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' . . ' ' ' "" I -' ' . : . . . . - . . ' , .. .j i. ' - -. ' Hi' 1 I 1 t - t- 3 rJc-e-r- -rrTr tt - p . i l -Jl mi' i nn re - . . . . , . . , , . , n.' , ' ' ' ' ' ' , . ' , '"' " ' "' ' ' " ' ' .' ' 'mmm i -mm f V OLUME LYIIL CTY OF RALEIGH, WEDNESDAY. MORNING, FEBRUARY 18. 1857. NO. 14 rUR RALEIGH HEU1STEH. , rUDLISIIED BY : JOHN W. SYME, ipitoi asd rioriuioi, AT f 2 60 IK ADVANCE ; OR, $3 00 AT THE END OP THE YEAR. OurT rt 0 jIomm tffair. dJigltfut peace, rmrvycd by forty rap Ulwehkd brotkcrt." RALEIG HrNrf - SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 14, 1S&7. TO POSTMASTERS. All Postxaai iter to whoce offices copies of th Register are sent to persons who do not Uke them therefrom, will greitlj oblige as bj iauBedUtelj Lnformlsg as of the fact, so tb-t we msj discontinue them. DEEP BIYER IMPROVEMENT. ' . ,, , , , plaint of the gross dereliction of duty in re lation to the improvement of Deep River man ifested by the late De moo ratio Legislature. There was, heaven knows, ample time serious ly to eocider, and deliberately to dispose of tki and ether important measare, if the Legishitare, instead of fiddling away the fir?t eight weeks of the session in otter iJlene- had set earnestly about the work they were sent here to do. ' Had they done so, the Stat ute Book would not have been disfigured by the erode and ill-digested legislation which its pages now show, and the people of the State would have had less reason JLban they now have, to complain of the total neglect of State interests eenerallv. whicickarlcter- w ' ixed the "democratic Legislature" (the Stan dard so calls it) of '56-'7.fhtre were, hoTS ever, peculiar reasons why some definite and eSeient action in regard to the Deep River Improvement should bare been taken. The State owns atoek in the Deep River Improve ment to the amount of $ 460,000 investment and liabilities and individuals own $160,. 000. Not only docs the State own this sum of $ 460,000 in stock and liabilities,bnt she is in terested in the speedy prosecution of the wo rk and early returns of profit on the investment because she has a heavy and constantly ac. eruing interest account to settle. Looking then at the matter in a mere profit or loss light as it regards the stock, it was shame ful in the late Legislature to scamper off, and, leave the Deep River works in their present dilapidated and dilapidating con dition. This was a proof with a vengeance tkit the Democratic, are the Intermal Im provement Party of North Carolina ! ! But important as her stock, in a dividend light, is to the State, there are considerations of graver import which should hare prompted the Legislature to take some decisive action to fiman the improvement. . AH accounts I agree that the amount of coal in the region watered by Deep River is inexhaustible, and we crave to know if it is to be allowed to re main forever where the Qod of Nature placed it ready for man's use, when man had the enterprise and industry to make it con tribute to hie wants ? Who can calculate the effect upon the State of throwing year . after year, into the market of the United States,' the abundant supplies of this necessary of Lie. which the Dee o River "Field." Wvuld furnishJWho can tell the amount firtapital from abroad wnich woula be attracted to the State by this eo.il, were these til ea Lie ways and means of getting it to market. The assertion that there is "wood enough in North Carolina and thai there i bo demand for coal, is nothing less than perfect puerility. In the first place, the as sertion is untrue in point of fact. There u a demand for coal in North Carolina, as there is everywhere else, where folks either need a fire to warm them or to cook their food. The history of eoal everywhere estab lishes the fact that, when it can be obtained at anything like a reasonable price, it drives wood as an article of fuel "out of circulation." Coal is safer, more convenient, and makes a htur fire than wood, and for manufacturing purposes it is "all the world to nothing," when compared to wood. Why, at this time, several of the citixens of Raleigh use anthra cite ooal for fuel, although it costs, delivered here, 12 to 14 per ton. Could it be ob it ained at 5 or 1 a ten, we would venture Something more than a trifle, that in two years there would hardly be a fire place in kny dwelling without a grate. As in Ral- bigh, so it would be in every oter town in Uhe State. But it is a most narrow-minded tiew of the subject, to confine one's self to Le consideration of the North Carolina de aed for eoaL If the Deep River region is that it is represented to he, and its ooal can x got off at reasonable rates of transperta- on, Norta Carolina coal would meet, and it least on equal terms compete witlrr tK jal of Pennsylvania, Maryland and VirgiftU, the markets of the Lmted States. So cry consideration interest, comfort, State ride, all combine to urge the development d ose of the "black treasures," for iron as 11 as coal abounds bit, of the Peep River ' But Dtmocracy the especial friends of a Jevelopaient of North Carolina's resources, aj, let this coal and iron staj where God Almighty put it, we'll hare none of it.w Did grosser fatuitj ever corse a State ? The able, sensible, an J honest report of the ac cowplished , engineer, whom tbej paid make an examination of the locks and dams, and suggest the proper means of finishing the wort of making Deep River navigable, fell upon their ears unheeded as the .idlwinds ; thej would do nothing for it as a State work, and with a 'dog in the manger' spirit, wonld not sell out to a private . companj. They bad time enough to caucus ffpon, and mix Dx.ocaAcr with Educationand abundance of leisure to auaalt the State archives, but could not spare the time to protect State property, now in a most precarious condition, or to do anything towards opening to the State a glorious career of wealth aud pros- i ? ,thd u iiuu puuiuurnu vicuuia ui iuctiwu iicsbuu professions, "cry aloud and spare not' late "Democratic Legislature?" the OUR CITY HOGS Our neighbor suggests that the Observer, by a bare possibility, may have been quizzed by somebody in Stanly county, who informs him that a four year old hog had a brick-bat under his rib4th.it weighed abiut.six ounces. Onr neighbor sly'y observes to the " Ob server" that he hvl seen many a hog with a brick in his hat, but he neve heard of one before with a brick in his hide." Was the Standard speaking to the Obser ver from his observations about Tow a 1 Was he poking fun at our City Fathers for repeal ing once more the everlasting Hog law ? W 0J wiI'inS P9 our internal weak nes?, and our qaer municipal vacillations to the criticisms of the Observer, and of the people of all Capo Fear? Why should not our amiable grunters cut some unseemly ca pers, by way of celebrating their release from a twel re months' captivity? Why should they not imitate tLeir betters on 4th of July occasions, and curl up their tails, and balance bricks in th?ir hats, if they can ? Are they not happy hogs Are they not free again ? Yea : are t1ev .not bricks aUJU'TjH them be jojfal : for surely a whole. vHinniei- pality suddenly "redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled,", have a right under the Declar ation of Independence, the constitution, and the immortal resolutions of 93-'9, t,o lift op in our very midst their heads and their tails, yea, verily, and their voices too. And can not we all bs happy together again, as of yore, but the btandard must mock t us and tell tales out of school to the Fayetteville Observer ? No sir : the hogs shall have justice. Their imprisonment has not been without its good effects. It has created a better understand ing between the parties. The imprisoned race was necessarily brought into closer con tact with tHeir owners. They were fed out of the hand, at the back door, and oftentimes slept in the kitchen. . Confidence has - been restored. They no longer shrink from actual contact with the gentlemen and ladies of the city now. They will even condescend to rub their joyous sides against the very legs of tbe City Fathers. The Lawfulness and shamefaced oess that used so to afflict tbo race, is all gone, aud the frank and honest bristler now blushes not, nor hangs his head for shame. St'Il, though he beareth himself rather proudly, he is not proud. He is only confiltnt. He is willing to associate on terms of equality, at least, on the streets, with almost anybody. He scoffith not at poor people, and poor people's children; he J maketh no distinction. He will root either I the poor or the rich ; and is not aristocratic I in tbe distribution of his favours and miliarities. He will cover himself with clay, I and just as soon paint therewith the humble I cottage-door of the pauper, as the fences and I gateposts of His Exccllenor. tbe Governor. I He i democratic in his practices, if not in his principles, lie al loveth the loaves and tbe fLhes. Let no unruly urchin attempt to enforce Oi this quadruped, by bricks or other missies, what he may deem a respectful distance.- Since our contemporary has deserted him, and treated him derisively, and exposed him J to the sneers of "Observer." w - -nh I that be may be roughly handled, at least by theb'hoys. Oh ! perseoute him not with bricks in his side, or bis head. Let him root on in peace. Let him paint all the fences and gates with out molestation, for verily he is but a hog! T .1 . . I, . id mi conueouou we au attention to a communication in another column signed " Many Citizens." " la We call attention tn an alvertiseraent in another colmnu healed Machinery, Engines, etc. -Mr. Paul can wpply any article enumerat ed in hi alvertuem.mt on the most favorable ternM.aml it will doubtless be to the interest of tndividuala or companies, wishing to purchase anything in the line of his agency, to make ap plication to him Persons wishing to purchase will ad lrem or call on Samuel B. Pant, E., j Petersburg, a. , . UNFINISHED BUSINESS; The last Legislature Heaven bless it ! labored1 hard tn do gnmrlhiner. we know, but we lear'tht it left on its tables a large amount of what is called unfinished bssiness. Whether nis Excellency has determined to to 1 call them back to take uprthe thread where they left it, after they shall have rested awhile and recuperated their exhausted energies, we are not informed. If we were of his couneilwe think we. should advise him to let it rest Even that precious measure of expunging the Preamble was only half done. It slept in the Senate, as it should have done. This seems to have been anticipated. And the a Standard intimated that if the Senate 'Should J lay them (the expunging resolutions) on the I table, or refer them, and not find time to I act upon them during this session, the Com mons may, if it should so decree, do its own work in this respect, inasmuch as each House is the custodian of its own journals." The I Commons of course was "the custodian of its own journals," and could have drawn around them as many black lines as it pleased. Luckily it had no access to the enrolled bills filed away ia the office of the Secretary of State; and it could not without a small ex tension of the doctrine of spoliation have laid desecrating hands on the real act. That was safe from th spoilers, so long as the conserv ative Senate did their duty to their country by guarding its records. . But we did expect to witness a scene in the House. That matter of semi-expunction ought not to hare been pretermitted. That at least should norjiave been among the unfinished business. Wc.have heard k intimated that the Benton ian pen had been preserved, somewhere, but its whereabouts could not be exactly ascer tained, and it was thought that no expunc tion ought to be performed without that pen It had been consecrated to such pious uses. If Mr. Benton was written to, as has been suggested, he made no reply. Perhaps even he is now ashamed of that act, as well as some others, and did not choose to leBd either his pen or the influence of his good name, to an other act of spoliation. This application for the pen having failed, it has ben said that a mmitlee of. the Caramons addressed a note to the sage of -Wheatland, begging the loan of that eagle's "quill which some months since dropped at the foot of a celebrated Democrat ic orator, and was by him sent on to Wheat land, to the Presidentelect. Mr. Buchanan is said to have replied, declining the favor for several reasons : 1st. He does not think it advisable, iust at present, to draw black lines at all. 2nd. If tho Commons will do it, they can do it well enongh with a common goose quill Srdrlle has submitted the quill sent in to him, to a celebrated ornithologist, who pro nounces it the quill of a Buzzard 4 th. Whether it came from the wing of an Eagle or Buzzard, it is a piece of torn-foolery which he is not going to practice himself ; and he advises the Commons to busy themselves in higher matters pay their debts, and go home. He is no Bentonian now, and eschews all Bentonian practices, and advises the Com mons to go and do likewise. By the bye, speaking of Preambles, a pret ty good thing occurred in the Senate, on tbe motion to adjourn. That motion was pre faced by a preamble, stating that the Legia lature " had finished its business." Tbe Senator from Guilford said he was conscien tious, and could not state a falsehood by vot ing that the Legislature had finished its bo siness. And, though he was perfectly willing to vote an adjournment, as he believed they would accomplish no good by staying longer, be could not vote even for adjournment, copied with that preamble, asserting a pal fa-Pb'e fkhood. The Senator was not wil 10 06 over-hauled some years hence as a man f Teracity. He wanted no black lines reaftor to be drawn around any act of his. H wanted to face no censures, where he could not stand op like an honest man and say he was right. If he should vote for this preamble, asserting what they all knew to be an untruth, as they had scarcely half finish ed the business on their tables, and in the hands of their committees, how could he look an honest man in the face ? He would vote for no such preamble, and could not even vote adjourn, so long as that stood. Small Pox is Scskx and Southampton. -A gentleuiAU frtmi Sussex, whose word may be relied upon, informed us yes'erday that several cases of small pox had recently broken out alone me line wnicn uiviuea ma counties ot Sussex and Southampton, on both side, and that two deaths hl occurred from it. rTli p ple are in a state of great alarm. - Two cases we umler xtand, were in the family of Tr. 1. II. Mason, of fcuasex. 1'eiartburg InUtljyencer. Cck rot Feloxs qirHX FiNGE-jThe Sci entific American says . . g "The past year we have knowrFth spinal arrow of an ox or cow applied to thret) different persons, with tbe fhsatisfictory fawult ia re lieving pain and Hecunng sores of theirffcions; The spinal marrow shftfld be applied for eery four hours fur two days." ' " : f '"J - ".I Vaixk or Spanish Coin The following is the average value uf the worn Spanish coin at the United States mint in Philadelphia: Quar ters, 23 cent: eighths or levies, 10 9-10 cents; sixteenths or fips, 6 cents. . v t ... ..... . . i-i STATE INTEU-IGENCE. : MlLANCHOLT SUICIDB IN OrANOE. We learn from the Hillsboro; Recorder of Wed nesday last that a very distressing suicide oo cured in the eastern part of Orange County on the night of Friday, the 6th inst. Willis S. Jones, Esq., Te tired to bed at about 11 o'clock on Friday night, but it appears that soon arter be got up and went to a mill pond near by. From the tracks left, it is supposed tnai tie nrst attempted to drown himself, but being a good swimmer his involuntarv efforts saved him from that ; he then went a little lower down, where it appears, from a large pool of blood left, that he cut h?s throat, and, after wandering about a little, plunged into the water. He was missinc on Saturday morning, but his body was not found until Sunday morning. He wasj a young man, about 23 years of age; was jn good circum- stances, dui naa met witn some pecuniary osses which distressed his mind, and it is supposed was the cause of his committing the rasn act. ! Profitable Tobacco Planting. The i 1 ! Clarksrille Tobacco Plant says : "Cpt. A Slade, of Caswell, N. C, and his two broth ers have sold their entire crops of Tobacco ugs included, to a Lynchburg manufacturer, for the extraordinary price of 335 per hun dred lbs. Capt. Slade estimates his crop at 18,000 or 20,000 lbs. It is tbe product of the labor of some ten hands. If it should turn out to be 20,000 lbs. he will realize from each laborer the unprecedented sum of $700 Can the cotton fields of Louisiana, the sugar plantations of Cuba, the rice fields or the .turpentine districts of the Carolines, boast of larger profits? The Tobacco which commands these prices is of a very fine texture, but its chief claim to superior excellence is attributable to the mode of curing. Of this mode we can give the public no more satisfactory exposition than that charcoal is the fuel used. Shocking Murder in Alamance Coun ty:. At an election held for a constable in Mellville, Alamance county ,on last Saturday, we learn from the Hillsboro' Recorder, that John Shaw, a man considerably advanced in life, stabbed his son-in-law, William Gibson, twice, and afterwards threw a stone at him, breaking his skull, and causing his death in few minutes. Both were drunk at the time Shaw is represented as being very peaceable when sober, but a dangerous man when in liquor. He was committed to jail, to await his trial. Operations at the Branch Mint or the U. S. at Charlotte. According to a telegraphic dispatch from Washington to the New York Express, the operations at the Branch Mint of tbe United States situated at Charlotte in this State, for the year 1856, are as follows : The sum of $174,592 53 was deposited ; and the coinage amounted to $162,067 50 composed of 36,370 pieces. The operations at this Mint are confined to gold. BGP Rev. Dr. Wheat, Professor in the in the University of North Carolina, has de clined a call to the Rectorship of i Calvary Church, in Memphis, Tenn. Name Changed. The name of the post-of-fioe heretofore called "Caro'ina Female College," in Anson county, N. C, has been changed to "Ansonvillc." IIymenial. Thoa. Chapman, Jr., Esq., of N. C, and. Miss Hettie Stover, daughter of Judge Stover, of Barber county, Ala., were united in marriage at Midway, N. C, on the 15th of Jan uary. I Accident. On Tuesday last a gentleman by the name of Frady, from N. C, fell from the Western and Atlantic Train, a few minutes be fore it was about to leave the Depot in Atlanta, (ia., aud broke his leg. Death of a Vesablk His. John Cole, Sr , of Moors county.' N. C, died -.on the 28th of January, in the 84th year of his age, leaving one hundred and four living descendants children, rraud and great grand children. CANVASS BACK DUCKS, j Our friend Syme, of the Raleigh Register, is in luck. LI is administration in that beautiful mtro po! is is happily inaugurated. The canvass back ducks, which had never before been seen in North Carolina, followed Syme from Virginia. Not only this, but they allowed themselves to be sold in Raleigh on Friday last, by barrels full, at 25 cents a piece, so that everybody could hive a taste of old Virginia. Syme has already entered upon the canvass with great energy. The great number of ducks, rendered helpless by the lale cold snap, accounts for this irrnption from Hor- folfc via weldon.- Richmond jUwpaich. We knew perfectly well that our contem poraries in the Old Dominion, would, ' when informed that we were feasting here on Canvass-back Ducks at 25 cents a piece, sing out, "what a lucky fellow that man by me IS: Well we did, with many of our fellow citixens, have some luck the other day in the Duck "Department of the General Govern ment," although it did not, as feared by the SouthS ide Democrat, throw ua into "Duck fits." We preferred to give the Ducks "fits." But alaok a day ! we had hardly finished the "Ducks", when some PhiiO' Turkeyist made love to and incontinently eloped with three fine fVirds" intended for our own bread-basket, which no doubt he has by this time 'gobble d down" we devout- y hope with a choking s ensation. Do not the Dispatch and Democrat sympathize with us? This sort of kidnapping will hardly be re peated at our expens-i, m as much as we are now provided "with a couple of blood hounds, ablunder buss- a double-barrel gun and cutlasses, and side arms to match. - ,. Such a battery as we will open on the next turkey fancier who honors us with "a call withoul "leaving his card," has never been ireard since the fall of Sebastopol, which fell or the sms.bf its master, Old JSick, against the Tur-keye of the old world. r THE LATEST DEED OF. HORROR. New York has beenintensely excited by the mur der of Dr. Burdell, a wealthy afSI respected Den tist, in his own house id Bond It. He; was garroted and stabbea in fifteen places, each one in a vital part. He was apparently living , witti a; Mrs. Cunningham and was supposed to be a bachelor. But it is in evidence that he had been marred and diverced,'and then bad privately married Mrs. Cunningham, after she had threatened to sue him for breach of promise; t appears that be was. jealous of two' otHer hoarder in the house, and hi3? wife was jealous of him . and they quarrelled. A bloody dagger and loaded revolv er were foun in the wife's bureau.;, and she and her two boarders wei-e arrested. ' This shocking affair occurred in what is termed in New York respectable society. The want of space has heretofore prevented us from giving summaries of the investiga tions made by the Coroner's Inquest, (which has been sitting about two weeks, we be lieve,) but the subjoined review of the case and remarks from the New York Herald of yesterday week, will explain to our readers what, progress had been made in the investi gation up to that date, and since then noth ing of material importance has been brought to light. . T At the present writing, after six day3 of in vestigation, Bucb as it is, we are not much near er to the discovery of the culurit than when the lad Burchell Was called to the staud on Saturday last. It is idle to deny that there is a string feelineron'the part of the public against two of the individuals now in custody. But, in cases of this kind, as a legal writer observes, "If a certain ar rangement of circumstances designate an individ ual as the probable culprit, how keen is often me sansiaction expressed I Decu'ation is re ceived as evidence, and the desire to succeed sus pense with discovery frowns down alljuster feel ings of humanity. It is necessary, then, that the maliguancy of this leehae should be temper ed with a due regard for justice to the living as well as the dead. What has been adduced thus far? ? It appears that Dr. Burdell was foully mur dered in his owh apartments on last Friday night. There were seven persons in the house: Mrs. Cunningham, Misses Helen and Augusta Cun ningham, Mr. John J. Eckel. Mr, George Vail Snodgrass, Mr Dauiel Ullman, and Hannah Conian, a servant. All these persons, with -the exception f JJthe Misses Cunningham, have been examined, and hey testify that they know noth ing of the matter. The testimony, then, is from without the house is for the roost part fragment ary and unsatisfactory. It has, so far, proved, oniv two important tacts ; nrst, that there was a serious misunderstanding between Dr. Burdell and the other parties, Mrs. Cunningham 'and Eckel, and it does not appear that he" had ?any' difficulty with iny other persons:- ; There is a great mass of testimony bearing on this point, which is really the most important in the case. It might show that they had a moti ve and no one eW had one; but this must be so clearly proved as to overthow every other rea sonable hypothesis. It is not necessary to show this fully at this point, and the testimony i quite sufficient to leaye the impression in the mind that there was a bad state of feeling. Bcrdell told Stevens he '.feared for his life, while in his own house ; Mrs; Cunningham acknowledges to the difficulty about the note; another, witness swear" that a policeman was called in to settle a quarrel between her and Burdell ; Mr.v Stevns proves'a design on the part of Mrs. Conningham to make trouble between Stevens aod Burdell, and thinks that Eckel was employe! in the plot. The second point arrived at is the time. " It is shown by the evidence of Mrs. Cunningham, corroborated by Dr. Main, that Dr. Burdell left the house at five o clock on the evening of Friday, Mr. Rose testified yesterday that lie was passing through Bond street to the Bowery on Friday night about half past ten, and saw a man wear ing a shawl who had preceded him a short dis tance, go into the house No. 31 ; the man opened thedo r with a latch key, and Mr. Ros heard the latch spring when the door was shut. A mo ment or two more and he heard a stifled cry. mur ," butas there were some idle boys loung ing on the corner, he presumed it arose from them, and paid no further attention to it. i' , Mr.. Brooks heard from the house opposite tbe same cry. at the same time. '! From this evidence. the inference is fair that some person was wait ing in the room for the Doctor that he was tVrottled immediately on entering, and then, des patched with the knife.1 But these circum stances are only links in an imperfect chain of evidence. We must find out where the Doctor went ai five o'clock, and we must ascertain what he was doing and in whose company, he. was duriug the evening. y; Then we have the alleged marriage of. the Doctor and Mrs. Cunningham. She produces a certificate, and leaning her back against it, as serts its genuineness. Mr. Eckel is supposed to to have prsonated Burdell during the ceremony," Why has not the clergyman been confronted; with Eckel ? Still, she may e the lawful wife of Burdell, and yet be implicated in his murder, It appears by several witnesses that lie always spoke respecfully! to ber, generally. He paid her money, and she evidently tad great influ ence over him at times. " ; The theory assumed by the majority is, that the murder was done rrithiri'.the house that two or more persons risted that it was 'put posed to leave the bry in the street, but that the struggle was mo-, severe than was expected; that he was killed j order that Mrs. Cunning bam as his wido" might administer his estate and enjoy her ri gfct of dower. She had received notice to give fp the house on the first of May, and cotild exp ect nothing nVre from him. " I The eyider xe given up to the time when the inquest adjr.urned last evening has been, we think, fairr y gummed up in this article. The testimony yesterday is interesting. The servant Coulan w?is again before the jury; but her evi dence ia tnly important so far as it corroborates that of the other girl, who s Wore that the Doc tor would n ot eat or drink in the house." We might iufer from that that he feared poisoning, or, that ha simply refused because he was at en mity with Mrs. Canuingham. It goes to prove the ermity, at any rate. She also testified that Mr. Eckel ss'id on? Satirrday - that it was likely (hit the Doctor committed suicide. '; r. A woman, said to be Eckel's mistress, testified I yesterday that she was the person who visited I him at bis place of business on Saturday morning; that he came to her carnage and gave her some money. . This disproves the statement that Mrs,: Cunningham was the person jn the carriage. It was absurd, at any rate. A man employed by Eckel testified that his demeanor on. Saturday .was the same as usual. Mr. Tobey testified that he saw Dr. Burdell on the fatal evening, between nine and ten. The Doctor was standing at the corner of Bond ptreet and the Bowery, apparently .waiting for some on j. Mrs. Mary Crane, who saw Bur dell a few days before the murder, testifies that he told her vhat he suspected sous foul play at the hands of pers ns in the house, bat t-hat he was prepared for it. ..." . ' The table 'cutlery Ought to be thoroughly iwuvuru... it me siauH were innici'JU oy "j one in the house, the knife is probakly on the premises. Jn the case of Lord Wiiliara RusseJI, who was murdered by his valet, a table knife was used, and it was found with the cutlery be longing to the house. A chemical analysis dis closed traces of blood upon the .blade, and from this the whole chain of circumstantial evidence was formed. So far. in the Bond Btreet case, we have none of this sort of evidence arisine from physical causes. I . ; ' All the theories ara-JoMftdaiitipon suspicions arising trom moral causes, and those, although strong, are not sufficient for legal proof. It is rrue mat murder was Drobabv done bv oersens who carefully weiehed all the Disabilities of aececuon, and who endeavored to conceal all tne i. . . " . ..... traces of their crime; but it is a truth in the history of crime that the most accomplished scoundrels always neglect some point, often a very trivial one, which point followed up, by a we.i trained and 6affacioua mind developes a chaiu of circumstances leading to the very door ot proof; v . Before we adiudse these persona euilty. we must rove that they have haa a motive to com mit the crime, and that there is no reasonable hypothesis that it is the act of another party. The time and mauber of Burdell'a death may be considered as, very nearly fixed. It seems proba ble that the act was done or instigated by some persons within the house. We must now have some physical evidence the weapon, the blood on the garments, &c. to trace it directly, to their doors. ,- CONGRESSIONAL" PROCEEDINGS. : In the Senate, Monday, Mr.lBright pre sented tho credentials of Uraham IN. Fitch, Senator elect from Indiana, and moved that he be sworn in. ! Mr. Trumbull' presented the protest of the fcenate of Indiana, against the legality of the election, and also the protest of 34 members of the House to the same effect. ; Mr. Bright said it was not necessary to read the protests, as he believed that his colleague, according to precedent, was entitled to be sworn. '. ." - ' ' ' The protests were'read. - i Mr. Trumbull objected to the administra tion of the oath. ; 1 Mr. Douglass thought he had better be sworn, and the legality of his election be in vestigated afterwards, as had been the cus tom heretofore. ; . .. - i Mr. Trumbull replied that the custom had been both ways, and cited cases where the oath had been refused until the matter was discussed and decided. He thought that in his case no additional light could be she d on he matter, as all the facts were now known. The discussion was continued until a late hour. .rL'.i!M !"' f v-v ' In the House of Representatives, the bill for the construction of a wagon road to the .Pacific was passed 119 to 48. , , uUr. Uarbour moved a suspension of the rules to enuble him to introduce a resolution f Om the Judiciary Committee, impeaching Judge Watrous of Texas. ' Mr.' Letcher' demanded a reading of the report. -; ' V'"" :, The report makes specified charges of cor rupt combinations for the determination of suits,' and of having acted with partiality and disregard of all rules of law, and the rights of litigants. The resolution was postponed two weeks. 1 ? . J. W. Simonton, correspondent of the. New York Times, was ordered to be discharged from custody.' ' '. " I Washington, Feb. 10, 1857. .Senate. Mr. Fitch was yesterday, before the Senate adjourned, sworn in as a Senator from the State of Indiana. . , x, ,,. The Chair laid before the Senate a message from the President of the United States, in answer te a resolution calling for information in relation to the proclamation of martial law in Washing ton territory by Uov. Stevens. j , Mr. Pearee gave notice of his intention to in troduce a kill providing for the time and manner of e'ec ting Senators of the United States by the Legislatures of the several States. ,: ; Mjr. Rusk, moved that the credentials .of the Hon. Graham N. Fitch be referred to the Com mittee on the Judiciary' togetl'er with the pro ceedings of the Senate and the protest of the Hous of Representatives of that State -against the leg ality of the election of that gentleman. ;;' : .'Mr. Toombs moved that they be referred to a Se lect Committee, "saying that the Chairman of th e Judiciary Committee (Mr. Butler) pre fe rred that course. And after further, debate, tl te papers were referred to the Committee on the J udicisry. Y . " ,;" After further proceedings the! Senate adj'd.. Hocse of Repbesentativks. The ( House look up the Senate submarine telegraph bill ; when a motion was made to lay . it upon the table, but this Was decided in the negative., v - ,The House refused to commit the bill to the Oommittee of the Whole on the state of the Union yeas 83, nays 101 ; and then committed it to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads yeas 99, nays 87 : " , '; The House went into a Committee of the Whole on the state of tbe Union on the bill re ducing the duties on imports. V. Mr. Boyce made a speech in support of free trade.. ' ' :. ;.- ' , ' Mr. Granger advocated protection ' upon salt and wool. i'- '.' .,;,' - - Mr. Millson opposed the tariff bill report! by the majority of the Committee on Ways and Meana. y ' :,c- ;v ';c7-;. . ' The House took a recess till seven o'clock, for general debate. '- r r . , f Dr. Kane. A letter from Havana, of Jan. 30 iys that: Dr. Kane, whom the recent cold weather had thrown back, was .slowly .improv-. ing V..' ;. jy ' y j I :' ; "-V "ry ' United Statfs Tbxascbt! The funds in the United, St atea Treasury, subjeet to draft, on the 26th Janu ary, r were $21,496 881 83, ef which $16,303 8f was at Richmond, Va ; $16,498 01 at Wilmington; N. C, $21,977 .10 at Savannah. Ga, and 14,206 02 at NashvilleiTeon. ,A trans fer of $125,000 ; has been . ordered to Norfolk, Va iyyy:.; :r:y,y lUyA- y l Iij'rbiffips County Arks.,' ont the22d Jan., at the residence of Mrs. P. C. Bowdon,by Elder P. S. G. Watson, Mr. John J. Felton, formerly of Pitt Co., N. a; to Miss B. C. V; Bowdon of the former place. t, :-'ir '4;''-V;"' -i ' Alo, at the same time and place, by the same Mr. W. B. Thornton, of Phillip Co. Arks., to Miss BachielS. Hester formerly of Wake Co., N, CL i , j j- COMMERCIAL. . KALEIGH MARKET. : FRICE8 CtTEBENT, EEPOBTKb BT MILLS H. BHOWK, . ' i rAMicr oroceb. .- , . Raleigh, Feb., 14. Market unchanged. ' Whsat Crop is Vikuinia. The RepuHUcau published at Culpeper C tl. V., hears very dii- ' couraging accounts from tbe wheat, iu that county A great deal of it has beeo killed py the inUow cold weather V Some fanner gejas far ai tw thirds, though the Republican hopea tor a better exhibit of the erop iu tb spring, 1 , .'. PETERSBURG MAKKETr ' -....... WEiNE9iAr, Feb. U. 1867. Wheat. The offerings on " eh luge" to-dty were quite small and operations limited- We quote good to prime White at $1,&0 lo l, 65; Iied$l,S6to 1,45. : , T Cotton. The receipts are hfavir and the stocks increasing. We hear of some transactions at 12 to 12 J for fair to good lots. I A choice lot would bring 12.s ) '. ' . (' I Bacon. The stocks are almost exhausted and fine old Shoulders in market held at 9i . . Corn The receipts are heavier, krul sales were made to-day of several Ms at 85c. We thiuk there is an evidently dcliuing tendency thowa in the market. " ' . j - V - : Tobacco. The breaks are quite heavy., Pri'ree today were better, and sales show an advance of fully 60 cents fo- 100 lbs. since yesterday The , receipts ef loose tobacco is very largo1. We quote primings at $5 to 6 ; Lugs at 6 U ; Leaf 9 to 8pt. TnRFENTrNE. Small Sale at 42 ct Stocks light and demand active. Peas. B. Peas in demand $1, to $1, quote $1.60 20.:' 'i- Beans. Navy are wa nttnl ; we to $1.60. . a Clover Seed, Are in g(od supply! at $8 to 9. Salt. Market quiet, with small sales of Mar shall . brand at $1 70 to $1.80 ; G. 'A. $1.36 to $1.40 . j .' "' ';. BALTIMORE MARKET. . ; Baltikokk, Feb. 12. Markets unchanged. ... T . ..- ' ! ' KKW York market! . ' ; iTsw York, Feb. 12 Flour improving-i- Statc $S 45 to $6 60; Southern heavy.. Wheat buoyant. Corn lower mixed 73c. Stocks ac tive and higher. - Virginia's 92. M,-. ; JAMES H. STRUM, GENERAL AGENT AND COLLECTOR, . ' OXFORD, N. C. i - ' REFEBESCE9 - Joseph H. Gooch, Granville C., N. C, Hon. A. W. Venable, Brownsville, IN. C. B, N. & D. C. Herndou, Oxford, X. C. K. A. a oung, retersburg, Va. ; . te 13 tf .-: : ; RESH SEEDS FO? THE GARDEN, YARD. AND MEADOW. Pesoud & Gatlln, Druggist s . HAVE in Store a large and eeleet stonk. ef . 8eeds, which they will sell on tbfir uiuady . moderate terirs. Below they enumerate aoine ef the various kinds in atore , ! ' . Giant Purple Top A sp'g' Curled Crest Early China Beans Broad Laf Garden Crew Early Frame; Cucumber Early RnsHtaa . . do Early Charlton de Early White flpine . da London Long Green do Shert Green jPrlnkly do Es Long Green Tur'y do Turtle Soup ', , de Valentine .; do Warwick ' do Refugee or 1000 to 1 do Large Lima or Butter do Case Knife , do -Extra Early Blood Tar nip Beet Long smooth dark blood Blood Red ' do White Sugar - do Mangel Wirtxel do Broeoli, . - Early York Cabbae, r Early June . do ; Early Sugar Loaf do ' Early flat Battersea do Large French Oxheart do Premium Flat Dutch do St Dennis' Drumhead do Large Wakefield do Nonpariel do Ohirkin orBarr do Egg Plant several variet'i Endive ,. '.''.! ;,'. Indian Corn " 1 Kale and Leek Early Curled SUecia Let- tuce- i ... Early White Cabbage de Fine Imperial . do Large Green do Ice . ':..: . . do Brown Dutch f do Large India '. do. London White CaVge do Extra Early May Peas Early Warwick . do Karly Charlton , do Prince albert , de Large white Mar'wfat do Shurston'e Relianee de wavf Blue Imperial do Dwarf Marrowfat ' de Melob, Mus'ard, Onions, Okra' Parsley; Parsnips, Large York do Large Flat Dutch do Large late American . Drumhead . , do Large Bergeu do Large English Drum- head y , do Green Glazed . - do Drumhead flavor , ; do Green Globe 8ivor . do Pep r, rumpain. uaa Bed Dutob for Pipkl'g do ish. hubarb Spinach, Cauliflower several kiods Carrots , do i' r" ! Cole's Sup. Dwarf Celery Sqnakh, Tomatto and Turnip Seed,! together with White and Sermour's 8uperb . . do YeP n Setts, Ken- White Solid - , , do Nw Silver Giant " de Collarde and Cora Salad! tack Orchard, Ti- moth andMueqoit Grass Seed Uavine a Urge supply en hand, we can eeeom- modate merrbanti and others in want of large quantities on the most favorable term ' feia-ly - PESCUD ft GITLIH, Baleigh, K. C. " Machinery-, Engine,1 Etc, TTAVING RECEIVED'aS AGENCY FRM M ne of THE LARGE8T ESTABL1SH kENTS in the United 8Utee I am preptred U contract for Machinery ef all kinds, and of the most. perfect character, ; on tie most jfavorable terms for cash or good fapci. .; j , Among many things, I enun erate Loeomotivee, with an improved vaive arrangement, giving tbe best results. Stationary ng nee from 2 to 600 bene power, arranged to euil the.-purposes for which they are needed, : and guarantied to give atiefaction. ? , " t j ' . Portable Engines from 2 to 1 flj horse power, adap ted to the use ef Farmers, Printing-offices, Hois ting, &e. . , ? I . 1. . Power Presses of new, simp e, durable and ef fective character, and very rajpid work, ': 8bop Fittings, Power Plinnefa, Boring and Mor-. ticing Machines, Cotton and Flour Mid, end la deed all kinds of Machinery, ; ' I -. : rr:y':. SAM'L B. PAUL. fe!4-ly , Petersburg, Va. t T8 your hair turning gray! Do yoa wisb te X cultivate good whiskers and aauateenioif ' Your hair to be soft, silky and glosayf -Your head te be eool, comfortable aiad free from Un draff? Mothers ! are year children to have lui nriant heads of hairt Are you getting bald f .Then use Jordan's Oil Bay of Leavee Uu otmuiiu, which never fails in iu effect. - Prepared by W. B. Jordan, sold by N. F Kives, PeUriburg, Va., and draggists generally. J'-fy , j , ' CAUTION. Peraons will please be particular and ask for Jordan's OH of liay Ltav44 to as to prevent having sack quackery as the Concen trated Xaaence of Bay Leaves " palmed off on themr-.' V ,-;.-'-; 1 fe.14 tf. 8, 10 and 12-1-4 Fine Bed Blankets, FEW LEFT. Will eell bit reduced prieaa eloae cut. Z JAM M TUWLKS. . it i, . . te 7 pe Bed, ow Onie j Blnej T i ) :-4 ti "
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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