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VOL. IX. SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1860. NO. 52. I 2 - . Press, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY L. V. BLUM. PRICE Two dollars a Year, PAYABLE IN APVANCB. vr ;11 tu A ;i rtntini'Pii until all gQp u pajjei wm j .-,- arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editor. Six Copies for Ten n Twenty " 2 AH payments Invariably n ad vaace, Any person procuring Fiys new tubimribers and remitting Ten Dollars, will be entitled to a sixth copy gratis. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. . One sauare. (fifteen lines or less,; flrst inaerr tinn Ona Dollar : and twentv-five oenta for everv subsequent insertion. jJeoqctions maae in favor of standing advertisements, for i square, as follows : For three months, :, ' , $3 50 Fornix months, , . 5 50 AFor twelve months, . . 8 00 .? Professional or Business Cards, not ; exceed ing five lines in length, Vive .Dollars a year, longer ones in proportion. Interesting Discoveries io Africa. From the Zambezi expedition intelligence has been received to a late date in Decem ber. Dr. Livingstone and his party were then at Kongone harbor, on the Zambesi delta, and were engaged in repairing their steam launch, the Ma Robert, the iron plates of which bad been worn to the thin- ness of a water. They had returned uwn a second expedition up the Shire, in which T . . . they penetrated far up beyond Lake bhir- wa to L.ake AJvassa. ine tormer iney ascertained to be a sheet of water ninety miles in length, while the latter is of still m, jm 1 larger magnitude, and one at the oham or lakes ot wmcft tne otsoovenes oi captains Burton and Speke are the continuation northward. Dr. Livingstone sneaks in --1 13 I' ll fflowiner terms of the country whiob he tra- vprspd. and has aDDlied to the Church - a a some distance below the cataracts, This high table land is from 12 to 14 miles wide, and its eastern side slopes gradually down to Lake Tamandua or Shirwa, 1800 feet above the level of the sea, east of which we saw some lofty mountains. On the table-Und are numerous hills, and two mountains, Chuadiua, about 5,000 feet high ; Zomba, at the northern ex t rem ity which was ascended from 7,000 to 8.000 feet hieh, and 20 miles long, from north to south. The whole of this country is remarkably well watered ; wonderfully numerous are the streams and mountain rills of clear, cool, gushing water. Even Zomba has a river about 20 yards wide, flowing through a fine valley near its sum mit. On one occasion we passed 8 stream and a fine spring in a single hour, and this was at the end of the dry season. These highlands seem to possess a salu brious climate ; the air was bracing and we Missionary Society in London to exert ' saw an unusually large number of old grey- mtllmtm. EIGHTY LIVES LOST IN A COLLIERY. A fearful catastrophe happened on the 2nd of March by an explosion of pas in Burradon IJulliery, Northuuiherlai-d, EueJand About 120 mtn and boys were at work in the pit at tbe time, of which numbtr more than 80 were killed. Two explosions occurred, the"' first bout half-oast one o'clock in the afternoon, which was slight and alarmed ouiy a lew lads. The second explosion occurred about three minutes afterwards, and was so violent that all the workmen made an immediate effort to es cape from tbe pit, bai, only about 80 were suc cessful. Most of the others perished from the stifling effects of the choke damp. An awful wail arose in tbe cottages belonging to tbe mu down in the pit as the intelligence reached their fannies, and tbe women and ohildren flocked to tbe pit mouth, when a frightful scene ensued as tbn men and lads who bad es eted were brought to bank. Hundreds of t . . . . ... . . persons remained on tbe bank ail night, many . . . i . i if ihem women and onuaren, snivering in me ld air, in breathless o pe that some one enme out of the nt to eivc them intelli gence of father, brother, husband, or soo, but upon whom they a ere never destined to gate again, except as a blackened corps. A walk through the village on Saturday afternoon showed that in every third house there was a corpse, or that preparations were made for one that was expected from the pit. Lfwdoapajper. themselves for occupying it as a most in viting mission field. Mr. Balnea, the ar tist of the expedition, has been oom polled from failing health to return to Capetown, but he proposes returning again to Zambe si. Mr. Thornton, the geologist, had pro ceeded in July last to the interior, on an independent expedition of his own, in com pany with some Portugese traders. And Dr. Livingstone, with his brother, Dr. Kirk, and Mr Rao, were to return to Tete with the Ma Robert, and thence overland by foot on a visit to the Makolqlo country. This Journey was expected to extend over a period of at least eight months, DISCOVERY OF A NEW COTTON REGION. fo the Editor of the Manehetter Guar dian - Sir : You are at liberty to publish the enclosed letter from the brother of Dr. Livingstone. He sends me six samples of cotton, which I value as follows : No. 1, 7d. to 7d.; No. 2, bd. to 7.; JNo. 4, 6d to 6d-; No. 5, 5d. to 6d.; No. 6, fid. to 5fd.; all exceedingly useful qual ities particularly the four first. The two last will he substitutes, till improved for East Indian cotton. The cotton may he seen here. Yours, &o., Thomas Cleoo. Mount street, Manchester, Feb. 20, 1860. headed men and women. The cotton coun trynot that merely where cotton can be easily grown, but where they are actually growing it begins 20 or SO miles below the cataracts, and extends up to tbe lake, and probably far beyond, both on the plains and in the highlands ; the foreign cotton growing at the lake and in different places for 30 miles below, and also again below the cataracts, while the native is cultivated throughout the whole extent of country. The people live In villages, and are pretty tney seem to oe an industrious numprmia r.o Tron is dua out of the hills, and m,ODg in jeer now each village has one or two smelting hon- tor a long time after cur dad sa. From their native iron thev manu- ttled there. Ha, ha . I oft Rattlesnakes on a Wedding Night, Having -finished my stay at Louisville, (says 'Basel Green," in Porters Spirit,) I toog passage on board s neat little (South ern bound steamer, for Shawneetown, 111., at which place I arrived m dua time, and where I an now writing to you. Shaw neetown is a place of considerable business, being the shipping point for the counties of FrankKn, Hamilton, Saline, Gallatin, and White. It is not in so flourishing a condition as formerly, however the rail roads have taken away much of its bonnes. The boat that brought me down had a brace of ancient Hoosiers of the 'old school' aboard gentleman and lady; or, to see their language, 'an old man and his old 'omen,' They 'squatted' on tbe Indi ana aide of tne Ohio river, just above where Evaneville now is, in a very early day, and are residing st the same place still. Like I f 0 T most persons of their class they were very talkative, and consequently I was enabled to gather many amusing incidents from an unsolicited narrative of their early life. 'Oh, yes,' said the old msn, 'it was mor tal wild .times when we first settled up there. Four Tamil iea were all the white there. was nearer than Louisville, the place we earn from,' 'Do you recollect the date f ' I asked. 'No; but iwaa a powerful long tiuie ago. Pop there, and me, we were only children then, end you aee we're getting We wars t married dada and mam? en thinks of the little owl was a gripping her by the finger. Neither would let go; both held on till I interfered and settled the owl. The impudent little wretch had lit upon the eaves just over tbe door, and left his tail hanging down, which Pop etptcc and grabbed.' My old Hoosier friends were on their way to visit a son at Paducah. .it Our Towns and Mechanics. Most of our towns are mere villages. 1: ! Washington's Birth Dat in Europe The 22d of February was celebrated in Berlin ; . - m m. tlf 1 1 TT at the residence of Hon. Jos. A. wrigni, v S. Minister. Amon the speakers were gentle icon from Virgiuia, South Carolina and Geor gia. Io Copenhagen, the day was celebrated for the first time at the residence of Hon J as. M. Buchanan, the American minister, lcere were six or eeven princes and princesses pres nt. A letter says; The various rooms were beautifully decora ted and appropriately arranged for the occa sion. The portrait of Washington occupied a prominent position, exquisitely oroameoted with wreaths of flowers aud evergreens. The "star spangled banner," with her thirty three stars and tbirteep stripes, was entwined with tbe royal Danish flag, and so tastefully sr ranged, too, that the success was tbe admira tion of the as-cmbled guests. The eo'janoe to h .nartmenta was caruotod and on each side pr ' arranirfid flowers and various kinds of shrubbery. The plate used upon the occasion was purchased by Mr Buchanan io Pans. It was ornamented with the richekt ariistio work manship: It, baa been said that there never was sueh a profusion of delicious beverages at SO entertainment in this city before. LETTER FROM DR. LIVINGSTONE River Shire, Nov. 4, 1859. My Dexa Mi. Cijuiar . We have just returned from visiting the Lake NyaSSR, the source of the river Shire, and what is of greater importance, have discovered a great cotton-growing and cotton-manufac turing country. The ootton is of two kinds, native and foreign. The native is short in the staple, and feels mare like wool than ootton, The foreign appears to facture hoes, axes, spears, arrow-heads, knives, and numerous ornament. Nearly all their own clothing they prepare them selves ; it consists either of the bark of trees,skins of goats for tbere-are few or no wild animals in the hills or the well peopled plains and native cloth ; and they are also great cultivators of the soil ; men, women, and children are often seen at work in the field. This seems really a fine country for benevolent enterprise healthy high land, and the materials for commerce and water cummunication, with but a single exception. Let a market be opened, or an agency be appointed for the purchase of their cotton, Sc., and they will soon increase the amount raised to a large ex tent, as it does not require the severe toil as it does in the United States, and there - frosts Mtm tm -ranry- o.u.- Vi anxious to trade. At the villages we could hear the women pounding corn all night, K1 the first night srter her snd me got ried.' 'Havn't forgot it, then?' said I. 'No nor never will. You aee, when w took a notion to marry, the neighbors they all earned oat nd built us a cabin that is, they laid up the logs, and covered one corner for our bed to be under, and then tb y said I had to do the rest myself. Well, F op and me, wo got married, and her dad and mam gave her two quilts and an old jkillet, and my dad and mam they gave mi a straw bed, a pot, and two knives, and two; forks. On the very same day the ceremony was said, she shouldered her plunder, and I shouldered mine, and off we marched to our cabin to begin house keeping;' It was in the summer beautiful weath TTV to tber e w aan ' t much fixing needed We maae our xmt uimw m f i , II... . A . L. k mm K . CTi.ni.. ihic lliu hici tuj wi my mm vj nrnmrngmmg the sound of the hammer, tbe saw, the an vil and the wheel are heard, briskly at first, but aeon the town has its growth and still ness reigns. Why is this? The cause is apparent to every one who looks at it. Sometimes our towns are badly located. An enterprising lsnd owner wants to make money, and be projects a town upon paper, makes a noise about it, and soon a little village is started, with assurances of growth and expansion to a town. Enterpriaing men, concerned in the scheme, fill thtir pockets, snd soon they are off to a more promising spot ; and the villsge languishes for a while, and the groggeries and rum hole finally sink it. The great reason wby our North Carolina towns are bigger at the birth than at any other time, is be cause the impression prevails t'.at a town can bo built up by Court House, jail, and whipping post, a Hotel, two or three Store and a half a doten grog shop. These latter aeon ruin the prospects of any village. Mechanics and Manufacture are the bone and sinew of a town. No inland vil lage can be made a town without them Large commercial advantages help a sea port, but they can do but little without mechanics snd manufactories. We do not speak simply of honseioiners and brick masons, but we speak of all kinds of me chanics. Look at the atn.nl article of house-hold furniture. Every dollar of it should be made by our own mechanics Our carriages, cooking utensils, farming utensils. Ac., are mads in large numbers w w w mmW at the North. Even our axs and hoe handles, bread travs and rolling pin are made North. Scarcely a barrow or a plow can be stocked at home. All these, ami our cotton and woolen fabric,, hardware Ac, can be better mad and cbesper at I A Third Party. . Men wb$ era partisan Dsssosrat' sad 1U pablicaSS feqasetly express their surprise or indigo alio that there should be store than two par tie ini tb eoeatry. They don't noder sued bewt is, that sis do not e javt as tbey see, ajd set just ss they act; sod he is thought tcfbs a very foolish or stubborn fellow who will ant look upon everything sa blk or white jastfas iby look upon it. There is bo use ia waadog words apee perse boidin toch opiotoes a&d ws shall aot attempt it; bet there is aootber-elase, who doabt the expediency ef third partite, to whom a word stay he said with profit. aw the frt pi aee, Asa, there la a large plu rality of intelligent voters in America, who are not satw 6 d with either the D saoeratie or Re publican parlies sad who, if they would aet a s unit upoo their pr.noplr aod prfer-orei, would aeon largely oetouoaber either of -sheet. This slaao embraoa thouaaoda aad tea of tboao4s who vot with both the larger or ganisations, because tbey uppers they have -no where she to go, or ele tbey stay at he ss, asd leave local, state aad national pot ties to take ear of theweeivea. 1 berc are acventy fivs thuesaod of tbi last rises ef voters is the State ,of New York, sad store tbao eighty thousand of the saate elass ia the six New Ei gland Utrs; aod ewe keored tbcusaod in ike three States of Otto, Peaasylvanra and New Jersey; aad quite half a million of stay at hostess among the so called wt respectable and wealthy eitiseas of the country. Put this Dumber lto sa active Prvsadeotial canvass, with the nine hpndred thousand who voted for Fillnttre atd Df oelw n in If 56, and the three huidrtd and fifty tbowsand, at let, who pre fsrrrd Filln.ore to Fremont or Buebsaso, hat who voted for the oae es the other ef tec last two a pep tbe plea tbat lac I eraser aee bo ebaoee, trd hers is a vote exceeding the satire J . - m. MM. mi Mm . A vote of Kreeuioct. m lon, oy store tasa soar bat dred thousand ! Nor is there say sxag. ge ration B this statement. Again, ten to one, if yea BWvt a leading Democrat tf Republican, act a prof eased polit ician, ofre bolder or aspirant for place, he wilt agree with you tbat a third party between the extremes of tbe two e'ber pert ice, is just what the eoeatry needs. A party at for the Bcwta aloae, nor for ihe North alone, hat for the countrv snd tbe whole counlrv, a Constitu tional Union that covered one corner of the cabin, cook home, and yet wo go to the Noith fori aad Union party, fooaeed ope the areas piiocipUs of Justice, Fraternity and Kquity, is bst we need, sad seeh a party, with geed aad tree ssea aS ita leaders ia the CooLcils of tbe Nation, would give such sa electrical life to tbe people as woo Id thrill every patriotic heart between Nova fjeotie aad the Pacific Aad why stsv aet seeh a aertv be ful f Wby may it not appeal to the good lUiotism of the people te sdd to its ' ib' ta bo nrloe and no rood to be of good quality, with a staple from ( through three-fourth inch to an inch in length. It j gee tnem. S3 ' . , , , i to have meal to sell before we left. The eu supper oat oi aoore, sua tnen (arD.eu nonle of one villane which we passed with- in for the night. Awy Ute, Pop gave me .. l . 1 miHib vith kr alKn ami BKlif h A ' ctnnnmff tniinwpri iia enaeavorini? toi all niobt. with them. ums v v-w.. mm. -- i . ,-rif. . :J.T As last argument, they cried after us, 1 UP 'ou,u8 - Ve "Are we to have it said that white people open, ta t vrymg m iuo vuv .u ucu.... m , . I am z . . I. Atir rnnnrrv. ana we uiu -ier . j v . it i . 1 1 1J T I www i a "i tmm i e t a ii ii ww nair nnnn i i riomr is perenial, and requires planting only j j, 0f ano qh the plains, where salt ex-1 rattlesnake a whining away, only These would nrobablv iret mm our uea. once in three vears, while the native has to be planted annually in the highlands; yet the people prefer the latter, because, they say, it makes tne stronger ciom. w e remarked to a number ot lnteiiigent-ioox-ing men in one village, 'You should plant plenty ot ootton, and perhaps the English will come soon and buy it. 'Truly, the country is full of cotton,' replied one elder--ly man, who was a trader, and had trav elled much; and our own observations con firmed the tmth of this. Every where we am-m it whila nassiniF through two and a half degrees of latitude, and it probably 1 extends much further. Every family ap pears to have a piece of cotton ground, and it was gratitymg to see now ciear oi weeds and grass they kept them. Doctors Livingstone and Kirk, while passing through part of the same region last April, saw cotton .patches oi from two to three acres each, though this time, on a different route, we did not observe any containing more than one-third of an acre. They were in general about a quarter of an acre each. In every village we saw men busy cleaning, spinning, and weaving cotton. The looms are of the simplest possible con struction, and aU the processes are exceed- dingly alow. This vast cotton region is easuy acces sible. The Shire loins the fcambesi about 100 miles from the sea below the ditfccuH narts of the latter river, and for 112 miles . i . . . i . i the Shire has a deep coannei, tne ner being from 150 to 200 yards wide. One bnndrAd and twelve miles from its moutn but s a few SOAKING SEEDS BEFORE SOWING. This practice is not as extensively sdopted in this eountry as it might be with advantage both for tbe farm and ths garden. In this re speet we are far behind a people whom we are ant to rrard with feelings nearly approaching pr mt c u to contempt xnere arc iw, piuw.uij, in England or this country, who are not dis posed to think themselves much superior to the Chinese, snd jet, in one respect at least, we. think tbey at much in advance of most far mers in either England or America. L'ebtg states in his "Letters on Modern Agriculture, that no tvbineac .r , - with the cataracts commence, (lat. 15 56' 8.,) watorand has begun germinate; and that and. for thirty miles the river is not navi exDerience has taught him that this operation gable (goods would have to be parried over tends not only to promote the more rspid and an aDOye the catoraets to the Lake vigorous growth and development of the plant, jyag; 8ixty miles the river is again nav but also to protect the seed from tbe ravages igaWej anfi tow far t0 the north the great of worms and insects. There would be nut navi ble ake extends we do not know, only some trouble, but some fhe natives-said that it would take months als; in the adoption of this Pc on an ex - rf iended scale; but We are pretty confident, not about n wide withsunng tbat tb at he font of the lake, hut soon expands small aele will Jod it Pde 2Q QT 30 BMie, enougn mwm - - bavs, on all the way by ranges of hills, the range Hons, vt e -j - informed by one on the east or left bank rorrewmdeots that he make, much s Tkere is exceedingly fertn pto on Of our corresponts bU . a ( travelled on oi nen man Country Gentleman. of tne river) and pretty well cul - tivated on the UpDer Shire, where it is r a mA W. sick a long time, aod about 1200 feet above the level of the sea. whtl! iWlutf eh cease Adine the eastern range of Mils by a while m that state w , tioct fojr reacb a piateau 500 or SSS when 7U woulYeometo. On one JoOfee higher; a second ascent of 1000 ofTbesi easWns, when be had just awakened f and we fln(i another plateau, three or from Ws sleepT hU friend P.tiiot ashed him: four mUe8 and in a short time we "And how'll we know, yZn Sl gn e Y"Zhe8t Prt' Pwftrd8?f feet afther wakine up every Uca. . above the level of the sea, and find our- glasso' hiAy, and say m here" WJ 3 en an extensive table land, which Jimmy, an' if 1 don't nss an onr hn these three distinct divisions extends buty at." i vaHna fpftin tlui KAll 1 tlSM uuo -" f ; I ..a. a r . I. . be found weU adapted for Sea Islands, as "Ulfgat, says i, -inst won t oegin to the foreign cotton becomes longer in the do,' srd then I pall a chink out from ho st ante on these lands, tweenho logs jast abov our bei, f anam .npmmpnH r,f the two kinds of oisxes away at tne noise, no sooner . . . . . - . .1 I T ! vl.lu. li. itilnlr ikm Vii Vi1t Afnn nwlri in flinorfllt DaTtS OD lOe W3A vun.-., ...... " - i;- aXa m tb. bi.rbUnda. went two more in other parts nf tbe cabin. r " . , ,,or,mVTTl 4 4tli T il-.'- lv u1li;n. f- .11 umber. Tv, . eVlcl,nrlt Pttr datwl the 10th oun seo, says sne, sna so we raiaeu - . . I . - .U. of December, Dr. Livingstone writes in up n toe nea sna oegm to ciimo good spirits, his vessel having been rendered wall, sot deeming it safe to walk out by wtAr.tiirht thrnucrh the assistance anoraea wj i uuui. .-k nvnc u . . . . H- . . r 'AW . I mm m. mum m Cm m V. m r Am A' m O.Vtin ! f K Ml t him by Uapt. uerkeiy, ox ner majesty s 'i aio t ship Lynx. After expressing his great much clothes on as we mout a had. . y mm. m V. . . . , V . . t . Tm.'m A m A m n A m t Wm m obligation to Sir JT. txrey ana tne navai ssi. uioruiug, - , officers for their friendly aid, he adds : went tp to the new cabin to kill the snakes w. a ;n tbp anot where the sea breeze bat nnrv a snake could we see. But I II -At;n,illx nnon ns and we niov tell ou wht we did see three long " . ... x ml-m . 1 mm'. V mm mmltV, Una annrli atnlr rtn tht-ir good health, l go up io maxoioio oouniry i wmw vMa Jm7 j fm sfrjlB Tn a letter of nrior date be ends. Poo's dad took one of them an and says of the Shire valley : shook it snd the loos seed ia it soaoded . " . . 1 1 ! . V : 1 1 T mmm..mm m, n ( k tka "VVn mot . nrirp esst-COUt Ei&YlDic par- I "Cit jaujiiii, a moaui c jw. . i rPnm r,aamhj H eoantrv. scsmns n m oniv naa noia oi mem. i u with an immense number of slaves and de- a larn thrra how to imitate rattlesnakes. n.nB' tnaL- We bonirht loioe fine ape- 'JNeat day l cbincxea an tbe cracks in Lm. of mli.hite from them. A more the cabin, to prevent the boys from playing blackguard-looking aet I never aaw ; they off any more tricks on us, and then we got - . . m - w a T 1 . . . 7 .1. i crnaps me greavct wan oi .iuriii nmll( kit, kn, K. .ntr. :n . ..... ft L,arpiina at tins time, is gooo, tnorougn , ml .,clt.m,n. 11. to h tU bet bred mechsnics in every brsnch of trade, foreigo Stetet ta a time of war f We have become dependent on the North, U , Uvfui eaeweb to joia a third ebarch, or because the different branches of mechani- a third sect te believe ia a creed not all Lut eal occupation in this State have been tsnaa, or all Bpisssael, Oalvaniatic or Univor- given up to negroes and half-instructed faliet aad bo saaa is deemed a fool or a f net- white men. wbe cannot oroduee a ?ood 10b ,c i Reran j. uo, t-x, wnea ac aeoe two pir- fnr th want of the rrouiaite triirunu. and ""t er two mco, diaag-eeing widely, can see thai there are errors ou both idee, and pitot oat road of safety betweow the two. The frassers of the govern neat, whea they met la a oatioasl eoaweation to frame s national eoa ttiiouoB, fiad i; aheolately aceaaaary to com promise upoa the great quest iocs ef State aad Federal power; and whea the constitution wee made) States like New York, aad ssea like Pat rick Henry of Vs., held oat vehemently lor a time against its ratification. Uad there been no aedium between extreme opiniowe, we should have had ao Dealaraiioe of Iadcpend ence, bo Const tattoo, ao Federal Geverasa no thirteen Slates ia one Uaioa, aad from whiah baa sprung more than tbraf times sa original samber of Sute. This government, indeed, could not list ten years aoder the ex- appear to he the people of the Angona river, hut were not Arabs, though some what like them. When they knew we were English they slipped off at night, with pjapbably the same opinion of us as we had of them. The English name is known far into the country. The people are quick of apprehension, and we found that suspicions of our turning out to be a marauding party were quickly aHaYed ay trankiy stating that we came to Snd out and mark paths for our trader to come alongTndpuy cot ton, A colony of our own hone poor would be a great advantage to tyth Eng land and Africa ; and, wore our? religious as well as mercantile eetabliptofcts plan ted simultaneously, I haveo bar a to the result. I have submitted k plan to Government by which I -thina this new field may he occupied advaitageously. and a command of a large portion of the cARt coast slave market obswned. xaB is the work which I proposed to myself When the expedition was piswnen, f A "Farmer's Bey" ia Kftaeky, advsruaed for a wife. He saye ; He wauls to knew if fkttn milk And make his bread and BBUer, Aad go to meeting wiibcat silk, To make a Hahow aod fitter." He'd like to know V U weald hart Her heart, to tab up stitches; Or rew the buttons oa his shirt v Car make a nair of breeches. sioa finely for more thsn a week. At the end of that time, aa I waa lying io bed one night, with my hand a banging out before, some tharp-toothed animal seised a holt ef it, and gave it the alfiradest keenist nip I ever felt. I gave a yell and jumpt out of hod, and Pop here, she jumpt out t'ter ms sad purty soon we seen a white, thing a dodging about In the cabin She ook a stick and got into the door to keep4t from running oat under the old blanhrt that was hung up, while I struck a ligt. I soon got the chunks stirred up, and hen we seen what it was a possum Poor fellow ! he never got out of thai cabin Uv 3viae time in the course of the summer, Pop' mam gay bar aa old hem, which we pernjitted to roost in the cabin, to keep the varmints from catching ber. A little owl ound out, by some means, that a ben oom oed part of our family, and every night it lit upoa our cabin, and kept a awake for hours with its squalls. It wanted to got at th ben, you aee, but dido t know how. We tried a heap ot ways to get na of it, but ell to no effect. One Bight just at dusk, when I was down in th clearing burning brush, I heard some of the dread fullest acres ss -Q my : I never heard s ww . w . WZ ' screams: i made sure a les oi inmoa u her, for she kept on scresmiog like every one would be bar last. I ran to the cabin with all my might and soon aaw what waa ties matter. ' Thar stood Pop in th yard, a gripping the little ow by the tail, while who must take three times as long te do it a a good mechanic. There are honorable exceptions we have some mechsnics equal to soy but we speak in genersl terms. Hence, in great measure, our peeple are driven North for articles which our own mechanics will not produce, or if at all, at such prior that they cannot afford it. The few first-rate mechanics we have, complain cf this, but the complaint is often nnres on .ble. 'Good mechanic who under stand their business tad no difficulty in securing plenty of work at remunerative prices, when tbey are disposed to work. North Carolina has the material, the water power and th meana to employ at j lreBD pre sore of the extreme this tune tbe mechsnics, the machinery and ! t0 admiauter it. We see the spirit of sa the manufacturers for tb production Ot almost every article of necessity or luxury which her citisen require. Her people are disposed to patronise horn industry and skill, and it ia more of necessity than of choice that wo havecomo so depend ent on tbe North. Let th mechanics and the Capitalists of the Stat wake up to this matter. Let them ex:el the North in tbe excel lency, dispatch, test snd cheapness of ibeir arti cles, and tbe demands for northern pro ductions will cease. Then oar towns snd villages will become flourishing cities, and not until then. Bat let sll concerned be ware of the rain that must always follow a village or town filled with liquor holes. Keep out tbe grog shops and tbe mechan ics snd factories will baild up a town IB the desert .Spirit of the Age. Wwo Maps tbb "Black Republic ass?" "Black Republicans'' is th bugbear with which Sou them Loeofacoe sack, ea all oocasisaa, to frighten children in o bed, or lato their par ty, which is worse. That oar readers may know whose powefi of prccreatioo 'Black Rspeblieeoiffli" into existence, rive them the following from a late number of tie . Y. Daily Newe, a staunch, old Daotoeraus pnpet: "But io aa evil hoar we took the Free Soil- mmm In OUT ho torn and elected Mr. fierce is 1852. We mad s bad bargain. This sr liooal fraament of oor party, thus wartue-J in - mmm lkf-. Dcrmeeted tbe entire Got era meat of Mr. Fierce; so much so that sioat of our tiooa. Democrat had to leave it. Be indeed, did tbe see'iocal slavery principle be come by having been taken to the boa m ot th . mm Mm. m Mm. A O f . . Democratic part; in ltK2, that m 1DOO up for itaelf, denounced those who bad it into life after its compltte prcetratioo 1850, gathered to itself all the Aboli inoist ai 1 other opBoacate ef Democracy, aad formed .Til L T KJli S preeeoi nnei rvepawuwaa Y"J eternal coufl.ct between these two cttetio U There Is ia neither of them say of the to bear - ance and tone ef peach which character! cad the founders of the Government. One seas Is fighting, sa it thinks, for th very life of one sectioa ef the country, and the ether Shis sr making sa aggressive, soasteat war npeo Shis seedea. 'A higher law tana the Coestitatioa' is preached ia a civil Government, a irre raMble conflict' among fraternal States a watjwtweea Capital ia oae part of the Coun try aad Lsbor ta another. Aad then precede or fallow, as the ease stay he, s hoe aai crj about the Territories, oae side taaisting npea special leg islalioa for slavery ia the Territories, sad the other aide for special legialati-.n a.int slavery ia the Territories, and each Shi fight ing for an nto traction, not lor a praciicat prin ciple, sad polling the ooueiry by with the verv 'abundance ol their sv, ..tb ' SureW there is a straight and right way between the eatresses, aad as it is a aae one, is it toe avaeh te speet that a million a two of the American people, North sad South East sod Wist, will delight ft wsik therein r ft. X EXfrem. No it irtncd ID Km 1 Reich's Shoes, AT THE BOOK STORE. 'ft HE been ber Y LtDIE'l 1HOCB, of bis f rieoda aod the phlac can be mo March 16. W60v 48-tf. let of REICH. INKS Biaek. Red aad Bue Iodeknbla I"., at tbe DRUG STORE. Pure Brandy and Win- Mmmm. m -mm, mmm mm. m . . ewi w a eAwwvaV IkAilV QCHKLUS SftaAwI, LWwn wviv IN. Jamaica Rasa. Port ud b terry W usa. for Medical porpoeea. fur sale at the DRUO STORE. oraauhiiiavi cKn-tKiu lUrfrk amA MaaboT 8mB?. at the PRIQ STORi;
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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April 13, 1860, edition 1
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