North Carolina Newspapers

ft t -J ii i ii 1 11 i ii in i Tn i 94 Per Annum ON THK WEST SIDE OF TRADE ST." EET CHARACTER IS AS IMPOBTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OP THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OP THE OTHER -IN ADVANCE W. a. TITS Editor and Propreitor. CHARLOTTE-, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1866. FODRTEEHTH VOLUME N UMBER 639. I ( n v Published every Tuesday,) BY - WILLIAM J. YATES, . DITOtt ASD PROPFUSTC. V fH&G&iSp $4 PER .NKCH, in advance. Transient advertisements meat be Dfrld for a advance. Obiloarv notices are ch avrtis- ing rates. Advertisements not marked on tie manasOrlpt far a specific time, will be inserted until forbid, nd charged accordingly. . $1 per square of 10 lines or less will V cBarfcfed fur each insertion, unles the advertisement is in serted 2 months or more. THE UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY OF NEW YORK, (Cash Assets, Three Million Dollars,) Issue Policies of Fire and Murine Insurance, made parable in Gold Qr Currency. Negotiable and Bankable Certificates of Insurance are issued by this Association. HUTCHISON k SPRINGS, Agents, Charlotte, N C. Nov 6, 1865 3m I!I EKCI1A1VT We are pleased to inform ftr former patrons and friends that we are once more on the maiket, with a nice lot of Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, and Tail ors' Trimmings, together with Gentlemen's Furnish in ST Goods, consisting of Shirts, Under Shirts, Drawers, Cravats, Ties, Collars, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Hosiery, Sus penders, Ac. Also, a select stock of Cassimere and Kelt Hats Wc will be in receipt of our usual stock of CLOTHING, manufactured by ourselves, in a few days, when we will be able to suit all sizes and taste. From our knowledge of the Clothing business, and facilities for manufacturing, induce us to believe that we will continue to merit the patronage here tofore so liberally given by the citizens of Western North Carolina and the upper Districts of South Carolina. FULLINGS & SPRINGS, Store under Democrat Office. Sept 18, 1865 . Merchant Tailoring. The subscribers will continue to carry on the Merchant Tailoring business as heretofore, at the store formerly occupied by Thos Trotter, Jeweler. Prices will be regulated according to the times on thi. cash system. Country produce will be taken in payment for Cutting or work done. We hope our friends will not ask for credit, as we expect to do up work in the best style for CASH or its equiva lent id something to eat or wear. JAS. A. CALDWELL & CO. P. S. Persons indebted to us will please call and settle by cash or note, as early as possible. June 26, 1865. tf J. A. C. & Co. C. ill. QUERY, ATx Door to 'Spring's Corner, Has just received and opened an extensive assort ment of DRY GOODS. consisting of Calicoes, DeLains, Merinoes, Poplitf n Flannels, Alpaccas, Lasumeree, Jacconetts, bawns, .Swiss Muslins, Balmoral Skirts, Hoop. Skirts, Linen Handkerchiefs, collars, cuffs. Also, a com plete assortment of Ladies, Gentlemen's, Misses', Hoys. Youths' and childrens' . Boots, Shoes and Gaiters; together with a great variety of HATS, of all styles and prices, all of which will be sold at extremely low Prices. A few dozen Cotton Cards. Please give me a call, as I charge nothing for showing my Goods, being determined to please and sell to the public. jor Sept 18, 1865 tf C. M. QUE a Y. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRY GOODS AID CLOTIUlG STORE. Jm WEILL c3 OO. The subscribers respectfully call the attention of their friends and the public to the fact that they have fitted up the store room in Mr. David Parks' Building, on Tryon Street, opposite Mr. Beckwith's Jswelry Store, for the purpose of conducting the Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods ami Clofhinjsr Business, ia all its branches. They have just -received and ffer for sale a large and extensive assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, comprising every description of Cloths, Cassimeres, La. lies Dress Goods, Shawls. Cloaks, Gloves, Gaunt lets, Hoisery, Ladies Hats, Bonnet Ribbons, Linen and Cambric Handkerchiefs, Balmoral Skirts, Hoop Skirts, Dress Trimmings, &c, &c. Clothing and Famishing Goods. Our stock of Clothingnnd Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods is complete; . As special and persoual atten tion have been given to the selection of these Goods, aud long experience in thitt line will enable us to jive general satisfaction. in price, quality and styles 4insurpassedby any one. We have Boots, Shoes and Hats, of every description and make, at very low rates. A call is solicited. We shall always try to please, and take great pleasure in showing our Goods. ., , WHOLESALE BUYERS will find it to their interest to call and examine our Stock before making their purchases elsewhere, as we have the facility to offer great inducements to that trade. A. WEILL & CO. ABRAHAM WtlLL. A. B. M AYR. Oct. 2, 1805. tf BLUE STONE ! BLUE STONE ! ! For sale at SCARRS DRUG STORE. August 23, 1665. JAS. L. HATHAWAY UTLEY, Shipping and Commission IT1 ERC II A ITS, 111 Pearl Street, NEW YORK. Consignments of Cotton and all other Southern Products solicited. " JTA8. L. UATUAWAT: . WM R. CTLEY. $07 27, 1865 r. Cta CALL AND SEE MeLE0D & STEELE, Who are now receiving and opeaing a handsome and well selected Stock of Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Hardware, GROCERIES and CROCKERY, which they will sell at wholesale or retail, low for Cash or Barter, in the Store lately occupied by J. M. SANDERS & CO, 3d door North of the Springs corner, and 5 doors South of the Charlotte Hotel, on Tryon Street. A share of public patronage i3 most respectfully solicited. E. A. McLEOD, Nov 13, 1865 tf M. D. STEELS. - -Conu one, come all! come big, come small ! Come young, come old! and see bargains sold, AT v , KOOPMANN 6l PHELPS' CELEBRATED OLD STAND. ?,'w-ulJ respectfully call the attention of all lY; -u a. d curtc mers to the fact that we are re-ctirins- one oi' the largest and best assorted , Stocks of Goods to be four in.tbis pi.ce. We intend to do an ex tensive CAS'i BUSINESS, and are determined to sell our Goods at the vtry lowest prices. THE LADiSS are especially invited .to caffand examine our Stock, confia ing in part of - Diy Goods as follows: Fancy Gods, Trimmings of,all kinds, Blankets, Clothing and Furtiahing Goods, Carpet ings. Hats and Cap?, Hardwire and Cutlery, Boots and Shoes, Roping & Bagging, leather. Also a large assortment of Family, Groceries. Country Merchants -ft bo des; to purchase from a, select and complete stock, f re respefaUy invited to inspect our goods, before purchasing elsewhere, believing it can be made to their interest to do eo KOOPMANN & WHELPS. December 4, 1865. y : . A Valuable Tract of Land for S-i!e. The subscriber offers, for sale a Tract of Land tj ing on the State sville Road, about one 'mile north of Charlotte, containing-about one hundred acres. On the Tract is a valuable Gold Mine. For particulars apply to me or to W. F Davidson. JAMES M. HENDERSON. Oct 9, 18C5. tf II. B. WILLI A1IS, Is now receiving and opening, in the New Book Store of C. W. Downing St Co., 2 doors north of the National Bank, Fall, and Winter Goods, embracing most of the 'articles kept in other stores, and many that are not to be found at other places. "Dry Goods, Crockery, Glass and China Ware. A splendid stock of SHOES of every kind, J. Miles & Son celebrated Ladies, Gents and Children's Shoes. A large stock of Saddles, Bridles, &c, Grocorios, Bagging. Rope, Bale Yarn, Rifle Powder, Shot, 4c. White Lead,. Sole Leather and Calf Skins, Ladies Hoop Skirts of a superior make, Clover Seed, Flour, Superfine and Extra. All Goods we have will be sold cheap for cash or cotton. No credit given. a Oct 16. 1865. H. If. WILLIAMS. RELIABLE SOUTHERN INSURANCE. The National and Fire Insurance Company oj - New Orleans, Capital $565,000 The undersigned beg leave to inform the insuring public that they have been legally appointed Agents for the above named Company, and are now ready to take risks at customary rates. This Company was organised in January, 1815, and its assets are the most secure in the country. HUTCHISON & SPRINGS, Agents, Nov 6, 1865 3m Charlotte. Charlotte Foundry & Machine Shop PARTICULAR NOTICE. Thepublic Is respectfully informed that I am pre pared to build and repair Steam Engines and do all kinds of Machinery work. Also, make Castings in Iron and Brass. I am well-fitted. up, and guaran tee work to be done as well and a cheap as at any Shop in the State. Old castings bought or taken in ex-change for work. J. M. HOWIE, Oct 16, 1865 6mpd Proprietor. Desirable Residence and Furniture FOR SALE. Having determined to remove, the subscriber of fers for sale his Dwelling House, with about 35 acres of ground attached, lying in the northern edge of the town of Charlotte. Also, an elegant suit of PARLOR FURNITURE, Rosewood-carved and Brocatelle Upholstered, to gether with Carpets, Rugs, Window Curtains, &c. Also, a superb Seven Octave PIANO, double front, Etvle of Louis XIV. As purchasers are respectfully invited to examine the above property, a further desciiption is deemed unnecessary. Possesion given on or before 1st January. JOHN J. BLACKWOOD. December 4, 18G5. ' tf CHEAPER, CHEAPEST! Before getting on a large stock of Winter Goods, BERN H EI M & SINCLAIR are now offering to their friends and the public who have so largely favored tbem with their patronage, the remainder of their S IOC Ik OI Dry Goods, Millinery, Hosiery, Boots, Shoes and Hats, at unprecedently "tow rates. Gents' Clothing cheaper than ever of fered before in thh market! At our well known stand, Springs' corner. BERNHEIM & SINCLAIR. November 27, 1865 PETER 1YIALLETT, General Commission and Skipping Mc reliant, No. 23 North Water 'St., Wilmington, N. C. Consignments of Cotfon, Naval Stores, Lumber and other Produce for Sale or Shipping, respectfully solicited. Liberal advances made when desired. Orders accompanied with Cash promptly executed. Nov 37, 186a. 3m Lime : Lime ! 2 30 Barrels Thomastown Lime, a superior article for whitewashing, plastering, or for Tanners' ase, for sale at the Charlotte a a t a k uepoi. A. H. MARTIN. December , 1867 if '"' A Matrimonial Advertisement. A French ladv advertised some months ago, io the Parisian journals, under the initials A. C, that j she was young, handsome and wortn two mil lions, and was anxious to get married, but did not care whether her husband-was rich or poor. She invited the aspirants to her hand to send their photographs. A month afterwards, ha. ing in the meantime received fifteen hundred applications, she started a journal, soliciting sub scriptions from all her would-be husbands, and promising to publish her reply to' the respective candidates in her new journal. She immediately received several thousand francs, the aggregate J amount of the subscription money, and forth witu published all the letters. ' . The journal ceasing to appear after that first, and it seemed last issue, the . befooled parties now appealed to the court, where the trial of the ingenious lady has lately taken place. Among the most spicy letters is that of a drum major, who declares himself ready for all sacri fices, including that of his post in hi regiment, provided he can secure M'le. A. Cr, and ber two millions. A cook writes to her : "My physique is admirable, Mademoiselle, and my twoflisters are milliners. Your two millions would make us the kings of France." Among the amateurs of this double-millioned woman are not a few persons occupying high stations, who thus 'find their matrimonial ambitions rather awkwardly exposed. . The following item shows in what expensive times we live: "There were imported into.New York, one hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and eeventy-four dollars worth of holi day preseuts." "Go it, old fellow, said two idle scape graces to an honest laborer at work work away while we play sow and we'll reap. "Very likely, my lads," replied the old man, eoolly, "I'm sowing hemp." EXPR ESl S. The SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY have os.jved teir office in RICHMOND under the Spots woo 5 Haiti, Main street, between Eighth and Ninth ttrcis- Tha Southern Express Company are now prepared to .-ward, at Reduced Rates, 'Currency, Coin, Valuable and Freight, To At, accessible points in the South. All gox?: chipped from, the North by the Adams or Himden Express Companies will be transferred to the SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY to com plete transportation. . v J Goods shipped from the North by steamship and marked to4h carf Southern Express Com pany will be promptly forward,; I to destination free of charge for commissions and drayae. Arrangements ha-.ten made with the Danville Railroad Company, aud we now receive freight for all Way Stations on that road at the same rates as were formerly charged by-the Danville Railroad Ex press. . - Goods called for WITHOUT EXTRACHARGE and promptly forwarded. SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY. RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD. Notice. To give facilities to the public on the line of this road for the transportation of small packages by Express, an arrangement has been made with the SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY by which their wagons in Richmond and Danville will call for and receive all Express Freight intended for this Road, on notice being given at their office, and their wagons will deliver all Express Freight arriv ing by this Road FREE OF ANY EXTRA CHARGE FOR RECEIPT OR DELIVERY, and the rates of Express Freight will be the same as charged by this Company. THOMAS DODAMEAD, Dc 18, 1865 tf Superintendent. Charlotte, Dec. 18, 1865. AH freight forwarded with promptness and dis patch, it being carried on Passenger and Mail. trains and not on slow freight trains. Rates as low as by any company. T. D. GILLESPIE, Agt. Statesville American and Yorkville Enquirer copy on month. NATIONAL. EXPRESS AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. This Company chartered bv the State of Virginia, and organized with JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, as its President, has opened an agency in Carson Building, Ont Door above the National Bank," and is now prepared to do a General Express Busi ness, in the transportation of Freight, Currency, Gold, and Valuables, of everv description between Charlotte and the fol lowing named cities and towns : New York, Boston, Washington; Alexandria, Staunton, Greensboro', Danville, Charlotte, Weldon, Newbern, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Georgetown, Lynchburg, Richmond, ' Petersburg, Raleigh, Wilmington, Goldsboro', - Norfolk, Bristol, Tenn, Knoxville, Tenn, Fredericksburg, and all, accessible points in the States of New York, Pencsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Caro lina, and Way Stations on the following named Railroads : Baltimore and Ohio, Orange and Alexander, Virginia and Tennessee, Virginia Central, Petersburg and Weldon, Richmond and Danville, Petersburg and Lynchburg, Raleigh and Gaston, North Carolina Central, Wilmington and Weldon, Atlantic and North Carolina. aF As the line of Railroads is opened, they will extend their business to all points in the South, in addition to those named. The Company has also such favorable contracts with steamer lines from all Northern ports to- those of the South, as will enable it to deliver gcods at all inland points at rates below the ulual charges. The tar riff of charges willj be based upon a fair business per centage above the cost of transporta tion, without being onerous or oppressive; nor will it be made less than the cost of transportation, with rthe view to break down or drive off any rival, to advance to oppressive and unnecessary bigb rates. Upon this basis the Companv solicits public patron age. W. G. LEWIS, Agent. Charlotte, Dec 18, 1865 if ? LOCAL MINISTERS' CONVENTION. The Conventijw re-assembled in the City of Raleigh at 12 o'clock, December the 8th, at the call of the Committee. On motion of Prof. Pool, Dr R. Hooker was called to the chair and L Branson appointed secretary. L Branson be ing called upon to explain the objects of the Convention, stated briefly of the previous ses sion of the Convention, held in August of 1864, also of the circular letter sent out in March of the present year, and of the general interest manifested by the Local Body so far as intelli gence has reached them that it was desired now to organize the Convention into a regular Association so as to elevate and render more effective this class of workingmen, thereby pre venting those epithets too often, circulated about these unassuming and comparatively unknown laborers in the Ministry. Rev. Solomon Pool, then made a brief -but valuable speech, showing himself alive to the great work of the Ministry, and very highly ap proving every proper means for elevating and improving the local Ministry of our church. On motion, W H Cuninggim, Solomon Pool, L Branson, W J W Crowder, and Turner M Jones, were appointed a committee, to pre pare appropriate business for the Convention. On motion of G W Hcptinstall the former com mittee was relieved. The Convention adjourn ed to meet at 7 o'clock. Evening Session. The Convention re-assembley at the hour ap pointed, and Rov. Turner M. Jones of Louis burg Female College was called to the Ghair. The committee on business reported as fol lows : 1. We recommend that this body be resolved into a Local Ministers' Association to meet an nually at "so me appropriate place. 2. That the Association appoint a President, a Secretary and, one Vice-President for each Presiding Elder's District. 3. . That the Annual Association be held in the month of August, each year. 4. That a committee be appointed to address a circular letter to the local ministry through out the State. ' . 5. We recommend that the following resolu tions be passed, and that they be incorporated in the circular letter. 1. Resolved, That we recommend local min isters, so far as practicable, to preach once on each Sabbath, and at such churches as. do not usually have Sabbath preaching by regular pas tors. " . 2. Tht it is desirable we should give special attention everywhere to our Sabbath School in terests. ' 3. That we recommend,' always, a cordial cq operation with the itinerant ministry. 4. That we desire the next General Confer ence to enact such laws as shall require all ministers to pass examination, on some specified course of study, before receiving ordination. 5. That we do protest against locating men with foil powers as local ministers, who at the time, are liable to impeachment, or, whose char acter has not been passed. Respectfully, W II CFNINGGLMI SOLOMON POOL, I L BRANSON, Com. W J W CROWDER, TURNER M JONES, J The report of the committee was received and the Convention proceeded to take up the articles seriatim. , J ' On motion of W. H. Cuninggim, the com mittee was continued and requested to prepare a circular to be sent to all the local ministers of the State, showing more fully the objects to be accomplished by the Convention, and desiring them to assemble in one united Convention at Some specified time and place.. On motion, an assessment of one dollar on each member present, was made to defray the expenses'of printing. The Convention then instructed the commit tee to especially incorporate the following points in the circular letter. . 1. The duty of regular Sabbath preaching so far as practicable. 2. A cordial co-operation with Intinerant Ministers in good standing. 3. The importance of higher ministerial at tainments both moral and intellectual. 4. The necessity of strictly guarding against admitting improper persons into the Ministry from the laity. 5. The impropriety of receiving men from any source, or retaining men in the Local Min istry, who are detrimental to the cause. 6. The great advantages to be gained by uni ted sympathy and more frequent associations among ourselves. The Convention was then entertained for a length of time, by an, able address from the Rev. N. F. Reid, of the North Carolioa Confer ence, approving the objects of the Convention, and showing the absolute necessity of diligence and devotion in order for ministers of any class to obtain eminence in the calling. A unanimous vote of thanks was returned Mr Reid by the Convention, for his profound re marks and paternal advice. On motion the Convention adjourned, subject to the call of the committee. TURNER M JONES, Pres. L. Branson, Sec. Raleigh, Dec. 8, 1865. There' lives a man'in the town of Marion, Wis consin, who is sixty years old, and who never went to a bar of any kind and drank a drink of ardent spirits, never attended a theatre or show of any description, never took a drink of spirits, never took a. chew of tobacco or smoked a pipe or cigar, never went to a ball or danced a step, never played a game at cards, billiards, dominoes, dice or checkers, or any game whatever that is played for money, sever courted but one girl whom he married and lives with yet, never joined any order or organization except the christian church, of which be is stiil a member, and never had his name in a newspaper but once, that was when, he was married, so he refuses to give his name for publication dot. THE VOLUNTEER COUNSEL. A Thrilling Story. John .Taylor was licensed,.' when a youth of twenty-one, to practice at the bar. He wus poor but well educated, and possessed extraor dinary genius. He married a beauty, who after wards deserted him for another. On the 9th of April, 1840, the Court House in Clarksville, Texas, was crowded to overflow ing. An exciting case was about to be tried. Got. Hopkins, a wealthy planter, had offered a gross insult to Mary Ellison, the young and beautiful wife of his overseer. The husband threatened to chastise him for the outrage, when Hopkins went to Ellison's house and shot him in his door. The murders was arrested and bailed to answer the charge. ,This occurrence produced a great excitement, and Hopkins, in order to turn the tide of popular indignation, had circulated reports against her character, and she had sued him for slander. Both suits were pending for murder and for slander. The interest became deeper when it was known that Ashley and Pike, of Arkansas, and S S Prentiss, of New Orleans, by enormous fees, had been retained to defend Hopkins. Hopkius was acquitted.- The Texas lawyers were overwhelmed by their opponents, it was a fight of dwarfs against giants. The slander suit was for the 9th, and the throng of spectators grew in- number as well as "excitement: public opinion was eetting in for Hopkins; nis money had procured witnesses who served his powerful advocates. When the slander case was called, Mary Ellison was left without an attorney all had withdrawn. "Have you no counsel ?". inquired Judge Millet, looking kindly at the plaintiff. "No, sir, they have all deserted tne, and I am too poor to employ any more;" replied the beautiful Mary, bursting into tears. "In such a case, will not some chivalrous member of the bar, volunteer ?" said the Judge, glancing around the bar. The thirty lawyers were silent. "I will, your honor,": said a voice from the thickest part of the crowd behind the bar. At the sound of that voice many started it was so unearthly, sweet and mournful. The first sensation was changed into laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral figure elbowed his way through the crowd and placed himself with in the bar. His clothes looked so shabby that the Court. hesitated to let the case proceed under his management. "Hasyoaj; name been entered on the, rolls of the State ?r,oquired the Judge. "It is immaterial," answered the stranger, his thin bloodless lips curling up with a fiendish sneer. "Here is my license from the highest tiibunal in America!" and he handed the Judge a broad parchment. The trial-went on. He suffeied the witnesses to tell their own story, and he allowed the defence to lead off Ashley spoke first, followed by Pike and Pren tiss. The latter brought the house down with cheers in which the jury joined. It was now the stranger's turn; he rises be fore the bar, not behind it and so near the wondering jury, that he might touch the fore man with his long, bony fingers. He proceeded to tear to pieces the arguments of Ashley, which melted away at his touch, like frost before a sunbeam, every one looking surprised. Anon he came to the dazzling wit of the lawyer poet Pike the curl of his lip grew sharper, his thin face began to kindle up, and his eyes to open, dim aud dreary no longer, but vivid as lightning, red as fire globes, and glaring as meteors, the whole 60ul was in the eye; the full heart streamed out of his face. Then, without be stowing an allusion to Prentiss, he turned short around on the perjured witnesses of Hopkins, tore their testimony into shreds, and hurled into their faces such terrible invectives that all trembled like aspens, and two of thein fled from the court house. ' The excitement of the crowd was becoming tremendous. Their united life and soul seemed to hang on the burning tongue of the stranger; he inspired them with the power of his malignant passions; he seemed to have stolen nature's Iqpg hidden secret of at traction. But his greatest triumph was yet to comeJ His eyes began to glance at the assassin Hop kins, as his Jean', taper fingers assumed the same direction. He hemmed the wretch with a wall of strong evidence and; impregnable argument, cutting off all hope of escape. He dug beneath the murderer's feet ditches of dilemma, and held the slanderer up to the scorn and contempt of the populace. Having thus girt him about with a circle of fire, he stripped for the massacre. Oh, then it was a vision both glorious and dreadful to behold the orator 1 His actions be came. as impetuous as the motion of. an oak in a hurricane. His voice became a trumpet, filled with wild whirlpools, deafening the ear with crashes of power, and yet intermingled all the while with a sweet under-song of the softest cadence. His forehead glowed like a heated furnace; his countenance was haggared, like that of a maniac, and ever and anon he flung his long bony arms on high, as if grasping after thunderbolts. He drew his picture of murder in such ap palling colors, that io. comparison hell itself might be considered beautiful; -he painted the slanderer so black, that the sun seemed dark at noonday, when shining on such an accursed monster; and then fixing both portraits on the shrinking Hopkins, fastened them there forever. The agitation of the audience nearly amounted to madness. - All at once the speaker descended from the perilous height. His voice wailed $ut for the murdered dead and living the beautiful Mary, more beautiful every moment, as her tears flowed faster, till men wept and sobbed like children. He closed by a strange exhortation to the jury, and through tbem to the bystanders; he advised the pannel after they should bring in a verdict for the plaintiff, not to offer violence to the defendant, however richly he ' may deserve it; in other words "not to lynch the villain, but leave his punishment to God This was the j uiuek aiuui tiiv vi miif aau ues (.nikuiatcu iw 'iniTjre Violence. . The Jury returned a verdict of fifty thousand dollars; and the next night Hopkins was taken out of bed by lynchers, and beaten almost to death. As the court adjourned, the stranger said, "John Taylor will preach here this evening at early candle light" He did preach and the house was crowded. I have listened to Clay, Webster and Calhoun to DwighL Basoom and Beecher but never heard anything, , in tb,e form of sublime words, ven reinotedly approxi mating to the eloquence of, John Taylor mas-' sive as a mountain, aud wildly rushing as a cataract fire. THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE. The subjoined is section 42 of an" act to amend the la ws relating to the Post Office De partment, approved March , 3, 1865, which we publish for the benefit of Post Masters. ' It will be seen by this that the franking power is limit ed to certain individuals, and that, not even Post Masters are allowed to frank letters, ex cept on official business with other Post Mas, ters, under a penalty of three hundred dollars Here is the extract referred to : S&C. 42, And be it further enacted, That authority to frank mail master is conferred up on and limited to the following persons: First. The President of the United States, by himself or his private secretary. Second. The Vice President of the United States. "Third. The chiefs of the several executive departments. Fourth. Such principal officers, 'being beads of bureaus or chief clerks of each executive de partment, to be used only for official communi cations, as the Postmaster General shall by reg ulation prescribe. Fifth. Senators and repre sentatives in the Coogress of the United States including delegates from Territories, the Secre--tary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, to cover correspondence to and from them, and all printed matter issued by au- . tbority of Congress, and all speeches, proceed ings, and debates in Congress, and all printed matter sent to them; their franking privilego to commence with the term for which they are elected, aud to expire on the first Mooday of December following such term of office. Sixth. All official communications addressed to either of the executive department: Provided, That in all such cases the envelope shall be marked "official," with the signature thereto of the offi cer writing the communication. Seventh. Post masters have also, tho franking privilege for their official communications to other postmas ters: Provided, That in all such eases the en velope shall be marked "official," with the sig nature of writer thereto; and for any and every such endorsement of "official" falsely made, the person making the same shall forfeit' and pay three huudred dollars. Eighth. . Petitions to either branch of Congress shall pass iree in the mails. Ninth. All communications addressed to any of the franking officers above described, . and not excepted in tbo foregoing clauses, must be prepaid bv postage stamps. The franking privilege herein beore granted shall be limited to packages weighing not exceeding four ounces, except petitions to Congress and congressional or executive documents, and, such publications or books as have of may be published, procured, or purchased by cither house of Congress, or a joint reFolution of the two houses, which shall be considered as public documents, and entitled to be fraoked as such; ' and except also seeds, cuttings, roots, and scions, the weight of the packages of which may be fixed by regulation of the Postmaster General. TnE Sayings op an Immortal Fool "Josh Billings"iTeeently edified the Shoddyifes and Petroleum people, in the great city of Phil adelphia, with a lecture. Here are some of the best parts of it : Love is a great human impulse Mothers and childreja's bve are nature's teachings.- Nothing will so open a man's pores as falling in love It. makes his moutlj like a tin' whistle, and softens him' down thoroughly." ' There is undying love which lives as long as ginger-pop; there is love at sight, to ; which we would add love for ninety days; there is a great deal of pontoon love in all of these. There is much deception, but, like rats' exterminator, it will not hurt anybody but the rats. If any one could read over their old courtships, it would be like seeinsr a Chinesa almanac fl riiM k I O - " . - wv imam vj tunable to read the pictures, and sure the calcu- lauons were never mienaea ror tm latitude.- Americans must have sensations, and English men laugh at us fur it like an old hen who see her ducklings sailing away on the water. He had known a musquito fight a man and his wife all night long, and draff the first blood. It was very easy to kiu a musquito, it you can it, but one is very likely to miss it and hit A -It hit the place wnere it was. - t Courting is like etrawberriea: and cream, it ought to bo taken slow. One should read Pil grim's Progress, it would sustain him under his trials. He would advise the anxious one to be, polite to bis dear one's mother. After six or seven years he might be .the pall-bearer at another fellow's marriage with her. .' Manifest destiny is like being at a place be fore you get there. He thought once he had had manifest destiny; it broke out in the shape of poetry. The. answer was, young " man, yon may be a fool, but you are no poet. ' ' . Kissing never goes out of fashion, but still it is rather dangerous to kiss one's neighbor' wife, even if she likes it. :'' - " - y The only way to keep mules in a pasture is te turn them into an adjacent field and let them jump over. They feed generally on blackberry bushes. They have no disease that a good club bing will not cure. He had known -one to be good six months; in order to kick somebody. He bad heard of a male falling into the Erie canal, which snnk aa soon as it toached the bottom, 9oi drew the beat along, breathing through its ears, whieh extended two feet'and a' half above the water. This he believed, on the authority of 'an auctioneer, and they never tefi an untruth, unless when it is&xovenietil."'' - Why is the James River like" a keir of Iar i beer? - Because they botli flow into tie DnXeh as i