The Greensborough patriot [August 13, 1858]

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March 2tJ, 1858. '.'77 lv.
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tf - i ei ice of Medicine, Obstetrics and Surge-v-
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NEW BERN, N. C.
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Devoted to Politics, Literature, -A-griculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and Miscellaneous Reading.
VOL. XX. ' GKEENSB0R0UGH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1858. NO. 997.
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JOIII t». PAl'XE, VTTORNEV AT LAW,
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[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
Cuba—The Plantations—The Coolies and
the Island.
The Rev. Dr. Leyburn, oi' this city, Who
has recently visited Cuba, has written a se-ries
of letters descriptive of the " (Jem of the
Antilles," forthc Presbyterian. Wegivethe
following extract from the last of tbom :
PLANTATION ARRANGEMENTS.
The ubiquitous Yankees, of course, could
not fail to find a footing in a land where
ounces of gold are as easily earned as in
Cuba. Their services, too, are invaluable, es-pecially
as machinists and engineers on the
sugar "estates, and hence, numbers of them
come hither, and some with whom we met
had been here for years. Their wages are
large, some of them getting as much as one
hundred and fifty dollars a month and their
living; bnt their life must be one ofmany
discomforts, as they are on remote planta-tions,
with little society but that of the ne-groes,
the proprietors "almost uniformly re-siding
in Havana. On each plantation there
is usually an uadministiaior," who has the
entire superintendence of its affairs, under
whom is a '■ miral," or overseer, who is not
unfrequently one of the blacks. The state-ments
of the machinists and engineers, who
came as passengers on our ship from Havana,
differed widely as to the treatment the ne-groes
receive." Some of them said they bad
light work, and were well led and clothed,
and others, that their condition is in all res-pectsas
miserable as it can be. The staple
article of their food is jerked beef brought
from South America, in addition to which
they have rice, plantains,and sugar cane.—
The latter would not seem to be a very val-uable
item in the hill of litre, though it is said
tn be very nutritious.
The slave trade, as is well known, is carri-ed
on on a large scale, the Captain General,
unless he is slandered, reaping an enormous
reve.iue by wi.iking at it. Their mode of
proceeding" is for several planters to unite,
and send a ship to the coast of Africa, with
an understanding as to what part of the
coast she is to make for on her return.—
When she is about due. small fishing vessels
are sent out to intercept her, whilst a vigi-lant
look-out is kept, and signals are made
from the shore to warn them in case cruisers
are known to be in the vicinity. The human
cargo is disembarked with all despatch, and
after being concealed in the woods, in case
of suspected danger, are carried off the first
opportunity to their respective plantations.
, cool.IKS.
However hopeless the breaking up of the
slave trade may he, by moral influences,or
the police of other nations, ii is not improba-ble
that the Coolie system, will in the end,
lead to its abandonment. The Coolies, in-deed,
do not stand the climate as well as the
Africans, and in other respects are not con-sidered
as good laborers; but they require
no outlv of capital, and the supply bids fair
to equal the demand. Already there are at
least thirty thousand on the island, and ac-cessions
are constantly arriving. The after-noon
before we left, a ship came in from Chi-na,
swarming with these halt-naked, misera-ble
looking creatures. In Havana there are
numbers of them employed as boatmen, ser-vants,
&<•.. and some of those we saw in the
streets on Sunday, had a very respectable,
and even genteel appearance. Their treat-ment
on the plantations,accordingtothe un-iform
testimony we received, is
than that of the negroes.
ready to supply the fleets of steamers which
rendezvous or call here, whenever any one
shall dig it out and bring it to market; whilst on
entirely wrong. Those Hanks that did a le- i BRECKINBIDGE'S PALTRY EXCUSES,
gitimate business, were still able to move ! —
steadily on and to. declare a reasonable divi- j Alluding to the excuse made by Mr.TJreck-dend.
The otherllanks made suspension a • inridge lor Democratic extravagance, name-matter
ol speculation and as a consequence j ly, lliat a Republican House 01 Representa-realized
a larger rtfr cent on their capital.— : tives occasioned all the extravagance,the I'e-
A part of the Ranks of the State have do- j tersl.urg Intelligencer remarks :
graded the Banking system into a mere bro-1 '• We nave seen this excuse in some of the
ker's business, as is clearly proved by their
expec.
paying the line or penalty imposed by the : ly draw about nine feet water when lull}-1 a sickly season,
law. Why should corporate bodies "enjoy | laden. Tbey have cleared with return car-privileges
not granted to citixens ? The syis-j goes. There are several other vessels
the forests abound with mahogany, cedar, j tern the Hanks of the State bavo been sane-! their way on the same route.
and other such woods as are used for furni- tioned in pursuing has proved itself as being . - -— m • —
ture and the most costly fabrics. The Cuban
cedar, the material of which cigar boxes are
made, grows to a much greater size than our
tree of the same name, the trunk sometimes
reaching a diameter of three feet or upwards.
With its varied products and resources, and
its position, the wealth of the Island, great as
it now is, might be multiplied ten fold.
DRAWBACKS TO LIFK IN CUBA.
The Chief drawbacks to a life in this beau- """Pensions, and yet then- acts were realized
; by the very men to whom were entrusted
tiful garden-spot of the world, so far as we i th■ e honor and welfare of,. t,,he State.
could ascertain, are the enervating climate,
yellow fever and mosquitoes. The last men-tioned
is a serious grievance on the planta-tions.
The Cuban species seem to be an im-provement
on our choicest varieties. To
strangers their stingisverypoisonous,produ-cing
a degree of inflammationwhich amounts
to quite an affliction. The bauds, wrists and
ankles swell up and suppurate, making great
sores, which leaves pits almost as deep as
those of the small-pox, and much larger. A
lady showed me the scars on one of her chil-dren,
whichfully confirmed these statements.
It is a remarkable fact, however, that after a
residence of two years, the sting is scarcely
felt, and the poison seems to produce little or
no effect. One of the American residents ac-counted
tor this by the idea that the enerva-ting
climate renders the blood so thin and
poor, that it is no longer capable of the same
degree of inflammation.
As to yellow fever, if there is no more at-tention
paid to cleanliness elsewhere than in
Havana, it is no wonder it prevails. The
same causes would probably lead to its con-tinued
prevalence in any of our Southern ci-ties.
One of our company, who is a physi-cian,
repeatedly remarked, as we encounter-ed
the filth, garbage, and villainous odors
about the houses ami in the streets, that it
was not surprising that the Ilavanese have
In addition to this, we have the authority
of Hunt's Mtrchant's Magazine, to sustain
our position, that the profits of Hanks should
he limited.
Our Hank circulations as compared to the
business transaction of the country, stand in
the ratio to those of Great Hritian as from
three to five to one; or in other words, upon
a paper circulating medium, not larger than
our own, the business transactions of that
country are from three to five times as great
as ours. This excess of paper is pushed out
not to facilitate business, but to enlarge div-idends.
Limit the profits of banks, then, to
fair dividend, and let all excess of profits go
into the State treasury, and we will have no
more suspensions.—C/teruw Gazette.
COALITION! COALITION!
These words sound harshly upon the ears
of our neighbor of the South. In the not
distant future he sees in them the elements
of the destruction of his own party. There-fore
they seem to fill his breast with virtu-ous
indignation. The causes of the success
of the Democratic party in latter years seem
to be obliterated from the memory ol our
neighbor, and the magic charms of coalition
which once filled his heart with victorious
1 ear with all
Original tetritorticit*.
[For the Urcenaborougb PstriiS.]
THE MOUNTAIN TOURISTS.
small-fry newspapers, but had not expected
to bear "it from the Vice Preeident of the li-nked
States. The Secretary of the Treasu-ry's
Report at the beginning of the last term
of Congress, showed that of the appropria-tions
made, as Mr. H. says, by the Republi-cans,
over sixteen and a half millions of dol-lars
remained applicable to the present year.
Besides this, the Vice President knew per-fectly
well that the Republicans made and
could have made no appropriation of them-selves.
If they had had a majority in the
House, (as in iact they had not; they were
completely overpowered in the Senate,where
there was an overwhelming Democratic ma-jority—
and as completely under the check
of a Democratic Executive, who had no scru-ples
about the use of the veto, and did use it
in the defeat of such appropriation bills as he |
disapproved. For every dollar of the expen-ditures
under the Pierce administration, the
Democracy were and are accountable, and it
is an unworthy evasion to attempt to saddle
the responsibility on Others. Another item
of expense alluded to by the Vice President
was the Post Olfice Department. ••There
was,*' snid he, "a deficit in the Post Office
Department of some millions, occasioned by
the great extension of mail routes, and the
cheapness of postage. The gentlemen who
were raising a cry about the expenses of the I
government, were last winter given an op-!
portuniiy to check the flow of appropriations I fSo ,u" WM our ro!
to the Post Office. It was proposed to raise ; could form no idea of how fast
the rates of postage, but every one ol these ■ traveling ; and to find out, we halted at the
gentlemen voted in opposition to the propo-1 e|ld „,- ., snol.t i.llu>i waieh rim8 „,, to .,„ „],>
sition." Now we should like to be informed I
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SIIMU.IOV .li:«v iil.KV STORE.
4 i.. • lias on hand the line GOLU LE-i
•.:! W \!- ItJ-'S ired \ Johnson of Liver-j
'. ii, ; I i the Silver Lever
I i.»n« Til • • \ . -'• Watch, with a variety of
■'■ft I I i'll •: . . '- Ml of which will lie
ill. «!•■.-. ! all descriptions repaired.
: if (iEORGE RlLEY.
ALEX. ol.nil IM.
I.KIM i:i;s AND
. Wilmington, N. C. Liber-i
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;» .i. *«.:\19I:\IB ti.i.. LAND AGENT, WILL
»«. • i . em new Land, Locate Land
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! , Iowa and H isconsin. Address,
• ;. , _-.• C. Moii-
' •• mil Hon. John A. Gil r.
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II.' TK-R1K1 & «<».. FACTORS AND
■;, .. in .. Agents for Ihe sale and
•' .• ... iin. Salt, Groceries, &c.,
, . Wnier .-'i 'els, Wilmington, N. C.
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. i'. ihier Bank of Cape
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W«OTT ,. UURKCtL'X I'HOTOGRAPHIC
*••.'. II... nj j .■-. Melaino-
. ••.. ; . : ! --. which cannot be surpassed
' i- • • , . , . is iken in Lockets,
•.....•., i. irses of all.—
; . II ed in Gi isbi rough, ihey
i iin nage.
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l*i:oKiii: »!. HELM;, COMMISSION MEB-
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nail ^... , . • .-I.;. Sugars, Coffees, Mo-
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'•' • - i ,% President of Commercial
item Hank "! Wilmington,
" • •...*... . II. Gorman, Kev. R. T. lleflin,
'. . I •• . David McKnight, Greensba-w.
OUR BANKING SYSTEM.
Some twi'lve months ago. in speaking of
the numerous evils of our banking system
and of its many abuses, we took occasion to
suggest a simple,safe and efficacious remedy,
and had that remedy been applied by our
Legislature, we should soon nave ceased to
hear the Cries of an outraged people. Our
banking system is profitable to the stock-holders
because it confers upon them a mon-opoly
of furnishing & paper circulating medi-um
not actually based upon thb precious
metals. If it were otherwise, money would
seek other investiment than bank shares.—
Incorporated monopolies are said to be soul-less
bodies—they fear not future punish-ments,
but prefer present rewards—hence
the larger the profits that can be extorted
from the productive industry of the State
the greater the effort to invest money in the
shares of these irresponsible bodies. .Men
nuch worse | whose conceptions of morality would cause
' them to shudder at the idea of receiving from
Ihe proprietor has no interest in preserv- j a neighbor more than legal interest for the
ing their lives or health beyond the time tor j 1IS0 of money, have no scruples of investing
which he has secured their services, and it is money in bank shares, and pocketing divi-dends
of from l:i to P.I or 20 per cent. The
extortion is performed by a soulless corpo-ration—
hence there is no moral responsibili-ty
attached. With such examples to excite
them on, is it any wonder that unscrupulous
men—and such we have in abundance,should
in the wild chase after inordinate gains,
plunge whole States into distress and ruin
to secure their end '! Such, indeed, has been
the course of our banking system from its
inception to the present time and such it
will continue to be until shorn of the inciting
cause—inordinate profits.
Thoroughly impressed with this truth, we
suggested as the only remedy, the curtail-ment
of wofita by legal enactments. Since
K ■ ' . , • . .1 ... ._
TOM. WILSON'S, YAVF.Y, )
July Urd, 13S8. i
MESSRS. EDITORS:—About four o'clock on
the last evening in .lune, a calm and clear
evening, I'ncle .laccpies and the writer were
slowly wending their way up a shaded trib-utary
of the Swannanoa. which empties into
that River twelve miles from Asheville on
the road to Morgantou. Never did stream-let
cross a road oftcmr in eight miles than
that does; nor was a road ever, unless it
were through a wilderness, more completely
shut out from the piercing rays of the sun
by the thick and gracefully hanging houghs
..f trees. The water, too, was clear as crys-tal,
and made lulling music as it played along
over its pebbly and rock-covered bed. At
times, too, the waters were divided into two
streams, the road running between them.
And these little streams seemed to us to be
running a race.—so rapidly and hurriedly
did they dash along,—to see which could
reach the junction first, tin each side of us.
the white and pink laurels extended toward
us their delicately beautiful blossoms, asif in
welcome to our coming, and the yellow and
white honeysuckles regaled us with a fra-grance
as sweet as
•• Sabran odors, from Ihe spicy shore
Of Arahy. ihe hlesi."
So full was our road of windings, that we
We were
how it is that increasing the rates ofpostage I
and dingy dwelling-house, where we were
t
no matter ti> him ifthey are turned off at the
expiration of the apprenticeship with consti-tutions
broken down by overwork and bad
usage. The Coolies, however, are not al-ways
as submissive as could be desired. They
have sometimes risen up against the miral,
and cut him to pieces. When the proprietor
comes to arrest the culprit, and inquires who
did it. '• We all did it," is the reply of every
one of them ; and as hi'cannot afford to hang
or garrote all of them, the matter usually
ends here.
The Coolies thus far brought to Cuba are
exclusively Chinese. The planter pays the
.-hip that brings them seventy-five dollars for
each one delivered on the plantation. They
arc then apprenticed to him for eight years,
he paving them six dollars a month for their
services. As yet, the time of but few of them
has expired. Those who have I ecorne free
have mostly remained here, engat ing in ped-dling
and petty traffic of various kinds. It
is predicted that many of them never will
get their freedom—that the planters will
manage by some means to keep possession of
them, the Ciovcrnment winkingatit, ofcourse,
"for a consideration." One of the American
residents said to us that if the United States
do not get possession of Cuba soon, the Cool-ies
will, as they are a sagacious people, and
if they continueto increaseas they have done,
in a few years they will have the majority ol
the population.
CAPABILITIES OF CUBA.
I am no advocate of fillibustei ing. or ofany
sort of annexation which implies that "might
makes right;" but Cuba is worthy of a bet-ter
destiny than the wretched despotism
which now oppresses her. In the lands ol
enterprising Americans, and under the be-nign
and elevating influence of evangelical
religion, this Island would be not only " the
Gem of the Antilles," but of the world. The
fertility of the soil is almost boundless, the
labor required in raising crops is compara-tively
nothing, and the remuneration is well
nigh fabulous. 1 am told that some planters
who have several estates, have an income of
eight hundred thousand or a million of dol-lars
annually. < >n new ground, sugar, which
requires to be planted in Louisiana once in
three years, will produce its annual crop for
nine or ten years, so that the planter has
nothing to do but to reap the harvest every
vear. Compared with such agricultural mines
California placers are small affairs. Hut not-withstanding
these temjiting proffers to man's
love of money, by far the larger portion of
the Island is yet a wilderness. A published
statement which I have seen gives only one-i:<
r{'IfKOC'K, l». I». S.. RESPECT-
- II ' -, :..,. - to the citizens
■† .\ I..i desire operations
. . , . latest and besl style.
" • ' .. . mil re any satisfactory refer-
..-.: and ; he advantage
' • - • int | in MEDICINE AND
■' • -1. • 'vcri new di—rcrythal i* valiia-
".•■.' . • , his OPERATING ROOMS
■† ■ •. lory of Oarrett's brick build
twentieth part of it as under cultivation.—
Some part of this, it is true, is mountainous
and untiUable; but a very considerable por-tion
is as fertile as that which yields so en-ormous
a revenue. 1 understand, too. that
at the eastern extremity of the island there
are two ports with harbors equal to that of
1 Havana—though for all available purposes • . iiinl story ol Garrett s brick build- , ,, . n . . ,, n i ■† »<•
• •■ ††• ibef '.ml unless professionally \ i" the Cubans, they might as well be in Al-
''"'• A.: ..... !-■> 982tf Irica.
then we have seen nothing to change our
opinion then expressed, but much to confirm
it. And it is now our pleasure to be able to
fortify our opinion by the opinions of others,
of much more weight and influence.
At a recent meeting of the Newberry Ag-ricultural
Society, a report was made, from
which we make the following extract. It
will be seen that among other recommenda-tions
that of restricting dividends stands
prominent:
" There is perhaps, no subject of legislation
which requires more prompt and efficient en-actments
than that which governs the cur-rency
of the State. Without a sound cur-rency—
one that is so based as to command
the "confidence of all—the business of the
country is at once brought to a stand. The
whole system of Banking is enveloped in so
thick a cloud of mystery that we shall not
attempt a thorough inside view. We think
a very simple legislative enactment would
prove very effective and remedy every evil:
be just and give confidence to all. The
'promise to pay' of a Bank should be placed
on an equality with those of the individ-ual
citizen. When the citiaen^snKS his 'prom-ise
to pay' he is required to make his issue
secure by furnishing good security. Banks
should do the same". The property of each
stockholder should not be made liable only
for double or treble his stock, hut in propor-tion
totheamount of stock, he should he held
responsible for the entire issue oftheBank.—
men who entertained and expressed opin-ions
at irreconcilable strife with the princi-ples
which that party professed to advocate ?
We care not whether you go into the coun-cils
of vour deliberations in convention, or
criticise the conduct of your party upou the
Hustings.
In the Cincinnati platform, the last embod-iment
of the national principles of the Dem-ocratic
party, the first, or among the first,
of the resolutions of that body was that the
Constitution of the United States did not
authorize internal improvement by the Gen-eral
Government—the very last resolution
was that it was eminently expedient to con-struct
a railroad from the Atlantic- to the
Pacific ocean; the most stupendous system
of internal improvement that ever was con-templated
by any Government on earth.—
What was this for, if it was not to effect the
work of coalition—to bring together in con-cert
of action men who radically differed
upon this important and prominent question
of Constitutional power? Coalition, and that
too, by the adoption of principles which, in
fact, are wholly at war with each other, and
which nothing" but a quibbling and sophisti-cal
criticism can ever reconcile as at all con-sistent.
And when you take this subject
from your caucuses to the Capitol of the
country, where are tho Democratic party
then? Ofthe men who were most promi-nent
in Convention, as if they had been
brought together by an harmonious union of
sentiment and conviction, working together
for the strength and advancement of the
Democratic party, when assembled together
in Congress, some are on one side maintain-ing
the Constitutionality of this power, oth-ers
protesting against its exercise as a dan-gerous
usurpation—yet they all kneel with
a heart full of idolatry before their common
altar—their God of Democracy. What is
this but coalition '! Let us refer to any oth-er
subject of public action—the 12th section,
if the'.SWA pleases. Were there, in the last
campaign, no champions of Mr. Buchanan
who were in favor of tho repeal of this fa-mous
section ? No doubt the candor of the
South will dispense with the necessity of
enumerating persons upon 'this subject.—
What was this but coalition ? The Kansas-
Nebraska bill, if this be a more favorite sub-ject
of illustration for the Smith. How many
who opposed this measure, the advocacy of
which our neighbor endeavored to make a
test question of party allegiance, how many
we say, with all the" power which eminent
virtue and ability could command opposed
this measure as inimical to the interests of
the North, who are now expected to answer
at the great roll call of Democracy ? What is
this but coalition :'—the bringing together of
men entertaining different views upon vital
questions, for the purpose of advancing the
cause of Democracy?
How was Mr. Buchanan elected if not by
coalition ? When gentlemen of the South
sat upon the same platform with Mr. Van
Buren in advocacy of his election, when,
throughout the broad land of Abolitionism
you will look in vain for more reckless and
desperate Abolitionists than were some of
those who advocated his claims to popular
suffrage. What was this but coalition ? In-vestigate
the course of your own party when
and where you will, and its aim hus been to
would diminish the cost of carrying and ik- j met b.v lwo l,lai" Mld sim\']y habited nioun-livering
the mails. True, it might have fur-1 tain girls, who had, just a minute before,
nished the government a larger income, but' crossed the creek and were going toward the
would not the government have been charge- j housc 'fo our inquiry as to the distance to
able with the disbursement of that income ? j ,; . fe, „,,,.,,
Would changing tho tax from imports to let- . .Jl , . ,- , • >_ "
ten have made it less a tax to be paid by the | '*« • "••'•» <""' " /'"'.'- :U wh"h announcement
people? The complaint is not as to the BOUT-1 Uncle .lacques shrugged his shoulders and
ees from which the Government obtains its j sighed long and deeply, for he was sure it
revenues, but as to the wasteful and shame-1 WJMJ tW |u.st ho„so afMj uot mol.,. tn:ni |iaif
ful. u' ses to,. which iliaionitCBnthe. mi wi< hre;n„ ,«ib-, i a md.,c. T„„he wri..ter next.i.nq.uired wh■ e r e
tamed, it required a boundless belief in the '
stupidity of his audience to have emboldened , rred. Burnett, the great ••/„/;• hvnter, lives.
the Vice President to address such puerilities I to which they replied by pointing to the
to them for arguments. In merit they are
beneath the capacity ©fa schoolboy, and in
character level with the lowest depth of the
deniagoge. It'we could believe that he offer-ed
them honestly, we should think him semi-idiotic,
but as his friends claim for him a high
order of talent, we are obliged to conclude
that he is afflicted with the common failing
lief that he can
bouse before us. Fred, is a noted charact
up here. We had, heard of him at A-hcvillc,
and that he had killed oterf(ntT hundred bean,
or, as he calls them, barn. We were curimis
to look upon the visage of that long, lean
hunter: but, to our disappointment, he was
absent from home. Were such a character
oi aspiring politicians—a beliel lie . „ ,.
practice upon the simplicity of the people.- j ™ Fred to pass through hasten. I aroma,
A few more efforts in the same direction will ! he would, doubtless, create as great and all-give
him a place above Barnum, as chief of j pervading a sensation as the elephant or </»/y-bumbngB.
I asevta*.
Shortly before nightfall, we drove up to
A HORSE liivt.No TWO .MONTHS WITHOUT,
FOOO.-A man named Kirkland, residing on I Mr. Stepp s house, which ,s a mile and a hall
Centre street near Seneca. left the city about I from the base of the Black Mountain, lie
two months ago without giving notice to any \ met us at his gate and gave us a hearty greet-one.
On Saturday, Mr. Barker, a wagon ing, just such as thrills the heart of the toil-maker
on Seneca street, discovered that a
horse was in the barn formerly used by -Mr.
Kirkland. On entering the stable, the horse
was found lying down and too weak to
rise. The animal had eaten everything within
its reach, gnawed the wood of the manger
and the floor, and. in its agony, had appar-ently
bitten itself During all this time, the
horse, so far as can be ascertained, could
have had access to DO water or food. Mr.
Barker gave the animal a little water, and
meal, and yesterday it was still alive. We
give the facts as they are reported to us ; but
it seems almost incredible that a horse could
live such a length of time without food or
drink.—Buffalo Conner, July 9.
ARRIVAL OF THE MOSKS TAYLOR.—New
York..) uly ^.T,—The steamship Moses Taylor
arrived here to-day, from Aspinwall. with
the San Francisco mails and passengers to
the 5th Innt. She brings 11,200,000 in gold.
The Fra/.ier river excitement continues
and the reports of the richness of the gold
deposits are almost fabulous. One letter
writer says his first day's yield was 8700.
Victoria was crowded with Americans, and
building lots were held as high as $20,000.
The Hudson Bay Company were buying
gold dust at $15 per ounce. The Indians
had begun to molest the emigrants; a party
of ten whites had been attacked and six
tilled with In-worn
traveler, and lodged us fir the night
in very comfortable quartern. He is a small
but hardy mountaineer <>t' two score ami
seven years, and of considerable intelligence,
who, to use his own language, has perused
the mountains, and, especially, the Black,
more frequently and more thoroughly than
any other person now alive. We were in
his house only a few moments before we dis-covered
unmistakable signs of his attachment
to Ihe lamented Klisha Mitchell. Above his
fire-place hangs a large and most excellent
ambrotype-likenessof Dr. Mitchell, which,he
told us, was presented to him by Dr. M's
daughter. So natural, so life-like was il.
that we seemed to be again in the presence
of our great and esteemed teacher; and
there, too, played across his tine face that
once winning smile, with which he was wont
to greet us as we entered his Laboratory, or
wherever he chanced to meet us. On the
lefl of this, was a lithograph of Mitchell's
Falls, from a daguerreotype of O. M. Lewis,
which was taken at the spot where Dr.
Mitchell became a martyr to the cause oi
science. And Mr. Stcpp, also, has in his pos-session
the umbrella which Dr. M. had with
day's work we ever performed. By <evei
o'clock tlie bay and wild gray mules wer-I
caparisoned and everything was anno mc* .
to be in readinws. I'ncle Jacques, dnd n In ^
corduroy and with hiabig boots on, mount*
the gentle mule, and, r.r nfrtfiitatr, th" wi<
tor, who is more skilled in equestrian TO/.'
ton*, placed himself upon the l>ack of th
wild and frisky gray mule, ami away we a
went towards the indescribahly grand I'-lacK
Notwithstanding it was entirely clear IM
we started, yet More we had gotten moi
than two miles and a cpianer up the Mom
tain, which is very steep from the Imso,
cloud came dashing aoraafl the side of tl.
Black, and, almost quicker than thought, A
were in the midst of a violent storm. Su«
vivid lightning, such cricking, crashing thu
der-claps, such floods of rain, arc never see
never heard, never felt in F.astcin Norii
Carolina. Anon, the St..rm was.iver.au I W .
dightlu bedewtd, were again on the man
Having reached the I'attou Houaa, wh'-h •
two and a half miles Ir.nii the foot] we MO
ped. struck Are, mid warmed and dried. Th
House, which is made of rock ami the fir-t< ,
was built by Mi. Win. l'atlon, a highly i
telligent, wealthy and liberal-minded g nt:
man of Charleston. S. C. lie was at MMM
ed t.> spend bis winter- in tic Smiil.. si
in Charleston, and hi-- summers in the moo
taius of ov Slate. He up. ne I this Hmi
with mi expectation or de»lrc of gain, b
that he might bring that noble mountain,
which it is situated, into nioiv general n
tiee. He has been frequently known wot
charge at all, and never more than I uiv
enough to dear up his expenditures ihei
Ihe sad intelligence of his death has air. ai
reached you. He died at the Warm Kpriu
while we were then . Hi- remain* were <■:
ried to Asheville where thev were intered *
the grave iii which Dr. Mitchell's body hi '
lain for nearly twelve months. Hi" fric«<
will, doubtless, move hi* aslie- to the civ...
Charleston. It is strikingly remarkable, Ibai
Klisha Mitchell and William Patton, the tl .
men who have done more than all Other*
together to bring the Black Mountain, th*
loftiest this side of the Rocky, into pljbfn
notice and to throw around it the charms '
civilization and of science, should IH> haril
in the same churchyard and the same | ra
While we were at the I'att .11 ll-uise. iinotl
storm-cloud swept down the way we I
just come, lightning, thundering and pot
in" down rain in torrents. And t r rig:
as we looked back upon that fearful '
splendid sight, we saw the sun shining brig
ly in a valley, which, Mr. Stcpp told u-. a
nine miles distant. No one can full\ appl
ciate the grand and the terrible, until he I
looked upon such a scene as this. W. fa'
hoped to witness such B s-die. ami OUT 1."
was realized. AboUl a quarter of a 11
farther Dp, we saw a pretty, white, ci;-eu
marble-tablet "ii a rock which projects •' t
over a deep valley, on which i> a 1 rows :>• -I
the name, F.lizabcth. < >nr guide tott us, thrtt
Mr. Patten put it there in memory ol
dooeaaod laughter, Rlisabcth, whom he !.-
membered to have gone out upon that v i.
and to have sat on il. Still higher up ••
passed Elisabeth cabin, where j sous. • ••
stop out of a storm or t" stay all nigh I A ••
vet farther up. WO dismounted and wonl
an ice-cold spring and there took Inn
Shortly after we lefl the Patten HOUAH
came into thick forests of the fir. I'—t'.
we had seen them scattered here and tl
among the other kinds of lives on the mo
tain, though not thick!) at alt Aliovi
point, is the rich green, and chi ye
•Teen moss, which is found in great a
dance from there up to ihe highest pi
liiincb taken, we hurried on by the Potl
Top and began to ascend Ml. Mitchell. .1
it is more frequently called. Swaimanoa
Mitchell, being the one nai I in hou.Sif
Dr. Mitchell on the Buncombe -id.- ofl*
Black. While ascending that. Mr SlJ.|
■bowed the writer a large rock ">i v. ■.
Dr. Mitchell and himself sat down l«> iv ' ••
1856, and where the Dr. told him, thai 1 1 •■
thev reached the High Peak, which '• ..-
then three or four miles off, they Would ■'■ •■
a small shelving rock "n tho s.ul I1-1 a-t - .
of the Peak ami a small prairie Sorth-w« ■•
down the side of the Peak a short d'c-l:
And he said that, when thev reached
High Peak, there was the rock and lUr*'
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killed. Twentv-two canoes
diat.s had passed up the river, going into him on that fatal Saturday, and which was
Victoria, and 200 more were on the way. found at the pool in which he perished. 'I o
The mining region would probably soon be us )lis „;„,,,!,,
overrun with them, and an indiscriminate
massacre undoubtedly follow.
the prairie, just pro is.lv null as Di. M
scribed them,—that he o.uld not have
scribed them moreacairatelyif they bad I
directly before his eves. 'I'lmt. he said,
infied l.im, that Dr. Mitchell was OB the I
Peak either in 1886 or'44, oral both ti
And that fact itaelf i- quite ■umrirnt to
sipate all the hopes of Clingman. Bet*
twelve and one o'clock, we ascended III*
servatory on Mi. Mitchell, 'fhi- pcnl
cording t>> the measurement "f Maj. Ti
is 6577 feet above the level ofthe sea. T1
we had a wide and ma;, lificient view
could see the Black Kick Veates" Kno
Ogle's Mountain on our left, the High
before us. and the Blue Bidge on onr
and behind u-. Before we left Ash.vi
class-mate of the writer mailed a I. tl
Big T<>m. Wilson, tho active, gallant, >
onsand whole-souled mountaineer who loom
Dr. Mitchell, requesting I in to meet | 0U
narrative of the hardships \ Mitchell's High Peak on th- first d:.
Thev should be allowed only a certain per
cent", or they should be compelled to pay
the overplus into the State treasury. Could
a basis of security, something like this be
established, we would have little to appre-hend
from those money panics which sweep
over the country, blighting the hopes and
ruining forever "the fortunes of hundreds of
honest men.
Our State is fast yielding to a moneyed
influence—to a Bank* tyranny which, if not
speedily remedied, will work evils greater
than have yet cursed our State. The evil is
a great one and requires to be arrested by
of the South.—Richmond Whig.
The English papers are noticing, a-mongst
the novel events of the day, the ar-rival
at one of their ports of two vessels, of
nearly four hundred tons each, from Chicago
direct. They passed over over one thousand
miles down the Lakes and the St. Lawrence
before reaching Quebec. They left at the
same time aiid arrived at the same hour.
Thev were laden with the rich produce of
through which Dr. Mitchell had courageous-ly
gone in the mountains, and of the sad fate
with which he was there overtaken, was
pleasant and yet mournful.
Before retiring that night, we told our
host the object of our visit,—that we might Htepp said ho would hollow to him.
— the grove of the great mat. of whom we | stood by t- on the observatory and bob-to
Big Tom on the High lVak.di-.tanl
take a sketch of the Falls. Where-
Julv. We expected to reach the Ifigl
by twelve o'clock, but. being delayed bJ
storm, we found we could not be then
fore three o'clock. Fearing that I
mhrht "ive DS out and leave for h" ne,
It is not generally known, says the
New York Time." that" an offer is pending
from the Hudson's Bay Company to dispose
of ail their property in the I nited States to
our Government. Such, however, is the tact.
forts, posts and trading houses situated in might
our territory, together with large stocks of I „p0rij the plan of the next day's jaunt, how
horses, sheep and cattle. Lord Napier has j Wtf „)lolli,| get i'ncle .Iacqu.'s' easel, paint-
'ropcrtffof^ ":',', Mit,"0"'S "*
considered by compete^ Wg-#-~T S^urrJ our" Uank'ets and'edibles, the.
neat length. Then, nt
miles, and, in afoul a minute after he
shouted Muter, ho—/•", Big Tom disti
responded the same Step), told "- '
Tom, for we. said he, understand each
the sun, of 8600,000, winch « | $f*,*°* /T " J^,,' 1(( th), ,,lIls. how we as well in hollowing as in talking. W.
cheap. Several
subject at the State Department during the] were discussed at gr.-:
last winter, and the Secretary of State was M rcsi„IH.(i ourselves
favorable to the purchase, but there was a
doubt as to the disposition of Congress to
make the necessary appropiation, and there-fore
the sale was not effected.
A SHOWS* Of FLIES.—A recent number of
the St. Louis Democrat says:
" On the down trip of the steamer Editor
Ohio, staves of the finest quality, for all pur-1.in the Illinois, the other night, at 9 o'clock,
posesjeautiful black walnut and other orn-la shower or stream of the Mormon or Shad
gned to '-tired Nature's
sweet restorer.''
From an undisturbed night's repose, we
woke to greet one of tho loveliest morns
ever enjoyed in the mountains, "fwas the
first day of July, and there was not a cloud
to '.be seen in* the sky. From a delicious
breakfast of speckled trout, we rose to set
ourselves in readiness for one of the hardest
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ti. the grave of Dr. Miichell. TheUbei"FatHl
noble-hearted people of thai pan of the <tat*
cut thai road up to the High Peak at the ex-pense
of ev» two hundred dollar*, in proVr
that the remains of Dr. Mitchell niifg i1 be.
safely carried to their lofty and anal ewtiag.
and Haul Back, until at last we cam
beautiful little prairie mar to the High
There we lefl our mules and ascend
foot. The traveler can, however, safel