A.
OUTAT DISCbVERY IN AF-
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i U1CA.
I Translated from'the Cpurrief du Ilatre.
Mr fit Hf r? ..-. iirVirt is
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!,- . A iiungntiiii snvnuijt u. uojan,
f Wtprtt
V I , E M n i
A rica. has sent a communication to trie .
impjrial Society of Vibnoa containing in
formation of greatintefest. He has fount!
amohg the KommenisJ a -small tnbe tn-
. butary to the kingdom 'of Oulli. in Sene-
eambia, traces of Jacques Lompagnon, a
Wrtirh imrp cr. r.hnrfred bv M. de UtlOl-
ieul toward the middlf of the last centu
ry with a voyage, of exploration into the
Interior of Alricn, who dtsappeareu in
170G4, and whs not afterwards heard from.
Wishing to complete the discoveries
Avhih had been made by his brother some
years before. Jacques Oorapagnon left Se
negal toward the end f the year 1758,and
'nttef visitingall the tribes to the north
jjwnrd and eastward, af Senegambia, he
jpenejtrated as far as th i desert of Sirnboni,
n very curious point fr r geographical sci
ence. Nothing was lieard of him after
ftfurr-li. 1(0 and hII tlie researches of the
, w , m w . Jl
Government of the French post of St.
; Louis proved utterly fuitless.
r The Kommenis are a partially civilized
i people. Thy have notion of religion
which rjpjle Christianity; and are not
1 entirely ignorant of the arts and sciences.
j They. have a language, an alphabet, and
the art of writing. Al. Gaysa has discov
ered in one of their principal villages a
small stone monument of a conic shape,
covered with numerous inscriptions in let
ters resembling hieroglyphic characters.
j After having studiel this curious con
struction, and after interrogating the old
est inhabitants of thcjcountry and learn
ing lhe popular tradition, he became con
vinced that this monument is erected over
the grave of Jacques Compagnon, who,
being made captive by the Kommenis, in
structed them in, the principles of all the
useful Larts, and died a,bout the year 1775,
(caving among them the venerated repu
tation of a sage and a good genius. But
the conviction of M. Gaysa was turned
Into certainty when ti e chief of the tribe
fcbojvedibim various articles of European
manufacture, -which have been handed
, down from father to son, and which they
are'unwilling to part
Among these hesaw a
with at any price.
quadrant, on which
Was engraved the nanrie of JacquesCom
pagnon,t
. ,j" M. Gaysai who is a great traveller, de
tigns to continue his explorations in Afri
ica for many years. Y. Y. Com. Adv.
From the Scientific American.
Reflection Of Li l' lit and Sound.The
laws which govern the reflection of rays of
light and vibrations of sound, are, in some
rcspects'the same. If the rays of light,
! proceeding from any object, meet with a
polished surface, they are reflected in the
opposite direction, rm king the same angle
-with the reflecting surface as when pro
j ceeding from the object, and to the eye of
I an observer, the reflected image of any
r object appeari as far behind the reflecting
surface as the real object is distant before
it. 4; . ' i
This law also holds good in regard to
Bounds the reflected sound, which we
call echo, .seeming to the ear to be as far
behind the reflecting, surface as the real
I sound is in the contrary direction. Sounds,
however, differ from Ijight in that they may
be reflected from ainy tolerably firm sur
face. j We will try to Illustrate and explain
'i the law mentioned above. Were an ob
ject to be placed in ffont of a mirror, at a
j distance of ten feet, and the eye of the ob
server at twenty feejt, the image in the
mirror would appeajr ten feet behind it,
and thirty feet from he eye. It is pJain
Vlhat were the eye faced at the mirror,
the appearance of t he object would j be
modified by a distance of ten feet ; conse-
Suenlly if the eye be placed in a contrary
irection.at a.distance of twenty feet, the
rays from the image in the mirror which
Is already ten feet distant in appearance
f-comingjo the eye i from that direction,
make the object appear ten feet behind
lhe mirror, ond thirty feet from the eye.
j "In relation tosounrj.the fact is the same:
Jf a person stand at some rods distant from
ft high wall, and speak -'aloud, he will hear
the echo at the same distance behind the
wall; the vibratio'n4 of air caused by his
jyoice having passed from him to the wall
ftnd returned. I II. W. II
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jf - -yivwcr ucn oj ijwooers. i ne INow
Albany (la.) Ledger gives an account of
n den ot robbers onj an island in Beaver
Lakei Jasper county in that Stnte, disco.,
j Vered by Mr. Wnss? who went after four
Stolen horses. In order to save his life,
be swore not to divulge what he saw ;
bat he exposed the j whole when he got
borne. The Ledger says:
1 He was taken to a large cave on this
Island, provided wtlu supper, and then
jsbown false keys, bank note presses, met
al for making bogus motir) ccc.-iMr.
(Weiss says there were over one hundred
men in the gang-Umany of whom he
knew they md been residents of this
. J -iL r .in 11 m 1
And adjoining counfies, and that tbey had
occupied high stations among the citizens,
lie states tjbat there were about twenty
five women in the- gang the wives- of
come rascals. They had one hundred and
thirtv horses on "the island."
An Honest Obituarv. We -do not Soften
Stumble upon anything more hoaeit than
the following. A wpsternf ditor, announc
lh the death of an did resident of his town,
says: He came tq his death by too fre
quently nibling at ijbe essence of the still
vorm, which soon placed him in f ai non
travelling condition. He lay out the night
previous to his death near a cotton gin in
ibis place, and was found too late on the
Ijpllowin morning jfomedical aid to be
of much jmportance in the staying of his
(rr alh. He has been a regular tipter for
ibe last half century. The Deaf Mute.
m tfn
' From the &chmcnJ Wk!;
Massachusetts Senator. iWenojieed briefly
In yesterday paper the fact thai Mr; Charles
Sumner had been elected as a Senator of the
United States hj the Legislature of! Massachu
setts. ' We know not how to express the hu-
miliatioir we (eel at this disgraceful! result. For
'here be one man who, more thai all others,
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has sounded all the depths of disgrace, whose
name will go down to the future, ; if indeed it go
down at alf,as the synonymeof poljlicaj debase
merit, -whose talent, like trial of Reward, has
been exhibited only in the vilest casuistry, that
man is Charles Sumner. He has not, indeed,
been ery prominently before the jpublic until
within a year past, ince the Fugitive Slave
Law has thrown J5oston into a state of contin
ued excitement. But on every occasion when
it has been attempted to enforce that law,
wherever the agitator thought he Could render
an acceptable service to his mastef, the devil,
he has been first among th? foremost, even be
yond that hierarch of ihe-pjt, the lev. Theo
dore Parker himselfl I
The first eflbrt by which Mr. Sijmner made
himself conspicuous was a Fourth df July Ora
tion, wherein he sang the delights jof universal
peace, and would fain persuade mankind bow
good and pleaant a thing it is for brethren to
dwell together in amity. War wais, with Mr.
Sumner, to becorae an obsolete idet, men were
to make their sWords plough-shares and their
spears pruning hooks, and the halcyon would
brood over the seas of both hemispheres. All
this pretty philanthrophy was prettily tricked
out in a garb of polite letters the new doc
trine came forth in the smooth periods and flu
ent nan by pamby of Harvard University, and
forthwith Mr. Charles Sumner was looked up
on, not only as a holy messenger of good-will
to men, but as the most learned of Fourth &f
July speech-makers. Mr. Charles ISumner has
since got bravely over his soft and benevolent
feelings, and has learned to hold tlje language
of denunciation as readily as any df your apos
tles of.ar. Witness the following peaceful
eifract fiom a calm and temperate harangue.
before a tree Soil Mass Meeting, held al Bos
ton, in October last :
"Into Massachusetts he (slave owner) shall
not come. f The contempt,
the indignation, the abhorrence of the commu
nity, shall be our weapons of offence. Wher
ever he moves he shall find no House to re.
ceive him notable spread to nourish him no
welcome to cheer him the dismal lot of the
Roman exile shall be his. He shall be a wan
derer without roof, fire, or water. ) Men shall
point at him in the streets, and oh the high
ways. The cities, towns and villages shall
refuse to receive the monster ; they shall vomit
him forth, never again to disturb tlie repose of.
our community. j
We have said above that we feel humiliated
by this election we might rai her say we feel
enraged by it. We regard it as, tb all intents
and purposes, an insult flung by Massachusetts
in the faces of the Southern Slates. Coming
directly after the successful administration of
the Law in the case of Spiis. it virtually de
slroys the whole moral Jbrce of that event and
renders it of n effect. It lis indeed a seces
sion from the Union of the States.
Mr. Charles Sumner, wej suppose, will take
his seat in the Senate beyond all question.
We have no remedy against this cruel blow at
the dignity of that exalted body. But one thing,
we suppose, may be established by any inter
ference of hia. with the Fugitive Slae Law
subsequent to his qualification as a member of
the Senate and this is, the I perjury of the said
Mr. Charles Sumner. If he swears to sup
port the Constitution of his! country and after
wards (as we do not doubt ho will) resists the
administration of a law in accordance wilh its
plainest proviioiKJ, Mr. Sumner will have in
curred the crime of swearing falsely. We do
not mean to imply, by means, that this will be a
novel thing to that gentleman. But if none of
a statutory character, should not the Senate ad
minister that of expulsion from Ui body and
perpetual disgrace to the offender;? Indeed,
we think their first action on re assembling in
Decembefr next should he the expulsion of Wil-'
liam II. Seward, and who so fit to be his " co
male companion in exile," as Mr. Charles Sum
ner of the Boston school of ethics ?
We deem it unnecessary jto comment on the
nefarious coaliiron by which this election was
brought about- The Democrats i and their
bought allies, the Free-Soiles, by degrees af
filiated more and more until this triumph was
secured. The country has ajready been shock
ed and disgusted with the revelation of infamy
so deep and so damning. j
The Hornet's Nest is down upon the Whigs
this week, in right earnest. It heaps upon
them all kinds of bad epiihets, suh as " old
Federals, office hunters, ccc." and finally comes
to the grave conclusion that they are dishand.
ed. If the Hornet iscorrect in saying the Whigs
are disbanded, it is wauling powder in firing at
a man of straw. j j
It mirst be born in mind that the Hornet has
not arrived to the grave age of a yearling in
the cause it now advocates;; and so it would
not be judicious to give it top much liberty un
til after the proper time for auimdls to hed
their coats, as some on such occasions come
out afterward in other colors. THe Hornet's
Nest and its builders within the last twelve
months, were the pretended, unflinching, un
compromising friends and advocates of whig
principles ; but " the Leopard has ehanged his
spots " changed bis principles, and changed
his associations; and now pledge's the same
kind of fidelity to his new friends and neW prin.
ciples. In which capacity would the Hornet
have us to believe it right, in the fdrmer orjat
ter? If it says in the latter, by its' own show,
ing it proves that it was badly deceived in its"
formerprinciples, or else it was not true to its
pretensions. In either case such a leader should
not be entitled to a very large shajre of influ
ence, after showing by its oWn acts that it had
been for a long timeeceivefJ. or that for a long
time had deceived others. The Al C. Argus.
Suit for Freedom Decided. The chan
cery suit broughi by Clarissi, a.muUtto woman
held as a slave, to assert her freedom, against
B. E. Ferry & Wife, who claimed lo be her
owners, and which has been tor some time pen
ding in our Circuit Court, was last jweek decid
ed in favor of Clarissa, and establishing her
freedom rendered ly Judge Mclfejiry.0 We
bavenoi room for a lull report of the case, but
the chief ground upon which the counsel for the
complainant relied, was thatjsome twelve years
ago. Clarissa, by consent of a former owner,
was taken to and detained in Pennsylvania some
seven months, contrary lo tbe Statute f that
State, which abolished slavery there,1 and which
aiiowea sojourners to retain slaves within ihe
State, as personal attendants onlyl sir months.
The case will probably be taken to the court of
of appeaU FrankfortfKtfi Commonwealth.
On last Monday we paid a visit to the neat
and thriving village of Monroe, it being their
Superior Court week. j
On Tuesday, during recess of the Court for
dinner, a meeting was held in the Court House
at Monroe,' the call for which was made by
both Wjiigs and Democrats, and the objects of
which was to express their ardent attachment
to the present union of the States and to con.
demn all measures that might tetid to the break
ing up of the present glorious government.
The meeting was organized by calling D.
A. Covington, Esq., to the chair, and the ap
pointment of other officers, whose names we
do not now recollect.
The chairman in a very neat and appropriate
manner, explained the objects of the meeting,
after which a committee of 5, consisting of both
political parties, was appointed to dratt resolu
tions. .
. During the absence; of the committee, Capt.
Green W. Caldwell addressed the meeting to
the effect that the meeting was got up by the
Whigs for the purpose of distracting the ranks
of the Democrats ; but he hoped no Democrat
would be gulled by it.
The chairman rose for the purpose of setting
Mr. Caldwell right. He denied any such de
sign. He said the meeting was for the bona
fide purpose that was represented, and had no
sinister end in view, and that it was tbe inten
tion of its getters up that men of both political
parlies, who love the Union, could participate
in it.
During the discussion Dr. W. L. Terry made
some trifling remark which we now cannot call
to mind, whereupon Mr. Caldwell attacked
him in a very uncalled-for, ungentlernanly, un
generous, and unfair manner, full of personali
ties, which had no foundation in truth. It is
but fair to say, however, that in attacking Dr.
T. he caught a tartar, and that the Dr. vindi
cated himself in a very able manner, and gave
tbe Captain so map)' home thrusts that he was
very glad to draw off his forces.
While Capt. Caldwell was speaking, the
committee came in with their resolutions, and
the speaker gave way.
The resolutions were some what long; but
we will publish them next week. They ex
pressed attachment tojthe Union, set forth the
constitutional rights and duties of the general
and state government, as laid down in the Uni
ted States Constitution, and in tbe writings of
of Washington, Madison, Jackson, and oth
ers, denied the constitutional right of secession
set forlh,that when the States were aggrieved by
the general government, they should remon
strate through the ballot box, petition, and oth
erwise try to peaceably bring the majority to
a sense of justice, and when all peaceable
means should fail, then to take up arms and
battle in defence of their rights, and resist op.
pression unto the death. The resolutions con
demned alike the course of the ultrajsts of the
South and the disorganising fanatics of the
North, and went in for the carrying out of the
Constitution and all constitutional laws in their
full integrity.
Captain Caldwell objected to these resolu
tions. He said they were, anti-republican, and
110 good Democrat could support them, and
proposed to strike all out and insert in their
place a couple of resolutions of his own, of a
totally different Character, and which we also
hope to lay befote our readers next week.
After a good deal of discussion on these re
solutions an attempt was made to take a vote
on the question as to which set should be a
dopted ; but before the vote was decided it was
agreed that all should be laid on the table, so
as to give Atlas J. Dargan, Esq., a chance to
declare himself a candidate for Congress, which
he did, accompanied with a speech defining his
position. Before Mr. Dargan got through,
Judge Battle came into Court and took his posi
tion on the Bench, thereby adjourning the meet
ing in rather a summary manner.
Green W. Caldwell, Esq., also declared him
self a candidate for Congress, and he hoped to
beat Mr. Dargan. This, we believe, was the
whole of Mr. C.'s speech.
We would here remark that we neither saw
nor heard tell of tbe first man in favor of dis
solution of the Union. Good. Let ihe North do
anything like her duty, and we will answer for
the loyalty of the South, especially Old Norih
Carolina ; but theconstiTutional rights of the
South must be respected. It they are not, the
Union cannot stand. The N. C. Argus.
Quere? How would South Carolina feel,
were she immediately after seceding" with
all the appropriate paper flourishes) to find her
ports blockaded, and the mail withheld from
her? Wouldn't she teel raiuer "captured
without bloodshed! She might declare it a
cause of War on her part, then being, in her
own estimation, an " independent" and " flour,
ishing" nation. Would she invade Georgia ?
Or would she turn her cannon and small arms,
Quatlebums and all, against the Old North
Slate ? We tremble at the very thought of
having "all ihe chivalry'' down upon us at once,
in all seriousness, what would the commercial
and mercantile interest of Souih Carolina say
to such a ' peaceable' capture as the one to
which we have alluded? Perhaps our neigh
bor of the " Standard" might enlighten the pub
lie ! He is fond of such speculations and this
may give him an opportunity to begin those ar
ticles on " Secession ," which he has promised
us! Verbumsat. Ral. Register.
DClt seems to be the pride of certain
Secession papers to repeat that they are !
willing to "acquiesce, in the compromise j
measures rare piece ot magnanimity, j
they brand as " Submissionists" all
endeavor to maintain the Union, and a-
bide by the laws of the land, and support j accommodate travellers and others, being were destroyed ; and some houses unroof
he Administration in their enforcement : ; the only motive for seeking a license. j ed, moved, and otherwise iniured.
wenster gives me aennuion ol " acqui
esce as tollows -
Acquiesce, To rest satisfied, or appa
-,i. . a j -.u
rently satisfied, or to rest without opposi-
tion and discontent.
Acquiescence. A quiet assent ; a silent
submission. ,
Acquiescing. Quietly submitting ; rest-
ing content.
in snort, men, acquiescence is suomis
sion ; silent submission ; quiet submis
sion !
So that our Locofoco friends according
to these definitions, are !submissionists''!U
A GOOD HAUL.
We learn from the Washington Republic that
a few days since, upwards of ninety-five thou
sand herring and fifteen hundred shad were, ta
ken in one haul at Oposum Nose, aoout thirty.
fie miles down the Potomac, oppositeBodd's
Ferry. The landing near which this and oth
er large captures were made is occupied by
Philip Otterback, jr.
THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN.
Salisbury, X. C.
THURSDAY EYEXDG. MAY 15, 1851.
O We are authorized to announce Hon. Joseph P
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Caldwell, for re-electionf as Representative of this
District in Congress. J
THE LAST MEETING OF COMMIS
SIONERS. As possessing something more than or-
ctnary interest to tht? community, we nere ;
give, from memory, part of the proceed-
ings ot tne Boara ois our lown commis
sioners at their last meeting, on Tuesday
the 9th instant,
Present John I. j Shaver, Intendant ;
Wm. Murphy. H. L.iRobards, Wm. Over-
man, Wm. M. Barker, Thos. T.Maxwell,
J. J. Bruner.
Before wa nroceid with anv further i
. 1 - mi i
statement, however.' we will present an j
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-extract from the Act of Incorporation,
passed by the General Assembly of North
Carolina, the 27th Jin., 1849. to wit :
Art. 30. That the County Court ot Pleas
and Quarter Sessions for the County oflllowan,
shall grant a license to- retail spirituous liquors
by the small measure in said town, to no per
son who shall not have first obtained from'the
Town Clerk, a Certificate of the absent o( said
Board of Commissioners to his obtaining said
license ; which certificate shall be prima facia
evidence of good moral character in the appli
cant,' so as to supercede the necessity of proof by
two witnesses as now required. And it shall be
lawful for said Board of Commissioners to re
quire the said applicant to pay to the Town
Treasurer, a sum not exceeding ten dollars be
fore the said Town Clerk shall give the Cer
tificate of said assent of the said Board of Com
missioners. '
1
Alex. W. Buis applied to the Board
for recommendationjto the Court for the
purpose of obtaining license to retail as
above described. , ;
The vote being taken resulted as follows:
Ayes 1. Noes 5.
H. L. Robards then applied for a re
commendation for himself, lor the same
purpose
And John I. Shaver, Intendant,
also made application for the same ob-
ject.
L The question being put to the Board,
whether or not these gentjemen should be
recommended to the; Court, it resulted as
follows :
Ayes 0. Noes p.
The Intendant then stated that he did
not want license for himself, but would
make an application in behalf of Judge
Lyerly. -I
The vote being taken as to this appli
cation, resulted as follows :
Ayes 1. ioes 5.
We have nq idea that the result of
these applications will take the commu
nity by surprise. On the contrary we be
Jieve it was the wish of a very large ma
jority of the citizens that the Comission
ers should refuse them. The present
Board was voted for by many persons with
the expectation that their action on this
subject would :be different from that of
the former Board. Our community is fast
J
coming to the conclusion that the retail
ing business is morally criminal ; and
many of them who are rearing sons here,
looking to their welfare, would remove
these stepping stones to ruin and disgrace,
by setting their faces against the trafiic,
however respectable the parties engaged
in it.
But we should not have thought fit to
j notice this subject but for the fact that
i the applications in all the above cases.
(John I. Shaver's excepted.) were carried
up to the Court of Pleas and Quarter Ses
sions, without the recommendation of the
Board of Commissioners, and that tribu-
rial granted the applicants license to re-
We learn that a case will be made up and
carried through the higher Courts with a
vievvotoDtainingauecisionoi me question
as to the power of the Court of Common
Pleas to grant a license, irrespective of
.
the action of the Board of the Commis
sioners. This is right. And whilst Judge
Lyerly denies making application, either
in person or by a friend to any Body for
a license, we are gratified to think that
Col. Robards, personally, cares but little
ag tQ the result of the test prop0Sed to be
had in the Superior and Supreme Courts
his business as a landlord, and desire to
; i
rjQ It win l)e seen by referencc to an-
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other column, that there is another Anti-
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j Son in the field, over the stgnature of D.'
' Justitia and others must trim and nib
their pens afresh, and see what they can
wilh ). Whoever enters should come
with keen and burnished armor.
We would state, that although we pub
lish these articles against the Order, yet
it must not be taken for granted that we
approve the sentiments they contain. It
is far otherwise. rBut believing that the
discussions which grow out of them, es-
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pecially when reason and arguments are
the weapons used, are productive of good,
they should be encouraged. Outsiders
are lynx-eyed as to the errors of the Or
der. Let them point them out ; and let
us, whilst we correct them, also show the
good fruits of right principle nd rigbt'
action.
Female Seminary. With many others,
we attended tbe closing ceremonies of the
first session of the Female Seminary in
this place, on Thorsday evening last.
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; The examination of pupils 6n Studies, bad ,
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been gone through with, and we under
stand it was most satisfactory. The cer
emonies of this occasion consisted of Mu
sic, a charge by tbe Principal, Rev. Prof.
Morgan, and the rehearsal of two dia-
,ogQes by thft younger pupis. Thc hour
nrofitahlv and nlrasantlv filled out.
FayetteviUe Plank Road.-A citizen of this
place having travelled over the i-ayetteviiie anu
i rMfrn i iani iiuuu, mms iuuj ,
I ar well pleased with it, and my horse,
which I worked to a buggy, was delighted.
He seemed to observe it, at first, with some de.
Sree ot "e snor,ed a and Put
bis foot upon it cautiously. Bjt m a few mm-
j j
uies travelling upon it, he raised his head and i
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mil, aim ucuaiuc laiuri iiiipauciii u"iu t
dispofiiion to move faster, which required my
constant attention to check. When, by meet
ing wagons, &c, I had to turn off, be would
get back upon the planks as soon as possible.
HavinT travelled a considerable distance on a
common road, my horse " whickered" as soon
as he came in sight of the plank road ; and
when upon it again, showed thc same signs of
satisfaction. I had no difficulty to keep on it,
and am satisfied that a horse having once trav
elled it, will manage that part of the business
for himself.
DC3 Burgess Gaither, Esq., of Morgan
ton, is a candidate for Congress in the
Mountain District, in opposition to Mr.
Clingman. They met and spoke at Ruth
erfordton on Tuesday last. Hurra for
Gaither !
The Register" having made the enquiry
of, " who is Governor ?"
the Standard answers
him-by telling hitn to go up to the Capitol and
he will find David S. Kkid !
We are astonished at the Register. Ii he
had forgotten, why didn't he make the enquiry
privately.
A Dancing Mouse. We have listened,
this morning, wilh no little interest to the
description of a dancing Mouse, which
made its appearance in the Odd Fellows
Hall on Tuesday evening : There is a
Mellodeon in the Hall, and while some of
the young men. before opening, were
. . ' . .
tn,llc llJC 1UU' uisiiiuiiig pmue,
and commenced dancing to the music.
He soon attracted notice, and a crowd
,i j i . .ii-
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which are described as having been
very graceful. He would dance only
while the music was playing, stopping
when it ceased ; and showed no signs of
alarm by the near approach of the young
men. We are sorry to tell, that the
little fellow was charmed to his death ;
for there happened to be of the number
of his observers, one who did not appre-
j ciatR his approaches to civilization : but
...
remembering only his candle-pilfering
propensities, knocked him on the head.
Again the music filled the Hall, and with
its last tones the little dancer's dying ag
onies closed.
Pepsin and Intemperance. The discov
erer of the new Patent Medicine, Pepsin,
runs it in for the favor and patronage of
the intemperate portion of mankind on
this wise :
j It may also be used with great advantage,
I by a person of weak Stomach, when about to
j indulge in some freedom of eating or drinking,
j with the happiest effects. It in fact almost per
j forms that great fcat whi-h physicians have
o.wLn .rA i,. t: u ...
: uhhv:Uh ,;;)era,re,. for hy its aill, .
cesses may occasionally he indulged in wilh
, comparatively little injury."
j This may not be jnlen(e( to encourage
intemperance, but we think it is likely to
, nave that effect in some cases. And it is
quite immaterial what qualities Pepsin
may contain, there is little doubt but its
efficacy in restoring wounded and abused
nature must fail, soon or later.
Storm. The city of Raleigh was also
visited by a destructive storm of wind on
Sunday the 5th inst.
As in Rowan, so
there, no rain accompanied it. A larjre
number ot trees, lences, and chimneys
The; Charlotte Journal commenting on
the trial of Beverly Rash, at Concord, last
u!: cJ.-i,, .
week, speaKinj; - ol two witnesses ex
amined in the case, holds the following
language :
" We would hold up to public contempt
those- miserable miscreants, Amos Rash
and Alfred Warren, and let the slow fin
ger of scorn point at them, and we wish
we could put into the hands of every hon
est man a whip of scorpions to lash the
rascals naked through the world."
j
i SMALL POX
j By reference to the advertisement of the Town Clerk
, at lhe head of our columns, IT will be seen that the-e
is but one case of small pox remaining, all the others
having sot wei!, and that that patient is rapidly recov
ing. Washington' X. C. Whig.
The New York papers state that upwardsof seven.v
tons of wild pigeons were brought to that city over the
Erie Railroad last week.
JCASDIOATES FOR COXGRESS, . I
The Wadesborough Argtis is
authgjth
to announce Ged. Alfred Dokery as C
didale for Congress in that District.
We trust that the Whig?, and not orilj ,j
Whigs buf the frie'nds of the onuitmion .
. i - IT l .i .. lr u. . nl
IDC union, aim iuc ''i-jir m s hi kjrcejsion
-til i: ... i i. ut i .. . . . ,W'J
railj uis suj"ili, an" rirti u
. : . . ' r'l j
"J a iriurnr.V
mil iiittjvMii,. ti j aim ; c unieYe ik.
Gpn poc js a true njan afvl .7
- .iL it ' ,
ant majority. i ney can, ana
TC urneve ,
i i r r-
if the Union, an unwavering Whig, whose u.
ling talents nave.onen neen exenea with eff.-
in ine caiue 01 ins cuuuirj unu 111s pnv.
in i T . .u ..I I . -n"
1 ne .-rgus aanouncr iniij un wiij tttfBj
Stanlv Court this week, Lincoln Court ontv
first Monday in June ; and oiher places t0u
nereaner nxea on. ray. uosrrver.
From Eukopk. The Europa arrived aI -
; f wilh LiVer,,o1 a"CCuu'
. CoMon h;td further declined o a p0.t
i rauseu uv anviceii iroin wie u . o. as in lh ...
Oi 7fl(l hi Pi PriVBlt IfttPTd ; tnil Ih. All
The stock of cotton in Liverpool ra 575
000 bales, against 549.000 Ust year. (f
merican, 3S1.000 agamt 340,000.
1 un ti'B. Expedition. 1 ne baTannii
r a 1 . 1 : . r. 1 Vi .j i find m.n hK l.j
sembled at Jarkf onville, Florida, have di$rri
eu, in consequence 01 me seizure 01 uit $:e4rn
er at .. ioik, wtiicn was 10 Dave Ukeu them
on uoard.
Anions the deaths in California, we noiica
that ol Col. John U. Konerts, ot .A8hevi!
C tvhich occurred at Tuttletown, Mottaoa
"trl . L r, 1 c t t
uuicn, on me mn 01 .uarcn.
THE ELECTION IN SURRY.
a i :n 1 1 . 1. !.. ,
Legislature, dividing the County of Surrr, ie.
cording to the wishes of a majority of 3oi citi.
zens of that county, expressed at the PulU
August. A clause was however, introduced
into this bill, by the Legislature, to refer lbs
question of Divjsion back to the people,
that the county lines be run and the Court.
House located, previous to another vote bein
taken ot the subject.
Accordingly an election was held last Thun.
day, and friend writes us that the Division
confirmed bv lhi Lire? mnmrilv nf 1 (111 r,i.
,e wrjeg . ,.0 h fa - &
ry, souih of I he Yadkin River, embracing what
is called " Li I lie Surry," is now. a separate
county, by ihe itame.of Yadkin. We have m.
lected a line lraiiin for the Court House, a
lout one mile East of Doweltown. The Com.
mis.iners are to meet to day. (May 5) in laj
out the town and advertise ihe lots for sale
Our first County Court will be held on the tirst
.Monday in July." Peoples' Press.
Thc Rotation of the Earth made Visible.
Mr. W. C. Bond of the Cambridge Observa.
lory, addresses the following to 'he Traveller:
' 1 have succeeded salifactorily in repeating
rousault s experiments respecting the rotation
. I . L .. . U . ... . . l
I of the Observatory I lound to be adapied
; to ,be purpose. .My arrangements are in lhi
way : Across the top of the central pier, which
ls a hollow come thirty feet high, there is firm
' lv fixed -a wooden beam, havrng the centre per.
loi aled to adiit the passage of a wire and a fix-
! inr of a 1rioii (Viri le m-h a npil 'nh
ihe Gauss M agtietcjineters. To the centre of
ihis circle is attached one end of a silver wire
lliiitj leet long, of the size commonly known
as 'fine No. G,1 and to the other end of tbii
wire is fastened a metalic cylinder weighing
about four pounds, and terminating below in a
coniral point : on a platform directly below the
weight and about thirty Pet below the point of
suspension is inscribed a circle of six and a halt
;-feet diameter, with the requisite subdivisions
f d radii. After giving the pendulum an un
oiaei 'Arc fit vihra imi n liiv mnuilc uliur
biased arc of vibration, a few minutes, obser-K
vation will serve to show with certainty the
motion ol the eath on its axi, on the termina-
ting point of the weight will be seen at each
succesMve vibration to arrive al the northern
boundary of the circle a little more easterly
than it did al the preceding one."
A not hex correspondent sajs that this beau,
tiful experiment is so simple that it may be
readily repeated in most ol our dwellings.
Bank of Wadcsborounh. On ihe 25th u't.
a meeting of the Stockholders of the Bank of-t
Wadesborough was held al their Banking
House, when he fallowing Directors were
chosen : W. R. Leak, S. W. Cole, Joseph
Medley, Geo. W. Litlle, Purdie Richardson,
Joseph White, and Nelson I. Liles
W. R: Leak was elected President, and H.
P. Hammond Cashier. Thos. S.Ashe is the
R ink's Attorney, and Nathan , Beverly- Notarj.
rubric
The Rank is now in operation, ar?d we sin
cerely hope that it will do a rjood and safe bu f
siness, loth as regards the biockholdrrs and h
.
-be customers. Tuesday m their discount daj.
A Uord a,,onl ,he officers. It will x at
commmWv M erat w
COlnmiiri It V. inn It wn.i.il hard n hnH a tfl
of officers more suitable than those of the Rank
' Wadesborough, both as regards eligibility
and integrity, and sure we are that they will
give entire satisfaction to ;i!l concerned.
The X. C. Argus.
It is stated , to the credit 6f trie Bostoniansv that r-ut
of 400 men cornfmg the I'ostou Liht Infantry lit
giment, under t:;e command of Lirut. CoL Dojd.cn
one man was found reluctant to o'unteer in am f '
support the I'r.ited .tate.s M-hal in the eiecutj n
the Fugitive Slave act during the recent excitenver.:
there on that sui'-ect.
Fr the Watchman.
Davidson collixh;.
Editor : The Trustees of this
Mr.
Ins':
,u,ion have adopted the scholarship plan lor fce
purpose of enUring. and more f..l!y endow. K
the Cohere. our readers have doubiles h-fJ
made acquainted with ihi- action of the Ii..ar
and have informed therneives in relation to if
advantage of the sytem. Th leading fu
tures of the plan may be expressed in a
words. The aj ment of SltO. secures to tte
subscriber all lhe privileges of the Institution
as far as tuition is concerned for twenty ear?
The annual tuition fees at Davidson College "
830 in twenty yars this would amount to
SGuO ; so that tor erery Si 00 that is paid
Trustees pledgH themselves to return in it
way of tuition the talue of $b00. The pr"
chaser of a scholarship can send either a oa
or a nominee. lie has lhe prrvileg of selpct"
ing his own time to commence, and be mJ
enjoy his privileges at the Institution at diff?r
ent intervals. An individual, a church, or a'
a5'?fi,lion of dif idua!, that will par the o
1 S500, they Secure a perpetual scholarnip-"
they are entitled to all the advantages cf t1
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