jiatJIICATlOXS.
Cumberland Coonly Democratic Meeting.
t a meeting: of a large portion of the demo
cratic lartv of Cumberland county, held at the
Court House in Fayctteville on Monday the
Oth instant, on motion of J. O. .Shepherd, Esq.,
Hon L Uetliuno was culled to the Chair, and
on motion of Maj. J. H. Cook, Saml. E. John
son and Win. J. Yates were requested to act as
Secretaries.
After a brief explanation of the object of the
meeting by the Chairman, a committee of live,
consist uigof Warren Winslow, Sanil. E. John
son, Joint II. Cook, 11. K. Bryan, and J. G.
Shepherd, Esq'rs., were appointed to prepare re
solutions for the action of the meeting.
The committee, after a .short absence, return
ed and reported through their chairman, W.
Winslow, Esq, the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
1. Resolved, That we cherish with unabated
confidence the principles of the democratic par
ty, and we pledge our best efforts to preserve
them ure and uticontaminated.
2. llesolved, That a strict construction of
the Constitution ot the United States is essen
tial to the preservation of the reserved rights of
the States, and that we deem a rigid adherence
thereto essential for the maintenance of our
liberties.
3. llesolved, That the public lands should be
held and managed by the General Government
lorHUe benefit of all the States, and that wY
""lire opposed to the distribution of them or of
their proceeds among the States; nor will we
sanction any disposition of the public domain,
or any part of it, by Congress, other than such
US ItlllfllL H11U yu:;L IV pj uu'jniM rjj jinun.iii'
proprietor thereof.
4. Resolved, Tim
at we are m favor of a tarill
for revenue, and opposed to a lariu ior protec
tion whereby manufacturing capitalists are
benefitted at the expense of the farmers of the
country, and that we are in favor of making the
tariff taxes of the people as light as the wants
of the General Government prudently and
economically administered will admit.
5. Resolved, That we approve the bill now
before Congress for the establishment of the
territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and es
pecially that portion of it which declares void
and inoperative the legislation of 1820, restrict
ing slavery from the territory of the U. States.
'c. Resolved, That I 'resident Fierce, in his
administration of the Government thus far, has
justified the coulidenee reposed in him by the
American people, and that we regard the posi
tion taken by him in favor of the bill for the
organization of Nebraska and Kansas, as furn
ishing renewed evidence of his devotion to the
Constitution and to the equal rights of all the
States.
7. Resolved, That we are in favor of amend
ing the Constitution of North Carolina so as to
allow all citizens who may be qualified voters
for members of the House of Commons, to vote
also for members ot the Senate, and that the
best method of effecting this change is, in our
iud'jrment. bv Legislative enactment, sanction-
ed by the popular vote in the mode pointed out
bv the Constitution,
"s. Resolved, -That Governor David S. Reid
is entitled to our lasting gratitude for his able
and patriotic administration of our State Gov
ernment, as well as for his untiring advocacy of
the great principle of Free Suffrage, and that in
his retirement from the office of Governor he
will have our best wishes for his future pros
perity. 1). Resolved, That we approve the proposi
tion to hold a State Convention in the City of
Raleigh on the lWh of April next, for the pur
pose of nominating a Democratic candidate for
Governor of the State, and that the Chairman
e-'f this meeting appoint fifty delegates to repre
sent Cumberland Couuty in said Convention.
10. Resolved, i'hat whilst recognizing the
claims of other distinguished democrats to con
sideration, we would respectfully recommend to
the State Convention the Hon. John W. Ellis
of Rowan, as a gentleman eminently qualified
for the olliee of Governor. We pledge ourselves
nevertheless, to abide by the decision of the
Convention and to give to its nominee a zealous
and hearty support.
Eloquent and interesting remarks were then
made by Neill McKay, Bartholemew Fuller, M.
J. MeD uilie, and C
G. Wriirht. Eso'rs.
In accordance
with the Jth resolution,
the
'b airman appointed
the folio win?
gentlemen
as delegated to the State Convention:
Col A Murchison, .Saml E Johnson. Da.il McDiarmid.
C II Coliehl, Jno L Bcthea. Aivhibaldd Cameron, Col
Nathan King. Dr John C Williams. M J McDutlie, Capt
J 1) Lanier. lJarllioIruiew Fuller. A J Dewar. James A
Johnson. James Williams, Lovet lJyuls, Geo W l'egram,
Joseph A ivy. James MoKethan. Arthur Home. Kelly
essoiL!s. S H Holly, J Ci Shejiherd. Arthur Melvin. Wm
Cade. Warren U in-low, U 11 Melvin. It K Bryan, Wm
McL McKay, Puij Murphv. Duncan Shaw, Jas livrne.
John II Cook. Col 3avii (jillis, Kdw"d Spearman T Col
R DGillis, Xet.1.1 Graham. John McKethan. David Gee.
C G Wright. John Harrington. Alex McDonald, D J
MeAlister. Henry U King. Neill MeKav. Col Stewart.
G W Lawrence, Wm J Ivellv. Arch'd McKethan, C S
Uarben, Arch'd McCollum, li V .Shaw.
11. K. Bryan, Esq, offered the following reso
lution, which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That in the death of Hon. Robert
Strange, late our fellow citizen and neighbor,
society has lost one of its most useful members,
the country one of its most patriotic eitizeus,
and the democratic party one of its most devo
ted and efficient members.
The following resolution was submitted by
Saml. E. Johnson, and adopted without a dis
senting voice:
Resolved. That this meeting voonmmnr.i
the democrats of the different Captains' Districts
in the county, to hold meetings in their respective
districts aud to appoint delegates to a Conven
tion to be held at Fayctteville on the Mondav
of next Superior Court (being the loth day of
May,) for the purpose sf nominating candi
dates to represent Cumberland Couutv in the
Senate and House of Commons of the next Gen
eral Assembly.
On motion of Maj. Cook,
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published iu the North Carolinian, and
that the Raleigh Standard and Wilmington
Journal be requested to copy.
Thanks were then tendered to the Chairman
and Secretaries, and the meeting adjourned
L. BET11UNE, Clri
S. E. Joh.vso.v, )
Wm. J. Yatks, )
Secretaries.
Vor the Carolinian.
A Tribute of ttcspert.
At a meeting of the Bar, held in the Court
House iu Fayctteville ou Thursday the 9th of
March, on motion, Wm. B. Wright, Esq, was
called to the Chair, and C. G. Wright, Esq,
requested to act as Secretary.
On motion, the following gentlemen were ap
pointed to draft resolutions: John Winslow,
David Reid, and J. W. Evans, Esq'rs., who re
ported through their chairman, Mr Winslow,
the following resolutions:
Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, iu his
inscrutable providence, to remove from our
midst the Hon. Robert Strange, who, for the
c o
last thirty-nine years, has been a distinguished
member and ornament of this Bar, !
Resolved, That we deeply deplore his death
as a loss to ms country, m wnose councils ne
has often borne a prominent and patriotic part;
to his State, which he has often served with
eminent and marked ability; and to this liar,
the scene of his first and la-st intellectual efforts.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to
convey to the family of our deceased brother,
the condolence of the Bar, and to assure them
of onr sincere sympathy w ith them in their af
fliction, and that the committee be requested to
furnish them a copy of these proceedings.
Resolved, That J. G. Shepherd, Esq, be ap
pointed to lay before the Justices of the Couuty
Court the proceedings of this meeting; and that
James Banks, Esq, be appointed to make known
the same to the next Superior Court of Cum
berland; with a request that they be spread up
on the minutes of those Courts respectively.
Resolved, lhat a copy of these proceedings
be furnished to the editors of our different town
papers, with a request that the same be pub
lished. W. B. WRIGHT, Ch'u.
C. G. Wright, Sec'v.
LATER FROM EL ROPE.
The steamship Nashville arrived at New York
ou the 5th, bringing two days later news from
Europe.
The news by the Nashville is of a highly im
portant character.
- ' It details the enormous military and naval
preparations e;oi!!r on under the auspices of
i.i. T7- l l v-.,.. iy, ,.l-:,.. T i
and t ranee lor attacking1 R
as well in the Baltic as in the Black Sea. A i
British contingent of ten thousand men WtTe I
to sail (ou board steam transports especially I
hired for the purpose,) on the 18th, for Malta
there to rendezvous and to be held in readiness
for military operations for the protection of
Constantinople. Thirty-six British ships of the
line and frigates, with ten or twelve French men-of-war
of the largest class, were to assemble in
the Downs on the 6th March for service in the
Baltic.
In all the dockyards and arsenals of Eng
land and Prance the greatest activity prevailed.
The French ocean squadron under Admiral
Bruat had reached Algiers, and was embarking
a division of the African army, amounting to
12,000 men ; after which it was to sail for
Toulon, where an English squadron and trans
ports was to meet it, and take on board 30,000
French troops. Both squadrons, with an army
of 42,000 men, would then proceed to the Le
vant, enter the Dardanelles, and disembark the
troops at Siliviri, near Rodosto, on the Sea of
Marmora a spot fixed upon as the best for the
protection of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles.
It appears, however, that notwithstanding
these extensive and tremendous preparations
for war, fresh negotiations for peace were actu
ally in progress, and that an autograph letter
had been written by the Emperor Louis Napo
leon, (with the consent of the British cabinet,)
to the Emperor of Russia, proposing a fresh
basis of negotiations. A reply to this proposi
tion was expected to reach Paris by the 22d of
February, and some persons professed them
selves sanguine that these new efforts to pre
serve the tranquility of the world would not be
unsuccessful. Others, (and these the majority
of the English people,.) thought that the Czar
would be glad at any price to gain time so as
to strike his meditated blow at the Turks on the
Danube, before any assistance could reach that
point from the Western Powers. Generally
great disgust at the prospect of any further ne
gotiations was expressed, and a wish was gener
ally entertained that war should be at ouce
declared, and such measures taken as should
speedily bring the Emperor of Russia to his
senses, by means of a succession of vigorous
operations against Sebastopol, Odessa, Cron
stadt and St. Petersburg.
According to the latest accounts, the British
and French fleets were still at anchor in Bey
cos Buy. A telegraphic despatch from Con
stantinople affirms that the moment it was
known that the English and French squadrons
had returned to the Bosphorous, a division of
the Russiau fleet darted out, as before reported,
aud proceeded to attack Fort St. .Nicholas,
which had been takeu by the Turks, and that
after bombarding for four hours they were
forced to retire. This news caused the great
est sensation at Constantinople, and a confer
ence of the Ambassadors was held, at which it
was determined that cruisers should be perma
nently kept in the Black Sea to prevent the re
petition of a similar eveut. A fresh convoy of
troops and stores for Batouni was to leave Con
stantinople, escorted by detachments from the
French and British fleets, ou the 2d February.
Markets. At the Com Market in Mark
Lane on the 13th, there was a small show of
English wheat, and the quantity was indiffer
ent. The market was very flat, and the best
qualities hung on hand, though offered at a de
cline of 2s. per quarter. Foreign wheat was
very depressed at Is. per quarter lower. The
flour trade was very heavy, and sales of Ameri
can made at fully Is. per barrel lower. Barly,
oats, and other grain flat and lower.
At Liverpool ou the 14th, wheat was sold at
about late rates, but flour was difficult to move
at Is. per barrel lower. Indian corn was freely
offered at a reduction of 2s.
At the Liverpool cotton market, on the 13th,
a large amount of business was transacted, and
the sales reached 10,000 bales, for which 4,000
were for speculation and export. Prices well
supported. Sales on the 14th, 8,000 bales,
without change iu prices.
LATER. The steamer Alps has arrived,
bringing news four davs later than the above.
Extensive preparations for war eontiuue in
all parts of Euglaud and France. Both peo
ple and soldiers are enthusiastic. Austria is
thought to favor Russia.
The Czar was crowding immense bodies of
troops to the frontiers and in other respects
augmenting his military strcugth, as if for a long
and formidable struggle with the enemy.
A British steamer, the Haidee, with some
Turkish troops on board, went ashore near
Sebastapol, and has been seized by the Russians.
Immense losses had been sustained iu France
by the fall of stocks produced by a false report
ot' a warlike answer from the Czar to the Em
peror of Frauce. No answer has beeu received.
Cotton was firm, and iu some instances with an
advance of 1 1-6 of a penny. Sales of the week
70,000 bales. Flour had also advanced Cd. to
Is. Sales at 41s. l)d. to 42s. Gd. Naval stores
unchanged. Money market slightly stringent.
Consols 91 1 to 91.
In these times of "Women's Rights'' dis
cussions, the following proposition of a waggish
writer in a London Magazine, will excite atten
tion. It looks like "revolution and rebellion :"
Let us widowers and bachelors form an as
sociation to declare, for the uext hundred years,
that we will make love no longer. Let the young
women come and make love tons; let them
write us verses; let them ask us to dance, get
us ices and cups of tea, and help us off with our
cloaks at the hall-door, and if they are eligible,
wo may perhaps be induced to yield and say :
4La! Miss Hopkins! I really never , I am
so agitated! ask papa!'
THE NORTH CAROLINIAN,
From the Washington Sentinel, March 4.
Conviction of Dr. Gardner. His Sentence and
Death.
Dr. George A. Gardiner, it will be recollect
ed, was arrested between two and three years
ago, charged with having obtained by fraud
$420,000. from the general government, under
an award of the Mexican board of commission
ers, established in pursuance of the treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo; he presenting a claim to
be reimbursed for alleged losses in Mexico, con
nected with the working of certain silver mines.
Last spring he was tried on the charge of
"false swearing," but after the jury had been
confined for about a week, they were unable to
agree upon a verdict, and were discharged, nine
being m favor of his acquittal, and three for
conv ICUOU.
On the 12th of December last he was again
arraigned on the same indictment, at the bar of
the criminal court The trial continued uutil
Thursday afternoon, wheu the case was given
to the jury, who yesterday morning, after an
absence of twenty-two hours, returned to the
court-room.
Their names were called, as follows : Albert
F. Waugh, William Van Reswick, Alfred Ray,
Charles I. Queen, John Howscr, David Fauble,
William Camuiack, John Davidson, John E.
Evans, Joseph Lyon, Thomas A. Talson, and
John Murphy. "
In response to the usual question of the clerk,
the foreman replied that they had-a-! upon
a verdict. - ) :
Many siectators were present, exhibiting in-
icusc buaiuiy iu ueur ii: uui mere niia uu uw-
I"1 pause in "e proceemngs until jute arrival oi
Air isradley, one oi tuc counsel dc uic accused,
AUieu th.,s t'ctlemaii came into - kourt, - he, to-
i ti tin ii io aosJK. tuic ill itiuj vuol, iuur i
position near Dr. Gardiner, who,! appeared
' th IK' ffiti li i 2 inonnii i 1 n t-kniiro 1 1 oil o
v uo iivui ii io iiictniiei auu 1 J j uuu c
fearful apprehension of what the fverdict was.
But wheu he was directed to standap and heard
"Guilty" distinctly pronounced, lis strength al
most forsook him, and his countenance under
went a change, and a death-like faleness. All
hope now had deserted him! )The dreadful
word had fallen like the doom oi death upon
his ear, shattered his heart, but bte so hopeful.
The spectators were far from ibeing indiffer
ent; their temporary stern and pallid faces
afforded an index to the feeling yliich possessed
them on that most painful occasion.
Mr Bradley stated that the counsel had pre
pared to hie a bill of exceptions and preferred
to have judgment pronounced atoncc. Accord
ingly, Dr. Gardiner being required to stand
up and receive the seutancc off-he law, Judge
Crawford addressed him as follows :
"You have been convicted ly a jury of your
country of the crime of false-spvearing, touching
the expenditure of public motley, and in support
of a claim against the Unite! States. Perju
ry, in its nature and general! sense, strikes at
the root of all the securities which society is
bouud to extend to and maiitain around the
citizen. The particular offenve vharged upon
you and upon which the jiry have passed,
whether considered iu reference to the compli
cated plot by which its objects were consuma
ted, or to the amount of moucy obtained from the
treasury on the award of the commissioners ap-
pointed to decide upon the
under
the
one
treaty with Mexico of February,
1848, is
ot unusual enormity.
"To address such observations, as must seem
to ever' man who knows the circumstances that
surrouuded you, to a persou of your conceded
ability, would be useless or vain; useless, if
they have ariseu in jrour own mind ;s vain, if
they have not. From your fate other- should
learn that no plan, however remote its 'origin,
with whatever forecast laid, however stealthily
or adroitly pursued for years, and at length
executed, or with whatsoever success for a time
attended, can be so cunningly devised as to es
cape detection. The unexampled ingenuity, or
the network spread out on this trial, aud the
fact that it has been exposed at the last stage,
! ouirht not to fail of v. beneficial effect in con
vincing all men that if they will trample ou
laws, human and divine, they shall suffer for it.
"The sentence of the court is, that you suffer
in the penitentiary for the District of Columbia,
imprisonment aud labor for the period of ten
years."
The judge then requested the marshal to take
the prisoner into custody, and he was subsequent
ly conveyed to the jail, but not uutil after Mr
Bradley had asked that the execution of the
sentence be postponed until two days after the
rising of the circuit court, to which the case would
be carried on a bill of exceptions. The court
assented, and a minute was ordered to be made
on the record accordingly.
The intelligence of the finding of the jury im
mediately spread throughout the city and occa
sioned not a little surprise, the community be
ing uuprepared for the verdict, well remember
ing the history of the past in this case.
The public had scarcely recovered from their
surprise before it became known that a short
time only after his arrival at the jail the prison
er was seized with violent convulsions, which
continued several hours, and ended in death.
It is suspected that he swallowed poison, but
of this there is no proof. Before venturing an
opinion on this subject, we prefer to wait the
post mortem examination of the body, which
will take place to-dav, by Dr. Semmes, the phy
sician of the jail, together with Dr. Miller aud
Sterner.
The deceased was thirty-six years of age, of
good appearance, and highly intelligent. His
manners were courteous, and, apart from the
crime with which he was charged, he would
probably have been considered a geutleman in
auv circle of society.
The sad occurrence has excited much commis
eration in his behalf and affords a sad topic of
comment among an classes ot society.
A coroner's jury were summoned, and thev
examineu several witnesses yesteruay evening
at the jail, but their verdict will necessarily be
ueierreu uniu auer tue contemplated post mor
tern examination.
The inquest has led to the opinion that he
poisoned himself.
jcar- i oetter pistol man Colt's sas the
JJoston JJaily Courier, is now iu the market
wnicn is manuiactured uy, and the property of
me ivauuins x ijawrcuce company, ot W ind
sor, t. 1 lie pistol is eutirely different from
any ever ueiore ouered to the attention of the
public. It is simple m the construction, has a
revolving hammer instead of a revolutionary
cylinder, is loaded by unscrewing the barrel
cAjnjouo mi; i:ijuiiiuci s uuu m not at all
1 1 O 1 1 1 lAl'itllA lflllt j-v 1 . -w-w .
rust, as all the working parts are contained
within the stock or breech, free from
ncction with the exploding gas.
any con
"Ihe woman koi.MER." Wc have already
irom Airs, lidizabeth Cr. fcruith of Missouri for
i i i i if .
pay uuu uouiu) miiu, in reward ior service ren
dered during the Mexican War. She perform
ed a soldier's duty for 10 months, before her sex
was discovered, and was known in her compa
ny by the name of "Bill Newcomb." The
kenate has awarded her 10 months vam
three months extra pay, and 100 acres of land!
FAYETTE V ILL E, N . C
Terrible Explosion and Frightful Loss of Life.
Hartford, March 2. At two o'clock to day
the new steam boiler in False and Gray's car
factory exploded, destroying the blacksmith-shop
and engine room, and badly shattering the main
building. Over 100 persons were in that part
of the building. The explosion was terrific,
wrenching the powerful machinery, breaking
the timbers, and prostrating the walls and roof.
The workmen were buried beneath the ruins.
The citizens were quickly on the spot to rescue
the sufferers, nine of whom were instanth killed,
aud seven have since died. Many others are
badly injured, some of whom will die. The
boiler was one of 50 horse power, and built in
the best manner. Over 300 persons were em
ployed in the whole building, and those killed
were chiefly employed in the blacksmith shop.
The scene was heart-rending. Hundreds of
the wives and children of the workmen rushed
to the spot, venting their grief in tears and pite
ous cries. The excitement spread to the school
iu the South District, attended bv the children
of the workmen, who were at once dismissed in
consequence of their distress. The victims were
horribly mutilated, and iu some instances scarce
ly recognizable.
At 5 o'clock every one had been extricated
from the ruius, and it is supposed that the
wounded will exceed 50.
A corner's jury was immediately summoned
and proceeded to investigate the disaster. The
estimated loss of the building and machiuery, is
$30,000.
High Prices. Seven negroes were sold in
this town by Charles E. Lecte, Auctioneer, last
Monday which brought the following prices :
Boy, ten years old, $C10; Boy 12 years old,
$715; Girl seventeen years old $857; Girl,
twenty years old, $905 ; Boy twenty-three years
old, $1270; man thirty-four vears old (black-
smitn ) !jiy.:iu; and a woman
age, $050. Fay. Argus.
thirty years of
Awful Death. A most tragical tale is told
of the sufferings of three soldiers of a detach
ment of the 69th regiment, now stationed at
Torouto, and a black man, who got into a boat,
the soldiers with the intention of deserting, and
getting over to Crab Island, and from thence,
as opportunity offered, to America. After
awhile, the wind arising, they were driven out
of their course, and so remained in the open
boat for several days without food or water.
At length one of the soldiers proposed to draw
lots that one should be killed to furnish food for
the others. They did so, aud the lot fell upon
Thomas Buckley, one of the soldiers, who forth
with bound up his arm, and opened a vein to
bleed himself to death ; one of the others and
the black man, sucked his blood, and after
wards went raving mad, and jumped into the
sea. JiucKley also died ; and there remained
only one soldier out of the party in the boat,
H m. Lennoa, who threw the dead body into
the sea, lashed the helm, and left himself to his
fate. He had not tasted any of Buckley's
blood, because, according: to his own statement.
he had felt a scruple iu doing so as he had been
his comrade. After 14 davs driftimr, the boat
was driven on the coast of St. Domingo, and
the coast-guard found the survivor, aud after
giving him some refreshments, carried him to
Jaemel to the British Consul, before whom he
made relation of the facts as above, and he was
sent back to Toronto in the steamer. Barba
dos Pajpcr.
Southern and Northern Slavery.
The New York Herald, in au editorial under
the above caption, remarks :
"lurniug to the statistics of Mr Kenedy, as
published in the Herald, of December 7, 1852,
we una t hat the number of paupers in the six
New England States of Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and
Connecticut, who in 1850 were subject to chari
table support, was 33,431, while for the same
year, the same class of persons in the six South-
O A - A. .... i? 1 i - i i t -x " .1 -i
fin oiaies oi jiaryiana, irgmui, oi'tn and
South Carolina, Geonria and Alabama, num
bered only 15,500. Of these, the native pau
pers of the New England States numbered, in
round numbers, 19,000, while those of the six
Southern States amounted to but 12,000.
Recapitulation-.
Population. Native Voy.
Six New England States, 2.705. 8!(J I'J.OOO
Six Southern States, 5.210..77G 12 000
This is to say, the six New England States,
boasting the highest elements of Northern per
fection, in free schools, free labor, free speech
aud free men, ha ve an a verage of more than three
to one native born paupers, as compared with
Mr Kenneday's oflicial returns of that class in
the six Southern States of Maryland, Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia and Ala
bama. We select the native paupers because
the foreign are an extraneous element, af
fording no basis for a just comparison. And
the same advantage will appear to the South
in the comparative returns of the idiotic, the
deaf and dumb, the blind and the insaue.
Why is this? What are the causes of these
differences in the melancholy returns of wretch
edness iu favor of the South. They may be
readily explained. The population of the South
is mainly agricultural that of the New Eng
land States is chiefly occupied iu manufactures.
The black slaves of the South, and the poorest
of the whites have generally enough to eat, and
air enough for health and wholesome ventila
tion. The hired laborers of the North are to
a great extent crowded into close and unwhole
some factories; and on leaving their work they
return to still more crowded and unwholesome
cellars and garrets, in towns and cities; reeking
with unwholesome vapors. The plain, but sub
stantial fair, and wholesome cabins of the negro
quarters of a Southern tobacco or cotton plan
tation, are, in truth, more favorable to health
and longevity, than the houses of many of our
Northern working men iu towns and cities,
comparatively well to do iu the world.
High Prices of Provision ix New York.
We have been favored by oue of the most
respectable houses in Sau Francisco with a list
of the wholesale prices of the following articles,
which, for the sake of comparison, we place in
juxtaposition with the quotations of
markets :
our owu
JVilc York,
Feb. 25.
Fan Fran
cisco, Feb. 1
5c.
Hams, per lb
Shoulders, per lb
Butter, per lb
Lard, per lb
5Jc to 8fc
bi-e
to
Tr Tol
ec 10 i-
3c,
12c to 10c
10c to 10ic
llc to 12c
10c
Coffee, per lb
10c
Crushed sugar, per lb 12c to 14c 10c
California is not only the land of gold, but
it is becoming the land of cheap living. AVhilst
the facilities of making money continue as great
as ever, the prices of the necessaries of life seem
to have beeu brought down to a point that will
enable the people to economise it. With us,
between the exactions of griping landlords and
the starvation prices at which things are ar
riving, it will soou uot only be impossible for
the laborer to save anything from his earnings
but even to keep body aud soul together V
i: Herald.
It is said that North Caroliua. produces
within its boundaries the staple of everv State
in the Union, and is the only one that docs it.
The Bowie Knife.
The late celebrated Henry Clay was a man of
great resolution and considerable daring. He
once told the following anecdote to a friend
of ours :
Traveling, in early manhood, in a public
conveyance iu a South-eastern State, he found
himself in the company of three other persons,
consisting of a young lad7 and gentleman, her
husband, and of an individual muffled up iu a
cloak, whose countenance was concealed, and
who appeared to be iudtilgiug iu a tete-a-tete
with Morpheus.
Suddenly a big, brawny Kentuckian got into
the coach, smoking a cigar, and frowned fierce
ly around, as much as to say : "I'm half horse,
half alligator; the yellow flower of the forest,
all brimstone but the head and ears, and that's
aquafortis." In fact, he looked as savage as a
meat-axe, and puffed forth huge volumes of
smoke, without reference to the company withiu,
especially of the lady, who manifested certain
timid symptoms of annoyance. Presently, after
some whispering, the gentleman with her, in the
politest accents, requested the stranger not to
smoke, as it annoyed his companion. The fel
low answered : "I reckon I've paid my place.
I'll smoke as much as I darn please: and all
hell shan't stop me no how." rWith that he
looked dangerous, aud rolled his eyes round as
a rattle-snake. It was evident he had no ob
jection to a quarrel, and that, if it occurred, it
was likely to lead to ajdadly struggle. ,lhe
young man who had spoKen to him shrunk back
and was silent.
Clay felt his gallantry aroused. He consider
ed for a moment whether he should interfere,
but experienced a natural reluctance to draw
upou himself the brutal violence of the gigantic
adversary. In that lawless country lie knew
his life might be sacrificed unavenged, lie
knew himself physically unequal to the contest,
and he thought, after all, it was not his business
quixotically to take up another man's quarrel.
Feeling pity for the insulted, aud disgust to
ward the iusulter, he determined to take no
notice; when, very quietly indeed, the cloaked
figure in the corner assumed an upright posi
tion, and the mantle was suffered to fall from it
without effort or excitement. The small but
sinewy form of a man, plainly dressed in a
tightly-buttoned frock-coat, with nothing re
markable about his appearauce, ws seen, and
a pair of bright gray eyes, sought the fierce
optics of the ferocious Kentuckian. Without
a word this "lay figure" passed his hand beueath
his collar at the back of his neck, and deliber
ately pulled forth a long, extremely long and
glittering knife from its sheath in that singular
place. "Straiiyi-," he said, "niy name is Colouel
James Bowie, well known in Arkansas and
Louisiana ; and if you don't put that cigar out
of the window in a quarter of a minute, I'll put
this knife through your bowels sure as death."
Clay said hp jever forgot in after life the ex
pression of the Colonel's eye at that moment.
The predomineiit impression made upon him
was the certainty of the threat being fulfilled;
and apparently the same conviction impressed
itself ere long upou the offender during t be two
or three seconds his eyes met those of Bowie.
He was the weaker, and he quailed. With a
curse he tore the cigar from between his teeth,
and flung it, scowling, but downcast, out of the
coach window.
Upon this, Colonel James Bowie as deliber
ately replaced his long knife in its eccentric hiding-place,
and, without saying a word to any
oue, or even vouchsafing a glance at any one,
refolded his cloak around him, and did not utter
another syllable to the -e4id of the journey.
The Catholics ix the United States. From
the "Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity's
Directory, for 1854," published in Baltimore,
we derive some important facts relative to the
progress of Catholicism in the United States.
The entire Catholic population of the United
States is said to be 1, (':):, GOO, iu the jurisdic
tion of various arch-diocesses, as follows :
Baltimore, 77,500; New York, 425,000; New
Orleans, 2-22,500 ; Cincinnati, 332,500; Oregon,
5000; San Francisco, 75,000; Nebraska,
&c., (Apostolie Vicar) 5,300. In these
arch-diocesses, there are 41 dioeesses, 1,712
churches, 740 other stations, 1422 clergy
men in ministry, 182 clergymen otherwise em
ployed, 34 ecclesiastical institutions, 45 literary
institutions for youmr men, 171 female religious
institutions, 112 female academies, 131 charita
ble institutions. The total of the Catholic
population is supposed to be understated, as
the returns of many districts were incomplete.
During 1853, there was an increase of 0 dioceses,
1 archbishop, 5 bishops, 113 priests, and 107
churches. The number of colleges iu the Unit
ed States, under Catholic direction, is 24, and
the theological seminaries number 20, with 4
preparatory seminaries. There are also 24
periodicals published in the United States, de
voted to the spread of Catholicism, 20 of which
are weekly issues.
Apropos of the growth of Catholicism, we
find iu the last number of the London Times,
an article devoted to the increase of "Papacy,"
iu which that paper makes it appear by official
report, that the whole number of Catholics iu
England and AValcs, is less than 200,000. It
says :
It appears that shortly after the expulsion of
the Stuarts, the number of Papists in England
aud Wales was computed at 27, GOG. In 17G7
another return was procured, and here the cal
culation gave 67,010, which figures, thirteen
years later, were increased to 09,370. These
seem to have been all the data brought before
the compilers of the report for past years. At
present, the actual number ot-sittings in Popish
places of worship, (after adding an estimate for
those making no returns) is 186,111. Now, if
we take into consideration the essentially un
Euglish character of these communities in gen
eral, and the extent to which the congregations
are filled either with Irishmen or with foreigners
from the various continental States, we may
very safely put 150,000 as the sum total of the
sittings required for bona fide English Papists;
nor should we, indeed, have much hesitation in
reducing even this amount by fully one-third.
Intermarriage of Blood Relations. The
Fredericksburg News says : In the county in
which we were raised, for twenty generations
uac-K, a. ueiLuin iaiuuy 01 wealth and respecta-
uu.ty nae luiennarriea until there onnfint Vi
fou"d iu three or four of tliem a SOURd man or
woman. One has sore eyes, another scrofula
a inira is miotic, a tourth bliud. a fifth bandv-
ii . t -i A - ' J
legged, a sixth with a head about the size of
a
wiiu iiol one out ot the number exempt
ui menial ueiects of some kind
let this family perseveres to intermarry witl
ntermarry
ith
each other, with these living
stautly before them.
monuments
con
JUi,i- i cecn i, eieneai vovager savs lie was one
day lying in his berth, and holding himself from
lallmg out, when he heard a brother clergyman
iu an adjoining berth pitch out upon the floor.
tipped out by a sudden roll of the ship.
"What kind of a curve Brother did the
ship describe then?" "he asked " a parabolic
curve?"
" No " answered his groaning frieud, as he
clambered into
diabolic curve!''
his berth again, "that was a
Rcgio Sermons
"While residing, a few years ago, in the
Monumental City," writes "N. S. S,," in a pleas
ant gossipping letter, "I used sometimes to go
on Sunday, to a small church near my residence,
to hear a somewhat famous negro preacher!
The church had been built by a few benevolent
gentlemen as a place of worship for their slaves.
The preacher, himself a slave, was au old negro,
famed throughout the city as a perfect original
specimen of imagination and humor; and more
especially, for his very unique construction of
various portions of the divine word. He fre
quently numbered among his hearers the elite of
the city, drawn thither in the hope of hearing
some new thing; and truth to say they were
seldom disappointed. To give some idea of his
style necessarily imperfect to an outsider, for
his gesticulation was peculiar aud forcible I
will narrate two morrcaiix : In describing
Christ's entrance into Jerusalem, he said:
'Well, my brudden, when de people iu 'Rusalum
heard de Lord was coming, dcy 'bandoned der '
ockerpashon, and cut for the subub; crowding
true de gates, I'se no doubt, like a flock o'sheep;
and some broke off de branches off de trees,
and t'rowed 'em down, aud some t'rowed down
straw and hay, and the rest took off der clothes
not all ob dem, I 'spect and tru 'em down
in de road. But 'twas no use, my breddren;
wid all they could do, dey ccuhVt stop dat are
cult ; he kim along, and went right in de gate,
easy as-nuflin!' On another occasion, when
striving his utmost to bring about a revival, he
elevated his humble flock several pegs in impor
tance. He said : 'Now, if any ob you niggers
t'ink dat 'cause you're black, and poor, and
miserable, you'se of no great consikence in the
Lord's eves, you'se vastly 'staken, I 'spect, OS
I could prove by many pints ob de divine word;
but one will be 'ticient lor your dull comprehen
sions De Lord sav in one place: 'God will
not let even a sparrer fall to de ground widout
his notice:' and in 'nudder place lie says : 'Are
not two sparrers sold for a farden?' A farden,'
I would inform you, is s'posed to be 'bout as
much as a cent. Well, denjifde Lord takes
so much care of a sparrer, worth only half a
cent, of how much more 'portance, my dear
brnddren, in his eyes, are you five aud six huu
dred dollar niggers!"
SHOES.
We are now receiving from Pliil;il'liliin. n larjre
ami elegant assortment of ladies" misses' ami chihlrens'
(! niters (black ami colored), Uoots, Ihiskmp, ami
Slippers. Also. (Jent.s" line Hoots, (Jaitvrs. A, Slioetees;
nil of the latest style and from tlie most approved
manufacturers.
S. T. IIAWLEY & SON.
March 2. 1S51. 8.5 2 1
BILLIARD TABLES For Sle.
Tiie subscriber lias two I.illiard Tables -winch ho is
desirous to dispose of. lie will sell one or both, with
all the lixtures, at a very low price.
JAMKS HALES.
March 4. 1K'.4. :!t-l
KOTICE,
The Copartnership heretofore existing between 1h
subscribers, under t!ie name of Tyson. Kelly A Co., is"
dissolved by mutual consent. 1'eter C Shaw has pur
chased the interest of Samuel J. JVrson, and the busi
ness of the new lirm will lw conducted under the old
nam?. THOMAS H. TYSON.
ALEXANDER KELLY.
SAMUEL J. lEUSON.
FebV 1'f-th. 1R"i4. S3-:it-pl
FIVE Ht'NUKEU THOlSASl) POIXDS
COTTON AND LINEN RAGS WANTED.
The subscriber will pay the highest market price
for any quantity of clean Linen and Cotton Kaps.
DAVID ML'Ul'HY.
March 4, 18.'4 if
V A HT X E USUI P NOTICE.
The undersi trued have formed a. copartnership under
the name and style of ii. W. I. (jOLDSTON & CO., for
the transaction of a general Mercantile L'usincss in the
town of Favettuville.
(1. W. I. C.OLDSTON.
March 1. 1851. U. V. GOLDSTON.
iv k w ti o a s .
(J. V I. GOLDSTON & CO. are now
ir Goods, at the new brick Store mi Gille:
receiving
pie street,
th
three doors south of the Market, consisting of loaf.
crushed, granulated and brown Sugars; Colfce, Tea,
saleratus. pepper, spice and ginger, bar soup, candies
and raisins, cassia, sperm and adamantine candles, line
and blasting powdi r. shot aud h ad, golden syrup,
Sw edes Iron (broad and narrow bar); band, hoop, strap,
rod and sheet Iron; English bar do.; square and octagon
Cas-t Steel; E. blister Steel; horseshoes, cut &, wrought
nails, flooring and ceiling brads, blacksmith tools; club,
broad and turpentine axes, hackers, scrapers and dip
pers; log. trace, and halter chains; wagon boxes, collee
mills, cotton and wool cards, cut tncks. dog irons, tea
kettles, shovel and tongs, preserve kettles, frying pans,
curry combs, weeding hoes, Wiildron's best scythe
blades. Dutch grass do., .seives, straw knives, long han
dle shovels, ditching sjwmIcs. sad irons, bed cords and
well rope, gold puns, linseed oil. machinery and tan
ners' do., white lead, l!lakers lire proof paint, Venetian
red, Spanish brown, litherage, lamp black, chrome
green and yellow, Prussian blue, rose pink and amber;
shoe, paint, varnish and white-wash brushes; window
glass and putty, copperas, starch, alum, borax, indigo
aud madder, snuff, salt pel re, blacking, matches, wafers,
ink. gum camphor, nutmegs, extract logwood, dead
shot, essences, laudanum, paregoric, Ihiteinan's drops,
opodeldoc, brimstone, assafctida, shoe thread, cpsom
salts, castor and sweet oil. distillers' glue, quicksilver,
fine and common shaving soap, fine chewing tobacco,
water buckets, brooms, cocoa dippers.
All of which we will sell at wholesale or retail as
low as possible.
March 1. 18..4. 8:j-tf
STEAM SAW MILL,
TIUPESTINE STILL, Ac. &c.
TRUST SALE.
J5y virtue of a De-1 of Trust executed to me by
Daniel V. liogers ou the 'Z'.ith da v of .November, 18X
for certain purposes therein mentioned, which Deed is
dulv registered in Look D. 1$. pi). 77. t78. (179 of the
Iiecoids of Deeds in the Register's Office of Kobeson
county. North Carolina, I shall, on MONDAY the 27th
dav of March hi-st-, (being the first -day of the next Su
perior Court of Kobeson County.) expose to PUBLIC
SALE, for Cash or Notes negotiable at Bank, liefore
the door of the Court House in the town of Luuiberton,
Four Hundred and twenty-eight and one-third
ACHES OF LAND.
On which is situated, immediately on Lumber River at
the tewn of Lumbcrton, a STEAM SAW MILL now
in successful operation, ami which has been run but a
few months; sixteen Mules, three Timber Wagoiin, two
ltoad Wagons with full sets of gear, and one
COPPER TURPENTINE STILL,
Containing eighteen barrels, together with all the fix
tures necessary for running the same.
Also, at the same time and place will le HIRED
OUT, until the 1st day of January next, about
TWENTY FIVE SLAVES
Who have been engaged in the Turpentine and Saw
Mill business.
Will also lie sold from 800 to 1200 barrels common
Rosin; a large lot of Rosin lying on the Cape Fear Riv
er above Fayctteville; a lot of Spirits Turpentine; an
unexpired lease in a large numkr of turpentine boxes;
Corn, Fodder; Staves, dressed aud undressed; Coopers'
Tools, ic. &c.
ROBERT S. FRENCH, Trustee.
Luinbt-rton, March 1, 1854 83-4t
TWENTY DOLLA11S HEWAIID.
Jesse Wilson, late &f the county of Sampson, North
Carolina, has left for parts unknown, and is indebted
to us, and having taken with him assets sufficient to pay
his debts, we will give the above reward for satisfac
tory information of his present location, if within the
jurisdiction of any Court of law iu the United States.
Said Wilson is about 40 years of age, with red coiu
plectiou, of medium size, and bf.d principles.
1 J. fc T. WADDILL.
Fayctteville, N. C, Feb'y 24, 1864. 82-3t
FOIt SALE,
l tan Horse AVaeon, second-hand
1 Harness
Horse, gentle
Also, 1 unimproved
THOS.
Lot in Cainpbcll
J. JOHNSON.
ton.
Fclv 18, 1854.
81-3t