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TERMS, $2 00 PER ANNUM,
PAYABLE IN ADVANC.
VOLUME XXI NO. 7.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.,:S JURDY, APRIL 28, 1860.
WHOLE NUMBER 1211
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4 Single copies, five cents.
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any period under three months. '
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For six months, 6 00
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yi"UKT aaeriisements by the year on favorable
A.lverti8rs are particularly requested to
will otherwise they
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Tmptly.
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P. J. SINCLAIR, Editor and Proprietor.
DUNCAN J. DKVANK,
ATTORNEY VND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
w
ILL practice in the County and Superior Court
of Bladen, Cumberland, and Sampson, and o1
the adjoining Couuties
Office near the Clinton Hotel.
f eby iO, 16U0
ti
jA,. D- McLEAN,
Attorney & Counsellor at Law,
STCTlVEIIEtI 1ST. C .
WILL attend the Courts ot Cumberland Moore.
Johnson ard Harnett County PROMPT atten
tion given. the collection of all claims entrusted to his
Care,
Dec 23
tf-
CLEMENT G. WRIGHT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Fayettevillo, 2J0". dm
WILL practice in the counties of Bladen, Samp
son and Cumberland. Prompt attention given
to all business committed to his charge.
April 2, 1858. tf
W. S. NOR ME NT.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR IT LAW
LUMBERTON, N. C-
WILL ATTEND die Couutyand Superior Courts,
of Robeson, Cumberland. Claden and Colum
bus. All business intrusted to his care, will receive
prompt attention. OlBcein the Court House.
Ju.'y I, 1859. l-.y-w
--- lMLm CamplDell,
AUCTIONEER & COMMISSION MERCHANT,
East Side of Gillespie Street,
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
Nov. 13. 1858
GBAHAM,
(Hommisaion illcrcljant.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
WILL give prompt and personal attention to all
Consignments of Spirits Turpentine, Ro3in,
Tar, Turpentine, and all country produce for sale.
Ol'lTC up stairs over the Store of Mr Voa
glahii and joining Lutterloh's wharf. North Water
Street.
June 18, 18.9. tf
T WADD1LL. PROPRIETOR.
V T a 1
piIIS, the most commoaious iioiei
1 in North Carolina, fronting 301)
feet on Hay and Donaldson streets, is
the centre of the business
portion of the town, and surrounded by all the bank
ing bowses, wholesale merchants and principal pro
duce dealers. .
sr liusiness men will find the Hotel a convenient
and comfortable house. . .
ll the Sta 'es arrive and depart from this Hotel.
i."iv tt.ivillo. April 2. 1859. ly'r
St ocr os, snoex-xxoxi
TLN-WAKK, &c.
ON h vtid. a large assortment of Box and cooking
Stoves; Tin-ware; Sheet-Iron ; Lead Pipv. Al-
th " Old Dominion Coffee Pot." For sale by
Nov. 27. tf JAMES MAKTINE.
ZEST O T ICE
HVVING RECENTLY PURCHASED TIIE
Entire stools Of
OOOIDS,
Of Council & McKethan, I am now carrying on the
mercantile business at council's uiun
R. H. LYON.
Aug 19. 1859.
w-lf
tfinysTBJlDS AND CHAIRS
For Sale at reduced prices, at the Auction Store
0f A. M. CAMPBELL.
A g 21, 1858. tf
Pailit s, Oilsrcfc c.
SPERM, Refined, Lard, Linseed and Tanner's O 11.
WHITE LEAD ; Buining Fluid ; Putty ; Window
Class and Sash of all sizes.
ALSO
A fresh supply of Pond's Pain Destrover.
For sale by JAS. MARTINE.
Nov. 27. tf
A CAltO.
A Word To My Old Friends.
B1HOSE persons for whom I have been attending to
liaukinir businness for years : I am still willing
to serve you with the same promptness that 1 have al
ways doae ; and to others that may want discounts.
Pension bustness, &c, fcc. I offer my services, with
a promise of strict attention JAS. G. COOK.
June 27, 155.9. tf
GOLDSTOM & FULLER,
U1i)olcsalc anil llctail Dealers in-l
groceries MKurti tcurv
aVr., also
1 PROMPT ATTENTION CIV EN TO THE SALE
of Cottou. and other Produce.
Orders or, Consginment, in the abave line will re
receive stct attention from reliable parties.
Q W. I. OOLD3TON. A . W. FELLER.
Dec51.
JAS- 10. SMITH.
'lieiuit and Uiussist,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
American, French and Erglish Drugs, Med
icines and Chemicals ; 'iarden and Field
Seeds ; Perfumery, Dye-Stuffs, Liquors;
Oils, Taints and Varnishes ;
Window Glass ; Glass
ware ; Fine Soaps ;
Fine Hair and
Tooth
Brushes ; Paint Brushes ; Surgical and
TiAntAl Instruments, and Fancy Articles.
With all the Patent or Proprietary Medicines of the
day" f ayetteville, IS. C,
FISH FISH.
TWENTY-FIVE bbls. extra No. i Herring ;
lbbls. Mullets, for sale by
April 34, I860 4tf-wlia A. M. JOiiisUa,
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SOKTIL CAKOLLM.A.N.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
AVE NEVER SAID IT.
We copy the following paragraph from the Fay
pttpville (larrJininn -
The Rutherfordton Enovi-er comes to hand to-day
advocating an extensive railroad sneculation. and
assigning its reason for so doing, viz : that we are
about to have an ad valorem taxation : arid savs. :is
the West has Daid so much of the taxes already, it
isibut fair for the East to give them some money
return. The Enouirer has forgotten that the Eat
have heretofore ' M th, hnlt f th tw .H
that the West f demands of her to all ,
The Carolinian has miss.d the mark about 150
milfs u na nramna -it oiinriii t on urfirio niih
lished a short time since in the Franklin Observer
and which contained some such argument as that
attributed to the Enouirer. 1
We presume the Observer hass not forgotten that '
me Jast nas heretofore ta id the hulk 01 the taxes:
lhwJV"iDuJn.m
ever, is pretty generally known 'in this tart of the
State, viz : that the 'bulk' of the taxes have hereto- advantage it would give to the state and to thenVcl
fore been expended in the East ; ves in point of wealth, they would take this notl as
VV ill the Carolinian tell us how ad valorem taxa-
tion if adopted, will exempt the West from payinc
taxes. Ruth erf or d ton Enquirer.
The above from the Enquirer is correct so far as
our "miss" is concerned we ought to have said the
Franklin Observer. We have not seen the Enquirer
for some time upon our table, until yesterday, and
since its former appearance it has changed hands.
Its new editor, Mr Gilkey, seems to be a gentleman
possessing ability, and we now give him for the
first time, our if.
After Jso doing, however, let us whisper to him a
few words upon taxes. Our friend seems to be
ignorant of the fact that the East pays the bulk of !
the taxes. We are sorry for this, as sorrv as if b p
"
had a child twelve 3'ears of ago who could not tell
us who made him. Why, friend Enquirer, our own
county (Cumberland) pays one seventh, or nearly
so, of all the taxes paid into the treasury ! We
defy the Enquirer to point us to one county in the
West that pays over two thirds as much as we do.
Now, we will pass on to New Hanover, Edgecomb,
and a few of these counties which pa' now the great
bulk of State tax. Why, sir, you must have been
dreaming when 3 0U penned the above ; but we will
be lenient with the Enquirer, as it says that this
fact "is one in common with many others, that
western men never knew." "When ignorance is
bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." We hope, however,
that the Enquirer will enlighten its readers upon
two important questions. First, that Cumberland
county considers herself geographically and inter
estedly an Eastern county, and that as such she has
paid nearly one seventh of the taxes for State sup
poses. That injthe event ol ad valorem being adopted
which the fates have decided shall not be she will
have to pay as much as one sixth of tiie taxes
for
the property in Cumberland is worth Ii'tiL '
bein.j- nearlv all tm iif-ntlno 0v,,t ..-:!, I
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an enormous extent. So the people of Cumberland
intend to tell you next fall, by giving John W. Ellis
an increased vote ot 21)0.
We have set this down in figure, and we ic'rfl
allow you to compare next fall after the election
Now, to answer the question of the Enquirer, as to
whether ad valorem will lessen the taxes in the
West, we say, first, if 3 011 intend, as Mr Pool s i3s,
to tax ever' thing, excepting kitchen furniture,
taking in hogs, cattle, horses, mules, carts, wagons,
corn and every thing that is property, even to the
choping axe, the plow, ad inft-titum we say no!
The taxes upon the poor will be increased
one hundred fold, and we can find nothing
in the whole platform of the know-nothins part',
that says exeynption. It s iys, and Mr Pool saj's,
tax every thing, and all things must be taxed ac
cordingty, although a d her imini tion or UgJit r tax
ma' be placed upon the industrial pursuits and
native products than upon slaves and land.
We do not believe that the taxes will be increased
upon slave property by that which Mr Pool advo
cates, hut the taxes will be increased upon the - ma
jority of the people, and those who have heretofore
naid nothinsr but a capitation tax, will be compelled
to pay heavily. This is evident from the fact that
IT TJ
you can tax nothing higher than land. Liquors,
. .... . ... ..
playing cards, billiard tables, nine-pin alle's, bowte
knives, etc. will only pay a tax proportionable to
their value same as land and we find that the
taxes from these items alone, yearly amount to
$41,000, and according to value they
they would bring
but $S000, a slight balance of $35,000, to be added
1 .1 1 .... 3 1 i . 1 1
j l" aim owe, iaeS yeany, auu eveiy
i year. This proposition is a pleasant one. How
does the Enquirer like it ?
In reference to the expenditure of money in th
o the expenditure of money in the!
say that such is not the case, if his-
i ti , ;
leved. 1 he lhmngton, Charlotte j
East, we would
tory is to be bel
and Rutherford R. R., the N. C. Central, and Wes
tern Extension all in the West have cost the
State more than two-thirds of her whole public deb
llfcST Charleston, to-day will be crowded with the
liL, iu icuictcui, una uiRinci in saiu convention,
delegates who represent the national party of the, -ReM Ted Thate will cordially support John W.
country from Maine to Texas, from the Atlantic to Ellis for the office of Governor of North Carolinia,
the Pacific. Much speculation wi.l be indulged in an(l that we entirel' concur in the action of the
as to the person who will receive the nomination i Democratic State convention which met in Raleigh
j-. - i r a i e u- , ., : on the 8th of March, 1860, in presenting his name.
Douglas friends are eonfdent of his success, while ; for re.election, he having administered the affairs of
all parties who are not his friends, and they are in State in an unexceptionable manner, and- bringing
the majoriy, feci as confident of the success of some to the discharge of his duties eminent executive
other party, although that party is not yet known, j luabties.
. 1 Hesoleeu, That we approve of the course of our
For our part, we must confess that our private immediate representative in Congress, the Hon.
belief is that Mr Douglas will not receive the nomi- , Warren Winslow, as being conservative, patriotic
nation. As to the report respecting Senator Cling- and statesmanlike, marked by the duty he owes
man, to tRe effect that he has gone to Charleston ' ali55f to,his, constituents and the whole country.
, ... . .... 0. . . . Motived. That having confidence in the patriotism
and has pledged the vote ot the State to Mr Doug- I of the Charleston Convention and believing that the
las, it is perfectly ridiculous. Mr Chngman is a convention will nominate none .but conservative and
rery fine gentleman, but we happen to know the ! national men for candidates, that we will support
delegates from this State sufficiently well to j e xmees, thereof for President and Vice-Presi-l
.- ax. a ai -ii a . , , dent, as upon the success of the Democratic party
beheve tha they will act as if they were of age onlv the Union perpetuated ard the South
and could spesk for themselves. If they prefer era States protected from the fierce assaults of Black
Douglas they will vote for him ; if they prefer some
other gentlemen equally as good they will east their
vote for him. It is our private belief that the man
who will receive the nomination has not yet been
spoken cf and it would puzzle a Philadelphia law
yer to find out now who he will be. The party, we
trust, will act upon the tried and only true plan of
principles, not men," r-Dailg Carolinian, 23 imL
: Tin. W VnrV ftwrrui Enouirer. Sewara 8-
oran. nnfi of the most imuorUnt republican
naners in the country, asserts, in a fi and ?
article, that Douslas agreed to betray, as far as e
as
h.mAi:
was able, the Democratic party into their
for which service he was to be re-elected to Jef
Senate and made their Presidential candidate r
1 fifiO. The (!oiir!pr savs le is now as "souruT'
J!.
j-kra O ni I I Ob 4.2 '-
and if f o
anv Republican on tne slavery quesu
will keep his bargain with the KepubUcans it
... w
' SVH suPPort him in 1864. Washington vonsitu
tion.
The a&ve from the Courier and Constitution
ufhave no faith in. It is simply intended to
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al vua,lra,uu, ...u -
we are not tor Douglas, we consider the above
f d, yhich it little become
ofsan or me party at Wasnmton to Diav. B'L"w
the administration organ, Douglas is unfit for
rt!
an(i never can be admitted to Heaven,
The Gkape Culture. We were inueh pAMdjjjr- be graphically displayed and proved that
to see. dui-ine' a rpnpnt trin Pnkoum rAir
that our Citizens are paying more HtWatSo
the C"uiture of the Cfrape. Were they to seethe r
seccondary branch of farming, but would inaki it
one of their chief productions. )
i The soil and climate of this section of the state
are as favorable to the growth of the grape as is
that of France, the great vineyard of the world.
We clip the following from the special telegraphic
report of the New York Tribune :
Thursday, April 10, 1860.
Messrs. Richardson and Dyer, the two principal
managers for Mr. Doutrlas, reached ht-re last ni-ht
w-k 1 iv ,r 1 - a i- - - 0
W hen t lev left Was hm.rtnn rn nnmnntinn n-io i. i
garded as certain. I heir confidence here is less posi -
sitive from the absence of the expected enthusiasm.!
But they remain still firm. They believe he will bi?
nominated on ine tnira ballot, which is a virtual ...v- vwv, ,.,.,uu.or..i. Ut.u.&UM
surrender in the estimation of others. No friends il"0"Sh their Legislature, to exclude slavery by
could be more zealous or faithful. f positive enactment." Position of Do uq 1m in llar-
If Mr. Douglas shall fail on the first ballot, thel;r article
North-Western delegation resolved at Washington "Congress, by virtue of the Constitution, has
to change their front in solid column, but indicated 1
no second choice. Several Eastern delegations are
expected to co-operate in such a contingency, but
cannot be relied on. They will look after their own
interest.
The Douglas men claim the delegates from Maine,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, with
parts of Massachusetts, and Connecticut, the rest of
which are conceded to Mr. Toucey, complimentari
ly. This count is considered extravagant by well
informed persons.
No safe opinion can be formed of the result till a
larger number of delegates have arrived and com
pared opinions.
The Vice-Presidency has been held out as a bait
to North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
and Georgia, with some personal effect, but no de
cided influence. The game is well understood, and
will be blocked.
A partial test will be made on the question of
whether the platform or candidate shall first be
agreed on. The Douglas interest and Southern ex
tremists favor the former, but from different motives.
Others urge a candidate in preference, intending he
shall personally indicate the spirit of the platform.
Most of the Kentucky delegates have arrived.
I hey intend adhering tenaciouslv to Mr
T-eckn'rrr-TS'e', XW.Tgri Will 'trflWi--fifS'-sT'fbngth whe
r .t ,t j o
Mr. Riglor will find him.elf cornered upon reaching-
hi'rn Mr nthrii funis hivor with the eonserva-
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uve eiass, who are uncoinmuteu anu m partisans,
ana is urgeu jumeiousry oy nis menus as a compro-
mise camlHlate. , .
Outside there is a very small and inconsiderable,
interest felt. I
Mr. Lane is not named for the Presidency, and
the suggestion is ridiculed.
Mr. Orr is here surveying the ground, having
achieved a victory at the State Convention over the
ultras. With any Northern candidate for President,
he would be prominent for the nomination for Vice
President. Mr. Stuart of Michigan is proposed, among others
for President of the Convention, but his Douglas
proclivities may interfere. That selection, however,
will not be considered a test of strength.
Three hundred delegates and visitors from the
North-West arrived this evening, to swell the Doug
las chorus, which had become weakened.
For th! North Carolinian.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
A meeting of the Democracy of Cross Creek was
held
according to pursuant notice, at the Court
House, on Saturday evening the 21st inst.
On motion of Mr. George Sloan, Neill McKav, Esq.,
was appointed Chairman and Bej. Rush, jr., was
requested to act as Secretary.
Upon taking his seat the Chairman briefly stat-
ed, briefl-, the object of the meeting and alluded to
the disastrous effects which will be produced bv the
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adontion of the ad valorem system of taxation
Upon motion the Chairman appointed five dele-
gates to represent this district in the ioint conven-
tion to be held by the Counties of Cumberland and
i Harriett in the town of FavottPvillA nr. T.rW f
' Superior Court. The following is the list of dele-
perior uourt. The following is the list of dele-
cates : Wm. T. Frizell, Robert Wooten. Wm. Over-
baugh, H. II. Depo, Geo. S. McKay. The Chair-
man and Secretary were, upon motion, added to the
list
On motion a committee consisting of Messrs. H.
W Home, Kobert Wooten and D. McDuffie was
appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense
of the meeting. The committee retired and m a few
moments introduced the following resolutions which
W. Home, Robert Wooten and D. McDuffie was
fi.Hntx-;. T-aol,,
, - . . . - w ....... i vuwtiii'i i.i . im.i i
were unanimously artonted.
Hesolced, That we approve of holdinsr a ioint con- i
vention of the Counties of Cumberland and liar-
i nett, in this town on Monday of May Court, and
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Republicanism and abolitionism.
Messrs. II. W. Home and W. C. Elam being
called upon addressed the meeting in an appropri
ate manner.
On motion it was ordered that the proceedings of
this meeting be sent to the editors -of the Carolinian
and Courier for publication.
On motion the meetiag adjourned.
NEILL McKAY, Ch'n.
Bej. Rcsh, Jk., Ssc'y.
WttATIC MEETISfi IN PAYKTTPVnT T.K.
Tl I W .-., n.
r r' .1 TTL 1"?" T " "
. v":u'J..cc,,151 auu me meeting was
and the
-'''" - - -
to order by appointing Wm. ML M.-R
McKay
-drmesu and P. J, Sinclair,
and T. J.
.-frrfaries
"n... .1 j-
rryrr ,c
marks stating the object j
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in a a a a., l . il . -. A -. .
rv.w()g i ue me appointing 01 ueJegates to ;
. I
of delegates to
present the District in the county
convention to i
e .n Payetteville, on Tuesday of May court.
A W-I0A "Wvte.Al -1.1. . -1 r . .. .
, g .. , - - ;
, J- - nrgea the necessity of completing the Coal
5n-7fv ;is Tail road' and returned thanks to the democra- I
boUf f fs,tolui.,j n 4 .L , ;
-r.-TT-1 1 m m.iL, iur me noole and '
- -.... ' rt 1 .
LUIBWS.ttno and Harnett, for the noble and
i.lrm. support extended to him when a candidate for
legislature, two years since; and remarked
.t. haM,,A A ,
candidate for re-election he
i fuli njt a1V.-. Ulm . . t t
y ir 1110 iiiiure id come iorwaru
1. Sacrifice which he was not able to make.
without
In con-
v-fie Witerest of this county was bitter and unabated
position -to the scheme of ad valorem.
" ' r -T 1 " " 1 j tr . r , 1
tip im - - v urn iMn-..,ai. -A. .1. i rtanmn
aj- A. J. O'Kanlon
moved that the Chair appoint five delegates to repre
sent this county in the next Convention agreeable
to the above resolution, the Chair appointed the
following : A J O' II anion, J W Pearce, J H Cook,
11 Roberts, and Jos Arey. On motion, the chair
nan and secretaries were added to the list.
W. McL. McKAY, Ch'n.
5
P.
T.
J. Sinclair,
J. Mimjis,
Sec'
Logic.
We find the following in an exchange :
Jot much oj a (Joiiftet. The JNew York Uay
lr 7 u ' ,, ,
Book brings together the following passages show-
. .. . - . . . e..
- 1 u r : i. : i u .1:
ie politicians
.m. '.. ...
. llie People ot a lerntory, while in a temtor-
power to pass laws excluding slavery
from the
ferritories." Position of V. II. iieicard.
Now, it so happens that every southern states
man holds another, view of slavery, to -wit : That a
State has the reserved right to establish or prohibit
slavery as it pleases, in its own limits. Is tbere
inueh of a conflict "i
Suppose that one person asserts that it is cold
weather under the Equator, and another that it is
cold at the poles, are their views alike because both
are talking of cold ? The argument is about this :
Seward has an opinion about slavery ; Douglas also
has an opinion about slavery ; but Seward is an
Abolitionist, and therefore, Douglas is an Abolition
ist ! Augusta Constitutionalist.
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION AND HOW
IT IS APPROACHING.
Charleston, April 22. It is reported and be
lieved that the lion. Jelferson Davis has written a
letter to be read at Charleston, if deemed necessary,
withdrawing his name as a candidate for the Presi
dency. Charleston is thronged with delegates. A full
attendance is present from nearly every State.
The New York contesting delegates are both con
"" 111 1 1 ' 1 1 ' ' This fUrht .absorbs
.No one seems to have the slightest opinion 'a?
to
tile nominee
Some S()ulhern (iok,?nt;ons will r0sist Douglas
. . ... , . , . c.
anu even threaten to witharaw in ease his nomina-
ti(n is prcSsed. Yet no one here seems to have
, , (ll.,(rmin(1(1 fronds hut Douglas. All
the rest are " at sea."
Thcre .ire ilboilt two thousand strangers in the
;f,T
Zzr We see by the papers that David A. Burr,
of Utah; has been lecturing in Washington city
This Mr. Burr can scarcely be a reh-.tion of ours, for
in his lecture he talked familiarly of coins and other
monies, aud even exhibited a parcel to the astonished
multitude who had collected to hear him. We
never ytt knew a Burr who nad m.ula money the
subject of a discourse or the object of a life, but as
we us-u to w rite in our compositions wnen the
subject, was animals "there are various kinds of
animals" we suppose there must also bs various
kinds of Rurrs.
We wonder how many wives Dave has We wo :ld
not be s uprise 1 if he was not the happy possessor of
six at least. And here are we, pwr thing, who cannot
get even one. to cheer up our dull moments and
keep us out of bad company. Oh this is a great
t. i i 1 1 .
world, sonic people are oorn nrcK' wn .inue to
1 be lucky through their lives ami when they die
make a iucky hit for' the friends and rel itiyes or
the same, who are perhaps awaiting such an event
anxiously, calculating on the result ot his good luck
to give them a start in the world, or in other words,
quietly awaiting till he dies so that they m iy pocket
whatever money or other property his good luck
, 1 1 1 1. : 1 , . . t . . i-
; may have enabled him to accumulate.
j If ave has six wives and so much money that he
must n-cds show it all over Washington city, then
he must be a lucky man, that s all. II il. Hei-nkl.
u umuic i.n .ii.uni.......7
! containing $5 wss stolen irom a mutt wnicna lady
from Wilmington, Del., had for a moment left upon
' one of the stools. The husband of the lady being
j apprized of the matter went on and traced the mat-
! ter up He found one of the missing notes, and as
i certaming that the wife ot a weaitny mercnanr nad
certaming
( V
the thiett.
i ly acknow
went to the house un i ehargeu ner with
Strange to rLite she burst in tears, free-
i lv acknowledge her sunt, but declared in the most
-j --. i ;
s - eir.'Dtiawc it-ruis mm. o. mc mm mno nci me
that she had been guilty of anything of the kind,
saying that her hu.-;band was a respectable man and
would make the matter all right. She remarked
that she could nof imagine how she came to take
the money, but that a vague and indescribable feel
ing came over her when she saw the portmonnaip
in the muff, and the next moment she found it in her
hand. She spent she said but little more than half
the money, and through fear of discovery burned the
balance up. " S'.e concluded the interview b3' bring
ing from au upper room the l ientical portmonnaie.
The Nicaragua Affair. The Republican Sen
ators had a conference at Washington, to take into
consideration the subject of the Nicaragua treaty.
whi-h it will be recollected was rejeete-l, and the
vote afterward reconsidered. It i- understood their
ohjeet is to modify the objection-ible clause-, so that
the President cannot use the United States forces
for the protection of the property and ptrsons of
Americans in that Republic without the consent or
authorization of Congress . Some of them are de
sirous of applying a similar principle to the Mexican
treaty. Without the Republican votes these trea
ties cannot be ratified therefore the Democrats
are not disposed to press them, without affording
the Republicans full time to make their suggestions.
A few days ago, we recorded the fact that a man
was arrested and detained in Louisville, Ky on
suspicion of having come unfairly bv a colored boy
he was trying to sell. An officer went from Phila
delphia after the alledged kidnapper, the boy imving
been taken from the letter city. On the w;iy north
ward, the fellow jumped from the car wind j .v, wlrle
the taain was proceeding at a slow ra.e through
1 thick woods, and effected a good escape,
t
ua. -ui .-Among uBO,.t oerae .
a,!d. c "va"US i ner.can officers in the late war;
; witn aiesico, was vxen. jenerson Uavis. Ue naa
! lt!ei a graduate of West Point, and he proved him-
Mimm-''S,fin the bloodiest battle fields of the Mexican
' ! contest a man ot fine military genius. His personal
y genius. His personal
courage was proverbial. He was no carpet knight:
he was not one of the holiday sol Jiers, so many of
1 1 " .1 U "
. , ...
irn i ii rpi'iiiviu irtin rt 1 fcinin; in inn vkViion n'
' and flourished terrifically in the Mexican letters of
S newspaper correspondent Wherever the fight was
I 1 a. a a 1 . . . a. t. 1 . ; 1
1 .1. . . cj..-::
hott
est he was seen, encouraging the faltering and
o o --o
fading on the brave. Old Rough and Ready, the
Lion Heai 1 of tl,e Mexicau Wur. looked upofi Jefivr-
son Davis as his right hand man in coursel and in
. 1 , , , . , , . . .
'wfi.iii All w)rt i 1 in vtv L-nmiri linn u-hothor in
" ....v,.... . vfiiticuuu wiui iuc viuntsnm vouvvnuou; is iiie
war or peace, know full well that he has as much settlement by that body of the claims of the two
personal firmness as ever lived, and no one ever sets of delegates from this state, each of which as
expressed a doubt of it, until, a few days ago, the sumes to represent a majority of democratic voters.
New York Tribune pronounced him "the veriest of Theaicrits of rival aspirants for the presidency and
cowards I" . the chances each has for the nomination are never
"The best answer to this is," says the New York : referred to, and will be entirely lost sight of until
Day Book, "that while Davis was riding at the head after the convention determines to rec02n.se one or
ms ail''!PPans, ttirougn a nan-storm ot bullets,
I " .
, 1 '. n vi- in ins g,arre. scnuuung a
rtptni r thu Muv . ,.,..;... u.. .w J ..1
wciwui7 lira . '-- g. , iiaaiiin
7 - 0 - J " vu.u
pitable graves '.
The Assaults Upon Mr. Pryor. The Black
;publican" papers are teeming day after day with
Ri
the most outrageous assaults upon Mr Pryor, ac
cusing him of cowardice aud applying every dis
graceful epithet that meanness or malignancy can
invent. They seem to take especial delight in goad
ing and exasperating hitn, as if they were deter
mined he should open his quarrel with Mr Potter,
even in spite of the bonds he is under to keep the
peace. JNow, we are not Alrfryors or any otuer
man's unqualified admirer, but we know v ry well
that the scribblers who impute a want of courage
to Mr Pr3"or, would no more dare do it if in Wash
ington, than they would to jump over Niagara Falls.
They are, therefore, simply cowards of the meanest
kind, and deserving of universal contempt ntd exe
cration. Alt at once, they have become skilled in
the "code," and talk about it as glibly as if they
had enjoyed a life-long experience in it. We sug
gest ttiat these editors better keep away from
Washington, or they may catch a cow-hiding, which
will give them such a taste of Mr Pryor' s '"coward
ice, ' that they will not be likely to forget it. Ar.
Y. Day Book.
Odd Subjects of the Kin of Yvetot. The
Abeille Cauchoise mentions the death at Yyetot, fn
Normandy, of an old man who was buried iu a coi
fin of his own making. Having a taste for corpen-
tennr be htteeu years ago made what he cailea a
paletot de Ceternite for himself, but, finding a cus
tomer for it, and several others which he afterwards
made, he sold them, one by one, always taking care,
however, to have another in store for himself.
There was also buried in the same town, and on the
same dav, a women, seventy years of age, who for
the last thirt' years has never been seen dressed in
anything but white. Even he- wooden shoes and
the walking stick she always used were painted
white. She employed herself in windings yarn, and
the basket in which she carried her work to her
employer was also white. She adopted this pecu
liarity, it is sai l, as a sign of mourning for the
death of a brother to whom s'.ie was much attached.
Tiie Maryland Peach Crop. The last Denton
Journald savs :
It is now reduced to a certainty that the peach
crop in this county the present season will be an
::mr. i'.mili'rle V.i V r-. Wi until. Vi rs r.-
.t. - . ..... :.. r), river below are
in full bloom, and piomise a good crop. Some of
our largest peai. h growers say they will not raise
enough for ordinary home consumption.
The Cecil Whig says :
From all we can learn, there wi1! but few if any
peaches in this neighborhood, the cold weather in
the early part of the season having entirely killed
the buds. The prospect for a fair yield of other
fruit is good.
The First Case. The Muscatine (Iowa)
Journal is responsible for the following ac
count: "A marriage was recenly solemuizhted
in tiiis viciuty which was brought about by bis
sextile privileges allowed to the fair sex. The
voung lad' bad beeii visiting in the neighbor-
- , hood of her liege lord, and doing p re-possessed
in bis favor at several casual meetings, addressed
him 011 the important subject nearest her heart.
Of course, as sh is a sensible woman, aud told
her love in si niib e language to a sensible man,
it met with the right kind of recepition. The
bashful iover was only too glad to act upon the
hint, and ere two months had passed the twain
were made one flsh."
Strevth of Ice. From experiments lately
made in Germany, for the purpose of testing
t:,e strength of ice when a pond or river is
,. 0 . . 1 1
frozen oyer, it appears that wnen its thickness.
I is an inch and a half, it will just bear the weight
of a single man : when about thiee inches aud
a half, it will bear detachments of infantry,
with their ranks rather wide apart; with a
thickness of four and four-tenths indies, eight
pounds can be conveyed over it on sledges :
five and two tenth inches will bear twelve
pounders ; eight inches will bare twenty four
pounders ; and a thickness oftwelve inches will
bear any weight.
A Traitor IIetcrxed
-Dr. Howe, or John
Brown iotoriety.
p isaed through this city on
vay from Quebec to Boston.
Saturday, on his w
As sooii as he heard ot the decision of the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts iu the case of
Sanborn, he resolved to quit his retreat in Can
ada and return home- Why did. he rut, away?
Of course, because he was guilty. Does he now
return because he thinks abolition Massachu
setts will protect him from attending even as a
witness to tell what he knows? We hope she
will not do it.
Portland Argus.
Mr. Albert Blake, p, shoemaker of Clareraont.
N. H., says The Eagle, having a fondness for
sport, went a fishing the other day up Black
River, near Cavand.sii, Vl., and soon "made
fast to a pike, which from the strength of its
pull he "suspicioncd" was one of the settlers.
After an exciting struggle of some twenty mio
utis, he succeeded in landing: it safely and
brought it home. T.iis respectable fish measures
three feet four inches in length, weighs eighteen
and three quarters pu:ids aud w.is taken with
a common trout line!
The Chicago Journal says : " We believe we are
speaking within reasonable bounds when we assort
that from 8,000 to 10,000 men are at this moment
en march for the gold regions of the Rocky Moun
tains, (Pike's Peak, 4c.,) from various parts of the
country; and that by the 1st of July thr will be
full 50.000 expectant gold-seekers at the mines, so
on their way thither."
An exchange paper says : . We laid before our
readers a naxtv sketch of the proceeds of Congress.'
The editor undoubtedly meant to say hay sketch,
but the types evidently knew the propriety of names
better than he did.
OnHwTwki
. NKW Yob, April 18, 1800.
Editor OF th. Nokth Carouhiah : Reasonable
mM1 seldom have ocoasion to Dronounce New York
dull, whatever otl
the remainder of I
mnra thn our us
other faults it may have; but; during
f this month, we shall have even
mnm thai, our uhiiI ahara of excitement. What
Kion .ithinv th dninM of the Charleston non-
vention, listening to the proceedings of the various
V
. 1 i V. :n
societies wnicn noia meir anDirereiv iierc, ana
. . 7 r a v
h.-ing us from England of the result of the contest
o
"F""
between Tom Savers and the Benicia Boy, which
a uiu tjujrds auu um uvuiva mvj , nuiuu
came oflf on the 16th inst, we shall have lively
time of it until the first of May.
The thins' that most interest New Tnrkera in
. o . . .
:.u a1 nL 1 . . a!
the other set of delegates, each of which started for .
v-imriesiou m iuu ouuuuenw w wuS u.uu.Pu.Uj
aamiueo, ana 01 witnessing uie reiwuga aau Bums
- .1 ...
-fej&TetfoTS ftlSHJi SKipZMjlously
Kniritnal condition of heathen humanity, abroad
..Mwaa v MJV
and aj home, in any number of ways, possible and
impossible. It has always puzsled me to know wby
the annfversaries held here every Spring are lumped
together by the press and called4,religious" anniv
ersaries. Certainly, many religious association
hold meetings here during the anniversary week,
but they are not as numerous as the aggregate of
the various other societies which hold their vearlv
meetings at the same time, and which are, for the
most part, bent upon "reforming" somebody or some
thing. Thes societies are chiofly made up of tallow
faced men with longhair who never "takeanythin V
and who, if you should offer them a cigar, will in
form you that they "never use tobacco in any form
no sir." These philosophers andreformers where
excelent habits would seem to have failed to im
prove their personl, are ably assisted by queer
looking, curiously attired women determined to have
their "rights," and who pass yards of resolutions
several times a day, and once or twice every evening,
during the entire week, declaring that they will have
them. These meetings are more popular and better
attended than those of the religious societies, which
are less spicy. New Yorkers like full-flavored de
bates and speeches.
There is a good deal of interest manifested, and
a good deal felt that is not manifested, in the con
test between Tom Sayers and the Benicia Boy."
Sayers appears to be the favorite among professional
"sports," us far as betting on him is concerned
while the boy is unquestionably the favorite among
outsiders of all classes, and I was going to say, of
both sexes. Well. I will say it. Heenan is a good
looking young fellow, and there is something akin
to the knight-errantry f old in his going three
thousand miles across the ocean to do battle with
the champion of England a hero of twelve well
contested battles. The girls can't help being some
what interested in the "Boy" no, nor the married
women, either, for that matter. They have heard
their husbands, brothers and fathers speak so often
of the contest the result of which so many persons
are now anxious to hear, and they have seen so
much about him in the newspapers, that many of
them are quite as well posted as their male friends
and relatives on the merits, "points" and chance of
the two men. They have learned, at any rate, and
that is enough for them, that Heenan is a handsome
fulluwve six fet high as straight, , as an arrow
circumstances, and the additional one of being uns.bla
to pass a pictuieshot in any through fare iu New
York without seeing a lithrograph of his slalwart
frame in the show-window how, under all these
circumstances. I ask, can the girls help feeling
anxious for the success of their young country man ?
But although this affair is exciting so much interest
iu New York, and. if an opinion may be based upon
the prominence given to it in the editonal columns
of the best newspapers in Great Britain, in that
Kingdom, also, I was not aware that it attracted any
considerable attention in the United States before
this morning, when I was informed by Koss and
Tousey, the news-agents, that orders have been
coining in from every state in the Union for the
last six weeks, for tens of thousands of extra copies
of the number of the New York Clipper that is to
be published immeditaley after the arrival of the news
from England announcing the result of the fight. I
have since learned that the orders for the Vlipptv
received by the other news-agents here from country
dealeis are also numerous and larger than ever be
fore, and that the regular receipts at the office of
that paper from yearly subscribers have been, for
the last few months, more than twice aa large as
those received during the corresponding months of
last year. The other two ar three semi-sporting
papers and the illustrated sheets are also doing con
siderably better just now than they generally do;
but the Cupper has more ot a circulation man all
the others of its class combined, as it is regarded by
ne otnerf 01 " "T.k T?h. ni - sThZ
devotees to the turf, the rod, the Ting, the "noble
game of biUard8, the royal game of chess" and every
her form Qf recreation, as the leading sporting
nnner of America.
Let me tell you a little story about living in close
quarters in New York, and I'll let up for to-day.
I am tired out, as it is; but I must tell you this for
fear I forget it.
A gentleman from Ireland who occasionally obliges
me and a few others of his acquaintance by sawing
and splitting wood, carrying coal from the sidewalk
to the cellar, &c &c but invariably for a trifling
cash consideration, informed me this morning tha t
he was about to "move" his family in the course of
th. Aav ami ur..,itii hrfnri be comoelled to denv
I himself'the pleasure of performing a service which
' I had requested of him. Upon my cansually asking
hi in w.iy he was going to change his guarters, he
informed me t at new arrangements had been made
where he lived, by which he was deprived of the
space and air necessarf to to the enjoyment of a
healthful cxistance ana tne comiris oi a nwuts uy
his family and himself. Upon questioning my friend
furttier, I learned that he lived in a large house in
Cherry st. in which there are foriy rooms
roam occupied by five families. There is a family
in each corner ana one in wie mmuw ui hvu ruuiu
friond it aunears. occupied a corner in one room.
and his family was quite small, consisting of himself
wife and three children, ne got aiong very coimorc
ably for a long time, until the demon of speculation
took possession of the families residing in the other
three corners, and they all commenced keeping
boarders. These money-making operations of his
neighbors, it would seem, were not agreeable to my
friend, tor the reason that sufficent pains were not
taken to investigate tne characters oi meir ooarocrs
bv the families of wh ch they became inmates, be-
... . . , a t r ,,
sides whicn there wa no poKsiumty o uin iamiy or
himself enjoying a right, of undisturbed sleep owing
to the constant intension into their corner of the
legs, arms and heads of their neighbors and their
boarders. Being of a naturally patient aud unj
complaining disposition, however, my friend would
have borne all this to the day of the resurrection,
without a murmur, bad not the fifth
occupied the middle of the ffrn sUmulatel by the
example oi im neignoo, j w frinA
.'7. j xrarf woman. MHj
noara inree men -err ht lt well to
could hold out no Lrager.
niift hnin fnT. nil Linitm . w
SIGMA,
move. I thought so, too
it is stated that the City Couno.l of Charles.
,J hire been appeal by lb Oitixeua to
1 Kit tK lindi!'iftenier at that port
dSSrSJ ftr1 the 'accomodation of delegate..