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lT7 nrfSV m OPPIOE ON THE WEST SIDE OF TRADE STREET $3 Per Annum CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF f HE OTHER , IN ADVANCE. W YAFISS, Editor and Propreitor. CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY .15, 1866. FOURTEENTH VOLCJIE N CM BE II 717. t I it J I S t BXIfiOGB&T (Published erery Tuesday,Q) BY WILLIAM J. YATES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ITlKIRSj $3 PER ANNUM, in advance. $ 2 for six months. Transient advertisements must be paid for u Advance. Obituary notices are charged advertis ing rates. Advertisements not marked on the manuscript fjra specific time, will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordingly. $1 per square of 10 lines or less will be charged for each insertion, unles the advertisement is in serted 2 months or more. MEDICAL CARD. DBS. GIBBON & McCOMBS, having associated themselves in the practice of Medicine and Surgery, respectfully tender their professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. From a large experience in private as well as Field and Ilospiial practice, tiv feel justified in proposing to pay special attention to the practice of surgery in all its branches. - . Office in Granite Row, up stairs, opposite the Mansion House. ROBERT GIBBON, 31. D. Dec 11, 18C5 . J. P. McCOMBS, M. D. FULLINGS 6c SPRINGS Have removed their CLOTHING and MERCHANT TAILORING STORE, to No. 4 Granite Row, lately occupied by J. S. Phillips. We are offering our stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING at cost for rash. Our former friends and patrons will do wcl to supply themselves at once. We will keep at all times a good supply of Cloths, Cassimers and Vestings, which will be made to order in the best style and manner, We will keep also a good stock of Hats, Shirts, Drawers and other furnishing Goods. FULLINGS & SPRINGS. Jan 29, 18C6 Hutchison & Springs, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Agents of the most reliable IJYSWIR1JYCE COJ?ll'1VI ES in the United States. Be on the SAFE SIDE and insure your property against los or damage by fire. Also, INSCKL' YOUli LIFE for the benefit of your wife and children. RISKS taken.nt moderate rales. Call on Hutchison fc Springs, No. 4V Granite Row. E. NYE HUTCHISON, J. M. SPRINGS, March 5, 10G Agents. Sfcnlioiisc fc .Tlacanlay COM M ISSION MERCHANTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, and 06 Pearl St., NEW YORK. Prompt personal attention to the sale of cotton, cotton yarns, naval stores, &c , and the purchase of merchandise generally. References John Wilkes and T II Brem, Esq'rs, .Charlotte, N C ; Jordan Womble. Esq, Raleigh, N C; O G Parsley & Co, Wilmington, N C ; I) Paul & Co, nd RobtMure&Co, Charleston, SC.; Wilcox & Hand, Augusta, Ga.; Dunlop, Moncure & Co, Rich mond, Va ; Tannabill, Mcllwane & Co, N Y ; Par tridge, Wells & Co. New York. February 26, 1866. The Sputhern Express Company, For the transportation of merchandise, valuable packages, specie, bank notes, bonds, &c, for all parts of the South and Southwest, in connection with ADAMS EXPIiESS COMPANY, have established their agency at 59 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, where orders to call for good to be forwarded South will receive prompt attention. Merchandise and valuables delivered to Harnden's, Kinsley's, American and United States Express Com panies, for the Southern Express Company, will re ceive prompt dispatch. For particulars, rates of freight, 4c. Ac, apply at the office of the Southern Express Company, 59 Broadway. IJ. B. -TLA NT, Dec 18, 1865. President. HYMN BOOKS of all kinds. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Presbyterian. Methodist (Southern.) Baptist Psalmody. Lutheran Hymns. Note Books of different kinds. The Hymn Books are of every variety, from very cheap to the most costly styles. R. N. TIDDY i CO , New Book Store, next to Scarr'a Drug Store, March 5, 1866 3m Charlotte, N. C. ROOT & SHOE SHOP. F The subscriber informs J the public that he is engaged in mak- H39 injr BOOTS & SHOES, in the Brick CFhi Store formerly occupied by Messrs. Stephens & Schutt, a few doors aboveMhe Metho dist Church. His work is WARRANTED to be of the best material and workmanship. REPAIRING done w ith neatness and dispatch. Feb. 26, 1806. 3m E. II. WHITE. JAMKS W. OSUOftNE. RCFCS BARR1NGER OSBORNE & BAHRINGER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. J. Will practice in the. counties of Mecklenburg, Ca barrus, Rowan, Union, Siauly, Iredell, Lincoln and Gaston; also in the Supreme and Federal Courts of the State. OfSce in the Brick Building near the Court House, up stairs. April 23, 1866. 4tpd J. Y. BIIVCE & CO., General Commission Merchants, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Particular attention paid to the selling of all kinds of Produce. Cotton and Tobacco. Oaf Highest cajh price paid for Cotton. lOtSF" All orders from a distance promptlv attend ed to. J. Y. BRYCE. W. Ii. BRYCE. March 5, I860. BLANKS FOR SALE AT WESTERN DEMOCRAT OFFICE. Conveyance Deef'B.just printed on superior paper, .Marriage License, Indentures, Appearance Bonds, ' Sheriff's Deeds, Forthcoming Bonds, , Writs, co. and Bup. court, Cooitables' bail Bonds, Warrtnts, Guardian Bondj, Jury Tickets, Ca Sa Bonds, Scira Facias Writs, Attachments, Witness Tickets, . Ejectments, Fi Fas, or Eiecutions, Subpoenas, county court. Promissory Notes Capias ad Satisfaciendum, (for clerks) SCALE OP DEPRECIATION. Adopted by the Legislature of N. Carolina. Scale of depreciation of Confederate Currency, the gold dollar being the itnit and measure of value, from Nov. lit, 1861, to Nay 1, 1865. Months. 1861. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865. January $1.20 $3 00 $21.00 $50.00 February 1.30 3.00 21.00 50.00 March 1 50 4.00 23.00 60.00 April 1.50 5.00 20.00 100.00 May 1.50 1.50 19 00 .. June 1 50 6.50 18.00 .v. July 1.50 9.00. 21.00 ......... August I 1.50 14.00 23. 00 September 2.00 14.00 25.00 ......... October ...... 2.00 14 GO 26.00 .. . November....- $1.10 2.50 15.00 30.00 December 1.15 2.50 20.00 I Dec. 1 to 10th inclusive .. - 35.00 Dec. 10,!o 20th inclusive ... I ....... 42.00 . .... Dec. 1st to 31st inclusive... - 49.00 Z. B. VANCE. C. DOWD. B. D. JOHKSTOA'. VANCE, DOWD & JOHNSTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Charlotte, N. C , Having associated tnemselves together, will prac tice in the Courts of Mecklenburg, Iredell, Catawba, Davidson, Rowan, Cabarrus and Union, and in the Federal and Supreme Courts. Claims collected anywhere in the State. April 2, 1866 tf C II I N A , CROCKERY AKD GLASS-WARE, At China Hall, Arext door to the Court House: We have just received a splendid assortment Con sisting of China Gilt-Band Tea Setts, Plates, Cups and Saucers, Bowls, Mugs, ham and steak Diihes, Tea Pots, Sugar Bowls, Creamers, Tumblers, Gob lets, Decanters, Preserve Stands, &c. Also, a good assortment of Knives and Forks, Spoons, Castors, Seives, cocoa-Dippers, Roling Pins, and numerous other house-keeping articles, which will be gold low for cash. JAMES HARTY & CO. March 12, 18C6 2mpd Ii:o.V AJVD CASTINGS. 30,000 lbs. wrought and rolled Iron, Castings, &c, for sale for cash or barter for corn, oats, peas, cotton yarn, and cloth of different kinds. My Blast Furnace is now in operation and I am prepared to fill oniers for Machinery, Cooking Ware, &c. Terms cash. I want to employ some good hollow-ware Mould ers and some good Miners. 1 wish to make con tracts for the cutting of 5,000 cords wood; also for coahng. Apply soon at inv Furnace six miles East of Lincolnton, N. C. ." J. W. DERR. February 12, 186G 6mpd THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES. Accumulated Fund 82,000,000 Annual In come 1,000,000. PURELY MUTUAL. ANNUAL CASH DIVIDENDS. At the request of their numerous Policy-holders, this Society Lave determined to declare their divi dends annually in cash. The first dividend will be declared Feb 1, 1867. The last dividend declared on the quinquennial plan" reduced the premiums in some cases more than 50 per cent, or doubled the Policy during the next dividend period. It is be lieved for tit future that no company in this coun try will be able to present greater advantages in its dividends to persons assuring than this Society, as total expenditure to cash premium received was, by the last New York Insurance Report, less- than that of any of the older American Life Insurance companies. . The officers of this society desire to present to the public for their consideration five modes of di viding surplus premiums or profits, some of wbich were never before granted to Policy-holders by any Lite Company, and present advantages obvious to ali: 1st. The dividends maybe applied to the pur chase. of additional assurance for a term of years. 2d. Dividends may be applied to reduce the pre mium coming due next. At the last dividend, upon a similar plan, premiums were reduced one-half up on sonic polities. 3d. The dividend may be applied to provide for the payment of premiums at the latter end of lite, so that the assured may be guaranteed against fur ther payments on attaining a certain age,eilch suc cessive dividend gradually reducing the time during which the premiums must continue to be paid, so that at last, with the same success as heretofore, a paid up policy will be secured by quite a moderate number of premiums. To illustrate A man assur ins at 25 years old would, on the basis of our last dividend, be secured by this application of dividend;! against any payment after 45 and probably at an earlier age and thereafter receive an annual divi. dend in cash. 4th. Dividends may be applied to the purchase of a certain addition to the poiicy, pa3-able with it. 5th. Dividends may be applied to the reduction of all future premiums during the coutinuance of the policy. Hereafter dividends on the first annual 'premium may be used as cash in the payment-of the second annual premium, and so on thereafter, the dividend on each premium may be applied to the payment of the next succeeding premium. Policy-holders in most other companies must wait four or five years before any advantage can be derived from dividends. Call at No. 4, Granite Row, acd cet books and papers for further information. HUTCHISON & SPRINGS, Agents, For N. Carolina, S. Carolina and Georgia, Feb 26, I860. Charlotte, N. C. " HUGHES At DILL. Commission & Shipping Merchants, NEWUKRN, N. C. Consignments of Cotton, Naval Stores and Tobac co will receive our prompt attention. We have a weekly line of Steamers from Newberc and Morehead City, which sail from Newbern every Friday and from Morehead City every Saturday at 4 P. M. T. J- HUGHES, XSWBtBS. G. W. DILL. MOREHEAD CITY. August 1, 1865 tf Southern Express Company. The Southern Express Company. has opened com munication with all Northern and Western States, and is now prepared to forward Freight, Money and valuable Packages safely and promptly. Messen gers leave Charlotte daily, connecting at Raleigh with Adams' Express Company, and at Richmond with Adams and Harndeu's Express Companies. Letters will be forwarded by this Company to all points South and North having no mail facilities. . T. V. U1L.LE51'1K, Agent. Charlotte, June 19, 186.5 t t 'WtsUtn Sfmorrot.' CHARLOTTE, N. C REDUCTION In price of the Western Democrat. For twelve months, in advance, 53 00 For 6tx months, in advance, 2 00 Message and Documents in relation to Pardons and Confiscated Property. At Washington on Friday, the Speaker laid before the House a message from the President in re ply to a resolution of the House requesting in formation as to (be names of persons wortK more tban twenty thousand dollars to whom pardons have been Issued, and also, as to the amount of property which, as abandoned land, had come into possession of U. S. Government, and which has been returned to the original owners. The President transmits, in response to these inquiries, reports on the subject from the Secretary of War, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General, together with a copy of the amnesty proclamation, and other documents relating to the subject of the inquiries. The leading facts embraced in the reports transmitted by the President are these : Over 7,100 pardons have been granted under the am nesty proclamation, of which between 6ix and seven hundred have not yet been issued. As to property seized under the act of Congress of 1862, all such property has been restored in the cases of persons pardoned, except in the cases where legal proceedings instituted for the con demnation of such property have been brought to a conclusion. The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State and the Attorney Gener al state that they have no record in their respec tive departments showing the amount of proper ty, real, personal and mixed, which has been restored) tut the first named says that the lands which have been seized were transferred to the Freedmen's Bureau for-the use of the freedmen. The Commissioner of Freedmen's Affairs, in the documents submitted, estimates the num ber of acres which have been restored to the original claimants at over four hundred thou sand. Quartermaster General . Meigs says that. the railroads which had been seized as a military necessity have been restored on the condition that their affairs be placed in the hands of loyal directors. The reports are voluminous, cover ing upwards of five hundred pages of manu script. The list of pardons granted under the amnes ty proclamation of the President under the 13th exception ($20,000 clause) is as follows : Geor gia 1.228; North Carolina 482; Texas 269; New Mexico 1; Mississippi 765; Louisiana 142; Ala bama 1,361; South Carolina 638; Arkansas 41; Missouri 10; Kentucky 12; Florida 38; West Virginia 48. The Operation of the Proposed Amendment. In speculating upon the results of the proposed amendment to the Constitution providing that Congressional representation shall be founded upon the population, deducting a proportion for citizens above the age of twenty one years who are not entitled to vote, the New York Tribune, taking the census returns of 1860, makes a table in which it is shown that from seventy-five members of Congress, the number before the war sent from the States in which the blacks are the most numerous, the representatives would be reduced to 50. Ala bama wpuld lose three members; Georgia; three; Louisiana, two; -Maryland, on; Mississippi, three; Missouri, one; North Carolina, three; South Carolina, four; Tennessee, two; Texas, one, and Virginia, two. Arkansas, Delaware and Florida would return their present represen tation. There might be some difference in the Northern States iu which colored people abound, but these are not computed. The failure of the Merchants' National Bank of Washington City is a very bad one. It is impossible yet to say what a amount will be lost by private depositors. The Government will loose about 600,000, on account of the depos its of Paymaster Paulding, who, in disobedience of an order of the War Department, had depos ited over 5750,000 in the Batik, upon an ar rangement by which, as is alleged, he derived a large sum as interest. The Latest and the Cheapest. McLEOD STEELE, Are now receiving their SPRING AND SUMMER STOCK. Their stock is complete, and they hope that all who wish to purchase or look at THEIR GOODS will give them a call. They will charge nothing for showing them. April 23, 1866 LATEST BY EXPRESS. Cochrane, Wilson & Co., Have just received large additions to their Spring Hats, a great variety, Elegantly trimmed Snrine Bonnets, Beautiful French Flowers, Dress Trimmings, a good assortment, Fine Solid and Fancy Creese Marettes, Fine Solid and Fancy Delaines, Spring Poplins, Muslins, of all kinds, And every style of Goods found in a well furnish ed store. t Just received a pplendid lot of Silk MAN TELS. G., W. & CO. - April 9, ;866. Ladies' flats.. Those beautiful new styles of Ladies' Hats have arrived at A. SINCLAIR'S May 7, 1866 DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS Spring and Summer Goods for Ladies at F A. SINCLAIR'S BOOTS AND SHOES. A large Stock of Ladies', Gents, Misses', Youths' and Children's Shoes, all prices, jnst received at A. SINCLAIR'S HON. BEDFORD BROWN. Id the report of evidence before the Recon BtmclioD Committee at Washington, we find the following concerning this State : Hon. Bedford Brown, formerly United States cenator from North Carolina, was examined in respect to that State. Although he bad served the people of North Carolina in a legislative ca pacity .during the war, he had always been Union, and non-secessionist on principle. .He thinks two-thirds or three-fourts of the people of the State are unitedly opposed to secession. yThe mass of the people at the time of Lee's sur render were more gratified than otherwise, be cause they saw that the result was inevitable. Many of them were for peace and believed there was no safety out of the Union. They were gratified the question had been settled in some way. Of late they had become very despairing, perhaps, in part from the loss of slave property, though chiefly from the long delay in being ad mitted to the Union. There is a wide feeling of discontent even among Union men. The great mass of the people are exceedingly anxious to have the relations between the State and the Federal government restored. Some few per sons would, perhaps, be gratified by a foreign war, but the great mass are perfectly willing to live under the laws of the vUnited States, pro vided they can have political equality with the other States. The longer this is procrastinated the worse the feeling of discontent will become. Some portions of the people, in the event of a war with Great Britain or France, would proba bly gngage in another attempt at secession and the establishment of Southern independence; but a great majority would suppress such an at tempt if there was a reasonable expectation that they could be admitted to equal political rights in the Union. The best way to removo ' the feeling of discontent among the people would be to declare the State a member of the federal Union, and admit her representatives to their seats, Congress, of course, judging of the mem bers presenting themselves separately. Disloy al men should be excluded, but men should be admitted, even if the great majority of their constituents wre actual disloyalists. The ques tion of admission should depend rather upon the character and qualifications of the claimant than upon those of his constituents. If bis dis trict was manifestly disloyal beyond question, it would perhaps be a justification for bis exclu sion. The witness thinks a majority of the peo ple would be willing to pay the federal debt, al though the tax-payers do not regard it as a pleasant subject; a very decided and overwhelm ing majority would be opposed to the payment of the Confederate war debt. He does not know of any combination, open or secret, to make fur ther resistance to the government or renew the war in any shape, lie believes that Northern men going into North Carolina to invest capital in lands, manufactories, &c, would be received in a friendly manner and treated with justice in the State courts. The freedmen in his part of the State were acting very well, and the general sentiment among the farmers and planters is to treat them with fairness. There is a disinclina tion for promiscuous schools for whites and blacks, but the better class of the people do not object to schools for blacks eeparatelju The officers of the Freedmen's Bureau have gener ally been liberal toward both the freedmen and the white people; but be hardly thinks there is any further necessity for maintaining the Bu reau, as black men would stand as good a chance in the Stale courts as white men, if they were of good character, and there are no particular prejudices against them. The poor whites are generally considered as haviog a higher claim to credibility than the negroes. Universal negro suffrage would be regarded as very objec tionable and wholly nadmissable; but a good many persons would have no objection to seeing qualified negro suffrage. He does not think it possible to establish restricted suffrage among the whites, and thinks none of them would ever surrender the right to vote if they could avert it. UNIVERSITY OP NORTH CAROLINA. The Hon. O. A. Henry, of Tennessee, has been compelled to decline the invitation to de liver the Annual Address before the two Lite rary Societies of thtiUniversity at the approach ing Commencement. Ex-Governor Vance has now been solicited, and it is hoped that be will be able to accept. Raleigh Sentinel. Our thanks are due to a friend for a ticket to the commencenent ball complimentary to the graduating class at Chapel Hill, orf Thursday evening June 7tb, 1866. We observe that the Managers of the ball are as follows : Willis Alston, of Halifax, J S Battle, of Tarborougb, W R Dortch, of Camdtn, Ala., Chas F McKes son, of Morganton, A Phillips, of Orange, and John B McKae, or ew lianover. Honorary Managers: Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Fortress Monroe, Gen. W It Cox, of Wake, Gen. J C BreckeBridge, of Canada, Gen 11 D Johnson, of Charlotte, Gen Robert E Lee; of LexingtoD, Va., and Hon Z B Vance, of Charlotte. We do not well see how two of the Managers, Mr Davis and Gen Breckenridge, can attend. The latter is at present Bojouroing in Canada, and the former is confined for cause at Fortress Mon- roe. , . ,. We heard at one time that it was desirable that President Johnson should be invited to at tend Commencement. Presidents Polk and Buchanan were present by invitation on former occasions. If the "Managers would invite the President, and his duties would allow him to attend, and if Mr Davis, Gen Breckinridge, Gen Lee and Gov. Vance could be present, the latter as the orator of the day, the occasion would certainly be both cool and peculiar. It would indeed be a scene for lie pen of the his torian. Raleigh Standard. The New York Post (Radical), speaking of V t ff A A. I. A L mAtlM Judge auaiKey s eiaiemeni auuui mo uiwiva.ii.jr of the negroes since the war, says if they have fair play and die out naturally, no one need trouble himself about it. Exactly so. That is about the amount . of jrour sympathy -for the jjejjro. A FASHIONABLE REVIVAL. The inexorable law of fashion has carried our ladies one step back towards 'the past. In the goodly days of Queen Anne, when powdered hair prevailed, and the female head resembled a meal bag, it was eminently a la mode to be deck the face with small black patches which were first intended to subserve the purposes of female vanity, and which afterward was adopted as the universal fashion. The origin of that custom was due to the possession on the part of the vain fair one, of a dimple in the cheek; which, perhaps, not receiving its du meed of attention, was recalled to the wandering eyes of the beholder by a small black patch deftly stuck on in its neighborhood. The eye, alighting 00 the unusual spot, immediately took io the ac cessory dimple; and so the purpose of the wear er was achieved. But in course of time, the. impetus given to this custom of disfiguring the face with these patches led to other and more progressive im provements. Thus, stars and flowers followed the plain and unpretending circular spot. Thereto, after a while, were added figures of men and women; and finally a chariot and four, driven at lull, speed, was the most prominent ornament of the beautiful faces of that time. The elegantes of our day, we must confess, seem to be following closely in the footsteps of their sisters- of that earlier age. We have al ready had, and we still have the boop. The powdered hair had a spasmodic reign. Long trains to dresses, a yard or more in length, to be carried by a negrillon, are quoted in the latest fashionable intelligence from France. And now comes the black patch upon the face to assert its position in the unity of a modiste toilette. With the combination of all these (and with fashion no combination is impossible) the outward make up in this practicable, of our monde elegant, will be a spectacle of won derful interest. Whilst the uninterested public the wary bachelors who ponder over the fan tasies of the sex and congratulate themselves that they are well out of it may laugh at the sight. that such a revolution in the wheel of Fashion would precipitate upon us, no stich laughter would wrinkle the cheek of the fond husband and the doting father who would find himself compelled to foot the bills. There would be a ''deadly lively" feeling about him when the day would come for the financial set tlement. He wxuld understand, in more re spects than one, how dear the wife of bis bosom, or the daughter of bis affection was to him; and he would possibly linger with a more regretful interest upon the memory of those ays when the question of a new dress, or the suggestion of a new bonnet, never entered into his daily existence to disturb with their persistency the current of a peaceful life. PORTABILITY OP CHOLERA. Contagion and portability are often confound ed by writers. A disease may be portable and not contagions", which, io our opinion, is the case with cholera. The facts connected with the breaking out of cholera .on board of the two ships, the Swanton and New York that are supposed to be the sources through which the disease was conveyed to this country in the lat ter nart of 1848. offer stronr argument in favor j- ' w of the portability of cholera. On board of the New iork, some days belore it broke out, there was a sudden cnange in tne . atmospnere, tne n-pnthpr hpinc ouite cold, which induced the .. o i -- - emigrants on board to open their baggage to nrnmirp warmer clothirtET. and hef'oro the disease Y . - . r, actually made its appearance the weather again it 1 - 1 .1 Decame exceeuiugiy warm uu ouuru tne Swanton, before it broke out, there was a simi- lar condition ot temperature. let the vessels were one thousand miles apart. Now what does this imply? On board of these vessels were passengers that had left -infected localities, and we would naturally infer that the seed of the disease was conveyed in their baggage, which may have germinated after being conveyed on board the vessel, and before the baggage was opened, or -may not 'have germinated until brought in contact wnn an atmospnere 01 an elevated temperature. The ransacking of the baggage, it is stated, only took place on board of the ship New York; therefore, bow was it that the disease made its appearance on the Swanton, when it is Dot stated that there was unrifw-lrincr of bat'?are. We would suDoose that as the weather was excessively warm before the outbreak took place, mere was more or less cooking for liehter clothing, which would brinz the poison already germinated io contact with the emigrant passengers. it it was lying in a dormant 6tate, the contact wijh the atmosphere, at an elevated temperature, would be sufficient to propagate it and favor its spreading. The cbo'cra germ may be conveyed in this way from one locality to another, and remain dormant for some time, or until atmospheric and and thermal conditions favor its propagation. We can, in the same way, account for the er ratic course the disease sometimes takes, skip ping thickly settled localities and attacking less densely populated sections of country. Cholera is -portable in another way, which may more clearly explain its erratic course of travel than by supposing it to be conveyed io clothing. When there is an impaired innervation, the secreta of the alimentary canal become so modi fied, from wbat they are in health, that when dejected, and come in contact with the debz onized atmospheric air, tbey undergo fermeuta tion, and a eporule is generated, which becomes wafted in the air, and absorbed by water, and therefore imbibed by man, and the disease is thus propagated incertain localities. A person nlth nrpmnnitorv diarrhoea, to leave Hamburg for New York may be the means of locating . . 1 ltr . the disease in t lie latter city. e can iuua nercii ve how a case premonitory diarrhoea may k.m central noint or nucleus from which may be propagated the most malignant type of this disease, providing there is a predisposition r.f cr.im for without il the disease cannot lav VA BJDVu-, ' hold. I have no doubt, in my own .mind, that it is in this ay the disease is frequently con veyed from one country to another, and sudden ly assumes a violent form, and its cause or source teemed unaccountable. Dr. Pancoait, of AVF THE LEVEES OP THE MISSISSIPPI. From the New Oleaas Pictjnne. The levees on he Mississippi river measurd about 750 miles, or 1,250,000 yards, and one single yard or levee giving way will bring about the inundation of a whole eeotioo of oouotry, and destroy property to the amount of millions of dollars. The very best levees are liable to break at times from crevasses entirely beyond - human control, and which are in a great measure, ow iog to" the sandy material we are compelled to use io building them. For instanoe, itie Hag gamao levee, near Lake Providence, which gave way in 1853, was considered to be one ot the . best levees ever built. Levees have been known to break from the effect of rat and crawfish' holes, from the effect of wind, of rain, of waves, &o. - Sometimes the cause ot ibe break lies within the levee itself, and cannot be suspected until after the levee has given way. Some e:ght or ten days after the upper crevasse bad occurred, the levee gave way about five acres below, and a new crevasse took place. Upon examination it was found out that the levee was not hi but mere shell, the substance of which had leaked out through a hole about three inches in diam eter, near its base on the riverside. The ioter- ' mittent action of thn waves, injectiog water through the bole and sucking it away as sooa as it was saturated with the sand forming the substance of .the levee,, had carried oi? the entire inside and left a mer-c shell or crust. Another cause of crevasses it land-elides. These are owing to the fact that our soil is form ed entirely of deposits of alluvial sand, whiob, baviog no adhesive or cohesive properties, is rubbed off aud carried away by the friction tf the eurrent of the Mississippi against it. In this way the banks of the river are undermined by slow but sure degrees, until the upper struo- turc, having no more foundation to stand upon1, " slides into the river, and, of course, carries away the levee built on it. - Another peculiarity very noticeable, and at the same time very perplexing, in caving banks aud land-slides, is that, cbaoging tbeir locality all the time, they shift from one place to another, ' and may endanger next year the very, place that was considered the most secure the season previous. In 1844a laodslide took place close by the-, French market in this city, aud threatened the verp structure itself; but the next season the river commenced making at the same spot, and, it has, by this time, restored more than it bad ' taken away then. These land-slides take place without any sjgns indicating tbeir approaching appearance. For instance, some 20 years ago, Mr Andry, a well known citizen of this place, was pasaing ot) horseback 00 the levee, 'when, all at onoe, a laod slide took place, and curried away levee, horse and rider, and they have never been seen or heard of since. . The changes in front of New Orleans are snob, that the former shape of the crescent to whiob our city is indebted for its surname, is daily dis- . appearing, and many of us can remember that -. Western flat boats used to make fast to a tree then growiog a few feet from the spot where -the south corner of tho Custom House oovr stands. The river is now about 800 feet dis tant from that spot.' Our city has already sold, and will sell before long, some 15 or 18 whole squares of ground thus formed Jby the continued shifting of tho river eastward. As a counterpart, Algiers is losing every year about as muth ground as New Orleans is making. That feature of the Mississippi restoring on one side what it takes on the other, is fully de-t monstrated by the following example: bomo twenty years ago, Mr Valcour Aime's dwelling house, parish of St. James, .was right 00 the river. Almost opposite, on tne outer siae, stood tbe residence of Mr George Mather, built about. one miio irom tne panic. 10-oay inr vaicour Aime's house stands one mile from tho bank, 1 1 .1 a ni 1 w r and Mr Mather's has been engulfed by tho. river. These changes assume, sometimes, cropor tiona reallv astonishing, as iu the following case: In the early times of this country, Natchez, tbe ' camping grounds 01 tue Indian tribe 01 mil name, stood at the distance of three hundred measured miles from New Orleans; - since then the Rxccourci cut-off. the Shreve cut-off, aod others have shortened that distance more than sixty miles. Still the river has so very nearly re-established its own regimen, that the uiatanoe between tbe two cities, which by the laws of arithmetic ought lobe three hundred less sixty,' or two buodrcd and forty miles, is yet, this very day, two hundred and eighty measured miles. Peanut Culture m North Carolina. For years past the ground-pea ha$.bceo a most important element, ot commerce in the Cape Fear country the annual exportation to tbe Northern States aod Canada considerably exceeding 100,000 bushels. A single planter in one of our eastern counties obtained from it ft yearly income of 56,000. lie raised from fifty to seventy. five bubbels to the sere, and cultiva ted five acres to the band, which at 11 a bushel tbe ordinary price, though 11 25 was fre quently realized yielded an iocome of f 250 to 1300 on tbe band. No such result under the old system of labor could be obtained with staples on similar roils. Tbe cultivation of no crop is so easy, and only ibe simplest implements are required first tbe plow to break tbe land, and then tbe sweeD aod weedins; hoes. The average crop, as we have before stated, if from! fifty to seventy-five bushels to the aere, Besides! which there will be left ic the ground enough to fatten one hundred pounds of pork. The! vine, when tbe pea is removed, mikes an ex- ceiieot lorage ior cainc cu vj wo ciu iu u. best northern bay. from tbe out is expr esse a most valuable oil. ' . "Pompey, what am dat goes wben 'a wagot course. goes, stops when de wagon stops, it am no ob to de wegon, yet de wagon can't go without it f1 'I gabs dat up, Cletn." "Why, de ooii ol! rw - m
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 15, 1866, edition 1
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