; s . t0. tUt of the numbers of the Legislature of North Carolina. SENATE. XECB1PB. D. W D Camden and Currituck J B Jones, t) em. Pasquotank and Perquimans John Pool, Atner. -r ,v.: f " ' Gates and Chowan Dr R DHlard, De Hertford II G Co-perAiner . . Bertie Jos B Cherry Amer Washington a id Martin A Chessen Dem Tyrell and Hyde Francis M Burges, 2raer Beaufort Allen Grist Amer Halifax M L Wiggins Amer -j Northampton T J Person Dena Nash L N B Battle Dem Warren Wm Eaton jr Dem ! Frankliu l IJ Hawkins Dem Pitt M L Carr Dem Onslow E W Fonville Dem - Duplin W.I Houston Dem Ilowan & Davie Dr J B Ramsey Amer Cabarrus & Stably E R Gibson Amer Anson and Union Dr Myers Amer Mecklenburg W R Myers Dem Surry, Ashe. Yudkiu and Wu'tuga Abram Bryant Amer Lincoln, Gaston and Catawba -J II White DenT Rutherford and Cleavelan J Dr C Mil -Burke, McDowell and Caidwell A very Dem Buucoinlie, Yaney &c D Coleman Dein New Hanover O Fenne'l Dem Edgecombe II T Clarke Dem Wayne C II Lrogdien Dem Craven J Miller Dem Carteret and Jones W P Ward Dem Johns! on L B Sanders Dem Wake G il Wilder Dem . Granville C 11 K Taylor Dem Grange 1' C Cameron Dem Chatham R E Rives Dem, .:. ..-. Bladen. Bmii8witHc;;.fliRlOoiaTiibas (Jo ne Amer -Cumberland and Harnett D MeDiarmid , Sampson T II II!ines Dem lv-chmond and Unbeson A Doekery Amer Moore and Montgomery S II Christian, Amer Randolph and Alamance M W Holt Amer Caswell S P Hill Dem Person J W Cunningham Dem Rockingham Geo D Boyd Dem Stokes and Forsythe J J Martin Dem Guilford Ralph Gorrell Amer Davidson J W Thomas Amer Cherokee, Jackson &c W H Thomas Dem Wilkes, Iredell &c li Parks Amer Thirty-three Democrats and seventeen Am ericans. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Alamance D A Montgomery and George Patterson Dem Alexander A C Mcintosh Amer Anson A J Dargau W M Picket Amers Ashe Allen Gentry Dem Burke F P Glass Dem Buncombe M Erwiu Dem Bladen G M White Dem Bertie D Outlaw Jno Wilson Amers Beaufort J II Stuhhs J Eboru Amers Brunswick T D Meats Amer Cabarrus C N White Amer j Catawba G P Bowe Dem Craven C Kelly H C Jones Denis Cumberland and Harnett J G Shepherd J Stewart L Bethea Dems Chowan J C Badham, Dem Columbus D T Williamson Dem Camden I) D Ferebee Amer Carteret W Ilumley Amer Cherokee C M Stiles' Amer Caswell Win Long E K Withers Denis Chatham R 0 Cotton I) Hackney T By- nnm Dems Caldwell C W Clark Dem Currituck S R Jarvis Dem Cleaveland W M Blautou F S Ramsour Dems Davidson J M Leach J P Mabry Amers Davie W 15 March Amers Duplin B Southerland W'H Ward Dems Edgecombe R R Bridgers J S Dancey Ds Forsyth J Masten J A Waugh Dems Franklin Dr L A Jeffreys, Dem Gastoh Richard Rankin Dem .uninn ?nvgTTivn.te, n. THE 4TLAX The possibility of a snV-iiariiie telegraph be tween this country ad EnJnd Wms to have almost reached the certainty of fact. Minute observations and careful experiments have made it evident that lKnith the stormy surface of the Atlantic, and between the rocky ledges that skirt our -slrores and extend . far seaward, there are immense stretches of plain, along which the metal conductor can be extended with perfect safety. As this seems ever to have been the great impediment of consummating this scheme, nnrl as tlipi- is now no doubt on the practicability of a continuous extension we may consider the undertaking in the light of an institution. If then, the two great nations of the world, commercially speaking, are to be as intimately united by intercommunication as by relation ship, what are we to expect as to their future conduct? Will there be any greater harmony of feeling and interests than uoiV exists? Will England cease her grumbling and criminations, and be content with the quiet enjoyment of her self-sufficiency? Will the United States cast away the distrust which has ever marked her conduct toward her great rival? Will the wire which connects the commercial centers of the two peoples penetrate deeper, until it reach the popular heart? These subjects we will leave till we find our selves in a,more speculative mood. There must, ofcourse.be great changes -wrought "in the ninercial aspects of the two. peoples" which' filr iufluenceJieajrilv iBrgeafe'ral altifade of We setrtliat Kngland has atreauy t&tcit measures to secure for herself extensive privileges of communication, and if our Gov eriimentjoins in the movement, Washington and St. James will be the great telegraph offi ces tof the line. There must, of course, be a Telegraphic Bureau established. Operations will be required, and thus a new outlet be made for the mechanical genius of the land. Private office will be sneered at, and during the inaugu rating of a new administration the people will have to ba observed in respect to dispatches, and as there will be no occasion for conversa tion, it is probable u dumb man will be ap pointed as Chief Operator, with a score of dumb assistants although the quality of deaf ness may be considered more desirable. At any rate this new sphere of usefulness will be The rnsaarew The rumor that the G eorgia, had challenged L of 'tire Filfiuoce electors of ll confirmed by a card from that ; Stephens, of i,ifiBEsq., tne i ste lias been Jrilemau, which appears in the Augusta (Gai) 2justttioiialist of Wednesday last, dated Wa iingtou" the 12th hist. From 1hs curd it seenr -that the diffi culty arose rrpoii a question tsf eracity ia'rer triird to an enirasrement to disc "la the issues of w - - -. - the recent election oatcst.. .J ill-feeling thus generated Mr that Mr Hill made wrtainrfe? speeches delivered during the t. biiuself and MriToomba arr haviirg "cowered" nnder a cbZ, the Whig party. These matt notices and says: ; " "I am now compelled by. a t myself aud the public td make, the correspondence referred tc. uated, in relation to it, Mr I J has proved himself to be not oulyan. Imp eut Braggart a, id an unscrupulous; liar,' but C spicable pol troon besides All rhese I re ini him to be, holding myselff notwithstai g what has passetl, and this denunciation -Ul - responsible i even to him, lor wtiat l say,. II -12 v noi uuvny insensible to shame and degratfion,; however -dditioh to the beris alleges Elements f 'gfit tr herein eseted as of treason to VJkir Stephens & of doty to iOwn that by d just termi- be evet by the filled with those most deserving of such good Secretary ihil theUtf ol4o . The folloarijjr capfimeDt to Secretary Dob bin, aa wU iJtRtidmt it is gracefully - expres sed, appears HJ the Washington corre?dtTfce Of the rHadelphla Worth Aetican a ldtcg oppoait jarnal: : ' "A g cefal and becoming mttl of ofict4 dis cretion waa voluntarily performed by the Sec retary of the Navy recently which deserVea to be related to his credit, as well as an honorable example for the emulation 'others who may suc ceed to the post which he now fills with admit ted advantage to the country, or in any other department oT the 4 government. The toar of service at stwtkMi is, by a actwpted usage, about three years. Commodore Stewart, who has been in command of the yard at Philadel. phia, finding that his time was about to expire notified the Secretary of the Navy that, in ao cordauce with the usage, he asked the appoint ment of his successor: Mr Dobbin fct once re plied with generous acknowledgment of the great services of the gallant veteran, that no ordinary rule should be applied to him , and it was not only the pleasure but the wish of the department, that he should retain the position, so long as it was acceptable, and that he would not be disturbed until its duty became an in-cumbervuee. - - v - - - V rrkAYKKsa in rofBKfcsk. The Kebtftska Kewssaya: r The editor has gone ap the river for a lew days. All good articles, facetious .remarks, puns and typographical errors, may be attribu ted to bis absence or the devil. , f- s In order to give variety; and rigor to ?The News he will trequently leave for a week orw. It is to be hopped that the readers of this journal wiri apprecia e his endeavors. Absence, or the devil, " whoever has control of the columns, has had ' some, experience in domestic neatness in the Teritory, and thus g;ves the world the benefit of his observation : . "We always did like neat people. We aiwas did cheri&h a kind of tender feeling for all neat women. But we were never fully "struck",by one uutil last week, and the way of it was this: We were out West" a few miles aud got belated, looked for a place to stay all night,' found a cabin, asked if we could be accomodated, aud a tall woman with freckled face, red hair, buf falo skiu inoccnssins, buckskin dress and a free soil baby, said she "cevkzA we mount." We got off our hones, hitched them to m cotton wood corn crib, and went in. We"asked for supper. We got some bacon molasses, boiled puukiii and corn dodger. We ate fortune. What will be the use of diplomatic agents when the new era is inaugurated. Aside from the duties of a Consulship, there can be no necessiiy for a foreign agent. Our Minister, as it is, j does little or uQthing. The great requisite for the appointment is wealth, and the poor man, however brilliant or deserving he may be, is shut out from it. It is only, as now conducted, the nursery of aristocracy, and is at any rate but an unmeaning farce a relic of the past. Let the foreign ministership be abolished and deaf and dumbjoperators take their place. The submarine telegraph will then be the means of J doing some positive good, even though it does not completely harmonize the long-existing and l . . . . . . 1 A seemingly inherent animosities oi me io countries. Pnacb on Hooys and Flounce?, Fragment of ax Unpublished .Novel of Fashoxabi.e Life. " How could he tell ? Two long, weary years had passed away ; years of suffering, adventure, hardship and trial, since he had left her and his native land to do, j battle against the hirsute legions of the Mus- Granville T I, Hargrove J M Bullock T B ! covite, and how did he know but that he would I,., mnv ! n trt 'ff:ir The card of Mr Stenheu? erTaludes hi this unequivocal manner: "I will also, I trust lciT'ia v ttJreshect . on Ordin'ary occasions would forbicl.j But when a' mendacious gasconader sets up .wantonly to asperse private character and malign individual reputation, and then refuses that redress which a gentleman knows how to ask as well as how to grant, no course is left for the most courte ous and decorous, the most upright and . honora ble, but to put the braud of infamy upon hira." Mr Tooombg' Proi OsittoJi The Washington City Star of 19th inst., thus refers to this matter. "The "letter of Senator Toombs, addressed to the southern Convention, has for some days past been a theme of very general conversation among the public men in this city. Its reci mmeudatious are well received, indeed by those from the South, with very few exceptions. So general favor for them do they manifest as that' those from sections of the North, whose business en terprises are likely to be affected by the action of the southern States governments proposed by Mr T., if essayed to be carried but, are much much excited on the subject showing thus, we think, that Mr T. has hit the right nail on the head. "They argue vehemently-against the feasibili ty ami constitutionality of the recommendations of Mr Tooms. With so much earnestness. indeed, as that their efforts carry with them conviction contrary to their wishes." . Txis Leopard's Attack. The -power of a leopard is woudertul in proportion to his weight. I have seen a full 'grown bullock with his neck broken by the leopard that attacked it. It is the popular belief that the effect is produced by a blow of the paw. This is not the case. Few leopards rush . boldly1 to the attack, like a dog. They stalk their. LyaMie erouchirfEfyT mating nse of every"Wiect. "It is easy to suppose what was the eharao j neariuy. Aiivr meat was pasv me woman mu iu mc oldest girl : "Now, Doddy Jane, yon have just got to keep that old slut aud. them ere pups frftuj,slefin -tn ttus erf meal box ? any - longer. In making' this'ere stranger's corn, bread,- I whs ter ofbe answer which this high consideration syontaneously invoked from Ironsides. Suffice it to say, it was worthy the man and the occa- . ..... j sion. - Ale now retains insisted aaseiwctt 'Capi tain in the navy on duty, and with the highest pay allowed by law four thousand five hundred dollars per annnm. Such acts are their own most eloquent advocates. They address them selves to the hearts of men,: and, like the beau tiful quality of mercy, are twice blessed If Mr Dobbin had no better honor to digmfy his retirement, this would be sufficient to give him a place iu the gratitude of his country. It is by the exercise of such proper and delicate re cognition of patriotic service that a government is elevated iu the eyes of the world, and a high executive officer endorsed in the affections of those whose noblest ambition is to reflect credit on the flag of the Union." FAYETTE VILLE, N. Saturday, Jamini y JT. 2857- Cv C McCkimmrx i our tlulv authorized gent for the collection of all cla ms due this office. The Legislature. '.The Christmas Holidays having carried home a great many members, little or no business has been done during the past ten days. Per haps they may now dispatch the work before them. The 10th of February is the day named for adjournment. RU.EIC0. Up to the. time of going to press, nothing of any interest had transpired at the seat of Gov ernment. The Legislature is now iu session, but we have received no intelligence as to busi ness matters. Lyon Dems Guilford D F Caldwell LM Scott, K W Ogburn Amers Greene A D Speight Dem Gates II Parker Dem IIaywood--Dr S L Love Dem Halifax Wm Hill J W Johnson Dem Hertford J 13 Slaughter Amer Hyde John C Jenuett Amer Henderson John Baxter Amer Iredell L Q Sharpe A li F Gaither Amers Jackson Jno R Dills Dem Jones W A Cox .deai Johnston IJ II Tomliuston Asa Barnes D's Lenoir S W Iiright Dem Lincoln A P Cansler Dem Madison Dr Jno Yancey Dem Martin S W Outerbridge Dem McDowell J C Whitson Dem Moore W 13 Richardson Amer Montgomery J W Crump Amer Macon D W Siter Amer Mecklenburg W M Matthews W F David son Dems Nash G N Lewis Dem New Hanover R II Tate S A Holmes Ds Northampton M W Smallwood J Mason Dems Onslow L.W Humphrey Dem Orange W F Strayhorn J F Lyons Dems Pasquotank W E Mann Amer Perquimans J M Cox Amer Pitt Dr W J Blow Ed Moore dems Person R II Hester Dem Robeson Giles Leitch Amer Morrison Dem Rockingham M Scales Thomas Settle jr Dems Rowan N F Ilall dem; W A Honck Amer Rutherford Ed Touts Amos - Kurrit! dems Randolph- II li Elliott A G Foster Amers Richmond Amer Sampson O P White J M Mosely Dems Surry R E Reeves Dem Stokes J F Hill dem Stanly M P Waddell Amer Tyrrell Jno A Benb'ury Amer Union D Rushing Dem Wake N G Rand A M Lewis soe dems Washington IT A Gilliam Amer Watauga G N Folk Amer Wayne E Sauls E A Thompson Dems Wilkes A W Martin P Eller Amers Yadkiu Coi Speer Amer Yancey Isaac A Pearson dem Democrats, 80; Americans, 40. Dem. majority on joint ballot, 5G. M A Bled- Gex. Scott. The House of Representatives has passed the bill to pay Gen. Scott about $20,000, in addition to $10,000 aiready allow ed by the Secretary of War, as the back pay of his oflfilce of Licot. General.1 I have to shave them off. ' In an agony of conflicting hopes and fears, Algernon Fitzpymlico turned into Langham place. Why does he stop so suddenly, as by a spell? and why does the life blood rush crimson red o his manly brow ? " A form of feminine elegance, lovely and fair to look upon, and arrayed all the gorgeous amplitude of the prevailing mode a fairy ves sel with her sails all set appears in the dis tance. Can it be ? yes no yes 'tis she, indeed there can be no doubt abpttt it but ' will she recognize him. A cold chill, like damp ! dinner napkins, struck to his very heart his brain grew dizzy, and with all the premonitory symptoms of a violent bilious attack, he clung to the nearest lamp post for support." "It was Lettice, fresh and crisp, and sparkling as that which had formed the salad of his noontide nourishment. With the sun set of smiles she glidingly approached, and gracefully extending her exquisitel' gloved hand towards him, and in accent as the drop pings of etheraal springs, she made inquiry as to how he did. But who shall describe the feelings of Algeronon at that critical moment? feelings in comparison with which the tortus of Tantalus were as cheerful and enlivening pas time ; there was the hand, but now to reach it! OWadly would he have gi.ven up name and fame, lands, titles, trinkets, all to have pressed again that little hand ; to have touched Gnee -nioe that Utile finger. "As well might he attempt to scale Parnassus as trench upon the limits nf that enchanted circle of which she formed the centre, and which hung like a cloud bank be tween him and the object of his soul's idolatry. It was a terrible moment. " Suddenly and with electric brilliancy the flash of triumph gleams in his downcast eye he has hit upon an expedient. Raising his sta-1 wart arm that arm which erewhile amid the blare of trumpets and the crash of war and led battalions on to victory, and made the Russian tremble, dexterously encircling the lamppost before alluded to with the curved handle of his phrapluic ; cleverly balancing his noble form at an angle of forty-five degrees ; and in as grace ful an attitude as the circumstances would ad. mit of, he " &c., &c. Here the leaf turns. that will afford them cover, until they are with in a few bounds of their prey. Then the im mense power uf muscle is displayed iu the con centrated energy of the spring. Ha flies through the air and- settles on the throat, usually throwing his own body over the animal, while his teeth aud claws are fixed on the neck; this is the maimer hi which the spine of the animal is broken, by a sudden twist aud not by a blow. The blow from the paw is, nevertheless, immensely powerful, and one stroke will', rip open a bullock like a knife ; but the effects of the wound are still more to be dreaded than the force of the blow . There is a peculiarpois on in the claw, which is highly dangerous. This is caused by the putrid flesh which they are constantly tearing and which is apt to cause gangrene by inoculation. " 1 Baker-s Wanderings in Ceylon. I "CoxspJRXTors ix Every Cabin. The Al bany Journal, speaking with refereuce to the threatened Insurrection in the South, says: Once let it be known in the slave's hovel that "Massa" can get no help from the North ern half of the Union, aud insurrections will be breaking out every day. Hardly a household will lay their heads on their pillows at night without dread of a knife at their throats be fore morning. They will find plots on every plantation. They will hear of conspirators in every cabin. The Chicago Times naturally remarks, wtih refereuce to this infamous complacency and treasonable assurance, that the Albany Eve ning Journal would rejoice to see every slave holder fall by the knife of the negro, or burned to a crisp iu the fire find led by slave insurrec tion. The suppositions case which the. Journal makes, would already have become uu obstinate i aud damnable fact, if that paper and its politi cal friends could have had their way at the recent election. "Conspirators in eJery ca6in? QthgajgCTij every church; black assassins in every street and at every hearthstone; the North ruled by the iron rod of tyrant demagogues, and the South laid waste by the torch of ferocious sav ages; disgrace and contempt from abroad and political suicide at home; the wrangling of one race with the other, and consequent ruin of pestered nearly to death pickin the small hairs and dead fleas ont of it, that come out of them pesky dugs. And if they sleep iu it a week longer it won't be fit to eat." We were in love with that woman on account of her neatness. And that eveuing .we laid down upon the rough hewn floor and bad plea sant dreams. Ghostly fleas were hopping about through our corporeal diversities, and spectral sluts, with goblin pups, danced before us in boxes ofc unearthly meal, during the lire long night, and our great grandfather sat straddle of us six hours, and with a ramrod to a six pounder cannon, stuffed cords of that neatly prepared com dodger down our unwilling throats and whistled all the time for the dogs, while the free soil baby and its tidy mother 6a t by and wept for the departing hoe cake. We like ucatness, we do. Gen: Campbell, the present able. and efficient chief of the Post Office PepjJPImefit, has been tendered a complimentary dii.i.er by the Demo crats of New York. Ferefcn .VtW England bus declared war against Persia. The Persians have re-captured Herat. France is intriguing between the three powers, Eng land, Russia and Persia and it is presumed by some dipfomats in high circles, that Napo leon will outwit the whole. Meiger, a German, collected and described 600 species of flies; which he has collected in a district of ten miles circumference. Laxd Warrants. In conseqeence of the President's offering nearly two millions of acres oi" public lands in Northern Iowa (the best lands in the State) for sale, a sudden rise has taken place in Land Warrants. At the - last session of Congress some sixteen' millions of acres were donated to various railroad compan ies, and in consequence the benefits contempla ted to old soldiers by the bounty land acts were srreatly depreciated. Warrants have beeu as high as $1 16 per acre. We advise individ ual holders not to be in haste to sell, as un doubtedly in a few days Warrants will reach somewhere in the figure. Capturb; or Runaway Nkgrobs. On Thurs day last, 2 1th instant, Joseph F. Powell, aged about tweuty years, and son of Geo. W.Powell, of this county, was hunting in the woods be tween Bovina and Big Black river, in company with two schoool boys, sons of Madison Stephens,. when they found a camp of runaway negroes,well stocked with provisions, &c., but no one at it. Mr. Powell had no gun, but one of the boys had a double-barrelled shot-gun. Pow ell took the gun from the Joy, and sent him for some of the neighbors for help. A few minutes after the boy started, a negro made his appear ance, when he was bid to stand. lie proposed to give himself up, and offered to be tied, and approached the boys for . that purpose, but as soou as he was near enough, he seized the gun and wrested it from the hands of Powell, and thennockeJihTud fired tfi gun at the youngest Stephens, the load passing through the crown of his hat, just grazing the top of his head. Stephen then ran and the negro drew a horse-pistol and knocked Powell do urn the second time. The elder Stephens hearing the gun, ran back, and he and Powell succeeded in conquering and securing the negro. Soou after other large negro men The contemplated duel between Gen. Dargau of Anson, and Mr Hargrove of Gran ville, has been "amicably adjusted." By the way, this is the fourteenth or fifteenth bloodless duel we have read ol lately, not all such. Pity they were came to the assistance of their comrade, and both; and finally, everything of human progress j one cf tiera attempted to shoot Powell with a everything of nationality, everything of hope and sympathy for oppressed millions of our own race, sent wailing into the shades of a futurity without hope or consolation. Such is an out line of the career upon which The Albany Journal and the rest of the Northern political Abolitionists still seek to enter. Such is the course upou which the South desires not yet to set out. Should the time ever come when, in this devotion to the vital principle of the Republic,- "massa" needs help f-om the North, he will find, ff need be, strong arms enough among his northern brethren to sweep not only the sons of Ham from the face of the earth, but with them the murderous traitors who would Incite them to rebellion. N. Y. Daybook. : 10 m !6?The electoral vote of Wisconsin was lost iu consequeuce of the failure of the electors to reach the capitol on the day appointed by law for throwing the vote of the State. Snow fell in such quantities as to impede the passage of the trains, on which were the electors, until after the time designated. A somewhat similar circumstance took place with regard to the vote of California. The steamer which left San Francisco, having al' the electors on board, got aground, aud it was at. An timn fnrpH t.hat tliv wmilrl nnt ul Income axd Liabilities of the STATEsrA Q . iuu neighborhood of the above niiltCUICHL DUUIIHtlCU "J - I V n o M - - . compliance with a resolution of the Sente make the following : " t The receipts into public fund from ordinary sources for fiscal year ending Nov. 1, 1857 are estimated at $387,675 45; and for the year ending Nov. 1 1858 at $402,413 31. J The es timated disbursements nrp for 'fl"R7 iUoO 914 92. Estimated deficit for '56-7 $63,237 41; for '57-8 $74,679 61. U. S. Commerce. The value of exports from the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1856, was $310,586,330; for 1855 $246,703,553; for 1S54, $252,047,806. ' Of products of the sea the exports were $8,-350,797- Of products of the forest $10,694, 184. Of agriculture $218,280,649 : Manufac ture $78,000,000. ".v;.; Of cotton and tobacco, exclusive products of the South, the exports were $140,500,000 Of gold and silver the exports were $41,000,000 and deducting this it will be seen that cotton and tobacco contribute, more than half the value of b&tig fixed by law at two o'clock, P. M. The hoot got off, however, and the vote of Caiifor. uia was duly thrc-vn for Buchanan and Breck inridge. It would bare been a singular circumstance and coincidence, if California, like Wisconsin, had lost her electoral vote, especially after the exertions made by Mr Buchanan himself to secure it, by writing a letter designed to tickle the latitudinarhn ideas of his Caiifor nian friends at the expense of his strict construction of the Constitution Southern supporters. ' By the way, suppose the Maryland electors had failed to reach the capitol in time, to vote for Fillmore, what would have been the footing tp of his vote? Wt Herald. & MV Bditob: Feeling, uuder the circum stances, no inclination to interfere with "the ticket" proposed fori mayor -and aldermen, I desire the withdrawal of my name from the candidacy. " 1 ' F. N. ROBERTS January 1. 139T, horse-pistol, but it only snapped, and the boys succeeded in securing them both ami marched them in. At night they captured a woman at the same camp. They are now in jail, in our city mid say they belong to persons living in Adams and Wilkinson counties. -- This was a daring and courageous feat, and one that very few hoys would have the courage or hardihood to perform. Vicksburg Whig. Is A Half Barrel a Barrel ? An inciden occurred iu the Municipal Court, which shows how easily a person indicted for an offence a gainst the laws can escape, through a most trifling error in the indictment. John A. Fra zier was on trial for larcenv ol mackerel from Long Wharf. The evidence was put in to sus tain this charge, and the case given to the ju ry. That body was in deliberation about five minutes, when they returned to the court room for the purpose of getting instructions on a cer tain point from Judge Nash. The foreman re marked that the indictment alleged the stolen mackerel to have been contained in barrels, whereas all the testimony went to show that half-barrels were used. District Attorney Brewster argued that a half-barrel was still a barrel aud that the term 'barrel," used in the indictments was proper. The Court did not coincide with the views of the District Attorney deeming a half barrel adistiiict piece of wormauship and decided that the indictment was defective. The jury then, by order of the Court, rendered a verdict of acquittal.--ifoslon Herald. Iu the House of Representatives on Saturday, Mr Winslow, of North Carolina, asked consent to submit a resolution requesting the Secretary of War "to furnish the House of Representa tives with an estimate of the appropriations necessary for the extension of the North Caro lina arsenal of construction, together with the amount heretofore expended in the completion of the poblic buildings there." Objection was made. Ma Editor: I noticed in the Observer1 of Monday last, that I was recommended to the citizens of oar Town, as a suitable person for Commissioner iu the Ward in which I reside. Having no aspiration for the oQce, 1 decline a nomination therefor. - J. WINSLOW. f I January 1, 1C5T. As a last remedy, it is proposed to the town Commissioners to give that ditch a dose of salts, so as to cause a running off in that way. It is rumored that the Hon. John E. Ward, of Savan nah, has been tendered a high appoint ment, either at home or abroad, by the incom, ing administration. Mr. W belongs to the Un ion wiug of tha Southern Democracy, and the Savannah. Republican thinks it likely there is some ground for the report. Eclipse ix 1857. There will be two eclipses tais year, both of the sun. The first will occur ou the 25th of March. - It will be invisible in all that part of the United States east of the meridian of. Washington, and partial and visible west of YVashington The second is an annual eclipse of the sun. w hich will commence ou . the 17fll nf Siot.tot.ll.nr aJt- ot;,J.;.tI. i,. t.,. TTTVLfj.rJ States, and therefore invisible in this couutry. It will be visibie in a large portion of Asia, a part of Africa, and. the whole of Australia. We are gratified to find that J il Uatigh ton, Esq., is a friend to the Western Bail ItOad and however we may differ Iroin him in bis opinions as to the i racticable thuracttr of the Kiver Improvement, we must uive h.m ' o credit lor able uud cogent reasoning in iavorof the rail-road, the necessity for it, and the dc tnauds of popular interests upon the' state lor tlie development of those immense treuhutes -jf coal aud iron which lie in the Deep llivt-r val ley. As Mr Hanghton pertinently h.t u.;;Us he cannot be an opponent of so impurtnnt a utik, aud we are asu;eu that his future course in reference to the bill will prove his words. We take the liberty of quoting from Mr U.'s late letter to the Observer, the following unequivo cal expression: ''opposed to your railroad I ! The idea (when all the surrounding circumstan ces are known) is absolutely preposterous." Jacob Johnson who was executed at Clinton a short "time sii.ee, fur the inuruer of Mr Jacob Stewart, seems to have been a hardened wretch. He made several applications for pardon to the Governor the lust of which,' written on tke eve of his execution, he dated iu The in fernal regions;" and we learn that on his way to the gallows he remarked that he would "just be hung in time to spend Christmas in h 11. He was the bravado to the last. We learn that the Hotel belonging to B. Calddwell, Lumbertou, wjas destroyed by fire on Sunday night, eovered by insurance. , Dividend. The Bank of Fayetteville has declared a dividend of 4 per cent. Mr Editor; The following ticket will be supported by the citizens of Fayettevilla in the approaching election. This ticket has been selected without reference to any interest except that of the town, its health, finances aud general prosperi ty : Per Mayor. THOS. J. CURTIS. ConunlsneBers. Ward No. 1 JAS. SUNDY, 2 A. M. CAMPBELL, 3 F. N. ROBERTS, 4 W. G. MATHEWS, 5 W. McL. McKAY, 6 GEN. JNO. WINSLOW, 7 WALTER DRAUGHON. Editor: -I beg leave to withdraw from the candidacy for town commissioner. A. M. CAMPBELL. Janaary 1 1857. Wm; McIi. McKay declines being a candiV rdate for town Commissioner ' all our exports. "f f k A- "3tr a.1 i
