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"CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS; AND THE GLORY
OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS."
II. L. HOLMES, Editor and Proprietor.
FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1839.
TERMS.
2 50 per annum, if paid"in advance ; 83 if paid at
- the end of six months; or 33 50 at the expiration
of the year. Advertisements inserted at the rate
" of sixty cents per square, for the first, and thirty
' cents for each subsequent insertion.
UCp'Letters on business connected with this estab
lishment, must be addressed H. L. Holmes, Edi
tor ol the iNorth-tJarohnian, and m all cases post
paid. .
VOI.. 1. NO. 26.
I i
13
Hhds. Prime Porto Rico Sugar,
do.-
5 Hhds. N. O.
'50 Casks fresh Thomastowa Lime,
30 Hhds. Molasses, ,-- . -: . '
. 5 Barrels N. O. do.
20 Boxes Bar Soap, .
00 Sacks Bown Salt, -20
Boxes Fayetteville Mould Candles,
10 Poxes Smoked Herrings,
For Sale by GEO. McNEILL.
June 55. 16tf.
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VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE plantation on the Cape Fear River, re
cently owned and cultivated by John M. Dob
bin, Dec'd. better known as the "Northinton Ferry
plantation". Embracing in all about 2260 acres
much of it in a high state of cultivation, and well
fenced, the balance well timbered with Oak, Hicko
ry and Pine. It has on it two comfortable dwel
ling Houses and other convenient outbuildings,
fine water, 3treams o; which are now standing a
mill and Gin House. The Ferry is also included
and being on the best road to Chapi 1 Hill and
Hillsborough, with but little attention might be
profitable property. Distance from Favetteville
about 32 miles. Capital sites for Cotton Factories.
The plantation is susceptible of a division into two
or three parts, which would be made to suit pur
chasers. If the above property cannot be sold at
private sale before the ensuing Fall it will then on
further notice be disposed of at public sale. Per
sons residing in the low country and others desi
rous of purchasing a healthy situation and valua
ble plantation would do well to examine it. For
further particulars aonlv to,
' JAMES C. DOBBIN, Exr.
July 6, 1839. 19 tf.
Fayetteville Female
SEMINAR.
MR. BAILEY respectfully sives notice that, in
order to meet the increasing- patronage of this
School, and advance its interests, be has associated
with himself in copartnership, Mr. Gostavus Spf.n
cer, who, with his lady, will commence their labors
at the opening of the next Academic year, Oct. 15.
Mr. S. is an experienced Teacher, and has had charge,
for the past year, of the Female Seminary at Char
lotte, in this State.
Mrs. Spencer will take the special charge of the
Elementary Depar!m-ji', in a room entirely spearate
from the general School Room.
Seven rooms in the commodious building hitherto
occupied, will be devoted to the use of the School,
and the classes divided according to their ages, and
separated as much as possible from each other.
The commodious arrangements for Boarding will
be continued as last year, and Mr. Beach will be
prepared to take t'J or 12 young Ladies in the Semi
nary Buildings, where they will have the benefit of
constant intercourse with all the Teachers.
Messrs. Bailey and Spencer will seek to furnish
able instruction in every department, and considera
ble expence has been incurred to increase the ad
vantages ot toe Jrupils in this School.
The Academic year will commence on the 15th of
October and close on the 18th of July following.
1 he year is divided into two Sessions ol twenty
weeks each. Parents and jmardians are reminded
that it is very important to Pupils that they should
enter early, and oesrin with their respective Classes.
Every week they delay, they lose in effect two weeks.
TERMS 111 Advance:
Elementary Departmeut or 2d Class, 88 per Session,
First Class, 1G do
French Language. 10 do
Drawing and Painting, 10 do
Music on Piano Forte, 25 do
Music on Guitar, 25 do
Use of Piano, 3 do
Jncidentals and Stationary, 1 do
July 13, 1839. 20-tf
PIAXO FORTES.
An Agency is appointed in
Fayetteville for the sale of the
most approved New York
Piano Fortes. They will be
sold at the lowest New York
prices, with expense of trans
portation, and warranted. If not satisfactory, they
may be returned. They may be packed for safe
transportation to any part of the State. They may
be seen at the Female Seminary, where purchasers
are invited to call, or on Col. S. T. Hawley.
PARLOR ORGAN.
The Parlor Organ, or Seraphine, which has been
used and generally admired at the Seminary for the
past winter, is now olFered for sale at cost.
June 8. 15tf.
NEGROES FOR SALE.
'ILL be sold at the Market House, in the
w Town of Fayetteville, at 12 o'clock, M. on
JT uesday of our next County Court, on the 3rd of
September next, two likely NEGRO GIRLS, one 15
the other 21 years of age. TERMS made known at
sale DTJGAL BAKER, tfltotney
tor the heirs of Daniei McMillan, de'd.
ayettevdle, July 20th, 1839. 21-tf
REMOVED.
TThR. Thomas J. Jordan has re-
JLK moved to Liberty Point, on the north side of
rersoa street, a lew doors above Mr. John M Sted
man's store. - mar 9 2tf .
BLANKS
For Sale at this Office.
PITTSB0R0UGH ACADEMY.
FlfHE exercises of this Institution will commence
-f. on the 8th July next, under the superintend
ence oi me iormer instructor, JUr.J. JU. L.ovejoy.
TERMS)
Classics, $18 per session,
English, 15 do
The following are the branches taujrht in this In
sfitution, viz: Latin, Greek, French, Algebra, Arith
metic, Geometry, History, English Grammar, An
cient and Modern Geography, Navigation and Sur
veying, Reading, Writing and Spelling.
In addition to the preparatory course in the Clas
sics, Mr. Lovejoy will give unremitted attention to
young gentlemen in Algebra, Geometry, History,
Ancient and Modern Geography, and will permit no
ocnoiar to pass put oi ms Hands without a compe
tent knowledge of the above branches.
The Trustees of this Institution, under a deep
sense of the great evil flowing from imperfect teach
ing in some of our Academies, hesitate not in recom
mending this School to the public, having had am
ple testimony, during a twelve months' residence
among us, of the ability, propriety and general in
telligence ot air. l-iovejoy in all matters connected
with teaching.
Pittsborough, June, 1839. 22-tf
IIOTEIj. It is with much pleasure I
inform the public, that I have taken charae
of the LAFAYETTE HOTEL, in the Town of
CLIN ION, Sampsnn county, North Carolina. It
ii with equal pleasure that I assure the public, that
no pains or exertions shall be dispensed with, ne
cessary to the comfort and ease of those who may
feel inclined to patronize me. My Table will at
all times be supplied with the best viands this coun
try can afford.
Families travelling East and West, North and
South, will find.the accommodations in i.he Lafay
ette Hotel inferior to none in the Southern country.
Viaticum for their journey will be neatly provided
when required.
The members of our Bar will meet with a ffost
kind and hospitable reception; every facility will
be afforded them for counselling with their clients.
B. ST1TH, JI. D.
March 2, I8S9. 1-tf
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. (
isiiaiham bounty. )
Superior Court of Law, Spring Term, 1839.
Lydia Linhtfoof,
vs S Petition for Divorce.
James Lightfoot. S
IN this case it is shewn that a Subpa;ria hath is
sued to the Defendant, summoning him to ap
pear and answer this petition, and the Sheriff hath
returned thereon that the said Defendant is not to
be found, and proclamation being made according
lo law, and Defendant failing to appear and answer;
it was ordered that another Sabfxsna should issue,
and the said second Subpoena being issued, it is re
turned by the Sheriff that the Defendant is rot to
be found, and therefore, proclamation was again
made, and the said Defendant yet failed to appear
and answer; a 'id it was therefore ordered at the last
Court, that advertisement be made in one newspa
per only. It is now ordered by the Court, that the
Defendant shall be notified to appear at the next
Superior Couit of Law, for Chatham County, to be
held at the Court House in Pittsboroujih, on the
3rd Monday in September, 1839, then and there to
plead, answer, or demur to this petition, or the
same will be taken a3 confessed, and heard as rjc
parte; and this notice shall be given by advertising
this order in the Noith Carolina Stanard, published
at Raleigh, for three months; and also by adverlsing
the same for three months in the North Carolinian
published at Fayetteville.
Witness, John Thompson, Clerk of said Court,
at office, the 3rd Monday in March, A. D. 1839.
J. THOMPSON, Clerk.
fC3"The North Carolina Standard will publish
the above for 3 months.
J. & J. KYLE,
AVE just received by the last arrivals from the
TV' .1 I 1 1 . . I-
norm, a large auu general aasuriroeni oi
ID 3S IT (Q. ( 3D
Among vchich are
fS PIECES CALICO, well as-
1 150 pieces superior Gingham,
245 pieces Pongee Handkerchiefs,
Swiss Muslin, plain, plaid, and figured,
Bishop Lawns, Prussian Shawls,
Irish Linen, Lawns and Diapers,
Cloths, Cassameres and Sattinets,
Spool Cotton and Patent Thread,
Tuck and Side Combs,
MusIin-de-Lanes, 3-4 and 6-4,
Bolting Cloths, (Anker,)
With many other articles all of which, being bought
at Auction, &c. will be offered at reduced prices.
July 2, 1839. 21-tf
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Jinson County, S
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, July
Term, 1839.
Leak Broadway,
versus
John Jowers and Sa
rah his wife, Annis,
Elizabeth and Wil
liam Tray,, Malinda,
Mary, Martha Jane
and Calvin White,
Pleasant M., Eliza,
Ann, Martha Jane,
tlarnpton J J., Kebec-
ca, Emeline, Laura, i
& Elvina Lee. J
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that
the defendants reside beyond the limits of this
State. It is therefore ordered, that publication be
made for six successive weeks, notifying said non
residents, personally to be, and appear before the
Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
at the Court to be held for the said County, at the
Court House in Wadesborough, on the second Mon
day in October next, then and there to show cause,
if any they have, why prayer of Petition should not
be granted, otherwise, it will be taken pro confesso,
ana heard exparte, as to them.
Witness, Norfleet D. Boggan, Clerk of said Court,
at office, the 2nd Monday ofjuly, A. D. 1 839.
N. D. BOGGAN, Clerk.
August 17, 1839. 25 6t
Petition for Dower.
HH3 NOTICE. fpLi
THIS is to caution all persons from trusting any
person on my account, without a written order
from me, as I will not pay any debt so contracted,
by any person in my name.
ALLEN JONES.
Fayetteville, August 17, 1839. 25-3w.
Bank Checks for sale at this office.
LAFAYETTE HOTEL.
Fayetteville, North Carolina.
OpmS ESTABLISHMENT will be open after
-U- the 1st of AiiJiist, under the management
and direction of the Subsrciber. The House has
been thoroughly repaired, and will, in a few days,
be well furnished; and every effort will be made to
render it worthy of patronage.
EDWARD YARBROUGH.
August 3, 1839. 23-tf
ICTThe Augusta Chronicle (weekly,) Raleigh
Register and Standard, Wilminston Advertiser,
Greensborough Patriot, Salisbury Watchman, and
Cheraw Gazette will insert the above three mouths
and forward their accounts to the subscriber.
E. Y.
MASONIC NOTICE.
At a regular meeting of the Uiembers ofLine
Lodge, met at their Lodge Room, on Sun
day the 23th of July, 1839, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted. "
Whereas, It has pleased an all-wise and benefi
cent God, in the unsearchable dispensation of his
providence, to take from anions: us our highly es-teem-d
and beloved B. other, SOUTHEY TUR
LINGTON and; wh'-reas, while we deem it our
duty to submit with a.l christian resignation to this
sail bereavement, we feci unanimously impelled, as
a last sorrowful tribute to his memory, to adopt the
following Resolutions:
Resolctd, That we sympathise, in the most heart
felt manner, with Ins bereaved family, his relations,
and his friends, in their profound grief at their irre
parable loss, and cordially express to them, so far as
words can do, our sincere condolence on the melan
choly occasion of his death.
Resolved, 1 hat the members will proceed agreea
ble to Masonic usage, clothed in white gloves,
aprons, vests and stockings, (it being a Masonic
usage when performing the funeral obsequies over
a worthy deceased brother;) and that they will strict
ly observe this usage in burying our worthy deceased
brother, Southey Turlington, and that they earnest
ly request the attendance of the Fraternity of
Fayetteville, and of all the neighboring LoJs-cj
around, and brethren generally, to assist us in ifce
funeral obsequies.
Resolved, 1 hat we proceed to move in ivlasonic
procession on the first Saturday in September next,
from the house of Mr. James Oats, to the grave of
our deceased brother, and that notice be given ot'oilf
ntentions m the North Carolinian and Observer,
for two weeks.
Fayetteville, August 17, 1839. 25-2t
GENERAL SELECTIONS.
FACTS REPRESENTING CLOUDS.
Mr. Monk Mason, who it will be recollec
ted, made an serial excursion to Germany,
dwells in his Jleronaalica, on the discovery,
that clouds often appear in layers, with clear
intervening horizontal spaces between them,
and states, as a general rule, that whenever a
fall of rain is present, and the sky is entire'
overcast with clouds, "there will be invariably
found to exist another stratum of the same
bodies" at a certain elevation above the for
mer;" and, on the contrary, "whenever, the
same apparent condition of the sky, rain is
altogether or generally absent, the oeronant
upon traversing the canopy immediately above
him, may infallibly calculate upon entering
into an upper hemisphere, either perfectly
cloudless, or so far destitute of such bodies as
not to interfere with the general character here
bestowed upon it." This observation, which
independent of its value in other respects, is
an addition to the stock of the meteorologist
which he could never have "obtained without
the co-operation of the seronant, may be re
lied upon; it has been confirmed by the expe
rience of Mr. Green throughout a course of
nearly two hundred and fifty ascents, and cor
roborated by that of various other ceronants,
both at home and abroad.
Varied as are the positions of the clouds,
and the forms which they occupy in the
realms of space is confined . enough, and
comparatively speaking, but little removed
above the immediate surface of the earth
itself. As a general rule, the natural re
gion of the clouds may be stated to be a
stratum of the atmosphere lying beneath the
level of the first thousand feet and that of
one removed about ten thousand above it.
Not but that, occasionally, clouds may be
found that trespass very considerably on both
sides of the bounds here assigned to them;
sometimes penetrating in wreaths of mist to
the depths of the lowest valleys, while, on
the other hand, long after the seronant has
passed the other level of these fancied lim
its, some faint indications of their existence
may still be seen, partially obscuring the dark
blue vault above him; such excesses, howev
er, are by no means frequent, and may, in
fact, rather be considered in the light of ex
ceptions to a rule than as evidences tending
to impugn its general corectness.
Should the condition of the sky
prove to be of the nature of that alluded to
(where, for instance, a dense layer of clouds
completely intercept all view of the earth.) the
seronant will probably have an opportunity of
observing another phenomenon connected
with the disposition of the vapory strata, the
beautiful manner in which even when under
the influence of rapid motion, they seem to
accommodate themselves to all the variation
of form in the surface of the subjacent soil,
rising with its prominences and sinking with
its depressions; displaying in short, a "coun
terfeit presentment" of the country over which
they lie, and enabling the spectator to form,
as it were, a sort of phrenological estimate of
the character and disposition of the matial
world within. Indeed, I have heard Mr.
Green declare that, with the bird's-eye knowl
edge of the country his long experience has
conferred upon him, he has frequently been
able to determine beforehand the district into
which he was about to descend, at times when,
from the general concealment of the land
scape, such information must have been oth
erwise altogether unattainable. -
FROM THE MILLEDGEV1LLE JOURNAL.
SINGULAR INCIDENT. THE
TENNESSEE MOTHER.
Some few years ago, a young man left his
home in the State of Tennessee, with a horse
drover, for the purpose of assisting in driving
a lot of horses info the "Georgia Market."
The Teunesseean, meeting with a sale for
all his horses, and not wishing to retain one
to carry the young man home, advised him to
remain in Georgia, and seek employment as
a laborer on one of our rail roads, stating that
it was a profitable business, by pursuing
which, he could not fail to make money.
Naturally a simpleton, the young man follow
ed the advice of the individual who should
have protected him, and who had enticed him
from his home, and sought employment on
the Monroe Rail Road. Here'he was most
unfortunately thrown into bad company, and
was induced to forge an order, amounting to
about forty dollars, on a store for goods. The
forgery was discovered, he was indicted, tried,
convicted, and sentenced to the Penitentiary
for five years. His trial took place at the
March term of the Superior Court, in Mon
roe county, 1S3S, since which time he has
been confined to hard labor iu the Penitenti
ary.
His mother, an old lady ot sixty years, re
siding 450 miles from Milledgeville, hearing
of the unfortunate condition in which her sen
was placed, and knowing the imbecility of his
mind, with all a mother's affection, determin
ed to proceed at once to this place, and to
make his true situation known to the proper
authorities. But alas! how was a poor and
lonely woman, without money or friends,
haviug no conveyance of her own, to get to
Milledgeville? With a resolution truly hero
ic, this old lady determined to travel on foot,
the whole distance, and accompanied by a
sister ten years younger than herself, she ac
tually started, and over mountain, stream and
valley, she walked the extraordinary distance
of four hundred and fifty miles, to petition the
Governor to pardon her unfortunate son.
An investigation of the case induced the
Governor to extend to the unfortunate youth
a remission of his sentence, and we had the
melancholy pleasure of seeing the old lady
and her sister, together with the son, slowly
wending their way back to their home in Ten
nessee. What will not a mother's affections
accomplish? The incident, in the "Heart of
Mid-Luthian," of Jeannie Dean's trip to
London, for the purpose of procuring a par
don for her sister, bears no comparison to this
proof of filial affection on the part of a moth
er to an unfortunate son. May they all reach
their homes in safety, and may the young
man, under the guardianship of his aged mo
ther, be restraiued, in future, from the com
mission of crime! The drover who enticed
him from home, and left him to suffer in a
land of strangers, knowing his imbecility,
should supply his place in the Penitentiary.
RED
FROM THE LOUISIANIAN.
TRADE WITH MEXICO via
RIVER
One of the most interesting occurrences
for the commerce of New Orleans, was the
arival here of a number of Mexicans of dis
tinction, in company with some American
traders, from Chihuahua, by way of Red river.
The district in which Chihuahua is situate,
contains the richest gold mines in all Mexico,
which circumstance exhibits at once the im
portance of a direct commerce with its in
habitants. The party first mentioned, brought
with them a large amount of gold bullion, and
their caravan consisted of five hundred mules,
ten wagons, and a guard of one hundred men.
The chiefs of the party left the main body at
Pecan Point, the first place on Red river.
They met with no molestation or interference
whatever, in their route of eight hundred miles,
over a beautiful rolling prairie, interspersed
with clusters of large trees, an abundance of
fine springs and pellucid water courses, hav
ing passed above the heads of rivers flowing
into the Gulf of Mexico. W7hen they set out,
they anticipated attacks from the Indians on
their journey, but they met with no human
being, until they had passed over the head
waters of Red river, which they mistook for
those of the river Brassos. Nor was their
mistake discovered until they struck the False
Ouachita, when they met with a few Delaware
Indians, who corrected their error, and con
ducted them to Fort Towson, at which place
they embarked, and reached this city on Sun
day last.
They arrived on Red river in forty-five days,
without incurring the slightest indisposition
among their men, and without losing a single
mule. Had they not been compelled to wait
for a steamboat, they would have been here
in sixty days from the time of their leaving
Chihuahua, and notwithstanding all their ap
prehensions at setting out, their journey was
the most agreeable and pleasant that can be
imagined. ; ' T
These gentlemen have come to New Or
leans for the purpose of buying an assortment
of goods. Unfortunately they have arrived at
a moment when the articles they are in quest
of are scarce, and such as they think proper
to purchase cannot be exported with the bene
fit of drawback. This occasions them great
inconvenience and loss, and more especially
so, as no domestic prints or bleached goods
are to be had here at this moment, and they
are prevented from going to the North by the
apprehausion that the waters of Red River
will be so low in September as not to admit
of steamboat navigation.
Some of these gentlemen have assured ua,
that if this trade were fostered by our Govern
ment, and drawback allowed on foreign mer
chandise imported by steamboats into Pecan
Point, which is in Texas, the whole trade of
Chihuahua, and as far west as the Pacific
Ocean, would flow in this direction, and all
the bullion, although its exportation is prohib
ited by the Mexican laws, would find its way
hither. Bullion brought from Mexico to the
New Orleans mint, would clear ten and a
half per cent, to wit: ten percent, export duty,
and two, and a half per cent, the difference
between bullion and American . gold coin.
This rate of orofit is of itself a strong induce
ment to bring the bullion fromf the Mexican
mines to our city, and the experiment being
now made, and the route opened, we have lit
tle doubt that a plentiful supply of that article
will be brought to New Orleans.
Some of the individuals attached to this
caravan, as they term it, are natives of the
United States, old traders between St. Louis
and Chihuahua via Sauta Fe. They state
that the distance from St. Louis to Santa Fe
is 1350 miles due west, thence to Chihuahua
more than 650 miles due south, the route thus
forming a right angle: whereas the distance
from Chihuahua -to Pecan Point is only SCO
miles, the road lying west by south,- the differ
ence of land carriage, consequently, as 1200
miles. Besides this saving in the cost of
transportation, they are not interrupted on the
whole route by the interference of a single
Mexican .custonvhouse, except a trifling duty
at Chihuahua.
FROM THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE, July 17.
WASHINGTON COUNTY MURDER.
We gather the following particulars of this
atrocious homicide, from a letter from W ash
ington county, published in the Balesville
News, of the 4lh inst.
"The most horrible murder ever perpetrated
in a Christian couutry, was committed last
Saturday night, at Cane Hill, on Mr. William
Wright and four of his children. Mrs. Wright
states that-soon after retiring to bed, she heard
the sound of horsemen approaching the house.
Her timidity suggested the apprehension that
they might be hostile Indians. She awoke
her husband and communicated her fears, and
both arose. Mrs. Wright, through a crack by
the door, discovered three men walk up to
the door. One asked if they could stay all
night? Mr. Wright answered yes, and open
ed the door. The robbers at that moment
seized and stabbed him to death. Mrs. Wright-
fled out of the back door. A daughter, (per
haps the oldest,) rushed out by the assassins,
while yet butchering her father. Mr. Wright
being despatched, the fiends commenced
slaughtering his defenceless children. They
struck out the brains of a little infant, on the
floor, and run their bowie knives through
the tender bodies of three other children, as
they reposed in the embraces of a sweet sleep.
The fourth, a little boy, of some ten or twelve
Ivears, with a long, heavy blade, the demons,
nit a blow, separated the crown from the mass
of his head, striking him into insensibility,
but not into death, as they supposed. For
tunately, two other children, sleeping in an
outer apartment, were not discovered. Also,
little Morris escaped their observation. This
little child, of the tender age of six or seven
years only, had been placed at the back side
of a trundle bed, thus hiding him from the eyes
of the murderers. Little Morris was awake,
and with the wisdom of mature years, lay in
breathless stillness, eyeing from beneath the
folds of the bed furniture, the strange deeds
of murder, robbery and arson.
"From this intelligent child we learned, that
after every eye beneath this ill fated roof, as
they supposed, had been closed in death, and
every tongue silenced forever, the robbers
proceeded to pluuder the house of all the mo
ney, set it on fire, and galloped off. Little
Morris, after satisfying himself that the mur
derers were gone, moved from his hiding
place, and commenced with astonishing in
telligence, to rescue all from the ruins of the
napidly advancing flames. He ran and
awoke his little sisters, and hurried them out
of the burning dwelling returned, and found
his wounded brother restored to conscious
ness. His feeble streugth being unequal to
his weight, Morris threw his arms around the
shoulders of his almost murdered brother, and
tenderly drew him beyond the influence of
the incfeasing fire returned, caught up the
infant, but finding it lifeless, gently laid it
down a few paces from the door, on the breast
of the father. He then essayed to return for
the lifeless bodies of the others, but the fire
now having wrapped the door in flames, for
bid his entrance. Seeing his angel like pur
pose thwarted, he, with his little sisters and
brother, sought such- a resting place as a
houseless farm and clear sky afforded. The
daughter that escaped at the outset, took re
fuge in a ryefield. Mrs. Wright made her way
some mile and a half, or two miles, barefoot
ed, and in her night dress, to her mends."
"Please exchange," as the printer, said,
when he offered his heart to a very pretty girl.
FROM THE CHRISTIAN ADV. AND JOURSAt.
4 awful providence., On the 2Cth of
April, at a small village in this county, viz;
Ellsville, a man named J. P. S. was killed
suddenly He was a profane swearer. Ho
was in one of the stores talking about moving
his family to another house in the village tba
day, though the rain poured down in torrents
on the earth. A friend said, "Surely you
would not take your family out in such a
rain." He swore by the "Lord Jesas Cfirist
that if it rained pitchforks with the prongs
downwards, and if it rained hell fire he would
go;" so saying he sprang from the door, walk
ed about ten -steps and was struck m the
ttiouth by the lightning -his head awfully
mangled and his' lips still quivering with
bathes, burned and swelled till it was distres
sing to see him. Nothing else was injured;
the blasphemer only was killed. :i$.f
N. G. Berryman;
Lewistown, May 13.
A Ship struch ivith i-Jghlening'. During
the heavy thunder storm on Thursday night, :
or rather early yesterday morning, the ship
Queen Adelaide from New O.rleans, Ctfptahr
Barstow, lying at Spruce street whajwas
struck with lightening, which took the:,?thick
off the main sky-sail mast, shivered the sky
sail mast, and run down the royal mast' and
down the top-gallant mast, cut the top-gallaof
rigging and did some dsrntfge to the main
top-mast cross trees. Phil. pap. "
A circumstance occurred in New" Ywfc...
some days since which occasioned considera
ble excitement. A child about five years old
was seen to enter a house in Elizabeth street.
The mother of the child having been inform
ed of the fact enquired at the house for it, but
was denied entrance, and informed that the
child was not there. After various ineffectual
attempts to obtain the child, the police officers
were sent for, the house forcibly entered and
the child was found dead, and enclosed in a
rough pine box. The inmates of the house
were immediately committed to prison; The
child, it is supposed, was killed for the pur
pose of being sold for dissection.
FROM THE CHARLESTON MERCURYV
THE MORAL HISTORY THE TWO
REVULSIONS.
Sufficient time has now elapsed since the
arrival of the last Steamer from England to
allow the full tendency at least, if not the'
whole effect of its disastrous tidings to devel
ope itself. We cannot very well be mistak
en in saying that the end is now visible that
the worst can now be fairly estimated even if
it has not yet reached us. The effect may be"
thus summed itp. Those who have specula
ted largely in Cotton will lose heavily some
of them will be ruined banks that have
identified themselves with the monopolists of
various articles of produce will suffer and
met with little sympathy such of them; as
have traded without capital and without Hon
esty will be brought to account a few rash
merchants will tail money is and will be for
some time scarce, and usury will flourish
We feel pressure and inconvenience -but be-
yond all these troubles of the hour, hope casts
a cheerful and steady light, and we wait' witlV
calm anticipation the cleaning away of the
low vapors. It is a check, not a convulsion
under which we now suffer.
If we lo6k back two years, now widely dif
ferent an aspect did this country present Un
der a similar pressure! Consternation and
Bankruptcy swept wildly over the continent
the foundations of Commerce rocked madly
to an fro, the Government waS; proclaimed
bankrupt, the banks every where stooped to
the tempest, the merchants were shaken to
the earth "thick as autumnal leaves," the dark
est and dreariest prospect hung on the future,
the disruption of o.ur commercial- relations
with Europe seemed to impend and we werer
threatened with the stigma of a nation of
fraudulent bankrupts. All domestic interests
seemed momentarily stricken down, all the
currents of internal life corrupted or choked
up. Who could say then, we see where it
will end? The fall of the great Anglo Ameri
can Houses, the general crash among the
merchants, the universal suspension of the
banks under the weight of an expanded Cur
rency and an immense debt to the govern
ment, were such mighty elements of confu
sion and anarchy to be let loose together, that
prophetic experience and prophetic conjectuie
were alike struck dumb and men set gloomily
eying the wreck of trade, with feelings akin
to despair.
And yet the immediate cause of the Former
revulsion is not only plainly seen, but in an
aggravated shape, iu the present' one. The
restrictive measures of the great Bank have
been this year pressed for a longer time and
to a severer extreme than they were in 1836
'37. From one step to another she has gone
so far as almost to sever herself from all con
nection with the commercial workt-sh has
almost shut up the ports of tfie United Kipg
dom and suspended her manufactures, and
yet we are visited with neither revulsion nor
panic, but are on tire contrary in a condition
to wait with a certain degree of cheerfulness
for the Englishman to recover himself from,
under the iron heel of the bank. There is a
reason for all this that is worth considering. ,
Not only the more enlightened reason,, f the
community, but the great mother of virtues
necessity, has prevented us of late from over
trading, except to a limited extent and in a
few articles. The banks owe scarcely any
thing to the Government, their operations
have in general been confined to legitimate -trade,
the currency is not expanded to unduar-
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