From the Charleston Mercury. !
llIE TARlFr AND THE 5ENATE.Th6
Washington correspondent of the North
American, alluding to Texas and varioos
consequences flowing from it, adds the fol
lowing, in which we are as deeply interested
us Pennsylvania : ?
" But ihe chief nnd paramount conse
quences of this enactment is soon to be felt
upon the protective policy and iudustry of the
country. Vp to this dny at 2 o'clock, the Ta
riff was not in danger, except prospectively.
Now it is almost hopelessly and irielrievablv
lost. I do not wih to exaggerate the danger,
but candor compels me to avow what is no
longer doubtful. The 20 per cent horizontal
ists, some of whom, and some only, concede
nominal discriminations for revenue, have
been exceedingly active in ascertaining what
would be the correct pull of the Senate upon
a final vote, and their estimates and my own
almost literally accord. After a most careful
examination, I cannot discover more than
three democratic Senators who will secede
from the party, upon this question namely,
Cameron, Sturgeon, and Fairfield. ' There
was some expectation of Niles' vote, but I
fear tbe signs are against that hope, and Dix,
from whose position it would be reasonable to
infer an upright support of Ihe existing bill,
will have to surrender to the pressure from
without and fall in, an enemy to hi real prin
ciple.. If one additional vole could be se
cured, the casting vote of the Vice President
would place ihe Tariff beyoud the contingency
of harm. Wiihout that succor it is gone.
The interests to be affected by the prostra
tion of this great measure, now fully under
stand xch.tr t their energies and efforts ought
to be directed, and it will be their own fault
if they are nut applied tcith vigor and the per
severance and "persuasion due to its magnitude
and the necessity of the crisis. The preserva
tion or destruction of the whole Taiiff policy
turns upon one vote !"
There is no misunderstanding this. We
are to have the ' lumber" and " pipelayiug"
business transferred to Washington, and man
ufacturers are advised that if they can buy up
one benator their game is sale. II money
will corrupt the Senate, that body will uudoubt
cdly be corrupted and the monopolists saved
Raising Cotton in India.- We have
just received a letter dated Dhoolia, ludia,
27th Sept., 1S45, from a young gentleman
formerly of '.his vicinity, who has for ihe last
five years been in that country, experimenting
in the raising of Cotton. He has already
been located at three or four different place?,
in the different regions of the country, and
thus far all the experiments in ihe cultivation
of foreign cotton have proven a decided failure.
In tbe letter before us, be says, " Since Janu
ary last, I have been nearly all the time mov
ing from place to place, and am now starting
through the District of Candeich, and about
the head of the Taply River. All the attempts
at introducing the American upland cotton
plant has, in a great measure, proved a failure
in every portion of the country where we
have tried it. The plant grows well, but it
iu variably sheds its pods to such an extern,
as to render its cultivation both unsafe and un
profitable. Indeed, it would appear that the
climate of India is unfavorable to ihe produc
tion of all foreign cotton. We must "ive
these up, and only pay attentiou to the natural
plant. This produces a cotton a little infeior
to upland Georgia, and is susceptible of be
ing improved, but can never be so prolific a
plant and the best laud not producing so
much per acre as the poorest laud culiivated
in Georgia. Although labor here is appa
rently so cheap (36 rupes or about $15 per
annum) still my opinion is, India can never
compete wilh America iu growing cotton or
any thing else (uuless I might except indigo.)
But from my knowledge of that plant I think
it might be produced in Florida, Louisiana
nnd Texas, so as to keep ludia out of the
market. Among my reasons for coming to
these conclusions are that the laborer cannot,
or does not perform one-tenth the labor of a
negro that the lands per acre will not yield
more than one-half as much as in the United
Slates that communication is slow and ex
pensive produce has a great distance to travel
before it reaches a European market, and ex
change and insurance are high. There U al
so a lack of straight-forward dealing between
the native purchaser and seller calculated to
discourage the cultivator. There is little or no
difference made iu the prices, between good
and inferior, therefore it is the prodacers' iu
lerest to mix as many impurities with it as
possible to increase the weight, which injures
its value in foreign markets." .Macon Aless.
SENATOR ARCHER ON PIGS.
In the debate in the Senate on the 15th
inst., on Ihe Resolutions of Gen. Cass to put
the country into a state of defence, Mr Sena
tor Archer, of Virginia, (known to the whole
Union, and particularly lo tbe New Oi leans
Picayune, by a celebrated Repoit of histr.ade
at the last session) took occasion lo deplore
the calamities a war with England would
bring about, aud to dwell also upon its hor
rors on the Atlantic coast. Waxing eloqueut,
the gentleman " repeated, Ihe humblest in
dividuals on the farm would suffer by tbe in
cursions of the English. There vould not
be a pig left ; the Euglish would seize it as
plunder." This, it must be confessed, would
be decidedly awful. Ducks and chicdens
were made to be taxed by Mr Van Buren,
and pigs were not intended for English pal
ates, but for the "home maiket" and we can
scarcely refrain from expressing the most
profound indignation towards a government
which would place national rights and nation
al honor iu the scale agaj'nst ducks, chickens
and pigs.- Mr Archer has properly warned
the country on this subject, and we think he
deserves therefor to have a litlo extracted
from the occasion, and to wear it hereafter
proudly in the preseuce of the people. Mr
Pi'gr-Archer is a fit associate for Mr William
C. Rives, who, during the late campaign,
pronounced Mr Polk a 'Muck-River Colonel.'
Who I " William S. Archer ln Raleigh
Standard."
The present term of tbe Court of Common
..eat, lor- Hamilton county, Ohio, hs
cases of divorce upon the (rial docket.
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AWFUL TRAGEDY.
We learn from private sources, as well as
from the public "prints'' in the immediate
neighborhood of the occurrence, that true of
the most horrid tragedies ever enacted in real
life, took place in Dallas county on the 29th
ult. Our readers will remember Thomas C.
McKean, of Bank robbing memory. Previ
ous to bis outbreaking depredations, McKeau
occupied n fair standing in the community,
being of a highly respectable family, and a
man of insinuating addres. He succeeded
in obtaining the affections of a young and
artless school giil, iu ' Marion, Perry county,
and in opposition to the wishes and advice of
her friend, ran off with and married her.
T his young and unsuspecting girl was the
daughter of Mr J. K. C. Poole, of Perry coun
ty. And amid all the hardships to which her
connections with such a man as McKean
subjected her, she remained firmly attached
to him, and could not be 'prevailed upon lo
leave him, until the commission of Ihe Colum
bus Bank robbery, from which time she has
never seen him. Being intelligent and re
markably beautiful, and her friends having de
termined to procure her a divorce from her
uiifoitunate marriage, she soon become an
object of considerable attraction, and many
have been the suitors for her baud. AoMiig
these was ihe unfortunate Bethel Holmes, a
gcutlemati highly respected and esteemed in
Dallas county, where he resided. On the
evening of Saturday, ihe 29th November, at
the house of Col. . William H. Richardson,
who had married the sister of Mrs McKeau
and where this unhappy lady was spending a
portion of her time, Holmes perpetrated the
horrid deed.
It seems, that Holmes and Mrs McKean
were left alone in the paring and it is presum
ed that receiving a final rejection of his suit,
be was seized with an unaccountable phreiizy
and shot Mrs McKeau with a pistol, the ball
entering her heart; and then immediately shot
himself.
Col. Richardson had been out of ihe room
but a short time when the report of the pistol
induced him to return. lie found the unfor
tunate lady already dead in her chair, and
Holmes staggering on the floor he also died
soon after. Neither having spoken after the
fatal deed, the particular matters thai led lo
the denouement were not known. These
are all the facts we have been enabled to gath
er concerning the transaction which has
shocked au entiie community, and filled a
large circle of fiiends and relations wilh
heart-rending anguish, for both Ihe unfortu
nates were greatly beloved. Jllabaina In de
pendant.
Railroad to Nashville. The bill for
chartering a railroad between Nashville and
Chatanooga had passed lo a second reading
iu the Tennessee Legislature. That hill has,
eie this, no doubt, assumed the form of an act.
We understand from several gentlemen, who
were delegates to the Convention at Memphis
that the enthusiasm iu favour of this enterprise
was very great throughout every part of 1 en
ncssee visited by them. Iu Nashville the
subscription would be filled without going be
yond its limits. The surplus capital the e
ready to lake this dircctiou is largo and avail
able. The facilities for building ihe road are
abundant. The price of labour, the cheapness
of provisions, Ihe command of necessary ma
terials along the intended line, render this
road among the easiest of construction, of any
now in progress or contemplation. So soon
as the charter is obtained, sections of 30 miles
more or less, will be farmed out to separate
extractors, and the whole will be iu sucn a
simultaneous course of completion that iu two
years at farthest it will be finished.
The change, in anticipation, merely, which
must attend the completion of this great artery
of communication between the WTesi mid At
lantic Sea board, unfwlds prospects of improve
ment to our city of which it is impossible to
exaggerate the value and importance. The
effect will be similar lo the opening of au en
tirely new channel of trade, bringing into
commercial and social connexion divisions
of the earth widely separated by geographical
obstructions. Charleston JSeics.
"And the
STONES SHAM.
IMMEDIATELY
cry out. l no rtorioiK (va.i iazeue
mentions as a novelty in music, tne success
ful attempt of a Mr Nelson to produce sounds
of exquisite melody from wood aud stone-;,
and to make his audience realize a pertect
harmony from these simple elements, not in
combination but separate. The effect, says
the Gaze'le. exceeds all ihal has been accom
plished by the far-famed bells or the? more com
mon musical glasses. In dwscribiug the no
vel apparatus to the reader, it says, "let him
imagine some six or eight square sticks of
wood, au inch thick,' wound roun.l with straw
laid parallel lo one another, on a table, each
pair of the sticks sunpotting a number of
whetstones, of different sizes in a perfectly
rough state, with the exception of the surface,
and Ihe instrument is complete. Mr N. then
lakes his stand at the table with a little mallet
iu each hand and proceeds to lap the stones
from which flow all the souuds of the ?aruut.
m. t t? . . " 1 It" . !
ill smooin, uisnnci auu meiouious loues. jne
stones were procured from the Skiddaw
mountains, in Cumberland, England, which
Sir Walter Scott has, bv 'he wizzard influence
of hi peu, placed within the pole of Fairydorn
as a fit abode for the - Geuius of Romance
Aud hence, perhaps, the magic effect of their
minute (articles when touched by the Spirit
of Music embodied in Mr JNelson."
Melancholy Death. Lieut. James L
Rankin who was thro wu from his horse iu
Savannah ou ihe 17th ult.. died of tbe effects
of the iuiurv on Friday nighl. Lieut. Ran-
kiu entered the army in 1S39, and had distin
guished himself during the Florida campaign.
He was receutly stationed at Si. Augustine
and the object of his visit to Savannah was,
to take his wife, fa vounff ladv of Savannah
whom he had married about a year since) lo
mat place. His remains were interred on
Sunday with military honors.
Edwin H. Ewing, Whig. was elected ou the
11th lost, to represent the Nashville District
in Congress, iu place of Mr. Peyton, riecens
ed. Ewing s majority over Geu. Trousdale,
Decu, was abaul 1200. -
1PM1B NCDTMEl (CAJR1L1IJJJ1 AM
THE OREGON MEMORIAL.
The American citizens in Oregon, peti
tioned Congress to take certain measures for
their benefit. They say that the English
citizens of Oregon are protected by British
laws, and they think the United States ought
lo "ive thetn the iame protection. They
say that to prevent, the evils that might arise
from conflicting interest, and the mixed ua
lure of the inhabitants, tbe British and Amer
ican subjects adopted a temporary provisional
government, that might bo equal to all the
exigences lhat might arise, uot provided for
by Ihe respective nations to which they belong.
And they say the utmost harmony and good
will has prevailed under their temporary gov
ernment, with a few individual exceptions.
They say that the conduct of ihe British sub
jects towards them has been friendly, liberal,
and philanthropic: but they fear lhat this pre
sent uninterrupted state of things cennot last
very long. That while the British subjects
are furnished through the Hudson Bay Com
pany, with the ammunition and arms fr pro
tection, obtained from thelii ilish fortifications,
the citizens of the United Slates are scattered
over a wide extent of territory, and have no
single pla-e of refuge. That Ihe Hudson
Bay Compauy having ships and all the ap
pliances of commerce, control the markets for
every artii le, and by their immense wealth,
prevent competition. They therefore pray
Congress lo establish a distinct terriorial gov
ernment ; they pray for adequate means of
protection from the numerous Indian tribes,
aud for the purchasing territory which they
are willing to sell ; aud for agents with au
thority lo regulate intercourse between whites
and Indians; that donatious of laud may be
made; thai navy yards and marine depots be
established ou Ihe Columbia river, aud Pud
get's sound, and a naval force adequate to
their protection iu the adjacent seas ; that a
monthly mail be established bet wee u the U.
States and Oregon ; that adequate military
protection be given to cmigrnuts to Oiegon.
McNL'LTY ACQUITTED. We learn
from the correspondent nf the Richmond En
quirer, dated ihe 24th Dec, that Mr McNulty,
former Clerk of the House of Representatives,
aud who was indicted for embezzling the
funds, has been acquitted. Tbe coriespou
dent says :
McNulty has been acquitted ! The coun
sel fiuined their arguments early this morn
ing, aud after deliberating au hour or two, the
jury brought in a verdict of not guilty."
He still temains in prison, awaiting trial on
the other indictment hanging over him. He
has cetiaiuly bad a fair trial. 'The prosecut
ing attorney, Mr tmdall, is one of the first
in the Union, nudthejurv were men of in
telligence and character. Various and con
flicting are the opinions of this decision,
which, when examined and weighed, may be
resolved by saying that shrewd aud persever
ing counsel pushed bun through the meshes of
the law."
Later advices say that he has been released
entirely oil a nolle prosequi.
The Power of England. The com
mercial world is oeriodicallv disturbed lo the
great injury of all classes of persons, by fears
of a roption with Great Britain, growing out
f her continued encroachments on this con
inent. and claims for territory not her own.
In January. 1S39. a comolete revulsion was
produced in financial affairs by her claims to
one half the State of Maine. Aud although
she obtained what she claimed, yet the effect
was to ruin the American credit abroad, and
lay the train for lhat course of events which
ultimately resulted in me dishonor ol several
Stales of the Union States which were oti
"aired in the construction of nublie works.
r r - f
and for the prosecution of which they owed
their bonds abroad. The mere fear of a war
withered their credit and left them. wi:h un
finished works, heavily in debt. That ques
tion was settled final y by a division of the
territory. Scarcely, however, have six years
elapsed, aud our affairs but barely recovered
from ihe effects of that squabble, when the
same scenes are repeated on the North West
ern Territory. If the United States went
across the ocean, pushed claims to territory in
liritish India, or located in her neighborhood
in the Mediterranean, it might be alleged that
some of these difficulties arose from our am
bit iou; but in both of these cases, have our
own citizens been disturbed on their own
soil, by agents of England, thousands of
miles from the Imperial Island. The prestige
of her power id that on which England de
pends to carry out her claims : uot that she
has any actual intention of war, but in the
hope of obtaining that which she demands
from our desire for peace.
The amount of the exports of Great Britain
in 1S44 was .50,615,265. of which one hah'
or j25,S3 1 ,586 wad cotton goods, Tor the
raw material of which she is dependent upon
ihe United Slates. Of the remainder, 13,
952,964 was lined, silk or woollen goods.
These four articles, which she sends to all
parts of the woild, comprise four fifths of her
trade. To deprive her of cotton is lo ruiu one
half, and the privateers of all nations preyin
upon her commerce under letters of marque
will ruin the oihcr. In the mean while the
vessel of France, Germany, Deumaik,
Sweden, Russia and Spain will" carry our cot
ton to the manufactories of Europe, into whose
hands would be thrown the trade lost by Eng
land. Such a stale ol things would in E.
land iuvolve a doubling of Ihe internal taxes
and an immense increase in her debt, while
one ihird of her population, scautily supplied
with provisions, would be thrown out of ernplov
by the loss of the external trade. ThU CouhJ
be endured but for a short time. The mere
prolongation of a war would produce a crisis
iu England; and i- it lo be supped that
such tearlul calamities will be invoked merely
to attempt to support au unjust claim lo an
uninhabited territory ? Such a mad attempt
will only be made in the conviction that ihe
United Stales as heretofore will recede from
Iheir just tights, a couliugency which the tem
per of the uatiou renders impossible. The
assurance of that on the pail of England will
procure au amicable settlement True Sun.
From tbe Lexington (Mo.) Telegraph, Dec. 9.
MURDER WILL OUT.
That - ' truth is stranger than fiction ' has
often been said, aud the circumstances that
we are about to relate, do not at all lessen the
truth of the quotation. ' ? ' Ai
Last week we noticed lhat a special term
of tbe Circuit Court was in session, for the
trial of John C. Letter, charged with iho mur
der of King B.Scott.
Scott was a young man who was brought
up in Ibis county, wild and reckless iu bis
habits, aud careless about the good opinion
of the society in which he lived. His mother
possessed considerable properly, aud Scott
and Lester, who had married Scott's sister,
weie her ouly heirs. Mrs Scott was, one
morning after a corn-shucking at the house
of Lester, found iu her. own house dead.
When discovered, she was lying in the fire
place, nearly all consumed, as though she had
falleu iu the fire, and thus died. Suspicious
were aroused at the time that there had beeu
foul play, and lhat old Mrs Scott bad been
murdered ; however, as there was such au ap
pearance of accident, no clue could then be
had to the murderers, if she was murdered.
In the month of October, 1S43, Scotr, then
about IS years old, whs apprehended on a
charge of larceny, on the information of Les
ter, bis brother-in-law. He managed to make
his escape from custody and disappeared.
His sudden disappearance was freely coin
mented upon by the neighborhood, and there
were those who did not hesitate to say he had
been murdered. Subsequently, Lester was
indicted for having forged some instrument
of writing, aud a man named Johu Horton
was indicted for perjury, having, as a subset ib
ing witness, kWorn lo the genuineness of the
instrument. By the delays and uncertainty
of the hw, Horton was first tried for the crime
with which he was charyed. Lester so man
aging the matter as to put off his trial until the
fate of Horton was determined ; nnd at the
March term, 1844, of the Lafayette Circuit
Court, Horton was found guilty of perjury, aud
sentenced lo the Penitentiary lor two years.
Lester was subsequently tiied for the forgery
and acquitted. Proper representations hav
ing been made lo Gov. Edwards, he par
doned Horton in April last.
Upon the return of Horton to this county,
immediately aftc be received bis pardon, he
declared that King B. Scott had been murder
ed, and made oath before Judge By land that
Lester was his murderer. A warrant was is
sued for Lester's arres', and he was appre
hended at hi farm on the next day. Ou
bringing Ihe prisoner lo town he attempted lo
escape, but was badly wounded and re-captured
by the guard.
The examination of Lester took place be
fore Judge II land the next dav, aud Horton
swore positively that he saw Lester murder
Scott. As well as we recollect, Horlon's nar
rative of ihe horrid affair was about as follow.-:
He said he had been to a neighbor's house,
and was returning home when be saw some
deer iu the prairie, which he followed getting
near n small thicket or grove iu ihe prairie,
he saw Lester and Scott coming down the
prairie. He determined to secrete himself in
the bushes lo let them pass, but iu stead of
passing him, they turned down a hollow iu the
p'uirie near him, and he determined to watch
them to see what fjey were about. Il by this
time was growing dark, and the two commenc
ed making a fire. After they had lighted a
fire, a bottle was produced, from which they
drank alienate!)', nnd when Scott turned to set
the bottle down, Lester struck him on the head
wilh a club, and continued to inflict blows
upon him until he was dead he then buried
him iu a sort of gulley, and covered him with
dirt aud loose stones.
A day or two after, Hoi Iou said he had
been hunting dm ks, ami ou his return home
he saw some iu keys, which he followed lo ihe
hills he came suddenly on the top of a
sleep hill, and iu the hollow he saw Lester
digging a hole he crept softly away, aud on
returning by tho spot where Scott had been
buried, be saw lhat hogs had partly rooted
him from his grave, and had eaten a part of
the body - he then supposed that Lester's ob-
je.ct iu digging the hole, was to make a more
c . . .
secure grave tor ins victim ; ne accordingly
watched Lester's movements that evening,
and saw him remove Scott and re-bury him.
A party was sent to the place where Horton
said Scott was buried, accompanied by H.
lo show ihe spot, aud the body was taken up
and recognized to be the body of Scott, from
the clothing. He was bii-ied in a place thai
uo human being would ever suppose to be se
lected for a grave, and even those who were
sent for this evidence to corroborate Horlon's
testimony, believed tho story to be a fiction
until the body wad found. It was m a ravine
where a constant stream of water was flowing
over the grave.
Upon this testimony, Lester was commit
ted for trial.
Lester applied for a change of venue, and
his trial was removed to Jackson couuty. The
whole of ihe week before last and part of the
last week were devoted to the trial. Circum
stances elicited testimony other lhau Ihal of
the evidence of Hoitou, . which convinced the
minds of the jury, and after a short absence,
they returned wilh a verdict of guilty.
The judge, upon pronouncing the awful
sentence of the law, asked the prisoner if he
had any thing to say why sentence of death
should not be pronounced against him. Les
ter arose and for an hour addressed the com l
alleging his innocence, and explaining away
the circumstances which seemed most dark
against him, in a inauner which we are told
brought tears freely to the eyes of that large
audience which had assembled to hear his aw
ful doom.
The sentence of the law was then pronoun
ced. The counsel for ihe prisoner prayed an
arrest of judgement, and moved foi a new
trial, which the Judge overruled. ' An appeal
has been taken to tbe Supreme Court. '
We said other testimony had been elicited
besides that of Horton, and this testimony
tending so strongly to criminate Horton, he
has been arrested, charged with being an ac
complice. His examination commenced yes
terday. It is now confidently believed that
stranger things will yet be divulged, and that
il will perhaps be discovered that Mrs Scott
was murdered, aud by whom.
Extraordinary case of burying ae.-The
New York papers have previously mentioned
the case of John W Ramsey, late a clerk with
M W Warner, of 186 Bowery, who was sup
posed to have died in a lit of epilepsy, but
who showed signs of life after having been
placed. in a coffin, aud removed from ihe city
to the residence of his parents up the North
Bend. The Tribune gives the following ac
count of the case, together with some inter
esting facts communicated to Mr Warner by
the parents of the young man: He was taken
sick about 6 o'clock in the evening of Satur
day, and a dose of peppermint and brandy
was given him, which iu similar attacks bad
proven beneficial. He soon fell into an ap
parent sleep, iu which state he remained until
3 o'clock of the morning, when Mr Warner
retired to bed. At 7 o'clock the young man
was found apparently dead, and so pronounced
by Dr. McClelland, who was called to him.
Ou Mouday after an iuqoest had been held,
Mr Warner left ibe city, with the body, for
Greenville, near Newburgh, in Ihis Slate, ihe
residence of his clerk's parents. On-Sun-day,
ihe fare of ihe supposed deceased was
very much swollen; and his limbs and joints
stiffened ; but on taking ihe body from the
coffin on Tuesday, the swelling bad disap
peared, the face had assumed a more natural
appearance, and the limbs and joiuts were n
supple as in life. Mr Warner then learned
from the parents, lhat when ouly 9 years of
age, John was supposed to have died from a
similar epileptic attack, but strange to relate,
while being laid in his cnfnn, preparatory to
burial, simis of life were discovered, and he
was miraculously resuscitated. A few years
after, an aged relative of his wa pronounced
by the phy.-icians to have died in a like fit,
after being kept for ten days, was restored to
consciousness, and is now enjoying excellent
health. The parents fondly entertain the
hope that their child may anin experience a
similar resuscitation ; at all events, they arc
not to bury him at present.
Gen'l Houston. It seems (says the
Galveston News) lhat Gen. Houston acknow
ledges that he did write lo the British Charge
d' Affaires in this country Inat Ihe Mier ex
pedition was unauthorized by the Government,
nnd that the British Charge did, in conse
quence of that letter, communicate that fact
to the Government of Mexico, -lhu placing
our countrymen in Ihe position of outlaws."
The Civilian states lhat Gen. Houston
has written a long letter, which will shortly ap
pear, explanatory of his whole course in rela
tion to ihe .Mier prisoners.
Vegetable Species.
According to Humboldt, there nrn 35,50(1
vegetable, species, viz : 6,500 in .Asia, 7,000
in Europe, 3,000 in Africa, 5,000 in Ocean
ica, aud 17,000 jn America.
SHAD. The Charleston Courier of the
25th ult. say, Ihe find shad of the season .
hrotigh' to the Savannah market on Saturday
l:if, aud lhat iat year the first one was brought
there on the fir I day of January.
Pkinting Office Jokks. It iscustomn y
in some printing offices, when a particularly
green youth commence learning his trade, to
make him ihe object of vnr iou-jokes He is
oiteti .sent to a iieighboi inj office lor n article
which i of course im.iiua y, and wholly
original in the mind of those who perpetrate
the joke. Once upou a lime, a boy was eul
to K 3 office for a quart of editorial.
He vas scut back w ith the picture of a j ick
ass. This was rather severe upon the joker
but they immediately told the boy to go to
K , and tell him "it was the editorial
which they wauled, and not the editor.''
Professor Moisc exhibited his teL-ompli
before the French Academy and ;he Chamfer
of De-put ies, in Ihe presence of the King and
a great number of scieutilic men. AH seem
ed favorably impressed with its advantages,
lull il was thought the Commission appointed
by the government of which HI. .Vagn was
chairman, would recommend a partial adop
lion of ihe several systems of Morse, Whea
tou and Baiu.
Sun-TnEASuny m AIaRYXAND. The A
nap"ij Herald ivts us Ihe information, . that
the suit-treasury proposed io be establibof
lor the United S'ates, "is nothing morw after
all than we have had in the State of Maryland
for more than half a century, and which is
now under ihe supervision of ihal excellent
officer Dennis Cl.mde, E-q."
Maryland is a whig; State, aud yet the whig
oppose the sub-treasury.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 21..
Sickness and Suffering in the army. By
ihe schooner Rosella, Cap!. Shipman, arrived
yesterday from Corpus Chrisii, we have dates
from lhat place up to the 1 2th iust. '
The army stationed there was suffering
much from the extreme cold weather and the
want of good quarters, aud many of ibe troop
were reported sick.
One comfort. -A lady beiug about to
marry a man. who was small iu stature, whs
told that he was a very bad fellow. Well,"
said she, " if be is bad, there is one comfort
there is very little of bun."
Advice to Merchants and Girls.
Never refuse a good offer for a baiter market.
Tbe first is certainly tbe latter only hope.
The Georgia Legislature has refused lo
pass a bill l abolish capital punishment.
That was right. - -
Jude Geo. W. Woodward, of Penusylva
uia, has been made a Judge of the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Hogs are selling at Sbelbyvillle, Kentucky,
at $3 per hundred, gross, when last year $2
was tbe highest price given.
3- we thank our Senator, Mr Haywood,
moat heartily, fur the copy of Cant. Fremont'
Report.
i upuu learning ol th
melancho'y murder by ihe mi-renter at Dl
hi, of the late under Sheriff Steele, Hon. John
Hunter, of Wftrtrhester, N. Y., with a corn
ntendable liberality, directed his agent to se
lect a farm of 100 acres, and to present the
same to the afflicted widow. Aud also, (she
then being eneiente) in tbe event of aa heir
beiug born, that a uot her farm of 100 acres be
selected iu like manner, to be presented to the
child. M s Steele wa on Mouday delic.cd
of a fine boy, who is now doing well.
At Charleston, ou the 22d ult., turkies were
selling at $3 a pair, and the price of voh1
was6 50 per cord. On Christmas day, fino
turkies were sold in our town at from SO els.
to $1 per pair, and the best of fire wood could
be purchased at $2 pe cord. - Cherme Gax.
TONS Wagon Boxes and Hollow Waio
a superior article, for sale one-third less
than former prices, by
J. D. WILLIAMS
35U-JI
January J, l!-4u
CARTHAGE
MALE AND FEMALE INSTITUTE.
THE Spring S esinn in this Institution com
mence on Mond.-iy the Stli ol' Jitluiary, I34G, ni.d
end on Friday ihe 5th June.
A larre and coinmod joiis Academy Bni'din
erected during the prest-nt yr tor the atctuiuiod?
lion of tlie tudt-nta of the Mat D pariment, wi'l
be completed and ready l"..r u.e ly commence
innit of t le Session.
Il is alo codtcMii-lrftrd, pooii aa practiraMr,
lo ercel o iefor t!e F.-malr ! purtro:nt. Ur td tin
Trusters can carry into t IT t their circin ImIciI
pl.ni of lini'diu. , ill iSi-hoo! will bera'ri d .n at
Ihe rtiilence ol tlt I Vn ipal. ' 1 e i ri w fining
p, lor ti e ; cmiiMtodNii' 11 ol I fir Yoon; Latlj ?,
ctmeiiiiit and coni!orrab!r School IIimhii, altu In l
loins dwelling. It a No ia xp t d r b rarly
l-r at or near llie coiiimenct in nt l ihe S jt.n.
The r. t-s of Tiniion vary in the Me Dcjartv
mint lr..m gG lo 311, ' he K. mate De partment
lioeii $6 t $15 per rsion, -.yable in sxKtiicc.
Vli.ac on the I'iatio, rxUnf I u. Wax FUma
and Frit t, exira. $IU. Uos.rri, on lulling xliin,
lodging, lighls, &c, Irmii 5 to $6 per nmnih.
fc.vry exritioii will be iiia.e m tl.r pari wf the
Trusli es and Teacher lo mak- the School w orthy
l the coiifi lence and patronage ol the public.
C- Alc.N GILL, Principal.
January 3, 1846.
0(0 KGS While Lead, in Oil for sale
by JNO. D. WILLIAMS.
Janu..y3, 18 16. . 3i:.t'
State ofXorlli Carolina-- Robcsou cvmitj.
Superior Court oj Law Fall TertH, 1845.
Eitvaol K ars-ey vs. Mjlty Krarsey.
IV'tit ion f'..r Divorce.
IT appearing lo the siti-fuc ion of the Court, tin. t
ih: s ibpoMia and alias suhpo-iiit in this case, lai;
!:i ii r-turned ' nut foiinl," ami iot Liuiuiixii hav
ing been made at the dloor ol I e Comt Hoove, lo
iijiprar aivl answer cmitind d in the. stiid inl
purua, ami tli- s;i:d Mill KearKey having failed lo
ppear, it u Ot'h rt-d, th-ti niiM c-iiinn he made for
tlirve months in tin- F;ieil. vi'.le (Jhstivt r nnd
ISorth L410 liimn, tor the defriohmt t tiiiear at
ihe next trroi of this Court, to h held for tho i .m
ty of ltolemo ul the Court lloiie it Lumln rion,
on ti- fonrdi Monday in Mnnh mtt, to inauir
the etilioii, o?hrvie the ieMnou w.li be takt n
pr. oiiVss aod Im-mmI xfart.
Willie. A. McMillan, Ci'-rk of oor .mi l Court l
QtTi.-e, rh- first M.n lav aft. r Ihe fourth Monday
in Si-picniber, AD Irt4 , and the 7 th jiear of
Arncrtcariyl independence.
A. MA4ILLAN.
Jan. 3. IStH. 3."9-3m. yt ailv 3 tf
TJ DOZEN fine Old White lrt Wiue,
for Medicinal purpor., for ?nle by
JNO. D.
WILLIAMS.
January 3. IS 15.
3 Ml-if
CALENDAR FOIt 1840.
Sf1 2 H j m
' a 2 1 EL' .
- 4; - sr
i.
t , t
Jiiuuiiry - 12 3
4 5 G 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 10 17
IS 19 20 21 22 23 21
25 26 27 2S 2J 30 31
February - 2345C7
B 9 10 11 J2 13 14
' 15 16 17 lb 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
March 1234.5 67
5 9 II) 11 13 13 U
. 15 16 17 IS 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
April - - - - 12 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 IS
19 20 21 23 23 24 25
26 27 2S 29 30
May - 12
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 IS 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
, 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30
31
June - . - . .1 2 3 4 5 6
7 S .9 10 11 U 13
- 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
25 29 30
July ----- 1234
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 IS
19 20 21 22 23 21 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
Au-ut - - - - i
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 IS 19 20 21 22
J3 24 25 26 27 28 29
. 30.31 .
September - - - 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9,10 U 12
. ' 13 44 15 16 17 IS 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 2S 29 30
Octobor - - - - 12 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
, 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November - - - 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
' 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
39 30
Docember : . 1 2 i 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31