North Carolina Newspapers

TJHLE N JttTJHL CAKO JLJ1 JNJ1AM From toe Wilmington Commercial. A SWINDLE. We have to record an instance of wintllin. which happened on the steam boat wharf, in Charleston, S. C, not of common occurrence in the South. A the boat wat about leaving for this place, a genteel looking man stepped up to one of the passengers, a young gentleman of this State, and telling him that he had been imprudent and unfortunate by losing all his money at a gambling table the preced ing night, offered him a gold watch of the lapine make, at a great sacrifice, as he said, say $65. e declined the purchase, having already a good silver watch. At this junction a third party stepped up and offered the seller the price for the watch, but his funds happened to be at the Hotel but if the party first named would pay the money, he would give him five dollars on his bargain when he arrived in Wil mington, is he belonged to a mercantile house in this place, and was coming on in the Boat. The young man believing it a good op portunity to speculate, offered the seller R50. beinr within 810 of all he had with him. After complaining of the additional sacrifice, the distressed seller consented, and the bargain was closed. Through some mishap, the third party, the mercantile gentleman of Wilmington, did not come on in the boat got left, we suppose. On arriving in Wilmington, the hero of our story called, at the store of Messrs Brown & Anderson, Watch Makers aud Jewellers, on Market St., to obtain a key for his watch, and incidentally, as it were, akeJ the value of it. Mr Anderson, who is a good judge of such matters, told him the watch was worth about Jive dollars, being a handsomely galvanized brass ar ticle. The young gentleman who was swindled on this occasion belongs to the interior of our State, and this was his first appearance in the . travelling circle. lie has paid a iigh price for 'seeing the Elephant,' and will, of course approach that animal with caution hereafter. The chief object of this notice is to put others on their guard against the swindlers. It must be remem bered that these robbers have the manners of gentlemen being very amiable, polite and sentimental, and some ot them are well educated. We advise the reader to remember the adage, which is applicable to men, to manner?, and to the material, viz : "All is not gold that glitters." Munnen. We learn that Ichabod Garris, keeper of the poor house of Wayne, was murdered on Thursday evening last about sundown by James Lane, one of the inmates. It appears that some dispute had arisen between Garris and Lane, in the house, but no act of violence was then committed. A short time afterwards they were standing outside at the distance of a few feet from each other, when Garris turned around to go into the Mouse ; at this moment he was stabbed in the breast by Lane with a knife, which passed through the lower part I the sternum and entered the left auricle of the heart, causing death almost instantaneously. A post mortem examination was held by Dr. S. A. An drews. Lane has been arrested, and was examined on Saturday last by Justices Andrew s and Edniundson, who committed him to stand his trial for murder at the next term of Superior Court for this Coui.ty. Uoldshoro' Republican. Who can Bet it? We learn that thirteen bales of cotton, and one hundred and twenty five barrels (625 bushels) of corn were made to the plough the last season on the (lavenswuod Farm in Jones county, belonging to Miss Burgwyn. The large crop is attributed to the plenti ful use of lime, anil to deep ploughing. Can any of our farmers, equal the crop of Miss Burgwyn ? If they can, send us notice thereof. We want to know who can tio it, and also how it is done. Goldsboro" Republican. A new regulation has been adopted by the Post Office Department in regard to dead letters. Heretofore all dead letters were opened at the Department, and those not containing important inclosures were burnt. By the new regulation this will not occur. Whenever it is desired ti at a letter shall not be opened at the Department, the writer only has to prepay the postage, and write on the seal side 'to be preserved. v All letters thus marked will be preserved unopened, and may be reclaimed by the writer. The New York Express brings to light a singular historical fact, which is not gen erally known. It says that in 1817, a Russian of eminence, M. Fozzoile Borgo, being then in. Paris, proposed, in a memoir addressed to his court on the importance of replacing South America under the dominion of Spain, that the United States should be subjugated. He said that, "founded on the sovereignty of the people, the republic of the United States of Ameri ca was a fire, of which the daily contact with Europe threatened the latter with conflasration : that, as an asylum for all innovators, it gave them the means of dis seminating, at a distance, by their writings, and by the authority of their example, a poison of which the communication could not be questioned ; as it was well known that the French revolution had its origin in the United States, that already trouble some effects were felt from the presence of the French refugees in the U. States " The Russian ambassador went on to state and argue that the conquest of the United States was an easy enterprise; that the degree of power to which the Americans had risen made them objects of fear to the Eu ropean monarchical governments. . Mrs Swisshelm declares that " the coil of an anaconda would make a better girdle for a young woman's waist than the arm of a drunken husband." KOSSUTH'S THANKS TO THE GOVERN MENT AND CONGRESS OF THE U- STATES. The following are the letters from Kos suth, laid before the Senate of the U. States, by the presiding officer, returning thanks to the government and Congress, and which, on the motion to print, vent to the Committee on Printing, after a motion by Mr Badger to lay them on the table had been rejected: Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 14, 1852. Sir : Before I left Washington city I felt myself bound by. gratitude to return mv warmest thank to the government and the Congress of the United States for the generous patronage they have so kindly granted to me as the humble representa tive of my country, from the time when they had sent a steam frigate to Asia, in order to restore me to liberty and activity, to the moment when the august Senate and House and the President bade me wel come in the Capitol and in the White House. Not initiated into the diplomatic forms of the United States, I respectfully direct ed mv farewell to his excellency the President, and requested him to communi cate my assurance of everlasting gratitude to the Senate anil to the House ot Repre sentatives. The Secretary of State had since theti the great kindness to inform me though his letter has reached me but recently that ny request in respect to the com munication would have been gladly com plied with if it were consistent with the accepted forms, and he suggested it to me as a more appropriate way to senu copies of my address to the President of the Senate and the Speaker ot the House. It is upon this suggestion of the Secretary- of State that I have now the great honor to enclose the feeble expression of my ever lasting gratitude and hope, with the re quest to have it communicated to the au gust body of which you are the President. Mr President of the rsenate, your most humble and obedient servant. L. KOSSUTH. To Hon. W. R. King, President of the Senate. Washington City, Jan. 12, 1S52. Puesident: The most generous invita tion contained in act of the Congress of the United States, approved and officially transmitted to me by vour excellency, having afforded me the distinguished honor of being acceptably presented by the illus trious Secretary ot State to the Chief Magistrate of the republic : Having been, upon subsequent resolu tions of Congress, received with almost unprecedented honors by the Senate and by the House of Representatives; Having been entertained with unsurpass ed kindness by the senators and repre sentatives of the United States, obliged with courtesies, far excelling my aspira tions, by the heads of the various depart ments of the executive government, and favored by mark3 of kind attention and sympathy by the honorable members of Congress in numbers which almost equall ed the aggregate of the two illustrious legislative bodies ot this great republic the time has come when the exigencies, of my country's affairs require me to depart from the city of Washington, and fulfil the agreeable duty of acknowledging per sonally that protective sympathy which many towns, cities, and States of this glorious confederation continue to mani fest in favor of the just cause of my coun try's down-trodden independence, and the freedom of the European continent, so intimately connected with it. This .my departure becoming more urgent, as according to the present condi tion of Europe every moment's accident may call on me to answer those duties which, in obedient compliance with my nation's sovereign will, 1 assumed, when, as unanimously elected governor of the State of Hungary, I took oath to God and the people to maintain that national inde pendence with my nation had asserted so heroically, and had declared so legiti mately, it is a matter of deep regret to me not to be able individually to express my everlasting gratitude. But though my ' mind be mournfully impressed with inconsolable grief at the melancholy intelligence connected with the last moments of my staying here, that the heart of my beloved and venera ble mother has broken under the renewed cruel persecution inflicted upon my fami ly by the House of Austria, still 1 cannot take my departure from the capital without leaving a formal but sincere acknowledg ment of all those memorable favors so generously bestowed upon me. Conscious as I am that these favors were neither deserved by nor intended to me personal ly who, an humble exile, never could consent to see myself aggrandized while my country lies in ruin and in chains I have, then, all the more thankfully re ceived as manifestations of respect for everlasting principles of national law, and of the lively sympathy which this great and generous country entertains for my beloved and never for a moment to be forgotten father land, now a temporary victim of the violation of those principles. The oppressed nations of the European continent, so highly interested in those principles, will look with consolation at these memorable favors I was honored with as to a practical proof that the Chief Magistrate of this great republic was, indeed, a true interpreter of its people's 'sentiments, aud met with the cordial con currence of the enlightened legislature of his glorious country, when he officially declared that -the United States cannot remain indifferent in a case in which the strong arm of a foreign power is invoked to strifle public sentiment, aud to oppress the spirit of freedom in any country." This magnanimous declaration, follow ed by such generous manifestations, will be recorded in history as a protestation on behalf of the everlasting principles of the law of nations against their infraction by violence. And the millions of my people will revive with hope and confidence when they shall come to know what favors were bestowed upon their exiled chief br the great republic of the West, in acknowledg ment of the justice of Hungary's cause. In her name, and as her repesentative, I have received them, and they have sunk into the very heart of iny heart. In her name, and as her representative. ITeel the duty of expressing my thanks for them, and desire your excellency, as well as the executive officers, the Senate, and the H ouse of Representatives, collectively and individually, to receive the assurances ot my and my country's external gratitude. dad ana solemn is the hour of Darting from a presence so consoling and so ausust. But I carry with me in my further wander- ings the nope that the United States will continue kindly to remember alwavg my unhappy but most well-deserving father land. Neither the pangs of exile nor the ego tism of my patriotic feelings, nor the in terests of all those nations whose common rights and wrongs 1 plead before the migh ty tribunal of publicity, will ever induce me to desire that the United States should, for our sake, put in jeopardy the welfare and prosperity of this glorious home of liberty. But as the present condition of Europe, and the coming events in that continent, which cast already their shad ows before them, cannot fail to attract the attention and invite the consideration id? such a power on earth as the United -States are, I cannot forbear the hope that the very consciousness of that security which . the United States enjoy, while the greatest part of Europe quakes, will but more im press upon their true republican generosi ty the sentiments of supreme urgency to pronounce in respect to the law of nations and international duties and rights, as also in respect to the undisturbed safety of commercial intercourse in favor of such principles, which, founded upon the law of Nature and of Nature's God, are equal ly consistent with the fundamental princi ples of this great republic, and indispensa ble to peace and contentment on earth. Humanity would hail such a pronuncia tion from such a place with inexpressible joy; and as it was the violation of those principles by armed foreign interference in Hungary which opened the door to a system of overwhelming despotism on the European continent, the very fact that Hungary, forced by the most treacherous oppression ever seen in the history of man kind, has, in declaring its independence, but exercised that right, and followed that principle, upon which stands so gloriously the very political existence of the United States; and the fact that this legitimate independence was overthrown by the most cruel violation of international laws, make me confidently hope that the deep interest which the people of the United States feel in the spread of liberal princi ples and the establishment of free govern ments, the warm sympathy with -which it witnesses every struggle against oppres sion." as well as its profound sentiment - of justice, and its congenial generosity, will become a source of such consolation to my native land as the supreme constitu tional authorities of this glorious reftiblic will, in their wisdom, deem consistent with the paramount duties towards their own country's welfare and prosperity. It is with thes. sentiments of hope and thanks that I beg leave to reiterate the assurance of my everlasting respect and oratitude; and humbly entreat your excel lency to be pleased to communicate this, my respectful farewell, to the Senate and the House of Representatives. Mr President, your excellency's most humble and obedient servant. L. KOSSUTH. FRANCE SAVED. France is now "saved." Saved from what ? So far as known, at present 1. From liberty of speech, liberty of the press, liberty of assembling, and liber ty of thought. 2. From all respect for law and all reverence for oaths. , 3. From all religion but jesuitry, and all politics but chicanery. 4 From all honesty of election, or fair ness of teturnt. o. rrum all simplicity, economy, or straight-forwardness in the management of public affairs. 6. From everything bearing the name or semblance of justice. 7. From all honest literature. And France, being saved from all this, is to be recompensed by the rule of a man who, from his youth up, has never exhibit ed a single virtue, and whose first bid for power was an act of deliberate perjury W T " 1 f ' verily a people wno win accept such a ruler, even with his bayonets at their breast, can hope for little sympathy in their de cline, or solace in their fall. Dreadful Accidfnt on the Kie Ra Road. New -York, Feb. IT. This morn ing, .at six o'clock, as the express night train on the Jrie rail road was passing Binghampton, one of the axles of the hind most car broke, when the car and passen gers were precipitated down an embank ment thirtv-five feet into the river Dela ware. Of the passengers, twenty six were drawn out alive, but all were more or less injured. The water was intensely cold and the river hlled with floating ice ; con sequently passengers were nearly frozen. Last week being Court week, we had an opportunity of seeing and conversing with many of our Democratic friends from differ ent parts of the County. They are all for Reid, and Free Suffrage, and are deter mined to send Republicans to the next Legislature, from this County. Halifax Republican. Queens is Hungary. It is a prescrip tive rule, and we believe a law of Hungary, that no monarch shall be called a Queen. Consequently, whenever females have succeeded to the throne of Hungary, they were called Kings. In 1383, when Mary the daughter of Charles Duras. ascended the throne, she was styled King. Maria lheresa was also styled Am, DUELLING FUN. young men, residing at Cardiff, Two have latelv been deeply enamored of a prepossessing young female, living in that town. A quarrel took place between the Lotharios last week, when one-sent a challenge to the other to settle the matter in dispute by the aid of cold steel or a brace of pistols. Accordingly the latter for midable weapon was procured, seconds were chosen, and a medical man was selected. Th w hole of the party met in a field behind the castle; distances were measured, and the signal was given to fire! At the firt shot, Mr P fell, apparently wounded in the arm, which was hanging down. Not being satisfied, however, a second shot was demanded, when Mr P again fell, deluged in blood. The wound ed man desired, before he breathed his last, to see once more his jealous opponent and Mr M courageously walked up to him, when a scene ensued which baffled des cription, Mr M being almost frantically concerned for the life of Mr P . The latter was conveyed to a friend's house and laid on a sofa, and it was not until Mr M was again called to confront his opponent that he was made aware the whole matter was a hoax on his credulity, so well had the matter previously arranged MrP ,at the second discharge, had placed a sponge dipped in pig's blood on his forehead, and then had fallen as if mortally wounded. The affair has given rise to much merriment among the public at Cardiff. In Scotland, lately, two hot-brained youths met in a tavern ; and, .after much debate concerning a young lady, with whom they were both enamored, nothing would satisfy them but a duel. At part ing one of them told the other to prepare for death. A wag. hearing of the awlul threat, and knowing that none of the champ ions had any courage to spare, went an hour before the appointed time to the place selected and dug a grave; and, sticking his 'round mou'd spade' into the red mould, retired behind a bush to behold the scene. The awful moment arrived, and one of tiie bullies made a fierce ap pearance; but, on beholding the open grave and the spade ready to cover his corpse, he scratched his head, and muttering something about being killed, turned, and in a twinkling was out of sight. Shortly thereafter, the other duelist (?) hove in sight; but, on "seeing the yawning "gulf, his crest fell, and soliloquizing to himself, was heard to say ' Did he not tell me to prepare for death ? and. lo! this grave is ready for me. I'll awal' The wag then 'shouldered his shovel" and left the scene, which has been visited by many of the curious, determined on seeing the grave of "Johnny Cope."' California Gold. The entire yield of California in 1851 is estimated at $75, 000,000. The amount of gold by the Kl Dorado, the last steamer with gold, added to the previous arrivals, makes an aggregate of $7,025,000 since 1st January, and. irw:lud;ng the deposites at- New Or leans in January, makes an aggregate of S7,705,000. The exports in the mean time have been $5,042,000, leaving- a balance in favor of the country of S2, 663,000. Cure for Coughs. Place a fresh egg in half pint of Lime or Lemon juice, let it remain all night, rub off' as much of the shell as possible in the morning, then break it in the mixture, add two sills of Jamaica Rum, the same quantity of honey and olive oil, mix them all well together, and bottle, take a wineglass full, two or three times a day, shake the bottle well before using. This is said to be an admirable mixture for colds and coughs- The preparation is cheap and simple, and may do incalculable good. A valuable Invention. We learn that some means have at last been discovered for preventing the explosion of steam boi lers. A machine is now being introduced to the public for supplying boilers with water, called "Allen's Patent Balance Boiler Feeder," by the use of which the water is always kept at the desired point in the boiler, it being impossible for it to go either above or below that point. A great number of the explosions that are of such frequent and startling occurrence arise from a deficiency of water in the boiler; and if they can be prevented by the use of the machine mentioned above, the public should give it their attention. Tallcot & Canfield. of Osweso, New York, have the agency for the whole United States and their Territories for the manufacture and sale of these machines, which are simple in their construction and are easilv attached to any kind of a boiler. Cleveland Herald. Death from Tooth Pulling. A lady in Wincnester, Mrs Locke, had a tooth extracted about a fortnight ago, and the wound continued to bleed till Tuesday, when she expired from exhaustion. Several physicians, including Dr. Bigelow, tried in vain to stop the bleeding. Such cases have happened before, but are by no means common. It is said that the juice of nettles will stop bleeding from the nose when all other remedies have failed. Boston Post. Prices in South Carolina. The New berry Sentinel says, at the sale of the pro perty of Messrs. Ulm & Walker, which took- place at their plantation in that Dis trict, on the 5th and 6th inst., the most extravagant prices were realized. There were 147 negroes sold, comprising chil dren at the breast, one or two superannuat ed women, and- one diseased fellow. A large portion of them consisted of children and old men and women. Notwithstand ing, they were sold at the average price rff $499 per' head. Thirty-seven mules were sold, at the average price, of 8148 per head. Corn was sold at gl 06 per bushel, cash. Fodder gl 02 per cwt., cash. AN ADVENTURE. I nawrmm ... i j u.. a o l never attended but one temperance , , if i. r - i n ... lecture, said our friend B. with a pecu-i I;,- Dm.lA t ... . , .r 'l .r";r Yuu probably found it dry V " Well, yes- but that is'nt it. The lecture was well enough, but I got into such an awful scrape after it was over, that I never think of temperance meetings without a shudder. I'll tell you about it. It was in Jersey City, where I was some thing of a stranger, and the night was one of the worst of the season. Boreas ? how it blew ? It was enough to take your breath away. Well, sir, the lecture was over, and making out with the crowd, I lingered in the doorway, contemplating the awful scene, when somebody took my arm. Where have you been?" said the sweetest voice in the world. have been looking for you everywhere." Very much surprised, I turned my head and saw but I can't describe her! It makes me mad now to think how prodigiously pretty she was! With her left hand she leaned on my arm; she was arranging her veil with her right, and did not notice my surprise. "You have been looking for me?" I faltered. s "Come, let us be going," washer reply, pressing my arm. "A thrill went to my heart. What to make of my lady's address I did not know; but she was too charming a creature tor me to refuse to accomnanv her. We start ed oft' in the midst of the tempest, the noise of which prevented any conversation. At length she said with a scream "Put your arm around me, I shall blow away." - " - 1 neeil not describe to you my sensa tion, as I pressed her to my side and hurried on It was very dark, no body saw us and allowing her to guide my steps. I followed her motions through two or three short streets, until she stopped before an elegant mansion. Hnvt vim von ' Lp-? h a!tpfl. "My key?" I stammered, "there must be some mistake." "O, I have one." And as she opened the door, I stood waiting to bid her good night, or to have some explanation, when, turning quickly, she said "How queer you act to-night: ain't you coming in r ' there was something very tempting in the suggestion. Was I 'going in? A warm house and a pretty woman were certainly objects of consideration, and it was dreary to think of facing the storm and of seeing her no more. It took me three quarters of a second to make up my mind, and in I went. There was a dim fight in the hall and as my guide ran rapidly up stairs, why, I thought 1 could do nothing better than to run up too. 1 followed her into j a very dark room. ; "Lock the door, John," she said. Now, as if I had been the! only John in the world, I thought she knew me. I felt for the key, and turned it in the lock without hesitation, wondering all the time :oming next. Then; an awful suspicion ot some horriu tricks iiasheu upon my mind, tor I had olten heard ot infatuated men being lured to their de struction by pretty women, and I was on the point of re opening the door when my lady struck a light. Then being an excessively modest man I discovered to my dismay that 1 was in a bed-room ! with a woman in a bed-room! alone with a woman in a bed room! I cannot describe my sensation. I said some thins:, 1 don t know what it was, but the lady lighted her lamp, look- eu, stared at me an instant, turned as white as a pillow-case, and screamed "Whoare you? How came you here? Go, quick leave the room 1 thought you were my husband!'1 and covering her face with her hands, she subbed hysterical I was petrified. Of course, I was quite as anxious to leave, as she was to have me do so. But in my confusion, instead of going out at the door 1 came in, I unlock ed another door, and walked into a closet. Before I could rectily my error, there came a thundering rap at the first door. The lady screamed; the noise increased; and I felt peculiar, knowing very well that now the lady s husband was r at ai t r aw and that I was in a rather bad fix. Well aware that it would not do to re main in the closet, and convinced of the danger of meeting a man who might fall into the vulgar weakness of being jealous, I was trying to collect my scattered senses in the dark recess, when the lady rushed to me and whispered in a mild manner "What shall I do? If yo do not gn. he will kill me: "O but consider " The thundering at the door drowned her voice. She flew to open it. As the wrathful husband burst into the room, I thought I felt a little cold, and crept under some garments hanging in the closet. A gruff voice roared, and stormed. A tender, silver voice remonstrated. Othe'Io was jealous and revengeful; Desdemona innocent and distressed then 1 heard ominous sounds, as ot some one looking under the bed. "I know he is here! I saw him come into the house with you! You locked the d-o-o-r! I'll have his heart out!1' "Hear me! hear me! I will explain ! As I was listening very attentively for the explanation, the garments under which I was concealed were quietly lifted, and fancy my feelings, discovered in such a situation, by such a husband ! "Well, B ," we cried, deeply inter ested, for we knew that every word of his story was true, "how did you get out of i the scraper7 "I used a violent remedy for so vio lent a complaint. Driven in a corner my life in danger perceiving at a glance that Othello was not as strong as I was, I threw myself upon hiro, fell with him I there, until I had given a full explanation 1 r -1 i.: i " . . w error, nnue mm near reason, anu , ... , .... . . . ... xameu mm iu uc as uuici as a iamu. men , . - . , ien rawer uovci cmuiiiousi v, nu t never .een Othello or Desdemona since. SWAIM'S CELEBRATED PANACEA, For the Care of Incipient Consumption, SCROFULA, GENERAL DEBILITT, WHITE SWELL ING, RHEUMATISM, DISEASES OF THE LITER AND SKIN, AND ALL DISEASES ARISING FROM IMPURITIES OF THE BLOOD, AND THE EFFECTS OF MERCURY. SWAIM'S PANACEA has been for more than thirty-two years celebrated in this country and in Europe lor its extraordinary cures for the certificates of which reference is made to the directions and books (which maybe had gratis) accompanying the i'anacea. borne or which give the particulars oi cases too Irightful for general Dubiication, where the patients had been almost eaten up with Scrofula, and were deemed incur able by physicians. It has been used in hospitals and private prac tice, and has had the singular fortune of being recommended by the most celebrated physicians and other eminent persons. Among others by W. Gibson, M D, Prof, of Surg., Pa. University. Valentine Mott, M D, Prof of Surg., N. Y. do. W. P. Oewees, M D, Prof, of Mid , Pa. do. N. Chapman, M D, Prf. of Phvsic, Pa. do. T. Parke, M D, Pres't College Physicians, Phila. Dr. Del Viillo, Professor of Medicine, Havana. Jose Eourenco de Lux, Prof of Sur., Lisbon. J. Chipm in, Mera. Koyal CoIL Surgeons, Loudon. G. W. Erving, late Minister to Spain. Sir Thomas Pearson, Maj. Gen'l British Army. Gilbert Robertson, British Consul, &.c. &c. And also, the wonderful cures effected by Swaiin's Panacea have for many years made it an invaluable remedy. The Panacea does not con tain mercury in any form, and being an innocent preparation, it may bej;iven to the most tender infant. The retail prir;e has been reduced to$l 50 per bottle (containing three half pints), or three bottles for $4. Bewarr of Imposition. Swaim's Panacea is in. round bottles, fluted lon gitudi nally, with the following letters blown on the glass : " SWAIM'S PANACEA PHI LAD A ." and having the name of James Swaim stamped on the sealing wax, and written on the label covering the cork, and a splendid engraving for the side of the bottle, composed of geometric lathe work, comprising nine different dies, which have been turned for the exclusive use of the proprietor, by Draper & Co, bank note engrav ers, of Philadelphia. In the centre is a portrait of the late Wm. Swaim, copyright secured. ALSO, SWAIM'S VERMIFUGE, A valuable family medicine, being a highly ap proved remedy for all diseases arising from de bility of the digestive organs, such as worms, cholera morbus, dysentery, fever Si. ague, bleed ing piles, sick headache, &,c. &c See the pam- pniet (which may be haU gratis) accompanying the Vermifuge. Prepared at SWAIM'S LABORATORY, THE OLD STAND, Seventh street, below Chesnut. Philadelphia, and sold by all the respectable Druggists in the untied States. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. Persons wishing to obtain the genuine Swaim's Panacea and Swaim's Vermifuge, should be care ful to observe thut the name SWA 131 is spelled correctly on the bottles and labels, or they may be imposed on by medicines made in imitation of them bv a person bearing a some what similar name, well calculated to deceive. General J& gent for the U. S.: SCH1EFFELIN- BROTHERS & CO., 104 &. 100 John at., Nkw Yojik. Feb 2S, 1S-V2. 2m. A PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency David S. Reid, Gov ernor of the estate of North Carolina. Whereas, three-fifths of the whole number of members ot each House of the General Assembly did at the last session pass the following Act: AN ACT to amend the Constitution of North Carolina. Whereas, The freehold qualification now re quired for the electors for members of the Sen ate conflicts with the fundamental principles of liberty; Therefore, Sec. I. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of the Slate ofJVorth Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, t hi re-Jilt lis of the whole number of" members of each House concurring, that the second clause ot the third section of the first article of the amended Consti tution ratified by the people of North Carolina on the second Monday of November, A D. 1635, be amended by striking out the words " and pos sessed of a freehold within the same district of fiftj- acres oi land forsix months next before and at the day ol election,." so that the said clause of said section shall read as follows : All free w hite men of the age of twenty-one years (except as is hereinafter declared) w ho have been inhabitants of any one district within the State twelve months immediately preceding the day of anv election and shall have paid public taxes, shall be entitled to vote for a member of the Senate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That the Gov ernor of the State be, and he is hereby directed, to issue his Proclamation to the people of North Carolina, at least six inout hs . before the next election for members of the General Assembly, setting forth the purport of this Act and the amendment to the Constitution herein proposed, which Proclamation shall be accompanied by a true and perfect copy of the Act, authenticated by the certificate of the Secretary of State, and both the Proclamation and the copy of this Act, the Governor of the State shall cause to be pub lished in ajl the newspapers of this State, and posted in the Court Houses of the respective Counties in this State, at least six months before the election of members to the next General Assembly. Remd three times sud agreed to by tbr-flfth of tfc and ratified m Ciencral AfMemblj. tbia January. 1851. wnoie Duinuer or members oi ear fa Houpe the 24th day of rexneetiTelT. J. C. DOBBIN. S. H. C. W. N. tDWARDS.S. . State of North Carolina, Office of Secretary of State. I, William Hill. Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of an Act of the General Assembly of this State, draw n off from the original on file in this office. Given under my hand, this 31st day of Dec 18M. WM. HILL, Sec'y of State. And whereas, the said Act provides for amend ing the Constitution of the State of North Caro lina so as to confer on every qualified voter for the House of Commons the right to vote also for the Senate; Now, therefore, to the endthat it maybe made known that if the aforesaid amendment to the Constitution shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the whole representation in each House of the next General Assembly, it will then be submit ted to the people for ratification, I have issued this my Proclamation in conformity with the provisions of the beibre recited Act. In testimony whereof, David S. Reid, Governor of the State of North Carolina, hath hereunto set his hand and caused the Great Seal of said State to be affixed. otj.Pe Done at the city of Raleigh, on the SrV5 thirty-first day of December, in the ! gyear of our Lord one thousand eight &jr9m S hundred and fifty-one, and in the Vt i 7Gth year of onr Independence. DAVID S. REID. By the Governor, . Thomas Settle, Jr., Private Sec'jr.