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A IP WW A ON T IIE WEST SIDE OF TRADE STREET -J CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE . GLORY OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER . $3 Per Annum . IN ADVANCE... Editor and Phopreitor. CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 19,1866. FOURTEEN TO YOLEMEN C M B E m. 8 WMTSMi OTBEMT (Published every Tuesday BY WILLIAM J. YATES, CDITOB AND PROPRIETOR. O "O'u'lIKR, $ 3 PER ANNUM, in advance. $ 2 for six months. Transient advertisements must be paid for in t ivance. Obituary noiics are charge! advertis ing rates. ' Advertisements not marked on tfce manuscript f r a specific time, will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordingly. $1 per .square of !o lines or le?s will be charged for each insertion, unles" the advertisement is in serted 2 month? or more, AUGUST KIEHAKN, Practical v&atchmaker &. Jeweler, (Xext door South of the Mansion, House,) CHARLOTTE, N O. The subscriber respectfully in'orms the public that he t prepared to do all kinds of work in his line promptly and efficiently. He erofes.ed to thoroughly understand his tfiisiness, and those pa tronizing hiui may expect to have their work well done JSay Clocks, Watches. Jewelry. Music-Boxes. Ac, repaired at short notice aad on satisfactory terms. A V(i UT XI KM ANN, Next door to Mansion House. April 30. 1366 Z. B. VANCE. C. DOWI). B. D. JOHNSTON. VANCE, DOWD 6l JOHNSTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Charlotte, N. C, Having associated themselves together, will prac tice in the Courts of Mecklenbure-. Iredp II, Catawba, Davidson, Kowan. Cabarrus and Union, and in the Federal and Supreme Courts. Claims collected anywhere in the State. April 2, laCU 'tf MEDICAL CARD. DRS. GICliON A McCOMBS? having associated themselves in the practice of Medicine uud Surgery, respectfully tender their professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country From a btrge experience in private as well as Field and Hospital practice,- they feel justified in proposing to pay special attention to the practice of Surgery in all its branches. Office in Granite How, up stairs, opposite the Mansion House. ROBERT GIBBON, if. D. . Dec 11, 1863 J. P. McCOMCS, M. D. ' FULLINGS & 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-HAD 13 CLOTHING nt cost for cash. Our former friends and patrons will-do wel to supply themselves at once We will keep at all limes a good supply of Cloths,' Castdmers and Vestings, which mill be made to trder in the best style and manner, We will keep also a good slock of Hats, Shirts, Drawers and other furnishing Goods. FULL1NGS A SPRINGS. Jan 29. 1866 IliifcliUon z. Springs, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Agents of the most reliable IJt S t'ltrf.VCE 4..0,lIlt1'MES in the United States. Be on the rAFK SIDE and insure your property agin.-t loss or damage by fire. Also, INSUUE YOU H LIFE lor the bene fit of your wifr and children. RISKS taken at modi-rate rates. Call on Hutchison & Spii. gs. No 4. GranileRow. K NYE HIT I'CHl SON, J. M SPRINGS, March 5, 18;C Agents. Ladies' Hats and Bonnets, Tiimined and iinirimmed ; Bonnet Ribbon, French Flowers. Ac, very handsome, at 'May 14th McLEOD A STEELE'S Handsome and Fashionable styles of Ladies' DRESS GOODS, Laces, Shawls, Ac very cheap at .May 14th McLEOD A STEELE. Grain and Grass Scythes, Scvthc Snaths, Ames' Shovels and Spades, Collins Axes, Ac, at McLEOD A STEELE'S. tk$ Ladies, Misses' and children's BOOTS and SIIuES, Congress Gaiters, and Slippeis. vei.v hand some and cheap, at . McLElM) A STEELE'S. KfSX. Gents' very low, nt and Youths' Caps and Straw Hats, McLEOD A STEELE'S. Liu on nn! rot ton Sheet inp, low-case Linen. Ac very low, at McLEOD A STEELE'S. May 14, 18GG Watclimnkrr A: Jeweler, CHARLOTTE, N C, IlespectfuUy informs the citizens "of Charlotte and Furroundinj; country that he has opined a t-hop in the store occupied by C. M. Query, next to Springs' comer, where he will give prompt attention to re pairing Watches, Clocks, Jewelty, Ac. Yntch-gIass-cs and materials in general at whole sale and retail. May 22, 1BG5. tf The Southern Express Company, For the transportation of merchandise, valuable packages, f pecie, bank notes, bouds, Ac, for all parts of the South and Son Invest, in connection with ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY. h;je established their agency at 59 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, where orders to call for goods to be fomar.U-d South will receive prompt attention. Merchandise and valuables delivered to Harnden's, Kinsley's, Ameriiri.and United States Express Com panies, for the Southern Express Company, will re ceive prompt dispatch. For particulars, rates of freight, Ac. Ac, apply at the office of the Southern Express Company, 59 Broadway. u 15 pLAf, Dec 1 4, 1SC:. President. JOHN VOGKL. PRACTICAL TAILOR, Respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte and Furrounding country, that he is prepared to manu facture gentlemen's clothing in the latest style and at short notice. His best exertions will be given to render satisfaction to those who patronize him. Shop opposite. Kerr's Hotel, next door to Brown A Stitt's store. i:quil Sale of Land. By virtue of a decree of the Court of Equity of Mecklenburg county, I will expose to public sal'e,to this highest bidder executing bond with good secu rities, on the 19tulay of June, atlbe Public Square in Charlotte, the tract of Land on which the late James L Morrow, deceased, resided, adjoining the lauds of T. U. Brem, John L. Springs, .and Benjamin Morrow and others, containing 425 acree, in two separate parcels, lying between two and three miles from the city. To be sold by the acre, on a credit of 9 mouths, with interest from sale, except $100 cash to pay costs. The tract is a valuable one, and the separate tracts will be surveyed in due time, so as to make titles to purchasers. For further infor mation call on B. F. Morrow residing on the prem ises. A. O. WILLIAMSON, C. M. E. May 14, 1866 , 8t LIME, lihe; 100. Barreb Thomasto wn LIMB, in good order, for sale. A-pply to Agent at N. C. Railroad Depot. June 4, 1866 tf SCHOOL XOTICE. FOR YOUTHS IN LINCOLN COUNTY, N. C. The exercises of my School will be resumed on Monday July 6th, l6t, tor the third session of 20 weeks, at the following rates ot Tuition, Ac : ' Full Classical course, $18 00 Partial " " 15 00 Higher English 12 00 i These rates to be paid in specie or its equivalent in cmre-ncy. Deductions made only for protracted sickness. My School is designed to prepare young men for College or for the ordinary avocation? of business. It is situated in Lincoln County, near the line of Gaston, 3 miles from Tools' and 6 miles from Beat tie's Ford, on the Catawba River. The location is free from the temptations incident to more public positions, and healthy. Good and cheap Board can be had in the neighborhood Those requiring further information will please address me immediately at Charlotte, N. C, care of Hon. James W. Osborne. FRED. S. MOORE, Teacher. References Dr Wm B McLean of Lincoln ; J W Moore, Esq. of Gaston ; David 11 Lee, Esq, and Hon J W Osborne, of Mecklenburg. May 28, 1 806 7t A N D Millinery and Straw Goods, AT 1YIIOLUSA L.E & KKTA1L. We would respectfully inform the trade that we have opened A branch of our Charleston House AT CHARLOTTE, N. 0 , lathe Carson Building, opposite the National Ex press Office, where can bo- found a large stock of SILK, FUR, WOOL and STRAW GOODS. ALSO, lHLI,lii:i: ' ftOODS, consis'ing of Ladies'. Men's and Children's BON NETS and HATS of the latest styles'; Also, FLOWERS and RIBBONS, All of which we offer at wholesale or retail at as ftfg-LOW. PRICES as such Goods can be purchased in Ncv Yoik or Charleston. ry- a We have a Lady of experience to snper LL intend the J1iii.L,tJ EilTT 1E HTJT1 EJW T, who will trim the Goods to order at the shortest notice. WILLIAMS & COVERT, Carson Building, Charlotte, N. C. May 21, 1866 tf LAWS OF N0KTD CAROLINA. The umlersign'ed would respectfully inform the Legal Profession, and the public generally, that having obtained permission to publish a small num ber of the '-La'ws of North Carolina, Session of 185 6 together with the most important public acts passe since 1859. he expects to have them ready in a short time. Those wishing to purchase would do well to send on their orders at once as the sup pi) is very small. . " Price when .sent by mail or Express $1.50 per copy. R V. BES'i Secretary of State. Orders sent to any of the Book Stores in Raleigh will be filled promptly Raleigh N C, May 23, 1866 lm ATIOAL HXPRISS And Transportation Company. The National Express and Transportation Com pany having Snally completed its Southern through connections fronf NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA to BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, RICHMOND, SA VANNAH. CHARLESTON, and all intermediate and adjacent Town as far South as ATLANTA, Ga. And also having perfected its Western connections, via the Baltimore and Ohio Railma'd, over main Roads, to Cincinnati and St. Louis, Is now prepared to receive Freight, Merchandise, Valuable Packages, Money and Bullion, and to transfer the sain to or from the places designated and ali intermediate puints, a efficiently, expediti ously and cheaply as can be 3one by any other Ex-pre.-s Company. . Otlices at e also opened in Mobile -nd New Orleans, and in a few days the company will run through via Montgomery to these places. J. E. JOHNSTON, President. B F. Ficklis, Superintendent. May 14. ISOtS t ... a . State of it. Carolina, Cabarrus co. Court of Plea $ Quarter Sessions April Term, 1866. Thomas L Martin, Adm'r of Joseph G Martin, dee'd, vs. Isaac A Martin and others. Petition to sell Land. It appearing to the,satisfuction of the Court in. this case that the Heirs at Law of Mary Callens. dee'd, names not known, John Russel and Maria bis wife, R W Martin, lite Heirs at law of Margaret ; Hall, dee'd, names not known. Saml B Martin, and I the Heirs at law of Jane Ritch. dee'd, names not known, reside beyond the limits of this State; it is ; therefore ordered by the Court that publication be I made for sil weeks successively in the Western De ! mociat, notifying the said defendants of the filing j ot ibis petition, aod that unless ihey be and appear at the nt-xt. term of this Court to be held f.ir said i.eounty at the court bouse in Concord, on the third j Monday in July next, and answer to the petition, ! the same will be taken pro confesso and the land ordered to be sold. I Witness, J O'Wallace, clerk cf said court at office ; in Concord, the 3d Monday in April, 1856. j- 20-6t r advJIO J. O. WALLACE, Clk. A "WIPE WANTED Somebody who wants a wife publishes the following-advertisenjent in a St Louis paper : Wanted 1 have lived solitary long enough. I want botne one to talk at, quarrel with then kits and make up again. Therefore, I ata ready to receive communications from young ladies and blooming widows of" more than average re spectability, tolerably tame in disposition, and iiair of any color. As nearly as I can judge for myself, I am not over eighty, nor under twenty five years of age. I am either five feet eight or eight feet five, 1 forget which Weigh 135. 315, os 531 pound ... . . one of the three recollect each figure per fcctl wel), but as io ti.eir true arrangement I am somewhat puzzled. Have a whole fu'h of hair, dyed by nature and Iree fioru dandruff Eyes butternut -brindle, tinged with pea green No&e bluut, according to Ionic order of archi tecture, with touch of the composite, and a mouth between a catfish's and alligators made especially lor oratory and the reception of large ousters. Ears paluiated, ' long and elegantly shafted. My wlmkers are a Combination of dog's hair, moss aud briar-bu-h well behaved, fearfully luxuriant. I am sound in limb and on the negro ques tion. Wear hoot No. 9 when corns are trouble some; can make up and write poetry by the mile, with double rhyme on both edges to read backwards, f'dVwards, crosswise or diagonal ly. Can play the. Jew's harp or bass drum, and whistle Yankee Doodle in Spanish. Aw very correct in my morals, and first rate at ten pin? ; have a great regard for the Sabbath and never drink unless invited. Am a domestic animal, and perfectly docile when towels are clean and &hiribujtons all' right, l! I possess a prc-eminating virtue, if is that ot forgiving every enemy whom 1 deem it hazard ous to handle. 1 fay m prayers every night, tnupquitoes permitting ; as. to whether I snore in my sleep, I want somebody to tell. . Money is no olject, as"I never was troubled vith.it and never expect to be. I should like some lady who is perfectly able to support a husband, or if she could introduce me to a family where good example would be considered sufficient compensation for board, it would do just as well Wheat Crot-s We continue to bear favor able rejjorts of the growing wheat crops in this and adjoining counties, now almost "ready to harvest. Corn is doing fioely. A gentleman who has traveled much over the county, reports that he never saw the farms in better conditon. The. farmers, depending upon, themselves, are working in earnest. Statesville Express. Gen. Stoneman adds to his report of the Memphis riot, that the number of negroes killed was twenty-four, eight of whom were discharged soldiers. According to his statement, which is no doubt true, the Irish are natural enemies of the negroes, and so are the Dutch, and no less .i -r i m i .i. ... . j trie iatiKees. ine reason is, me negro sianus-j in their way as a laborer, and they want htm killed off Hence' to these classes slavery at the South was objectionable the negro was protected by his master the race continued to increase, and so long as the institution was con tinued, neither Irish, Dutch nor Yankee could obtain a foothold in the South, as laborers. The Memphis affair is only a foretaste of what will occur hereafter on a much larger scale, when Irish, Dutch and Yankees flock to the S"Uth. It the black race dp not so act as to make fast friends of their late masters and 8 uilctters generally, they assuredly will be entirely without friends As to the Yankee Fret dmei-t't Bureau, that is only a bitter curse ! JSt'i tea vi le IZj-preas Artemus Ward was out late one night recent ly. Here is his aecount of his return home : ''It was late when I 0t. home. The children and my wife were all abed. But a candle a candLe made from taller of our own raisin' glemed in Betsy's room. It gknied for I ! All was still The sweet silver moon was a shinin' brite, and the beautilul stars was up to their usual doins ! felt a sentimental modd still 1 so gently ore meStealin', and I pawsed before Betsy s winder, and sung in a kind of op tatic vois as toilers, impromtoo, to wit : - Wake, Betsy wake, my sweet galoot ! Rise' up, fair lady, while I toot my lute ! The'win3er I regret to say that the winder went op with ' a'vi'lent crash, and, a form in spotless white exclaimed, ''Cum into the house you old fool Tomorrer you'll be.goin round complainin about your liver." OXFORD LAW SCHOOL. Commences Monday, Ju'y 5fh, 18GG Tuition $50 per term of 20 weeks. Board $4 25 per week. Location, OXFOKD, N C. COL EDWARD CANTWELL. A. B., a graduate of ihe Law School at Cambridge, Mass., (and for merly one of i he Military Judges of the Confederate States.) Instructor. Thorough training given at this School for the Bar or for Mercantile life. The lectures will em brace Principles and Practice ef Law, Bonk-keeping, Conveyanf ing and commercial J urisprudence Text Books supplied at cost. French and German lan guages extra. For particulars, address as above. June 4 1866 SOiiETDLXG ATTRACTIVE! Bargatus to be had at Cochrane, Wilson & Co's. Bombazines, Alpaccas, and fine Mohair at low price? ; Scotch Gingham, Plain and Figured Crepe Meretts, all Wool Delains, Printed Jaconetts, French Cambrics, Organdies, &c . AT YOUR OWN PRICES. Embroidered and Hemstitch Handkerchiefs, Em broidered Setts Liuen Collars and Cuffs, at Remark able low prices. Remember the House, and call before pur chasing elsewbere P. S. Silk Basques at New-York cost. If they cannot be sot d at that, we will give them away. May 28, 1866 Sugar. A Nice lot of superior SUGARS ib barrels, or by tne retail, ai - a. - June 4, 1866. THE" END OP A GAMBLER. Among the innumerable. anecdotes related of the ruin of persons at play, there is one rrorth relating, which refers to a Mr Porter, a gentle men who. in the reign of Queen Anne possessed one of the best estates in .Northumberland, the whole of which he- lost at hazard in twelve months- According to the story told of this madman for we can call him .nothing else hen he had just completed the loss of his last - , i - . . ere, at a gambling nouse in Jxindon, and was proceeding dowq stairs to throw himself into a carnage to convey hini -home to his house in f town, he resolved upon having one more throw r - .-t . v. to try to retrieve his losses, and immediately re turned to the room, where the play was going on. Nerved for the worst that niigh't happen, he insisted that the person he had been'playing with should give him one chance of recovery 6r fight with him His proposition was this : That his orriagc ani horses, the trinkets and loose money in his pockets, his town house, plate and furniture io short, all he had left in the world, should bs valued iu a lump at a certain sum, aud be thrown at sincle cast. , No persuasion could prevail on him to depart from his purpose, lie threw, and lost ; then, conducting the winner teethe door, he told the caohiiian there was his master, aud marched forth into the dark and dUmal stteets, without house or home, or any one creditable means of tuppoit. Thus beg gared, he retired to au obscure lodging in a cheap part of the town, subsisting partly on charity, sometimes acting as the matker at a bi.lia.d table, and occasionally as a helper in aj livery stable. In this miserable condition, with - nakedness and famine staring- him in the face, exposed to the .taunts and insult of those whom he had ot ce supported, he was recognized by an old friend, who gave him ten guineas to purchase necessaries. He expended five in procuring decent apparel ; with the remaining five he re paired to a common gatuing.house and increased t htm to fifty. He then adjourned to one of the higher order of houses, sat down with foimer associates, and won "20,000. .Return ing the uext night he lost it all, was once more penniless, and after subsisting many years in abject penury, died a beggar in St. Giles. Debts Due by the Government to Citi zens OF THE South Some days since one of our merchants, who held accounts against the Government, contracted by the General in comv mandofthe United States Troops stationed here, sent one of them on to the proper department' at Washington for payment. The account was properly authenticated, the receipt for the arti cles by the commanding General being attached. It was returned without pa a men? , with the following endorsement : "This account lyiving arisen in North Carolina, a Stale in insurrection prior to the suppression of the rebellion, this department, under the existing lav and decis ns governing it, cannot approve it for pay ment until Congress by appropriate legislation shall provide therefor " . . It will thus be seen that persons in "disloyal" States, cannot recover claims against the Gov ernment, although contracted for and certified to, by the military commanders for supplies fur nished to the armies of the United States, until Congress shall provide therefor by appropriate legislation. The tone aud temper of the present Congress towards the disloyal" South, pre clud. 8 "loyal" and "disloyal" citizens alike from looking to that quarter for relief. We had supposed that the General command ing had the right to purchase supplies for his army, and where a citizen bad been patdoned by the amnesty proclamation of the Piesident, or by special lenity since, was sufficiently purged of his "treason" to make a contract with a Gov ernment agent. Possibly the demands on the Treacury by the wealthy shoddy contractors of the late war, leave but little margin to pay the honest accounts of our impoverished people The honor of the Government, even in matters of its indebtedness, must be prostituted to radi cal fanaticism and hate lYilmhuj'on Journal. We think an appeal to the Seye:tary of War will insure a fair'settleraent. f A Georgia Widow An anecdote is .re lated by a certain Squire, which proceeds as follows: . Oh," said the Squire, "I wish I was mar ried and well out of it. I dread it powerful. I'd like to marry a widow. I altera liked widows, since I know'd one down in Georgia, that suited my ideas adzactly. About a week alter her husband died, she started down to the graveyard, whar they planted him, and she read the prescription onto the monument Wheo she got there she stood a looking at the stones .which was put at eaeh end of the grave, with an epithed on em that the umiisrxi had writ for her. Then' she burst out, 'Oh ! h o o !' says she,'Jones was the best of men 1 re member how the last time he cme home, about a week ago, he brought down from town some sugar and a little tea, and some store goods for me, and lots of little necessaries, and a little painted hoss for Jeems, which that blessed little child got his mouth all yaller with sucking of it j and then he kissed the children all ropna, and took down that good old fiddle of bis'n, and played up that god old tune : ' 'Rake her down Sal. Oh, rang-dang diddle, Ob ! rang-dang diddle, dang, dang, da.' " The Man who Never has Anything of His Own Of course you have encountered this pest. He borrows your penknife, your i razor, vour writing utensils, vour umbrella . i ii . . atid t what you lend bim goes, as a ruie,. io .... i that bourne from which no travehr returns. Not that he is dishonest, but he considers himself a sort of. pensioner at'large upon the wuld for minor conveniences, and has no idea that their restoration is expected. As he is usually a good-natured fellow, who would give you any thing be had if tc had anything to give, you don't like to bnub bim. and k he passes through j life in bis shiftless, careless way, uoconscjous of 1 bis demerits a tolerated nuisance, COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY. 4 Lett- from lion. D L. $ tea in to a friend in Georgia. . University of North Carolina,') Chapel Hill, May 17, 1866. My Dear Sir : Your letter of the ninth was received yasterday. I recognize in the name of nit- riou. f a mf ruter ot the juuior class in this institution in the autumn of 135, the classmate and successful competitor for colle giate aietn.ciion, among others, of the late Wm. W. Avery, and Perriu Busbea They, like your .friend, achieved -early celebrity, with the promise ofgreater eminence, if it had -pleased Providence to grant a longer lease of lite. Mr D us bee died in August, 1S53. Mr Avery was a member of the first Confederate Congress He tell mortally wounded in a conflict with Kirk's raiders, iu the neighborhood of Morgan town, on the twenty-ninth of June, 1SG4. Though I have no personal acquaintance tfiih the gentleman at whose iittahce you addressed me,-1 am familiar with his history, and most cheerfully recognize the claim whch. his resi dence here and association with you conteis, to alt the aid I can render in the prosecution of his researches. I have' never published anything on th.e sub ject to which you call my attention, and in re laiioti to the information .you desire, as to the best method of teaching geography, cannot hope to do more in the compass of au ordinary com munication thau to review the remembrance of the outlines of the course of instruction to which you refer, and in relation to which I have neith er published nor written a lecture, much lens a book, as ou seem to suppose. I have confined myself to oral instruction. Among the ideas that mock the grasp of the human understanding, are those of unlimited time and unbounded space. The finite cannot comprehend the infinite. . Wheo We are told that the sun, the centre of our system, is dis tant from our p'auet ninety five millions of miles, and that a cannon-ball flying at the rate of four hundred miles an hour, from the nearest of the fixed Stars, would riot reach us in five hundred una seventy thousand vears. we feel the utter inability of tho most powerful understanding to grapple with the conception even of computed time aud measured space . Wo are taught in childhood that the earth is a sphere nearly eight thousand miles In dlatu- eter-and twenjy five thousand miles in cironm-' ference, that the area ot its sutface is equal in round numbers to two hundred millions of square miles, one-fourth of which is land .and three fourths wafer. What distinct definite ideas do we acquire from these details, which burden and encumber the memory for a'time, but which in most instances are soon or inaccurately retained? forgotten Is there no method by which we may gain tangible ideas of the comparative extent of the surlace of the earth, and that portion of it which we call our country? I have endeavored for soiie years to impart useful iu formation to the youuter classes in the University, by resorting to a systematic scale of comparisons, to which I have annexed the name of comparative geog raphy.. The area of the State of North Carolina, for example, is, in round numbers, fifty thousand square miles Some of my pupils, like myself, huve traversed it from the eastern to the west ern, from the northern to the southern border, and the most of them have such a knowledge of its surface as to be able to form conceptions more oi less satisfactory of its extents JlaJ no: these conceptions be impressed more distinctly, vividly and durably, upon the mind and memo ry, by regarding North Carolina as the unit in a system of geographical computations and com parisons? As Gteenwicb marks longitude for the world, England, if preferred, may be adopt ed as the standard for universal computation and comparison. The area of North Carolina and of England (divested of the principality of Wales) is fifty thousand square miles; of the United States and British America, three millions The thirteen -States which formed the American Union com prised a million; the purchase of Louisiana ir. 1&03, added a second million; and the subse quent acquisition of Florida, Texas, California, uud New Mexico, a third million of square miles to our domain. To recapitulate, at the organization of our government iu 1789, our territory was a million of square miles, or a fiftieth; after the purchase of Louisiana, two millions, or a twenty-fifth; and at the ratification of the treaty of Guada loupe Hidalgo, three millions, or about a seven tctuth of the globe. North Carolina was equ.al.at the first era to a twentieth, at the second to a O'tit-thf and at present to a sixtieth of the Union. Or, t- state the facts in more general term-, the gh.be might be divided into a thousand States of equal ex tent with North Carolina; iuto seventeen em pires as large as the United S ates ; and the Union into sixty States of equal area with North Carolina. North Carolina, Virginia, Wst Virginia, and Maryland have an ar?a of 122.474; England, Scotlond, Ireland and the contiguous is les. 122, 551 square miles: Virginia, North and South Carolina, about 121,000. The peninsula of Italy, according to Liddel, (Hist of Rome, p 2.) "is about 90.000 square miles, or an area nearly equal to the surface of Great Britain and Ireland " Italy, the Papal States, and the little Republic of San Marind, are computed by Colton at 103,080. North Carolina is equal jo extent to the half of Italy, the ancient mistreSs of the world, and North Carolina. South Carolina, and Virginia. 9 ' ' to England, the most powerful empire the world has ever known. As compared with the other great powers of Europe, 6he is equal to the half of Prussia, the fourth of France, the fifth of Austria,' and the fortieth of fcuropean'Russia. She extends over an area equal to the seventieth of Europe. Palestine, the most ancient aod interesting. of historical nations, in configuration similar to New Hampshire is io extent about the saw with Maryland, is something larger than tht) fifth of North Carolina. Greece, whose history is more generally and intently studied iu American schools than oar own, wiih Macedonia for her tort hern bound ary, was (Stimated by Heeren at 29 GOO qpar miles. South Carolina has 29.HHfi or tkr,. fifth of So'rth Carolina . Greece, with her preseut boundaries, is about equal to two fifth of North Carolina. Greece and Macedonia combined under the dominion of the great ooa queror, were somewhat smaller than this State. Attica, the most renowned of all the Greets States, with an intellectual supremacy wider and more durable than the Roman empire, was a little triangle of seven hundred square miles, similar in outline, 'and equal in extent to th.e county of New llano vat, embracing an frea of a seventieth of iurth Carolina, or a seven thou sandth part of the land surface of the globe, -The puncture -of a needle on an ordinary ter restjal globe might serve tolndicate her relative extent, positiou aod proportion. Thtse Coinpaiisous may be tendered more ex-prest-rve by preparing aatnap or diagrams, upon the blackboard, toexbibit tbem to the eye, somewhat similar to the manner that the com parativo heights of mountains, and lengths of rivers are frequently delineated on the margins ot modern maps. If North Carolina shall be assumed as tho unit in such an arrangement, this Slate aud Eugland may be represented by the central circle or parallelogram, Prussia by including double, France quvdrvplrt aud Aus tria quintuple space. -" A circle or parallelogram forty times a large as that representing North Carolina, will show the relative extent of Russia in Europe; sixty times, the United States or British Ameiica; and the exterior, seventy times the extent of North Carolina, will deliiw eate Europe. . The population of the globe is ordinarily es timated at a thousand millions, or twenty to the square mile. ' North Carolina, with a thou saudth part of the land surface of the globe, has a thousuudth -part ot the population, and the average density ot etch is twenty to the squaro mile, so that in "both respects North Carolina may be most conveniently referred to for com putation and illustration The average density of the population of the Ujitd States is some thing more than half, England twelve times, Prussia and Austria eight times,. aod France nine times as great as that of North Carolina and the gtobe. Vivid as your impressions of the horrors of war may be, they may perhaps be intensified by a comparison of the extent, resources aud pop ulatioii of sparsely inhabited northwestern Geor gia with Belgium, the niort densely populated country on the globe Belgium has tour hun dred aud nine inhabitants to the squaro mile more than twenty times the average of North Carolina, and probably thirty tityea as great as that portiou ot your State north of Atlanta. W ellington, with the . sobriquet of the 'Iron was the most humane, and with the ox crt'tun, perhaps, of his great competitor at Waterloo, the ablest commander of modern times Such devastation in the neighborhood of Brussels as that witnessed around Atlanta, would have produced a spectacle - at which the world would have stood aghast 1 ' A coin oorative view of the financial condition of the comitry at different turn's in our history will exhibit facts not less impressive, suggestive, and instructive. The whole expenditure of the Government during the four years of John Quiucy Adam's administration, complained of at the South as extravagant, were S49.313.213, audtUss than the hundre-lth part ot the expen ditures of the Confederate and Federal Govern ments during four years of fraternal strife. - The average annual expenditure by Mr Adams is small in comparison with the interest of the war debt of the United States, io a de gree that I do not care to exhibit by an at leapt at precise computation. The public debt of tho United States, the ob ject of such intense concern ard anxiety to Gen. Jackson, was mainly created during our three -years war with Great Britain. ' It attained its maximum in 1810, when U amounted to 8127, 334,934. The aggregate is greatly lets than the interest of our present national debt. , Discouraging as these figures may seem to be at the fitst-glance, assure yourself that, with the blessing ot God, patience, energy, industry and " frugality at the South, with kindness, forbear ance and magnanimity at the North, will enable us to retrieve our fallen fortunes in a shorter period than is ordinarily anticipated. Most earnestly do I pray that the proper spirit may be manifested'promptly and fully on the part of both sections, and that the Great Disposer of events may crown our efforts') tb success, and in this supplication, from my remembrance of your collegiate career, I have no doubt you will heartily uuite. . Trial of Maj. Gee The Raleigh corres-. P'ndent of the New York Herald thus write concerning this interesting. ease: ,(i t The Military Commission which hat been in session for several weeks at this place engaged in the trial of Major John H Gee, late ot the Confederate service and keeper of the prison pen at Salisbury, for cruelty to Union prisoner!, is still holding its daily sessions here. " It isestU mated that the-trial, up to the present time, has cost the Government a hundred aod fifty thousand dollars, aod yet, Ihey have failed to establish an iota of proof crimioatiojc the pru- oner Per contra, it is shown that he did all he cnn'id. with the means at his command, to alleviate the sufferings ofihe Union men io bis custody. The authorities at .Uashington should ! forthwith discontinue me mai oetoro a uunurca thousand more u expended, censure tne uourt for its prodigality and discbarge the prisoner. 4 The contract for carrying the United States mail between Milton, North Carol i at, and. Barksdate's depot, was recently awarded to sT colored man, -who, after having the test oath read and explained to him, threw op the eon tract for the reason that hia conscience would not let him take the oath I 'Norfolk Virginian. January I, 1865.
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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June 19, 1866, edition 1
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