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'I li 1! II is ; ! ! ' u t ill? tf - ii i $11 I!;!' i " ? 1 Iff! .Is , I .1-1 12 1? r.5 : i; hi? '3ii jit. a! ; ' H . i '(if. m . ! : i '.. r , 1 5 i: IMPORTANT DEBATE IN CONGBESS. Id the House of Representatives, Tuesday, the Force Bill wa called up. Mr Howard, Mich., resumed his remark in . fa tot of it, arguing that it merely gave a construc tion to the laws already in existence. It was the duty of Congress to put into the hands of the President the means for the performance of his duty, and point out the mode iu which he should do it. They could not he released from this obli gation. Re repeated that the President should have the power to execute the Constitution in all its parts. The highest duty of the government, which dates anterior to all constitutions, is to pre serve its existence. Mr Pryor said it was the purpose of the domi nant party, plainly manifested and openly avowed, to drive through the hill by the pressure of irre sistible rule. As this was a foregone conclusion, he hoped it would pass at once, to the end that the people of Virginia and of the South may be arous ed -to the perils that menace their destruction. He defiantly challenged them to assume the atti tude of hostility corresponding to their bloody de signs. He, knew that the Republican party are resolved never to recognize the independence of the seceded States, nor surrender control over the captured forts. In short, they are resolved to per mit the South no other alternative but submission or subjugation. in the event ol the fcoutn declining to capitu late, coercion by arms is their purpose and policy. Who so bold as to deny this assertion? He desir ed to proclaim to the country the policy of the dominant party and incoming administration to arry slaughter and sword into the Losom of the people of the South, rather than tolerate the exis tence of a Southern Confederacy. The object is to chastise and subdue the seceeded States. By this bill the President may carry on against them vigorous hostility. In fact it was a measure of fraternal and civil war, clearly against the letter and spirit of the constitution. Mr Curtis, of Iowa, addressed the House in favor of the bill. It was but a use of forces which were already armed and equipped, instead of drafting new companies of militia. Mr Simm8, of Ky., said the bill was one of mur der, for while the laws of our country gave to a criminal or rebel the right of s trial by jury, this hill gives authority to the President to order his myrmidons to shoot down whoever he may consid er a rebel, wherever he may find hiui, and without .judge or jury. Mr Curtis denied the assertion. He denied that this hill was one of coercion. Mr Burnett asked whether the purpose of the 'republicans under this bill was to reinforce the forts in the seceeding States, now held by the federal government, and to rec.ipture the forts al ready taken, unless they shall be surrendered? Mr Curtis replied that his purpose was to sup port the Constitution as it is, until some power was vested in him to do otherwise. Mr Burnett desired to know if it was the pur pose of the party to reinforce the forts and recap ture the property taken by seceding States? Mr Curtis was not going to give his opinion in open session what should be spoken of only in se cret session, it it was lor hostile purposes. Mr Simms in his seat "Murder." Mr Curtis replied that "murder" came from the other side of the House. The acts of assassins were not from Republicans. The murderous axe against the government was wielded by persons skulking iu executive chambers, and in the Sen ate of the United States striking at their own mother, their mother couutry. lie denied that the States were out of the Union they were still children of the same common country. Mr Burnett was compelled to agree with the gentleman from Virginia in regarding the passage of this bill as a foregone conclusion; and he had no doubt that it was the purpose of the dominant )arty on the floor of the House to pass this bi!', a aw of such moment to the country, under the call of the previous question, and even before it had been piinttd. He now declared the bill to be a declaration of war against the seceding States. The hill never had a similar precedent. It gives the President unlimited power to call out three million of men, and muster them into the service of the United States. Congress would shortly ad journ, and if the President saw fit to abuse his power, there was no power to prevent him or to re strain him. After the close of the remarks of Mr Burnett Mr Corwin moved to postpone the further con sideration of the bill until Thursday next, at one o'clock. This was agreed to yeas 100, nays 74. Mr Grow asked that the remainder of this day be given to territorial business, and asked that the special order, which now took precedence, viz: the report of the committee of thirty-three, be post poned till to-morrow at one o'clock. Mr Bingham moved to postpone till Saturday next. Mr Hickman moved to postpone till Monday next at 11 o'clock. Mr Sickles called Mr Hickman to order. Mr Hickman would not be called to order by ords, from such a mouth. Great confusion pre vailed, and cries of "order" Ironi all parts of the House.J Mr Cochrane moved the galleries be cleared, sot that they were behaving badly, but he was ashamed that they should be witness to such pro ceedings. Mr McKean desired to know if there was a ser-geant-at-arms. Order having been restored, the vote was taken on the motion to postpone till Monday at 11 o'clock; lost yeas 56, nays 132. The motion to postpone till Saturday was lost yeas 56, nays 149; as was that of Mr Grow to postpone the special order until to-morrow yeas 79, nays 112. Mr Corwin then endeavored to get bis substitute for the report of the committee of 33 before the House, which allows no amendment concerning slavery to be made to the Constitution, except by a vote of all the States. Great confusion ensued and interposition of points of order, pending which the House adjourn ed. Forts Sumter and Pickexs. A dispatch -was received by President Buchanan on Saturday, announcing the arrival of President Jefferson Davis at Charleston. This considerably startled the President, who immediately started a messenger to ex-President Tyler s rooms to enquire what this movement meant. Mr Tyler was happily able to as sure the President that his mission was one of peace and not of war. That his presence at Charleston was to prevent the possibility of an attack on Fort Sumter that if the tone of Mr Lincoln's inaugu ral was pacific the forts would not be attacked, and if otherwise, the attack would be immediately made. Warlike Preparations. The Southern papers are full of items concerning the warlike .preparations iu the Confederated States. There ara three nowder mills iu Pickens District. S. C, turning out some 50 kegs a day. A firm in J Savannah has contracted for 3,000 shot and shell , for South Carolina, and another firm, iu Mobile, is ' casting cannon balls, &c J INTERESTING LETTER PBOM ITALY. Correspondence of the Fayetteville Observer. Florence, (Italy,) Jan'y 12, 1861. ' The Carnival commences here to-worrow, when every species of gaiety, frolic and foolery is dis played. Parties, social and private, and public balls, occupy every evening, not omitting Sunday; we have invitations as far ahead as the 31st. The Italians are a peaceful, love-of-pleasure people, and the lower and middle classes uniformly civil and obliging. You may walk the streets at any hour of the night unharmed. I realized the civility of the peasantry, several times while in my summer rambles I lost my way in the mountains; and it was really pleasant to have their willing guidance to put me right. I have never seen a drunken man or a street fight r heard of a coffee house riot but once since I have been here, and that was between two Americans. The people are so infatuated with carnival festivals, that some of them pawn their jewels, their wardrobe, and even their bedding, to equip themselves in costume for a masquerade ball. These balls are in some large Theatre, where the scenery and all the moveables are put aside, aud a dancing floor is constructed over the pft to a level with the stage. It is beau tifully and tastefully arranged, with refreshment rooms, and every variety of temptations, except strong drinks. Excessive drinking at such a place is unknown. It is open to all classes, at a small Igj for admission. Policemen armed, and in neat but conspicious uniform, are distributed in every part of the house. And though from 3 to 50U0 persons are assembled, and though from the nature of the case many are present in costume who could not gain entrance if undisguised, yet never a word is heard, or an act performed, which would offend the most delicate or sensitive of either sex. Loud or anry discussions arc prohibited, and in delicate or uncourteous behaviour from either sex would find a policeman on hand, and be escorted to the street door. It is optional to go in costume, but those who appear in citizens' dress are liable to all sorts of fun and tricks by the maskers who recognize them. I went alone one evening in my usual dress, and was standing with an opera glass surveying the house when I was suddenly put on a march of double quick time by two fe males who each took an arm and crowded me on ward, talking first in Italian and then in French, and pushing me up to a flower table, helped them selves to a boquet, then gracefully kissing their hands to me ran off and left me to pay for the flowers. Not long after, they spied me again, and then said in plain English, wc will tell your wife of your gallantry. But I never discovered them to this day. Of course they were American girls who knew me. Those who do not care to min gle with the throng engage a box, and remain in it, where they can overlook the maskers, and then have a table set out with refreshments. They have ako street maskers by day light, singing and dan cing, and arrayed in the most fanciful and fantas tical costumes. But their greatest display is the Carso. Certain streets are designated by the po lice, through which the carriages pass. They must all goon one side of these streets, and return on the opposite side. Hence in the course of the drive vou are continually meeting your friends face to face, and at each meeting, sugar plumbs and bo quets arc thrown from carriage to carriage by mu tual friends. Every description of vehicle is in requisition, from a cart with a single donkey to the most splendid coaches and liveried servants. It is a beautiful exhibition, and the streets through which the procession passes have the doors and windows decorated with flags and banners, and or namented with beautiful women Persuasion nor money can induce these people to work on gala day. Come what will, they close their shops on a Festa, and dance and frolic almost in the face of want. They shoot pleasure as it flies, and leave to-morrow to take care of itself. Some of their social and sanctuary regulations would be good models for America. For example, as a preventive to pauperism, a settlement is re quired before marriage. In the Army this is rigidly enforced. A Captain caunot marry until 03000 by him, and a like sum by the bride, are contributed;.:- This sum is invested by Govern ment, the interest paid to the parents during life, and the principal distributed to the children. A larger or smaller settlement, according to grade. Then they have a Government Pawn Bank, where everything is conducted with fairness, and at the lowest rate of interest indeed, at a charge only sufficient to cover the the expenses of the institu tion. It was established several centuries ago, by a wealthy and pious monk, to protect the people from the extortion of the Jews. They deem all fevers to be infectious, and when death occurs from fever, it is required that the room shall be fumigated and repainted, and all the furniture to be re-upholstered, and the bed and bedding to be burnt. No funeral is allowed during the day, exept it be some Grandee, with musicand banners, for a pageant. No burial is permitted, or even the coffin to be closed, until 48 hours after death; and no burial within the city walls. Those who are unable to incur the cost of burial, are pro vided for at public expense. After remaining the time required by law, they are carried to the church of their parish, and remain until about 9 P. M., and then all who die on that day are assem bled at the dead house, and at 12 at night they are all taken to Potter's field, about a mile from the city. Here they are entirely robed, and all put in one pit, and covered with quick lime, and in one year nothing remains of them. So there are 365 pits e toyed in fine cement, and one of these pits is opened every day. The same is done in Paris, only without lime, and opened every 7 years and whatever bones are found are deposited in the catacombs. I will now describe another building. It is the Foundling Hospital. It has the appearance of a one story building, but is really two stories. This building would seem to form a part of the cluster of buildings on the famous square of the "Annuu ziata," for the cloister opposite, and in fact the front of the Church itself, is of like architecture. At one end of the long corridor, a small semi circular box or case is seen to project, and beside it is a bell pull. Here the foundling is placed, the bell sounded, and in a moment the box revolves, and the lost child finds a home, while the mother, lost to herself, her child and the world, perchance speedily finds her home in one of the 365 pauper pits. These children are well cared for, and at 12 years of age are distributed among those who wish for them, as farmers or mechanics, or such like. This distribution is at stated periods; and it is curious to see the women from the country and the workshops, assembled at the gate for ad mission, on the appointed day. Each child is named and numbered, and its district and location carefully recorded. Superintendents for these districts are appointed by the Governors of the Institution, who visit the children once a month, and remove them for want of proper care ; inflict ing a fine on the offender. It almost seems to be promoting the cause of licentiousness when so much care is exerted for its effect, But, as the giver and receiver of the child are unknown to and unseen by each other, the little revolving box opens and closes as well for the good as for the evil. There are married women whose indigent j WESTERN DEMOCEATr OHtEIiOTTE? NC: circumstances inflict misery on their child if re tained at home. Hence, many an honest woman avails herself of this asylum for the well-being of her child. For whether the child be of honest parentage or o the l wise, it can be reclaimed at any future time; and those who have such an ulti mate interest leave with the child a paper, giving it a name ami . some jewel or lasting token, by which its future identity may be realized. A care ful record is preserved, on which reliance is im plicit. If the child is ever reclaimed it is re stored, with a moderate charge for its care and expense of food and raiment. So, if fortune changes favorably, the honest mother has her child restored. Thus some good results from this ap parent evil institution. - - IMPORTANTVROM JAPAN. Advices from Japan to the last of December report serious troubles between the natives and foreign residents. A letter in the N. Y. Herald, dated Yokahama, December 29, says: Matters here are in a very bad state, I can assure you a war or a fight being certain between the English, French, and in fact all the European residents on the one side, and the Japanese on the other. The cutting down of the French Consul- General's butler by the Japanese, in the manner they did, has excited the most deadly hatred they are sworn to have revenge. The French Consul has removed from Jeddo down to Kanawaga, being afraid to reside there any longer. Every one here carries his sword and revolver whenever he goes out after dark. There is no doubt the French and English are going to compel Japan to give Prussia a treaty, which certainly would not be granted without compulsion. But what is still worse, i3 the quarrel going on between the English residents and Mr Alcock, the British Minister, and Capt. Vyse, the Consul. Neither of these gentlemen dare go into the street alone after dark, although they both carry pistols. They appear to be universally disliked, although both are of high standing at home. At Kanawaga an Englishman, named Moss, was arrested for mortally wounding a Japanese police officer. The act is - believed to have Leen done accidentally, and not by Moss. Upon hearing of his arrest, the British Minister and Consul ex pressed great indignation, and demanded his im mediate surrender, coupled with a threat to blow up the Governor's Palace in the event of non compliance. There being at the time no English vessel of war in port, the Minister enlisted the aid of the Prussian commodore, who placed men, howitzers and boats at his disposal; but these were fortunately not called into requisition. After twenty-four hours' imprisonment, Moss was deliv ered up, and subsequently tried before. the Consu lar Court, and sentenced to three months' im prisonment, and to pay a fine of one thousand dol lars and suffer a deportation from Japan. The affair created much ill-feeling between the foreign residents and natives. The Prince of Bungo, third ambassador to the United States, or, as he was generally called, "Censor or adviser," has been recently appointed one of the Governors for Foreign Affairs. All three of the ambassadors are now in the office of the Minister of State at Jeddo. The next point of interest in the news is the proposed embassy to England next summer. The Japanese have applied to Mr Townsend Harris to know if American officers could be procured to navigate a steamer there and back. Important Arrest. Messrs. J. C. Thomas and Thomas Hall, of Isle of Wight co., Va., reach ed here yesteiday afternoon, by the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, having in their possession a suspicious character, who is supposed to have committed a foul murder in the county of Guilford, N. C. Gov. Ellis has recently issued a proclamation offering a reward of 1,000 for the arrest of James R. S. Chipman, who is charged with the murder of Martha Penix, of Guilford. Chipman is described as being 5 feet 8 or 10 in ches high, is sparely built, and has black hair and eyes. The party under arrest answers to the fore going description, is entirely without baggage, and gives a most confused and unsatisfactory account both of his home and the place of his destination. He has been footing it along the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad for several days past, and con fesses to having recently left North Carolina, but says he is from a county adjoining Guilford. Petersburg Express 27th. The man was carried to Greensboro, and found not to be Chipman. A Prospective Stampede. The Richmond Enquirer has private advices from different parts of the State, wh'ich inform it that a large number of the largest slaveholders in Virginia are already making preparations for an exodus. We have ourselves reliable information to the same effect. When this prospective stampede shall once become present and actual, none can predict the extent to which it will be carried Some opine that some of our largest and most flourishing agricultural dis tricts will be left as desolate as the wilderness of Jamaica. Even if it shall fall far short of this, it will still involve incalculable damage to all our in terests. These large slaveholders comprehend a large quota of the very flower of our population representing much of the wealth, talent, vir tue and commanding influence oft he State. They will carry away from us, what is far more valuable to the State than property, thousands and tens of thousands of busy hands, which now constitute the productive labor of the State. Richmond Dis. Atlantic, Tenn. & Ohio Railroad. The entire line of this road, between Statesville and Charlotte, including the bridge at Third Creek, has been let to contract, and the work will be pushed with energy to completion. The acting President, Wm. Johnston, Esq., is a Napoleon in railroad matters, and will put forth all his energies to complete this enterprize in the shortest time possible. Statesville Express. Fatal Accident. We regret to state that Mr Robert Gardner, residing four or five miles above this place, was on Wednesday evening last week, accidentally killed by the fall of a tree. A son of Mr Gardner and a negro boy were felling the tree, and just as it was about to fall the young man said to his father to "look out;" unfortunately Mr G. ran the wrong direction, the trunk of the tree caught him, crushing his brain, and he died in stantly. Yorkville Enquirer. Bad Signs. A man who is always ready to speak of the faults of others, affords a sign that he is destitute of human sympathy; a man who speaks insinuatingly against others, affords a sign of mean ness; and. a man who suspicions others of mean acts and retails his suspicions, affords a sign that he himself is a rascal. From such characters good Lord deliver us. Plant Corn ! "This," says the Sandersville Georgian, "is the cry throughout the South." That paper repeats it,- as inculcating a sensible E iolicy for many reasons, the chief one being the iabilitv of the Southern rjorts to a blockade bv the United States Government, in the event of war, in which case cotton would be of little practical value to the planter. Captions o Laws Passed by the General Assembly of North Caro lina, Session I860-1 '61. " - - An Act for the relief of the banks and the people. The Act authorized the auspensiou of specie payment by repealing the penalty. - . An Act to incorporate the Gardner Valley Mining Company. An act for thu appointment of an additional Inspec tor of Flour, Provisions and Storage, ia the town of Wilmington. An act to repeal an act passed at the session of 1858-9, entitled "an Act granting to the Superior Court of Burke county original and exclusive jurisdiction of all criminal causes and State prosecutions, where the intervention of a jury may be necessary." An Act to provide for the purchase of arms and munitions of war. Appropriating 300,000. An Act incorporating Courts of Oyer and Terminer. Gives tbe Courts of Oyer and Terminer a grand jury. An Act to alter the time of opening the polls in elec tions at the precincts of Salisbury, Wilmington, Ashe ville and Lexington. , An Act to consolidate the various acts heretofore passed to incorporate the town of Statesville, in the county of Iredell. An Act to repeal an Act passed at the session of 1858-'59, concerning Cherokee and Robeson counties. An act providing for beating and lighting the Capi tol. Authorizes an appropriation of $2,500 for put ling in gas pipes and grate3. An act to repay tht Banks moneys improperly col lected from them. An act for the relief of Daniel Dougherty. An act to incorporate the Gibson Hill Mining Com pany, in the county of Guilford. An Act to prohibit the emancipation of slaves by will. An act concerning the call of a Convention of the people of t he State to consider our Federal affairs. An act for the protection of the Haywood Male and Feraal Academies. An Act to prevent the felling of timber in certain streams in Iredell county. An Act to incorporate Judson Female College, in the town of Henderson. An act to appoint tax collectors for the counties of Wayne, Haywood, Burke, Pasquotank, Mecklenburg, Iredell, Davidson, Anson, Union and other counties. An Act to incorporate the Baltimore and North Caro lina Copper and Gold Mining Company. An act to incorporate the Silver Valley Mining Com pany in the county of Davidson. An Act to incorporate the Davidson Copper Mining Company. An Act to prevent the felling of timber in, or other wise obstructing, the arm of the North prong of Belows Creek, in Forsyth county. An act to incorporate the Chatham Railroad Com pany. An Act to lay on and establish the county ot lran sylvania from portions of Buncombe and Jackson coun ties. An Act to amend an Act entitled An act to establish the Bank of Commerce. The Act provides for the re moval of certain restrictions under which the bank has heretofore labored. An Act to secure the completion of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad, and to amend the charter thereof. Authorizes an exchange of State bonds to tbe amount of one million of dollars, and the State takes a mortgage upon the road. An Actto enable the Fayettville and Western Rail road Company to exrend their road from the Coal Fields to some point on the North Carolina Railroad, near Lexington. The Act authorizes an exchange of bonds with the State to the amount of $500,000', and that not a dollar of said appropriation should be paid by the State until the iron for said road had first been manu factured in this State, and the road was graded. An act to establish a county by the name of Mitchell from portions of Yancy, McDowell, Burke and Watauga. An act to continue the improvement and provide for the equipment of the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal, and the waters connected therewith. An appropria tion of $200,000 was made, and the work pledged for its payment. An act to incorporate the Green Swamp Company. An act to amend an act entitled "an Actto incor porate the town of Charlotte, in the county of Meck lenburg." An act to incorporate the Greensboro Gas Light Com pany. An act to incorporate Independent Order of Odd Fel lows, Swannanoa Lodge, No. 59, Asheville, in the coun ty of Buncombe. An act to incorporate the Valley River Gold Mining and Aqueduct Company of Cherokee. An act for the completion of the buildings of the North Carolina Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and for other purposes. The act appropriates the sum of two thousand dollars. An act to amend the charter of the town of Newbern. An act to amend the charter of the town of Morgan -ton. An act concerning the daily reading of records of courts. An act to amend an act to create a Sinking Fund. An act to amend and extend the provisions ojthe 6th section of the 48th chapter of the Revised Code, enti tled Fence. An actto improve the road from John Allen's to the top of the Blue Ridge, at Fisher's Gap, in the county of Surry. An act to repeal section 11, chapter 169, of the laws of North Carolina, pas?ed at the session of 1858-59. An act to allow less than a majority of the magis trates of Iredell and Chatham counties to transactcoun ty business. An act to amend an act incorporating the Western North Carolina Railroad Company. An act to amend an act to incorporate the Wilming ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad Company. An act to provide for the completion of, and amend the charter of the Western Railroad Company. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Railroad Company. An act to construct a Railroad from Dallas, North Carolina, to the South Carolina line. An act to amend the Charter of the Farmers' Bank of North Carolina. An act to incorporate the Richlands Institute in the county of Haywood. An act to release and remit any penalties or forfei tures, &c, incurred by the Lagrange Mining and Manu facturing Company. An act to authorize the constructien of a Turnpike road from Mitchell's High Peak, on Black Mountain, to intersect one or more points in Buncombe county. An act to authorize the sale of the old jail in the town of Wilkesboro. An act to authorize the County Tru5tees of Iredell county to sell lots in the town of Statesville. An act supplemental to an act passed at the present session of the General Assembly to incorpo rate the Chatham Railroad Company. This bill provides for a loan of $200,000 on the part of the State. An act to incorporate the Caswell Railroad Company. Allows the North Carolina Railroad to subscribe $50, 000 for the consfoction of a Railroad from the Com pany Shops to the town of Milton. An act to provide for the sale of the State's interest in the Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Com pany. An act concerning a public road from Taylorsville to Boon in Watauga county. An act for the relief of the Raleigh and Greenville Plank road Company. A bill to create tbe Artillery Corps of North Caro lina. An act to incorporate the Bank of Western North Carolina. An act to incorporate the Black Mountain Turnpike Company. An act to amend the Revised Code concerningtax for Common Schools as it relates to the counties of Ashe and Alleghany. An act to amend an act passed at the Session of 1860-'61, amendatory of an act to incorporate the Mc Dowell and Yancey Turnpike, passed at the Session of 1858-'59. The act makes an appropriation of $3,000. An act to incorporate "Green Hill Cemetery," in the county of Buncombe An act to incorporate the Asheville Water Company, in the county of Buncombe. An act to authorize the sureties of Geoge W. Glass late Sheriff of McDewell county, to collect arrearages of taxes. An act to incorporate the Chatham MiningCompany. An act for the relief of Evans Ferguson and Ben Smith, free persons of color, permitting them to choose their masters and become slaves. An act to construct a branch from the Wilmington k Weldon Railroad to, or near the town of Fayetteville. This act authorizes an exchange of bonds to the amount of $200,000. ' An act to incorporate the CarrolUon Copper Minine Company, of Baltimore. ' . n ronrn.no- the town of Wilmington, authoriz ing and empowering tbe authorities to lay a tax upon new subjects. - . - ' s An act to incorporate the city of Moreheaa. - An act to incorporate Adams Hill Mining Company. An act to extend the time , for registering gTantt, ro-.nnrf iinH &mend the act of 1854-'55 , -rtr,A thf. limitS Of the tOWU Of a .k;na ' nH ronfftl all former acts of incorporation An act to lay off and establish a new county by the name of Clay. . An act to incorporate the "Valley River Mining Com- An act to inccrporate the "Greensboro' & Leaksville Railroad Company." Grants a charter simply. An act to incorporate the Milton and Yanceyville Junction Railroad Company. No appropriation. An act supplemental to an act passed at the present c.un nfth. Rtnoral Assembly, entitled "an act to nfpanii ethiuh ft new county bv the name of Mitchell." . An act to re-survey and establish the county line between the counties of Surry and Wilkes. An act to incorporate the Fayetteville Gas Light Company. An act to incorporate the Trustees of Balls Creek Camp Ground in Catawba county. An act to incorporate the Hillsboro' Military Acade my. An act to Charter the Statesville and Tennessee Turnpike company. An act to incorporate Reddicks Creek Mining Com pany. An act concerning the management of the poor in the county of Forsythe. An act concerning the Insane Asylum of North Caro lina. An act to amend an act passed at the present session of the General Assembly entitled an act to appoint a Tax collector for Wayne and other counties. An act to authorise Dan'l P. Johnson and Ambrose Luiz to establish a Toll bridge on the Catawba River. An act to incorporate the Concord Copper Mining Company. An act to incorporate the Tokay Wine Company of Fayetteville. An act to incorporate the Bank of Roxboro. Au thorizes a Capital Stock of two hundred thousand dol lars to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. An act to lay off and locate a road from the town of Statesville to the town of Wilksboro.' An act supplemental to an Act passed at the present session of the General Assembly, laying off and estab lishing the county of Transylvania. An act to incorporate Greensboro' Cemetery Com pany. An act to incorporate the Salem Camp Ground in Lincoln county. An act to incorporate Yadkin College in the county of Davidson. An act to amend the 70th chapter of the Revised Code Militia. An act to incorporate the Lincoln Copper and Gold Mining Company. An act to incorporate the Carolina copper and gold mining company. An act to allow the Raleigh and Gaston railroad company to increase its capital stock. An act to incorporate the Buncombe powder manu facturing company, located in the county of Buncombe. An act to incorporate the Carfaugh mining company. An act for the relief of Davidson College. An net to declare what shall be sufficient to consti tute the crimes of Rape, carnally knowing and abusing a female child under the age of ten years, and Bug gery. An act to incorporate the Salem and Thomasville turnpike company. An act to incorporate the various military companies in the State. An act to amend the charter of the town of Salisbury and to establish the corporate limits of said town. An act for the protection of the N. C. Cherokee Indians. Prohibits the sale of spirituous liquors among them. An act to amend the Revised Code concerning widows. An act concerning the Wilmington and Weldon rail road companj'. An act to charter the Charlotte and St. Catharine's railroad company. An act to change the rnles of evidence in indictments for trading with slaves. An act to amend the Revised Code concerning free negroes. An act to amend the charter of the town of Lin colnton. An act giving two additional terms of superior courts to Cleaveland. An act to extend the limits of the town of Lexing ton. An act requiring the registration of Coroners' bonds. An act tc prevent damage by camp fires. An act to amend sections 16 and 17 of chapter 34 of the Revised Code. An act to allow the sale of certain property in the town of Statesville. An act to incorporate the North Carolina fibre com pany. An act to prevent free negroes hiring or having con trol of slaves. An act to incorporate the Cherokee mining com pany. An act to incorpate the town of Rockingham. An act to protect the agricultural fair grounds at Newbern. An act to extend the corporate limits of the town of Monroe. An act to incorporate the Sharon Riflemen. An act to incorporate the citizens' gas light company in Newbern. An act to provide for limited partnerships. An act to amend the charter of Jonathan's creek and Tennessee mountain turnpike company. An act to charter the Bank of Thomasville. An act to amend the charter of the Atlantic Fire and Marine Insurance Company. An act to incorporate the University railroad' com pany. An act to provide for a continuance of the improve ments of Cape Fear and Deep river slack water naviga tion. An act to incorporate the Sulphur Springs camp ground in the county of Cleaveland. An act to incorporate the N. C. shoe manufacturing company. An act to amend the charter of the town of Franklin, in Macon county. An act to diminish the costs in equity, sales for partition. An act to abolish jury trials in the county courts of the csunty ot .Polk. An act to restore jury trials in the county of Chero kee. An act to amend the 11th section, 52d chapter Re vised Code. An act to amend the 9th section, 93d chapter, Re vised Code. An act to amend the Revised Code, chapter 2, enti tled agriculture and geology. An act to incorporate the State educational associa tion. An act to amend the Revised Code concerning idiots and lunatics. An act to amend the charter of the La Grange mining company. An act concerning the common schools. An act to abolish jury trials in Watauga connty. RESOLUTIONS. Resolution in favor of the sureties of George W Glass. Resolution in favor of Col. Edward Yarborough. Resolution concerning Arms. Resolution concerning the distribution of geological reports. Resolution, in favor of Thomas Diggg, of Anson coanty. Resolution to amend a resolution in favor of certain entries of Cherokee lands, passed at the last general assembly. . Resolution In favor of D C Lilly. Resolution in tavor of Leah Coleman. Resolution in favor of Cooper Prince and John H Harwood. Resolution in favor of Daniel Willis and David Lewis. Resolution concerning the records in the State library providing for their better protection. Resolution in favor of the sureties of S M Ray, lata sheriff of Yancey. Resolution in r'avor of tbe sureties of G H Holland, late sheriff of Haywood connty. Resolution ia favor of John Pate. Resolution to authorize the Governor to offer $1,000 reward for an escaped criminaL Resolution in favor of Jonas Jenkins, late sheriff of Jackson county. , . . , T..ninf imi in favor of William Peace. fAnii,..- . tbe appropriation of $1,600 to him for money expend.5 In the erection of bouses on Burke square in Raleigh i .Resolution in favor of J L Ward, of Polk. ' Resolution in favor of N C Norman in Yajya county. - Resolution in favor of Joseph Pritchett. Resolution in favor of Gray Bryan. " Resolution in favor of D W Courts, Public Treasurer Resolution in favor of P A Smith, attorney for th" estate of M M Plunkett, deceased. Resolution to defray the. expenses of the Commit, sioners from Georgia. Resolution in favor of Clark Bird. Resolution in favor of J C Luter of Orange coonw Resolution In favor of W- Watson. Resolution in favor of Jesse McGee, of Haywood county. Resolution in favor of Q Busbee and others. Resolution in favor of the principal and asgisttnt clerks of the senate and bouse of commons. Resolution- in favor of E P Stillwell, of Jackioa county. " Resolution in favor of Daniel Tucker. Resolution in favor of John L Cantwell. Resolution providing for the publication of certain State records. .' .' . Resolution concerning tbe distribution of the Re. vised Code. Resolution in favor of Henry Bagley. Resolution in favor of James C Luter. Resolution in favor of the estate of George Craflon. Resolution m favor of Wm Thompson. BOOT AND SHOE E M P O B I U M, Bo 0a & ., (SUCCESSORS TO J. B. F. BOONE,) HATE JUST OPENED AT BOONE'S OLD STAND, a large Select Stock of BOOTS, LEATHEE AND SHOE-FINDINGS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, WIIICII WILL BE SOLD AT THE PRICES FOR lO PER CENT. CHEAPER THAN ETEB sold for before in this market. Having bought our Stock on good terms, ire CAN and WILL sell to our customers low down for CASH ! B. R. SMITH 6c CO. CHARLOTTE, N. C, June 19, 18G0. O. It. I1AKDIIVG, YATOS MA1E1 & jf SWS&BB. Lincolnton, IX. C, Begs leave to inform the citizens of Lincoln And sur rounding counties, that he has permanently located ia the town of Lincolnton, where he will carry on tbe Watch and Jewelry Business In all its various branches. Strict attention will b paid to the repairing of Watches and Jewelry. All fine Watches warranted to give satisfaction, ifwtll used, or no charges made. Litt of prictt for Work. Mainspring and cleaning ' watch, $2.50; jewels, cap and foot, each, 75c; cap foot-hold jewel, each, $1,50; bair-springs, $1.25; chains, $1.50; mending chains, 50c; tooth and wheel 50c; pivots, $1; cylinders, $4; SUrei, $2.75; virges, $2.50; gcrews, 25c; case springs 75c; clicks and racbets, 75c; glasses, 50c. All other work will average the same prices. Persons leaving work can know the prices before it is done. Persons in the country having clocks or other work for Repair, will address me by letter iftbey csnnot come themselves. I will attend to work promptly. All kinds of Gun-smith work done at short notice and on reasonable terms. Give me a call, and I will guarantee satisfaction. G. R. HARDING. Lincolnton, Feb. 26, 18G1 tf Stale of North Carolina, Catawba C- A. F. Brevard and others vs. M. J. Shelton. Attachments. It appearing to the satisfaction of tbe Court tbstth defendant in these cases has absconded or so remoTed that the ordinary process of law cannot be served on him, it is therefore ordered that publication be made in the Charlotte Democrat for six successive weeks, for the said defendant to be and appear at our next Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, to be opened and beld for the county of Catawba, at the Court House in Ne ton, on the 3d Monday in April next, then and thert to answer the above attachments, or they will be M for hearing and judgment granted as prayed far. Witness, Geo. Setzer, Clerk of our said Court at offic in Newton, the third Monday in January, A. D. 1861. 52-6t. pr adv $6J GEO. SETZER, C. C. C TO MERCHANTS. Brades' Co. strong Crown and Brades Patent HOES a large quantity for sale to the trade. DAVID FAUST k CO., Successors to Faust, Winebrem k Co., . No. 49 North 3d St., Feb. 19th. 3t PHILADELPHIA ' 950 REWARD. RUNAWAY, from tbe Subscriber, living near VTb; Plain, Chestetfield District, S.C., about lOih of August to my negro fellow, Ben. lie it 24 years ol age, of a yelloW1j complexion, almost black, haa no beard, weighs about 1 pounds, about 6 feet 1 inch biirb. He walk with a firm er and carries himself erect, li ia likely that Ben will deavor to make hiu way o a free State. Any ptraon will arrest the said netrro and lodge him in any tale j1' g that I can get him or deliver him to me at my residence receive the above rewaid. 1 will also give $100 reward ' proof sufficient to convict any whitt person or persons harboring the said boy or trying to effect his escape. ,f WM. M. BLAKENEY. Febuary 19, 1861. tf. . DIRECT IlflPORTATIOlV. 12O0 KVI0ES' jU8t received Feb'y 19, J851 COCHRANE k SAMPLE- Tbe Notes and Accounts due E. NYE HUTCBIS0 4 CO., after the 1st day of February next. nTT found in the hands of HUTCHISON k BROWN, tornies at Law. for collection. E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO. January 15,"l8l. ' tf, - N.
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