North Carolina Newspapers

mm M rnfV WW 9 OFFIO OX TIIK WEST SIDE OF TRAP I STREET S2 pea? annum IN ADVANCE. : CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER. YAiHB EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2G, 1861. TENTH VOLUME-NUMBER 492. "5 r, Al A. THE TllMMI r TV (Published every Tuesday,Q) V.Y w ILL! A 31 J Y a T i : s . EWTufl AN I) PKOPRIKTOH. If rs id i" ivhau.e,. If paid within If paid after !if ep gj. Any ;m-oii ?2 00 nth.-. 2 50 it-iit in of the year, 3 00 sending us live nknv M-bscribers, j : ;!i!v.i...lC subscription will ! -rati- for one year. ! ..a 1 others who niav vi.-b to send art-oinj) mi'-l '" E-ar '- r monev to i , u by mail, al our risk.. o I ertistmeiits must be paid for in Strif Tr.m;..--;t ad . a nce. fr-if Advert uieuis not marked on the manuscript forbid, and ror a specific 'iiue. will be inserted mi ;)i:irged accordingly. il SAMUKL P. SMITH, Attorney :mI Onuiorlor at I.nir, CHARLOTTE, N ('., Will attend promptly and Jiliy-mi ' to collecting and remitting all cl.ii.ix intru.-red lo hi- c:'ie. Special attention given to the u siting of Deeds, Cou rt ranees. c. jf-jr" During hours of h'-i-in may be found in the Court Mouse, Office .u. 1, adjoin; i ii" t lie cieriv a oiioe. JuiitiHrv 10. ,1. A. FOX Attorney rtt CHARLOTTE, N. C. c i:xi:iiA l t !. 1. 1: -j imi a hi. T. :'!e January iv cr tae 1, loot. ;u s corner. U 111. l . Kerr, A T T Oil X K V CHARLOTTE, N. C, Wit! practice in the County and Superior Courts of Mecklenburg. Cnion and Cabarrus oiinties. Ukkice in the Rrawlcy building ojit.o-ite Kerr's Hotel. Jauuary 24, 18ol y KOttEKT (ilBBOX, PRiCTiTio.i:st vr AND 31 1).. i j:ii i c OJlre A. January, 2 L uui's cormr, 1801. ClI AKl.i TTK, N. 0. 11. V. UKCKWITH Has constantly on hand WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C, Of the best E::gli-h and American manufacturers. Call and examine his stockbeforc pnrel Watch crvsta's put in for I'o cents e; January, I SGI y .'.sing elsewhere, ich. John T. Butler, PRACTICA it Watch and ClocE; .Tinker, .Jew el 3 c r, tVc. OrrosiTE Kkkr's IIotfl. CitorJutit, . (Late with R. W. H.ckwiih.) Fine Walclies 4 I ! fc .If.wvlry, f every description, Repaired and Warranted lor months. Oct 16, 18CH. y WILKINSON & CO., DKALKRS JN "7V &bt clb.e s, Tri'!"P 7 ,1) V7 AM) l-'AXCV (iOOiKS, No. 5, Granite Range, Opposite the Mansion llouso. CH A RLl.TT E. N. C. Attention given to Repairing Washes and Jewelry, .ejitembor 18, 1800. y New Supplv of WATCIIIvS, Ji:VKLHY. Salid Silvi-r and Vliivd Wart'. The subs;riber has lately pure Siipjdv of the ali nc articles, made directly from the m;t u u i'ae enabled to sell at a verv sm:.!l : a ; e : liis lire!', ad V:l verv exfeii iiflriM' being m: iheiel'ore i I'M CU.-t, Ulol persons may rest aured that all hi- .u!,iles are w.n rnlrd to be what lie rvpre-cnts then; to be. 5JiOT Watches and Clocks cartYuEy repaired and will fcive mv persou l attention. R. W. BECK WITH. Nv. 27, I860 tf Charlotte & S. . JI.i i 3ro.il. On anil after the First dav Oct, r. Til KG UGH EXPRESS FRKDHIT TRAINS w! Cliar!tte and Cliarlotou. wiihou: 'n:i!)inig freights to reaeli Caarl un . 'a i . v oe I wei-n n. transshipment. 1 1 1 i . it l e "i i! ."5 iImvh or less :iess fiS!:t from New Yolk, a id in o::c ! v fiom Charlc-f n. and rut versa. Also. THROUGH TI lotte, to Charleston at Charleston Sicnier. a; cbaots and piiblic are KETS wi'! ' ."'. and S I !. and riri e sold from Cha r to New York. ia r, t. Tiie mer- invi'cd to i rv ibis cheap and ghts and ras !. rs. A. 'il M AR i IN". G '! i'i ke; Aeent. expeditious route t fre Get 2. 18.-0. tf DK. K. II. A.X CHARLOTTE. N. C. "ould inform the public generally, and t he citizens of Crilenburg part icularl v, that he has resumed the Prauice of DENTISTRY and may h found at his oid -ud. He i prepared to set Artificial Teeth on Gold. Silver, Vulcanite, or o:i the ("neoplastic proves, as P'i-nts may desire, and fill Teeth with Gold, Tin, Amalgam or Us Artificial.. Re is also prepared to perform any operation belong-lr-S to Dentistry, and need not say that he will be pleas 'l 'o wait upon anv of hi old friends or new friends jou may take that for Feb ruarv a, ISt'U NEW GOODS. K0OPMANN & PHELPS have received a hand some l!ortraent of SPRING GOOIS. conMftinir in part of DRESS GOODS, BONNETS, &c, "Mch thev invite particular attention. P"il 23, lEfll. I take pleasure in informing my friends and patrons of this town and neighborhood that I have returned to Charlotte and resumed my former business. In consideration of the existing pressure of the times I shall limit ray terms of tuition (in town) on the Piano to $:',, for the full Session of 40 weeks, or S15 for the half Session of 1M weeks. I have a fin stock of heet music on hand and will attend punctually to all orders in that line as also to Tuning, Repairing and Sale of Pianos. Address orders through the post-oHioe. CHARLES O. PAPE. Wanted to purchase, a second-hand Piano. Oct s, Hardware ! ! Hardware ! ! A. A, N. M. TAYLOR 1 Et5PECT"l"Ll,Y informs his friends and the pub & lie . pene-ally, that he lias a. bled to his extensive stock of Stoves ami Tin Ware, a large and complete slock of Hardware,, eon-i.-ting in part as follows: Carpenters' Tools. Circular, mill, crosscut, hand, ripper, panncl, prun ing, grafting, ten. ion, back, compass, webb, and butch er SAWS: Hracc-s and bits. Draw Knives, Chissels, Augers, Gimlets. Hammers, Hatchets, and Axes; Brick, plastering, and ;.' inling Trowels: Saw-setters, Screw phttes, Sloi ks an., dies, Planes of all kinds, SpokeT shave-. Stcc'.-biai bevel and try Souares: Spirit Levels Pocket Levi Is, Gougers, and : i lit level Vials, Poring machines, fact evcrihing a mechanic wants, in at very b.w prices, at TAYLOR'S d Tin-ware I)epot, opposite the .Man jlte. N. C. tf n great variety a:..l Hardware St"re a . i,n House. ( 'ha; Ma v ':, i s '. Blacksmith's Tools. Such as I!tllo niers. I?utlre . Anvils Vices, hand ami slide Ilam-Screw-phites, Stocks irriei' Knive- and dies. n;:,e li's Pincers and Tones. I'asi ers and File jf evcrv Cul horii-shoe and clinch rvails, i.'.es. both of northern and country dow, blister and spring Steel; &c, Hi)-ax: Iron of all manufacture: cas for sale vei v ehe:i TAYLOR'S, opposite the Mansion House: Ludlow's Cans, of all l: II aril ware Store. Celebrated Self-Sealing ic different sizes, at TAYLOll'S ij.posite Mansion House. Agricultural Implements of all kinds. Straw ("utters, Corn Shellers, Plows, Hoes, Shovels, Spades, Forks. Axes. Picks, Mattocks, Grubbing Hoes, Trace Chains. Wagon Chains, L"g Chains. Pruning and Hedge Shears. Pruning and budding Knives, gar den Hoes and Rake-, with handles: Grain Cradles; grain, grass and brier Scythes, Bu-li lioid.s. 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 ami brass Preserving Kettles, Sheep Shears, c, ut TAYLOSi'.S Hardware Depot, opposite t lie M an - ion II ou.e. 'in aid -ostmeat; I Japanned Ware, oek Tin, Block Zinc, Tin Tlate, I i rg( obit as m : StoveG, the largest Ftock, of all sizes, at TAYLOR'S Hardware, Stove and Tin ware Ik pot, opposite Mansion House PiiTEll K . IAV1S. II . IIAI:IEE. DAVIS & II A 11 D K !. PRODrCE COMMISSION MEKCHAM", REFKR TO Hon. 1) W Courts. Gen. R W Havwood, ;ib igh. N. C. Feb If, loGl Cm-pd. All kitois of EURUi'EA.V BIRDS: also, a beautiful assoitment of NEW STYLE CAGES. T!e,-e wi.-liing a tine Sonrstcr. will liml it at .1. D. PALMER'S Variety Store, One dour above the Bank of Charlotte. Nov 20, 1 '0. Notice. ,Tr ihi- d.'.v (1st of Januarv From and w ii! be plea and the "rest 1861.) we i i; to sell o i : of' manl.iod. and customers. ior cas, B Jf! ea!i osaJy, (sir.css that we may have on z or coming for Goods after wiil p'.ea.-e excuse US if, iu :, we funii.-h them with a as v:c tn i determined not to any anio'.e in our line oi b: hand. Any person s. :o::i: t'liis date, witiioiit moiit-y. -lead of liMi!!-- their orde copy (d'li.is a.ivcrtisemei.t rcll a tiuule tir:i'r mi cruut r-", An 1 th.)se i ii debt.- 1 to us are requested to call p.y, as u ; w ant the no l; ev. GATES & YVILLTAMS. is-.n tf Dissolution 1 !: ,!ve Ti. vie . :r. o v I in Fl .LING.- itl l!l i' i ! lie n S ,v , .-PiHNGS A CO. was dis- f -! .lanuary, 1.H. i!i:;-i'-il un the name and PRINGS. and thev hope, bv i -TLLLM. in' iiv 1 1 v a a ror trtct attention to msiness. to merit the ly bestowed by tlu-ir auie pa!: numeroi;) The pr here'oboe niiors U lend s atv! ni -1 - ii: ers. sent finan "ial cri-i find the uncerta ir.ty of Viusinc-s. fr t latino (oiti; el u; to -Iiovtcn our time of credit from twelve to six months to prompt paying customers none tlu-r. need ask it. All person? indebted to the old firm of Fulling', -rin .V o.. must cuini irrf i r. i 1 make immediate 1 -'..lent, as it is ahr losed i 1'itelv ncessirv that the bn.-i-;p. "A word to the wise is suffi Jan 15. PRO C LAM AT I O N BY HIS EXCELLKNcY. ERNfiR OF THE STJ HENRY T. CLARK. GOV E OF NORTH CAROLINA. FxKCfTIVE DrPAKTMEXT, ) KIeig'n. Oct. ?J. lSdl. Tn pursuance of the rower tiven uie by the If'th section of the Constitution, and by and with the ad vice of the Council of State, 1 Oo heieby protuOit tre exportation beyond t he limits of this State, of bacon, pork. beef, leather, men's shoes, woden go i.l 1 - jeans, lindscysand blankets except through the orders of the proper oi'f.cci'S of the or of the State Govct ainciit. Coiitcdeiate Government. The order of the K.:h uR. i? ncrcby "revoked. J lie Adjutant General is directed to employ all necessary means to carrv into full clfcct this order. Done at the citv of Raleigh, this "rd day of October, . A. 1).. " HENRY T. CLARK, , Oct 8 4t uovernor t,x-omcio. Situation Vaulted. A person who i? t':oron?'hly aequahiteJ with the Milling- business, and who lias had entire charge of a large establishment in Virginia for 15 years, desires a t-itu:.tion in this part of North Carolina. He has haa larire experience in farming and the management of hands, lie can brine the best of recommendations. ' For further information inquire at this Office, and state what fala"' """il ne given. August 13, 15I 3t 1 THE PASSPORT OFFICE. The Examiner gives the following information concerning the operations of the Passport office at Richmond : The amount of voluntary contributions of cloth ing, &.c, for the army, registered at the office be tween the 3d of October and the 10th of Novem ber, is over one million of dollars, reaching the sum of 51,029,537. This exact calculation, too, is considerably below the mark. No account was made of parcels of less than 100 in value, nor of contributions that did not pass through Richmond j to the army of the Potomac, Western Virginia, or me l eninsuia. Loninbutions to the army at Norfolk, in Tennessee, in Kentucky, in Missouri and hi Arkansas, have not been registered, and would probably, within the period referred to, amount to half a million more. We learn further, with reference to the opera tions of the Passport Office, that there have been 20,000 passports isssued since the 1st July last; that eighty-two alien enemies left the country under the President's proclamation, via Nashville, between the 10th August and 24th September, and that one hundred and forty-nine alien enemies departed via Norfolk between the 24th September and 1st November. 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 LUTTE STEAM MILLS before selling. Jan'y 1, ltiol tf JNO. WILKES. 1 iUTTE ! BfJTTZft T T The highest cash market prices will be paid Butter. EgiTS. Poultry, &c, at PALMER'S for Scot 24. 1S51 Yarietj- Storo. I have now on hand and am constantly receiving large quantities of Hides, Leather. which I will exchange for S. M. HOWELL, Charlotte. N. C. October 8, 3 8C1 Ct-pd iWncE. UR CREDIT CUSTOMERS, BY DISREGARDING OUR APPEALS. have furred us to adopt the CASH SYSTEM. Our terms hereafter will be strictly Cash on delivery. FISHER & BURROUGHS. Aug 0, -Snl tf Some time recently, from the shop of the subscriber, a Double-cased SILVER WATCH, cylinder Escapement, made by M. I. Tobias, Liverpool, No. SboOO, for which the subscriber will pay a liberal reward to the deliver er, or io any person who may give such information concerning it as will lead him to get it. He requests all the Silversmiths in the State to be on the sharp lookout for it. The Watch was in good repair when stolen. M. C. II. DAVIS, Nov. 5th. Concord, N. C. x1I0M'A3j0EA FEMALE SEMEVAIiY, MOUNT PLEASANT, CABARRUS C0USTY,N.C. The exercises of this School will be resumed on the 20th of August. Rates per Session : Board (including washing and fuel) $40 15 20 8 10 3 1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Kr.glisb course, from $5 0u to Music on the Piano, Melodcon or Guitar, Languages, each, Drawing or Painting, Vocal M usic. II ni Li oidery, Other ornamentals reasonable. Terms : Half of all the expenses, board and tuition, must be paid in advance, and the remainder at the close of the Session. Pupils who board in the Seminary will not be per mitted to make store accounts. For further information, address L. G. HEILIG. August 13, 18C1 2jm Notice to the Sheriffs of the different Counties of North-Carolina. All Blankets and Clothing which may be received by you can be sent directly to the several Companies "which went from your county and when your own Companies are supplied, you will then forward any balance on hand to the Quartermaster in Raleigh. You will put up all articles intended for your Companies in strong boxes, uirccted to the Quartermaster in Raleigh with the Company and the Regiment plainly marked on them: and you will have the contents of each box marked on it. Whenever the Companies are on duty in your neigh borhood, you are authoii7f " o deliver the articles to rhem, taking the receipt . !' Uie Captain for them, which receipt vou wiil forward o this office. October 8. 1801. J. DEVEREUX, A. Q. M. QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE, 1 October 3d, 1801. J Any person or persons who may be desirous of taking" contracts for making Clothes for the Army of North -Carolina, can obtain terms, Arc, on application at this office Good wiil be issued to any responsible parties, in quantities sufficient, to clothe single Com uanies which can be made up in their own neighbor hoods, and the money will be paid to the parties re- j ceiving the G. jds. on tiie return of the manufactured j articles. Parties may famish the Cloth, which will be j paid for by the State." J. DEVEREUX. A. Q. M. j October's. 1801. j Headquautkiis Ngkth Carolina Tkoops, Adjutant General's Office, Raleigh, Oct. 11, 1SG1 General Order No. rJ. I. All accounts against the State of North Caro lina, incurred for military purposes, must be presented at this Office within thirty davs after they have been made. If longer withheld, no assurance can be given j of their favorable consideration or prompt payment. II. All accounts should always be accompanied by a j ecitiiicaie of some officer or authorized agent of the! Siate, that the property ha? been delivered, that the ' nrice charced was according to agreement or contract, i t 1 1 1 I I . k! i ,","vv " "- " and that the receiver will account for the same to the j ounts cannot be paid. , Siate. Otherwise accoui Ttv orfr of the Governor. J- Cr. MARTIN, o"ct 2. 2t Adjutant General Hk A OOU A P.TE RS OKTH I AltOLIN A moors. I Adiutaut General's Office, Raleigh, Oct. 16, 1SG1. i General Order, No. 20. All companies hereafter accepted by the Governor will remain at home, without pay, until called upon rm TW - .t;,-. con- w-lien n reasonable tune in ue ai loved them for reaching their appointed rhice of ren- j dezvous. This order inecessary on account of the ( limited quantity of clothing and camp equippage now j liC UU1L 1" Mi" , on hand, and to enable the Governor to uave luCBc uF- . pnesrfKu. lul .ncru. .uv..r. By order of the commaader-in-chier. j 0ft 4t Adjutant General. I LIFE AT FORT LAFAYETTE. From a late number of the N. Y Herald, we get the following interesting and amusing account (written by a prisoner) of the way in which "State prisoners" are treated at Fort Lafayette, N. Y : The statements that have from tune to time ap peared in the "daily papers" regarding the pri vileges and treatment of the prisoners confined in Fort Lafayette, are of such an aggravated nature as to have conveyed the idea to outsiders and the friends of the inmates that they were "waxing fat" on the liberality of the Government, and were ! in lict, enjoying the retreat of some elysieum. In justice, therelore, to those still incarcerated, vou will confer a favor !y giving the following an in sertion in jour paper, which latter is largely con tributed for by the inmates. The story of your arrest and arrival is as follows: "As soon as you arrive at Fort Hamilton, you are delivered by the officer in charge to Col lurkc, with the accompanying details: He (the Colonel) then sends you with his aid and guard of soldiers by boats to Lieut. Wood, commanding at Fort Lafayette. On jour arrival a receipt is given for you. You are then requested to give ui all the weapons and money in your possession. As the weapons are generally taken to the U. S. Marshal's in the first instance, a compliance is, of course, out of the quest ion, unless in a paroxysm of un abridged patriotism you should consider specta cles included in the category. Your trunk, valise, or carpet bag is then examined, and if all is cor rect, a receipt is given you for the amount obtain ed. The sergeant then takes you in charge and shows you to your quarters. You are then sur rounded by anxious eyes; scanning your person, inquiring after your "health in general," with "what brought you here," and propounded be fore your wretched feelings have become sufficient ly collected to enable you to reply. Again some will say, "here's another rebel?" another will dwell on the cuisine and the larder, and if near dinner will yell out, "dinner is ready at the Unit ed States Hotel," &c. The next step, you are provided with a bed, either mo5sor straw matress, one iron bedstead, two sheets, one blanket, and one pillow, with a basin and pitcher, which last is the capital of a joint stock corporation of some five to eight;. In the morning you arise, and after going through the necessary ablutions in salt water or fresh if you can get it breakfast is an nounced. This consists of a pint of coliee sweet ened in bulk, at times transparent, and incapable of producing any deleterious effect on the nervous system: by qualitative analysis the components would range nearly as follows: Water 94; saccha rine matter 4, chieora 1:75, coffee 0:25. A piece of fat pork, whose superficial contents ranged from five to seven inches, and a good honest slice of bread by honest I mean thick this, and noth ing :noie constitute our breakfast. Before Marsh al Murray sent down the "large stove," thea pork was served up to us actually as it came out of the barrel, raw or nearly so. A decline in bristles pre vented us from meddling with it, appetizing as it was. After breakfart, (eight, occasionally be fore), we were allowed one hour for promenading on a square of earth seventy-five feet by eighty. There came the daily papers, the perusal of which and the comments on t lie last anticipated attack, occupied some two hours, after that event, the writing to friends, receiving letters, (when they came,) games of chess, whist, &.C., discussing past events, and in endeavoring to ascertain il the po tatoes had become extinct since the 20th of July, served to while away the time until the moment ous hour of dinner. This meal, which many pride themselves on as the best, was certainly our best. Uiree entrees en masse, rice or bean soup astonishingly thin bread and pork, or beef. From actual experi ments with unmittigatcd labor for the space of three minutes, assisted by a pair of "Pike's" dol lar spectacles, I have succeeded, after a tedious operation, in fishing up one bean from my pint of soup, and so overcome have I been at the dis covery of that, with instinctive reverence for the propagation of that bean, I have universally un covered my head during the process of mastication same being uncooked. For supper we again had our pint of coffee, revised and corrected by an excess of water, with our slice of dry bread. The crockery was not purchased at Haughwout's, con sisting, as it did, of tin cups, tin plates, iron spoons, and ancient knives and forks. The quali ty of the provisions was good enough; 'but cooks taken from the ranks arc "sent to the devil." If Marshal Murray would send a goood plain, clean cook to Fort Lafayette, he certainly would add no greater comfort or blessing to those who are boarding at the United States Hotel. 01' course all the inmates did not avail themselves of the prodigal liberality that abounded in the eating department, but. preferred such bills of fare as they in some measure had been accustomed to. Hence the formation of sundry messes, at a cost or thirty cents to one dollar a day for each rerson, at his own expense. At one period water was so scarce that we were put upon allowance i allowed only for thinking purposes, until at the j eleventh hour we received three thousand gallons j Crofon, with not half the body of the old stock. j We were never permitted to go outride the j fort, unless accompanied by a soldier with a musket and bay. net, and confined to the case- : merits. Theie was no going "on the roof walking ! to see the sun sink behind the Jersey hills," as j some astonishing youth proclaimed to the public; j our place was on the ground floor, and there we were kept; thirty-se ven of us in one room with four mounted thirty-twos, in the day time, was ; not so bad; but at night all that saved us from j asnhvxai was Brother D 's exhortation. At ; " . i i i G p. m, we were locked up, with two sperm candles, ! until the signal to extinguish lights was made; if j . j ours survived that penod, wtucn it never aid, we j i complied. Every letter, that goes out or enters ! the fort is read by the officer; if they contain any ! objectionable matter they are returned; in other respects communication and rapidity in the trans- mission of letters with the outsiders s is excellent, Jiving a letter I have been onlv ten days in receiving a letter - - . , Irom a city only nine nines irom ae io.K, auu where there are only two daily mails. 1 spent ; near s;x Veeis in the fort chiefly, I suppose, for ! health and during that period L experienced no inconvenience in sleeping every mgnt m tne t Bame ofsheets. and a friend ofmine, who j has been confined (for his health) since July 20th, 1 clings with fraternal tenacity to his. No better society in the world can be found than in that spot, as a general thing, for it is an association of! gentlemen, mixed with many christian virtues, the weather assisting those that are in need and 1 far from their homes. All denominations tre represented, and in Brother D s, who Wa? taken at Point of Rocks, I can bear witness to the Methodists that he is unceasing in his efforts , r,- claim the ungodly I would add that on leaving, the money that was retained on your arrival is returned, provid ed it was not all expended in obtaining articles" to make one's self comfortable. You" are then searched for anything in the shape of letters, pa pers, &c, that the searcher may find upon your person. These items ho takes, and informs you that by calling at they will be returned. One of Them EFFECT OF THE STAY LAW. That a law abolishing in effect trial by jury in the courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, and doing away with one term of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity, and so effectually crippling the other, as to postpone judgments one or more years, should seriously be felt by the community, is not a matter of surprise; that dishonest individ uals should refuse to pay their debts, when not compelled to do so, is not to be wondered at; that persons possessing advantages over their neighbors in times of want and trouble, should be heartlessly unfeeling, is no unusual occurrence; but that every body should " turn up" wrong side outward is certaiuly a novelty in any age or generation. These reflections have been superinduced by observing daily the effect of the Stay law upon the community. The salesman demands the cash for every article of merchandise; the lawyer goes about the streets with nothing to do; the editor gets no pay for his labor; the debtor has no use for money; the producer is in no hurry to get his produce to market and everything seems up side down. There is beyond all question more money in the hands of the people at the present than has ever been known, at any one time, with in the limit of the lives of our oldest individuals, and yet thera is no money in circulation. You can scarcely get a dollar changed. The inconve nience of transacting business even upon a small scale is becoming enormous, and all this the result of a misguided conception of affairs in the money holders of the country in not distributing out their money as usual. It is useless to say that there is no money in the country, we know to the contrary. The merchants have carried none North; the banks have made double loans, crops during the past year were very extensive and sold at, high prices; the bacon, the horses, the cattle, and all the resources of the State have been drawn out and amply paid for; labor has been in great demand, for ull which cash has been amply distributed, and is now in the hands of the people; and yet there is no money. This is al! wrong and shows clearly the utility of execution laws. Winston Stntinel. The Wheat crop of Macon. Ye have been waiting patiently for some returns from the owners of theresliing machines in this county, in order to publish the probable yield of wheat this year. We have not exact returns now, but from the best informatiou we can get, the yield was near twenty-five thousand bushels. Fifteen years ago the yield was scarcely twenty five hundred, and that of an inferior, shriveled, smutty, rusty quality. Then we had no mer chant mills, we all ate dark flour, unless it was imported, and seemed contented with a few acres of wheat. Now we have two good mills, three others are going up, we usually have as good flour as any people and, instead of a wheat patch it is not uncommon to find acres in wheat. Fra ii kl itt Ca rol in ia n . Bad for the Speculators. The Legislature of Alabama has passed a law to prevent the sale of salt in that State by speculators, at exorbitant rates. The law author izes the Governor to seize and hold, to be sold at fair prices, all salt now in the State on consignment. Holders of the salt to be allowed the privilege of appeal in case they are dissatisfied with the price given. It also author izes to forbid the shipment of large quantities of salt from the State. Heavy penalties are affixed for violation or attempted evasion of the law. On Friday lat Gov. Moore seized 3,400 sacks of salt, at the Montgomery and West Point depot, that were being transported form the city to avoid the enforcements of the bill. We dearn that a much larger lot was on the eve of being smuggled off, but was prevented by the prompt action of the efficient Governor. The Coed Steel. It has remained for this j extraordinary war, not only to break the fipell of invincibility which onco attached to regular j soldiers, but to demonstrate that they cannot i stand a bayonet charge of Southern troops. A ! great French General eavs: " The bullet is foolish: I the bayonet only is wise." At lon taw. the i I enemy, provided with Enfield rifles and cannon of! ! vast range, can blaze away from sunrise to sunset; ; ! but it is the close hug with cold steel which j affords the best test of backbone. In the battle ! j near Springfield, tho 2d Regiment of I.'. S. re'U- ; ; Jar infantry was cut to pieces bv a bayonet char-e of a Louisiana volunteer regiment. This is but iZ tn American, can be woru with easo bj one illustration of the force of cold steel in the j a"V officer or soldier during the most active exer hands of determined men. The peculiar vim and I c'sa- That journal adds that it is very strong in prowess of our people in hand-to-hand encounters ' proportion to its weight, can resist the thrust of a suggests the propriety of arming them, where bayonet or sword, and will resist the bullet of muskets and bayonets cannot be obtained, with I muskets and pistols at ranges which would other- hnnrrii n or r, kpo. an ptppi pnt en K it-i ta 4V. Ur, - - - r i f t;ui;.;iuui, w lie bayonet, or the bowie-knife, one of those mechani- 1 cal appiiances for dissolving the Union which is ' not t0 j-,e despised. Debt of Newspapers. Newspaper subscrip-, tions are infallible tests of men's honesty. They j win, sooner or later, discover tne man. It he is ! dishonest he will cheat the printer some way ' says he has paid what he has not decades he ; says ne cas paid wuat ne nas not decades he ! . . , , , IJlUtwuWe--ui ocui uiuuey, ana it was lost in the mail or will take the paper and j not pay for it, on the grounds that he did not sub- scribe ror it or will move oa, leaving it coming i io me umco ae.ica.. i nousanos ot prolessea Christians are dishonest, and the printer's book will tell fearful tales in the final judgment. From the Nashville Banner. . PRESERVATION of. SHEEP FROM DOGS. Much is said about the necessity of killing dogs, in order to raise sheep. The writer of this well Yk 7 2 'nntucky,; never had any sheep k.lled by dogs throuSh , hl9. fljf s much the Ingest of any of ! the neighborhood. On one occasion, when there i ! v j l. 4 i f :j: diately around in thn neighborhood, fire or six neighbors that had lost 6hecp the night previous, came to my father's to learn his losses, but their astonishment was great to learn he had lost no sV-.eep. They then sagely concluded that it wag his dogs that had depredated on their flqeka. Accordingly all his dogs, some eight or ton, war called up, and their mouths rigidly examined, to find blood or wool as evidence of their guilt but none could be found, and their astonishment was still preiter. My father told them he could easily satisfy them, they would never have a sheep kil led by do? or wolf if they would do with their flocks as be did with his. , Their wonder was increased when he told them, all they had to do was to let their sheep run with their cattle constantly and they would never hava a sheep killed by a dog or wolf. To show them the proof of his correctness, he invited them to walk with him to the pasture where his sheep and cattle were feeding, taking along all the dogs. When they reached the pasture, my father requested the gentlemen to act the dogs on the sheep or cattle. This was done. The sheep immediately sought protection by running to, under and behind the cattle, while the latter inad tin immediate attack on the dogs, and. in less than five minutes every dog was run out of the pasture One of the gentlemen asked the privilege of bringing his dogs, thinking my father's dogs had been trained to run from the cattle. This request was readily granted, and all the gentle men met again next morning, when some four dogs were net on the sheep with tho same result, viz: The dogs were driven out of the pasture in even less time. This satisfied the gentlemen and there were no more sheep killed in that neighbor hood. About twenty years after, the writer of this fell heir to some thousand head of 6hecp. The neighbor hood to which he removed them was greatly afflict ed with what were called sheep killing dags, and remembering my father's custom I kept my sheep and cattle together. The writer here recounts at length exactly the same lo.ses of sheep and experiments with the dogs, with the same result the sheep ran to the cattle for pro tection, and the cattle drove the dogs out of the pasture. "No more sheep killed in that region," says he. Now, Mr. Editor, any gentleman can prove this by a trial it may take a short time for the sheep and cattle to assimilate together, but that it is certain, is beyond question. For the Curious. The greyhound runs ky eyesight only, and this we assert as a fact. The carrier pigeon flies on his two hundred and fiftj miles journey homeward by eye-sight, viz: from point to point of object which he has marked; but this is only our conjecture. The fierce dragon fly, with twelve thousand lenses in his eye, darts from angle to angle with the rapidity of'a flashing sword, and as rapidly darts back not turning in the air, but with a clash reversing the action of hi3 four wings, and instantaneously calculating the distance of the objects, or he would dash himself to pieces. But in what conformation of his does this consist ? No one can answpr. A cloud of ten thousand gnats dance up and down in the eun the minutest ftpace between them yet no one knocks another headlong upon the grass, or breaks a leg or wing, long and deli cate as these arc. Suddenly amidst your admi ration of this matchless dance a peculiarly high shouldered, vicious gnat, with long, pendent nose, darts out of the rising and falling cloud, and set ting on your cheeks, inserts a poisonous ating. What possessed the little wretch to do this? Did he smell your blood iu the mazy dance? No one knows. A four-horse coach comes suddenly on a flock of geese on a narrow road, and drives straight through the middle of thcin. A goose was never yet fairly run over, nor a duck. They are under the very wheels and hoofs, and yet somehow they contrive to flap &nd waddlo off. Habitually stupid, heavy, and indolent, they are, neverthe less, f:qual to any emergency. Why does the lonely wood pecker, when he descends from his tree and goes to drink, stop several times on bis way, listen and look around, before he takes his draught? No one knows. Wearing Breastplates. We" are not sur prised to learn that the Yankees, who boast of outnumbering the South three. to one, are yet un willing to thrust their precious carcases within reach of Southern bullets without artificial pro tection. The Scientific American describes a breastplate, which, it is said, is becoming cxten- sively worn by tho officers and men in the Federal Army before Washington. It is composed of thin spring steel, and is worn between the cloth and the lining of a common military vest. It has tw0 leaves which lap at the edges when the vest buttoned, so a to cover the entire chest. It weighs only three pounds and a half, and, accord- ie be latal to hie. If this be true, which we may be permitted to doubt, the Yankees have the honor of being the first nation of modern times whose soldiery were afraid to take the field until they could be clothed a coat 0f maji And the breastplate itself, like most Yankee inventions, seems to be of little account in the hour of trial. It seems to have done verJ ;tti0 service at Leeshurg,. neither to have kept out bullets nor bayonets, nor orevented v,.. i.nt cut bullets nor bavonets. nor nrnid tW J 7 -W-- - - tne men from takiug to the water like so manj ducks. The Yankees have yet to discover that the inside of a soldier's heart is more important than the outside, and that if the God of Nature has not placed a good, stout heart io the interior. not even Yankee brass on the outside tin make hinj a hero.