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TELE NORTH CAMOOMM FROM CALIFORNIA Interesting Letter from San Francisco. The following letter, of a recent date from San Francisco, was received by one of our most esteemed fellow-citizens from his i brother, formerly American consul at the Sandwich Islands, but now of San Francis co, and attached to one of the very first commercial houses of that place. These statements can be relied upon to the fullest extent, as the probity and sagacity of the writer are unquestionable. San Frakcisco, Jan 20, 1849. Dear Brother I suppose that ere this reaches you the excitement in the United States about California will run as high as it now does throughout the Pacific. My partner arrived hereon the 10th and I on the 2lst of November : and our sales already go above a half million of dollars. The great excitement which prevails in Chili and Peru relative to this gold coun try is fast depopulating those countries ot their European population. Every vessel that arrives brings many passengers and reports of every body else winding up their affairs to join in the rush. The quantity of goods that is pouring into the country is reducing the price materially ; still every thing is, compared with the original cost, very high. 1 paid a bill to-day for our table j it runs thus ; butter, St ; sausages gl per pound ; pork; 25 cents ; eggs, g2 a dozen ; milk, SI per bottle ; a box of fine salt, $2 ; sperm candles, g2 a pound ; raisins, SI a pound ; common lamp oil, $2 a gallon ; bottle of mustard, (halt a pound,; 82, &c. &c. For the little unfurnished one story building in which we stay dining and sleeping in the same room we pay glOO per month. Our cook receives g 1 00 per month. My washwoman has condescend ed to do my washing for 86 per dozen. The carpenters employed on our ware houses threaten to leave unless we increase their wages above g8 per day. 1 paid a cartman this evening S72 tor two days' . You can judge by these quotations the quantity of money that a laboring man can obtain by a little work. In regard to the gold, every day only adds to the surprise created by previous reports of the quanity to be had. Yester day morning an Indian showed me speci men of ore intermixed with a stone, weigh ing five pounds. He sold it for five hun dred dollars! To-day some Oregon far mers, who came down to obtain gold, and remained a month at the mine, offered to sell me 150 pounds of gold, which they j had collected. Mr Brannon, who has the establishments for storing and selling goods at the mines, told me to-day that seven men took from the earth, within one hun dred yards of his upper store, thirty-three thousand dollars' worth of gold in four days; and the gold was weighed by a man in his employment. Land throughout California has gone up to enormous prices. The present week Mr Cross purchased of Capt Paty a build ing lot, say one hundred feet square, on which there was an unfinished buildings and paid gl 5,000 for it. Two years since Capt Paty gave a barrel of rum for it, or rather took it for a debt due for a barrel of rum. There is no lot of one hun dred and fifty feet square in San Francis co that can be bought for less than three to ten thousand dollars. Towns are be ing laid out in many ports or points on the Bay, and lots are selling at from fifty to two hundred dollars. The climate, to persons who have resid ed in the tropics, is not agreeable, because it occasionally rains, and is at times quite cold ; but it is infinitely superior to New England. It has hail an astonishing effect on me, and from a sallow looking skeleton (but not ill) I am getting fat, and am runn ing out of my clothes fast. I suppose that in a week or more I shall have to throw them all aside. One thing remarkable in this climate, is, that every body, at all times, has a great appetite Lumber is very scarce and goes off im mediately at gl50 per thousand, if season ed ; and S1000 if green. Fifty shiploads could be sold immediately. I think the greatest part of the lumber used here will be sent from Boston, for labor is too high, and it is too small business to attend to saw mills in this country. Of all tilings that are sent out from home none will so sure of sale as small frame houses. At the present, in San Francisco, many are living in tents, although occasionally there is a flight of snow and a plenty of ram. In order to afford the means to in troduce the greatest quantity of lumber, Commodore Jones, now here, has licensed a limited number of foreign vessels to en gage in a coastwise trade to the Columbia River. Since my arrival here I have heard from my family at the Sandwich Islands as of ten as once in ten days ; and I hope to con tinue to, while I am here. V. Y. Com. Advertiser. THE REVENUE ACT. From the Raleigh Register. Mr Editor: In reviewing the many new and important measures of the late Leg islature, perhaps no single one always excepting the North Carolina Rail Road; is likely to exert a more deep, extensive and permanent influence on the prosperity of ..ins oidie, man me Kevenue Act. No sub ject illustrates more strikingly the char acteristic supineness of our people in all matters of state policy, than the history of taxation amongst us. In the face of all reason, and against the clearest dictates of common sense and equal rights, up to about 1816, land was taxed in North Car olina by the hundred acres, instead of the hundred dollars value! Our Senate is an admirably constituted body. The design of its peculiar constitution was to protect the great leading property interests of the country. These interests are land and negroes. It is founded on real estate and ItnlraiU J OWOer9 f real eStale ft Tnn f )u 8larve hoWert of the country ; it should, therefore, have always been a vie-ilant guardian the constitutional pro tector of these two leading interests against high or exclusive taxation. And yet, up to this day, land and polls have paid near ly all the taxes of the State, while a hun dred interests far more able to pay, and equally proper subjects of taxation, have escaped altogether. Positively, sir, no legislators, no public men have ever been guilty ot such supreme, palpable tolly, as ours. No where can be found so blind, so inveterate an adherence to all the absurdi ties of the past, which we have treasured as precious relics, as we witness in North CarolinaWith the very best opportuni ties for studying taxation the histoiy of the old world and the successful experience of the new, both before uswe should have Ion- since changed, modified and improv ed our system. But we continue to cling to the beaten path of custom and habit, It is not at all a matter of surprise that our people have deserted this State, where taxes are said to be comparatively low, and gone to other States where they are really high, when we recollect how equally the latter are distributed, and, therefore, cheerfully borne. There is some complaint against taxing money'at interest. That is, par excellence, the virtue, the beauty, the glory of the Act. Why so? It is a notorious fact, that tor many years past, the Agricultural interests in North Carolina have been in a depres ed, drooping condition. It is clearly as certained that these interests do not rea lize over and above all necessary wear and tear, loss and expense, six per cent, nett profit. Consequently, men of means do make heavy investments in that way. They put their money at interest, which is the better business. Yet these same agricul turists the depressed farming interests pay all the taxes of the State? Pay them for what? If a man owns a small farm, he not only improves it, gives employment to labor, consumes and produce, and there by confers some benefit on the community but that land takes care of itself. It is a trouble and expense to no one, and its owner has little or no need of courts of justice, sheriffs, clerks, or other public officers. But the capitalist, the money lender, the note shaver, he is constantly uping the courts of justice, the ministers of the law, and all the machinery of gov ernment, to secure his debts and enforce his rights but, forsooth, must pay nothing not one cent, for all this. The farmer not only pays him six per cent , which is more than he realizes, but he must also pay his taxes besides. No wonder people leave the State ! But this tax will not drive capital from the State These moneyed men know their own interests too well for that. It may have the salutary effect of driving some portion of it intouseful, beneficial employ ment in improvement of the soil, mechanic arts, manufacturing, mining or some thing else. The tax is reasonable and just j and I call upon the whole State to unite in up holding and supporting the law, and car rying it into successful operation. I have heard it intimated that practically the deb tor might be made to pay the tax to his miserly creditor, or the collection of all debt might be forced. He can be made do no such thing. And if any old Shy lock should attempt such a game, let the public apply the usury laws to his sensi bilities. It would be the most palpable, bare-faced usury; and none such should es cape. I say Mr Editor, three cheers, loud and long, for the Revenue Act and the Legislature of 1848-'9 The subject of taxation is always a dangerous one to pub lic men, and any bold action on it indi cates a crisis in the-country. It is the question above all others, that moves the public mind. We are now passing through a revolution in North Carolina in regard to our whole Domestic Policy. We have at last abandoned our former "ma sterly inactivity." This triumph of the late Assembly is a glorious victory to the State. It was not gained without an effort, fierce and bitter contest, a desperate struggle. You know, Mr Editor, how we toiled, and yet how fruitless seemed all our labors during the early middle parts of the Ses sion. But, sir, we toiled on were trium phantly successful. For good or evil for weal or for woe the last days of "that patriotic Assembly were full of deep, momentous interests to the people of our beloved State, now and forever. Our banner is floating in the breeze. Its mot to is State Policy, State Reform and State Improvement. Onward is the watch-word Beneath this banner we will be found fighting to the last, whether in victory or defeat. A MEMBER. Later From Europe- From the Charleston Mercury. Extraordinary case of Malforma tion. We went yesterday in company with a medical friend to Johnson's Wagon Yard, King street, to see the most curious type of the human form, that he had ever heard of. The subject is a young man named Cor nelius Allman, twenty one years of age, a native of Rowan County, North Carolina, who was born with malformation of the hands, legs and teet, so extreme, as near ly to deprive those parts of his body of all resemblance to the human shape. We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of what indeed can only be imagined possi ble, by being seen. In a general way, we may say that he has on both hands together, but four fingers and one thumb; while his feet and legs are, from their malformation, entirely use less, even for the most restricted exercise of their ordinary functions. The unfortunate young man was decoy ed from his home by some unprincipled adventurers, under the assurance that he might secure a living, by allowing himself to be exhibited, but after a short time, they abandoned him, leaving' him helpless and pennyless, to the mercy of accident. He was picked up in the neighborhood of Camden, by a kind hearted wagoner, and brought to Charleston. From the Baltimore Sou. New York, April 6 5 p. m We have intelligence of the arrival of the royal mail steamer Niagara at Halifax, on Thursday night, with fourteen days later advices from Europe, having sailed from Liverpool on the 24th of March. I annex you a brief summary of news: American stocks had fully maintained the advarfce quoted by the steamers Canada. Cured provisions were steady. At Liverpool, beef had fallen from 3 to 5 shillings per tierce. Pork was selling at 55 a 57 shillings, chiefly to ship stores. Bacon was active at former prices, and lard had fallen sixpence per cwt. The news from the East Indies created great feeling among the English people. The demand for goods in the manufac turing districts had fallen off The de mand for iron had also receded. Money was abundant at London, and prices easy. The cholera was disappearing in England, but still rages in Ireland to a considerable extent- Trade was depressed in consequence of the unfavorable news from the continent, until three days before the steamer sailed, when more favorable news cause I an im provement. Cotton had fallen one-quarter penny, but rallied again on eighth, closing with a brisk demand. The following are the quotations : Fair Upland 4fd.and Mobile 4fd., fair Orleans 4d. Sales for the two weeks preceding the sailing of the steamer amount to 60,000 bales. FRANCE- Two of the murderers of General Breas had been guillotined, and the others par doned. The red republicans clamored loudly against the execution. An office had been opened at Havre to register the names of all who desired .to go to California. The Kinjr of Holland died on the 17th of March. The elections throughout Prussia give strong indications of a democratic ma jority. Prussian envoy will proceed to the United States shortly, for the purpose of purchasing ships and steamers, to be com manded by American officers till the na tives, shall be qualified for that purpose. It is stated, on good authority, that the Russian ambassador has demanded his passport from the French government. It is said, also, that the Emperor of Russia stated that he should acknowledge the French republic if General Cavaignac was elected President. Since Bonaparte's election he has considerably changed his tone, as he considers this a siin of a still existing spirit of conquest. The French ambassador has left St. Petersburg in con sequence. Inconsequence of the state of Italy, troops had embarked at Toulon, and the army of the Alps is reconnoitring. Official notice has been issued of the renewal of the Schleswig Holstein armis tice, and efforts are making to prolong it, which are rumored to have been success ful, and it will continue three months longer. New York, April 7, 8 p. m. Ireland is presented as being in a most deplorable state. Pestilence and famine are making awful havoc among the inhabi tants, while the most frightful murders have been perpetrated in several places in the South and West of that unhappy island. The most cerdial understanding exists between France and England in regard to the affairs of Italy. As a matter of pre caution, and to guard against contingencies that might arise in that quarter, a number of troops that had embarked at Toulon for Algeria had been recalled. William, the third son of the late King of Holland, had ascended the throne. Official notice had been given of the ter mination of the armistice between Den mark and Duchy of Schleswig Holstein, but strong efforts were making to prolong it for another three months. The war between the Imperialists and the Hungarians is carried on with relen tless ferocity The Maygars have adopt ed the guerilla system of warfare, and are harassing the invaders, by intercepting their communications, and cutting off their supplies. Windischgratz was still remain ing at Barra, and his neglecting to advance shows the difficulties by which he is sur rounded, and that the war has only just commenced. End of the Protocol The Wash ington Union has the following, which is important, if true, and we see no reason why it should not be true : " We . feel no difficulty in stating, what we have little doubt is the truth, that the Secretary of State (Mr Clayton) has ad dressed a note to Senor Rosas, who has in vain brought up this protocol, that the ad ministration attached no sort of importance to it, and that they considered the treaty itself binding upon the two republics. Thus the administration is acting with a firmness, spirit, and consideration which are due to the opcasion. And so ends the chapter.' We understand a successful surgical op eration was performed on a nero woman in Raleigh, on the 7th, without pain or her even being conscious that any incision had been made at all, while under the influ ence of chloroform. A large fatty tumor of more than a pound in weight was cut from her right axilla by Dr. Haywood. The chloroform was administered by Dr. Scott. This is another of many dangerous opera tions performed successfully by the same gentlemen in this vicinity. Standard. From th "Notizie del Giorno," April 8, 1845. A MIRACULOUS CURE, IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. A wonderful recovery is stated to have occurred at Orleans last May, through the intercession of the venerable servant of God John Battista de la Salle, the founder of the congregation of ' Brethren of the Christian School." A young woman, Victoria Ferry, 29 years of age, of that city, whilst sewing, in the capacity of an attendant in the Insane Hos pital, was attacked by one of the crazy in mate fa female) in the hall of the institu tion, and so severely beaten that she would have been instantly killed had not two persons come to lnr aid and saved her from the raving maniac. Soon after being carried to her room and put to bed, she was seized wifh a flow of blood from her mouth and eyes, which was acco mpanied with rigors. Doctor Vallet, who was called to attend her, prescribed various remedies, which proved of no avail. The patient grew daily worse. The vomiting of blood continued con stantly from day to day, which was sup posed by her physician to come from her stomach and lungs. Her debility, was extreme, so that, being unable to sit up, she confined to her bed. Doctor Vallet, who had charge of her case for the first seven years, considered that she laboured under an organic disease of the heart- During the last eight of the twelve years of her disease her fever never left her the thirst being unqenchable. It was difficult to induce her to take anything, as the act of deglution was difficult and in increased the vomiting ; the head, throat, breast, arms, legs and thighs were greatly swollen. The left side was larger than the right. The attending physician having ceased his visits for years prior to the recovery, Dr. Champignon was called in. She was under his charge about three months, dur ing which period he gave them no hope. He directed cataplasms to the heart and loins; but as the disease had been of so many years standing he pronounced her incurable. The use of leeches he suspend ed and her vomiting then became more frequent. Hot baths were substituted, which proved useless. During the last few years the extreme rites of the church were administered. She had frequent attacks of syncope, and lay for three or four hours at a time in the arms of her mother, apparently dead. Growing w orse, and remedies proving useless, on the 18th May last she c in menced a new one, by imploring, through the intercession of the venerable father, John Battista de la Salle, the Almighty to restore her to health, and in which the brethren of that school joined. Meanwhile the disease continued ; she passed the day in great and universal bodi ly pain, and at night was unable to sleep. Suddenly the venerable father seemed present, saying, "Thou art healed.'" Every bad feeling ceased, and the next morning she arose from her bed and eat with a good and healthy appetite. She continued thus for the followin": davs, when, on the 26th, the day of Pentecost, her mother having bought her new rlothes, as the old ones had been given to the poor, thinking she would have no further occa sion for them, she went without any assis tance to mass, and returned alone, feeling no inconvenience therefrom. Many persons who were in the church were persuaded of the'extraordinary cure, surrounded and followed her; and others of the crowd came to learn the particulars. All praised God, and, weeping with joy, exclaimed, " A miracle " The physician visited her and perceived no remains of the same or of any other dis ease, and which, according to the princi- Lkgislativk Divorces. In the Frank fort fKy. Commonwealth, of the 27th ult. we find a full and accurate report of one of the most important decisions ever made by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. It declares divorces granted by the act of the Legislature to be unconstitutional and void, 'so -far as the rights of property are concerned; and that a wife so divorced, without her consent, is, upon the death of the husband, entitled to a dower in his lands and slaves, and to a distributable portion of his personal estate, as fully as if no such act ot divorce had been passed. The Louisville Courier says: 'As to the effect of such a divorce upon the relations of the parties, aside from the rights of property, nothing is decided. That question did not arise in the case, and the opinion does, by no means, go the length (as some have supposed,) of declar ing subsequent marriages of persons so divorced to be illegal and void. . Fatal Effects.- A woman, who was suckling her child, gave it the breast, at a time when she was in a state of violent ex citement. At first the child rejected the breast, but was subsequently compelled by hunger to take it. Soon afterwards, the child was seized with viojent vomiting, and the whole of the milk was rejected. After some hours had elapsed, the child took the other breast, convulsions super vened, and in a very short time, although medical assistance was at hand, and every attempt was made to save it, it died. Lond. Med. Gaz., June, 1845. We are gratified to learn that Lieut. Henry B. Watson, a native of this State, has been promoted to be Captain by bre vet in the Navy, for gallant conduct. The Portsmouth Chronicle of the 13th Feb'y says : "Among the recent appointments and promotions by the President, with the approval of the President, we are pleased to see that of First Lieut. Henry B. Wat son, of the Marine Corps, to be Captain by brevet, from the 20th Nov. , 1847, for gal lant and meritorious conduct in the battles of the 8th and 9th January, 1847, on the banks of the Rio San Gabriel, on the plains of Mesa, in California, and for the defence of Guavamas from the 20th October to 20th November- 1847."- Ruleih Standard. pies of medicinejand the use of a thousand experiments, must be considered incurable. Since then she has continued to enjoy, and does still enjoy, excellent health, and has not suffered either from a return of that or from any other malady. All who have had any knowledge of this consider it a miraculous cure, and to this there is not one dissenting voice. New Discovery for the Extinguish ment of Fire- A London correspond ent of the Atlas states at a recent ..meet ing of the Royal Institution, an important paper was read in relation to a discovery, by means of which carbonic acid gas "is applied to the extinguishment of fires with great success. The following is the sub stance of the paper. "In large fires, flame is the great agent of destruction; it occasions a violent draught, intense heat, and rapidly gener ates suffocating and noxious gases. For its existence a constant supply of "pure air is necessary, as well as a constant high temperature. To prevent the latter, water is sufficient, but not to prevent the other condition. The 'fire-annihilator' subdues flame by preventing effectually the supply! cia. i a . . r oi us viiai element, pure air, and supplying instead one destructive to its existence carbonic gas and steam thus rendering the continuance of flame impossible. These are generated by the apparatus, which is perfectly portable; for one ample for the private house weighs only about 25 pounds. It is so contrived that'by simply touching a spring this active agency can be aroused in. three seconds of time. For the protection of larger buildings, such as churches, factories, &c, a larger apparatus in proportion will be required, in a con venient position. The potency of this invention was exhibited in several different ways in the lecture m room. Models of houses, ships, &c., were set on fire, and when fully ignited the flame was extin guished as soon as the annihilator was brought to bear upon it. The great advantages of this invention are the instantaneous effect produced, long before a fire engine could have been got in preparation or brought to bear upon me uic, amiuie complete freedom from any furniture inseparable from the employ ment of water.' J EPILEPSY. We learn from the New Brunswick, N. J. Times, that novel means have recently been resorted to, in order to render surgery subservient to the cure of that terrible and distressing malady, Epilepsy, which can not but prove interesting to the public as well as to the medical profession. The new mode of treatment consists in obliterating the calibre of one or both com mon carotid arteries by means of ligature. These trunks transmit the blood' which supplies the head ami cerebral membranes. and by arresting so large a current from the brain it is expected that the morbid in fluence will be starved or altered. Should this remedy prove as successful in ameliorating certain forms of this com plaint, as thp results already promise, it may unveil the obscurity which at, present involves the nature of epilepsy. Two cases, we understand, have been operated on in New York, one by Dr. Parker and Dr. Mott. The result in both cases has been very satisfactory so far. Dr. Morrough of New Brunswick, in the presence of Doctors Skilman, Gayler. Woodhull, and Chevalier, lately perform ed an operation, an account of which has been furnished us. - The patient was a young man of consi derable intelligence and firmness of mind. His sufferings as-he described them, had been indeed deplorable. For years he has been subject to excruciating distress in the head, attended with throbbing of the temporal arteries. He exhausted in vain, every conceivable system of treat ment ; his memory was failing, and hope was yiefdingto the dreary and melancholv prospect of complete fatuity. The hazard of the operation was explained to him in rather exaggerated colors, but he was re solved, and submitted to its performance without showing the slightest manifesta tion of pain or excitement. The artery was tied at the upper margin of the omobv oid muscle. On the fourteenth day the ligature came away, when the patient left New Brunswick for his residence at Six Mile Run, with only a slight trace of the wound remaining, and feeling more free from distress than he has been for many years. It is now more than a month since the ligature came away, during which time we are informed he has not experienc ed any return of his complaint. PLANK ROAD. A public meeting was held at this place on Tuesday last, at which liberal subscrip tions were made to the Plank Road. Hav ing scolded our farmers pretty severely tw o weeks ago for their inactivity, we now ask leave to take it all back, and feel very much disposed to give them praise instead of censure. The sum of fifteen thousand dollars was required at our hands, and we are pleased to be able to state that that sum was promptly guarantied. Our farmers, who did not at first consider this enter prise judicious, have become fully aroused to the importance ofthe subject. A route through Moore, Randolph and Davidson, will no doubt be selected, being deemed the best for construction as well as most useful to the greatest number Jlshboro Herald. CCTHE FIRST EFFECT of a billious cli mate upon the human system is to produce tor por and inactivity ofthe Liver, thereby prevent ing the natural and free discharge ofbile. All know the lurking nature ofthe poison that pro duces Fever, and Ague, and its kindred diseases. A sallow complexion, capricious appetite, and occasional paiu in the side, are often the only symptoms to warn of impending- danger. The operation of Dr. Osgood's India Cholagogue is to counteract this miasmal influence, by producing activity of the biliary organs, and a healthy, natural discharge ofbile from the system. For sale in Fayetteville by S. J. HINSDALE. , From the Raleijrh rIT55 OnrroiilDMl....,! Kl 6 "lfr- counts of experiments lately had atc" North, going to prove the possibilitVhe constructing an aerial conveyance r, ' of led by Steam. However incredulL N" have been and maybe, the confidence which such a probability even is rea I by many, almost disarms skeptic" Fifty years since, the idea of steam nav tion would have been considered ecu'??" as chimerical, and that of telegraphic c ' tnunication been hooted at as worse t?' visionary. na!! We have seen within the past day two a diagram of the conveyance, and re 1 the proposals of its proprietor?, wl 4(1 they offer to take passengers for Caif0rn-a at 850 each through in five daysU.'i!a' Steamer is to be 500 feet lorn by 5Q .e diameter, and ready for its first cru;!" about the 15th of April. The engine f ten horse power driving the propellers the rate of 200 revolutions a minute 1 hence the speed is estimated at betwe fifty and a hundred miles per hour I most takes one's breath away to think If this experiment succeeds, what may. not expect next? The reverie of 0!LI may be realized who knows. Here if i.. Imagination took a wide range .an" presently I was in a dream. A'nd me thought in my dream that I was in UiP " cond story parlor ofthe Atlantic. andpacj fic Hotel, and United States' Half-vav House, on the top of the Rocky Mountains After a sumptuous repast, and bcautifuj view of the country, east and west, which I may hereafter describe, I took up the vi. lage newspaper. It was entitled the New Babylon Observer and Register of t,e World. The copy I held in my hand bore the date of May 17th, 19J0. It was sen; round the place by a rail-car, and aj thrown in the dwellings by machinery, conducted by steam. The first paragraph that struck my eye was this, amply em blazoned, suddenly to catch the general eye : Reported for the New-Babylon OWrver ' TERRIFIC CIRCUMS l'ANCE! It becomes our imperative and extra ordinary duty, to promulgate the facts of a disaster which reached us to-day, by the mail from Thebes, via the perpendicular railroad. As a party were ascendin;, " with the locomotive playing a lively tune, assisted on the piano-forte by another lo comotive, that had been hired by Sinnr Goitini, preparatory to his first concert i:i New-Babylon, soaie religious persons of the United States' Established Mormon Church,' insisted that the tune, being irreverent, should be changed. This offen sive tune was no less than the well known and popular song (supposed to have beon written in hngland, previous to the sub jugation of that place by the Russians,; entitled 'Proceed it, ye Crippled Ones. Babylon's Nigh.' This complimentary course on the part of the locomotive, ami the gentlemanly engineer with whom it associates, was hissed by the Mormons, until they were overcome by the encores ofthe majority. The locomotive as uf course embarrassed, but we undetsA&tHl, continued to play. One ofthe Moruvms, enraged beyond measure at this circum stance, rushed forward through the door ways of the train, and wont only turned the stop cock of 'What's become of good Old Daniel ? one of the slowest .tunes of the day. The consequence was, that the train proceeded with the greatest discord, because the latter tune was for the back track, in descending the mountain. The result was, the cars were thrown off the rails, down a precipice of nearly three hundred-feet ; but owing to the exertions of Mr Inclination Plain, first engineer, they were got back by his Upward Influ ence screw, which has thus far answered admirably, stopping cars in mid air, if they run off a precipice, and returning them safely, by means of the patent steam wind bags, which extend beneath the trains, and destroy their gravity. GKOR- AN OTHER IMPORTANT LETTER FROM OIA READ IT. "We are daily receiving tentiinony like the followin; from the North. South. East and Weft :- Gentlemen I was afflicted with Asthma for fourteen years, and had tried erery remedy in the country ; I hal also ben to several physicians a'nd found no relief what ever. I was afflicted at times so severely, that the blo-i would gush from my nose, and my breathing was diffiruH. Indeed the disease had gained to much on me that J dif paredofever getting well; w hen I chanced to get a Mt . of Wlstar:s BaUam of Wild Cherry." which effected! perfect cure, and I now consider myself perfectly souui , This can be proved by numbers of men in Franklia County and vicinity, and think it my duty to let it'4 known. THOMAS A. PATRICK Franklin County, Georgia, Nov. 19, 1846. Be not deceived, nmemb r that spurious imitations mA other preparations of Wild Cherry abound throughout the land, but it is Dr. Wistar's that has performed so many thousand wonderful cures, therefore buy no other than the genuine original Balsam of Wild Cherry. None genuine unless signed I. Butts on the wrapper. For sale in Fayetteville by S. J. Hinsdale; in Raleigh by Wm. Havwood &. Co.: in Wilmington, bv Wm Shaw. FRESH SPRING GOODS. E. I. & J. Femberion ARE now receiving and opening a large and handsome selection ot STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS, Consisting in part of Chamehon and changeable Silks; Satin strir and plaid Tissues; plain Satin stripe Bareg embroidered Tarletans; Silk and Linen Barege English and French Gingham and GinglaD Lawns; Organdies; Printed Lawns; and Muslim French, English, and American Prints, &.c. A large variety of French Worked-Lace Cape and Collars; inside and standing Collars ; Muslin Trimmings ; Cotton and Thread Laces and Insert ings: Swiss, Jaconet, and Plaid Muslins , figu!" ed Bobinets; Silk Laces; Tissue Shawls, Silk Points and Cravats, &,c : Also, Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, SumE" Coatings, Gentlemen's superior Cravats "' Scarfs, Ready made Summer Clothing, of war ranted workmanship. Moleskin , Panama and Leghorn HATS; Youth and Rnvs' Summer ITo. -r :,:n & k..;r,.i i . . J . r. NETS, such as Pamola a v. T.nr.eand .Straw ditto : Miasma' iri r:-t,i Artifid1 - T A JUlj) A beautiful assortment of latest style B0 i .Lace of T?;-kKnno A rtlllCl Flowers, and Wreaths. Parasols, Umbrellas, BOOTS and SHOES, r. Our customers and the public are respectful'" invited to give the above Stock an examination before making their purchases, as we are detr mired to keep up our reputation for sellirg Gooa CHEAP. E. L. & J. A. PEMBERT0N. April 7, 1849. 52S-2m t ' i
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