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bveht satttiidat In advance, per year,$2 00 Not paid in advance, ,50 Not paid until six months have expir ed, uan Not paid till the year has expired, , , 350 No subscription received ur a less time than a rear, mm 1 . . .z J " CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS J AND THE GLORY OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY" OF ITS CITIZENS. TEIUHS OF jj Onesquareoftwcnty-ere .lines or less, for one inser ;1tion, GO cents ; every sub ji'sequentinsertion, 30 cent Lexcept it remain in for at herai months, when it vvirt :'h charged S3 for two ' months, S4 for three. Ac, r SlC for twelv jr.fn'li. FRESH CANDIES. CIIAS. BANKS, Confectioner, (SUCCESSOR TO DAVIU SHAW.) Has opened a Confi-etionary EfdaMi.-hment on Green itreet. next door outh of Hunke's building. He in m.-inn-faeturinjr. and prepared to supply the community with ShawV Celebrated Pnre 'andies." Tliow; wiMhin fresh, pure, and good andif. -will )le.ise call Orders will be promptly executed. Terms low and liberal. P S I'. B. has on hand a few whole, half and quarter boxe now crop If .1i.Mi1: Nuts. Cloves. Mace. Cassiit. Ike. January .". IS.jO. .W7-tf FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, JANUARY 12. 1850 DAGUERRIAN PORTRAITS. P. TUl. CORY, Artist, t onl.l redperjtiilly inform his friend.-., patrons, and the publie penerally. that he has returned to Kayetteville and opened Kooms at the Hotel, where he is prepared to take TTfcvTfr VT't- T5 V- i . c .-j h in style, and beauty unsurpassed, at the low price of TWO UDLUAKS. including a neat inorueeo case. He h:s also a good variety of F.-oicy Cases, silk velvet. Turkey njorra eo. and China IVail. a splendid article that canuotfail to Milt the most fiihtidious nil.e. Also, a tine assortment of gold I.oekets and Chains, at exceedjpijcly low prices: very suitable articles for Christ ina and New Year's presents to friends. Hvwotildalsostutrth.it none Lot tho bt German in struments and French materials are us ": and all hi pic tures are KIltK UILT. warranted not to fade. The public are inTited to call and examine specimens at his rooms in the Kayetteville Hotel. N. B. Persons thoroughly instructed in the art at a moderate charge. Those wishing to learn will please make ear!y application. Kayetteville, Dec 11. 1819. jt.Ji-tf VOL. 10-awO. 5GS. L Zh Liberr.1 deduction Mr lArRC ji't-v the. year nJverti?c-Ricnt or six morJfc. NORTH CAROLINIAN". Win. II. lUynei Editor und Proi ieti . FAYETTEVILLE, 3T. C. TABJTTAXfS: 12, 1850. NOTICE. Those wlio are in debt to either by Note or aeemmt. will please innke it convenient to eall'nnd settle during this mouth. The long st:iid"m of the most of nty -lues is a sufficient apology for this notice which limy be cf.nsid- erea nnai. J NO. D. WILLI AMS. Jan"y .". 1S.V). .ro7-tf THE STOKE at present occupied by;. &. H. McMillan. Possession given immediately, f or terms applv to JA.MKS 11LSKK. January 5 1850. .1C7-2t, A NEW KETTLE OF GOLD. All boxes, bundles. &c. th;it come by Stntro. must be paid for before removal: and all box. s. "&.C.. to be sent bv Stage, must be prepaid, for reasons well known. C. S. 15 It BKE. Jan. .". 18"0. 667-tU Agent for Stages. ' EW GOO l)S & X EW STOIt E- WILLIAM'S.-. LATTA His taken the Store Lit fly occupied hv S. T. Hawley &. Son. neail opposite II. &. K. J. LilU's. and has an entire New Stock of Goods, Selected from the Philadelphia and New Voi k markets, and purchased at wry low prices. In the assortment will be found a general and extensive supply of STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS. Hats, Caps. Shoes and Hoots, Every variety of H-.u dwaj e and Cutlery. Family (Jroceries, viz: ("oflee, Tea, and Urown Suar; CI trifled and Refined Sugar, Wines and French I'randy, China, tiue Crockery, and ( n.iss-ware, I'.iints, Medici ties, Oils, &.C., Tnvelliiij Trunks, P.iils, and JJrooms, Also, an assortment ot' S..ddlet y. AUo, ."nu sacks SALT. :jO ItushcN Alum Salt. All of which will be sdd low for Cash or Coun try Produce. .lanuarv IS50. 5I7-v ITT! The Subscriber haslost his Pocket P.ook eont ainiti!l about six hundred dollars in cash, mostly on the South Carolina Banks, and the following N otes. J ti laments. Ktccipts. !e.: tine Note on Aaron William & Aaron Tyson. f"Jo4 C.ll One do on Alfred Brower. 4l (Ml One do on Tonald Miort. TfM) (Ml One do do do 100 Ou One. do on Je-se L Bryant. loo (id One do do do 7" ' One do on Jaervb Stntts and Henry Stutts. 300 00 One do on James Shields. G."0 00 One do on J M Sfwell. Je.-se G Sowcll. and Jesse Yi us'. 7." 00 One do on Donald Strvet & Duncan Murclii.-ou 2.'" M One do on do do .",2 (0 One do on do do In 00 Oiw do on Dempsv Sowcll. 4 (Ml One dn on Malcoin D McNeill & Alex Kelly. loo on One do on d do :iH M tae do on M D McNeill and Bradley Brady. ;." (Ki One do on Noah Brewer K. Wm Stutts, 10 io (no do on John McNeill. loo (Mi One do on do 5 oo One - do on Jesse Spiv-. F. Mcintosh, ami one McDonald. ."-(lO 00 One di on Annus ai tin.Jolm M Black, and John M Curry. 1"0 00 One do on Matthew Davis. 14t OO One do on Adam Brewer. 244 on On do on Joseph Tompson. 40 (M One do on Abram Stmts. 10 oo tne do on Andrew Vrk. 100 OO One do on Martin Turner. 0 M One do on William Stewart,. 1"( (Ml One do on William and Knoch Stewart. So (Ml t)nc do on William. Knoch and John Stewart. 7o 00 One do on William Davis. Philip Wilson, and Hujjh Mat this. 0 Oo One do on Levi Wright and John Dunlap. OO One do on Samuel C Uruce. aO 0O One do on Wm Danielly and Michael Cockman 7o O0 One do on Jas Ilillard and Joel Hillard M) 00 One do on Jesse Womble. 7 " oo One do on Lewis Maness uud (in) M Honcycut 10 00 One do on John Dunlap. lo oo One do on Duncan Mcintosh. 270 00 One do on William I Mclntosli. OO One do on W Mcintosh. '2 00 Judgments against A A K Sowcll to the amount of 45 00 One receipt on Alfred Brower for about $1000. Several Constables receipt for papers put in their hands for col lection; and many other valuable papers not now recol lected. . , . , Not at this time recollecting the precise dates of the Note Judements. 8tc. I have not attempted to state them. Iwi'll giv reward of ON K HUNDRED DOLLARS for the delivery of the Pocket Book and contents. I also hereby notify the obligors JdS wenUand receipt. &c not to pay the debts herein de Rcribedto any other person than myself or roy lawful ngenc; and all peraons are forbidden from trading for the money or papers , , The last place that I recolleet having my Pocket Book was at the Bridge on Bear Creek, at Mechanic s Hill. about two hwursby sun on Saturday evening the 29th ult. Any person finding and delivering my Pocket Book will be additionally rewarded, if required. JOHN K. R1TTER. Carthage, Moore county, Jan. 1,1850. 567-tf CLOTHING, We hare some of our extensive stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING imported the past FalL and as we are determined to close them out. hare reduced the prices from our former low rate. Amongst them may be found Dress, frock, fancy, and common Sacks, over-Sacks and over-Coats, fancy and common Vests and Pantaloons. Persons wanting can certainly be accommodated, if low prices are any inducement. JaVy 6, 1850. 567-3t COOK & POWELL. TOLERATION. The Legislature of Massa chusetts having either refused or neglected to charter a Catholic College in that State, so as to nive to the College the advantage of a corporate hodv, several Catholics addressed a note to the lion. Levi Woodbury, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. States, requesting his opinion in rejrard to the rights of Catholics to" establish schools and colleges. The Judge's reply we find in the Washington Union. It occupies three closely printed col umns of that paper. We call it masterly The Jud is a Protestant ; but he treats the subject in such a manner that no one from reding would discover hi predilections. lie argues, of course, that Catholics have the same rights and piivileges guaranteed to therti by the laws of the country, that are enjoyed, by any other class or sect; and hence that the Col lege referred o is clearly entitled to the Act of incorporation asked for. In tin's opinion, he mentions the existence of a clause (it did exist, but we do not know whether it d.es now or riot,) in the Constitutions of Mas sachusetts and New Hampshire, prohibiting any but Protestants from bidding certain offices of State, He says he cannot account for the inter polation of such a clau-e, w hen every other part of the constitutions repudiate such sentiments, except upon one ground, to-wit: that at the early period at which those constitutions were formed, the enemies of American independence taunted the Republicans by saying that the alli ance with France was intended to establish the Catholic religion in this country, am! those quali fications were introduced to disprove such a de sign, tjust as a weak man, on being charged of something of which he is not guilty, but being annoyed by the charge, will do something ridic ulous to disprove it ) I5ut there is one sentiment expressed in this opinion, by Judge Woodbury, which we have long entertained ; and the conviction of its truth has been fully established in our mind. In speaking of the necessity of religious tolera t o i, and the free exercise of all matters of cons cience iimong Christians, he says: We rati thus demonstrate that the very abundance of sects is a jreat security against overgrown power and oppression by anv one of them, and can, as we should and" can in llii. way only uphold with success ami impartiality, the great princi ple of equal toleration guarantied by our lathers to, all christian denominations" In our opinion, there is no greater truth, than that the Church, as well as the State, is purer from being subject to the surveil ince of public opinion, which cannot be the case where the Church is above the State, by legal enactment. The Judge continues : 'Tlii.s great principle of equal toleration involves, as we have before seen, equal ptou-cf ion bv law to all, and constitutes one id" the chief corner stones of our free institutions. Well might our fathers -so establish it, not only Irom their own sor row fill experience in a dillerent course, both in suftering and inflicting persecution, but from the beauty and justice of the doc trine itsell of equal toleration and equal protection, and from the reciprocal advan tages derived from it in our revolution, and which was then foreshadowed so strik ingly in battle ami public council which has since been repeated in every station in sm-iety Catholic Cat roll then signing the Declaration of independence, and defend ing our liberties in Congress Catholic Lafayette bleeding for us at Brandy wine, and hundreds or the same faith helping us to conquer at Chippewa and to plant our fldg on the battlements of Mexico, and myriad s of them to aid in less brilliant but not to be forgotten triumphs such as leil ingour forests, building our railroads and canals, and filling every department of useful industry." 0- The Senate of the Ohio Legislature has been in pretty much the same fix that the b S. House of Representatives was in, owing to the equal division of political parties, and a contest ed election. Over three hundred ballottings were held before an election. A whig succeed ed at last by compromise. The contested election in the Senate (two members claiming the same seat) has given rise to some scenes of disorder. JSuch has been the case for the l..st two sessions, and is caused by the operation of an act for redisricting the State; an act passed by a whig majority for the purpose of perpetuating, if possible, a whig as cedancy. Crazy people congregate at Washington citv. There is something in the atmosphere there that seems congenial to high flights of fan cy ! Some weeks ago, a crazy man broke out in the gnllerv or the Senate, with the declaration that he would kill Mr Clay. A few days after, another one rushed into the House of Represen tatives, and presented a paper to the Clerk to read He was hustled out of the Hall, and read his paper outside. ' One part of it was very com plimentarv! stating that the members thought more of devouring turkeys and drinking wine, than they did of the interests of their constttu euts. There was method in that man's madness. ONE FALSE STEP often leads a man to ruin, particularly if he has a weak point. Win. J. Brown, who was second Assistant P. M. Gen eral and was removed by Gen. Taylor then elect ed to Congress from Indiana, (by which we may conclude he was respected and sympathized with by his acquaintances,) then obtained his party vote for Speaker of the House, was so eager to clutch the honor, that his ambition prompted him to endeaver to obtain it by overtures to his opponents. This one false step immediately sunk him to the level of the contemptible. After he recov ered from the shock of tbe fall, he found himself despised and forsaken by all parties but the free soilers who hid led him astray. Instead then of spurnin them for the wrong they had done him, and attempting to regain some of his lost charac ter, he turned upon his former friends, and in a letter written for publication in Indiana, to his constituents, he embraces freesoilism with fer vor. He sayt: " The time has come when the north will no longer bow the neck to the slave ocracy of the south." What a ridiculous ex pression for a sensible man ! But conscious of his fallen state, and fearful that he would not be solicited to be a candidate again, he concludes by saj'ing that the course of the " slaveocrac.y " has determined him never to be a candidate for Congress again. It will be wise inhirn to retire to humble life. Krom the Pennsylvania!!. milTLSII PROTEST AGAINST AUSTRIA. At the time when public attention is di rected to the resolution of Gen. Cass, in favor of breaking oft' existing diplomatic relations between Austria and this coun try, the following noble letter addressed by Uichard Cobden. one of the boldest and brightest of all tke Knglish statesmen, to the Austrian Minister of the Interior, lierr Iiach, dated London, Oct. 20, 1849, will be read with profound interest: " Public opinion in my country is horror stricken at the cold-blooded cruelties which have been exercised on the fallen leaders of The Hungarians. The feeling is not confined to one class, or to one particular party; for there is not a man in England who has defended, either in writing or by ward of mouth, the acts of Austria. The opinions of the civilized States of the con tinent will have already reached you, while that of America will very soon be known in Vienna. You are too enlightened not to be aware that the unanimous verdict of contemporaries must also be the judgment of history. Hut have you con sidered that history will nnt deal with the bru tal soldiery, the creatures of cruelty, hut with tbe ministers, who are responsible for their crimes ? I should not like to appeal to less im portant motives than those of an honorable am bition; but have you well considered the dan gers which threaten you in your present course? "Yon, who are so well lead in English history, must i ememher that, four years after Jeff ries's " hloouy assi.es, nw- . i..u l.imH - L: roval master, was a miserable fugitive before the avenging hand of justice." POLITICAL JEU D ESPRIT. The following very amusing political jeu d'esprit. we clip "from the Vicksburg Sentinel. It is decidedly rich, a gem of its kind, worthy to rank with Prentice's best, or to grace the columns of that inex haustible repertory of wit, the Boston Post : IIkudebeut's Fiust Dispatch. When our worthy friend HeudeOert passed through our city, on his way to Lyons, he honored us with a call, ami amongst other Hattering things said that the Sentinel was one of the lew democratic papers that had never abused him ami Gen. Taylor. As a maik of his gratitude lor our forbearance and proper sense id what was due to olli cial station he promised to drop us an occasional letter, and send us copies o fall his dispatches to the government. We had the pleasure of receiving the following by the last steamer, and are happy to lay it before our readers in advance of its publication in the Executive Docu ments:" Legashong Amei icaiuc, Nov. 23, 1849. Monsieur Claytons It gives me one plea sure inexpressible, to inform ze depart ment vat I vas arrive in s'yons. on ze ulti mo 18th, and at date of ze present time have lodgings comfortbele at ze hotel de PKs-trangeres. Hy one arrangement economique, I have zecured entertainment vidout rio expense to ze I'argent, upon ze ; understanding zat ze leizure vich 1 have from my duties official, shall be devot to ze cooking ze oystar, and ze preps rashong of ze juleps mint, a la mode Aiuericaine. livgar, one idea magnificent and grand stroke of ze policy diplomatique, vich it Hatters me vor to suppose vill m eet ze approbation of ze department. I have alzo ze honneur lor to state, zat I vas re ceive avec all ze politesse so characteristic que of ze people . Francaise, and ze con ftiderashong appropriate to ze Republique Aiuericaine. Vor ze time present, I have statistiques none important lor to com municate, ziz ze excepts,hongJzat ze price of oystar in Lyons is elevate much aston ishing, ami ze flaveur by no means not at all for to compare vid ze oystar of de bay Mobile, vat I cook at Jackshong, before your Excellency discover de grand capa cite en moi vor de science diplomatique Also, and in de pi tparashong of ze liqueur Aiuericaine, vat" you calls .e julep.de Restaurateurs Francaise display one. taste deficient beyond de expressliong of ze possible. Avec Passtirance of my considerashong distingue, and compliments respectful to his Excellency ze President, j"ai Phhon- neur tor to remain your servant ooeuiem JACQUES HEUDEBERT Ze Consul de les Etats Unis. From tbe North Carolina Standard. Chaulottp:, Dec. 10, 1849. Mr Holden: Both of these papers here are If fug, and it is not to besuposed that they would give Maj. G. W. Caldwell, (whom they both fear as a politician) fair play, in the statements which they would make in relation to the recent difficulty be tween that gentleman and Mr Barringer. in consequence of this, numerous reports have got into circulation very unjustly pre judicial to Major Caldwrll;and Irom these statements other reports and inferences have been drawn, of a character so entire ly false, so notoriously untrue, here, where something of the circumstances are known, that it isjiotjung- but fair that the truth should lie made public. Show me the paper, sir, that has spo ken for Caldwell 1 will say the abused man Caldwell and I will not ask you to publish this communication. If you can not show me such a one, I demand of vou, as a lover of fairness and justice, to place in some column of your valuable paper the following denial of certain rumors You can have no hesitancy in doing so, as it can injure no one to say that notori ously false rumors arc untrue, anil to say such and such things, as reported, did not occur, when it is well known in this com munity they did not. It is to place Maj. Caldwell on proper grounds, away from home, among more distant friends that have felt an interest in his reputation,. that this publication is more imperiously demandeJ. It is reported that Maj. Caldwell laid in wait under Saddler's piazza for the pur pose of shooting Barringer. In this con nection it U charged that the attack was consequently a midnight assassin attack. It is all false. Caldwell met him there, as he would havihlone any where else as he had ottered to do in a more open field, lie met him there by chance, and had as much right to be out at that time of night (between 9 anil 10 o'clock, P. M.,) as Mr Barringer or anv other free citizen. It has been reported Caldwell had oppor tunities of seeing, and did see Barringer during the day. This is also simply false. Maj. C. hail no such opportunities. The first opportunity was the one which acci dent brought about under Saddler's piazza; and Caldwell, smarting under the inflic tion of serious published charges and cal umnies affecting his private character, seized the first chance ottered to avenge his w rongs; and any other honorable man would have done the same, or been scorn ed by and kicked out of all honorable so cietv. It is not true either that Caldwell gave Barringer n ir".rtunit v to shoot in his own defence. Major Green . CaiiwM, is no such craven. And in vain may a man work hard all his life for a reputa tion, in vain may he try to leave to his children a spotless fame and unsullied character, as the Major has, if so vile a calumny is at one breath to sweep all the hard won results of his commendable el forts away. That Mr Barringer did not shoot, as reported, may have been his mis fortune, but no fault of Major Caldwell. 1 hope Mr Editor, you will publish thi, which attacks the probity, character, and standing of no one, but which makes an attempt only to place Major Caldwell in the proper light. TKU I II. N. C MlTTHAI. I vCtiu i v- r !. In .Tito Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this Company took place at the office of the Secretary of the Company, on 1st hist, and adjourned on the 2d. Several material alterations were made in the by-laws and regulations of the com pany, a full report of which, we learn, will shortly be submitted for the information ol the public. The following Directors of the Company for.the ensuing year, were elected: )r J t) Watson, J B G Roulhar. Richard Smith, John Primrose, Henry I) Turner, S W Whiting, T II Selby, of Raleigh: George McNeill of Fayetteville; Joshua G Wright ol Wilmington; Jas E Hoyt of Washington; Jas Sloan of Greensboro: Wm Uadham of Edentou; Joshua Boner of Salem; Joseph Pool of E. City; Michael Brown of Salis bury; Alex Mitchell of Newbem: W N II Smith of Muifreesboro: II B W illiams of Charlotte; John B Barrett of Milton; and A T Summy of Ashville. Italeigh Register. The Axt Nuisanck. It is not perhaps generally known that in the West indies, when these little tormentors pay their un welcome visits to the houses there, a small ring of chalk will be an ett'ectual bar to their entrance; even making a strong chalk line on the floor will stop their progress The reason, no doubt, being that the very great quantity of acid contained in the ant is so easily acted upon by the chalk, as either to cause their death, or a precipitate retreat. Those housewives, therefore, who are now daily complaining of the in road of these little depredators upon their choicest delicacies, can put an effectual stopper thereto, either in the way above mentioned, or by sprinkling around the spot on which their dishes are placed, some carbonate of soda, common soda, or anv other auti acid Charleston Mercury. From the United State Gazette. From Minnesota. The Chronicle r.nd Register, of the 24th November, has the following item of news: The Winnebago Indians still appear to be dissatisfied with their country about Long Prairie. Last week two or three hundred were this side of Rum river, and somewhat annoyed teamsters and others passing the road. Colonel Loomis des patched a detachment under the command of Lieut. Johnson, who drove them back. On Wednesday night, we understood, twenty canoes, filled with Indians passed the falls of St. Antony, and have passed down the river. A request has been made to the commandant of the fort that they . be pursued, intercepted, and brought back." The above-named paper publishes an official list of the acts of the late legisla ture. They consist of fifteen memorials to Congress, ten joint resolutions, and forty three acts Sensations of the Dying. The pain of dying must be distinguished from the pain of the previous disease, for when life ebbs, sensibility declines. As death is the final extinction of corporal feeling so, numbness as death comes on. The prostration of disease, like healthful fati gue, engenders a growing stupor a sensa tion of subsiding softly into a coveted re pose. The transition resembles what may be seen in those lofty mountains, whose sides exhibiting every, climate in regular gradation, vegetation luxuriates at their base, and dwindles in the approach to the regions ofsnowtill its feeble mani festation is repressed by the cold. The so called agony can never be more for- miiiauie man wncn III. Slta 1 . - .. . , t go, and the mind preserves to the end a rational cognisance ol the state of the bod v Yet persons thus situated commonly attest that there are few things in life less pain ful than the close. " If 1 had strength enough to hold a pen, "said William Hun ter, I would write how easy and delight lul it is to die-" ' If this be dying," said the niece of Newton of Olney, it is a pleasant thing to die ;" ' the very expres sion,'' add her uncle, ''which another friend of mine uvtdu use of on her death bed a few years ago.' The same words have so often been uttered under similar circumstances, that we could fill pages with instances which are only varied by the name of the speaker. If this be dying," said Lady Glenorchy, -'it is the easiest thing imaginable." I thought that dying had been more difficult." saici Louis XVI. I did not suppose it was so sweet to die," said Francis Saurez the Spanish theologian. An agreeable surprise was the prevailing sentiment with tneui all ; thev expected the stream to termin ate in the dash of the current, and they found it was losing itself in the gentlet current. said, -'fight me, sir," at the same time placing his hand in his bosom. Dr. Green, still ignorant id the caMse of such conduct, and being unarmed, said that he would see him again ; Mr II. replied, very well, sir; and both left the house. Nothing was done by Dr. Green that day, having been deterred by his friends. Mr II. came in town two davs after, very evidently much excited tow'ards Dr. G. refusing any interference on the part of his friends, and refusing also to assign the reasons for discourse. Several notes were passed during the afternoon between the two. of a hostile character on the part of Mr II , and replied to, perhaps, in the same style hy Dr. li. Hie last one received fro n Dr. G.; was handed to Mr II. while in ihe counting room of John Smith, which was in sjght of the back room of Dr. G.s; immediately Mr Hester rushed out, and going to the room of Dr. G. flung the door open, and fired upon him. Two persons were present, but both left, and no one knows how the tight progressed. Mr 1L was instantly killed, receiving several wounds ; one with a pistol, the remainder with a knife. Dr. Green recived one wound in l he side from a pistol shot, of w hich he died the next morning in great agony. The cause of lids fatal aftair, Dr. G. pro tected in most solemn terms, that he knew : nothing of. Mr Hester evidently raged under the- sense of some wrong, of "a domes tic nature, but which we believe to have been a strange hallucination. Two better friends were not in the parish, nor two better men ; anil those who knew them cannot refer tt it for years to come, but with the deepest sorrow and the saddest memory. Accidental Death. A Coroner's In quest was held on the 1st inst, upon the body of Henry Schullz, a respectable and industrious man, found dead on the Cleni ment's Ferry road, near Cooper River. The verdict of the Jury was that the deceaseil came to his death while out hunt ing, by the accidental discharge of his own gun, causing a wound that penetrated his heart. We understand the deceased was found bv means of his own dog. w ho was with his master when he was hot, and remain ed with fidelity by his body for nearly two days. The w'ife had been anxiously in search of her husband in the woods al most a whole day, and failing to find him, in the agony of her distress she screamed aloud, calling the dog by name, Iajor." The faithful animal he'ard the call, and came to her, and on being told to carry her to his master, immediately led the way to the spot where he lay a corpse. Cltarles ton Mercury. Perpetual Motion This chimera is said to have been discovered by a citizen of Georgia. A southern paper thus de scribes the machine which is to solve the problem: It consists of wheels ami leav ers carried by weights, which are ro con structed that" they throw out bars while descending on one side, which bars, carried bevoml the lowest point of the wheel, bv their own impulse ami the force of gravi tation, fold up while ascending on the other sine of the w heel. A machine of nearly similar construction has been inven ted by a Philadelphia!! named Reeve, who " i - - -aw is now exhioiting it in Meuiorti, rew Jersey. A ROMANCE OF THE OCEAN. The following facts relating to a young American girl, I think, cannot but interest your readers, especially as they are too well authenticated to admit of a doubt of their having taken place, in the manner to be mentioned. The American whale tfip Washington, which arrived here on the 13th instant, reports the whale ship Christopher Mit chell at Paita under the following circum stances; The M. had touched at Paita. for tbe purpose of putting ashore letters for home, and again left lor the cruising ground ; but on the second or third night out, when the watch' was called, one of the crew was discovered to be a young girl, instead of a lair-haired boy, which created no little excitement on board, and caused the Captain to put back again to Paita to land Ins female sailor, to seek some mere congenial way of earning a livelihood, than using a tar bucket and a .....-i?"; "Pike. Her story before Uie American Consul, was as follows ; - - She is a native of Rochester, New York, was seduced, like thousands of others, from her home , by a villain who promised to make her his lawful wife, but who abandoned her in a short lime and abscond ed to parts unknown. Returning to her parental roof, she was met witli bitter scorn, and driven from her home. Too proud to ask assistance, from stringers, and not so far lost to virtue as to think of subsisting by the only means which might now seem left to her, she put on male at tire, nnd for two months earned her living by driving a horse on the canal. Tired of this, she determined to go to sea first engaged as a cabin boy at S4 per month but was told by the shipping master that she could make more bv a whaling vovagc. and consequently proceeded to Nantucket to look for a ship It was with some difficulty that she. obtained a berth, her youth am! delicate appearance being much against her. One of the shipowners, at a place where she applied, fan old quaker, ) at last become so much pleased with, a he expressed, the good face of the boy,' that fie persuaded the captain of the W. to take her on hoard. She performed her duty faithfully for the seven months pre vious to her discovery never shiinking from going aloft, even in the worst weather, of the darkest night She aUo pulled her oar twice in p ir-uitof whales, but the boat in which she belonged had never been fast to one of the monsters, or perhaps her courage might have failed her. She was a general favorite on board. Fatal Affray at Shkevfpoiit Hie Shreveport Journal, of the 2(ith instant, oives the following account of the recent fatal aff'rav in that place, in which Mc Hes ter and Dr- Green were killed : Our community has had a gloom cast over it for the few last days, by the vio lent death ol two of its best and most res pectable citizens, David Hester and Dr. Wm. M. Green. The circumstances, so far as we can remember them, are as fol lows : Mr Hester, two days previously to the final catastrophe, was in town, and while in the bar-room of the Commercial House, was approached by Or. Green, in his usual friendly manner, but was met by a slap in the face, which not being understood by Dr. Green, he asked what he ( Hester meant. Mr II. again slapped him, and never mixing with the crew any more than was absolutely necessary- ller quiet, inoffensive benavior had also very much pre possessed the Captain and his officers in her favor. When summoned into the Captain's presence, immediately after the discovery, she made a full and voluntary confession. whereupon she was taken into the cabin, a state-room set apart lor her use, and every attention shown her that could be extend ed to a female on board ship. When land- .am-. . . - . en ai raita, the excitement and fatigue had somewhat overpowered her, but in one or two cays she was quite well, and much elated with the prospect of soon reaching home in the vessel about to sail. Only once, previous to her final discovery, did "she run any risk of being exposed , but on the occasion alluded to, by suddenly working in a more bungling manner, she escaped detection. The cause of attention being drawn towards her on the above occasion, was the quickness with which she plied her needle-being more than a match for the other sailors, in that respect. The fact of her being on board and doing her duty well, cannot be doubted. Her name is Miss Ann Johnson, and her age nineteen years. Polynesian, Jtug. 26. c
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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