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I: X fanned m it is constantly -by the salubrious I breezes of tbeOwan, Tor.every one who is ;de i on be h MR THE MCISTKE.1 THE SEAFOKT JV JMGAUFUKI., , w .!,. f ,.V, lmmt ad, home t Localilv and HeaUhfulness--the "Salubrity qTthis maimineent harbour, whicfi -will soon rt Ssa-Bet-i-itt Superior' Advantages to teeming with the busy life of r active industry, the Watering Place of Kahant, Newport and, ftIM the flch. argosy of profitable commerce, to Ixng Branch ils Easy Access from, Sea its gx family and improve bis fortune. To the History and Inoorporatvmlhe Home of the in- man 0f capital, the meohanic, ; operative, labor dustriout the Public Sale of theCorporaiitni er ftn(j those in pursuit of health and pleasure, Lots the Terminus of the Railroad. i: j a rare opportunity will be offered on the sixth , There U not taj be found on the whole Araeri-j day of September next, t Beufort, to secure can coast, a place, which holds out greater in- for himself an abiding place and home in this chanic and laborer, than the port of Beaufort, tion of Beaufort will ofFer at public sale, all ot in the State of North Carolina i and; we are the reserved and vacant lots belonging to the lU ..nrd th.t for ttA l&st fiftr vears it has town, to the hiebest bidder at the Court House been the healthiest seaport town in America. door. No-one, however humble his means It has neer been visited by any contagious dis- need despair of purchasing a home industry ease, and its bill of mortality, and the experience is Wi the capital he need require, for here he and evidence of it oldest and most eminent will, in a short' time, be sure to find constant physicians, aU w to show a5 degree of health anl profitable employmentand with it, its and exemption from disease, 'not surpassed by sure and certain reward. And even before the anyplace in oar country. It could not bte other- Railroad is begun and after it is determined on, wise, for 'whilst the town lies immediately open there must necessarily be a very great demand to the Atlantic ocean, and seems to sleep as it for labor. Tine Corporation purpose extending it were, in the very braces of the delightful and the corporate limits of the town, so as to e in salubrious breexes which sweep for nearly three brace all t!ie waters, situated between the mar thousand miles continuously, over and from the jbes to the south and west of the town these broad bosom ot the great o$ean, through all its they purpose to fill in, which can be easily done tho r.nth fiftstftnd I and at a comnaratively small expense. I his west, it U wellj protected from any insalubrity work, when completed, will enrich the Corpora of atmosphere, 'or even pprehension of disease tion of Beaufort to tho extent of between a half from the North, by the dry and sandy lands a millionjind a million of dollars, and form the pine forests and well drained farms that inter- most beautiful and valuable quay attached to vene in that direction. any city in the world.. This valuable addition As a watering place and resort for health, it to the town of Beaufort will give tho Corpora enjoys many advantages over Newport, Nahant, tion immediate access to the deep waters of the Lone Branch. ! and Cape May. The cold and harbor, aud with a little dredging, the largest frigid formality which prevails in the social ini Bhips in the world can lie immediately valong tercourse at thosa placed rendered ' still more side of it and be laden from it This work will obnoxious, by the restraints of fashion the par- cost a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand Iwne ultraism in dm, the affected exelasive- dollars, and make n addition of between fifty v ftf rirtit. thoocknevismof beuox. and .and Bnhnndred aares of land to the unmedi- tharidicnfoM and intolerable bad manners of ateAcat of the town -with its margin for its the noveau rich are her lost and unknown, in whole wtent.upon the deep waters of the har ithe warm) genirw aad geaial luitallty and botwhere thousaa ships may lie m pTect iintarcoorse of Southern people, Hving not so safetyand security. The town of Beaufort will much exclusively and eelfishly for themselves, need no aia in enecung wu gre-n, ;t as for each Other, born to a birthright, without will readily be taken up by northern capitalist feelings and shewing that they had purchased who will be very willing to receive their pay in one, "or were eagerly endeavoring to attain on, lots or portions of the land thus redeemed from " and appreciating God's heritage, as the iaheri- the water. Here, too, upon this quay and lm- tance ot every man woo was agenueman. oeauwi; uu mo f . " ' - Here, too, the luxury of the sea-bath, whether ought and no doubt will be, the terminus of the u tu .n.rhAn-n th a TTrhnr th Round. Railroad. This work, so easily accomplished or the Rivers maybe enjoyed in all its volup- and so much within the power and means ot tuousness, "without money and without price:" the Corporation, must necessarily yield, to the Uorporation over ana aoove ine cost anu ex pense of its construction, at least half a million of dollars, and this is the sum which the town of Beaufort alone will be enabled to subscribe for the construction of the Railroad. No one who has seen the "filling in" at Uoboken, New York, Williamsburg and Brooklyn, can doubt of its success and easy accomplishment- The shoals, Carrot Island, Harker's Island and the Banks, all within the limits of the harbor, af ford dirt and sand in more than abundance, for this purpose, and with the aid of a steam tug and flats. the change can soon be effected. This will make Beaufort the terminus of the Rail road, and extend the limits of the town from Newport River to North River, embracing the beautiful site at Denoxville, and this whole peninsular will thus in time become one of the largest, most thriving, jjrosperous, and Commer cial Cities in the United states. We snail hereafter assisn reasons why Beaufort alone should become the terminus of this .Railroad. CASWELL. The Harbor so beautifully and safely landlock ed from the Ocean and its tempestuous gales, affords the best and finest sailing in pleasure boats, to those who are fond of such pleasure, and the waters abound in fish of every kind and variety, so that the angler and disciple of old Isaac Walton, might.be almost tempted to ex- claim, in the language ot his master : i "When the Wind is South, It blows your bait into a fishes' mouth." To all these advantages, there are others which are by no means to be overlooked. Liv ing here is eheap, and at the public houses, every day, will be found a repast worthy of a monarch fish, crabs, scallops,- poultry, &c., in every variety, may be found upon the tables, and what the immediate country does not afford, is readily supplied from New York by the pack ets, which' run constantly between these two places. ' ! " p " Beaufort is Jin old settled place, and is the only town in the State that has been incorpora ted as a Seaporf. The Harbor is about eight - and a half miles W. N. West per compass, from the South spit of Cape Lookout, and can be en tered with the wind from all points, except W. and N. W., carrying in twenty feet at high water.- It is a most remarkable fact that the in let and harbor of Beaufort are not liable to the changes and fluctuations, common to the other parts of the coast, for Wimbles may exhibit it as a ship channel in 1737, and Lawson states its depth of water still further back, in 1718, precisely the same as it is at the present day, as oar readers will see by reference to the Re porof Eublio Improvement for 1820, p. 11 and. 14, and in 15Z1 pv 4 and d. -. The town of Beaufort is located upon a beau tiful peninsula of land, containing seven hun dred and eighty acres, whioh was originally patented by Farnifold Green, during the usur pation of the governmentof the Province, by Col. Thomas Carey, which patent begins at the mouth of Core river, at the western end of the town, and runs up the river and Town Creek, thence from a point on the Town Creek due east to North River, thence down North River to the sound or harbour which lies in front of the town, . and thence with the sound to the beginning. Our readers will perceive by the courses and distances, that this body of land is surrounded on three sides by water of sufficient depth and capacity to float the largest merchantmen in the world: . Two hundred acres of this patent only constitute the corporate limits of the town of Beaufort, leaving an extent of land sufficient for "' the erection of a city of two or three hundred thousand souls, with the advantages of eood nav igation, water and eommercecn three sides there of. This patent to rarnifold Green must have been granted at sometime between the years 1704 a iru . i ' r , . . : ana 1 1 uu -taero is wt eviueace oi its existence, are that it is recognised in a subseqent patent erantea lor uie same iana to AoDert Turner, in 1719 by the Lords Proprietors, "as being the land formerly granted by patent to Furnival Green, during the usurpation of Col. Thomas Carey, and was assigned over by said Green to the said Robert Turner, and is now renewed by virtue of an Aet of Assembly." There is a great poverty ooin in ine maiena ana nistory oi .North i -1 : . i ; j sit j i . i vwuuim ui iuih penou. au mat is Known or nid nf f!nl Thnmu Ca-rav an1 Ti?a . ..j w.v ui, tuuipauuu, i is, that about the year 1704 or thereabouts, Sir ) JNatnamel donnston having appointed Thomas Carey Deputy' Governor of the northern part of this Province, the Lords Proprietors disapprov ed jof his choiee and required that their De- futies should, from among themselves, elect a 'resident and Commander-in-Chief. William Glover was accordingly chosen. Carey yielded to this measure at first ; but a few weeks after, supported by the influence of the Quakers, and surrounded by a rabble of profligate persons', pos sessed h imself of the records of the province and resumed the reins of government Robert Tur ner, by deed bearing date the 19th day of Octo ber, A. D. 1720, conveyed to Richard Rustell, two hundred acres of toia uatent. nmn whinh Rustell proceeded to lay off the present town of xxeauiort, out at wnat time, we bave not been able precisely to ascertain ; the present town, b.oweverf; was incorporated by his Excellency, I the Palatine and the rest of the true and abso- lute Lords Proprietors of the Prsvioee of Caro lina, by and with the advice and consent of the rest of the members of the General Assembly, met at Edenton, for the North East part of the said Province, on the 23d day of November, A. D. 1723, and the preamble to the act of incor poration declares that "whereas a certain nlot of ground being part of the tract of land, in Core Sound, lately belonging to nobert Turner, Esq., but now the property of Richard Rustell. Em.. was formerly laid out into a Township, bv the name of Beaufort Town, with proper allotments . for a Church, a Town-house and a market place, as bv a draught thereof, upon record in the Se cretary's office doth and may more fully and at large appear.- 4.ne act or incorporation ia aimed by William Reed, Esq.. President T. Pollock, Christopher Gale, M. Moore and John 1ovick, Lord Jrroprietors' Deputies. , Pnblio attention throughout the United States , is bow being directed to this important pIam. - aa a rt excitement in the public mind with a proper and becoming Stat pride to build up - iL - . iL O . . . 1 . we only port in ma dbh, mm can ao the com , merce of Uw country, without let or hindrance, is being manifested, throughout our borders. . . The most akaptieal have now given in their , adhesion to the eoustruction of a-Railroad from GoldsbOTo' to this harbour, and it would seem to have became a fixed fact ; The town of Beau . - tort is already baitt op, and well purged of av vJ . cry nuisance-its healtafiilaeas, too, has beooxne uAwi mc. roui iwreor Newport mer at 1" the Western end of the town, along the Sound r. io North river, there ia a front directly open to - the harbor and Oceaa of three mile here then, is room endpgh 0 this beautiful place', ScresTiric Intelligence. A variety of inter esting and useful papers were read at the Sci entific Convention, at Cleveland. Among others was a long communication by Professor Loomis, on the hail storm of the 1st of July, in which the stones which fell in some sections of the country were from 2 to 3 inches long and 2 wide. After a long description, the profes sors gives the following explanation : What was tlie cause of the Hail t The hail was caused by a violent upward movement of the air, carrjingalong with it an unujual amount of vapor, which was suddenly condensed, and at so low a temperature that it was frozen in large, semi-crystalline masses. That there was viofent upward movement of the air appears from the following considerations : Rev. G. W. McLftne, of Williamsburg, was- in tha street near his house, and noticed the coming up of the storm. He says the cloud was very dense and black moved rapidly forward, and under the main sheet the clouds boiled up in a vio lent and angry manner. Others have testified to substantially the same facts. Again, it ap pears impossible that two currents in close jux taposition should blow from nearly opposite quarters with such violence as to prostrate large trees unless there is opportunity for the air to escape upward. How was the Cold which formed the Hail Pro duced? The temperature of hailstones when they fall is sometimes as low as 25 or even 20 deg. Fahrenheit. The temperature of the air diminishes as we ascend from the earth. At a height of 8,800 feet above New York it is esti mated at 32 degrees in summer. There was a hailstorm in France on the 28th of July, 1835, which covered the ground at the foot of a mountain three inches deep with stones, some of which weighed eight ounces ; while at a height of 4,800 feet up the mountain no hail fell. It-is thought, therefore, that the hail of July 1st, 1853, was not formed at an ele vation of more than 5,000 feet The atmos phere derives its heat mainly from the earth by radiation upwards. Clouds intercept this ri sing heat, and it therefore becomes unnaturally cola above. The wind in this case came from a higher latitude, as it blew from the northwest, it therefore brought with it a lower tempera ture. Another source of cold is found in evap oration from the surface of the hailstones. If we moisten the bulb of a thermometer its tem perature sinks from evaporation. As the hail stone is in rapid motion, it is coolod by evapo ration to so low a temperature that the sur rounding moisture is condensed upon it, and thus concentric layers are formed. How do Hailstones remain suspended in the air long enough to acquire a weight of half a pound t I conceive that hailstones are formed with great rapidity. Xbe vapor is condensed suddenly and almost instantly. I think that very large hailstones may be formed in five minutes. In a vacuum a stone would fall from the height of 5,000 feet in less than twenty sec ondsbut drops of water and hailstones fall with only a moderate velocity; from my own observation, I should think forty feet per sec ond, in the July storm; at this rate a stone would ia- two jaainutas jn. falling 5,000. feet; ana it we suppose it to start trom rest and its rate to increase uniformly to the ultimate velo city of forty feet the time of fall would be in four minutes. The strong upward movement which is known to exist in the neighborhood where hail is formed, is quite sufficient to sus tain hailstones of the largest kind, so long as thty can be kept within the influence of the vortex. I see bo reason, therefore, why hail stones cannot be sustained in the air fivo or ten minutes, or even longer. Why did the hail in the present case attain so large a sizef Beeanj e the circumstances were unusually favorable to ita formation. The at mosphere contained about as much vapor as it is ever known to hold in this latitude. This vapor was suddenly liftei to a region of great cold, and rapidly condensed or frozen. The strong upward movement hlped to sustain the crystals as they Infreasea, until the upward force was no longer equal to gravity, or until they escaped from the , influence of the vortex ; most of the stones would fall in five minntas. and be of moderate sice; others might be sus tained ten or fifteen minutes, and obtain enor mous dimensions, t In SaomrasT Roan to the Lcmatic Astluk Bo an editor; let the devil be waiting for copy ; alt down to write an article, -!d get a few sentences' done. Then let a loafing acquahv wovs tunp W, mm wgm to kii juu scones ana to gossip ot we town : and let him ait, and sit and sit, and art. That it the quickest way we can think of to go raving, distracted, mad. xv. x. ric. . . From the Washington Republic. THE JAPAN EXPEDITION. We have reeeived from a distinguished and esteemed correspondent the Hon. E. Jot Mor ris, Charge d' Affaires of the United States at Naples, the following translation of an excoed mclv interestincr article, suersrested by the Amer ican expedition to Japan, and which appeared eaiwriniiy in tne inuepenuaiicc uciyc, ui uiuoovu., of the first of July last. The article is philoso phic in its reasoning, liberal in ita views, and brings forward certain highly interesting facts of Japanese history that would seem to afford them a justification for their selfish policy of seclusion. We commend the translation io me attention of our readers, satisfied that a perusal will amply repay the time it will occupy : Translated for the Washington Republic from the Independance Beige, of July 1, 1853. The Japanese Causi of their Exclusion or Strangers The American Expedition, &c. It is known that a strong American squadron, I under the command of Commodore Perry, has sailed for Japan, for the purpose of opening re lations with that country, which continues to confine itself within an almost absolute isola tion. We heartily wish that the attempt may be crowned with success. We wish it the more on account of the very liberal instructions given to tne uommouore, wnicn enjoin upuu mm w seek the opening of the ports of J apam, not only for the citizens of the American Union, but for all civilized nations. We have therefore a di rect interest in the success of the American mission. Unfortunately, Europeans have left the most unfavorable remembrances among the Japanese, and we fear that these souvenirs will militate much against the negotiations of Coin-. modore Perry. The policy of excluding strangers has not al ways prevailed at Japan. When that empire was discovered in 1542 by the Portugese navi gator, Mender Pinto, Europeans were at first admirably received. Every part of Japan was open to them ; they could freely traffic, and even propagate, without any obstacle whatever, their religious taitbs. in a tew years Christianity made prodigious progress among the Japanese people, and, at the closo of the sixteenth cen tury, the number of converts amounted to not less than two or three millions. St. Francis Xavier, the most distinguished propagator of the faith in Japan, was enraptured at such hap py results, and he never could find terms too strong to express his admiration of the good and solid qualities of the Japanese. "I cannot finish," he wrote, "when I speak of this people ; they are the delight of my heart." Another missionary, the i ather Lewis r roes, who had resided for a long period in Japan, declared that no nation of Europe was more highly gifted with intellectual endowments. Unfortunately, religious intolerance and commercial jealousies soon interrupted the harmony which reigned in the outset between the Japanese and their Eu ropean visitors. The missionaries, who bad so largely profited of the toleration of the govern ment to introduce their faith, manifested the most deplorable intolerance as soon as they had landed in the country. Not content with the liberty granted them of making proselytes to the prejudice of the ancient religions of the country, they stimulated their neophytes to per secute the priests of Sinto, the national god, and to destroy his temples. For several years the government paid no at tention to the complaints which were addressed to it against the Christian missionaries. "W e have," responded the Emperor Taico-sama, those who lamented the progress of the new worship, "thirty-four sects in Japan, exclusive of the btate religion ; why should we not permit a thirty-fifth ?" It was only when the complaints against the toleration of the Christians increased that the same sovereign decided to direct repre sentations to the missionaries. In 1586 he sent two imperial commissioners to the Father Cuello, Vice Provincial of the Portuguese, to inquire of him 1st. Why he and his associates imposed their religion upon his subjects 7 2nd. VV by they excited their proselytes to overturn the national temnles ? 3d. Why they persecuted the native priests ? 4th. Why they adopted for food the flesh of an imals useful to man, such as the ox and the cow T The v ice Provincial defended himself in a lengthy memorial before the commission ers. . He pretended that the missionaries did not impose their faith, and that they employed only persuasion for its propagation ; and that, if Christians had persecuted the Jananesepriests and ruined their temples a charge which the provincial did not deny it was done without the cognizance of the missionaries. As to the law against eating the flesh of the ox and cow, they bad transgressed from ignorance of its ex istence. These explanations do not appear to have sat isfied the commissioners, and perhaps not with out reason, tor, at this same epoch, the mission aries commended in the warmest terras a feud atory Prince of Bungo, of the baptismal name otrrancts Ciran, tor having levelled to the earth three thousand temples and monasteries belonging to the bouzes, (priests of the coun try.) The practice of the Christian religion was prohibited throughout Japan, and the missiona ries were ordered to leave the country within 20 days. This first edict, however, against the Christians did not go into execution, and a sec ond edict issued five years later (1592) was like wise not enforced, although new protestations, more or less founded, were raised against the persecuting bigotry of foreign priests and their converts. The monopolizing spirit of European mer chants was exhibited in an equally disgusting form as the intolerance of the mu sionaries. The Spaniards intrigued to obtain the dismis sal of their Portugese rivals, and both united to seek the expulsion of the Dutch, who had the triple misfortune to be "heretics," very enter prising traders, and rebels to the Spanish crown. The Japanese government constantly refused, with the most laudable firmness, to sat isfy these avaricious hatred?. The Emperor, Ogosho-sama, replied emphatically to a deputa tion of Spaniards who demanded the exclusion of the Dutch as rebellious subjects of Spain: "that he would not permit any erovernment to dictate to him the policy he should pursue to wards the strangers visiting his empire ; that he did not believe that it was necessary for him to meddle in any manner with the relations ex isting between the people of Eurone : that nil his efforts were consecrated to the promotion of oi me nappiness oi nis people and the preserva tion of domestic tranquility ; that so long as foreigners contributed by a legitimate com merce tO the proeperitvof his subieetn. it imnnrt. -ed to him very little to know to what nation they belonged,' and of what sovereign of the West they were nominally subjects." As the petitioners, despite of this peremptory reply, insisted upon their demands,the Emperor ig nominiously dismissed them, with the vehem ent declaration that if "the devils of hell" them selves should visit his kingdom they would be treated as "angels of heaven," so long as they conformed to the established laws. Finally, a nother Spanish deputation having argued that the Dutch had not the permission of their sov ereign to reside in Japan, the Emperor dis missed them again, with the noble declaration that "Japan was an asylum for the people of all nations." Certainly, if we compare the religious and commercial policy of the Japanese of the fif teenth century with that of the Europeans of the same age, the superiority will be found to lie with the former, and the civilization of Eu rope to be decidedly in the rear. Sujh also was the opinion of Europeans themselves, who were astounded at the spectacle of the swar min g popu lation and marvellous wealth of that powerful empire, and much more at the spirit of equity and moderation of its rulers. s Down to 1637 the authorities of Japan had not changed their hospitable and liberal con duct towards Europeans. But about that peri od the governor, of Manaia, sent to Japan an tobasey composed of Franciscan monks, who at themselves to preaching in the streets of Waco, one of the imperial capitals, in defiance of the prohibitions of the authorities. In vain they were ordered to quit the country ; they openly refused to obey, and excited the Chris tians to revolt.- The Dntobj to whom their tri: umph woiild have inevitably brought a decree of expulsion, submitted trfthe inspection of the authorities the correspondence by which the missionaries invited the European governments to unite with the native Christians to effect the .conquest of the country. The Japanese government- now lost an pa tience, and its policy towards Europeans be came as restrictive as it had hitherto been libe ral. All the European, residents, with the ex ception ofs the Dutch, were obliged to leave Ja pan. A fearful persecution commenced against the Christians. Thousands ot .scanoids were erected in every part of the empire, and the new faith was drowned in blood. It was pro hibited, under pain of death, to Japanese sub jects to quit the national territory, or to return after having emigrated. The city of Nangaski, on the small island of Deseina, was assigned to the Dutch as their place of residence, and the most rigorous regulations were adopted to pre vent them' from interfering with the popula tion. The commerce which it was permitted them to carry on was also limited. Hencefor ward they were not allowed to send more than two vessels a year to Japan, arid the total value of the two cargoes eould not exceed two million of francs.; The Spanish and Portuguese histo rians adds that the Dutch navigators were or dered. upon their arrival at Nangaski, to tread under foot the image of Christ and the Virgin Mary ; b3t this custom, if it ever existed, is no longer observed. The Dutoh are only bound, says Mr. T. Rundall, editor of Memorials of the Empire of Japan, to be the news-mongers of the Japanese government. "All that you shall learn that is new among the nations with whom you are in intercourse, we beg you to commu nicate to the governor of Nangaski." Such is the recommendation that is made to the Dutch residents every time that they are authorized to commmunicate with the Court of Jeddo. Mr. Rundall isrtLfied to be . able to remark that the Dutch aeve never abused their position to create distrust upon the part of the Japanese . . . .t e XTT.. government against otner nations or me t ess. Thus, then, for nearly a century from 1542 to 1637 Japan was freely opened to Europe ans ; and from 1637 to the present that is to say, tor more than two centuries. Ihis deplo rable change of policy is rather to be imputed to Europeans than to the Japanese themselves. The latter repelled the former only when their independence was at stake. Their conduct since th decree of expulsion proves that they are not?animated by a blind and brutal hatred against itrangers. Ihus, when the Dutch es tablished at Deseina were cut off from all com munication with Europe in consequence of the continents! war, the Japanese generously sup plied them with means until the return of peace. On different occasions Lnchsh and American vessels, which havo touched at Nan gaski for revictualling, have been supplied with provuions without difficulty, boruetimes, even, provisions have been furnished them gra tis. Such was the case with the Sanidraiig, of the Lnglisk navy, which visited Aangaski in 1845 under Captain Belcher. Ihe command ing officer received the most kind and cordial reception from the authorities ; permission was granted to establish himselt on a .small island in the vicimty ot iNangaski tor astronomical ob servations, and payment for provisions furnish ed was resolutely refused, the Japanese giving for .reason that it was not their custom to re ceive mone; from their vUitors, Europeas8, however, have done nothing to ef face the bti opinion which they left behind them at Japan. Mr. Rundall alludes to three circumstances in which they have not conducted themselvcsln a manner as to give the Japan ese a very high idea of their civilization. In 1808, for example, Count Resanoff. Russian en voy, enterei upon negotiations with the author lties of ruaigaski, to obtain the opening ot th ports-of Japan. These negotiations, which at first presented every prospect of success, having been interrupted by a quarrel touching eti quette, a Russian flotilla made a descent upon one of th Kuril islands and covered it with fire and Uood. In the same year an English ship brutilly, and in violation of the law of na tions, seized and carried off two Dutch sailors from on board a Japanese vessel. In 1837 the American vessel Morrison cast anchor in the bay of Jeddo, at a little distance from the im perial residonco, in violation of the orders of the Japanese authorities. Driven off by cannon shot, the Morrison persisted, nevertheless, in remaining forsome time in the maritime region interdicted to foreigners. These affronts are not forgotten at Japan, and they will not facilitate the success of the mis sion of Commodore Perry. Undoubtedly, if negotiation fails, tho Americans may resort to their cannon, after the example of the English in (Jhina. But Japan, although less extensive and less populous than China, possesses much more formidable means of resistance. The pop ulation is represented by travellers of the six teenth century to be exceedingly faerco and warlike- It will not yield to a foreign yoke with out. an attempt at self-defence. Tho Americans on the other hand, are much less interested in opening Japan than the English in opening China. The Chinese are the principal consum ers of opium, the monopoly of which constitutes one of the principal resources of the Last India Company ; they furnish also to Europe tea, an article the consumption of which every day be comes more general. Japan, on the contrary, requires from abroad only a few woven stuffs ; also cotton, wool, and silk are among its pro ducts and are manufactured at a very low cost ; and there is hardly any production to furnish in exchange. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the returns of Japan consisted almost entirely of precious metals, and at that epoch it? financiers were not, as it appears, more en lightened than their confreres of Europe, as they Complained bitterly that strangers exhausted the country of its specie. Now the production of gold is too abundant in California und Aus tralia to render it advantageous to seek it in Japan. It is evident, in fine, that the Ameri cans are but indifferently interested to engage in war with the Japanese, because that war, which moreover would be in conflict with all the rules of the law of nations, cannot fail to be one of great expense, and without indemni fying; advantages. We hope that Commodore Perry may fulfil his mission without resorting to .arms. The American squadron will give to the Japanese tbe novel spectacle for them of locomotion by steam, and the apparatus necessary to. the es tablishment of an electric telegraph. These ad mirable inventions, which give to our civiliza tion such an imposing character of superiority, cannot fail to make a strong impression upon tb imagination of the Japanese people. . They will prove in a convincing manner that they have something in future to gain from contract with our civilization. If Commodore Perry should be able, at the same time, to demonstrate to the Japanese government that Christian Sriests, whose intolerant spirit and thirst for omination brought about the degree of expul sion of 1637 are not in the nineteenth what they were in sixteenth century ; that they are anima ted by more enlarged sentiments ; that they detest monopoly, were it even profitable to tbem ; that they avaid with the greatest care all that has the semblance of an usurpation of the rights of the temporal power; finally, that they have the most profound abhorrance of po litical intrigues. If, we say. Commodore Perrv could on these points remove the prejudices of 1 T .i . . - " ua uapiuiaso BuiiiuriuaB, uis mission would un questionably obtain the most auspicious chan ces of success. In every etfent, be the issue what it may, we must thank the Americans for having made this new effort to extend the do main of civilisation. 1 We are further informed that it gives the most unbounded satisfaction to Americans in Europe to hear that the limping San Jacinto, whose en gines break down on every trip, ir ordered home ; and that our national pride will be saved further humiliation on that account. "Universal sympathy," tiays our oorrespon ent, "is expressed in Naples for our venerable and highly-respected Consul, Alex. Hammett, who after forty-three years and more of hard aar. vice, in his old age is left without any means of support. &j tne late circular or the Secretary Of State, transferring the vise of passports to the legation, the income of his post is reduced so low that it will not yield enough to pay tbe,rent of his ofiice, which by the way be is" ordered to keep open from 9 to 3. The duties; of Consul at Naples are very vexations as well s impor tant and it is folly to expect any ntan to dis- thorn &r hsmnr C!rtfl.inlv Mr. H. should receive a fair salary, or rather the vises should be returned to him, as I see the consuls everywhere elee but at Rome and Naples are exoresslv authorized to demand two dollars for the same. There is not an American traveller or naval officer who has ever known Mr. Ham mett but will sustain me in the declaration that he is one of the most honorable, faithful, efficient, and valuable men that every represented his country abroad as a consul, and that his resig nation or removal would be a serious public loss. He enjoys the highest consideration here, and is thoroughly conversant with the laws, customs, and language of the country, and deserves bet ter treatment from a Government which he has served for nearly half a century without a dol lar of pecuniary profit." From the Home Journal A YANKEE STORY. The tunny columns in the English papers derive more of their "stuff for miles" from the journals of this country, than from any other source. vo ana in one oi tnem mis muicrou anecdote of the "Bewitched Clock," which was quite new to us : About half-past eleven o'clock on Sunday night, a human leg, enveloped in blue broad cloth, "might have been seen" entering Deacon Cephas Barberry s kitchen window. I he leg was followed,, finally, by the entire person oi a live Yankee, attired in his Sunday-go-to-meetin' clothes. It was, in short, Joe Mayweed who thus burglariously won his way into the dea con's kitchen. . Wonder how much the old deacon made by ordcrin' me not to darken his doors again?" soliloquized the young gentleman. "Promised him 1 wouldn t, but didn t say nothin' about winders. Winders is just as good as doors, ef there ain't no nails to tear your tiousers onto. Wonder if Sally'll come down ? The critter promised me. I'm afeard to move about here, 'cause I might break my shins over somethin' nuther, and wake the old folks. (Jold enough to freeze a Polish bear here. O, here comes Sally." The beauteous maid descended with a plea sant smile, a tallow-candle, and a box of lucifer matches. After receiving a rapturous greet ing, she made up a rousing fire in the cooking- j stove, and the happy couple sat down to enjoy the sweet interchange of vows and hopes. But ' the course of true love ran no smoother in old Barberry's kitchen than it does elsewhere, and Joe, who was just marking up his mind to treat himself to a kiss, was startled by the voice of the deacon, her father, shouting from his cham ber door : "Sally ! What are you getting up in the middle of the night for ?" "Tell him it's most morning," whispered Joe. "I can't tell a fib!" said Sally. "I'll make it a truth, then," said Joe ; and, running to the huge, old fashioned clock that stood in the; corner, he set it at five. "It's five, by the clock," answered Sally; and, corroborating her words, the old clock struck five. The lovers sat down again and resumed their conversation. Suddenly the staircase began to HEROISM SAND CRUELTY. A most touching instance of heroism, and one of the most atrocjous acts of cruelty, the truth of which is vodched for by the most res pectable iauthority, occurred during the Colum bian straggle for independence. The Spanish General,! Morillo, the most bloodthirsty and treacherous tool of the Spanish wa created count of Carthagenia and Marquis de la Pueria,1 for services which rather entitled him to the distinction of butcher or hangman, while seated in his! tent one day during the campaign of Carracas, saw a boy before him drowned in tears. The chief demanded of him for what purpose he was there? The child replied that ne naacome w wiu life of bis father, then a prisoner in Morillo's camp. 'What can you do to save your iainert atsiteu the General. I can do but little, but what lean do shall be done.' Morillo seized the little little fellow's ear and said, 'Would you suffer your ear to be ta ken off to procure your father's life i' 'I certainly would, was the undaunted re ply. A soldier was accordingly called and ordered to cut off the ear with a single stroke of the knife. The boy wept but did not resist while this barbarous order was executed. 'Would you lose your other ear rather than fail of your purpose?' was the next question. 'I have suffered moch, but for my father I can suffer still!' was the heroic answer of the boy. . The other ear was taken off piecemeal with out flinching on th part of the noble child. 'And now go !' exclaimed Morillo, untouched by his sublime courage, 'the father of such ,a son must die.' - In the presence f his' agonized and vainly suffering son, the patriot father was execu ted. 1 Neve' did a life picture exhibit such truthful lights and; shades in national charac ter, such deep treacherous yillianly such in humanity, i The Road to Health. HOLLOWAY'S PTt.tT CURE of a disordered Liver nml l i . tion. '1,J Kg Com of a T.rtttr from Mr 7 Vr t.- , J - - Miirntn pi To Professor Hollowav : Sir : Your Pills and Ointment have st highest on our sale list of Proprietary M j- for some years. A customer, to whom I for any enquiries, desires me to let von W particulars of her' case. She had been t for years with a disordered lirer, an.l b "H tion. On the last occasion, however. of the attack was so alarming, anil 'thc'inf"''" tion set in so severely, that doubts were alIlt,' tained of her not being able to bear u- T1' fortunately she was induced to try y.iur p-Hi"' she informs me that after the first "mi ' ', ceeding dose, she had great relief. She cr, " to take them, and although she used on'""1'"' boxes, she is now in the enjoyment 0 health. I could have sent you mum- but the above, from the severi'.u of r, .... i;i. L-IT)t-... 1 ""'MS ci ,:u of lite ,.(, , your asionisiiing fma. K. V A T.' 1 . . . J " . r nr jmi uurtiiiiury oj Much mat ir Van Dieman's Lnwl. Copy of a Letter inserted in the Hobari T:,'cn r er of the 1st March, 1851, by Major J )y , ,v Margaret McConnigan, 19 years of aw Rheumatic Fever for upwards of two it s lather," ex- Joe. creak. "Vjoody gracious claimed oatly. "The deacon ! by thunder!" cried "Hide me, Sally!" "Where can I hide you ?" cried the distract ed girl. "Oh, I know," said he, "I'll squeeze into the clock-case.'9 And, without another word, he concealed himself in the case, and closed the door. The deacon was dressed, and sitting himself down by the cooking-stove, pulled out his pipe, lighted it, and commenced smoking deliberate ly and oalcaly. "Five o'clock, eh ?" said he, "Well, I shall have time to smoke three or four pipes, and then I'll go and feed the critters." "Hadn't you better feed the critters fust, sir," suggested the dutiful Sally. "No; smoking clears my head, and wakes me up," replied the deacon, who seemed not a whit disposed to hurry his enjoyment. Burr-r-r-r whizz ding ! ding ! ding ! ding ! went tho clock. "Tormented lightning !" cried the deacon, starting up, and dropping his pipeon the stove: "what'i creation's that?" "It's only the clock striking five!" said Sally, tremulou5y. Whizz! ding! ding! ding! went tho clock furiously. "Powers of marcy!" cried the deacon. "Stri kin' five! it's struck a hundred already." "Deacon Barberry !" cried the deacon's bet ter half, who had hastily robed herself, and now came plunging down the staircase in the wildest state of alarm, "what is the matter with the clock?" "Goodness only knows," replied the old man "It's been in the family theso hundred years and never did I know it to carry on so afore.' Whizz! ding! ding! ding! went the clock again. " It'll bust itself !" cried the old lady, shed ding a fiodof tears, "and there won't be nothin' left of it." " It's bewitched!" said the deacon, who re tained a leaven of good old New England su perstition in his nature. "Any, how," said he, after a pause, advancing resolutely towards the clock, "I'll see what's got into it." un, aon t, cnea nis daughter, seizing one of his coat-tails, while his wife clung to the other. '"Don't!" chorussed both the women together. "Let go my raiment,' shouted the old deacon. "1 am t afeard ot the powers of darkness But the women would not let go ; so the dea con slipped out of his coat, and while, from the sudden cessation of resistance, they fell heavily on the floor, he darted forward, and laid his hands upon the clock-case. But no human power could open it. Joe was holding it inside with a death-grasp. Ihe old deacon began to De Qreaatuiiy trigncenea. lie gave one more tug. An unearthly yell, as of a fiend in distress, burst from the inside, and then the clock-case, pitched head-foremost at the deacon, fell head long on the floor, smashed its face, and wreck ed its fair proportions.- The current of air ex tinguished the lamp the. deacon, the old lady, and oaiiy, ned up stairs and Joe Mayweed, ex tricating himself from the clock, effected his es cape in tne same way in which he entered . The next day all Aopleton was alive with the story of how Deacon Barberry's clock had been oewitcnea, ana tnougn many oetiovea his ver sion, some, and especially Joe Mayweed, affec ted to discredit the whole affair, hinting that the deacon had been trying the experiment of tasting trozen ciaer, and that the vagaries of the clock-case existed only in a distempered imagination. However, the interdict being taken off, Joe was allowed to resume his courting, and won the consent of the old people to his union with Sally, by repairing the old clock till it went as well as ever. The Crystal Palace Will it pay? Some of the New York papers are discussing the ques tion whether the Crystal Palace will pay as a speculation. One; of them founds an opinion adverse to its pecuniary profit, on the following grounds, which may or may not be correct : The structure cost $500,000, while the cost of keeping things in order runs away with 1,500 per week more. The receipts, thus far, have averaged about $8,000 per week. Should these receipts continure till the grant ot the ground expires, two years' from last May, the stockhol ders will be treated to the following exhibit: Cost of building, $500,000; weekly expenses for 104 weeks, at $1,500 per week, $156,0tK); two years' interest on first cost of building, 70,000; total outgoes, $723,000. Income : 104 weeks' I receipts, at $8,000 per week, $832,000; value of Duuaing ai expiration oi ine snow, sou,uuv whole amount of Receipts $882,000. From this deduct the expenditures, $726,000, and we Inve a balance of $15Q,000 as the net profits ofihe exhibition. But what right have we to suppose that the receipts 'will average any such sum as we have fixed upon? For the first six moiths the receipts may iequal not only $8,000, bm go beyond it; but tvhat will the succeiding six months do? In all probability not over $3,000 per week. By December next the foreign con tributions will cdnimence leaving for home, and with their departure will go some of the leading attractions of the exhibition. Jow, it the second six months pay ip $3,000 per week, whai are we to expect from the second year? Uarelv enough to pay current expenses. an in'credibly short perfect cure. Cure of a Pain and T1 Medical College of the State of SOUTH CAROLINA. HE Annual Course of Lectures, in this Insti tution will Commence on the first Montfiv in November next. ; Anatomy Prof. J. E. HOLBROOK, D. Surgery f Prof. E. GEDDINGS, M. D Institutes and Practice. Prof. J. HENRY DICKSON, M. D, Physiology Prof. JAMES MOULTRIE, M. D. Materia Medica..Prof. HENRY R FROST, M. D. Obstetrics Prof. THOS. G. PRIOLEAU. M. D. Chemistry i Prof. C. U. SHEPARD, M. B Comparative Anitoiny..Prof. L. AGASSIZ, M. D, Demonstrator of Anatomy, FRANCIS T. MILES. M. D. Prosector to the Professor of Surgery, I J. i . M. GEDDINGS, M. D. CLINICAL INSTRUCTIONS. Dr. J. CAIN, M. D., Physician to the Marine Hospital and Clinical Instructor, lectures twice a week on the Diseases of that Institution. J. F PRIOLEAU, M. D., Physician to the Hos pital of the Alms! House, at which lectures are de livered twice a (week on Diseases, the diagnosis discriminated, and the students indoctrinated in their treatment.! Demonstrative Instruction in Medicine and Sur gery, at the College Hospital, by the Professors of the Medical College. Ata special meeting of the Trustees and Facul ty of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, held On the 3d of January, 1852, Dr. L Agassiz was unanimously elected Professor of Coinparatiye Anatomy," with the distinct under standing that tlje collegiate expenses of the stu dent are not to be increased by this addition to the HENRY R, FROST, Dean. 19, 1853. w6w 40 t&" The Courier de la Drome et VArdeche relates the following interesting anecdote: Last year a female swallow, which had its nest in the Ardeehe, was killed while defending ita nest and brood from the attaok of some spar rows. The male arrived at the moment when some of its young were thrown out of the nest. He immediately attacked the assailants and Eut them to flight, after which he picked up is young ones and replaced them in the nest, where, during the remainder' of the season, he carefully attended to their wants until they were able to fly and provide for themselves. The inhabitants of the house, who witnessed this interesting incident, one day caught the old bird tend placed a small bit of scarlet rib bon round hie neck, in order that they might recognize it if it should come back. This year it has again returned to ita old nest, but it has chosen no mate, lives quite alone, and appears to avoid the company of any other birds. Charleston, July A Valuable Plantation and Mills I FOR SALE. THE undersigned, intending to remove, offers for sale his residence, known as It is situated on the road, leading from Raleigh to Tarboro', 20 miles from the former place, 20 from Louisburg, and H from Rolesville, containing 1143 acres UU of which are in original growth. heavily timbered and well watered by numbers ot small streams. '; The place has been well known foi years, as a public stand, a STORE having been kept there for the past Uo years. The improve ments are of the best kind. The dwelling, built by the subscriber, iis large, convenient, and of the very best materials, 4 containing 9 good plastered rooms, and every other bouse needful for comfort or con venience ; a large gin-house on stone pillars, screws, apple mill, large store-house, blacksmith shop, frame stables, carriage house, &c. Nearly ail tne arable; land is in a nne state of improve ment and yields good crops. A splendid orchard of 1UU varieties ef truit, a fine garden and vine yard add to the proverbial healthfulness of the place. i THE MILLS Are situated on .Little Kivcr, a never-failing stream, 2 milea from Wakefield. The grist mill is a two story huiMing, 38 by 24, 2 pair Esopus stones 'foflorn, "and 1 pair Burrs" Tor Wheat au excellent smut machine and bolting cloths all propelled by heavy cast iron machinery. The mill receives over 200 barrels corn per an num, and from 300 to 600 bushels wheat. The saw mill, being located in the midst of as fine tim ber as ever grew, and a constant demand for lum ber, yields a fine profit. - The subscriber offers the above property for sale, because his health is such he cannot give it the attention It deserves. The terms will be per fectly satisfactory to the purchaser. So, ye, who want to make an investment .where cash and health will go hand in hand, just drop in, and examine the premises.; i A. J. FOSTER., Wakefield, jN. C. Aug. 9, 1858. s 2mos 65 Veg" Standard and North State Whig eopy, and forward bill to A.JF. which had entirely deprived her of the nsi'J limbs. During this period she was uujtr th, of the most eminent medical men in HoUrt t"" and by them her case was considered hope! ebrated Pills, which she consented to do , M spac e of time tlu-y effect J Tiahtnejtx in I., ri . . Stomach of a Person 84 wars (,fan. 01 From Mesrrs. Thew $ Son, Proprietors 0j iht r Advertiser, who can vouch for the following jw'a Aug. 2d, 1851. Xi To Professor Holloway : Sir I desire to bear testimony to the nw.) -fects of Holloway's Pills. For some years?-! fered severely from a pain and tightness b & stomach, which was also accompanied bv asW nASQ rf linotlt till nfniTantniJ ... .. ! .. bout. I am 84 years of aec, and notwitl,Zi I my advanced stata of life, these Pills hau lieved me, that I am desirous that others si be made acquainted with their virtues. I an rendered by their means, comparatively actiiett can take exercise without inconvenience . which I could not do before. I (Signed) HENRY COE, North st, Lvnn, X0j Ihese Celebrated Puis are Wonder fully sJt nous in Ihe following Complaints: I Ague, Asthma, Bilious Complaints. Blnti-u J the skin, Bowel Complaints, Colics, ConstirmJ of the Bowels, Consumption. Debilitv iv I Dysentery, Erysipelas, Female Irregularities,! vers of all kinds, Fits, Gout, Headache, Mg, tiou, Inflammation, Jaundice, Liver ComplT Secondary Symptoms, Lumbago, Piles, Rheum tism, Retention of Urine, Scrofula or Kinsfe-' Sore Throats. Stone and Gravel, Tic Dviikmnc Tumors. Ulcers, Venereal Affectiuus, Kor:as oft kinds, Weakness from whatever cause, &c. fa. Sold at the establishment of Professor Hou way, 244, Strand, (near Temple Bar,) Laafe and by all respectable Druggists and dnlsm Medicines throughout the British Empire, uib those of the United States, in pots and boiai 37 J cents, 87 cents, and $1 50 each, wbolesali.k the principal Drug houses in the Union, ui't Messrs. A. B. & D. SANDS, New York; Hu HORSEY, 84 Maiden Lane. New York. And by Messrs. S. B. & J. A. EVANS. W2n ton ; and by P. F. PESCUD, Raleigh. There is a considerable saving hy taking u larger sizes. N. B. Directions for the guidance ofpitk in every disorder are affixed to each boi. March. 11, 185S. LIVER COMPLAINT, DYSPEPSIA, JAUNDICE, CHRONIC, 0O vons debility, xiieeape of the JChinevs. aKI diseases arising from a disordered Liver or Mtad such as constipation, inward Piles, fullneal blood to the head, acidity of the stomach. NuJ Heartburn, Disgust for rood. Fullness, or s in the Stomach, Sour eructations, sinking or ia ing at the Pitt of the Stomach, Swimming ef a Head, Hurried and difficult Breathing. Flisc at the Heart, Choking, or Sutfocating Seaaa when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of Visioi In or Webs before the Sight, Fever aaj Dull Pel the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Ytllonej the Skin and Eyes, Pam in tae Side, Bctt Limbs, &c, Sudden Flushes of Heut, Buns the Flesh, Constant Imaginings of Evil, and p Depression of Spirits ; can be effectually cui DR. HOOFLAKD S Celebrated German & prepared by Dr. C. M. Jacksos, No. 12S i Street, Philadelphia. Their power over the above dleaxrs is ml ask equalled by any other preparation mtitl States, as ihe cures attest, in many cms wis1 ful 2kysicians had failed. These Hitters are worthy the attention of am Possessing exeat virtues in the rectification!'! eases of the Liver and lesser glands, exercifi!1 most searching powers in weaknesses and ififlj of tlrc digestive organs, they are withal, H tain, and pleasant. READ AND BE CONVINCED. The 'Philadelphia Saturday Gazette' sap if DIt. IIOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTE4 "It is seldom that we recommend whatis Patent Medicines to the confidence and yBH of our readers : and, therefore, when "4 mend Dr. Hoofland's German Bitters, m f! be distinctly understood that we are not Jpl of the" nostrums of the da v. that are noiwl for a brief period and then forgotten aftfrihj done their guilty race of mischief, but of 4 long established, universally prized, met the hearty approval of the faculty uw- 'Scott s Weekly sad. August "Dr. Hoofland's German Bitters manufacafl Dr. Jackson, are now recommended by kw most uromincnt members of the faculty, tir.ln nf T-rmnli iffio.v in (ara of female As such is the case, we would advise aLU obtain a bottle and thus save themselves m npiRn Persons vf rlpki1iti.tari nonstitUtlOB these Bitters advantageous to their health H BUU TV A 1 Will Y. A IM.1 IT.ILlI, Llll, DOIUVUI 1 - J have upon weak systems." i C i jroular. milE scholars in the Female Aeademv at Salem. 1 N. C, having already, thus early in the ses sion, reached as nigh a number as we can at pres ent accommodate, and applications for admission still continuing to multiply, it becomes my duty to inform the public that I shall hereafter positively ikrhw wu rwwe y vtner tcnviars man loose Who have secured places by previous application X would, therefore, request Parents and others, Wishing to place their daughters, relatives or wards under oar care, not to set out with them for Salem, without having made previous application in wri ting, and then to await such vacancies as may oc cur, of which timely notice will be given them. ROBERT DE SCHWELNITZ, Principal. August 5, 1853. 4w 64 J. G. Moore, Esq., of the Daily New. toler 31st : "Tin nnnti.ivn'i (Jtnwiv BITTERS' - trying this renowned medicine for a .tut'''' ease of the bowels, and can with truth t. ttio contents bottles. .nd we have derived more benefit"! experiment than we derived previously fr- Hon. C. D. Hineline, Mayor of the CitJ many nattering notices of this medicin n DUtuvf uvtu nuiu v " , innnin wiOTOfiTl cr itfl mprita. FrOffl ""i were persuaded to use it, and must saj i aTAifi(. in 5t fLntinn nnnn dise&SCS 1 and digestive organs, and the powcriui j exerts upon nervous prosu-auuu Ti , j -..t .1 o i,i nerro- ing. li caims ana Bireugiuci" - . mg them into a siaie oi repot".-, "- If this medicine was more genera.. are satisfied there would be less sieknes.'- the t.mnji.oh liver and nervous fyst'D1- . majority of real and imaginary J)Seafrt,.J nave mem in Hiiuaiuij "uultlv ' , ejr nary medicine we would aa nf nil i a-mcaA tn rrivA a triH mend itself. It should be in ever; i- . J .... j i, oi-i.teiiCfl ouier meaicine can prouuee-""" -For sale wholesale and retail at th GERMAN MEDICINE No. 120 ARCH Street, one door Philadelphia, and by respectable dfa- out the country. And for saltan t- P. F. PESCUD, and WILLIAMS Raleigh, N. C JuneJ, il it1- 1
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