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CITY OF RALEIGH, WEDNESDAYORNING, AUGUST,
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"Ours' are the plans of fair, delightful peace,
Cnwarped by party rage, to live like brothers."
R ALEIG H. N, C,
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 25, 1855.
t&- Tke Editor of this paper will be absent
from bis post for a few. days on business con
nected with the establishment. He will corres
pond for the "Register" daring his 1rief absence.
i& We have sent oat a large number of ac
count, amounting, io the aggregate, to a very
considerable sum, which we hope to see
promptly honored by those by whom they are
due. Many of them date as far back as 1849
Subscribers, too, against whom bills may not
be presented, will confer a great favor by ma
king remittances by mail at oar risk. Each
one can ascertain the amount of his indebted'
ness by reference to his last receipt.
A VALUABLE WORK.
Mr. Maghks, the Agent for the sale of Is
ting's new work, the "Life of Washington," is
at present in this City, for the purpose of so
liciting subscriptions to it. We hare seen speci
men sheets' of the Tolumes, of which there are
three, at $2 each, and the typography is in the
most finished style of the art. We doubt not
that many of our citizens will be glad of an op
portunity of securing a work from such a pen
aa the chaste and genial Irvinq's upon a theme
so glorious and commanding as the life and ser
vices of Washington. We comtnend Mr. Ma
ghee and his mission to our people.
The " Norfolk Argus" comments with
severity upon the precipitate flight of the citizens
from that place. It says :
' Of the four or five members of the clergy
who have hurried off, it may not become us to
speak now. Thej know their duty. Perhaps
this is not the time to indulge in vituperation ;
for although the disease is not as bad aa reported,
God's chastening hand is upon us. Our stores
are nearly all closed ; our streets are deserted ;
the dead and the dying are around us ; except
ing the rattle of the physician's coach, hearses
and hospital wagons, the silence in oar streets
in often absolutely oppressive. The frantic wail
of the widow falls dolefully on the ear ; the
piteous cry oi the orphan rings out shrilly and
dies away upon the night wind ; friends are
parting, perchance until the judgment ;' and
the lamentation of the mother is heard, like
Rachael, weeping for her children, and refus
ing to be comforted, because they are not."
it is indeed a sad and gloomy time in our
A letter from an intelligent source in 1
North Carolina, written just before the election
says "the needless introduction of religious
questions into politics, and the action of the
National Convention in rejecting the Louisiana
delegates, will lose us thousands of votes in the
State, Mr. Kenneth Rayner, to the contrary,
notwithstanding. Why do not the true Ameri
cans in the South, everywhere, prevent stick
leaders from injuring the party and the cause
which, otherwise, would triumph ?"
We confess that It was with surprise we read
copied into the "Baltimore American." The
letter from which it is an extract is evidently
written by some personal enemy of Mr. Rayner,
if the writer be, in fact, a friend of the Ameri
can party. We can not see the point of the
writer's objection to Mr. Rayner's course
whilst it is evidently an ill-natured attempt to
find fault with that gentleman, without specify
ing or even intimating what his fault is.
The writer eives as the reasons why "thou
sands of votes" will be lost to the American
cause in the State, "the needless introduction of
religious questions into politics, and the action
of the National Convention in rejecting the
Louisiana delegates." If these were to be the
causes of votes being lost, why lug Mr. Ray
ner's name into the matter, and try to hold Am
responsible for it ? If he writer means by "the
introduction of religious questions into politics'
the anti Roman Catholic feature of the Ameri-
e tn organization, how or why is Mr. Rayner re
sponsible for that ? That was a cardinal prin
ciple of the order, not only in North Carolina,
but in every State of the Union. It was so
when Mr. R. first became a member of the order
and how is he any more responsible for it,
than every other member of the American par
ty in the Union ? In the second place, the wri
ter admits Chat it was the "National Conven
tion " that rejected the Louisiana delegates.
Why then attempt to hold Mr. R. responsible
for it? Does the writer mean to intimate, that
Mr.R. influenced the Convention to reject them ?
So far from this being so, we have been inform
ed, that Mr. R. introduced a proposition to ad
mit them, on condition they would take the ob
ligations required by the national organization
of the American party, and give a pledge that
they would ondeavor to conform the work of the
order in LouUana to that of the national organ
ization.
The writer of tha letter to the "Alexandria
Gazette" can not conceal his spiteful feelings
towards Mr. Rnyner. In one sentence, he seetus
to intimate, that Mr. R's. influence is so great
with the American party, that he is responsi
ble for the "introduction of religions questions
into politics" that his influence with the Na
tional Convention was so great, that he is re
sponsible for "the rejecting the Louisiana dele
gates" and yet, in the next sentence, he tries
to under-value Mr. R's. influence by saying that
the "party and the cause would triumph," bat
for their "injury by such leaders." Now this is
ridiculous its absurdity shows that the reason
loved and devoted city; and how much the ca-1 of the writer was warped by personal preju
dice. That Mr. R has influence with the A
lamitoua visitation is increased in its inten
sity by the inconsiderate flight and absence
of religious friends and the deprivation of
their consolatory instructions and prayers in
the room where death claims and seizes his vic
tims, we leave to the imaginations of the panic
stricken Christian professors who have sought
a more salubrious climate and a less dangerous
location.
We heard one of our ministers say, who has
not proved recreant to the high duties of bis of
fice, and who goes willingly to the abodes of
woe and death, that he found a woman whose
husband had just died of the fever. She too
was attacked, and no one was there to nurse
and comfort her. He looked oat, and the neigh
bors had all gone their doors and windows
were closed. "Here," said she, "I must lie and
die alone." And there was a boy with the
black vomit, and no one bnt a young sister to at
tend him during the elow and sad hoars of a long
night of pain and sorrow.
But some noble bouIs and great hearts are left,
, cd their recompense will be great. They breathe
still the deadly breath of the pestilence; they
pray for the sick and the dying and whisper
sweet words of faith and consolation in the ears
of the sufferers, whose thanks and prayers and
blessings will be remembered in time and eter-
merican party, and justly so, we have no doubt;
but that be thus controls and regulates its ac
tion, cannot be so.
Although we can account for the motives of
the writer of the letter, from which we have
given the preceding extract, yet we are un
able to account for the objects of the "Alex
andria Gazette" and "Baltimore American," in
their quasi-endorssment of it. These journals
are either opposed to the American organiza
tion, or (hey are friendly to it. If they are op
posed to it, it is a little remarkable that they
should thus hypothetioally express an interest
in its "triumph," and endorse the proposed
means of advancing it, vis : by "preventing
such leaders from injuring it." The only ra
tional construction of soon language is, there
fore, that they are friendly to the American
cause. Well, if they are friendly to it, they
the North, and if they still sympathize with it
in its struggle with the minions of power in the
South then we say, they have done great in
justice even in publishing the extract referred
to against one who has battled and is still bat
tling for the jauseof American nationality and
Protestant civilization. Mr. Rayner deserves
the thanks of every friend of the cause for the
determination and unflagging zoal with which
he has battled for it for the boldness with
which, in hurling back the denunciations and
slanders of its enemies, he has rallied the wa
vering, cheered the desponding, and urged them
on to the conflict. We trust he will continue
to do so and those who know him have reason
to believe that he will maligned, vilified and
abused as may expect to be and will be.
We said there were two cardinal elements in
the American movement opposition to the rule
of foreigners, and -to the ambitious aims of the
Romish Church. There is a -third,-iaoorpora
ted at Cincinnati last Fall, as we have under
stood. We mean, unswerving devotion to the
Union of these States. And we also believe,
that the authorship o this last degree has, with
out contradiction, been awarded to Mr. Rayner.
What Bay the "Gazette" and "American" to
that? Do they find fault with Mr. Rayner for
that? Is his "leadership" in that matter like
ly to "injure the party and the cause ?" Does
he deserve no credit for his agency in that mat
ter in thus rallying two millions of native born
American citizens around the altar of the Un
ion? Mr. R's course in that regard may not
suit the abolition propensities of New England,
or the fire-eating tendencies of a more Southern
clime but we should suppose it would highly
commend itself to the well-known conservatism
of the "Gazette" and the "American."
We assure the "Gazette" and the "Ameri
can," in all candor and sincerity, that their
correspondent has misled them in one respect.
So far from the opposition to the political ele
vation of Koman Catholics (and we presume
that is what they mean by the words "introduc
tion of religious questions into politics,") "los
ids the American party thousands ot votes in
North Carolina," that is perhaps as strong s
question in this State as opposition to for
eigners. We see and feel so little, directly, of
the evils of foreign influenoe, that it is difficult
to excite the masses of our people very much on
that point. Bat there are no people on earth
more thoroughly Protestant in their feelings
and character, than those of North Carolina.
We are no bigots ourselves on this subject.
We are candid to confess that we were not, at
first, entirely free from misgivings, in regard to
the stringency of the American order, an to the
anti-Catholic element in it. And it was onlv
by close observation of the policy of the Romish
Church the conviction, that its banded organ
ization, its bigoted intolerance, and its concert
ed schemes to obtain political power, menaced
both our civil and religious freedom, that we
became satisfied that the anti-Roman Catholic
element of the American party, as a defensive
measure, to protect ourselves, was at least justi
fiable. And the fixed and decided belief of
many is, that if there were any Roman Catholics
in the Louisiana delegation, as has been stated,
and they had been admitted into the Convention
at Philadelphia, or, if the principles of the or
der had been so changed as to admit bona fide
Roman Catholics into the same, that, so far
as North Carolina is concerned, Americanism
would have been numbered among the things
that were.
We can not but hope and believe that the in
telligence, generosity, and justice of the "Alex
andria Gazette" and the "Baltimore Ameri
can" will, on reflection, convince them that they
have unintentionally, no doubt, done Mr. Ray
ner injustice, and induce them to make the pro'
per reparation.
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
"Independent Guards." This spirited Vol
unteer Corps (Capt. DeCaeterkt,) made their
debut ia full uniform in our streets on Wednes-
most be friendly to it, as it is. We believe it
has lone been notorious, to both in-siders and daj last, presenting a remarkably fine appear
u-siders, that the two great cardinal princi- l ance and attracting general admiration. We
nityjandif the faithful soldier of the cross falls pies of the American party, in its origin, for' have rarely seen a more beautiful uniform, or,
while doing his dutywhenmostneeded.be falls j months before Mr. Rayner had any connexion considering the time that it has been in exis-
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gloriously, and his reward will be unspeakable
and eternal
Wake County Court is in session the
present week. We were pleased to see the lion.
George . Badger on the benoh, contributing
bis most efficient and able assistance to the sim-
teith it, were opposition to placing in political 1 tence, a better drilled company, lhey called
places of responsibility Foreigners ia the first to pay their respects to the Governor and Mayor
place, and Roman Catholics in the second place, j Haywood, and 'were entertained by each in a
And this, not by way of the "introduction of hospitable manner,
religion into politics," bat of opposing such in
traduction. If we understand the rationale of
plification and rapid discharge of the public the opposition of the American party to the ele-
business. I vation oi iuman uainoues io omoe, it is oecause
the latter are attempting to "introduce religion
EXTRACT from a recent letter to the Editor into politics" because by voting in masses, un-
from Anson oounty :
" It is needless for me to say anything about
the crops of Anson, as you doubtless have heard
of the fine prospect. Bflt they are so much
superior to last year's that one can hardly talk or
write without naming them. Corn is about as
good as it ever was in this section. Cotton, on
account of the late stand, is not so good as it
otherwise would have been, but with a late fall,
der the control and .direction of their Priests,
they aspire to influence the government, in the
passage of laws, and in the formation of cabi
nets. To which of these two elements in the
American creed, do the "Gazette" and "Ameri'
can" object to? One is just as much a part of
the" member creed as the other. To be a good
American, a man must conform to both. If
either be wrong, however, how or why, we re-
tg The Congressional delegations from
North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama are as
before reported in onr columns, viz : North
Carolina, 5 Anti's and 3 Americans ; Kentucky,
4 Anti's and 6 Americans ; Tennessee. 4 Anti's
and 6 Americans; Alabama, 3 Anti's and 2
Americans, in all 16 Anti's and 17 Americans.
This does not look as though the American
party bad gained no foot hold in. the South.
Nett York, August 20th, 1855.
Summer in New. York. American Association
for the Advancement of Science. Telegraph
at fault. Tour of Europe and Beige of Se
vastopol. Peaches, half Peaches, and scrub
Peaches. A running Commentary on the vi
sion of St. Peter.
With the exception of two heated terms in
July.'of short duration, the summer has been
unusually cool, salubrious, and pleasant in New
York. While it has added a good deal to the
comforts of the population generally, it has
made a few feel uncomfortable who stipulated
for hot weather to encourage certain depart
ments of trade. Vontilated so thoroughly as
New York is, there i3 really but little induce
ment for those who are well situated to leave
the city. to fly to the sea shores and mountains,
and rural retreats. But all city people have a
passion for the country for a few weeks in the
year, and, forgetting the artificial usages and
restraints of life, love to see and contemplate
with freedom that simpler and purer life of
nature, which warms all hearts arid elevates all
minds. Ihe Southern traveling has been light.
Few have come on from the South, and many
Southerners shun the iNorth on account of its
fanaticism and eternal wrangling and conten
tion, and go to Europe to avoid it. What a
condition are we in? A inobolized congrega
tion of free negroes, crazy editors, and puritan
parsons, are urging the whole country into a
continual ferment. It re acts upon society,
debases the public morals, and saps the peace
of the community. Politicians may prostitute
their patriotism, and editors abuse their calling,
but it is shameful to see pulpits profaned, and
religion dishonored by misguided men who
misdirect their talents and misunderstand their
vocational If we continue as we are going on
now, the fanatics and puritans will turn the
whole country into a miz maze and purgatory,
in which no one will be able to live, not even
the agitators themselves.
The American Association for the advance
ment of science is now in session at Providence,
R. I. It is pleasing to see that some associa
tions, can be gotten up for the promotion of
knowledge and peace, where so many others-1
are convoked for darkness and warfare.
Last Wednesday the philosophers discussed
the question of the inhabitability of the planets.
The temperature of the inter planetary spaces
was ; formerly set down by Sir John llerschel
at 1$2 below zero. Prof. Loomis fixes it at
81 below zero. If the journey to Heaven lies
that way, it's a cold road to travel. I wish our
fanatics were all thfre. Jupiter has a tempera
ture . of 80 below zero. Venus has a tempera
ture of boiling water at its equator, and 52 at
the poles ; so that us population must be whol
ly polar. Mercury has his poles exceedingly
elevatr-d aad projected into regions of unmiti
gated froFt. If the rings of Saturn are fluid,
theymust consist of a sea of alcohol, and there
no doubt is the tuture paradise ot terrestrial
topers.
The discussion did not avail to the inhabita
tion of our sister planets, which beam so bright
ly upon us by night. But still, professors Hen
ry and Agassiz ntppped in with 6ome grains
of common sense which they sprinkled about
them. They affirmed that it was not necessary
that. the conditions of weather should be the
same in other planets as in this, and that we
were wholly ignorant of those circumstances
which tend elsewhere to modify the conditions
of climate und temperature. These suggestions
alter the aspect of the question entirely, and it
is contrary to the designs of Providence and
the order of creation, that the planetary bodies
should be created for nothing, or only to be
satellites revolving around the sun, which does
not need a satellite.
Then again: as to the modifications and ad
justments of climate and temperature, how
few are aware of the extent of these, even in
our little orb? For iostance, in the temperate
zones, water congeals at 32, but ihat is the
thawing point at the poles, or in the polar
zones. And, also, in regard to evaporation.
Heat alone is not necessary to effect it. A laun
dry woman could dry her clothes in the open
air at Wellington Channel in the depth of polar
winter as speedily as she could in the city of
Raleigh during the height of summer.
Subsequently, a question arose in regard to
some frozen wells near the borders of the Sus
quehanna. At the bottom of these it is so cold
that the water is always in a congealed state.
No satisfactory solution wa assigned for this,
and more's the pity, for cold is such a negative
principle, that it is very desirable to know how
nature can enect it otherwise than by the ab
sence or withdrawal of heat.
It is lamentable to hear these savans parley
ing abont the internal fires raging in the bowels
of the earth, when, in all possibility, there is
no such fires or combustion going on there. So
far as we know the materials of the earth, none
of them are of a combustible character. And,
although the earth is a bad conductor of calo
ric, yet is it a good, and the greatest of all con
ductors and depositories of electricity. All
the substances which constitute the earth are
more or less electrical in their properties, but
especially so are all its chemical salts and me
tallic ingredients. It is not necessary, there
fore, to ascend to the height of Gallilco's tower
to perceive that the so-called internal fire of the
earth is the result of nothing more than some
electrical phenomenon. It is this causa causa-
here be gratified without it, and for a plttanpe
which might be levied by a baggage master.?-?
It is doubtful whether any person could view
this exhibition without being gratified And in
structed. " It concludes with a full view of 3
bastopol, an outline of the seige, and a minia
ture bombardment of the forte of the harbor
and walls of the town.
The small fruits of the season having passed
off with some credit, the larger are now coming
in with the worst specimens possible. When
an Irishman first tasted a peach, which happen
ed to have a live bug in it, he wished to know
if "peaches had legsl" If sueh as we have here
now had legs, the sooner they walked off the
better. What are correctly known in North
Carolina as free stones are called peaches here,
and those that are not entirely clear are called
half peaches. The varieties now in the market
are most diminutive little scrubs brought from
Maryland, and are retailed at two doUars and
a half per bashel. Every thing that bears the
similtude of a nitrpgenized body, or passes for
a rarity, or is good for food, is eagerly canght
at in a laree citv where thera axamft maav aal-
lets and gourmands. NoquestionsBbaaeSad,''
but whatever presents itself mast be accepted.
Every one must adopt St Peter's motto in the
sheeted vision "Rise, Peter, slay and eat." The
philosophy of this maxim ia not consistent with
a delicate epicurism, and, notwithstanding its
allegorical interpretation, jevels a fatal blow at
sectarian and social distinctions, yet ; if it be
true, that our dreams are only the prolonged
thoughts and sensations "of our waking momenta,
then the head of the Church must have felt, at
the time that he oonjared the vision, some un
easy aualms and enawinss at the pit of the
stomach. He might have been coerced into a
state of uncomfortable inanition at the eight of
some such meats, and milks, and fruits, as are
daily exposed for sale in New York, ao as to
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invoke something netter irom tne oiouas wmcu,
the Bible tells us, "drop down fatness."
Among the graphic views of the revolving
pictures before alluded to is a remarkably fine
and accurate one of the Eternal City. The
gateway is pointed oat through which St. Paul
was led to martyrdom, and also the rocky dun
geon in which St. Peter was incarcerated.
Singularly enough, the gloomy prison house of
the apostle, at one extreme ot the city, confronts
the grand temple cf St. Peter's at the opposite
extremity.
Is it the rocky cell, or the gorgeous Basilica,
which consummates the prophetic destiny of
St. Peter. "Upon this rock, kcl" If truth is
perpetuated through the mystery of suffering
and in defiance ot opposition, then there is some,
principle at work more solid than -ceremony.
profounder than external show, and vital as
Ufa itself. J. M
BY LAST mtSttl&
THE YELLOW-FEVER IN NORFOLK AND
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The,fe&M.mvtbincras4j T)L Beacon
pnblisbef fourteen, deaths for "24 honrtiendisg
Tuesday, 2 PSL:$ di k y ,J
The following items we extract from the Bea
con: . ' i j - iff,. , -l. . . f
Yesterday, Dr. Louis Martiny de Castro,- of I
uuDa. arrived in tals city ana tenaerea ais
services to the Hp ward Association, who prompt,
ly accepted ibem and made the Dr. their gneet.
as was also done ia the ease ot Dr.. Freeman, of
Philadelphia..- .Dr. De Castro cornea with the
highest reoommendatiens, and is endorsed fj
the chairman of the Relief eonmitteeoCPhila,
The HowrdAmoeiarion acknowledge-!.
receipt yesxerday ot $2500 from tNew York
through Jas. T. Sautter ; $600, from Philadel-
8hia ; i $10, . from W. B. Brown, Cola.mbns,
hio ; $100, from W. E. Taylor of ihis city ; $5
trora u. A. jranqaier, of -tt. x. ; x ttbis wins
Diaeus item, Diut. ;, 4
Newverfc ft Iv? 30
citv ; 410 from F. Faber f N. Y.; 420 from
J ames jf, . Dameron, N. Y. ; $10 from Capt.
State of Delifts&riLVa
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it'
'if-
X friz, of.. 60,000
2 do-. 'p- 1S.000
2 iQOmmhiMimm .H.Mu.in.a-.Mvii.tl.'V; jB,vOv
2,200
60 - do.:...:..; . ,.&oo
ill do
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tin
i1h'? $l 4eHs.Halvei 5pWjT0
' ao8 24 eusrteraio." r $ 00
Carpester.of this city. P, Malcom A Co Baltw, I Packfla tab6ve pIiidiaii4t5S re-
have eent a liberal supplyof meal aorayiaas leivthaeetinwmptM
Tf uAmwu s swv, iiHik nnjiuw M unww vut ot ent iiueqiiiiTtrarii is
?200 ; ijosdey $100. ? , vJovertaau; waoeidarifjoa Mei'?'
t$4pQ.hav been, received in all from Wash-1 f , Address - ! JR'03m;! lient
xo iearn tne outresa now prevalent in oar j
! ; wm3gt0toel.
PRAISEWORTHY PROCEEDING.
Bosios, Aug. 21. The mechanics of the Navy
1 ar J, at a meeting called for the relief of toe ttos
port employees, last night, voted to contribute a
day's work each for tha purpose. The sum thus
contributed will amount to $1,500.
city the distress of poverty, exclusive f that jiTlie College of a8ti' JatniBIiX&ty
occasioned by sickness one has only to attend t . . . ,2 a i-r . :-:.. i..J ei3
tharnnina nf tha Hnward AaMAi&HAn. from time I v i M'iy. i 3u-i.iT ri It
to time. The applicanto for relief are so name-1 ' I next amwai gesmoa oltbw cye aiid of
roue thai the .members of tbe Association can i .JL wr pawmwf, -:mcw-
hardly fill the numerona orders. ,Yoa have seen " v - fc - - '
tne erowas in and about a large baker snop oi l ; xrxu uttaiuiAii wawu
a Saturday evening, and ean form aa idea what t receives papils when not less thair twelve years of
the Ass.oQiation has to do. Thank Ood they are I age and prepares them for the College tinder in
able and willing to fulfil the duties the; have I structioaaad dueiphne espeelafly salUd't -their
voluntarily assumed. Uontribntioas trom au I years, so. jrrepajratory titudenU-wbeq' sixteen
quarters of the country are pouring in by every 1 yews oia, are placed nnder.CoUetidiAc4paae.
mail, ana tney nave now, ouww pruvwtwu mi i ... , . ; -v x inr uuLlLEUB,'
generously forwardsd from your city, a large ebraeea the suar classes andltaefull eooise of
sum in ready cash between -f 4,000 ana D.uw i CoUeriat triinine and educatlbr D 'recitations
Ti' i :j a. r . ui u i . - . - -. : . . - . . -,.e . ui.
j-ue presiuenii juur lurnwr towDBmsnr tt. i ana lMtores, . it nu its separate tii&fpaae and
Ferguson, is indefatigable in the cause, and is i arrangemeBts, teiuble to' the'Wvanced years and
vuo men oi sii ovuers lor euca an eiawrgouuT. i swmuhk n uamwwiiu. tm neetor nsscnexea-
Not to mention the names of other members.
hundreds of poverty stricken unfortunates will
long cherish tbe memory of his kindness aad
cordial sympathy with their distress.
"Solomon Cherry, J. D. Thurstonr Dr. Ueorge
Drummond, E. Guy, captain of the wateb, Rob
ert Kbea, Ueo. lrammond, T. J. (Jorprew, Uap-
tain Ilalsey, Dr. Todd, and Jim Barbex, colored,
and son, are all sick with tbe fever. There are
13 cases, white and black.
A Sad Spxctaclk. The plague boat (a barge
which the authorities have fitted np to convey
CONSUMPTION.
There i9 no disease with which our country is
afflicted, which sweeps off annually so many vic
tim? as Consumption. No walk of life is sacred
from its blighting influence. No age is exempt
from its death-dealing shafts. The old, the mid
die-aged, and The young, all alike, are food for this
common enemy of mankind.
H there no help for the afflicted 1 No prevent
ative of the dangers which beset us in our changea
able and fickle clime 1 We think there is.
U istar's Balsam of Wild Cherry
is offered to a suffering world as such. Its true
value and intrinsic excellence are sufficient to en
title it to the confidence of the public, and it has
wou that confidence.
None genuine unless signed I. BUTTS on the
wrapper.
And for sale by WILLIAMS HAYWOOD,
Raleigh, N. C.
stent supervision ot both departiteat&.For fur
ther miarmauon or foreopieof theKegister, ap
ply to iter. JUBH B. KJSKrUOT, Tk O.
'- f? '" ' Bettor err.
(P. a) College of St. James,' ML .
Aag 2. 1856. v, v.; : d62
. Aylwin's Ooean Jloiisev
PORTflMODTHrVA;
ffHHIS NEW AND SPLENDID HOTELS fron
ting 180 feet on High Street and' being 72
feet deen. 4nearly cdrnttlelArl.' amif will Ka m'iuIv
the sick to the temporary hospital at the race; in the reception of compaayaboot th'e' first of
course) lies in a slip closo to our vessel, and September, under the management W.' f.'lEEY
yesterday I crossed the deck to take a look at NOLDS, Esq., late of the National Hotels Nor-
tne arrangements. ..Large mattresses are spread Tone
on the bottom of tbe boat, and an awning is Jane 16, 1856. - ' 4SU-td.
spread over alL In the boat were two men, Vfi'R oatp 1 '
three boys between the aees of eight and ten. a vxt . OAiids, s -
little girl about four years old, and an empty I A highly valuable voter-power on a never failing
a; t . r i. t i it I -i t a --.. i f; . .
Dr. Wutar was a true friend to man when he
gave us his preparation of Wild Cherry Balsam.
Many owe their lives to this simple remedy for
lung diseases, who would otherwise have died of
consumption. We know this to be true.
ATTENTION, "OAK CITY GUARDS-"
PARADE at the Capitol Square, on Wednesday
afternoon next, 29th instant, at 4 o'clock, in
Summer Uniform. Fines for non-attendance will
be strictly enforced.
By order of the Captain,'
C. H. THOMPSON, O. S.
Lost.
4 BREASTPIN with the Daguerreotype of a
little girl in it. The fiuder, by leaving it at
this office, wiil be suitably rewarded.
RMleigh, Aug. 24, 1865. 68 tf.
I think there will be very fair crops made.
VLrhAar i tnlavaVilv r.rw ..-1 flata Wr a
have fruits, vegetables, and everything else that Pat 18 Mr' RaJner t0 blame for lt ? When he
is eood in abundance last year scarcely any! 1 became a member of the order, he assumed its
Some of our farmers had to send to Cabarrus,
Mecklenburg, Richmond and South Carolina,
for corn and pay $1 25 to $1 50 per bushel.
I believe it can be bought next year in this sec
tion at 40 or 50 cents per bushel."
Iowa Election. At tbe various county elec
tions, held in the State of Iowa, on the 6th in
stant, the American party appear to have been
generally successful.
fllon. Henry A. Wise has, it is stated.
prepared his barn and opened his house for the
accommodation of citizens from Norfolk and
Portsmouth and many other citizens of Acoo
niac, Va., are doing likewise. Generous and
noble conduct !&
ST Col. Joiin LT. Manly, of Galveston,
Texas, son of ex Governor Manly, of this city,
was a candidate of the American party, for the
Legislature, but failed of an election by a small
majority.
duties, responsibilities and principles in their
entirety. Do the "Gazette" and "American"
blame Mr. B. for advocating the principles of
the order earnestly, jealously, and ably, as he
has been doing both with his tongue and his
pen? If they do not blame him for this then
we would ask them, if he ought not to advocate
all the principles of the. same, if he is true to his
professions and his duty? Will they take the
ground, that it would be honorable in bim. to
affuct to be a true friend of the cause, when, in
his heart, he went with it only half way ?
Would it be honorable in him or any one else,
to assume the responsibilities of the order, with
a mental reservation to disregard the feature of
opposition to the aggressions of the Romish
Church?
If the "Gaiette" aad "American" are really
friendly to the American cause, as it was, and
as it is, as it was in the weakness of its infancy,
and as it is the strength of its manhood ; if they
i sy mpathized with it in ite triumphant march in
A marriage notice was recently publish
ed in this paper (forwarded to us over what we
supposed to be a responsible name, from Gra
ham,) which turns out to have been a malicious
and villainous hoax intended to injure the feel
ings, if not the character, of one of tlm par
ties, Mr. W. F. Moore, ef Orange. There can
be no more dastardly a mode of perpetrating
a slander than that thus employed against Mr.
M., and we would that we had it in our power
to expose the author.
8giA meeting was held at White Sulphur
Springs, on the 16th inst., by the visitors to that
popular resort, for the purpose of collecting
funds to be transmitted to the citizens of Nor
folk and Portsmouth. The sum of $5 GO was
immediately subscribed, the Proprietor of the
Springs leading the list with a donation c?f$50.
Well done 1
figy A yonng lady, who was tormented by
the visits of a spooney young man, requested
the fellow to give her bis daguerreotype : over
joyed at the request, greeney had his picture
taken ana presented it to the yonng lady, f she
gave it to the servant and asked, " would you
know that gentleman, if he should call ?" The
servant replied in the affirmative. " Well,
when' he comes, tell him that I am engaged."
rum which produces volcanic action, and gives
rise to thermal springs, sometimes almost in
juxtaposition with cold ones.
The earthquake which desolated Broussa,
thft residence of Abdel Ivadir. in Asia Minor,
on the 6th ot'Mny last, caused the neighboring
cold npririgs to discharge hot water, which ran
ia streams through the streets of that devoted
town. If fires wre mgring within the earth,
could these springs yield cold water one day
and not the next? Or, in other words, do hot
springs always originate io volcanic regions, or
take their rise near the central fires of the
earth ?
Out of compliment to the Association, it
seems that i'r. Wayland, President of Brown
University, gave a brilliant party to the mem
bers. But the lelegraph heralded it as billiard
party, so as to shock the sensitive auditories of
some crlticil abcetit-s. Types are not alone at
lault, although their catalogue of blunders is
longer and older than telegraphic ones.
. itb but little traveling, and the absence ol
tbe wealthier classes, there are generally 'but
lew amusements of note in the city during the
solstitial heats of the year. Amusement per se
is apt to bo pcurile and unprofitable. There
should always be some leaven of reason m
every thing, and, if possible, some contribution
to knowledge in every entertainment. At pre
sent, there is no exhibition in the city, nor in
the country, at all comparable, as a work of an,
to the grand panorama of Europe, and seige of
Sebastopol, now presented nightly to full au
diences at the Chinese buildings, in Broadway.
The sketches dre true to life and nature, and
are executed with commendable skill. If tbe
spectator has been in Europe, he here sees re
produced "before him the splendid attractions he
bas witnessed before with all those startling
contrasts ofpulence and elegance on the one
hand, and poverty and wretchedness 'on the
, other, so charaoteristio of the old world. But,
if he has never been abroad, his cariosity can
Petersburg Female College
THE NEXT SESSION OF THIS INSTITUTION
will commeuce on Wednesday, the 29th Septem
ier. 1855.
The Directors are making large additions both
to the College Building, and to the Boarding De
partmeut, which will be completed by the begmn
ing of the Session. The large and increasing
t patronage hasmadetheseaddmonsnecessary. Am
i . ... . i
coffin. Two of the boys were orphans; their
father died the day before, and their mother
that morning. The little girl sat beside one of
the men, who was probably her father. Ashe
rolled and tossed with the fever, his hat was
displaced ; she picked it up and endeavored to
replace it, bat he seemed unconscious of her
attentions. Once he opened his eyes and gazed
vacantly at me, then closed them, as if the ef-.
fort was painful. The little girl sat there so
unconscious of danger and death that I felt as
if she was safe. ' Her innocent, guileless coun
tenance seemed in pleasant contrast to the sad
and anxious faces I, meet at every turn. . I left,
speculating on; her probable history. Doubt
less her mother is dead, and her father dyiner:
will she look back in after years to wish that
she had died in that hour, or rather to bless
the Uod of the fatherless? Letter from Nor
folk. . '
Arrival of the Pacific.
SEVEN DATS LATER FROM EUROPE ! 1
Decline in Wheat and Flour Cotton and Corn
Steadylll
New York, August 22d. The steamer Pacific.
with seven days later news, arrived at her wharf
early this morning, wita dates from Europe to the
lltt instant. There is nothing of very .great im
portance from the seat of -ar except) that for the
Allies the general aspect or tne war forbodea aa
unsatisfactory termination, should the renewed
bombardment prove nnsaccessfuL
This great test of besieging strength commen
ced on the 10th init, against SebastepoX
Omar FaBha naa been appointed to tne command
of the Army in Asia.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS
Cotton steady and unchanged; it doeed steady.
a m . 1 A A AAA . . "
The sales oi tne weex were ,wu bales. Specu
lators took 4,000 bales. Orleans fair 7d. Mid
dling at 6 3-16. Mobile fair 6J. Middlings at 6.
Stock in port 61 1,000. American in port 414,000.
Breadstuffs had declined considerably, except
Corn.
pie accommodations are provided for Boarders.
For full information respecting the course of
Studies, terms of Tuition, cf-C-, see the Annual
Catalogue, which will be sent upon application to
the President, Rev. Geo. W. Carter, or to any
one of tha Directors.
D' ARCY PAUL, Ch'mn.
W. T. DAVIS, 1
JH. COOPEK, I
WESLEY GRIQQ. r,. .
R P NASH Directors,
f WM LEA,
JOHN LYON,
Pet rsburg, Va., Aug. 1;, 185ft. 65 w3m.
stream, vith an abundant supply of. wdt'trl'and
near the Railroad.
THE subscriber, intending to . remove to' the
southwest, wishes to sell his -
OIL, GRIST, AND SAW MILLS
situate on Neuse River, about nine miles northeast
of the eUy of Raleigh, and two and a half miles
from Hunts vi lie Depot, oa the Raleigh sad Gaston
The mill tract contains about thirty two acres
of land lying on both sides of tb river. ;
Tne OIL MILL is in perfect order, ito maeaine-
ry. is .pf the most approved eonstructfonaad is
capable of producing fifteeen thousand gajlp'aa, per
annum, of cotton seed, linseed 'and castor oil.
There are also attached to it pae: of Carver's lar
gest size cotton gina and a cotton sere w. ' fifteen
years' aeqriainancewith the 6U makini fruiunesff
justifies him in the remark thatitiaoiu of tke moat
wrentameaaa satisfactory uii as nss say-xnow-ledgeof.
"j. rZ-.y'
TheJAW MILL, re-built twe yeara sgTand
running with Hotchklss's vertical wheels, is sur-
eased by few in rthe -'country-, and' a ready sale
found for tae lumber at the mill '
The GRIST MILL ha a large custom, and being
ia a tMekly settled land Urgely mulH-grewiiig
neighborhood would with slight repair; eomaand
a custom yielding uo barrels of toll eera a year.
waue a a smaiuapense a Boor mui eul - m at
tached to 1 which would, yield aa annual toll of
ene thousand bushels of wheat., . :.mu
A more favourable opjMjrtuaity- for a profitable
investment, ia Wake county, b.aa never beaa pre
sented. . In. ihe hands of a prudent and- energetio
man, who would give them his personal attention.
tnese muis would pay jor themselves. n.,yry
Boon ume. - . , . .. - . ; - ...
. IflLLUai S CLA&SS.
Raleign, Jutte 25ti; T855. . . 1 tf.
North Carolina six per Cent State Bonds.
White Duck Linen Frocks.
. L. Harding has juit opened a new lot of
100. Those who have been anxiously waiting
can be upnlicd.
E, L. HARDING.
June 11th, 15V 47.
E.
HEXBT P. RUSSELL. JOSEPH B. EUSBELL
RUSSELL & BROTHER,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
WlLXIHCTOX. N. C.
Refer to Thomas H. Wright, Esq., Pres't Bank
Cane Fear; Edward P. Hall, Esq., President
Branch Bank State ; O. G. Parsley, Esq., President
Commercial Bank.
We have ample WHARF AND STORE Room,
situated in the- most central portion of the Town,
and are prepared to make liberal cash advances on
all Consignments of FLOUR, COTTON. GRAIN,
NAVAL STORES, or other produce, consigned
to us for sale here, or shipment to eur friends
North.
March 6, 1855 19 ly
tHECK MARSEILLES PANTS, 60 PAIRS
ly received yesterday by Express
E. L. HARDING.
May 28, 185. . . , 48.
TEKASTOT DsrAUTMKT, N. C,
' . Aug. 20, 1866.
SEALED Proposals will be received at this
office until 10 o'clock, A. M., 21st of Sept.
next, for the purchase of the following State Bonds
issueq dv toe state oi .norm uarouns :
$63(UMU, dated January 1st, 1855, asd running
thirty years.
$15,00, dated July 1st, 1856, and running
thirty years.
$5,000, dated July lpt, 1856, and running twenty
years.
And $lU3,wu oaten July 1st, 1855, and run
ning ten years.
inev win ie issaea ia sums oi eticn. ana
will have coupons attached for interest a six per
cent per annum, payable tne 1st days of January
and July.
Both principal and interest wiU be payable at
the Bank of the ' Republic, New York, unless
where the purchaser prefers to have them paya
ble at the Treasury of this State.
They are exempted from taxation for any par
pose whatever.
Parties bidding will please address their letters
endorsed "Proposals for N. C. Stocks to tbe un
dersigned at Raleigh, N. C. -,
Successful bidders, upon being informed of the
acceptance of their bids, an deposlte the amount'
of their bids, with the accrued interest, in either
the Bank of the Republic, New York, the Bank
of the State of N. C, or tbe Bank of Cape Fear,
Raleigh.
T he right ot accepting such bids in whole or in
part as may be deemed most advantageous to the
State is reserved.- " : " '
The bids wiil be opened in the presence of the
Go vernon, : Secretary and Comptroller of State, and '
the President of the Bask of tha State. 1
D. W. COURTS.
..Public Treasurer.
RaleigWAug 23, 1855, -i .- . . 68 tiL
ILK and open-straw Bonnets and Infants' Hats
. ' ' 1L . THOMPSON OOi,
o! Sycamore mtiSM
MANUFACTURERS of Plain and, Jspaa. Tin
Ware, Copper, and Sbeet Iron Worjt, aad
dealers in Britannia Ware, Planished Ware. Hol
low" Ware, Tln'dand Enamat'd Sauce Pans, Brass
and Enamel' d Preserving Kettles, Charobal Fur
naces, nip, opunge ana riunge. cams, uookxeg.
vuurcu, -nvr, vuc auu xuetorj o lores, nueec
Iron, Sheet Lead, Force and Suction' Pumps of
Brass ana iron, Tin-piste, wire, zihe and a general
. tt i i v . : . .: . .i
assortment u nvuHinping narawaru, ana outer
goods pertaining to1 that line ef buHnesS,iWould
respectfully tender their thanks to ' fhlhf Meads
for ihepatronage hithe so Hbrany"bestewed
on them, and would inform tsem utat they nmve,
since. the fire, opened with n entireaew 'etoek
of goods, which they will dispose of on reasona
ble terms,' wholesale and retail, u - a : .
R. 8 THOMPSON A CO.,
Ne, 26 Sycamore st.
1 Roofing and Gatteriag done with despatch.
4ig. 6, '&6. -, (3 em
Diseases of ttie Eye.
XT 7" IT H IN the last 86 years, the subscriber has
Yf frequently and suoeessfuUy'parated for
Catasact, in persons of all ages,-frem he StiUs
of North and South Caro.iinand Virgmis, and will
continue to operate upon those who need and de
sire it. s' i . . '
He will likewise attend to such other diseases
of the Eye as may be susceptible of relief.
JOHN BECKWITH, M. p.
Petersburg, Va., April 9,. 1806. ; tjZ. tt
Seabrook Male AoadeznyV '
- ROBT QATS WOOD. :
PaiKciPAt and TXAC9ZR or Maths statics axp
fESflLtSH.
C. S. STRINQFiXLO vT;
iHstatcToa i-K IiAxavatiXi.
-rANCY CASSIMERE , PANTS-WB HAVB
Jj recently received quite an addition to ar as
sortment oi ane sunuasrpanis. . . .
. , , ' E. L. HARDINO.
Kaj28 115. . 48.
THE Exercises of this School will commence on
the tOth of October 1855. and continue 'till
the firstMondsy of the following August.
BL.Terms $220 per session, payable in ad-
vanoe by the half session. - TJ;
SQuFor-fttrther particulars and blrcular, dlrect
to'the Principal st London Bridge "PTO. Princess
Anna ConntyrVa. - --
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Jj( .North Carolina Cat Harring. -'
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