas. The people living on the rivers of that portion of the State, suffer now and . then from chills and fevers and some other diseases, ; but I do not believe that even they have more sickness than you all. who inhabit the most salu brious part of North Carolina. Our towns on the Mexican Gulf, and Brownsville, oti the lower Rio Grande, are visited occasionally with yellow fever, but deprive them of their plague, and they have quite as little to fear from sickness as any the rest of us. We ate below the latitude of New Orleans, but I do not think we suffer from heat so much as the people of North Carolina, and we have no winter at all, except when the u northers" are blowing. In summer there is an eternal breeze from the Gulf which never sleeps except when a heavy rain storm is brewing, and the atmosphere is rendered by it most delightfully refreshing. On the whole I do not think there can be a more beautiful, more fertile, more lovely, more healthy country in the world than Western Texas There may be, but I have travelled much and never seen it. Af:er perusing the above candid opinions, yon can judge for yourself whether you and your friends would improve your condition by removing to Texas. - The Pope's Territory. Of the provinces which remain to the Pope. Rome and Caluarea have 326,504 inhabitant; Civita Vecchia 20J01; Velletri 62,013, Frosinone 153,569; a total of 560,867 inhabitants. The Pied mon tese have deprived him of the Marches, Umbria, and the provinces of Viterbo. The population of the Marches is 924055 of Um bria 472,639, and of Viterbo 129,372 inhabitants, thus 1,526,019 inhabitants have been withdrawn from the temporal sway of the Pope . ENCOURAGEMENT TO AGRICUL TURE. We have lately remarked that the rapid exhaus tion of the soil in some sections of the United States will soon require the serious and organised action of our agricultural classes, and probably the protection of tha mernmint. I n!ri in th absence of any! aach course, we think it is the duty of the government to foster the agricultural interests, which are the interests of the aiaaa of the American people. The ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Phoenicians,, Jews, Chinese. ana tne lonatutants ot. ancient India, be earns great and prosperous by bringing the power of government and religion in aid of individual indus try in cultivating the earth. AU modern gov ernmeots of Europe have adopted and are now practicing upon this ancient principle and national tnprovement. Is it not astonishing that the Na tional and State governments of this free, agricul tural country, are the only ones in the world that give no direct assistance to agriculture. Thia is the more remarkable when we consider the fol lowing words from the last message of President Washington to Congress: "It will not be doubtcd with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture I of primary importance in proportion as nations ad vance in population and other circumstances of maturity; this truth becomes morw apparent and renders the cultivation vf the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse; and to what objeot can it be dedicated with greater propriety? Among the means which have been employed to this end, none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards composed of proper characters, charged with collecting and diffusing information, enabled by premiums and other emill pecuniary aids to encourage and assist a apirit of discovery and inprovetnent. This species of establishment contributes doub ly to the increase of improvement, bjr stimulating enterprise and experience, and by drawing to a common centre the results everywhere of individ ual skill and observation, and spreading them tlienee Over tha wVlnla lintirtn f.rnarianM iMAnl. ingly has shown that they are very cheap instru ments of immence national benefits." Whilst the laws of Congress for 1789 to 1836 are overflowing with provisions for the protection of maufactures; whilst from 1866 to this time, we have expended for repairs, increase and support of the navy, which is established for the protection of commerce, nearly one hundred and fifty million of dollars, there has never been one dollar appro priated for the direct encouragement of agricuture, which in the business of nine-tenths of the Ameri can people. A Brave Roy. The following incident, which recently occurred in the family of an Episcopal clergyman in Iowa, may be interesting to our readers : Edward, a boy about fifteen, was left at home during the visit of his father and nvthei to their friends in the vicinity of New York, and every ni'ht stent alone in the house, which vn aitnateif in a piece of woods a mile or two from Fort Des Moines. Though the situation was isolated, it was looked upon as cafe; no one supposing that any body would be wicked enough to attack a boy, or foolish enough to look in a country parson's house for plunder. But one night last week, Ned, who slept in a room on the second floor, at the head of the stairs, was awakened by a noise in the rooms below. Listening a moment, and all being quiet, he went to sleep again, supposing that some of the dogs might have disturbed him. After awhile be was again awakened, and listening he heard a soft step on the carpeted stairs approaching his room. He sprang up, seized his shot gun, which he a 1 wars kept loaded, and springing to the bead of the stairs, called out, " Stand, or I'll fire I" All was dark, but a noise on the stairway told him that some one was not standing but moving, and. he aimed the gun down the stairs and fired. . Almost immediately he heard the noise of something fall ing over in the parlor, and running to the window saw a man running away through the woods. He then struck a light and went down stairs. The door which opened at the foot of the stairs was perforated with the shot, and in the parlor waa everything of any value in the house tied in bundles, ready for removal. All the clothes, silver, linen, cutlery, and everything movable, had been packed up in parcels. What Consistency. To nee Southern news papers declaiming against merchants, tradesmen, and others, patronizing the North by going there for all their supplies, and then in the next column see these same Southern editors recommending and advising their readers to send North for literary papers and agricultural periodicals, when just as good, and far better suited to our people, and our soil and climate, can be procured at home. And yet this is an inconsistency very often met with tn Southern papers. Let the practice be abandoned at once and forever, as injurious to Southern pub lishers themselves, and an imposition on their read ers. The South has publications of every descrip tion literary, religious, moral, political, agricul tural all kinds, far better adapted to Southern hearts, homes and practice, and let Southern peo ple patronize their own enterprises in every depart ment of life. A Southern farmer or planter patronizing an agricultural paper, whose editor be has reason to the most strange and inconsistent things on earth And yet some Southern editors thoughtlessly ad vise tbera to do wolRaleiyh Age. The farmers are the mainstays of the State, and we agree with the Age. that to be prosperous and independent in every respect, we should sustain our boms enterprises. The North Carolina Planter nublished by A. 31. Gorman, at Raleigh, and the Edgecombe Farm Journal, published by W. B. Smith, at Tarboro, are both good North Carolina agricultural periodicals, and as such . should be patronized and read by North Carolina farmers. Greensboro Tines. It is stated that Lincoln voted for himself that is, he voted for Lincoln electors, but cut off his ow mta from the head of the ticket