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8Jt famerrial WILMINGTON, N. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1857. From the National Intelligencer. WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. In the year 1792, as the first term of President Washington's administration was approaching its close, he addressed a letter lo Mr. Madison, requesting the letter, then . member of the House of Representatives, to prepare for him the draft of a valedicto ry address to the people of the Union. A copy of this letter, printed from the origi nal manuscript, now in the possession, we believe, of our fellow-townsman, Mr. James C. McGuire, lately made its appearance in the columns of the Boston Courier, which accompanied its reproduction with the ob eervaticn that it had never before been in print, or at least was not to be found in Sparks' Writings of Washington. In this our intelligent contemporary seems to have been misled, as the letter in question is found with some immaterial variations, in the twelfth volume of that work, where it s accompanied not only with Mr. Madis on's reply, but also with the draft of a Farewell Address, as indicated. Of this draft we need not say that Wash ington had no occasion, in the immediate course of events, to make the use he had intended. Yielding to the imperative call of the public duty, and influenced partly, s no one can doubt who is familiar with 'the political history of the times, by the consideration that the intervention of his potential name and still dominant if not unassailed popularity was necessary to allay those "serious disputes" to which he alludes in this letter as having arisen with respect to the choice of his successor, Washington reluctantly consented to serve during another Presidential term. It would perhaps he hardly just to say that during the period of his second ad ministration Mr. Madison becama political ly hostile to the first President, yet at the expiration of that period the official rela tions between them were not such as to justify a repetition of the demand which had been originally made upon the friend ly and confidential service of the latter. Then it war, however, that Washington resorted to the brilliant genius and ready pen of one whom, throughout his civil as well as his military career, be had learned to lean with a confidence which he repos ed in no other, and who, no less by his unrivalled ability than his exalted patriot ism, amply justified the esteem in which he was held by his illustrious chief. Al exander Hamilton it was to whom, at this epoch, the retiring President made a simi lar application; and how well the task was executed we-raay infer from the whole composition anct style of the Farewell Ad--dress, as we now have it in our hands. Xet the work, in the highst sense, may be regarded as peculiarly Washington's own. That in its preparation he took con sel from John Jav and ethers in whose, wisdom and partiottsm be confided is known to all. That he should have cal led to his aid the facile pen and noble in spirations of Hamilton was not only wise in itself, but was perhaps made necessary V, VlA vi.Afe;nw ........ C CT. U T - U t.ft ujr mc (JlcOiiig vnica VI UlilbC, Willi; 11 1C11 little time for tilerary labor. Still, as a contemporary truly remarks upon th:s same subject,- it was Washington who sug gested the leading points of the Address; he harmonized its thought, he revised its language, and in so doing breathed upon it the spirit of his own lofty patriotism. It is well known that the address was printed from a copy entirely in Washington's hand-writing. This still extant. In it -words altered and interlined, paragraphs erased and others substituted, sentences are transposed, even whole pages, with the exception of a few lines, are expunged, and thus ; the whole manuscript evinces the marks of the most thorough revision. Washington too corrected the proof-sheets. At the conclusion of the work Mr. Clay pole, the printer, inquired of the President if he had any further use for the manu script, when Washington presented it to him. It was no ordinary gift, the precious relic having been subsequently offered for sale by the heirs of the printer, and pur chased, at no' inconsiderable cost, by a gentleman of taste and wealth in the ci ty of New York. The history of this Address, moreover, as traced by the light of the letter addres sed to Mr. Madison, is interesting in a sin gular point of view. We have here pres ented, as it were in embryo, the first germs of a preduction which.subsequently grew into shape and expanded into the grandeur of the finished work, as it now stands be fore us. In these tvggestions we see the first chrystalizing points around which in later years the whole body of its patriotic thought was gradually and finally too pacted in symmetry and strength. i With regard, therefore, to this interest ing letter, it is appropriate to say, in the words uf 9 Southern journal (the Rich mond Whig) which cites it, that "its sub ject matter, the occasion upon which it was written, the statesman to whom it was addressed, as also the profound thought, pervasivo philesophy and penetrating sa "gacity which characterize it should suffice to commend its pursual (o every reflecting mind." To which it may be added that many of its sentiments seem to be particu larly adapted to the present times, with their sectional alienations and misdirected rivalries. s Mount Vernon, May 20, 1792. Tv nn cm A a f K ... 4 n : L : I : . . if not a probability, that 1 shall not see you on your return home, or, if I should see you, that it may be on the road and under circumstances which all prevent my speak ing to you on the subject we lost convers ed upon; I take the liberty of committing to paper the following thoughts and re quests: I have not been unmindful of the senti ments expressed by you in the conversa tion just alluded to; on the contrary, I have again and again revolved them with thoughtful anxiety, but without being able to dispose my mind to longer continuation in tho office I have now the honor to hold. 1 therefore still look forward to the fulfill merit of my fondest and most ardent wish to spend the remainder of my days (which I do not expect to be many) in ease and tranquility. .Nothing short of conviction that my di rection of the chair of the Government (if it should be the desire of. the people to keep me in it) would involve the country in serious disputes respecting the Chief Magistrate, and the disagreeable conse quences which wight resujt therefrom in the floating and divided opinions which seem to prevail at present, could, in any wise, induce me to relinquish the determin ation I have formed ; and of this I do not see how any evidence can be obtained pre vious to the election. My vanity, I am sure, is not of that cast as to allow me to view the suhject in this light. Under these impressions then permit me to reiterate the request I made to you at our last meeting, namely, to think of the proper time and the best mode of announ cing the intention, and that you would pre pare the latter. In revolving this subject myself, my judgment has always been em barrassed. On the one hand, a previous declaration to return not only carries with it the appearance of vanity and self-importance, but it may be construed into a ma noeuvre to be invited to remain. And, on the other hand, to, say nothing implies con sent; or, at any rate, would leave the mat ter in doubt ; and to decline afterwards might be deemed as bad and uncandid. I would fain carry my request to you further than is asked above, although 1 am sensible that your compliance with it must add to your trouble; but as the recess may afford you leisure, and I flatter myself you have dispostions to oblige me, I will with out apology, desire (if the measure in itself should strike you as proper, and likely to produce public good or private honor) that you would turn your thoughts to a valedic tory address from roe to the public, expres ing in plain and modest terms that hav ing been honored with the Presidential chair, and to the best of my abilities con tributed to the organization and adminis tration of the Government ; that having arrived at a period of life when the private walks of it, in the shade of retirement, be comes necessary and will be most pleasing to me ; and the spirit of the Government may render a rotation in the elective offi cers of it mora congenial with their ideas of liberty and safety I take my leave of them as a public man ; and, in bidding them adieu, (retaining no other concern than such as will arise from fervent wishes for the prosperity of my country,) I take the liber ty at my departure from civil, and formerly did at my military exit, to invoke a contin uation of the blessings of Providence upon it, and upon all those who are the support ers of its interests, and the promoters of har mony, order and good government. That to impres these things it might, among other things, be observed that we are all the children of the same country a country great and rich in it self capable and promising to be as prosperous and happy as any the an nals of history has ever brought to our view ; that our interest, however diver sified in local and smaller matters, is the same in all the great and essential concerns of the nation ; that the extent of our country, the diversity of our cli mate and soil, and the;various produc tions of the States consequent of both, are such as to make one part not only convenient, but perhaps indispensably necessary to the other part, and may render the whole (at no distant period) one of the most independent in the world ; that the established Government, being the work of our own hands, with the seeds of amendment engrafted in the Constitution, may, by wisdom, good dis positions, and mutual alliances, added by experience, bring it as near to perfec tion as any human institution ever ap proximated ; and therefore the only strife among us ought to be who should be foremost in facilitating and finally ac complishing such great and desirable objects, by giving every possible sup port and cement to the Union ; that however necessary it may be keep a watchful eye over our public servants and public measures, yet there ought to be limits to it, for suspicions unfounded and jealousies too lively, are irri a i ig 'o honest feelings, and oftentimes are pro ductive of more evil than good. To enumerate the various subjects which might be introduced into such an address .would require thought ; and to mention, them to you would be unneces sary, as your own judgment will com prehend all that will be proper--wheth-er to touch, specifically, any of the ex ceptionable parts of the Constitution may be doubted. All I shall add, therefore, at present, is to beg the favor of you to consider, first, the propriety of such an address ; second, if approved, tho sever al matters which ought to be contained in it ; and, third, the time it should ap pear; that is, whether at. the declara tion of my intention to withdraw from the service of. the public, or to let the closing act of my Administration, which will end with the next session of Con gress, (the probability being that that body will continue sitting until March,) when the House of Representatives will also dissolve. Though I do not wish to hurry, you (the cases not pressing) in the execution of either of the publications before mera tioned, yet I should be glad to hear from you generally on both, and to receive them in time, if you should not come to Philadelphia utitil the session commen ces, in the form they are finally to take. I beg leave to draw your attention also to such things as you shall conceive fit subjects for communication on that oc casion ; and, noting them as they occur, that you would be so good as to furnish me with them in time to be prepared and engrafted with others for the open ing of. the session. . With very sincere and affectionate regard, I am ever yours, GEO. WASHINGTON. James Madison, Jr., Esq. HOW TO MAKE A HUSSION OF A SCOT. In looking over a memoir of Peter the Great, we find a somewhat "curious derivation of a name celebrated in Rus sian history. There was a Scotchman, by the name of Best, a lieutenant in the army of Peter. The' word best, it seems, signifies, in the Russian lan guage, beast, which so annoyed the honest Scot, that he complained of it to the Czar, who told him he would soon put him at ease on that score "You shall be called Bestuchff," said he,."and then you will be aS good a Russian as myself.'' The son of this lieutenant was the celebrated Alexius Bestucheff, grand chancellor of the Empress Eliz abeth, J . McPHERSON AND GRANT, or hell's bridge. Ha purled frowning from me, m if rain Leap'd from nil eye ; so look tbe chafed lion . Upon the daring hacUrnan that has gulled him ; Then make him nothing. Many deadly feuds have subsisted from time immortal between tbe families of Mc Pherson of Bendearg, and Grant of Cairn, and were banded 'down unimpaired even to the close of tbe last century. . In earlier times the warlike chiefs of. these names found frequent opportunities of testifying their mutual animosity, and few inheritors of the fatal quarrel left the world without having moistened it with tbe blood of some of their hereditary enemies. But in our own day the progress of civilization which bad reached even thfse wild countries the .heart of the North Highlan Is al though it could not extinguish entirely the transmitted spirit of revenge at least, kept it within safe bound and the feud of McPher son and Grant, threatened in the course of another half century to die entirely away, or at least to exist only in some vexatious law suit, fostered by the petty jealousies of two men of hostile tempers and contiguous property. It was not, however, without some ebullitions of ancient fierceness, that the flame which had burned for so many centuries seemed about to expire. Once, at a meeting of the country gentlemen, on a question of privilage arising, Bendearg took occasion to throw out some taunts aimed at his hereditary foe, which the firey Grant immediately received as the signal of defiance, and a challenge was the conse quence. The sheriff of the county, how ever, having got iotimalion of the affair, put both parties under .arrest; till at length by the persuasion of their friends not friends, by blood and the representations of the magistrate, they shook hands, and each pledged his honor to forget at least never again to remember in speech or action the ancient fued of, his family. This occur rence, at the time, was the object of much interest in the country side; the rather as it seemed to give the lie to-those prophecies of which every Highland family has an ample stock in its traditionary chronicles, and which expressly predicted that the en mity of Cairn and Bendearg should not be quenched but in blood; and on this seem ingly crossgrained circamstance, some of the young men who had begun already to be tainted with the heresis of the lowlands were seen to shake their heads as they re flected on the tales and the faith of their ancestors; but the grey-headed seers shook theirs still more wisely, and answered with the motto of a noble house, "I bide my time.' There . is a narrow pass between the mountains in the neighborhood of Bendearg well known lo the traveller who -adventures into these wilds in quest of the savage sublimities of nature. At a little distance it has the apparence of an artificial bridge thrown over a tremendous cavern; but on a nearer approach is seen to be a wall of nature's own masonry, formed of vast and rugged bodies of solid rock, piled on each other as if in giaut sport of architecture. Its sides are in some places covered with trees of a considerable size; and the pas senger who has a head steady enough to look down the precipice, may see the ey ries of birds of prey beneath his feet. The path across is so narrow that it cannot ad. mit of two persons passing alongside; and indeed none but natives accustomed to the scene from infancy would attempt the dan gerous rout at all, though it saves three miles. Yet it sometimes happens that two travellers meet in the middle, owing to the curve formed by the pass preventing a view from either side: and when this is the case, one is obliged to lie down, while tbe other crawles over his body. One day, shortly after the incident we have mentioned, a Highlander was walk ing carelessly along the pass; sometimes bending over to watch the flight of the wild birds that built below, and sometimes detaching a fragment from the top, to see it dashed against the uneven sides, and bounding from rock to rock, while its sound echoed li!:o a human voice, and died in faint and hollow murmurs at tbe bottom. When he had gained the highest part of the arch, he observed another com ing feisurely up on the opposite side; he being himself of the patrician order, called out to him to halt and lie down; the person, however, disregarded the command, and the Highlanders met face to face on "the summit. They war Cairn and Bendearg! These two hereditary enemies, who would have rejoiced in mortal strife with each other on a hillside, turned deadly pale at the fatal rencontre. I was first at the top,' said Bendearg, 'and called out first; to lie down that I may pass over in peace.' When the Grant prostrates himself before a McPherson,' answered the other, 'it must be with a sword driven through his body.' 'Turn back then. 'Go back yourself, if you like i,' replied Grant, 'I will not be the first of my name to turn before the Mc Pherson.' This was their short conference, and the result was exactly as each had anticipated. They then threw their bonnets over the precipice, and advanced with a slow and cautious pace closer to each other. They were both unarmed. Stretching their limbs like men preparing for a desperate stugg'.e, they planted their feet firmly on the ground compressed their lips, knit their dark brows, and fixing fierce and watchful eyes on each other, stood thus prepared for the on set. They both grappled at the same mo ment; but being of equal strength, were unable for some time to shift each other's position standing fixed on a rock, with suppressed breath, and muscles strained to the 'top of their bent,' like statues carved out of solid stone. At length M'Pherson, suddenly removing his right foot so as to give him greater purchase, stooped his body, and bent his enemy down with him by main strength, till they both leaned over the pricipice, looking downward into the terrible abyss. The contest was as yet doubtful, for Grant had placed his foot firmly on an elevation at the brink, and had equal command of his enemy; but at this moment M'Pherson sunk slowly and firmly on his knee, and while Grant start ed suddenly back, stooping to take the sup posed advantage, whirled him over his head into the gulf. M'Pherson himself fell backwards, his body hanging partly over the rock a fragment gave way beneath him, and he sank farther, till, catching with a desperate effort at the solid stone above, he regained his footing. There was a pause of death-like stillness, snd the bold heart of M'Pherson felt sunk and faint; at length, as if compelled unwillingly by some mysterious feeling, he looked down over the precipice. Grant had caught with a death gripe by the rugged point of a rock his enemy was yet almost within bis reach! His face was turned upwards, and there were in it horror and despair but he uttered no word or cry. The next moment he loosened his hold and the next his brains were dashed out before the eyes of bis hereditary foe; the mangled body die- annearerl nmnnir the trees, and its last heavy and hollow sound arose from the bottom. M'Pherson returned home an al tered man. He purchased a commission in the army, and fell bravely ir the wars of the Peninsula. The Gaelic name for the place where this tragedy was acted signi fies Hell's Bridge. A COOL AVENGER. A certain English gentleman, who was a regular frequenter of the greenroom of Drury Lane Theatre in the days of Lor J Byron's committee, and who always stood quietly on the hearthrug there with his back to the fite, was in his usual place one night when a narrative was related by an other gentleman newly returned from the Continjnt, of a barrier duel that had taken place in Paris. A young Englishman a mere boy had been despoiled in a gaming house in the Palais Royal, had charged a certain gaming count with cheating him, had gone out with theCount, had wasted his fire, and had been slain by the count under the frightful circumstances of the count's walking up to him, laying his hand on his heart, saying: "You are a brave fel low ; have you a mother" and on his re plying in the affirmative, remarking cooly ; "I am sorrysfor her," and blowing his vic tim's brain i out. Tbe gentleman on the hearthrug paused in taking a pinch of snuff to hear this story, and observed with great placidity : "I am afraid I must kill that ras cal !" A few nights elapsed, during which the green-rooaxhearthrng was without him. and then he xg-eppeared precisely as be fore, and only incidentally mentioned in the course of the evening : "Gentlemen I kill ed the rascal !" He had gone over to Pa ris on purpose, had tracked tho count to the same gaming-house, had thrown a glass of wine in his face in the presence of all the company assembled there, had told him that he was come to avenge his young compatriot and had done it by putting the count out of thr3 world and coming back to the hearth rug as if nothing had happened. Household Words. GREAT WHEAT CROP. The St. Paul Minnesotian says, on sixty acres of land in Washington co., Minnesota, there was raised this season, the enormous yield of three, thousand bushels of wheat, or fifty bushels to the acre. The grain is of the finest and heaviest quality, actually weighing four or five pounds more to the bushel than standard weight ! The crop was raised from seed which had been long in the Territory, and was thoroughly acclima ted. inter's cold has no effect on it. E. PLURIBUS UNUM, A few years since the Captain of a Militia Company in a certain town in New Hampshire, who felt all the im portance of the high station to which he had been lately elevated, resolved to have a bass drum added to the drum and fife ordinarily used in his company. He accordingly visited the town of Ports mouth for the purpose of making the ne cessary arrangements, and with some difficulty at length succeeded in find ing a person, who had a bass drum, of which he was willing to dispose, and a bargain was soon struck. But the Captain was somewhat puzzled with the phrase "E Pluribus Unum," which was carr ed into the beak of the American Eagle, and painted on the drum. He demanded an explanation and was told by the wag, that was the name of the Captain of the Compa ny to which the drum formerly belong ed. "Then it must be altered." "Certainly-." The drum was accordingly taken to a painter, and the objectiona ble words, E Pluribus Unum wcre-esras-ed, and other words substituted in their place. For many years this drum was carried at the head of the Company the eagle proudly bearing in his beak the scroll, to which was attached the name of the brave and well-meaning E. Jonathan Pilsbury ! LIBERTY AND RELIGION. " A soldier who had been clapped in Newgate for a robbery and manslaugh ter seeing one of his comrades in the street going by, called to him through the grate of a prison asking him What news? 'why,' answered the other, 'therc'sa rebellion broke out in Scot land.' 'God preserve us!' cried the fettered soldier,' should those rascals get the upper hand, farewell to the lib erty of Old England.' 'Aye,' replied the other, swearing a tremendous oath, 'and what will become of the protes tant religion V ANECDOTE OF JUDGE MARSHALL. . Judge Marshall returning from North Carolina, wrapped in profound thought on some knotty point, found himself suddenly brought to a halt by a small tree which intervened between the front wheel and the body of his buggy. See ing a servant at a short distance, he ask ed him to bring an axe and cut down the tre'?. The servant told the Judge that there was no occasion for cutting down the tree, but just to back the bug gy. Pleased at the good sense of the fellow, he told him that he would leave him something at the inn hard by, where he intended to stop, having then no small change ; In due time the negro applied, and a dollar was handed him. Being asked if he knew who it was that gave him a dollar, he replied, " No,sir I concluded he was a gentleman by his leaving the money, but think ho is the biggest fool I ever saw." When General Lafayette was in this tuumry iwo young men were introdu ced to him, he said to one, Are -j pu married V Yes sir, was the reply. ( Hanrvw man nnnth tV'a f!anarl ITa then put the question to the other, who replied i I arn a bachelor. Lucky dog, said the General, This is the i)est essay on matrimony extant, What plan,' said an actor to anoth er, ' shall I adopt to fill the house at my Denent?' 1 invite your creditors, was the surly reply. ANTIPHLOGISTIC SALT, A PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOB THE LAJfCET. LEECHES A2TD BLISTERS OF the intrinsic value, the enlightened comma nity, and not the Discoverer, mast be the Judge, JHany Medicines onerea torsaie are accompan ied by doubtful certificates, (their chief virtue,) and claim to be universal remedies, coring all maladies a burlesque on common sense. As the discoverer of this Salt solemnly protests against having It placed in the category of frauds and im positions, he has resolved that it shall go forth to the world like the pure gold dollar, with no other passport than its own true value. If the public una It genuine mcy wm receive ouuhuud, they will reject and condemn it. Instead a pan acea for all ills, it has control over out one ill has but one aim and accomplishes but one thing, to wit: scbooes ikflammatobt DiscASB whatever beits form or locality whether in the head, throat chest, abdomen, extremities, or skin. When the discoverer, after a long series of labo rious ad cosily experiments, became fully confir med in his conviction that the AntiphlogisticSalt, which he now has the happiness to present to the American public, was a PERFECT SUBSTITUTE For Blood-letting, Leeches and Blisters, his mind was so agitated that he could not sleep for many nights The cause of his agitation was the stri king fact that the manner of its operation, like that of the virus in vrccination, could no. be satisfacto rily explained upon any known principle. How, in what tray, it so effectually subdues inflammatory diseases, and no othero, was at first wholly inexpli cable but, on further expei intent, it was proved that by its power over the veins, arteriea and glands, it equalize thejtuids of the body, the wantof an equilibrium in which, is the sole cause ot in flammation. It exerts, life the vaceine niatier.an extraordinary influence over the circulation re sulting in a gradual decline of inflammation as in dicated by the pulse, which soon resumes its nat ural state, as the beat and pain disappear. Such is its potency, that like the vims jast mentioned, it requires what merely adheres to the point of a quill dipped into a solution of it, to affect the en tire system but must beinstantly nsed to prevent decomposition and secure its faM virtue. Three quills in acute, and two in chronic disease, every 24 hours, tilt the heat and fever have subsided anrf a perfect cure effected. When it takes the place ot Leeches, Stimulating Ointments and Blisters m Local Inflammation's Brain Fever, Croup, Tooth ache, Pleurisy, 4c, its mode of administration is two-fold. See direction for disealving(ete. The peculiar excellence of this Salt is that without the useless loss of blood and strength, it effectually cures Inflammatory Diseases (no oth ers) by producing an equilibrium of all the fluids in the body and a consequent nninterrupted circula tion. Tho lollowrngdiflerentybrm which the un balanced fluids assume, and many not here men tioned, that have more or less fever or pain, are as perfectly subdued by the AntiphlogisticSalt, as fire is extinguished by water. 1 Cases where the unbalanced fluid affects the Head and Throat to wit: Brain Fever, Headache, Fits, Inflamed Eyes, Ears and Nose. Canker, Neu ralgia, Catarrh, Erysipelas, Bronchitis, Ac. 2. Cases where the unbalanced fluids affect the Chest and Abdomen to wit : Pleurisy, Asthma, Inflamed Lungs and Liver. Colic, Heartburn, Coughs, Dyspepsia, Gravel, Gonorrohcea, Venere al.dtc. 3 Cases where the unbalanced fluids affect the Extremities and Skin to wii: Rheumatism, Gout, Scrofula, Ulcers, Chicken and Small Pox, Salt Rheum, and all Itehing and other Cutanoous Erup tions, This Salt greatly alleviates the Inflammatory Pains peculiar to married ladies, (before and at the time of confinement,) and many Female Com plaints; and is very efficacious in Fevers, Ague, Wounds, Nervous and Spinal Affections, and any other forms of (mark this) Inflammatory Disease, attended with heat or febrile symptoms. pf Persons who have a tendency of blood to the Head and Heart, or lead inactive lives, or breathe the impure air of manufactories and the poisonous tumes of metals and minerals, or live in unhealthy climates, are exposed to a peeuliarrtutlton of the fluid of the body, which one dose, without interfer ing with diet or business, once in three months, would mvanuDiy prevent, it is oeueved to attotd protection from Infeeiious Diseases j and, there fore, it is recommended to Travellers, Sailorr and Soldiers. . JjTTo protect the community from imposition by counterfeits, tne 1'roprietor will employ no Agent, and has made such arrangements that he can send the Medicine in any quanlity, by Mail or Exprei"", to any part of the United States or For eign Countries. Its prime cost fo the Distovere is 91.50 per drachm price t'l per drachm and is put up in drachm packages for Acme Pipeafe, (with directions, &c. ) at 92; 3 drachma do. for Chronic Cases, 95; and 5 drachms do. for Families $3 a net profit ot 5uc on each package. fj While many nostrum makers victimize the good natured and pill ridden public by ordering from six to a dozen boxes or bottles to cure any malsdv. no matter what, the undersigned is happy in being able to state, that the severest forms of recent Inflammatory uiseaseare overcome oy one Acute Package, and the meat obstinate and long standing by one Chronic Packa-sre Akhoo"h 30 days have not elapsed since this New HI sdical Agent became partially Known to inn citizens et Boston and a few neighboring towns, yet such hare bee n the results of its trial that during the past week, nearly 400 packages were sold in this city and or ders received by mail and express for 163 Family, 347 Chronic, and 395 Acute Packages. In one in stance 6 nersons clubbed together and wrote for 6 Packages, (of the "Little Giant," as they called it.) to be forwarded to one address tnereBy saving ' ... , i.i r. expense to tnemscives anwue rroprieior. 'Letters from clubs or individuals with mon ey tit over 10) should be registered at the post i : . l... r i ,, . Oioce wncre maueu, bb ii guois vyi u, aiu wi se cure their safe arrival. ,The Discoverer now humbly submits his Per fect Substitute for the Lancet, Leeches and Blis ters, to the tribunal of an intelligent public, reiter ating that it does jnst what it claims to do no more, no less: Subdues Inflammatory Diseases, (no others,) whatever be its form or locality, by -restoring tne lost balance oeiveen inejiuias ana sol ids. Family Packages ta, Chronic and Acute iZ: to be had (free of expense) only by addressing him through Box 32?, Boston, Mass., or at his of fice. No. 3 Winter Street. jrjFCut out this advertisement for the perus al of your nelgnoors ana your own imure use. F. COG G SWELL, M. D. Discoverer and Proprietor, Boston, May, 1857. 25tw .Forsaleat THE COMMERCIAL OFFICE and at WALKER MEARES & GO'S Drug Store JTI1E NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE C0MP' Y , RALEIGH, N. C. THE above Companvhr s been inoperationsince the lstof April, 1848, under the directionof the ol wing vincers, vis : Dr. Charles E.Jonhson, President, Wm. D.Haywood, Vice President, John G. Williams, Secretary, Wm-H.Jones, Treasure. Porrio. Busbce, Attorney, Ut. Va"?? ... 'wn , MrAit-n I nr,n,;lr !'.V'U'-"I C Consultation r n J.IIersman. General Agent This Company has received a charter giving ad antaeea to the insured overany otherCompanv. Their- Section gives the Husband the privilege to Insure msown me tor tne soieuseot nis wueand Children frt irom any ciaimsol the represents iimKof the husband or any of his creditors. Organised on purely mutual principles, the life membersparticipatein the vholeot the profits which are declared annually. Besides, the applicant fot Ife.woen theannualpremiumis over30maypy half in a Note. Allclaimsforinsuranceagainst the Company will cpaid within ninety uaysaiterprooiot the death nttire Dartv isfurnished. - Slaves are insured forone or five years, at rates which will enable an Slaveholders to secure t hi class ofproperily against the uncertainty of life Slave insurance presents a new and interestin feature in the history of North Carolina. which will nrove very important to tbe Southern States. The last fqur months operation ofthis Company howaa verylarge amount of business more than the Directors expected to do the first year having already issued more than 200 Policies. Dr. Wm. W. HAas?ss,Mdleal Examiner, and Agent, Wilmington, N,C. AllCommunica'lonsonbnsinesrof theCompany noma De addressed to - . RICHARD H. BATTLE, Sec'y. Ralelxh.JDne8.1866. FOR RENT. THE following Houses for Re nt for 12 months, from the 1st at fWtntwr next; One Hquseon4ih Street, North of Prin- oefcs street. OaeHouse on Market street, extended. Three Houses on Dock street, be twee n 6ih and 7 th streets. . On Hovseoa the East side of Old BopnJary street between Market and Dock streets. Ope Hons on th corner of Dock and Old Boundary streets. One Hon on Market street between 8ih and 9th streets. Apply to -. - MILES COSTIN. July 30. 57-tf FOREIGN GOLD AND SILVER COIN THEIR TALCS AT TBE MINT, i GOLD COINS. Austria Quadruple ducat 59 120 27 5 85 0 4 O Ducat 2 Sovereign (for Lombardy) 6 Baden Five Gulden 2 Bavaria Ducat .- - 2 Belgium Twenty-franc piece 3 27 0 83 2 Twenty-hve Irane piece... 4 72 0 Bolivia Doubloon 15 Brazil Piece of 6400 reia 8 58 0 72 0 Britain Sovereign ................ 4 BruDswick Ten-Thaler. 7 84 5 89 0 960 67 0 83 5 Centra! American 14 Ecsudo 1 Gold Dollar ? Chili Doubloon (before 1835) .15 57 0 Doubloon (is jo and since) 15 660 Denmark Double Fred, or 10 Thaler 7 88 0 ' TT.K j t 1 EiCuaoor nan aounioon 7 M) 0 Eypt Hundred piastres. . 4 97 0 France Twenty francs.... 3 85 0 Greece Twenty drachms 3 Hanover Ten Thaler, George IV. . 7 Ten-Thaler. William IV and Ernest 7 Hindostan Mohur. East India Co.. 7 45 0 84 0 89 C 10 0 89 0 Mecklenburg Ten Thaler 7 Mexico Doubloon, average 15 530 NetherlandsDucat 2 20 5 Ten guilders 4 00 7 New Granada Doubloon. 21 carat. standard 15 51 0 Doubloon, 21 carat standard. inclu- ding the silver 15 71 0 Doubloon, 9 lOtha standard 15 310 Doubloon. 9-101 hs standard, inclu ding the silver 15 33 0 Persia Tomaun 2 23 0 Peru Doubloon, Lima, fo 1S33. . . .15 55 0 Doubloon, Cuzco, to 1833 15 62 P Doubloon. Cuzco, to 1837 15 534 Portugal Hall joe (lull weight).... 8 65 0 urown 5 81 0 Prussia Double r 1 edenck. S 00 0 Rome -Ten scudi ...10 37 fl Russfa- I ive roubles. 3 qr 7 Sardinia Tweuty lire 3 84 5 Saxony Ten thaleis... 7 90 Dueat... 1 260 Spain Pistole (qr. doubloon)...-... 3 900 1 urkey Hundred piastres..... 4 37 4 Tuscany sequin. . 2 30 0 United States Eagle f before June. 1834J 10 620 ive dollar piece 01 C. Bechter, av erage . .- 4 85 0 Dollar of the same, average. 96 0 Five dollar p'c of A.Bechtler ?4 92 a 5 00 0 Dollar ol the same. ; 98 0 Oregon Exchange Co Five dollars. 4 82 0 N. G. & N. San Francisco- Five dole. 84 83 a 4 95 0 Miners' Bank, San FranciscoTen dollars 9 06 a 9 92 0 Moffatt & Co., 9 78 a 9 93 0 75 0 " Sixteen dollar : about ingots, 15 RATES OF POSTAGE. Letters composed of one or more niece of paper, but not exceeding half an e-nuce in weight, sent any distance not exceeding 300C miles, 3 cents; over 3000 mrfes, f0 cents. Double rate tt exceeoinv half an ounce treble, if exceeditisr an oance : and so on charging an additional rate for everv addi tional half ounce, or fraction ol halfan ounce. Absolute pre-paymetn beintr reouired on all letters to places within the United Stales. irom ana alter April 1st, moo. From and after January 1st. 1856 all let r , r. ters between places in the United i State? or staropea envelopes. Lietters dropped in tbe post office, lor de livery in the same place, I cent each. 1 Inciters advertised are charged 1 cent each, besides regular postage. Drop letters are not advertised. Circulars, I cent for 3'ouhces or less to any part of the United Slates, to consist ol but one piece ol paper pre payment option" al. Dayly newsparers we.ftrhinir three ounces or less, 45 1-2 cents per quarter, when sent irom the office of publication to actual and bonalide subscribers any where Hi the Uni ted Slates. Transient newspapers' stfnt any where within the United Stales, I cent for tfrree ounces or lesar. When the article fo be mailed is a circu lar, pamphlet, or newspaper, it should be so enveloped as to be open at one end other wise, it will be charged as a letter. BKITISII POSTAGE ARRANGEMENTS. Letters posted or charged in the United States will be rated at a half ounce to the single leiter ; over a half and not exceeding an oonce, as a double letter ; over an ounce and not exceeding an ounce and a half, as a treble letter; and so on, each half ounce or fractional excess coasslituting a rate. 1 ne single rates to be charged on each letter posted in the United Slales nddresscd to any place in Great Britain or Ireland is 24 cents; the double rale 4S ; and so on. Said postage on letters going to any place in Great Britain or Ireland" may be pre-paid, if the whole amount is tendered at the office in the U. S. where mailed, at tbe option o the sender. ' Newspapers may be mailed at any office in the United Slates to any place in the U rrited Kingdom on the pre-payment of 2 cents, and may on receipt from any place in Great Britain or Ireland, be delivered at any office in the United Slates, on payment of 2 cents. Note. Each Government is to charge 2 cents on each newspaper. These are to be sent in bands or covers, open at the sides or ends, and to contain no manuscript what ever. m ,. 5 Persons mailing letters to loreign coun tries, with which the United States have not entered into postal arrangements, are remin ded that it is necessary lor them to pre-pay the pi oper postage, or the letter? cannot be lot warded. I GEORGETR. FRENCH, MANUFACTURER AND WHOLESALE 4- RETAIL DEALER IN BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER, AND SHOE F1WUIMGS, j NO. 11. MARKET STREET,' tVILMINGTOV, K. C. S March 6. WINTER HATS AND - CAPS. r-mm A FULL AND VARIED AS ll sortmentof all the different styles "01 Uressand Business Hats and Caps now open; comprising -ILK, TVS. ANDW09I. HATS, CLOTH, PLCEH A-Sr SILK GLAZED CAFS, INFANTS HATS AND CAFS, HISSES BEAVER AND FELT FI.AT3rBOY8 AND YOUTHS SOFT HATS AND CAPS, UMBREL LAS, CANES, BELTS, Which we offer at wholesale or retail, at the very lowest prices, kj. u. MtbKS, 34 Market street, two doors below Scott Sl Bald win's. s 82 W. G. MILLIGAN, i MARBLE MANUFACTURER, Nobth Wate Stbbet, Wimiiisto, No. Ca. Monuments, Toombs, Head and foot Stones, and aU kinds ej JjJarbU H ert JnmxsXei to order on reasonable terms. . one 5. 36-Iv-c HENRY NUTT. FiCTOB 15D F02W1K9I3G AC EST, Will give hi personal attention to business intrust ed to hi cart. Sept.e. IS56. 75-ly-e. 1 r OCEAN STEAM NAVIGATION. The following rates of poet ace nn Invn have been agreed upon between this govern ment and tbe German States, . Prussia,- Ac. Bremen. 10 cents : Oldenburg 13; Aliona. Austrian Empire, (including Hungary, Ga licia, Lombardy ant! Venice) Bavaria, Brans wick, Hamburg, Hanover, Alecklenbourg Schwerine and Straelitz, Kingdom of Prus sia, Kingdom ofSaxony, and Saxe Alten- ourg, 10; an othex German Ktatea. cities and towns, 22; Switzerland and the Nether lands. i ; Denmark and Scbleswig, 27 ; Po land and Russia, 29; Constantinople, Greece and Sweden 33: Norwav. 37 optional. - .r-r-v- Alexandria, Corfu. Island ol Malm Wl- lachia, 30 cents ; Italy, (except upper part) 33; pre-payment required. Newspapers and Circulars. 2 cents mrh to be prepaid. Mails to the Pacific. For a single let ter, not exceeding halfan ounce iu weight, from New York to Chagres, 20 cents; to Panama. 20 postage to be prepaid. Pos tage to Callifornia and Oregon (they being U. & possessions) need not be pre-paid. Havana Maii.s. A line is established be tween Charleston and Havana, the steam ers touching at Savannah and Key "V the postage of which is from the port of de parture to Havana 10 cents on a single let ter, not exceeding halfan ounce in weight, with an additional 10 cents (or each oddv tional half ounce, or fractional excess of half an ounce to be pre-paid. Postage on each newspaper to Havana.. 2 cents, also lo be prepaid as on letters. Oa letters to British North America, 10 cents, ii not over 3000 miles ; if over that distance, 15 cents a single rate pre paid or not, at the option ol the of tbe sender. -RATES" OF POSTAGE To the East Indies, Java, Borneo. Labnan Sumatra., the Moluccas, and the Philio jn'ne Islands, We are authorized to state that, arrange ments having been made by Great Britain for collecting in India the British and oihe foreign postage on letters between the Uni ted Kingdom and the East Indies, whether transmitted via Southampton or via Mar seilles, in the British mail, hereafter the Uni ted Stales postage trnly shonld be p-epaid in this country on letters for tne East Indies It be transmitted by either of the above routes viz.- jite cent the single rate when the At lantic conveyance is by British packet, and twenty-one cents when by United States packet. -..--. - -Owing to a reduction of twelve cents in the British postage beyond England, which toolf place 011 the 1st of February instant, the sin gle rates ofletter po:tse between the Ur.i- Med Stal es and Java, Borneo, Labnam. Su matra, the Moluccas, and the Philippine Is lands, will hereafter be as follows: To Java, via Southampton, 33 instead of 45 cents 3ie hall ounce; and via Marseilles' 53 instead of 75 cents the half ounce ; pre payment required. To Borneo, Labnan, Sumatra, the Moluc cas, and the Philippine Islands the rate wil be 41 instead of53 cents when sent via South ampton, and 61 instead of 73 cents tbe quar ter ounce, or 71 instead of 83 cents the half ounce, when sent by closed mail via Mar seil'es; prepayment also required. The rates above mentioned as chargeable on letters for the Island ol Java yriU- provide for their conveyance by British' packe't as (aras Singapore, fill they will afterwardb subject to a Netherland rate of postage orf account of the conveyance from Singapore to Java. By the Prussian Closed Mail the rates these countries remain unci atlged. SILVER COINS, AuMria II ix Dollar '. SO 97 Fl om. 48 0' Twenty hrfiutzers 16 0' Lira I lor Lombardy 16 f Baden Crown 1 07 Gulden or florin 39 5 Bavaria Crown. 1 06 5 Florin..-...-.- 39 5' Six breutzers... 3 0 Belgium Five Irancs. S3 6' Two and a half IranCs. .... .... .. 46 0 Two (Van rs 37 0" Franc 18 5; Bolivia Dollar...,..-...-. -. . 1 00 6" Hairdbllar, debased. 1830 37 5' Quarter dollar, debased. 1830 18 7 Brazil Twelve hundred rein.... 99 2 Eight hundred re is . . .-. 6Q- Four hundred.. 33 Bremen Thirty-six grote .-. 35 Britain Half crown... .. .-. 54 f' S1u'!I5rig .... ...... 217 Fotirpenre 7 1 Brunswick Thaler 68 0 Central America Dollar, tincer. say 7 O Chili Dollar 1 01 0" Quarter dbffar. ... . 224 Eight dollar or real. 112 Dfturiiirk Rig? bank thaler........ 52 3: Specie dialer..... 1 04 7 Thirty-two shillings. 17 0' Ecuador Quarter dollar.......... 18 7 Egypt Twenty piasties. 96 O France Five francs. 93 2 Franc 18 5 Frankfort Florin 39 5 Greece Drachm.... 16 5 Guiana, British -Guilder.. ....... . 26 2 Hanover Thaler, fine silver. ...... 92 Thaler, 750 fine 68 0 Hayti Dollar, or 100 centimes 25 7 Hesse Cassel Thaler 67 5 One-sixth thaler..... 11 o Hesse Damstadt Florin or Gulden. . 39 5 Hindostan Rupee 44 7 Mexico Dollar, average.......... 1 00 O Naples Scudo 4 0 Netherlands Three guilders 1 20 O Guilder 40 O Twenty five cenls 9 5 Two and a half guilders 9S 2 New Granada Dollar, usual weight 1 02 0 Dollar, lighter and debased. 1839. . Norway Rigsdaler. ........ 1 'j5 0 Persia -Sahib koran.... ........... 21 5 Peru Dollar, Dima mint 1 00 6 Dollar, Cuzco 1 00 8 Half dollar, Areqoipa debased.... 36 0 Hall dollar, Pasco 493 Poland Zioiy.. 112 Portugal Cruzado ............... 55 2 Crown of 1000 reis I 12 0 Half Crown-. 56 0 Prussia-Thaler, average 680 One-sixth, average 11 Double thaler, or 3 1-2 gulden.... 1 39 0 Rome Scudo...... 1 00 6 Teslon. three scudo 30 0 Rossia Rouble 75 0 Ten Zloty.. I t33 WINES! WINES!! WINES!!! IT IS TRULVSAID that George Myers has the best Champagne wines ever before offered a this city. They need but a trislnw those who hare not used tium to ropercf de all other brands. IMPERIAL BRAND, n eases, the "ne plus ultra" of all wines from t vineyard of Boucne, Filset Drouet Silletr superieor, HeidsicK brand qts 9t pts. Boache brand Crown brand Star brand Also, Brandies of the very finest grade: Pars Holland Gie, duties paid at Casioes Heass. WH. mington, N. C. Sherry, Port aa4 Madeira Wines, pore, and every possible variety ?' qnors. Coidials, e., Ac. in wood acl Toea!oosa, Monoofahel- ndBonrbon VVhUkey, with a lot of choice OM Baker V Maker, f choi cest article ever offered before in this market. Call and examine, atiho Original Family Gro- ANOTHER ease of Gent's Fashionable Black; Casrimere Hats, tbe leading bat of the Sea Ma. Fall assortment of sires at the Hat an Cap Emporium. - CHAS. P. MYERS, d Joly 21. - '" ' 63
The Tri-Weekly Commercial (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
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