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Soapsuds Effectual for Destroying
Chinch Bugs.
Messrs. Editors: Among the many tri
bes of insects which devour the vegetable
products of the farmer, that numerous spe
cies called chinch bugs are at present the
the most alarming. Should they increase
from year to year (and we see nothing to
prevent except the powerful operation of
some natural cause unknown to us,) they
will in time not far remote, sweep all before
them. It seems necessary, in order to con
centrate our efforts in one common cause
against our numerous enemy, that investi
gations experiments should be made known.
An experiment iainy made, whether success-
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xui ui uut, n in iiiivt; its use. J.I SUCCeSSIUl
it is of great importance; if not it will pre
vent a repetition, and may lead to one of
more efficiency. There are many ways pro
posed for destroying the bug which so much
injures our crops. Soapsuds I had seen re
commed as a destroyer of the bug, and with
a view t(P satisfy myself of it, I tried it on a
small scale and it kills all with which it
comes in contact. The experiment was com
pletely decisive that suds is effectual to the
bug, and there is no doubt ofits acting suc
cessfully if made very strong. I made the
experiment last Friday week ago, and to be
certain that the bugs were killed, I visited
the spot the day after and found them on
the ground and stalks of corn as I had left
them; and to be better satisfied that they
were dead, I gathered about a teaspoonful
of them in a small box, and they have not
yet kicked, that I know of, since they gave
up the ghost. It is said by some persons that
soapsuds will not destroy them but merely
stupify them.
If such is the result of their experiment, it is
because the suds was not made strong enough ;
if made sufficiently strong and the bugs thoro
ughly soused, they will die in a short time, and
pretty effectually so too. Any how, such is the
result of my experiment. But soapsuds, like
most of the remedies suggested, is too slow and
tedious for the application to be made on a
large scale, and cannot be attended with much
sncess unless frequently applied ; and the ex
pense of money, time and labor to accomblish
it, one would not be repaid for in so doing. I've
given this accouut of my little experiment for the
purpose of showing what has come under ray
observation, as there seems to be contradictory
opinions respecting tne emcacy ot suds as a
destroyer of the bug. With regard to it as
certain destroyer of the bug, I can speak with
bull's idea of saving the corn crops from the
ravages of the bugs by sowing a belt of land
in corn between the wheat, oat, and corn fields
in the months of April, May, and June, is a
good one, and well deserves a trial by the far
mers next year. I think it advisable as soon
as they congregate in prodigious numbers in
the broadcast corn' to use means to destroy
them, as we may in this way easily exterminate
them by the wholesale. Soapsuds, in my
opinion, wonld be one of the easiest, cheapest
anu surest remedies to use. vve must hght as
well as feed them. It seemed to me that the
Chinese sugar cane of any kind, sowed broad
cast as suggested by Mr. Turnbull, would be
preferable on account of the sweetness of its
juice to our common Indian corn. It would be
well to try the experiment at least. It is to be
hoped that some more effectual means to arrest
the ravages of the bugs than have yet been
discovered will be found out. I shall be glad
to learn, through your paper from time to time,
the result of experiments, and shall have no
hesitation in communicating such as come to
my knowledge.
I am, with much respect,
Yonr ob't serv't.
B.
Amelia Co., Ya. July 28, 1856.
Milk Sickness. Its Cause and Cure.
We clip the following from an Illinois ex
change paper. As there are localities in this
State where this disease is said to prevail,
( though we are not aware that the precise spot
of its existence has oeen found, ) we give the
subjoined a place in our columns :
I noticed some weeks since, an invitation in
your paper to a discussion upon this subject ;
but as nothing has as yet appeared, I venture
to break the silence, and assert at the outset,
that the cause is known, and the cure has been
tested. I will be as concise as possible, make
a few statements, and invite people everywhere
1 a it c V. r - i nii
to prove ine irum oi wuai x say. isc. rue
cause is cobalt. No ore in its natural state has
ever been discovered that is poison, but cobalt.
I have never known man or beast to be aff
ected where this ore is not found. 2nd. The
cure is sulphuric acid. I have tried it myself,
and seen it tried on both man and beast, and
know it to be efficient.
The above is no hoax It is the result of my
own experience, and proves to my perfect satis
faction the truth of what I assert. Let others
test and proTe it likewise. C. W.
Rhubarb-plants. Should be set out in hills
tour ieet apart, in rows six ieet wiue, ana one
plant in each hill. The soil should be deep, dry,
rich, and light. The roots strike deep down
and will rot if they come in coutact with
water.
The happiest man in the world is the one
with just wealth enough to keep him in spirits,
and just children enough to keep him industious.
Every art is best taught by example ; good
deeds are productive of good friends.
From the "London Morning Star.
A Fearful Scene With A Mad
Sailor.
A most fearful scene was witnessed in the
South Shields Market Place last night by a
very large crowd of people, sailors aud others
and the horror and alarm that prevailed for
some time cannot be well described. Thomas
Cook, a sailor, had returned from Hamburg
that morning in a brig called the Castle Eden.
He had beeu a little excited when he came
home, but there had been nothing in his man
ner very much to alarm his wife After
tea j
h had dressed himself and crone out: and it
would seem that he was immediately after
attacked with a sudden fit of madness. He
was observed running about in excited state,
and then to clamber by spouting to the roof
of St. Hilda's Church. With such agility
as only sailors display, he somehow or ottier
attached himself to the east siae oi me cnarcn
tower, by resting with his toe ends upon a
thin ledging sloping to the ground, and not
more than an inch in breadth, aud striking his
finger nails into the line between the stones
he brought himself to the out-side; but finding
he could not pass the other angles, he dropped
with his hands on the narrow ledge, passed
himself hand over hand completely rouud the
ower a most miracuiuuis peiiuimaiice as uie
i -i o;i.i. ;.i tl-io laropp prnwd that had irathpr
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ed expected every moment that he would slip
and be dashed to pieces on the pavement.
Having got back to the roof of the church
the unfortunate man tore off his necktie, coat
and linen shirt and rending them to threds, he
threw the fragments among the excited crowd
below He then pulled out his watch, and
dashing it to pieces pitched it at them. He
next empted his trowsers pockets of money
and cigars and threw them away, and every
one thought he was about to precipitate him
self from the roof, when the police and several
young men burst open the belfry, and having
found a door rushed through it to the roof.
When Cook saw them coming to him he ran
toward them and attempted to drag one young
man over the leads, but he was overpowered,
and was taken off to the police station by a
strong force of policemen and civilians. He
was put into a straight waistcoat, and he will
probably be removed this morning to a lunatic
asylum, as he is fearfully excited. Cook was
a remarkable steady and industrious man, and
it is thought that his madness has been produ
ced by the extreme heat experienced at Ham-1
burgh. I
Prosperity. We care not what a man's
parsuit may be, he will prosper if he sticks to
it Fortune, to be won, must be besieged. But
he who runs about the world in chase of the
fickledjade, will find that ignis fatuus like, she
always eludes his grasp. "A rolling stone,"
the proverb says, "gathers no moss." Men
who see gold fields on the other side ot the
globe, when industry, thrifty, and energy are
certain to yield suceess at home, resemble the
old woman, who wasted the day in looking lor
her spectacles, which all the time were perched
above her nose.
2 hose who despair of prosperity at home
rarely mend matters by going away, unless
they also mend their habits of business, and
in that event, fortune would smile on them if
they stayed at home. If those who adventure
in foreign gold fields would submit to half the
privations here, which they are forced to un
dergo there, or would exercise similar persever
ance, thev would soon discover, that instead
of traversing oceans to get at wealth they could
The decorative character now given to paper
hangings renders them surpassingly beautiful
as specimens of art. To produce this appear
ance various means are resorted to, independent
of the mere use of colors. Some specimens have
a glossy ground to which the attractive name
of satin is applied; this effect is produced by
the careful application of polishing powder to
a surface painted the proper tint. Some have
an appearance imitative figured or watered silk
produced by passing the paper between slightly
heated rollers, which have the requisite design
engraved upon them. Some have a cloath-like
appearance, produced in a singular way; the
device is printed on the paper with gold size,
and over this sprinkled colored flack, which
consists of woollen cloath cut or ground to a
powder. Some of the striped papers are pro
duced in a very remarkable way. The paper
travels over a revolving cylinder, and in its pas
sage touches against the open bottom of a
trough, whense a continuous stream of liquid
color falls upon it; blended or shaded patterns
are produced by mortification of this process.
Bronzed, gilt, or silvered papers are produced
by printing a device with gold size, and apply
ing the metallic adornment in the state either
of powder or of leaf.
A Change of Sentiment. Vermont has be
come tired of anti-slavery excitement; she has
had too much of the good thing, and is now
calling lustly to stop negroes from coming.
Read the following from the Vermont Patriot:
"What is to be done with this class of our.
population, is the point to which the attention
of philanthropists and statesmen should be di
rected. The entering wedge to all action, is
the inauguration of some system by which a
certain stop will be put to the illegal introduc
tion of colored persons into the free States.
In other words a log must be laid across the
track of the underground railroad. This would
prevent a large yearly increase of that class of
population, which is hanging like a millstone
around the neck of our industrial progress.
Then thin the present population by fostering
the colonization plan by all possible means,
question, what shall we do with the free ne
groes of the North? is in a fair way of receiving
a practical solution."
The Duties of a Chief of Police in Paris.
A Paris paper enumerates the following as
part of the duties of the prefect of police in
that city, besides attending to thieves and
criminals:
The prefect of police has daily to provide
for the paving, macadamizing, sweeping, water
ing lightning of 1414 streets, avenues, qnays
and boulevards, forming a total length of 384,
665 metres, and presenting a surface of 5,500,
000 square metres. There are in the streets
13,000 gas burners, which are lighted in course
of about twenty minutes. The length of the
gas pipe is 485,000 metres; that of the water
conducts 330,000 metres; and that of the sewer
163,000. The city contains between 32,000
and 33,000 houses of which 6863 are lodging
houses that is inhabited by a population re
quiring a special surveillance. About 127,000
persons circulate dai'y in carriages the omni
buses alone transported 25,000,000 persons
per annum; and yet there only occurred last
year 380 accidents of which only 24 proved
fAtal. Every year the population of Paris
consumes 80,000,000 kilogrammie of meat 870,
000 hectolitres of wine, 240,000 hectolitres
of beer, and 18,000 hectolitres ofbrandy and
liquors. The police has to verify the good
quality of all these provissions, and therefore
keeps its eye upon 10,000 dealers in those articles.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE CUBA QUESTION.
The annexation of Cuba, sooner or later, is
likely to become one of the absorbing que
tious of the day. The indications on the
subject are not to be mistakeu. It is well
kftown that Mr. Buchanan regards the measure
as one would give great eclat to his administr
ation, and the existing condition , of affairs in
relation to the slave trade will no doubt afford
an opportunity for the revival of the negota
tion for the purchase of the teeming and
tempting island. This idea, moreover, is by no
means new. In April, 1809, Mr. Jefferson
addressed a letter to Mr. Madison, in which,
speaking of the importance of acquiring Cuba,
he said :
We should then have only to include the
N orth in our confederacy, which would be of
course in the first war, and we would have
such an empire for liberty as she never surveyed
since the creation ; and I am persuaded that
no constitution was ever before so well calcu
lated as ours for extensive empire and self
government. ft will be objected to our receiving Cuba,
that no limit can be drawn to our future
acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by us
without a navy, and this develops the principle
which ought to limit our views. Nothing
should ever be acquired which wonld require a
navy to defend it.
On another occasion the same distinguished
statesman held this language :
Our first and fundamental maxion should
be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils - 'of
Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe
to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.
I candidly confess that I have ever looked
on Cuba as the most interesting addition which
could be made to onr system of States. To
control which, with Florida point, this island
would give us on the Gulf of Mexico, and the
countries aud isthmus bordering on it, would
fill the measure of our political well-being.
But, it may be asked, what effect would the
annexation have upon the North and South,
as free and slave States ? Cupa would of
course, have to be admitted as a slave State,
and this would naturally produce opposition in
the North, A compromise, however, could
readily be effected. The North, moreover,
would be disposed to look kindly upon the
enterprise, if thereby the iniquitous slave trade
could be utterly abolished.
Sketch of Luther by Carlyle. A
coarse, rugged, plebeian face it wts, with great
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crags oi cneeK oones a wna amount ot pas
sionate energy and appetite ! But in his dark
eyes were floods of sorrow : and deepest mel
ancholy, sweetness and mystery, were all there.
Often did there seem to meet in Luther the very
opposite roles in man's character. He, for
example, for whom Hitcher had said that his
words were half battles, he, when he first be
gan to preach, suffered unheard agony. "Oh,
Dr. btaupitz. Dr. btanpitz," said he to the vicar-general
of his order, " I cannot do il ; I
shall die in three months. Indeed I cannot do
it."
Dr. Staupitz, a wise and considreate man,
said upon this, " Well, sir, Martin, it'you must
die, you must ; but remember that they need
good heads up yonder, too. So preach, man,
preach, and then live or die as it happens."
So Luther preached and lived, and he became,
indeed, one great whirlwind of energy, to work
without reoting in this world, and also, before
he died, he wrote many books books in which
the true man for in the midst of all they de
nonuced and cursed, what touches of tenderness
lay. Look at the table talk for example.
We see it in a little bird, having alighted at
sunset on the bough of the pear tree that grew
iu Luther's garden. Luther looked upon it and
said: "That little bird, how it covers its wings
aud will sleep there, so still and fearless,
though over it are the infinte starry spaces,
and the great blue depths immensity. Yet
it fears not it is at home. The God that
made it, too, is there." The same gentle spirit
of lyrical admiration is in the other passages
of his book. Coming home from Leipsic in the
autumn season, he breaks forth into living
wonder at the fields of corn. "How it stands
there, " he says," erect on its beautiful taper
stem, and bending its beautiful golden head
with bread in it the beard of man, sent to him
another year."
Such thoughts as these are s little windows
through which wa gaze into the interior depths
of Martin Luther's soul, and see visible, across
its tempasts and clouds, a whole heaven of
light and love. He might have painted he
might have sung could have been beautiful
like Raphael' great like Michael Angelo,"
Telegraphic Union of Four Continents.
Should the Atlantic Telegraph be successfully
completed, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America
will be brought into celectric communication
with each other, and a remarkable progress
will have been made towards the civilished
unity of the human race. From New Found
land there is telegraphic communication with
New Orleans, distant three thousand seven
hundred and ten miles, following the course
of the wire, and when the Atlantic cable is
laid, direct communication can be obtained
with Constantinople, thus uniting the four
continents It is calculated ?hat a message
leaving the Turkish capital at two o' clock, say
on Monday afternoon, will reach New Orleans
at six o, clock the same evening. The first
message from Constantinople direct left on
Sunday evening May 2, at eleven, forty five,
and arrived in London at eight, forty seven, in
the evening of the same day, London time
beating the sun nearly thaee hours.
From the Chicago Times, July 7.
The Grain Trade of Chicago.
The recepits of grain at this place during the
last week have been over a million bushels,
namely : 482, 184 bushels wheat, 496,495
bushels corn, and 151.301 bushels oats, besides
36,005 bushels of flour, (in 7,201 barrels,)
making a total of 1,111,996 bushels of grain.
The total receipts of the season thus far are
6.125.692 bushels of wlisot h'nimi;n l in1:
400 bushels ground up into'221,590 barrels of
nour,; z.oao.oui Dushele of corn, aud 1,242,
025 bushels of oats, making a total of over ten
millions bushels of grain, (lo,333.214 bushels.)
The shipments of the week have been 6,312
barrels flonr, 281,112 bushels corn, and 63,540
bushels oats, equal to 817,523bushels of grain.
The total shipments of the season are now
6,299,369 bushels of wheat, (including 914
860 bushels ground up into 182,912 barrels of
hour, ) 2,d2S,75 bushels of corn, and 916,361
bushels oats, making a total of over nine 'and
a half millions of bushels of grain, (9,c44 609
bushels.)
The recepits of lumber during the last week
were 5,025,000 feet, making the total recepits
for the season now 107,027, feet.
N. C. State stocks. At an opening cf bids
at tne 'treasurer's omce a few days since
$5,000 of North-Carolina Coupon Bonds were
bid for and awarded at a premium of one-third
ot one per cent. JtCal. Standard.
The Great Rains of 1858. During the I
last six or seven weeks there has Deen a
succession of deluging rains along this lati
tude from Kansas to the Atlantic, for which
no recorded observations afford a parallel.
For the whole area east of, and including
Kansas, and below the forty -lourth parallel
of latitude, the quantity of water falling has
been excessive. The average of observed
places gives about ten inches as the depth
for May, and five inches for the first twelve
days of June; making at least fifteen inches
in forty-five consecutive days. The whole
valley of the Mississippi, below St. Paul, has
been constantly deluged by these rains, and
though those falling early in May were
n V linnrftcedented. the last one
nfJiftiA 10th to 12th. crave a greater quan
titv than had fallen in the same number of
hoars before, and its wnoie quantity, oi at
least five inches in depth, was at once throw n
off bv the soil already saturated.
Wa rannot wonder at the floods of the
Mississippi and its tributary rivers, under the
extraordinary succession of deluges. One
third of the average rain fall for the year is
brought within a period of forty days, and
these are continuously cloudy days, also, so
that little reiief is eriven bv evaporation. At
least ten inches of this quantity is excess over
the annual average, and for the lour hun
fdrgd and fifty thousand square miles included
m this area of excessive rains within the Mis
sissippi valley, this surplus quantity of water
would make a sheet two hundred miles square
and ten feet deep, or twenty miles square and
one thousand feet deep, lhe denizens of
the great Mississippi plain have had this vast
quantity to dispossess themselves of, and we
cannot wonder that those living on the river
lovlands have been compelled to give place
to the floods lor a while.
Most of the measurements we find recorded
arj at points not touched by the tropical tor
naioes which have been thickly interspersed
over the whole country. At Beloit, Wiscon
sin, 10.3 inches were measured in May; at
Ottawa, Illinois, 8.5 inches. In southern II-
linjia the quantities were much greater
though we have seen no measurements.
Tornadoes and flooding rains were almost
constant in a line from Kansas to Cincin
natti during much of May, and this side the
Alieghanies they were repeated on a scale
but little below the former in violence. At
Marlborough, in Chester county of this
State, 9.6 inches of rain fell in May; and at
several registers m this city and vicinity
about four and a half inches were measured
in the great rain of June 11th and 12th
which gave a still greater quantity over the
whole country west ot the mountains to Kan
sas. Localities visited by the tornadoes
certainly received two or three inches more
in depth of water than those not so visited
and in such local storms not unfrequentlv
six inches of water will fall in two or three
hours water.
It is apparent that this excessive quantity
oi ram is derived from irregularities m at
mospheric circulation, originated beyond the
area of country visited, and even beyond the
continent itself. The winds experienced at
the time, or previously, had the least possi
ble to do with the events, and the hundred
tornadoes that appeared in various places
from Kansas to the Atlantic, were but inci
dents of the general excess of moisture, and
of the fall of that moisture in rain. It 'will
probably be found that the southern hemis
phere, or the opposite half of the northern
hemisphere, has been suffering a deficiency
in rain corresponding to our excess, and pos
sibly, the excessive heat reported as prevail
ing in Australia, remotely, if not directly, in
fluenced the supply of this part of the earth
with an excess of moisture, evaporated from
southern seas.
These problems in physics are the great
est yet remaining to be solved in the whole
domain of science, and the opposite hemis
pheres must be consulted for the necessary
observations. The idlest absurdity of the
time is to undertake the prediction of such
events, great or small, and the discussion of
them, in any manner, is so often overloaded
with shallow attempts at positive prediction,
that those who would be glad to look into
the reason of these great physical phenomena
prefer to wait silently another century, if so
much time shall be necessary to this work of
theorists and empires. Philadelphia North
.American.
Our Brain. One of the most inconceivable
things in the nature of the brain is, that the
organ of sensation should itself be insensible.
To cnt the brain gives no pain yet in the brain
alone resides the power of feeling pain in any
other part of the body. If the nerve which
leads from it to the'injured part be divided, it
becomes instantly unconscious of suffering. It
is only by communication with the brain that
any kind of sensation is produced' yet the
organ is insensible. But there is a circum
stance more wonderful still. The brain itself
may be removed, may be cut away from the
sorpus calaram without destroying life. The
animal lives and performs all its functions
necessary to simple vitality, but no longer has
a mind ; it can think or feed : it requires that
the food should be pushed into its stomach ;
once there, it is digested, and the animal will
even thrive and grow fat. We infer, therefore
that the part of the brain, the convolutions, is
simply intended for the exercise of the intelle
ctual faculties, whether of the low degree
called instinct, or the exalted kind bestowed
on man, the gift of reason. Woan on the
Mind.
Takifg a Shower Bath. Doctor Well,
how did your wife manage her shower bath,
deacon?
Deacon She had a real good luck. Mad
ame Moody told her how she managed She said
she had a large oiled silk cap, with a cape to
it like a fireman's that came all over her shoul
ders, and
Doctor She's a fool for her pains; that's
not the way.
Deacon. So my wife thought
Doctor Your wife did nothing of the sort,
I hope?
Deacon O, no, doctor she used an umbrella.
Doctor What used an umbrella? What
the mischelf good the shower bath do her.
Deacon She said she felt better. Her clothes
wasen't wet a mite. She sat under the umbrel
la, for half an hour, till all the water had trick
led off, and said 'twas cool and delightful, and
just like a little shower bath in the summer,
Bee.
The Sub-Marine Telegraph.
Anxiety is on the tip-toe of expectation, yet ;
up to the momeut of this writing, nothing has
been heard trom trie ueet oi vessels engaged in
aving the sub-marine cable. The general opin
ion now is that it has been a failure that new
and unforseen difficulties have presented them
selves, rendering the accomplishment, of this
great work an ioipossebility. Yet we eontin-
to hope for the best. In the mean lime, we
append hereto a note fromTal. P Shaffuer, esq.
on the subject addressed to us some three weeks
since, predicting a lailure. We place Mr.
Shaffner's uote before the public at this time
without and consultation with him merely as
a matter of public interest.
Washtxgton, June 18, 1858.
To the Editors' of the Union:
It is useless to euter into a discussion upon
this subject at present. There is no probabil
ity that the contract will ever be made, for two
raasons: First, the cable can never be worked
if laid: second there are reasons some of
which have been known to lhe government
which will prevent the execution of any con
tract with that company.
I have some pretensions to a knowledge oi
of the science of telegraphing. Four years ago
published to the world in America and in
Europe that my studies and experiments on
both co itinents satisfied me that a current of
ftlpnt.ricitv of anv known form or mode of cen-
eration could not be transmitted for telegraphic
service from Ireland to Newfoundland Since
that time there have beeu no new discoveries
in galvanic or other electric developing powers
changing the state of science, then calculated
upon, in tne aemonsirauon oi tne impractica
. . - - . .
bility of the proposed telegraph.
It has been statsd that a current ot electricity
has beeu transmitted through the whole 3,000
miles of the Atlantic cable in the ships, and
therefore there can be no doubt but what the
climax has been atttained. Ihis imposition
has been fully exposed in my memorial to Con
gress. When the cable is laid in the water, the
element of retardation then commences its func
tions. The further thev lav out the cable feebler
will be current," until! it cease to traverse the
wire.
1 nredict not as a matter of prophecy, but
as a certain result springing from the fixed laws
in electric science that the cauie win oe iam
perhaps 1,000 or miles, and it will be found
unavailable for telegraphing. In this dilem
ma the company will have the cable broke
again, and the accident will be charged to Provi
dence! This will be the hnale.
Very respectfully, &c, &c,
TAL. P. SH AFFNER.
North-Carolina Railroad.
We learn that at the annual meeting of the
stockholders of this Road, held in Hillsbor
ough on Thursday last, the following gentlemen
were elected Directors on the part of the stock
holders : Gen. R. M. Saunders, of Wake ; Gen.
Alexander McRae, of New Hanover ; Charles
F. Fisher, Esq., of Rowan ; and Ralph Gorrell,
Esq., of Guilford. This is a competent and
able Board on the part of the stockholders ;
but we regret to learn that F. Fries, Esq., of
Forsyth, an eminently practical man, and one
of the best Directors which the Road has ever
had, was defeated . Mr. Fries was a member
of the former Board. We are at loss to acco
unt for his defeat. PrBctical men like Mr.
Fries are not always to be found in our Rail
road iJirectors ; and we nave no Hesitation in
expression the opinion that the Road will lose
more by his defeat than he will.
We learn that at a meet iug of the Directors,
Chas. F. Fisher, Esq., of Rowan, was unanim
ously re-elected President of the Road.
It was decided, we understand, that for the
future a Suberintendent of the Road shall be
appointed ; the duties of this bost, together
with his other duties as President, having been
found too onerous for Mr. Fisher. Mr. Fisher
has labored incessantly for the prosperity of
the Road so much so that it is evident to his
friends that his health has suffered; and this
relief, thus tendered by the Directory, will no
doubt be very agreeable to him. It was also
ordered, we learn, that quarterly statements of
the operations of the Road be published in the
newspapers. Ral. Standard
Disgorgixg. The police reports of the New
York papers furnish a rather singular case ot
disgorging. A man named Kochler was under
arrest for passing counterfeit bills on a Bostou
bank. After being examined and nothing
fonnd on his person, th3 following dialogue en
sued: Jfrisoner. weii, l nope now, sir, you are
satisfied that I don't carry any stuff with me.
I trust I can now go home about my business
Captain. My officer tells me that he reason
to believe that you have swallowed some conn
terfeit bills.
Prisoner. Not I, sir; I do all my business
sauare and above board it is some of the non
sense of that pusillanimous clerk.
Captain. A slight emetic would tell the
story. It will take but a moment to clear your
self.
Prisoner. Clear myselfl Do you suppose
that I am going to degrade myself by takiug
any d d emetic?
Captain. Degrade or otherwise, I consider
it my duty to trv the thing on.
Prisoner. (waxing wrath and putting him
self in an indignant attitude) I'd like to see
you try in on! If a man touches me I'll be
if I don't thrust my fist down throat and give
him an emetic that will throw his boots and
big toes out of his month.
Three emetics were given him, and in a short
time he threw up four counterfeit bills. He
was then marched off to his cell.
Laughter. Laughter is not altogether a
foolish thing. Sometimes there is even wisdom
in it. Solomon admits there is a time to
laugh, as well a time to mourn. Man only
laughs man, the highest organized being ; and
hence the definition that has been proposed of!
"man, a laughing animal." Certainly, it
defines him as well as a cooking-animal," a
"toil-making animal," a "monkey-making anim
al," a "political-animal," or such like. Laughter
very often shows the bright side of man, It
brings ont his happier nature, and shows of
what sort of stuff he is really made. Somehow
we feel as if we never thoroughly know a man
until we hear him langh, We do not feel at
home with himtill then. We do not mean a
mere snigger, but a good, round, hearty laugh. :
The solemn, sober visage, like a -Sunday's dress,
tell3 nothing of the real man. He may be
very silly, or very profound ; very cross, or
verv jolly. Let us hear him laugh, and we can
decipher him at once, and tell how his heart
beats. We are disposed to suspect the man
who never laughs. At all events, there is a
repulsion about him we cannot get over. La
vater says : ', Shun that man who never
laughs, who dislikes music, or the glad face of
a child', This is what everyone feels, and
none more than children, who are quick at
reading characters ; and their strong instinct
rarely deceives them. Blakwood.
The candidates for Governor r
west f the Blue Ridge, their appointment for
to-day being at Burnsville, the county seat of
Yancey county, and so on ,vith appointment!
every other day up to the 24 th
lhe sounds of conflict come dowu to us' mel
lowed by the -distance, and at times so faint as
to be hardly audible. What is being said or
done we can only learn casually, for newspapers
and newspaper correspondents are not ai5.,
. U9 tj, air m lne
part of the State perhaps upon the
is as well.
c-astern
whole it
Mr McRae would appear to be suiting his
views, or at least the expression of them to the
state of feeling in the mountains. But that
will hardly take. News travels fast Men
are not so apt to go it blindly as mighs be sup
posed, and Kast and West will be prettly cer
tain to understand each other before the fifth of
August.
lhe local contest in the several
senatorial districts are becoming
counties and
warmer and
more exciting as the day of election approach
Our New Hanover County candidates open t
uau io-uay at federal r'oiut; and will RO
through until they have visited everv precinct
in the fount v Wa Imil V. ..i " i . .
111 . 1 . - . , . 1'-" tuc
...j. ..u me fiicusure iasi even
ing oi seeing Messrs. Moore and Bryan, candi
uanri me commons, who went down
Federal Poiut this morning to fulfil their
to
ap-
...iiucui, iuuc. .Messrs. uau, Vaiwi and
Fenuell, candidates for Sheriff, vl also be
about.
In the other comities of this and the neigh
boring districts, the candidates are out. In
t hp Spnnfftpln I A Jut m",. t . i ,
Bruuswick and Columbus T D AffDnw-pIl'
rsq., the opposition caiididnto
Mr McDoweil is eminently worthy of all the
support his party can give him. lie is a good
Democrat a well informed politician au able
debater, and more than all, a clever gentleman
aud an honest man. Mr McDowell ought to
be elected, and he will be, if the Democrats of
his district to do their duty by him.
Onslow will send two srood DemoVrMt-h,..
next Legislature, one to the Senate and one to
f the Commons.
Wm. J..IIouston, Esq., is a candidate for
the Senate from Duplin. He is the only can
didate for the Senate. There are four candi
dates for the Commons, of whoui only two can
be elected. All Democrats.
We regret to learn that there exists some
disorganization or some feeling of disorganiza
tion in Cumberland and Harnett, arising alto
gether out of local issues having reference to
the boundaries of the two counties and also to
the location of the county seat of the new coun
ty of Harnett, We trust that the thing may
be all arranged.
With merely local questions outside of our
owu county we have always refrained from in
terfering, but we do not regard disorganization
where the strength of the party may thereby
be affected, as a local question. We are com
pelled to regret the position iu which Thomas
1. Faison, Esq., of Sampson, has unfortunately
placed himself, in consenting to run against the
nominee of his party for the Senate. It is not
the personal fueling in Samson -that we speak
oitkat the people of Sampson have alone cog
nizance of. It is not Thomas I. Faison or A
A. McKoy, both of whom are friends of ours
aud both supporters of Judge Ellis. It is as
the uommee ol the party and the opponent to
that nominee that we regard these gentlemen
at present, and so regarding them, we cannot
but trust that our Democratic brethren will stick
up to the ticket full and clear throughout
In Wayne there would appear to be only
one set of candidates, all Democrats.
In Nash there would appear to be considera
ble feeling, but we must think that the regular
old-hue, anti-distribution Democrats will be
elected. It would'nt do to put anybody into
the next Legislature that you don't led satisfied
tu iu. upon wnom you cannot place the
fullest dependence, the most implicit confi
dence. If the Democrats of Nasli wish to be
safe to leave no grounds for ren-ret let tv,m
be certain to have no manner of donhf. in re
gard to the firmness and reliability of iIiosr
whom they send to the next Legislature
Wil. Journrl of 2lh.
Have we Wives or Husbands amongst ls?
Indiauia, that State of convenient divorcing
is absolutely overruu, they say, with 'grass wid
ows" from all parts of the Union seeking to be
"disembarressed" of their first love, and al
lowed to try an instalment of "free love" under
qaasi legal auspices. It ouly requires ten days
residence in Iudiana to confer citizenship on
any lady, or gentleman, and the reqisite "relief
is immediate if the applicant can show a con
science sufficiently elastic, and cash account
sufficintly ample. One hundred and fifty dol
lars, and oath as to the requisite "incompati
bility of tamperament," settle, we ara told, all
the primary demands of the occasion, when
those "whom God hath joined together," and
no man, it is asserted, shall "put assunder."
are seperated without hesitation. No wonder
Illinois and Indiana, which are rivals in this
anti-Gretna Green trafic, are becoming the
grand teu days entre ports of unfortunate wives
aud mis-matched husbands.
The summer travel promises, now that the
doctrine of women's rights is. so much in voue
to be extending in that direction. The "tav
erns and hotels are in construation at the num
ber of applications for single beds. The law
yers are delighted with the harvest; and Mrs.
Branch herself could not be more satisfied than
the pilgrims to this new shire of liberty with
the promptitude with which the "horror men"
are disposed of theis martal rights, and strong
minded ladies restored to their pristine iudepn
dence. No man in serch of a good second hand
articie in the shape of a wife, could fail to sup
ply himself in the direction mentioned. Over
flowing is the matrimonial market and with
all kinds, sizes, ages, and complexions. Those
confiding gentlemen, therefore, who propose to
let their better halves travel alone this summer
to the watering places, had better be certain
of the route they take, or else in three or four
weeks they may see the "darling creatures"
return with other names, and holding on to the
arm of some new liquidator of their little bills
for mantua-making aud millinery. N. Y. Times.
JUDICIAL DIGNITY".
The following conversation is said to have
passed between a venerable old lady and a cer
tain presiding judge in , This functionary
was supported on his right and left bv his
worthy associates, when Mrs. P was nJ,i .
give evidence.
Take off your bonuet. madam.
I had rather not sir.
Zounds and brimstone, madam, take off your
bonnet, I say!
Iu public assemblies, sir, woman generally
cover their heads. Such I am informed is the
custom elsewhere and therefore I will not take
off my bonnet.
Do you here that gentleman? She pretends
to know more about these matters than the
judge himself? Had you not better tsadam
come and take a seat on the bench?
No, sir, I thank you, for I really think there
are old women enough there already t