Sale of State Bonds.
York Churchman.
From the New
E POSITION OF THE NATIONAL AME
RICANS IN CONGRESS.
iVe are inexpressibly gratified with the conduct
I position of that noble little band of patriots
he National American members of Congress,
ring the trying and protracted struggle for the
eakership they adhered to their principles with
idelity which knew "no variableness or shadow
turning.” Small in numbers they possessed a
jat heart, which enabled them to scorn threats,
regard artful persuasions and devices, and to
>k duty alone firmly and steadily in the face,
vain they were menaced with the charge of
^ responsibility of the prolonged contest, aud
vain were they taunted with the insignificance
their numbers and influence. Their course
id, “if we are few, we are true, and our strength
all yet be felt,” and verily it has been felt in a
anner always to be remembered by those who,
tting up to be the anointed guardians of South-
11 Constitutional Rights, preferred the election
a Black Republican to lotting pass an oppor-
iirity to insult men who had earnestly and hon-
tly determined to prevent such a result, if pos-
ble. We are told that “the wicked is snared by
ic transgression of bis lips: but the just shall
iine out of trouble,” aud the truth of the decla-
itiou is clearly manifested in the conduct and
.te of tho soi disant Democracy in Congress.—
nowiug their inability to elect a Speaker by
mir own strength, t hey determined to bring about
io choice of a Black Republican Abolitionist,
ud then threw the responsibility on a party
hose rising sun dazzles their eyes to blindness,
nd . Inch it bates and fears in corresponding
^portions. In the protracted ballotings, which
ere anticipated, it was apprehended that, at
nine stage a sufficient number of National Amc-
icaus might, rather than see the disorganization
uulonged, come over, and, by voting for, elect
beir nominee. This must be prevented, and ac-
ordingly in their nominating caucus they went
iut of their way to pass a grossly offensive roso-
utiou against what they termed the "Know
lathing Party.”
That this is the only interpretation which can
Ml given to the condi ol these Patriots (/) was
proved repeatedly din. g the balloting', tor it
aus over and over again more than intimated
Lit if the offensive caucus resolution was with-
Irawii, or if another caucus was held and a fresh
andidate brought out, without any resolution
igaiust the American Party, an election of one
rue at least on the great Slavery issue, might be
•ffected, and thus a defeat ofa Black Republican
Ibolitioniat be accomplished. These stubborn
SEC. MARCY ON FILIBUSTERISM.
We have been favored with a copy of the
following important letter of Secretary Marcy to
Mr. Wheeler, for publication. Weunderstandit
will be read on the coming trial of the indicted
filibusters, in the U. S. Circuit Court:
Mr. Marcyto Mr. Wheeler.
Department of State,
Washington, November 8.
Sir:—I have received and laid before the
President your despatches numbered 25 and 26,
together with their enclosures. The miserable
condition of Nicaragua is much regretted, and
devolves upon this Government perplexing duties.
While adhering to our settled policy of leaving
to every nation the management of its own inter
nal affairs, we have important duties to perform
in regard to our citizens who may be resident
within or passing through its territories.—
The recent murders and outrages committed up
on them in the States of Nicaragua must be atoned
for by the authorities of that country. The per
petrators of these crimes must be punished, the
sufferers indemnified, and the families of the
murdered be provided for. Whenever that coun
try has a responsible Goverrment, a due measure
of satisfaction will be demanded. In the present
condition of affairs there, it is difficult to decide
who has tho responsible Government on which
the demand for satisfaction can be made. It ap
pears that a band of foreign adventurers has iu-
vaded that unhappy country, which, after gain
ing recruits from among the residents, has, by
violence, overturned the previously existing Gov
ernment, and now pretends to be in possession of
sovereign authority. The knowledge we have of
their proceedings does not authorize the Presi
dent to recognise it as the dejacto Government
of Nicaragua, and he cannot hold or permit you
to hold in your official character any political
intercourse with the persons now claiming to
exercise the sovereign authority of that State.—
From Tait’s Edinburg Magazine.
SOME LOOSE REMARKS ON A DELICATE
SUBJECT.
Kissing is a delicate subject, and must be hand
led accordingly. Kisses are of various kinds.—-
There is the kiss infantile, and the kiss parental,
the kiss friendly, the kiss amatory, &c., &c. We
exclude from our catalogue the Judas kiss—a
perversion of the nature of the institute, which,
even leaving out of consideration the awful depth
of impiety with which the designation associates
it, can only rank with that class of crimes,
the bare attempt to name which palsies the
iacts, sufficient of themselves to sustain our
.Large, are clinched by another fact, that when
Bicliardson won dropped and Orr brought 16r-
vard, it was expressly declared that the change
jf candidates made 110 change in- the resolutions
uloptod by the caucus which nominated Rich-
irdson. Is any stronger proof wanted than that
from the beginning they desired the election ol a
black Republican as a means of crushing the
Ireodedand hated American Party? Now,have
uot u the wicked been snared by the transgress
ion of their own lips,” and have not "the just
come out of trouble?” They succeeded in their
betrayal of the South and the Constitution, they
lid elect a Black Republican Abolitionist, and
they now stand before the country guilty of three
distinct and most grave offences; to wit: The e-
lection of an Abolitionist to the Speakership of
the House ; the prolongation of disorganization
to the disgrace and injury ofthe country, and a
manifestation of a determination, for mere party
purposes, to crush an organization more national
mid constitutional than their own, although by
io doing they should crush the Government it
self. These are three charges to which the De
mocracy inthe House are justly amenable, and
3 conviction upon either one, will, as most justly
ti should, hold them up to the scorn of thecoun-
rry, as a pack of mercenaries, who in the "wild
hunt for office” and plunder would ride over and
ride down the Government and liberties ol the
people. Contrast with this disgraceful position
the one occupied by tho hated and persecuted A-
nierieans. Ihey have in truth''‘fought the good
fight” and come off conquerors. They stand be
fore the country with “clean bands and pure
hearts,” aud when the Patriot points anxiously to
the black cloud, that now lowers from theSpeak-
w’s chair, they can, with more truth than did
the guilty Macbeth, say, "thou cans’t not say
that I did it,."—Petersburg Intelligencer.
It appears to bo no more than a violent usurpa
tion or power brought about by an irregular self-
organized military force, as yet unsanctioned by
the will or acquaintance of tho people of Nicara
gua. It has more the appearance of a success
ful marauding expedition than a change of Gov-
vernment or rulers.
Should the mass of the people of Nicaragua
be unwilling or unable to repel this inroad or
shake off this usurpation and ultimately submit
to its rule, then it may become de facto a govern
ment, and responsible for the outrages which
have been committed upon the rights and per
sons of American citizens. Then this Govern
ment will demand and exact ample indemnity
and satisfaction from it.
The President instructs you to abstain from
any official intercourse with the persons now ex
ercising a temporary control over some parts of
Nicaragua. In such a dubious state of affairs
you cannot bo expected to act in your official
character until you receive instructions from your
Government, but yo.u will be entitled to all the
immunities of a Minister if you do not act to for
feit them. - _
You will remain in the country and keep your
Government well advised of the actual condition
of affairs therein. You will observe groat cir-
First in dignity is the kiss parental. Tlrs kiss
is witnessed in its purest and most amiable state
in young mothers—matrons, so little laded from
the free maiden bloom, that the stranger hesi
tates in what class of femininity to rank them.
They have the rich blushing grace of the girl,
and her coy timidity, most like to the caresses of
a greyhound, insinuating fondness by approaches
of serpentine grace, yet ready to bound away,
startleci even by an anticipated response. But
in the midst of this softness we are aware of a
growing dignity—a statelier bearing—a prouder
consciousness and self-possession, not yet devel
oped, but throwing herald beams before it. A
being such as we have attempted to describe,
bending over her first child with a love which
uo created being but herself cau ever feel for
another—so intense, so pure, so utterly devoid of
selfishness-bathing its cheeks, chin, eyes, and
brow in a flood of kisses, is a picture which earth
cannot surpass. If, at times, a thought of self
do cross her devotion, it is but a slight huge of
vanity, so graceful as to lose every alloy of little
ness that attaches to tho feeling.
Tho kiss parental also includes that of the
father. If it be less beautiful, less winning than
that of the mother, it is on the other hand more
impressive. Tho arrangements of society per
haps also a natural tendency in women to bestow
their affections upon men somewhat their seniors
—the wish to temper in thepure draught of ma
trimonial happiness a feeling of awe and vener
ation Tith the more tumultuous throb of love
bring it about that the husband, in general, rath
er exceeds bis wife in years. Atall events, there
is something in the tenor of man’s life that gives
a hardness to his outward bearing—an habitual
repression of tho utterance of his feelings—the
very reverse of the graceful, wave-like yielding
of woman’s heart, voice, and features to the pres
sure of every breeze. When wo see the face
which never blenched at danger, which strives
to mantle even the joy of its heart, as the smooth
ocean the treasures which lie fathoms beneath its
surface, soften, as his wife holds out the helpless
one to woo his embrace, then relent into a grim
smile, as he holds at a distance its little caressing
hands, and finally imprints a long aud deep kiss
upon its cheek, or pouting lips, with a "God bless
thee, my boy!”
So glad at this as he, we cannot be,
-—-— but our rejoicing
dinance to make woman’s lips co’ imon te evei)
stray custumer, we are averse to the "salute, ,
(using the word in its old English acceptation ) ,
which still remains the accustomed mode of greet
ing on some parts of the continent. "What you ve
touched, you may take.” 7 . „ , .
These four are the principal species of kisses
all the rest being mere combinations or vare-
ties of them. A praetiUl treatise on kissing
would lead us iuto a wide field of discussion , but
we regard this- assay as standing in the same
relation to such a dissertation as Euclid s Ele
ments- to a course of physical and mechanical
science. Sudh a treatise is still a desideratum,
although valuable and plenteous materials are
scattered through the literature of various na
tions. Among the most important sources ot
information toiwhich- we may refer our readers
are Anacreon, Sappho, and Longus, amongst be
ancients ; the Saoontala among the orientals,
and the dialogue between OrlandQ.and Rosaline,
together with that bet ween Falstaff and Dol Tear-
sheet, among the moderns. In conclusion, we
have only to remark, that the state of the science
of kissing, in any nation, may be assumed as a
pretty accurate standard of its civilization. The
inhabitants of tho Tonga Islands knew neither
the practice nor a name for it. In Greek, the
various kinds of kissing have as many distinctive
designations as the various kinds of epicures 111
GOD HELP THE POOR.
Darkly the winter day
Dawns on the moor,
How can the heart be gay-
Who can endure?
See the sad, weary wight.
Wanders from noon to night,
Shelterless! homeless quite.
God help the poor!
Now the red robin, here,
Sits on the sill,
Touches its bill;
So with the houseless poor,
Wandering from door to door,
Seeking a morsel more
Lord, ’tis thy will.
White is the virgin snow,
Bitter the morn, .
See those starved children go,
Wretched, forlorn!
Feet without shoe or hose,
Backs without shell ring clothes,
Strangers to calm repose:
horn ?
See that lone, aged man,
French.
FOREIGN DRY GOODS.
The importations of dry goods are again large
ly in excess, compared with the year 1855, and
about equal to the enormous quanti ties with
which the country was inundated two years ago.
It requires very little foresight to perceive, and
argument to demonstrate, that the whole com
mercial community must- feel the inconvenience
arising from such excessive importations. W hen
these occur,., as; at presfiljt,.the laFga suins requi-,
red for caemduties, and still larger, before long,
for remittances in payment of invoices, will create
a Stringencyw/t could well be avoided by more
moderation.- We are, and have been for years,
looked upon by British and Continental manu
facturers as among their best customers ; and it
is in these States that extravagance runs ru t in
dress. Over four millions of dollars’ worth of
silks have been imported.in the single month of
January, and three millions in woolen goods.
Our transatlantic friends are pulling the wool over
Clarendon Iron Works.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
A. U. YAySOKK^bE^, rrofrMvr.
,subsoriber, birring purch»»ed tk« entire lu-
I terest in the -‘CUrenden Iron Works,’ seitans
orders for . .
Steam Engines, of any porter or style,
Saw Mills of every variety.
Mining Machinery and Pumps.
Grist aud Flour Mills, complete,
Parker. Turbins aud other Water-wheels,
ILce-Held Pumps and Engines,
Leavitt's Corn and Cob Crusher,
Rice Threshers,
Shingle Machines,
Shafting Hangers and Pullie*,
Cotton Gins and Gearing,
Iron Castings of all kinds and patterns,
Blacksmith work of all Kinds,
Iron Doors for Houses awl Jails.
THE ESTABLISHMENT
Having been re organized for the *:
W .>1
c may Itai satisfied that any
• r will be promptly delivered
i, and of »uch workmanship
AS THE MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Beimt in charge of men of talents and experience,
The Long Agont Over.—Well, Mr. Banksis
elected at last, as we feared he would be whenev
er the plurality rule should be brought to bear.
Abolitionism has triumphed through means of
those who professed to be its bitterest enemies.
Had the Democrats voted for Smith the other
day, all would have been well. Had they buried
all dissensions at the beginning of the session,
and voted for Mr. Fuller, or for any other con
servative AwerLau, we should have been saved
the pain of this announcement. To the South
ern Democracy, and to the Southern Democracy
alone, is this deplorable catastrophe due. IfAb-
. dition ride triumphant over the Constitution—if
. h of servile war be used to tire the entire
r nji—jf civil strife and disunion desolate the
South—to the Southern Democracy it is all due.
Posterity will have cause, for ages, to invokecur-
ses upon that most detestable of all the factions
that has over existed !
But we have nwmore to say for the present,
save to express our unbounded pride at the no-
blo, patriotic, determined stand preserved by the
American party throughout. They saved the
country M long as they could. They preserve
our rights, and our independence, for two months
at l^ast ; and if they e at last borne own by
overwhelming number ., it wan no fault F theirs.
They at least are blarv'lew for what they had
no longer the power to pravent,
JAR the Southern Democracy 1 oh ! the dam-
nhig' guilt of that faction.—Ball. Airier. Dan.
cumspection in your conduct. You cannot re
tain a right to tbe privileges of a Minister if you
intermeddle-with tho concerns of any of the par
ties.
The difficulties you have already encountered
arose, as it appears, from an apprehension that you
had improperly interfered in tho conflict between
tho contending parties. •
Though the President has no doubt that you
acted frem the purest motives, intending only to
subserve the cause of humanity, yot your course
was aside from’ that which your duty as the re
presentative ofa foreign Goyernment imposed
upon you. It has exposed you to the charge by
one party of meddling in the concerns of the other,
and on this ground an attempt will be made to
justify the restraint put upon you.
In regard io this matter the President will
hereafter take such a course as is dictated by a
regard to your rights as a public functionary of
this Government.
Orders have been issued for some public ships
to visit the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Nieara-
g ua -
They will have instructions to look to and pro
tect the persons and property of our citizens, but
there should be no misapprehensions as to the
extent to which they have a right to interfere.
The commanders of such ships have no right, ex
cept in very extraordinary cases, to send forces to
operate ou land, and in no case could they be
permitted to take part in the conflicts of the con
tending parties within the limits of the country.
They can, and should, protect our merchant
vessels from illegal seizure and pillage, and afford
an asylum to our citizens who wish to escape
from scenes of violence aud bloodshed, and se
cure a depository for their property.
Should the officers of the national armed ships
sent to the coast of Nicaragua confer with you
as to acts proper for them to do in any emergen
cy, y uu w *M ke careful in the advice you give
them. Acts of war cannot be committed with
out the authority of Congress. Repelling threat
ened outrage upon our citizens or shielding their
property from unjust seizure or protecting their
persons are not acts of war. They are exertions
of powers not-inconsistent with the relations of
peace.
I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
(Signal) I
W. L. MAECY.
The
From the National Intelligencer-.
THE SNOW. '
What wodld be the Fruits of Abolition
ism.—The recent ignominious defeat of Faustin
I, with his army of 28,000 men, by 400 Domin-
icauB, (half whites,) has given rise to many very
grave and serious reflections as to the possibility
of the negro ever attaining any very elevated
stand among the races of the earth. These peo
ple have been independent of Fraifte for more
than fifty years—they have enjoyed ‘every possi
ble opportunity of improvement—they have per
petually retrograded—they have converted the
richest island in the world into a desert—and
upon the day of trial they are found wanting
even in that degree of animal courage which has
distinguished nations the least warlike.
In such a people fit to be associated with us
upon equal terms, as the Abolitionists pro
pose ? We soy-no I decidedly, noi The mo
ment we allow them to become our equals, our
ountry is gone I We shall become another Ja
maica or San Domingo, and what they are the
wider will learn by consulting the article from
Tie Express alluded to.—N. Y. Ex.
snow was proverbially called the "poor
farmer’s manure” before scientific analysis had,
shown that it contained a larger per centage of
ammonia than rain. The snow serves as a pro
tecting mantle to tho tender herbage and the
roots of all plants against the fierce blasts and
cold of winter. An examination of snow in SF
SuAKseKARM ON MODERN Bonnets.—“Punch”
ja# lately been publishing some curious “illus-
rattons of Bhukspeare,” the main merit of which
>03 consisted in the accompanying woodcuts,
vherein they have been made, for better or worse,
o suit our own peculiarities. Ope appeared, the
»ther day, decidedly good; and though we can-
jot transfer it bodily to our columns, the mere
mention of it may amuse those who have uot
yen it in the original form.—The scene render-
d is from "The Taming of the Shrew,” Act IV.
here 2. Petnuhioia scornfully holding out to
he scowling and scolding Katharine ope of those
title oddities facetiously called bonnets. Here
s the point in the dialogue :
Tetruckio.—"Why ’tie a cockle or a walnut
Fell, a knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap :
Away with it, come, let me have a bigger.”
Katharine.—“I’ll lune no bigger ; this doth fit
he time.”
Llotxs of George Line are in circulation by the
iundreds of thousands. A Hnall pamphlet, with
i very "telling” wood cut of the “man that’s
viuitcd.” A Sketch of Events in the Life of
ieorge Law, published in advance of his bio-
ruphy ; also extracts from the public journals,”
as been issued from the press of J. C. Derby,
nd, we are told, some six hundred thousand cop-
23 have already been given out for distribution.
beria showed that when the temperature of the
air was seventy-two degrees below zero the tem
perature of the snow a little below the surface
was twenty-nine degrees above zero, over one
hundred degrees difference. The snow keeps the
earth just below its surface in a condition to take
on cheinicai changes which would not happen if
the earth wey.e haye and frozen to a great depth.
The snow prevents exhalations from the earth,
and is a powerful absorbent, retailing and re
turning to the earth gases arising from vegetable
and animal decomposition. The snoyy, though it
falls heavily at the door of the poor and brings
death and starvation to the fowls of the air and
beasts of t he field, is yet of incalculable benefit in
a climate like ours, and especially at this time,
tvhen the deep springs of the earth were failing
apd this tpjll streams were refusing their motive
pojvers fo thp .craving appetites of man. Jf, dur
ing the last pu-ith, th^ pjppds had dropped rain
instead of snow, jve might hayp piunped and
bored the earth in yain for water ; : but,' ^h ft
foot of snow upon the earth and many feet upon
the mountains, the hum of the mill-stones and
the harsh notes of the saw will soon and long tes
tify to its beneficence. Bridges, earth-works, and
the fruits of engineering skill and toil may be
swept away, byt man will still rejoice in the gen
eral good and adore tbp benevolence of Him who
orders till tilings aright. The spo^y )s a great
purifier of the atmosphere. The absopbenjt pow
er or capillary action of pnow is like that of a
sponge or charcoal. Immediately after snojy has
fallen, melt it in a clean vessel and taste it and
you will find immediately evidences of its impu
rity. Try some a day or two old and it becomes
nauseous, especially in cities. Snow water makes
the month harsh and dry. It has the same effect
upon the skin, apd upon tho hands and feet pro
duces the painful malady .of chilblains. In Alpine
countries snow water has been (thought to he pro
ductive of the disease called goitre. The follow
ing easy experiment illustrates beautifully the
absorbent, property of snow: Take a lump of
snow (a piece of snow crust answers well) of three
or four inches in length an.d hold it in the flame
of a lamp; not a drop of water will fall from the
snow, but the water, as fast as formed, will pene
trate or be drawn up into the mass of snow by
capillary attraction. It is by virtue of this at
traction that the snow purities the atmosphere by
absorbing and retaining its noxious and "noisome
gases and odors. CHAS. G. PAGE,
At nothing can be more.
Wo have spoken of the kiss parental, unmixed
with any association. It assumes, under certain
circumstances, the aspect of sublimity. It is
easy to picture how the mother’s instinctive love
must grow, in the event of a worthy object, with
every succeeding year ; how the beautiful or
manly form, the warm, generous heart, and the
frank bearing must heighten and ennoble her af
fection, It is impossible to imagine the lull ex-,
tent of a mother’s agony, when deprived of such
an object. "My son, my son, my beautiful, my
brave!” Rachel weeping over her infants, and
refusing to be comforted, because they were not,
is a faint type of such a desolation. let there
have been mothers who, when their country or
their faith called for the'sacrifice, could stamp a
burning kiss on their son’s brow, and motion
him forth—there was no voice, nature .so far-
asserted her supremacy—to the battle or to the
stake.
Turn wo to a less mournful subject, the kiss
amatory. On writing this word, we feel our
breast fluttering beneath a clogging weight of
fear, just as it did—we care not to say how many
years ago. It is a strange and a beautiful thing
—first innocent love. There is that in female
beauty that delights merely to gaze upon ; but
beware of looking toe long. The lustrous black
pupil contrasting with the white of the eye and
the carnated skin—the clear placid blue, into
which you see down, down into the very soul—
the deep hazel, lustrous as a sunlit stream, seen
through an opening in its willowy banks—all
may be gazed upon with impunity ninety-nine
times, and the hundreth you are a gone man,—
On a sudden the eye strikes you as deeper and
brighter than ever; as you fancy that a long look
is stolen at you beneath a drooping eyelid, and
that there is a slight flush on the cheek—and at
once you are in love. Then you spend the morn
ing jn contriving apologies for calling, and the
days and eyppjp^ in playing them off. When
you lay your hand on the door-bell your knees
tremble, and your breast feels compressed ; and
when admitted, you sit, and look, and say noth
ing, and go away determined to tell your whole
story the next time. This goes on for months,
varied by the occasional daring of kissing a flow
er with which she presents you—perhaps in the
daring intoxication of love wafting it towards
her; or, in an affectation of the Quixote style,
kneeling with mock heroic emphasis to kiss her
hand in affected jest ; and the next time you
meet with her, both are stately and reserved as
ever. Till at last, on some unnoticeable day,
when you find yourself alone with the lady, you
quite unawares feel her hand in yours, a yielding
shudder crosses her, and, you know not how, she
is in your arms, and you press upon her lips de
layed but not withheld
A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth aud love.
The kiss conjugal is of a severer cast of beau
ty. During the first years of patrimony, it ap
proaches, according to circumstances and the dis
positions of the individuals, to the character of
the kiss amatory. Othello, when he rejoins his
“ fair warrior,” at Cyprus, is still all the lover.—
For a time his bliss is speechless; but as soon as
he finds words—
If I were now to die,
’Twere now to be most happy; for I fear
My soul bath her content so absolute,
That not another comfort like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate.
Imogene’s meditations upon the kiss.of which
11,er cruel stepmother had defrauded her, though
leas intensely passionate, haye still more in them
of the lover thap the wife—
I did not take my leave of him, but had
Most pretty things to say : ere I could tell him
How i would think on him, at certain hours,
Such thoughts and such; or, I could make him
swear
That she of Italy should not betray
Mine interest and his honor; or have charged
him
At th# 3’^41} hour o f morn, at noon, at mid
night,
T’ encounter me with orison, ( (fm thim
I am in heaven for him,) or ere I could
Give him that parting kiss, which I had set
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my fa
ther;
And, like the tyrannous breathing of the north,
Shares all opF buds from growing.
It is in Coriolanus that jye find f)^ prjty, depth
and glory of the kiss of wedded love best exem
plified. In the Yolscian camp he at first Effects
our eyes, while our wool growers aud cotton man
ufacturers are wasting their substance for the
want of adequate protection. Our merchants are
in many instances paying two per cent, per
month for loan^ solely in consequence ofthe ex
cessive importations from abroad, and the mar
ket is kept in a disturbed condition produced by
heavy payments foFEuropean labor. This is an
evil that corrects.itself as it did twelve months
ago, but iti ’the.meahwhile every trader suffers,
whether he. has over traded or not. - Many are
denied their quota of bank accommodation, be
cause New'York, for the last six months of 1855,
as well as early in the year, was drained of mil
lions of gold.that should have been applied to
domestic labor. YA reform is needed here, and
until that reform is.-accomplished, failures in the
dry goods tr/de will again a'nd again occur.
- . New York Courier.
REVENGE W A LOVER-CUTTING OFF
A GIRL’S NOSE,
We have learned from Mr. Warner some of
the particulars of a most diabolical outrage that
occurred last week about three miles below his
landing on ; the Mississippi. It appears that a
Dutch widower living at that place hay a family
of grown-up girls which he is anxious to get rid
of. The oldest, a good looking girl of twenty-
one, is living with a neighbor, and has lately at
tracted the attention of an Italian, who has been
staying about'there, and has wanted to marry her.
His suit has been backed up by the old man, but
the girl has steadily refused to marry him. Last
week the fellow called at the house, and request
ed to see her at the door ; when she appeared, he
seized herby the end of the nose, and with his
pocket knife cut it off close up to the bridge.—
The poor‘girl screamed and fainted, and while
the family rushed to her assistance, and tried to
staunch the blood, tho ruffian took leg bail across
the Mtssis^ppi, asal has iv t since been heard of.
Next week we. hope to get the name and descrip
tion of the fellow, so that he can Ie posted by
every newspaper in the Union;
La Crosse (Wis.) Nat. Democrat, fan. 9.
Ages of Prominent ’Meh in Europe.—The
Boston Transcript says:
“ We' receive so many inquiries in regard to
the ages of projninenf men' on the other aide of
the Atlantic, that' we have compiled the follow
ing list from the best sources at our’command.—
We place the names in chronological order.—
There are various conflicting statements in re
gard to the age of Rogers, the veteran poet; a
majority of his biographers having reported bis
birth date in 176.2,. in which case, he is now up
wards of 98 years old ;' Alexander Von.Hum
boldt is 86; Lopl Lyuilhurst 83; Walter Savage
Lander 80; Lord Breughapi 77; J'ohn Wilson
Croker 75; Berauger, the French poet, 75; Hen-,
ry Hallam 74 : ; Sir David Brewster 74; Lord Ma
hon. 74; Louis Sphor, the composer, 72: Lord
Palmerston 71; Sir Charles Napier 69; M. Gui
zot 68; George Combe '67; Father Matthew.66,
Victor Cousin .64; Lord" John Russell 64; Pope
Pius IX/’tii^fwiar^ Macready 62; Grote,
the historian, 61; Pafa’ly 61; William Howitt 60;
Carlyle.59; Lyell oS; Thiers 58; Macaulay 55;
Mrs. Gore 65; Robert Chambers 54; Cardinal
Wiseman 53; Victor Hugo 53; Sir Edward Land
seer 53; Eugene Sue 51; Balfe, the, composer, 51;
W. H. Ainsworth, Benjamin d’Israeli, Bulwer,
Douglas Jerrold and George Sand, are 50; Kos
suth 49; Louis Napoleon 47;Richard Moncton Mil
nes 46; Tennyson 45; Thackeray 44; Tupper and
Dickens 43; Charles Mackay 43; Robert Brown
ing 43; Gilfillan 42; Louis Blanc 42; Philip J.
Bayley 39; Shirley Brooks- 39; Queen Victoria
and Prince . Albert 36; • Jenny’Lind 35. Most
persons would judge froih. Thackeray’s appear
ance that he "was at least GO years old, but h,e.
was born in 1811/”
to receive hie wife apd mother coldly,
eyes are uot the same I wore jn Jiome.
nature will not be gainsaid:
Take a dull actor now
These
But
I have forgot my part, and I am out
Even to a full disgrace. Best of my flesh,
Fpygive my tyranny; but do not say,
For that, ‘f Fprgiye our Romans.” Oh, a kiss
Long as my e^ile—swept as my revenge !
Now, by the jealous queen of heav’n, that kiss
I carried from thee, dear; and my true lip
Hath virgiu'd it e’er since.
The kiss friendly is extremely graceful among
girls. Among jpen we cannot endure it. Great
rough-bearded carls slavering each other is
enough to turn one’s stomach. For this reason,
and because we deem it a desecration of the or-
Deep his despair;
Craving the’rich man’s food,
Owner of many a rood ;
Lord, thou art always good,
Hear his heart’s prayer.
Yonder a woman go^
Ragged and oid,
Bare footeel o’er the snow,
Famished and cold;
How her poor'children cling
To ber side shivering,
Chickens beneath her wing
Doth she enfold !
Fast fall the sleet and rain,
Slowly they go,
By forest side, sheltered plain,
Wailing their woe;
City street now they see,
Here they roam wild and free,
Are they not flesh as we—
Can’st thou say “no?”
Night spreads her sable wing,
Where can they lie?
, Sorrow like theirs must bring
Tears to.the eye;
Full the cloud torrent falls,
Down they must lie in halls,
Each to his Maker calls,
“Lord! let me die!”
- Ye whorn the heavens bless,
Give.from the store;
’Twill ne’er make your treasures less,.
Must make them more.
Forilie that gives cheerfully,
God loyps so tenderly,
Give to him !—pray with me,
God help the poor!
CURIOUS REVENGE.
We could not help feeling a little surprise, the ,
other day, in reading an account ofa lover who,
to revenge himself upon a young woman that
would not wed him, deliberately cut off her nose.
Whatan atrocious idea he must have had of a
just retaliation ! Doubtless it was her best fea
ture. Its symmetry had probably won his heart;
and in a spirit of enlarged humanity he resolved
that it should win no other, whether to reject its
love as it had his own, or yield to it, and thus
make his loss the more unendurable.
Fortunately though, science, in these days, can
readily supply such a missing feature. It used
to be the custom to make false noses out of thu
flesh taken from a healthy person’s arm ; but it
was discovered that the flesh thus taken never
lost its sympathy for its original stock, and gan
grened when the individual died to whom it had
at first belonged.’ The Talicotian process >vas
then resorted to. A frame of a suitable shape
was prepared, and the skin cut loose from the
forehead to bring down aud cover it. A needle
and thread speedily did the rest, and nature with
a very little effort completed the operation. In-
diaqqbber orgqtta pefcha noses are now all the
fashion. They are cheap, can be easily made of
any size or form, and colored in marvellous imi-
itation of nature. So the wretch has actually
not.spoiled'the young woman’s good looks half as
much as he anticipated. Those who are accus-
tomed to ‘’bite off their nose to spite their face,”
as the saying has it, may take the hint,
Sunday Times.
WIl:’
1st Nltaiday after
at the Court Hon.-
celeb r ated in the
ady*n lagoons
Jan. 17, 1856. /
S EALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
office, until lOo’clock, A.M.. ofthe 19th Feb,
next, for the purchase ot $29,000 ot Bonds, issued
by the State of N. Carolina They will beat
date January 1st, 1855, and will run thirty years,
Proposals will also be receive! for the pur
chase of $15,000 of Bonds, which will be dated
January 1st 1856, and will run thirty years.^
Both classes of Bonds will have coupons attached
tor interest at six per cent per annum, payable on
the 1st of Jan. and July, in each and every year,
and both principal and interest will be payable
at the Bank of the Republic, N. York, unless where
the party prefers to have them payable at the
Treasury ot the State of N. C^ -• •
They will be issued in bonds of $’,000. Thej
are expressly exempted from taxation for any
purpose.
Parties bidding will-please address their letters
te the undersigned at Raleigh, N. C., endorsed
“sealed proposals for N- C. stocks.” ■
Success'll! bidders, upen being informed 0 |
the acceptance of their bids, can deposit th ) j
mount, with the accrued interest,, to the credit ’
the undersigned, iu either the Bank of the Ry.
public, New York, the Bank of the State, or
Bank of Cape Fear Raleigh, N. C. The right
of accepting such bids in whole, or in part, a
may be deemed -most advantageous for the State!
is reserved.
The bids will be opened in the presence of tin
Governor, Secretary, and Comptroller of State
and the President of the Bank of the State of/
Carolina.
[td] D. W. COURTS, Public Treasurer.
sending same
A ll VANBOKCELEN.
tf 8L
A Proclamation,
JIT HIS KXCBLbBNVl’ THOMAS BIUM
GOVEHNOll OH THH STATU 01 1
SOLITH-CAHOLWA.
1 iSTHEREAd, an act was passerby the
Y, General Assembly'll llns S-PH^ by a
ofllireo-fiitlisoralllho momliors thereof,a duly
certified copy of which is as Tollo'ws :
franchised by the freehold’ qualification now re .
quired of voters for members ofthe Senate, There.
i orc '. n
Sec. 1. Sc it enacted by the General Assembly}!
the. State of North Carolina,and it is hereby cnactd^
the authority of the same, (three-fifths of the whole
number of members of each House concurring)
Thai the 2nd clause of the 1st section of the lit
article of the amended Constitution, ratified byilie
people of North Carolina, on the second Mondw
as follows
a native or naturalize
day of any election, and shall
to the said
resides.
fessu as to th.’iu, and a decree made accordingly.
Given under my hand al office, this 61b Decem-
nor of the
■ olina, at least six months before the’ next election
for the General Assembly, setting forth the pm.
OF NORTH CAROLINA. -—Pitt
Phenetta Wilson and others, by their guardian and
next friend, Elizabeth Wilson, vs. Jas. Wilson,
SLIDING ON AN EXTENSIVE SCALE.
In one of the streets of New London, Connec
ticut, there is a descent of half a mile, and a large
portion of the inhabitants turn out every even
ing to enjoy themselves in sliding down it. On
one occasion, the Chronicle states, about 1,000
persops—many of them not juveniles, but .-old
people—were engaged in the ^coasting” business.
Horses and sleighs are provided, and on reaching
the foot of the hill, persons are carried back to
the place of their departure.
^.Age.—But few meikdie^f age. Almost
all die of disappointment, passional, mental, or
bodily.toil, or accident. The passions kill men
sometimes, even suddenly. The common ex
pression, choked with passion, has little .exag
geration in it ; for. even though not suddenly
fatal, strong passions shorten life. Strong-bod
ied men often die young—weak men live lon
ger 'than the StrOng/Lor the. strong use their
strength, and ttys -weale have none to use, The
hitter take car,c ‘bi thepiselyes ; the former do
pot, As it is with tl)e body, so' it is 1 with' the
mind and temper. The strong are apt to break,
or, likethe candle, to run ; the weak burn out,
The inferior animals, which, live, in general,
Tegular and temperate; lives, have generally their
prescribed term of years. The horse lives twen
ty-five years ; the ox fifteen or twenty ; the
lion about twenty ; the dog ten to twelve ; the
rabbit eight ;- the guinea-pig six tose ven years.
These-numbers all-bear a similar proportion to
the time tfip animal takes to grow to its full
size. But man, of all the animal?,- jg the ope
that seldom comes up to his average. He opght
to live a hundreiLyears, according to this phys
iological law, for five times twenty are one hun
dred ; but instead of that ho scarcely reaches,
on the average, font- times his growing period ;
the cat six times ; and the rabbit even eight
times the s^pdard pf rpeasurement, The rea
son is obvidu s—man is not only fhe most irreg
ular and the most intemperate, but the most la
borious and hard worked, of all animals. 1 He is
also the rpost irritable of all animals ; and there
is reason to belie vs,though we cannot tell what
an animal secretly feels, that, more than any
other animal,.man , cherishes wrath to keep it
warm, and consumes himself with the fire of his
own secret reflections.—Blackwood,
Character^t^ pF Citics-The New York
correspondent of the.Boston Tianscripp say's i~
“Some one, characterizing society in our cities,
the other night, well renpuked that at a strang
er’s. debut in Boston, they ask, ‘ What' does he
know ?’ in New York, ‘What is ho worth ?' Th
Philadelphia, ‘ Who is he?’ and in Washington,
‘ Is he agreeable
Wilson, Frances Wilson, John Haddock and
wife Dicey. Miry Mills, LewisJoues and wife
Sally, William Wilson and wife Patsey, Edwin
Petit,Oliver Petit, William Petit, and William
shall bo accompanied by a true and perfectcopy
ofthe act, authenticated by the certificate uffe
Secretary ol State, and both the proclamation ad
the copy of this act,.the Governor of the St®
shall cause to be published in ten newspap^
of this State, at least six months before the elects
of members to the General Assembly.
Read three times and ratified in General A •*
bly, this 3d day of February, 1855.
SAM’L P HILL,
Speaker of the House of Common,
WARREN WINSLOW
Speaker of the Senali.
State of North Carolina, 1
not residents ef
for six successive weeks in the Rul.eigh Register,
for the said defendants to appear at the next
term of our Court of Equity, to be held for the
County of Pitt, at the Court House, in Greeu-
yijii;. on the first Monday in March next, then
and there to plead, answer or demur to the plain
tiffs’ petition, or the same will be taken PH© CON-
vkssq by them and be heard ux uaktb.
Witness, Goold Hoyt, Clerk and Master of said
Court, at Oilfee, in Greenville, December 22,
Desperate Affray In a School House.— :
The 'Lebanon.(Tenn,) Herald, of the 24th ult,,
gives the following account of a terribly and fa*
tai fight in a school-room in Wilson county, in
that State;
‘'The most distressing homicide we ever heard
of occurred in this county, about seven miles
northeast of Lebanon, on last Monday m ruing
was a week ago, between Rufus Watson and his
three sons on the one side, and two sons of John
New on the other. The unfortunate difficulty
occurred in a school-room. Young New, aged
about nineteen years, was shot through the heart
and expired immediately; and his little brother,
some thirteen or fourteen years of age, was al
most literally cut.to pieces—receiving no less,
we learn, than seven dangerous wounds.—
Strange as it may appear, he'is still living, and
hopes are entertained of his recovery, Rufus
Watson received the contents.of a pistol loaded
with bird-shot in the breast, but was not seri
ously hurt. The difficulty grew out of an old
grudge that has existed between the heads of the
respective families.
“Watson and his sons were examined at Tay
lorsville on Friday last. On hearing the evi
dence the-Court held them to bail in the sum of
$4,000. One of the boys was bailed out, but the
other and the father, failing to-give bail, were
cominitted to jail to /waif their trial at pie next
term of the Circuit Court,”
Have you ever read the Bible entirely
Through? A Plan for Reading Ute Bible Through
Every Year.—During January read Genesis and
Exodus; February, read to the 10th Deuterono
my ; March, to 15th of 1st Samuel; April, to 15th
of 2nd Kings; May to 5th Nehemiah; June, to
100th Psalm ; July, to 50th of Isaiah ; August, to
20th of Ezekiel /September, to the end of- Old
Testament; pctqbey ; to end of I ( uke ; November,
to encl of Ikt Corinthians; December to end of
New Testament'. Abb nt silty-five to seven’ty-
five pages per month, or about two pages for
every week clay, and four pages for every Sunday.
The author of the above simple plan has rigid
ly adhered to it as a daily devotional exercise for
twenty-four years; and feeling that this is the
"Bread of Life,” hp is afrajgl nqw to discontinue
it. Reader I paste this on the ipnep coy^ of your
Bible, and try it.
16T Just as we are going to press, we are
pained to learn of a sad accident that occurred
in our immediate vicinity, last night. The kit
chen of Mrs. M. L. Spruill was consumed by fire,
and along with it a valuable servant boy nearly
grown, who was asleep in the kitchen when it
took fire. It appears that this boy, Peter, had
carelessly left a light burning in or near the kitch
en, from which, it is supposed, the fire was com
municated to the building, and before it was dis-
Dec.
GOOLP HOYT, C & M. E.
w6w 104
N ORTH CAROLIN V—Nash 'County, Court
of Equity, Fall Term, 1855.
Thomas W. Wright, Adm’r of Margaret Drake,
Plaintiff, vs. Allen Drake, Winter F. Drake,
Nathaniel B. Drake, Matthew Drake, Pope, and
wife, formerly Harriet Drake, the children of
Betsy Griffin, to-wit : Elizabeth Griffin. Dilly
Griffin, Charity Griffin, aud Lunsford Griffin,
aud the children of Dilly Drake, William E-
vans and wife, Mary, Defend*»»t«.
In this case, it appearing to the Court that all
ofthe Defendants (except Allen Drake and Wil
liam T. Drrke) are non-residents of this State, it
is therefore ordered that publication be made in
the Raleigh Register for six weeks, notify ing the
gs’d non-resident defendants’to ^peai at the next
term of our Court of Equity for the County of.
Nash, to be held at the Court House in Nashville
on the third-Monday in March next, then arid there
to plead, answer or demur to the said bill, or judg-
menf pro confesso will be entered up against them
and the gauge set for hearing.
Witness B. II. Blount, Clerk and Master of our
said Court, at office, in Nashville, the 3rd Monday
of September, A. D. 1865.
B. H. BLOUNT, C. M. E.
Jan. 21, 1866. w6w 6.
Lippitt’s Specific-
FOR THE CURE OF
Dysentery, Diarrhea, and Summer Complaints.
WILMINGTON, N. C., Feb. 1, 1855.
M R. W. H. Lippitt,—Dear Sir :—Without any
suggestion or solicitation whatever on your
part, I take pleasure jn adding my testimony tothe
efficacy of your Specific for the cure of Dysentery
and kindred complaints. Having been fer three
years afflicted with a disease of this character, and
employed the services of three of the best physi
cians in this place, with but slight advantage, I
was induced to try your medicine, and after follow
ing the prescriptions and taking several bottles,
am now perfecly restored. I believe your Specific
to be a most excellent and valuable medicine, and
feel no hesitation in recommending it to the pub
lic. So far from being a nostrum, as too many of
the popular medicines of the day are, I believe it
superior, for the cure of the disease indicated a
bove, to any other medicine.
lam truly yours, Ac. M. BRYAN.
Prepared and spid, wholesale and retail,' by W.
II. Lippitt, Druggist and' Chemist, Wilmington,
N. C., Williams & Haywood, Raleigh, and by
Druggists generally.
June, 1855.
50
I, William Hill, Secretary of State, in and i:
the Slate of North Carolina, do hereby certify^
the foregoing is a true copy of the original am
bed and on file in this ollice.
Given under my hand this 24th day of Januit'
1856. W. HILL, Secretary of Stall.
Now, therefore,in conformity tothe Constitute
1 do issue tins my Proclait $t on, ntakiBj
siqns of said act and the amendment thereby
and do cause the same to be published in ten net
papers of this State six months before the elfef
Governor of the State of North Coroliiii,
have hereto set my hand and caused^
Done at the City of Raleigh, this the2li
day of January, A. D., 1856, and in the^
year of our Independence.
TIIOS. BRAGG.
By the Governor:
Private Secretary.
Raleigh, January 30, 1856
Timber Wanted
4500 TELEGRAPH POLES
are wanted on the Railroad from Weldon toW
i miagton, N. C., of the following descript^
I vix ;
RED jiiDAR, BLACK J-OCVST, C £8511
WHITE OAK, BLACK CYPRESS.
They must be at least 25 feet long, stmigh
knots trimmed closely and perfectly sound ;iti
Red Cedar at least four inehes in diameter M
smaller end, excluding bark and sap ; ^/ of si'
other kind of timber five inches in diameters
eluding bark and sap ; in other words, th fe
Cedar must have at least FOUR inches, aads:
other timber FIVE inches of sound heart atii
smaller end. Parties are requested to statepri
both for peeled and unpeeled Poles.
This timber must be cut before the end efFe
ruary next, and delivered at some station ord
tions on the Wilmington and Weldon Railrw
j before the 1st of May next, where it will ona
lice beinspected and paid for by the uudewij
ed.
The whole lot may be of one kind of train
or of various kinds above namud, the price it
attached to each, and offers will be received
any smaller number not less than fifty.
Proposals must be addressed to the uu^er
ed at Petersburg, Va,
J. R. DOWELL, Superintendani
Washington and New Orleans Telegraph^
January 31st, 1856. 4tli
New Piim—To the Public.
B eckwith and clayton wow!
form their friends and the public gen^ 1
that they have entered into partnership, anJh 1
on hand for the Fall and Winter Trade, at t^j 1
stand of I. Beckwith, opposite Lawreu^ri 1
tel, a heavy stock of
GROCERIES,.
which the following tat in part comprises} 1
A largo lot of Coffee- Luguira, Rio andl^ 1
Coffee Suyar -Crushed and Clarified, of dtf*" ■ I
grades and prices.
A good lot of Teas
A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.
rM^HE Subscriber offers for sale one ofthe most
> desirable and valuable farms aud tracts of
land in the County of Lenoir, situated one mile
from Neuse River, and three miles from the At
lantic and North Carolina Rail Road, and about
equi-disfant from Kinston and Goldsboro?.
”fhis tract of land contains 1440 acres, of which
1100 acres are pocosin. The whole is well a-
dapted to the growth of Indian Coru, aud a con
siderable part to the growth of Cotton, which pro
duces 1200 to 1500 pounds per acre. There are
about 400 acres in cultivation.
This is considered one of the healthiest locali
ties in tho country. There has been a single ease
only of bilious fever on the premises for four
teen years, and very rarely a ease of sickness of
any kind.
If the purchaser shall desire, I will sell with the
land fifty or sixty slaves.
Terms will be as accommodating as can be de
sired. The plantation can be examined by ap
plication to my Overseer on the premises, or to
myself at Kinston.
A heavy stock of Soleand Upper Lealltf- J
A large assortment of Boots and Shod, 113 ♦
whieh are fine calf and kip boots, c^ i!
ladiei aud gents’. Also a good lot of M
for men and boys.
Sept. 24, 1855.
J. G. WASHINGTON.
77 tf.
covered the kitchen was in a hopeless condi- ZA
tion, and the boy’s life destroyed by the flames,
Particulars hereafter.— War.NeK'S,' | irub
Superior Silk Velvet Vests.
UR assortment is much better than usual is
Fine Silk Velvets of the newest and most de-
| irable styles. E. M^W. '
Candlss—Adamantine and Tallow.
All kinds of Fancy Soap.
Shot Powder and Caps.
Water Buckets of different kinds.
125 Bag's of Salt--Liverpool and Grow^
Nails of all sixes f-^Cotton Yarns.
Bacon, Lard, Flour'and Meal.
A lot of splendid Tobacco.
Bagging and Rope.
A good lot of Cigars—-various brands.
Also, a good lot of
DRYGOODS.
Among which are to be found ^
from 4 to 5 qurs. wide, Bleaching Goods,
tiemen’s wear, such as Cassirgere, Sati^
lucky Jeans, Tweeds, Osnaburgs and Keruf
lot of heavy Blankets and dials, suitable
gro»’ wear, and a great many others to^
to mention,
JKs^Our goods will be sold upon ace^ 1
ting terms for CASH. Please give us » Si
examine for yourselves
Raleigh, Oct. 26, 1855-. ^
W RAPPING’ PAPER at Factory pr%
at j. J. LITCHI*