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j V BOYS OUT AFTER NIGHTFALL. I hare been an observer, as I am a sym- Eathising lover of boys. I like to see them appy, cheerful, gleeesome. I m not wil-, ling that they be cheated out of the right ful heritage of youth indeed, I can hard ly understand how a high-toned useful man can be the ripened fruit of a boy who has Dot enjoyed a fair share of the priv ilege due to youth. But while I watch with a very jealous eye all rights and customs which entrench upon the proper rights of boys, I am equally apprehensive lest pa rents, who are not fore-thoughtful,. and who have not habituated themselves to close ob servation upon this subject, permit their sons indulgencies which are almost certain to result in their demoralizing, if not in their total ruin ; and among the habits which I have observed ns tending most surely to ru in, I know none more prominent than that of parents permitting their sons to be in the street after nightfall. It is ruinous to their morals in almost all instances. They ac quire, under cover of the night, an unhealth ful and excited state of mind ; bad, vulgar, immoral, and profane language, obscene practices, criminal sentiments, a lawless ana riotous bearing; indeed it is in the street after nightfall that boys principally acquire the education of the bad, and capacity for becoming rowdy, dissolute, and criminal men. Parents should in this particular have a more rigid and inflexible rule, that will never permit a son, under any circumstan ces, whatever, to sro into the street after c . tt.ffHtfair with a view of eno-ainfr in out of J " ' O OCT , door sports or meet other boys for social or chance occupation. A rigid rule of this kind, invariably adhered to, will deaden the desire for such- dangerous practices. Boys should be taught to have pleasure around the family centre table in reading, in conver sation, and in quiet amusements. Boys, gentleman's sons, are seen in the street af ter nighlfall, behaving in a manner entirely destructive f all good morals. Fathers and mothers, keep your boys at home at night, and see that you take pains to make your homes pleasant, attractive, and profitable to them ; and above all, with a view of their se curity from future destruction, let them not become, while forming their characters for life, so accustomed to disregard the moral sense of shame as to openly violate the Sab bath day, indulging in street pastimes du ring its day or evening hours. Capital Ghost Story Dedicated tn an Especial Manner, to all Newspaper Readers. j Ghost. That Apparations do not always wander without sufficient cause, is proved by the well attested facts which we give with the endorsement of the Montreal Transcript. Last Tuesday fortnight, Mrs. , (a lady of literary taste and rather studious habits) sat reading in her drawing room, the clock on the mantelpiece struck twelve; as the last stroke reverberated through the apartments, the door was suddenly flung o pen. In the act of raising her head to re prova the intrusion (unrung for) of her ser vants, her eye rested on the form of her late husband ; she screamed and fell senseless on the carpet. This brought up such mem bers of the family as had not retired to rest ; restoratives wore administered, and when Mr. had regained Dossession of her suspended faculties, and being a woman of strong mmd and highly cuitivaiea inieueci, she felt disposed to consider the whole dis tress shehad undergone as the result of cer tain associations between the melancholy tale she had been perusing and her late loss, operating on a partially deranged nervous system. She, however, considered it advis able her maid servant should repose in her chamber, lest any return of what she had determined to consider a nervovs affection should distress herself and alarm the family. Last Tuesday night, feeling stronger and in better spirits than she had been for several months past, Mrs. , dispensed with the presence of her attendant, retiring alone to her chamber, went to bed a little before 10 o'clock. Exactly as the clock struck twelve she was awakened from sleep, and distinctly beheld the apparition she had be fore seen, advancing from the table (on which stood her nlzht lamp) till it stood nnnnsit tn and drew aside the curtains of her bed. A sense of suffocating oppression deprived her of all power to scream aloud. She describes her very blood retreating with icy dullness to her heart from every vein. The countenance of her beloved in life wore not its benevolent aspect ; the eyes, once beamin? with affection, were now fix ed in stern regard on the trembling half dissolved being, who, with the courage of desperation, thus adjured mm: -onanes: dear Charles ! why are you come again ?" "Jessie, slowly and solemnly aspirated thf shadowv form, wavim? in his hand a small roll of writ-papers, ''Jessie, pay my Newspaper accounts, and let me die tn peace! Quebec Gazette. jl Melancholy Spectacle, On yesterday vfninor the train of cars from Cleavcland brought several convicts from that cityo the penitentiary. Among tne rest were tnree or four mere boys, who have been sentenced for vears. in the verv morning of their days, to the walls of a prison, for heinous crimes against society. One boy was a little oyer ten years of age, two others were only a lit tie older: and as the? rattled their mana cles. and hobbled from the cars to the om nibus, they laughed at their awkward fix, and looked hardened, and indifferent to the ter rible punishment awaiting them. The sight was sickening. And yet how many parents are permitting their young children to run at larire. at all hours of the night, without -any restraint, thus imbibing habits that, -sooner or later, will bring them to the same end. Columbus (Uiio) journal. Macbjificent Present from the Kino op Prussia to Prof. Morse. Wf hav iiist had die oleasure of seeintr a present sent by the Kjngof Prussia to our V. T l 1 - 1 countryman, troi. xuoree, hi uc&uowieug jnent af bis success in perfecting his Elee trnATaiTneticTeleerarh. which is pronoun ced by his Majesty's Commissioner, after comparison and experiment, moe me most efficient of anv in toe world for exeat dis- lances. xuc inwcmvunMu r ent solid gold snuff box of elaborate work- m ..Avtoierta rvF moimifL. 1 I he present consists ox a magma- inanship and design, enqosng tne Prussian i 43o!i Medal for Scientific Merit. The meal has pn the face, the medallion head of the King, Frederick William the IVth, surrounded by .exquisitely executed em- blemsof religion Jurisprudence, medicine J Krfa nn the reverse. ADOno urawu 1 1. . V.a rliunnt nr th nn by lour pery Btccuo m u . traversinir the zodiac, while from the head " . . .. r J,rtmir of the gpg tne rays oi vo An American Grace Darling- A young, intelligeut and interesting woman, residing within sixty miles of New York, has with the assitance of an aged and infirm father, saved twenty-one lives within the last fifteen years. Kate Moore is the daugh ter of Capt Moore, who kept the Light House on Fairweather Island, situated mid way between the Harbors of Black Rock and Bridgport, (Conn.) The Island con tains five acres of land, and is about half a mile from the shore. Many disasters, it is known, have occurred to vessels driven round Montauk Point in a storm, and sometimes in the Sound to homeward bound, and this lady's ear is so accurate, it is said, she can distinguish the shrieks of the drown ing mariner, and direct her bark in the dark est night. She can trim a boat, and man age as well as a man, and seems to make up in tact, what she lacks in strength, and nev er refuses to turn out in the darkest night to the relief of the sufferers. Our infor mant adds that she is a highly accomplished and literary lady, and perfectly feminine in her manners, and that, although she occa sionally visits New York, and other places in that vicinitr. and has a larire and most J o resnectable acaunaitance. many of whom know of these facts, they have never come to theknow!edge ot the public oeiore. The late lamented Major Noah, who was re markable for collecting the most interesting facts, by some means became acquainted with them We also understand that Capt. Moore and his worthy helpmate have resided upon the Island over twenty years, and hrmiorht no a family of five children, upon a salary of three hundred dollars a year, all of whom have an excellent education, and tney entertain a great many persons who visit the Island, with true old-fashioned hospital ity. Rich. Rep. Shocking Tragedt in Greene County, Miss. The Paulding (Miss.) Clarion ofthe 5th instant, contains a large account of the elopement of the wife of a planter in Flori da, with a Mississippian, from Hancock County, by the name of Hardy, who was living in Florida. The guilty wife assisted her paramour to steal from her injured hus band a negro boy, a pair of horses and car riage, and some other property, with which they started for the residence of Hardy's mother, in Hancock County, Mississippi, which Doint thev safely reached. The out- mrJ hnshnnrf finding' himself robbed of o property as well as his wife, made prepara tions to pursue, a friend named Smith was delegated the task of pursuing the fugitives. Smith traced them to Greene county.Missis sippiL where he learned that they had arriv ed in Hancock, and were at the residence of Hardy's mother. The assistance of a couple of resolute men was obtained; the three made a descent on the house, and entered the room where Hardy and his guilty companion were found before he was aware of their presence. Hardy came near making good his es cape from the three. But a blow with the but of one ofthe guns knocked him down, when he was securely bound. The proper ty was recovered, but the woman declining rrnintr hark to Florida and was left. The nartw" returned to Greene, with their prisoner, and Smith dismissed his assis tants, and after ironing his legs, took his seat by the side of Hardy in the car riage, the negro riding behind on Smith's horse. Two miles from where he left his assistants, Smith was afterwards found mur dered, his money all taken as well as one ofthe carriage horses, and Hardy and the negro gone. The conclusion is that the negro had imprudently been permitted to carry a bowie knife, stabbed Smith from be hind, and then relieved Hardy, and that the latter, as his bands were loose also assisted. ERY VALUABLE REMEDY. riter in a Pittsburg paper says that the fnllowino-salve is a most valuable, and of nnaitivR efficacy, in case of burns, sores. etc. : After pealing off the outside bark of th oMr sr.rane on tne sreen oarx mat is under, and stew it in lard till it is crisp then strain it in a jar, and put it away. Another writer, speaking of the salve, says "The lady with whom I sojourned, inform' ed me of a bov whose foot had been cut and was iii almost a putrid state when she nnmined it. none of the usual appliances being found of any service, She asked per missions to apply a salve which being grant ed, in a very short period a complete cure was effected. Shortly after I was paying a visit to some friends in Washington coun ty in this State, where I heard of an old negro man who was buffering the most in tense agony from a sore foot, which had become so offensive that it was impossible for any one to remain in the room with him. He was eriven up for death, as in curable, except by amputation. I mention ed this salve to the owner of the old man, and on my return forwarded a box of it, which was used upon the foot and I was gratified to learn had effected a complete cure." There is nothing- to be trained in dan? o o o ling for a twelvemonth after a sensible wo man, talking unmeaning stuff words with out wisdom. Tell her vour wish, like a man and not like a blubbering school-boy ; and if there are three grains of common sense in your muckle carcass, she will be your own before a month has passed. See the history of Rebecca , in Genesis, 54th chapter, 58th verse : When Abraham's servant had concluded the preliminary con- . . t -at f i . U - ... r 1 irSLCl Wllu Jllia. Ijiiueui, uii Mic po.il uj UK daughter, to become the wife of Isaac, the old man was anxious to get home, to show his young master the bonny lass he had brought him ; the mother wished him to remain a few days, to recruit himself and his camels, He persisting, it was finally referred Jo the daughter. . 'We will can the damsel and inquire at her mouth,1 said the mother. When Rebecca appeared, her mother asked, ' Wilt thou go with this man : Kebecca repuea, 'i wiu go. There was a noble girl for you. No . . r 1 1.1 i - U ' tir BTflUlIlCr imm nRr 1 1 1 M ( K t-VCB - UIF W o : ing nor simpering, make-believe nor mock- mouesiy ; ouv wiuu. ucrucmk wbh ci hps uttered, juuee an nones maiaen, sne replied, I will go.' Now, young ladies go and do likewise. When the young man whom you prefer before all others in the world, asks, 'Will you go with me?' answer - wiueu. Hvo thp.r.vc ll j -1 --- --- , read a true, ample and unsophisUcated lr.ctnm iiiet ronrl nvpr ihf fifi tf-fourth . -yj RALEIGH TIMES. 'HihV'r swnrrri "fa iirr-i m mini m mi ' 11 1 f ifS RALEIGH, N. C. FRIDAY MAY 9, 1851. 0- The absence of the Editor is the reason the editorial columns are not filled as usual this week. TERRIFIC TORNADO ! Between 3 and 4 o'clock, on Sunday afternoon last, our city was visited widi a most frightful Hurricane, which' for its vi olence and the damage occasioned by it, far exceeds any thing of the kind ever known to our oldest inhabitants. It enter ed the Cily on the South-west side and made its track in a straight line to the North east, prostrating trees, demolishing build ings and unroofing some of the most sub stantially and securely covered houses in the place ; spreading alarm and consterna tion through the entire community. It gives us preat pleasure to state that no lives were lost, which can be regarded as nothng short of the interference of Him ' who ridetli upon the whirlwind and directs the storm.' We have heard of several per sons being injured, who were out in the storm, but we believe none of them serious ly.' ' Suicide. A man by the name of Alex ander, st oping at a house called the Rialto, in this City, put an end to his existence on Saturday night last, by taking lauda num. He is said to be a native of Phila delphia, and had been travelling through the country in company with others as a Comedian, giving vocal and instrumental Concerts. lie had been here but a short time . Standard. CURIOUS PHENOMENON. We are informed by a gentleman who witnessed the phenomenon himself, says the Winchester Republican, that there was a mock sun observable in the sky on Saturday morning last, about the hour of seven. There seemed to be two suns, the artificial one presenting a solid and brilliant appearance, and scarcely distinguishable from the true one. The distance between the" two might have been ten degrees to the eye, and they were at about equal distan ces from the horizon. It must have been a curious sight. DEATH OF COM. BARRON. It la our painful duty, says the "Norfolk Argus," to announce the death of Com. James Bairon, senior officer of the United States Navy. He died at his residence in this City, at sunset, yesterday evening, in the eighty-third year of his age. He en tered the service 9th March, 1798, and his commission bears date May 22, 1799. A Letter from the Ppepipext. The following letter was addressed to Gen eral Pierce; who had enclosed to the Pre sident certain resolutions adopted by th New Hampshire Constitutional Convention at its first session, in relution to the Union and the Compromise measures of Con gress : '; Washington, January 14, 1S5I. Dear Sir : I have the honor to ac knowledge the receipt of the resolutions pasted by the Convention to revise the Constitution of the State of New Hamp shire, which you transmitted to me. I am highly gratified to see State after State assuming the high and patriotic ground in favor of the Union now occupied by New Hampshire, and beg leave to make my grateful acknowledgements to the Conven tion for the flattering terms in which they have expressed their approbation of the attitude of the Executive of the General Government upon the subject. Truly, yours, MILLARD FILLMORE. Hon. Frank. Pierce, President ofthe New Hampshire Reform Convention. Cottox. On the 24th ult. at Mobile, sales amounted to 2000 bales, factors sub mitting to a slight decline. Middlings 10c. & The Legislature of Massachusetts has passed a bill requiring that in future elections for public officers, the votes shrll be deposited in the ballot box enclosed in a sealed envelope. The condition is also imposed that no vote shall be cowited in case it bears any indication, by a written or printed endorsement, or by any mark or device upon the required envelope, of the candidate foi whom the vote is given. Some of the Boston papers express great indignation at what they characterize as a. gross usurpation of authority and clearly unconstitutional. It certainly appears to us in the same light, but we are surprised at the commission of no act of tyranny or baseness by a Legislature which, through the agency of an infamous coalition of Free Soilers and Democrats, elected such a man as .Charles SuKincr to the United States Senate. THE CUBAN EXPEDITION FRUS TRATED. Vessel Seized at New York. We leam from the New YorkJ papers that on Tuesday morning last, Mr. Tallmadge, the United States marshal there, received intelligence that the steamer Cleopatra had been chartered by certain persons and se cretly fitted out with arms and ammuni tion, for the purpose of being employed in an expedition againt the Island of Cuba. The Commercial says : "He immediately dispatched a message to Washington for instructions, and a Cab inet meeting was held, the result of which was that the marshal was directed to proceed forthwith to use all means in his power to prevent the sailing of the expedition, in conformity wim" the eighth section of the neutrality law. Mr. Tallmadge according ly applied to the commanding officer ta the Navy yard for an auxiliary force, but it was refused on the ground that no spec ial instruction to that effect had been re ceived. The chief of the police however, volunteered the aid of twenty men of his force, and with these the marshal hastened, on Wednesday evening to the performance of his duty. Information having been re ceived in the meantime that the Cleopatra had gone down the bay and anchored there, with a view to take on board several hund red men, Mr. Tallmadge prompdy chart ered the steamer Jacob Bell, and tak ing the United States revenue cutter Mor ris in tow, started in pursuit. "The cutter was stationed outside San day Hock Light, and the Jacob Bell cruised the bay in search of the steamer of the ex peditionists. Nothing could be seen of her, however, and the marshal returned to the city about two o'clock this morning when the Cleopatra was found lying at the dock, foot of North Moore Street. She was immediately taken possession of, and now remains in the custody of the marshal. Many persons have been disposed to doubt the existence of any design to renew the piratical invasion of Cuba, the territory of a friendly power. There is no longer any room for doubt. We might give the names ofthe parties implicated as leaders, but for obvious reasons they aie with eld for the present." The Journal of Commerce says that there were no persons on board the Cleo petra, except her ordinary crew. A Savannah letter to the Boston Courier says that the Cuba movement was a little too premature, and adds : 'The bonds of the new government that is to be when Cuba is revolutionized, have been selling here all winter, to raise the needful funds. They have been taken at ten cents on the dollar." CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI. The Cincinnati Commercial of Wednes day says : . " A man by the name of Dominick Sal lary was taken to the Hospital yesterday morning, and died in a few hours. The physicians pronounced his disease Asiatic Cholera ! The deceased was about 38 years of age, an Italian by birth, and had recendy arrived in this city fromCeV Or leans. -' I " A woman by the name of Naugbton was taken from a steamboat to the HospiuJ and died in a few minutes after he was ta ken into the house. Her diseane was also supposed to be cholera. Her son, a lad about 12 years of age, was attacked with the cholera in a short time after his moth er's death, and at 3 o'clock yesterday, the physicians had given up all hopes of saving him." THE CUBAN EPEDITION. Paragraphs in the Savannah and ether Southern papers, and private letters to Eas tern friends and journalists, would lead us to suppose that serious designs are yet on foot by the wicked or deluded men who propose an invasion of Cuba; and they are published in so imposing a form that we should place faith in them, were it not that our Telegraphic information ct later date (which will be found under its appropriate head) represents the enterprise as being en tirely broken up. THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAPITOL We leam that tfi President of the United State has finally determined upon a general plan for the enlargement of the Capitol. On Thursday, pursuant to his invitation, members ofthe Cabinet of the United States Topographical k ...... . . and Engineer Corps, Architects witn new plans, ana several citizens of Washington were assembled at the Presidential office, at one o'clock, and a hearing was had on the subject during a session of aboot twc houis- Yesterday, the Cabinet, together with certain officers of the army, were again assembled ; and, after a session of like duration, an adjournment took place, without the announcement of a decision. This morning, however, the announcement that at least the general outline of a plan had been deter mined on was made by the President, at the Presi dential office, to a number of architects and other gentlemen. Ia regard to the plan chosen, we have not been a ble to learn whether it is an "eastern extension'' or a "wing plan ;" but we learn that the work is to be commenced immediately, which fact we are delijht ed to announce, as it will be gratifying new to our worthy mechanics and laborers. We are proud to know that the President ha real ized the full importance of this great Undertaking, aud that he has not acted without the most deliber ate examination and reflection, and the aid of all means of correct knowledge to which it was possble for him to obtain access. That his labors will be appreciated and approved by his countrymen is our earnest desire and expecta tion. Rick. Wlig. SOUTH CAROLINA. We regret to see it stated by the Rich mond Enquirer", on the information of an intelligent man who has just returned from a tour through a great portion of South Carolina, that there is very great and uni versal excitement in the State, in favor of separate secession. It is stated by this gen tleman, that instead of public sentiment be ing behind the press, the people are much beyond the rabid tone of the newspapers. Such acts as the election of Sumner are adding fuel to the flame. We agree with our contemporary, that the battle of the Union must be fought at the North, and that there is great force and truth in the following letter from George S. Bryan, Esq., of Charleston, a warm friend of Mr. Clay, addressed to the Clay Birthday Fes tival in New York : " I am from day to day, forced to feel that the mass of our fellow citizens of the North have not ap preheuded and cannot do justice to the great amount and extent of honest discontent, which irritates and vexes multitudes of our best citizens. I speak not of South Carolina. As one, who, from the inception of the measures composing the recent adjustment was prepared to acquiesce in them, I unfortunately differ too widely from her to presume to speak for her, and indeed of her. But I may venture to speak of that common South, with whom I agree. The Wilmot Proviso enacted, would have been thrown off as an in tolerable usurpation ; the Wilmot Proviso, threatened, as a mere intention, is remembered, with invcluutary resentment. It has been charged upon the Souths that the Mexican war was waged to add to hi r great ness and to swell her power. The South realizes in its results that the Slexicau war was fought for the North the whole of the conquered territory is to be added to its sectional predominance and hasten its advance ment. And the Government has not done this yet the fact is so, and is none the less disagreeable on that account. The South finds that at the end of this mighty movement against the Mexican Republic, and amidst iu grand results she has won nothing. First the North threatened to exclude her and the course op events has excluded her from alt sectkmal advan tage of her bloody toils and heroic achievements.- Her honor was saved in the adjustment, and her feel ings respected. " The Fugitive Bill was received as an earnest of good will ; as a pledge of brotherhood, as a proof that the Constitution was to be executed, in the only point touching the peculiar interes.s and feelings of our people which the Constitution assumes to care for and protect. The tsouth submitted toSihe.. Adjust ment in the faith that its temper wouldp6vail--in the hope of better things; in the confidence that the spirit of the Constitution would revive, in the trust, that the country would triumph over section, and that a generous patriotism would hasten to bury all causes of rast dissension, and remove all roots of bitterness. These hopes have been in a large measure realized. The Constitution has triumphed iu many a State not lung since possessed aud usurped by sectional injustice. The banner of the country floats in triumph over ma ny a capital, which not long siuce favored disunion. Yet if so much has been gained to the country and the Constitution, how much remains to be gained ! How mauy States have swung clear off, from the moorings of the Constitution ! The Adjustment will not have done its promised work, and the South can not be satisfied, until these States have been brought to realize their Constitutional duty, aud to do it. The Union can never be rufe whilst States triumph in their open defiance and denial of the Constitution. It ought not to bo safe. It may be they know not what they do, and are as devoted to the Union as Senator Seward. "And here, gentlemen, you will permit me to re peat, what I have already stated that masses of our fellow citizens of tne .North do not seem to appreci ate the danger which the Union has been iu and is ; for amidst such action as we have witnessed in the Legislatures of Massachusetts, Ohio, Vermont, and kindred action and declarations of large bodies of the people, in many quarters in the State of New York for instance, we have just witnessed the de- declaration, from the Senator, I have named ; "Gen tlemen, no man in New York can be a disunionist know none, indeed." This is a startling declara tion, indeed, from the lips ofthe senator, It would seem to indicate a total forgetfuluess of the Con stitution, and the conditions of the Constitution, lb necessary to the Union. The Constitution, the very soul and life of the Union , may be violated, aud he who commits the outrage is no disunionist ! Mast chusetts, Vermont, Ohio, may nullify the only fea ture of the Constitution which promises a direct ben efit to the South ; large bodies of the citizens of his own State may share these sentiments, countenance this action, and yet the influential Senator knows no disunionist ; and, indeed, can afford to be pleasant, while this portentious drama is enacting around him We think the times do not warrant, aud will not vin dicate such pleasantry and least of all, should the Senator play the jester. " Yet, gentlemen, the South does not despair of the Republic. The country aud the Constitution have made such conquest within the year just past that hope is felt that those triumphs will extend to the whole North and brinsr back the whole South. Toe South is willing to be pleased. Justice is all she asks. Let the liberal spirit the natioual sentiment, the generous and expansive patriotism of him whose birth day you are about to celebrate, prevail, and the Union is safe now and safe forever. Let a different spirit triumph, and the genius and the armies of Napoleon caunot hold it together." We trust that these words of warning may not fall unheeded upon the Northern ear. We trust that the leading and influ ential men of all parties and all pursuits in the North will put forth their utmost ener gies to induce their people to perform hon estly their duties under the Constitution, and to realize that it is an idle delusion which represent the Union as beyond all danger of dissolution even when its; foun dation stone of Jhe Constitution is over thrown. Almost assuredly the South, with out the exception of a single man, will re gard the Union as dissolved by the repeal or successful evasion of the fugitive slave law, she has submitted, unresistingly, to those measures of the compromise which were to her a bitter and nauseating medi cine, it her sacrifices for the sake of peace are to be regarded, and sucb. .counsels pre vail throughout the North as have been re cently manifested by those States to which Mr. Bryan refers, 'there will Jpe ,a much more formidable secession than that of S. Carolina. But we will hope and ,we be lieve .bettei things. Rich. Repub. ff-Adversity tries friendsbip- ARRIVAL OF THE ALABAMA. LA TER FROM CALIFORNIA THE CU BAN EXPEDITION, &c. New Orleans, May 2. The steamer Alabama has arrived here from Chagres. She brings one hundred and seventy-one passengers, and brings Califor nia dates to April 1st. The steamers Tennes see and Columbus had arrived ' at Panama with three hundred and eighty-five passen gers, and over one million and a half in gold dust. . The news from the mining districts is very favorable. Rich veins are daily being dis covered. The heavy rains have enabled miners to wash the dust with great facility. The agricultural business is progressing with much promise. The markets of San Francisco and other towns are dull. The supplies of merchan dise on hand are immense. The price of gold dust has advanced to $17 per ounce. Most of the Indian tribes hi've made peace with the inhabitants and the expedi tions sent against them. There continues some excitement in regard to the Legisla ture refusing to repeal the foreign miners' tax. , A committee of the Legislature has re ported to inpeach Judg-e Parsons, who im prisoned for contempt of court the editor of the Herald. A great excitement existed at San Fran cisco in consequence ofthe mail bags from the United States having been seized by the collector on suspicion of smuggling. Noth ing wrong, however, was found. More mines have been discovered in low er California. About one thousand Sonorians have re turned to Buda, andc ommenced rebuilding. The incendiaries who set fire to the place were discovered, but had escaped. The Lynch : Law has been resorted to, but no further hanging. " The United States district court has de cided in favor of suits for claims of lands at Sacramento. The propeller Massachusetts is going to Oregon for rifles ordered at Santa Fe via New Orle?.is. New Panama, April 21. Intelligence has reached here that the British have rais ed the blockade of the porta at San Salva dor and Honduras. Major Hobbie left Panama for California under satisfactory arrangements on the Isth mus for the mails to South America. The Panama railroad is progressing rap idly, and will be completed in a few months. Mr. Peyton, the American Minister, has presented to the Chilian Government the treaty on the reciprocity basis. The ships Barstow; Surprise, Roscoe, and Masonic, from New Orleans, General Wool from Baltimore, Stoncasset, Florida, Joshua Quincy, Nevada, and Courier, from Boston, have arrived at San Francisco. The Uni ted States ship Vincennes was at Panama. The St Mary's and Raritin were expected. The Marion was at Hong Kong, and the Vandalia at Honolulu. New Orleans, May 2. We have reliable news here that the Cu ban expedition has been abandoned on the atlantic coast as far as heard from. The offi cers and men assembled in this vicinity most of whom came from the West have returned home. THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE OF MEM BERS OF CONGRESS. Several Senators and Members of Con gress elect, having raised the question as to the time when tneir franking privilege commenced, we learn that the Attorney General has decided that the privilege com mences with the term for which they are re spectively elected ; and that, so far as re lates to this purpose, they are Members of Congress by their election and acceptance before taking their seats or oaths of office; and the privilege is given to them as Mem bers during their term of service, without any leference to the timewhen they take their seats or oath of office. We learn also that an arrangement has been effected by the Postmaster General by which mails may be forwarded from New York, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Monterey, and San Diego, to places on the west coast of South Amer ica, through the agency of our Consul at Panama. The single rate of postage on each letter will be be fifty cents, and' eight cents, on each newspaper, to be prepaid in all cases. These rates will include the entire postage to and from every place in the United States. Mails mav hp transmitted in return, at the same rate of postage, on the payment there ot one-nan tnese rates; me uiuei half to be collected at the offices of re ceipt in the United Stites. Post Office Robbery at Nash ville. A Nashville despatch of the 16th ult., in the Picayune, says : ."The Post Office was entered on the 4th inst. and robbed of $2000 in money, together with checks for several thousand more, in letters. The circumstances were made public yesterday by the arrest of Au brey Wilson. Small Pox. We regret to learn that five cases of this loathsome and much dread er? disease have occurred within a few days n,.ct In the town of Washington two of which are said to be convalescent, and the other three are not considered dangerous. Precautionary measures have been taken by the authorities of this place and Green ville to prevent its introduction. Tarboro' Press. What a blessed order of nature it is, that t. rnniciam nf time are inaudible and noisless, and that the seasons of lfve, like t).nco nfiho r nrp .so indistinfruishabl v WJ WUV U ,IIV J , brought on in gentle progression, and so blended tne one witn tne uuier, mov wc -man being scarcely knows, except from a faint and not unpieascnisensauuu, uai hc is growing old. n...n TTto PniTinv. 'f3et nn nn.' iiirinmv j- t ' said a watchman the othei night, to a chap urhn haH fallen a erode below the door-step sleepers, and who had taken a lodgment the gutter, "ion must not ue nere. T.i ! vou're another! v-vou lie yourself not lie here ! I tell yoo wh-what, old fellow, that mav do to t-tell in them slave States, but I'll let you know, eaid the agrarian, sputtering a mouthful of mud into the watch man's face. Mhat this. is free vi. A TOUCHING ANECDOTE. Eugene Guinot, the easy and graceful correspondent of the Courier des Etats Unis, tells an affecting story of the Baron Rothschild's grief for the death of a grand child. It will be grateful to those who have hitherto known in the millionaire only the Jewish money changer, j A friend vis ited him after his bereavement in his pri vate cabinet. The Barou alluded to his less, and said with an affecting tender ness ; ' - j "Every morning they brought him to me, and it seems to me as if 1 saw him now upon the table rummaging among my papers." ! It was the hour on which he was accus tomed to receive a report on (he stale of the market, and he had fallen ihlo a mel ancholy reverie, when the agent appeared. The Baron said nothing to his account of stocks, but remained lost in his sad stupor. The agent added j i" There is a rise looked for in the pub lic funds. Do you think iL can be so, Monsieur le Baron." Rothschild raised his head and answered, with a tone full of the tenderest grief "I, sir? I believe in nothing but God?" Scene in a School Room. lJ First class in philosophy, step out close your books. John Jones, how many kingdouis in nature ?" j " Three the animal, vegetable and mineral." j " Good go up head." 1 ....... " Hobbs, what is meant by the animal kingdom? J " Lions, tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, alligators, monkeys, jack asses, hackdiivers and schoolmasters.'' " Very well ; but you'll take a licking for your last remark." J Giles, what is meant by the mineral kingdom?" " The hull of California." " Walk straight up head." " Johnson, what is the vegetable king dom?" - ; " Garden sarse, potatoes, carrats, ing yons, and all kinds of greens that's good for cooking." 1 " And what are pines, andj hemlocks, and elms ; am 't they vegetables ?" "No sir-ee ! you can't cook 'em. Them's saw logs and framin' timber." " Boys, give me a piece of apple, and you canhave an hour's intermission ex cept Hobbs !" : : . , - ( ' The Post OFFicEf We are glad to learn that ths subject of additional and better accommodations at the Post Office, has been presented to the Post Master General, and that he has already decided to authorize the necessary outlay, for the purpose of en larging the same, this is well indeed, because im mediate action is necessary in the premises, but wiiilstthe matter is under consideration, we would suggest to the Post Master General the propriety of looking beyond the preseut time a very few yeais, when the business of the office consequence opens the increase of trade, and the reduction of Postage, will make it absolutely necessary to provide much larger accommodations, it is entirely probable that there are capitalists owning property iu the immedi ate vicinity of the Exchange, who would gladly em brace the opportunity for erecting a spacious and handsome building, which, whilst it would be ample in its accommodations, might be an ornament and credit to the architectural taste of our city. Mean time we woulc suggest to P. M. White, when making t'le proposed immediate improvement, measures should re adopted to compel applicants for letters to take their regular turn, the confusion and annoyance now is often disgraceful. Philadelphia New. A MEMORY. BY GKORGE W. DEWEY. It was a bright October day ? Ah, well do 1 remember ! 1 One rose yet bore the bloom of May, Down toward the dark December. One rose that near the lattice grew, With fragrance floating round it : Incarnardined, it blooms anew In dreams of her who found it. Pale, withered rose, bereft and shcrn Of all thy primal glory, I All leafless now, thy piercing thorn Reveals a sadder story. It was a dreary winter day ; Too well do I remember! They bore her frozen fon away, And gave her to D.ecesber ! There vere h perfxeifi& es thjjair, No bridal blossoms round her, Save one pale liiy. in ber hair i To tell how pure Death found her, The thistle on the summer air.l Hath shed its iris glory, And thrice the willows weeping thero Have told the sea&ms' story, Since she, who bore the blush f May, Down towards the dark December Pass'd like the thorn-tree'a bloom away, A pale, reluctant ember i MARRIED, j In Oxford, on Thursday evening last, by the Ret Mr. Ridley, Mr. Theodore B. Kingsbury, ol that place, to Miss Sallie Jones, daughter ol the late ten. Koger P. Atkinson, of Warren County, Misa. ! In Duplin countv.in March last, by Gibson Sloan, Esq., Mr Randolph Groves to M Emmy Kilty Anno Eliia Mourning Returah Mary EJizabeth Julio Atue Caroline Pastier Liua Puckett, daughter of .Rev. J. Puckett. j CARRIAGE MAKING. rHE Subscriber would respectively inform the Public, that he still continues to carry on the a brce business in all its branches, and is constantly manufacturing and has cn hand aud lor sale, ail descriptions ot CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, ROCKAWAYS, Indeed every variety of work in his line of business, which he offers for sale low, and warranted to be f the best workmanship and materials. 1 Thankful for past encouragement, he sol cits a con tinuance of the same. His establishment is about 100 yards east of the Baptist Church. ' . WILLIS D. WILLIAMS, Raleigh. May 9, 18, 24 FRJ5SU GARDEN SEEf) of all the popular YariMies this day received ami le at th Drug Store of for sa V I LiL.IA.no, iiai vvi yv. February 1, 1551. Ralejgh about. A, f. Oiscner
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