The Greensborough patriot [August 27, 1858]

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Devoted to Politics, X.iteratui'e, -A.gi"iculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and Miscellaneous Reading.
VOL. XX. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1858. NO. 999.
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OHTII ^ ITIiEl. COMMISSION AND
Forwarding Merchants. Kayt'ltcvill", N. *.'.
BUSINESS CARDS.
. t; IlKUr.i:* O* K, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
J, Lexington, S ('. Feb. 17. 18".*. 972 tf.
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• it (Ml T. BBOWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
,} High Point, N.
l!HES .4. I.O\<;. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
UKEENSBOROUGH, N. C.
R. A. A. IIILL,
LEXINGTON. N. C.
• i : !.'.- r.:irv
C, will altenu to all :.u-inr-s en-
March 26, isr.s. 077 ly.
I) It*. «'. I.. K U. E.. PAOI', COl'AliTNKKS
;n the practice of Medicine, Obstetrics and Surge-
, Lexington, X. C.
N"1 f. FKP.i:>l*\. WITH ABBOTT, JONES A
a (V, im| it i mi Jobbers of Staple and Fancy
..»•;•■!«. No. 153 Market Street, Philadelphia.
M*:t». !\. HOPE, PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL
[I i tasterer, Lexington. N. i'.
I ./".*t- and Pnrloi Ornaments for sale.
A ! - v -i <-
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, itPERRT, WITH BELL, BROOKS.
», Importers and dealers in Staple ami
i. i-. So. 88 Chambers, and 71 Reade St.,
Uecember 21, 1855. 802 tf
,i- t' WSISTFORO, GENERAL COMMIS-W
• si' .» - CHANT Kist FTOI • Street.
.\ -.;'■† BERN. N. C.
■ † ' IK .'ACKETS
••■.,.. ' "m
,i •:.<•.• • .. I -,;. BEAUFORT.
.'•.•. .. ..; !' Proprietor.
, - , . H '-•' ■ ''A cpen for
• .iftiHi •■††•_ • i [io.ird $1.50 p.-r day
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« Lit ! ».s»:s :,. a 4-1.3.. 'I WIN'; REMOVED
J y ... . St >flei - bis Professional
.... :..-. on West Market Street,
• • !!••■. . . i B» aresidence by Hon.
J. ...i ".. •.. u: i :'■ 18i i. ansxt
{4*T ! .r* iT\i.RS»SIP.--l ALONG &
J li V •' . ■' .it,. N. ''.. having
i—.•!■,'«••! •!■• • in t! | i< fth< lav, in the
' ••nils «4 tiuill mty, will promptly attend to all
'.■i-im—.. entrusted to their care. Jan. 185ft '""''7 if
IOH.1 W. • **«%«:. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
•i> having |. ' • ate I in Green borough, N.
i , trill attend the Courts ol Randolph Davidson and
BailfornL ai t i fitly attend to the collection of all
CISUM placed in lii» hands. .Ian.'.'. 1857. 915 tf
UrATSOM A. HEARS, GENERAL COMMD3-
-i. •■ †Merchants, 84 Burling Slip, New York.—
Fneeial attention paid '•• the ^ale of Grain, Cotton and
ifaerSmthern products. (®*Liheral advances male
n cMMgnawiits. '.'\~> tf
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AKIII.i: WORKS.--GEORGE IIEIXRICH,
Manufacturer of Monuments, Tombs, Head-stones,
•! !■••• i prices, four
.... Ifreetisbor -o^h, N. C.
;• i.ip'iy filled.
loors North of the Court
Bt£T*' 'rderii from a dis-
071 tf
H. C. (iORKKLL.
A^tOTT A. i;OElRi:i.l.. WHOLESALE AND
»' t:-.-.: dealers in Fruits, Candies. Preserves, l'ick-bs.
Nats, Perfumery, Segars, Tobacco, Snort, Fancy
.'.:•;.•:^>..\«*...Ve., Garret! a Sew Brick Building,Greens-
1 •:-.^l.. N. C. kpril2». 1858. W2 tf
•l'VH.'M«H>V. [ V. . II. KKYNOI.IiS. | .1. II. KoWLANO.
IIOni.iM) Si, KEV\OEOS. M-CCESSORS
II !•• Inderson ,v Reynolds, Grocers and Commission
Merchants, NORFOLK, Va. jsay" Pay particular at-
'•:.!i-oi to t!.-- sale of Flour. Grain, Tobacco, e'c.. avohl-las
nnoee • ary charges, and rendering prompt re-
ITU, Dee. .r'.t >•. l«57. 963 tf
[From the People's Press.]
GRASS ! GRASS! ! GRASS !!!
The Ceratochlo Breviaristata Grass—The
Celebrated Winter Grazing Grass.
The subscriber having grown this should-bc-
world-renowned Grass lor four successive
■ieasons, regards it to be his imperative duty
to submit to the community his experience in
arrowing this most undoubtedly millenial
plant. 1 say millenial plant, in that my con-viction
obliges me confidently to conclude
that it must necessarily be a moral and phys-ical
impossibility for a sane, calculating sen-timentalist
to walk over the green, grassy,
velvet feeling sward ofthis noble plant, either
ill the depth ot winter, in the sweet smiling
spring time, or in the unparalleled harvest,
however destitute he might be of moral gra-titude,
without involuntarily bursting forth
in loud songs of praise; and with a deafening
Amen, shout, let Satan be bound, and let this
invaluable grass be grown one thousand
years.
It was Henry IV. who said, that he should
die satisfied if be could but see every peasant
in France with a chicken in his pot. But it
is myself who says, that when it shall come
co pass that every person in the community
shall have a Ceratochloa Breviaristata Grass
Lot, and it properly cultivated, he may then
have chicken, may then have beef steak,
may then have milk, cream, cheese and b'.it-ter;
may then have wool to clothe himself
and family, and mutton to feed them; may
then have slick, saucy, proud, prancing char-gers.
And in short, this noble grass, proper-ly
grown, will furnish us with almost every
thing absolutely necessary, with the excep-tion
of a little hog ami homeny, which a few
additional acres, systematically cultivated,
will abundantly supply.
It was a little girl of North C'aroliuh, who,
on a little pleasure excursion, on a pleasant
winter's evening in February, on passing a
farm of some several hundred acres, once
productive as the garden of Kden, then poor
and sterile as the desert wilds of Arabia, re-marked,
in regard to the barn, which was
large and empty, with tears in her mischiev-ous
blue black eyes, that the planter's barn
was empty, and it but February: And who.
but myself, disclosed the reason; simply, be-cause
he had a large starving stock, and no
Ceratochloa Breviaristata t.rass Lot. It was
a Kentucky wag who said, on passing a large
farm yard in Xorth Carolina in March, that
month ot wind, of storm, and occasional sun-shine,
when he observed that the farm yard
was tilled with stock, and the barn and stock
yard empty, and the servants engaged in
standing some of the poor perishing animals
against the fence in the sunshine to warm,
skinning others, and dragging off such as
were already dead and skinned. It was the
wag, 1 say", who said, with anguish of soul,
that if the planter and his cattle, till went to
the same h 1, they would smoke him for
that; and on being asked his reasons for such
novel conclusions, replied with great exhibi-tion
of feeling, for attempting to grow stock-without
a grass lot.
It was Abraham and Lot, long before the
days of the Casirs, who divided their pas-ture
lands. It was Isaac, Jacob and Laban,
who grew grass and cattle long before they
behetd the face of the I'haraos; and it was
the Syrians gathering to themselves the misstatements Qo much mischief, and their I agent: Provided further, That the United it would be a question of very grave debate
spoils; on reflection, they said it was not only consolation is in the fact that frequent- States and the citizens thereof, shall enjoy whether Virginia ought to become the north
right, and they made proclamation. ly their perpetrators are sufferers from their the use of the said-submarine telegraph com- ofa southern boundary or the south nf a
And now in conclusion, I would whisper consequences. \ munication for all time on the same terms northern boundary.
in the public ears, that if they wish to ob- j To use the commercial reporters' stero- and conditions which shall be stipulated in -It is to our interest to break the uuhal-
Plank Koad, on Abbott's Creek,
County, North Carolina; or to
Chadwick, Mr. Moses Teague, or Mr. Joseph
Montsinger. all of Davidson, on terms suited
to the hard times.
All who wish to grow this invaluable
grass, should, if possible, plant in Septem-ber.
Wheat, or any merchantable trade,
will be taken by the subscriber, at the high-est
market price, in exehange lor seed.
Printed directions will accompany the
seed for planting, growing and harvesting.
M. EVANS.
[From the San Francisco Bulletin of July 20.]
THE FRASER RIVER GOLD REGION.
During the past fortnight Frascr river
matters have continued to monopolise public
attention. For the first few days after the
departure of the last Kastcrn mail the emi-
¥ration to the North continued unabated.—
he news then brought from there was con-sidered
as unfavorable ; and up to the pres-ent
this has continued to be the character of
the intelligence. The consequence has been
the immediate cooling down of the fever that
raged so violently throughout the State for
the past six weeks. The tide thitherward
lias received a sudden check, and at the pres-ent
writing the number of Fraser river emi-grants
to be met is not very great.
This isperhaps exceedingly fortunate. The
Davidson , for the sake of teaching land-grabbing specu- location, and the lines of telegraph, wind
Mr. John ! lators a lesson and regulating future opera- j may at any time connect with the same at
lions. The period of depression will afford its terminus on the coast of Newfoundland,
to many a chance to become small proprie- : and in the United Suites, in 1111 v contract so
tors of real estsate who could not otherwise ! to be entered into by such person, persons,
lies a city's prosperity. ! or association, with that government: Pro-j
From the Italiiinoie Patriot ]
DOMESTIC GOVERNMENT UNDER RE-PUBLICAN
FORMS.
It is line of the duties of statesmen, and
Gov. Douglas left for Fort hope on Satur- vided further. That the contract to be made, ol the press, t., watch the course of the Ship
day, 10th July amid the booming of cannon j by the British government shall not he dif-l of State, to note the effect upon her invisible
from the fort," His object in the present vis- i forenl from that already proposed by that. currents, or influence in swerving her from
it is to take measures to improve the trail j government to the New York, Newfound- J her true direction, and to counteract these.
from Fort Hope to Thompson river, so that ! land, and London Telegraph Company, ex- j as far as in them lies the power to do so ; at
provisions can be transported to the latter! eept such provisions as may be necessary
region with more facility than now exists. : to secure to each government the trans-
Schooners now leave here every few days [mission of its own messages bj its own
for the entrance of Fraser river, towing ca- i agents: And, provided further, That it she
noesand carrying passengers and freight. The
miners, on their disembarkation, will proceed
in their little vessels up the river, having at-tained
a safe transit over the Gulf of (ieor-
All the bars on Fraser river between Forts
Hope and Yale are said to he claimed.
Fraser river has risen three feet within
two weeks, and there is little prospect of its
. falling so its to permit of profitable working
' for a month yet. Texas Bar, according to a
letter I have" seen, is the only one where
profitable working is now goning on.
FORT HOPE, JLI.V 9. 1658.
According the promise, I send you a few
lines to give you what little information I
have of my own knowledge in regard to this
portion of the country, the river, and mines,
number of young men who have hurried off' 1 came to this place lrom Victoria on the
from our State to the new mining region ap- steamer Surprise. I made a close observa-proximates
to 26,000. Many of these were tion ot the river from its mouth, and feel well
badly provided with means to exist for any satisfied that it can be navigated the whole
length of time in a country where the com- year round with steamboats drawing five feet
monest necessaries oi' life are exorbitantly water,• notwithstanding that the officers of
be in the power of ( ongress, after ten years,
to terminate said contract upon giving one
year's notice to the parties to such contract.
THE ACT Or PARLIAMENT.
(Received Royal Assent. July >',, 1857.)
Section fit}—All messages and signals sent
or forwarded for tr. ••smission and delivery j
for her ilajesty or on herMajesty's service, j
shall have priority over all other messages
whatsoever, and it shall be imperative on j
the company, their officers and servants, to
transmit and deliver such messages and sig-nnls
accordingly, and to suspend the trans-mission
ot ail and any other messages until'!
the said messages and signals shall first have '.
been transmitted: Provided always. That
the company may, in consideration of a :
guaranty or subsidy granted or secured by j
the government of the United States, equal
in rate or amount :o that granted by or on
behalf of her Majesty's government, grant |
and extend to the government of iIn* Cni-I
ted States, the like priority tor intelligence
on and for their service, over all other mes-sages
and signals whtsoever, except those I *
least to point out the danger, to explain its I
source, and show the people the proper rein-1
edy. As far as we can gather from the his
tory ot' those Republics that have onee exis-ted
there has been a tendency in them to I
run to opposite extremes, instead of pursu-ing
a uniform, middle, safe and conservative
course, namely, to the extreme of liberty,
running into licentiousness, and to the oppo-site
extreme, that of despotism. The form
of any government, and especiaDy that of a
Republic, may be preserved long after the
spirits that gave them birth has departed.—
I Forms, indeed are the last to give was ; they
; are clung to by the people accustomed to
them with a tenacity the more exlraordina-
1 ry when we see how readily they give up
the substance they were intended to embo-
; dv and preserve. We may instance, ii- a
. proof ot this, tin- reign of Angustus ('a-.ir.
! of Koine, who, though as absolute an Entpe-j
ror as any of his successors, tool; care that
! the form of the government, as they existed
; during thepalmy days of the Republic,should
i lie strictly preserved; thai Consuls should
be elected as fomiely, that the Senate should
continue to hold its sessions, and in BUOrt,
that the Roman people should he deluded by
appearances into the belief that there had
t
•the Government," and which ha* posessiou
>! the Federal and most of the State Gov.
ernmelits. by which means it has tl t- Onb
ection, possession and disbursement <J more
ban tbo hundred millioa •/ doOort a year,
he disposal ol all Federal, nnd mosttof the.
State offices of honor, trust and profit ; in
numerable lucrative jobs, contra'!•-. her-
-rnins. emoluments, "pickings ami sie.liii!.*
and all the iaflnenoe which the ability to be*
vow these upon, or withhold tbesn iroin.
whom they may naturally,(consideringwhat
human nature is. i rives either to a monarch
an oligarchy, an anstocrocy. Sneh a aow.
r. subject to no check or control, lutth-will
of the ].n-Ms<sor, or possessors, at on< ■•
nakes him or them a <?<,-yof. and the govern-ment
of him or them a despotism. U ™»l-ters
not whether the po-sessor be a .King.
Emperor, Sultan Csar, or a small bojiy ot
:nan. like the Council of Ten, or the (,*june,l
of Three, or a large body like the Cjncinati
Convention, or that indefinite, unknown im-personation
of ••the called party" the !ead-
The despotism is no less complete in ettln r
rase; bet there is this difference in the exer-
( i.-e of power, when it is in the hands of one
man, or in the han.ls ot a hundred, mostly
like the terivle Council of Ten, unknown;
namely, the former is known and feels his
responsibility topnblic opinion and ih>" civ-ilized
world, and is therefore held in sho>k.
while the latter, hidden from the word by
darkness, secrecy and obscurity, feel no re
aponsibiliti to God or mas, and many '.he.
fore, iri itfly their cupidity, ambition and
malice by any means whatsoever, with©"
incurring the least danger therel.y, briagin
down upon llietusclvcs. porsonall and im'i
vidually, the scorn and hatred of mankind.
A Federal Office Holder in the Field.
• —
We learn from a reliable and PSSpoasil-b*
source that Mr. M. I>. Tate, the Postmen**'
at Morguntoii. openly canvassed Burke cow
ty, thoroughly, against the Whig and Km •
lean candidates, circulating CBngmaii's \ i
edictury address, and using every elections i
big art he was master of. The tine: Wa«
when, if Federal office holders did intern-w-in
elections, they had the deeeliey to do ail
gttbrosa—they had - o little reaped lor
public opinion? But that -lay has gone by.
and they are now as shamelesa as were |nr
lYa'lorr.in Hands when they sold the Woman,
purple in market overt : and need we he I'll.
prised at it when, but the other day, v <• saw
the Vice Prcsidoal of the United Btatcs-wul
lowing in tin- mire of the party ring, and
when we see now i look in another co.uiiiii.i
the President himself proposing to a candi-date
for Congress to bid lor support with
Federal patronage which he. flic President.
would furnish him with. Kvil Indeed Bjv
the times upon which we have lidhi . r.i •'
well may "the pcoph
"wicked rule."—Rah
mourn" when
■/'i Regitter.
Jeff. Davis made a Doctor.
continue really In the condition that all well-informed
people expected they would be at
this time. The river is very high, and is
kept up by the melting of the mountain
snows during the present summer weather
in that region. The snow, alter awhile, will
be exhausted, or if not, when the cold sets
in it will freeze ; and the river will go down,
and enable the miners to work the bars, on
which the rich placers are believed to exist.
How long it will be before this takes place,
if it will ever happen, is now the question
j under discussion. Two months, at furthest,
j say the sanguine. Thedesponding say when
I the snow freezes the rainy season will have
is time is at the hi-diest point it has been -, ":l%';-
is season. We passed a great number of »»y ««<* g«*™ntee or subsidy, the
priority as messages and signals lor her
th
this season. V» e pas.,^.. .. e
small boats on their way up. I counted them
as we passed, and the number was ninety-seven.
I think each boat would average five
persons, which would make fourhundred and
eighty-five in all. We had on board three
hundred passengers. Eleven boats passed,
downward bound, which would average nine
persons, making in all ninety-nine.
1 woidd advise all persons to remain where
they are until there is more known in regard
to the mines than there is at present. 1 have
seen but one lot of dust, and that was seven-teen
ounces and a quarter. It belonged to an
There is gold here be-
;c
of Roman history, each and all of them re-tained
the forms of the Republic, with which
they .•unused l he people.
Ami the republic of Venici
IlKe
Ma-jesty
or on her Majesty's service, over those
of all other persons whatsoever, and thence-forward
messages and signals for her Ma-jesty,
or on her Majesty's service, and those
ion "the service of the government of the I*.
States shall, as between themselves, have I fItpV waa ™*««\"»■† Rf»»<
bt of priority, but bo transmitted and legislative power in the Senate, the cxecu-
'I'he Hon. Jeff. I>avis, who threw av. .iy bis
Southern Hightsisin on tin last 4th of July,
ami made a conservative I'nion speech in
Yankee land, has been made a Dot .or :ii (he
Northernmost State in the 1'nion, in "... ,.
panv with one of the most notorious Ahio.-
tionistsin the country. Thus licth down
together the lion and the lamb. The dwt i-stated
by the Charleston Mercury, which i«
monstrously disgrunted thereat, as Lbs W
two ; where i low ill"; paragraph will show :
upon earth did there ever exist a more lies- j " We see it stated that, at the iveeiij tutu-potic
government than that of Venice under meneement ot Bowdoin College, Maine, th*
the forms of a Republic ? Here -the sover-1 degree of LLI>. was conferred on tin, Hon.
Council, tin
ratruatetl lu them for c
attenttwn. iMfia i N
I.ltel-:iy'- e. ri.- •
illection, will receive prompt
urih Street, fourth door from
U.I M. HCOTT. v.li.1.. L. BCOTT.
cfliri" & St'OTT, ATTORNEYS ANDCOUN-
>^ veUora at Law, - GREENbBOROUGH, S. C,
Kill attend the I'onrta of Uuilford, Alantanee, Kan- ,
l-'.ph. I'lv.-i-n. Foray th and Rockiagham All claims j the shepherds of Gallilee who grew stock and
'' grass before they heard the Angels sing upon
the plains of Bethlehem. It was the Jews in
general, who grew stock and grass around
Jerusalem, in the sweet land of Israel, long
before the roar of musketry, the crash of
rockets, or the burst of bombs.
It was the immortal Cincinnatus who re-jected
the ensigns of undoubted power, who
'resigned the honors of royalty and the dis-tinctions
of perpetual Dictatorship for the
pleasure of plowing up his fallow ground,
and sowing down his grass seed. And long
before the steamboats' splash of waters, or
the horrid scream of the Railroad Car, the
growing of stock and grass was regarded the
unerring way to happiness, competence and
wealth.
What but growing grass and stock has
made for example Kentucky, one of the most
wealthy and happy eoutries in the world?
What
I
set in; thus supplying the stream all the year j Old friend of mine. There is go!
round with an abundance of water. ! yond doubt, but to what extent no one can
.S.o ,l.ittl,e rel,■.!ab,lo■m,i .rmatwton abt out» t.1in:s. I tell. Below thisJpla,ce^ther^e is n^o mininggo^-
country is in possession of the whites as yet . - acquainted with who came in
tha^t nothing else is left but to wait patient- Thev'had started for Thompson
lv the operation Of tone tor the sola on of - ^ ^ *£*\
tb,s disputed point. About the existence of » > f ^ ^ From what
rich mines on the Fraser river and its trtnu- l.r
\V>I. II. KlltHSKV. COMMISSION MEK-I?
eh in; .«nl (ieneral Agent, Morehead City, N. *'•
Will attend lo * uying, selling, receiving and forwarding
all kin 1< ot produce i nd i Merchandise.
/,*.».r./,.s. i,,,v .1. M. Morehead, (Ireenaborongh, N.
<". John II. Itaaglnon, Ks.,.. Newberne, N. c'. Dr. F.
J. Hill. Wilmington, S. <'. II. A. London, F.sq., Pitts-her-
Ktgh, N. ('. June 1, 185s. U87 tf
Ii:\I'W.I.»Y JEWELRY STOKE.
J Th>- Mtbscribcr lias on hand the fine GOLD I.E-
\ I.I! "%» \1- !(; - noini • I by Johnson of Liver-
. -.-I. an I Pi ion el Lond n. Mao, the Silver Lever
••; iie ;.•• I ■• in Urge R'alcli, with a variety 01
: WKI.U1 •:
• Id Ion 1.1 ea-i
tf
s -.■•r: 1 •
IWitt I.V
ins. All of wdich will t>e
v. ,.!,.-. x all descriptions repaired.
(,; 1UIGL* Kil.F.Y.
M I \. "II.I'IIAM.
& -^.3>H »--!. GUOCEKS AND
1 Wilming on, N. ('. Liber-
- consign-d 1 u us, when
••■
■ of the Bank
.. 01 of the
18 ly
.4.
s v 1 DMMISSION MER-
\ Special at-
. , > I r, Grain, i totton,
. t ; forwarding
•■; . N ■'. O. 11.
1 . .■††■ ;. 1. ivigh, N. C
. • on, S. «'. Aug. 1855,
i..«:)C)IU^.. LAND AGENT, WILL
.; . eni Land, Locate Land
vi,.... 1 is for capitalists at Western
, ..•: :i general real estate bu-
■• . nd H isconsm. Address,
.Mini
. :•..„. ,1 >!. Mor. head. George <". Men-
„1 Wain uid Hon. John A. Gilmer.
888 tf
It is said that "dry diggings" have been
discovered at a few places ; yet the extent
of these and their general character for rich-net
« and facility of working can only be de-termined
by "future prospecting." At pres-ent
the vast body of miners on Fraser river
art kept together in a few camps by the de-sire
to possess themselves of •• claims" on the
rich bars when the stream falls, and by the
dread Of hostile Indians molesting small par-tics
who might travels the wilderness in
search of dry diggings.
OORB.ESPONOF.NCK FROM THIS HOI.0 BBGION.
VICTORIA, .It LY 13, lX/iK.
The continued height of Fraser river has
given a tinge to our social atmospheric hue
no right of priority
delivered respectively in the order of time
in which they may he respectively tendered
for transmission and delivery.
Section Hi!—-\t all times from and after
the period if twenly-tive years from the
opening of the said hues of telegraphic com-munication
for the transmission of messa-ges,
whenever one of her Majesty's principal
Secretaries of State for the time being, shall
be of opinion that circumstances render it
expedient to vest in her Majesty's govern-ment
the control of the operations of the
company, it shall l-' lawful for sneh Secre-tary
of State, by warrant
cause possession to he
cirraphs and telegraphic apparatus of
tive and j ml ica I authority in various hoi lit
the forty officials each, ami the police in
Council ot Ten."
s of
the
Wm. Pitt Fesaenden, Senator from Mahir,
and on the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Sijuator,
from Mississippi, in the Congress of tl*' I iii-ted
States. Mr. Fesaenden, has been fit
many rears one of the leading Abolitionists
•• The terrible despotism, which for so ma-1 ">' J*""*; Th:". Ml' ■*»{■ BnouU '"\ ." r"
nv centuries broodcJl like an evil and malig-! «"1 ^ *« •'^"'''•""•" "' '»* ;i:i,,"'1 "'
(,e Fcsscnden » in the honor conlerred by
lego crammed full with Abolitionists,
idoubtedly attributable to his late
speech at sea. All inveterate I nion
nant spirit over the lagoon" is spoken
by a late elegant writer, as forming "one of
the most singular problems of modern his-tory.
The Council of'fen .-uid the Council
1 the South would bo a far more useful
Northern Abolitionism than Abolil
themselves. 'You hold, and I -kin."'
IIVIH 1 ir«.tf.
under his hand, to
taken of all the tel-ls
regaraea a surer |
lation of which, than to seek it in the
mines. And what is it that has mat
Carolina a stock importer—giving the
up
with
It. .»<•« tli't X I'O., FACTORS AMi
•.: . Agents for ihe sale and
. •. lien Flour, Grain, Salt. Groceries, &c,
"• - ,'• ... mi Water Streets, Wilmington, N. C.
»-."' - • ' i inci - on 1' in- gnments.
■••' >. .• 11 1; Savage, Cashier Bank of Tape
•-•r. Pi 1 n-.-!. i; «. Brown. Wilmington, N. C. F. ft
.' '- -. >■ .HI. V.f. '". Graham & Co . Marion C.
:' S 1 q .,;. Adderton& Co., Lexington, N.C.
W««TT A. I.OKI(F,l.l,S PHOTOGRAPHIC
"' 'II lerj i- now opene-l, and I'ameoiypes. Melaino-
.'. - •■•. i"\V !■.!:• >'n i'fs, which cannot be surpassed
J ■ W KABU.lTl and BEAUTY are taken in Lockets,
;:-.•••!.- ■ the tastes nnd purses of all.—
l»»mg permanently located in Greensborough, they
'*-■•.• j ••• 1 1 liberal patronage.
!• ■ 1 •. mid examine Specimens, and learn the j
!;. '.. 'rly occupied by \. Stnrrctt. aec-
• ii.•,,.,- • 1, '.i\.-k building, West Market St.,
'•'••:.-• Dugl. S. C March, I85S. S71 tf
flEORGE II. KELLY. COMMISSION MF.K-be
' • ..' t, and Healer in
5 •••• •. N .. 11, North Water Street,
*» .■'. Kl • , Cl
«-.-. I .......
Family Groceries and Pro-
WILMINGTON, N.
h on hand, sugars. Coffees, Mo-
FU.ur. Butter, Laid. Soap, Candles,
Owken.. fiarch. Oils. Snuffs, ftc.
/,'■ ,..•,. II 1, Parsley, President of Commercial
J^l!t»; J* .111 MeKae, President Bank of Wilmington,
™ •'•>■;•••„. s. ('. A. M. Gorman, Kev. R. T. Hellin.
'*» ••'.".. J. a F. Garret, Uavid McKnight, Greensbo-
' -•.. N •'
! >i. ROTUROCK, U. O. S.. RESPECT-
*• ! ;•■ †- his professionalserrices to the citizens
'" ,I"" -'"C.-uyli. and all others who desire operations
I'"' •...•!..., in.- TEETH in the latest and best style.
t.s unaciiuainteil. can have any satisfactory refer-
J as to character, skill, &c, &c.; and 1 be advantage
.'i("-;,'i years constant practice in MEDICINE AND
• 'tsTKY, with every new discovery that is valna-
,;" Iktr He has furnished his OPERATING ROOMS
■•• Ii k«t Street, seeond story of Garret ts brick build-
■aere . ».il aln-ays be fouud unless professionally
**«W. April 29, 1868. 982 tf
wards of her toil to neighboring countries
for importations, when she should have been
one of the greatest exportingconntriesinthe
world? It is myself who guesses the cause:
She has no Ceratochloa Breviaristata Grass
Lots, and her other Grass Lots, the brown
sedge, (the North Carolina curse; has de-voured.
Hut let it be remembered, that it is mysell ,
ami a few others, who grow the grass that
the whole insect tribe of vegetable depreda-tors,
in connection with the overflow of wa-ters,
drought, scorching sunshine, or con-gealing,
freezing, killing cold, together with
the skeleton, death dealing fingers of brown
sedge, are all alike impotent to manage.— j
The grass that bears that savage, jaw- break- j
ing, dreadful name, Ceratochloa Breviarista-ta,
which the considerate goodness of B. \.
Iverson, Esq., of Georgia, in mercy calls
"llescue."
Then suffer one of my shy, shamefaced,
retired nature, to modestly hint a few sim-ple
concluding tacts in relation to this un-paralleled
grass, in connection with my ex-perience.
I repeat, that I have grown this noble
grass for four years, and have every suc-ceeding
year greatly improved upon the
former. " Four years since 1 supplied mysell
with the seed of this extraordinary grass,
at the rate of 820 per bushel, and if 1 were
now without it, and advised of its value,
as 1 am, and could not obtain the seed for
short of S-0, a grain, I would not hesitate
one moment in giving it. Truth, conviction,
and the interest of those around me oblige
lt.st! is much exaggerated by rumor.
.. NTovii. 1 orisearrived on Sunday morning, 11th June, :
t. .'OI 111 • I , * ■ "i»I I 1 and as soon as her gun was heard the hanks
ion which this town is located were lined
thousands of the floating population
eager to see the rush of passengers which
rumor declared would be returning disgusted
from the diggings. What was their aston-ishment
when even the most liberal enumer-ation
could not make out thirty persons on
the steamer's deck besides her employes. It
was indeed the arrival of a Surprise for al-
The present reaction in the Fraser fever
was predicted by all who kept in view the
contingency of the river's continued rise.—
It was impossible that the excitement should
There are from one thousand to fifteen
hundred persons here at this time. What :
they willdo until the riverfalls ishard forme to
sayforprovisionsare high. I will givcyou the
prices of a few articles per pound: Fork "•>
cents, bacon 75 cents, flour 20 cents, beans
25 cents, and other things in proportion. I
find that a few of the expressmen here and
below make a great fuss over a few ounces
of dost. To ("apt. Huntingdon, of the Sur-prise,
much credit is due, for before leaving
Victoria I heard him tell quite a number ot
persons that they were foolish to go to the
mines unless they could take provisions to
last them four or five months, so that they
would have sufficient to last them until the
river was low enough to work the bars.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
Bights and Privileges of the Governments
of the United States and Great Britain.
As some misapprehension seems to exist in
the public mind in regard to the power of
the British government to usurp exclusive
control of the Atlantic telegraph, in case of
unforeseen difficulty springing up be-tween
the two countries, the New York He-rald
deems rt appropriate to publish the act
of Congress authorizing the contract with
the company, and such portions of the act ot
Parliament "incorporating the company, as
apply to the point in question.
THE ACT OF CONGRESS.
(Approved March 8, 1857.)
An act to expedite Telegraphic Communica-tion
for the use of the Government in its
Foreign Intercourse.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hous
various stations of the company, their licen-ses
or assigns,for the space of one week from
the date of such warrant, for the purpose of •
preventing any communication being made
or signals given, save such as shall be direc-ted
and authorized by any such Secretary of
State, and also by further successive war-rants
to cause possession of the said tele-graphs
and telegraphic apparatus to he re-tained
from week to week, so long as any
such Secretary of State shall deem such pos-session
expedient for the public service:—
Provided always, That for every week dur-ing
which possession shall be retained, the.
company, their licenses or assigns shall re-ceive
from and be paid by the Lords Coin-:
inissioncrs of her majesty's treasury, the
same amount ofprofits as the company would
have made in case they had continued the
working of the said telegraphs, such profits
to be computed upon an average «.f the week-ly
profits of the company for three months
immediately preceding the issuing of the
first of the said warrants.
It will be seen from the foregoing acts
that licit her government possesses any priv-ilege
which the other does not equally pos-sess.
The sixty-second section of the act of
incorporation only commences to take effect
in twenty-five years after the opening ot the
lines, and when the gratuity to be paid by
our government ceases. Then, and not till
then, can the British government exercise
any exclusive control over the telegraph, un-der
any contingency whatever.
Ashland District.
of Three, the latter chosen bv and out
the former, became the tyrants—the invisi-ble
tyrants of the State, The same writer
says, •■the Council of Ten made choice of
these inquisitors, bul the choice was a mys-tery.
One knew that this terrible magis-tracy
existed without knowing to whoif it
was confided. One read its sentences.—
but thev wen- signed—onlv bv the sec-
One behcUfthe executiont they had !cs8PIea"m?.1!
been ordered by invisible justice, t Ine knew
himself in every relation of life, exposed and
subject to secret spies * ; There was no
chamber so secret, even in the innermost re-eesses
of the palace id I'ogc, that it
coiildnoi be penetrated by the inquisitors at
any moment of day or night
The arrest was arbitrary, the detention
undefinded, theaccurcrs nt tcrly unknown, the
trial it dread ordeal."
But ii is not necccssary for u- to cite other
instances to show that .'.II Republics which
have heretofore existed have run into des-
The following paragraph from the J
ton (liy.) Obtnvrr will !»■ read nil*
in
throughout Ihe length and
land. (Jlorv enough lor on*
Mr
«. I
is itu-ti
i< n
mi. :-.
ilh «••
onista
It t
•xintf
Kin mi-ll
a rrv Claw Wlii-.-
' breadth bf the
day! v\ have
i.isi the Slate, but we have won la k tic
Ashland District! -I.et thy servant pea
deparl in peace." Rays the Obsemrt :
••'1'IIK A.--iu.AM> DISTRICT.—This gtoriua*
old District has again declared against lb*1
Democracy, and wc Iccl assured that fhe im
nouncement of the fact will curry <■
tion an.I encoumgciiiciil to every treo
Vice President H
potisni of some kim
th
ican in Kentucky.
rid;."'and our present Congrcssmai
H. Clay wen- in OUI midst. Rtrugglin
stanth to advance the interests of th
..•other, while perhaps u |,u', ,]„.;,. ..„,„.,. „,.,.,. fruitless, an
ol gevernineiit
IS' ', 1
Aii. r
aski 1
llllll' ■
«•• «l-r
par*
th.-\
retaining the original Jurms ot government ;,'ll(| ti,eii friends have on. e more be. 1 Holl-and
we know also that th.-rc is H tendency ,|(.1UM.,| j„ ,|„. citv of Lexington, tlnl conn-in
such government to run to the extrcii !' ty0f Kayette, an I the Ashland Dhufct"-
anachv, the despotism /■■./..„,.'/ nv.,., ■
of
Democratic Defection at the South.
liberty into anachv. which is
of an unbrideled multil tide.
And now let us inquire whether the Re-public
of tbe I nited States is entirely safe
from all such tendencies; whether, while we
retain all the forms of government which
were established by oar patriot sires, Wc still
retain all of the true spirits of liberty « lii( n
these forma to preserve. They provided
thai the people should elect a President eve-ry
four veai's; ti,e same forms of election
prescribed by them are retained and ob* r-ved,
but what voice have ,'/,. y. •/./ really in
the matter.' They vote for electors, it is
true, as they always did, but not until the
candidates are designated by a number of
ail
Rir/imnnd 117."/.
Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Upwards of twelve hundred men III.W ion-
Ktitilto the mechanical and laboring fo •«■«•■. .•:
our Navy Yard. The former i~ cOBlpemdof
six hundred, consisting of ship oarpeators.
joiners, blacksmiths, Rparmakera.wilniaki 1 ,
gun-carriage makers, anulkers, reamer*, oak-um
spinners, pliimhers. Lent-Iniihleij, jilcl
[niinters. It is expected that the newish -.j,
•• Lancaster" will be ready for laulchin/
about the latter end of September. S*e I :•-
been planked, and the caulkers arc n w MI
gaged upon her. The frigate ••('ongijs ,>
politicians collected together from all part? still at the yard. The riggers ci.mi ei, •!
of the country, who are e.nh and all of them I placing her spars yesterday.
expectants of office, and whose designation
of the candidates is influenced, not by any
supposed wish of the people but by theehan-ces
they may suppose they have to obtain
liable statements that half the miners on the
river were doing nothing, and the bank dig-gings
paving only three dollars a day to the
hand. Thus the epidemic has received a
■check, and no one having the least regard
for the welfare of his folTow-beings can de-sire
that a relaps should take place before
good diggings have fairly been reached and
can be permanently worked.
It will doubtless"bo surprising to you in
San Francisco that accounts of t\w filling of
the river should be followed by stories so
dolorous as will reach you by this arri-val,
and may probably precede it. Both
stories are true, however. During the cold
week of the last of June the melting of the
snows on the Rocky Mountains was suspen-ded,
and the river fell several feet. A warm
spell, which succeeded that period, however,
again raised the stream to its highest level.
Much dissatisfaction exists here at the un-founded
stories which were sent to some of
rs by interested parties, flriv-
The Charleston Mercury publishes a letter
from James S. Slaughter,' Esq., a primonent
Democrat of Georgia, in which he advocates
the formation of a -Southern League" and
c \ 1,1 ...,,, 1;.,i;^,., ,,f -111 ■• ii-ition-il" parties.— : othee under tin- or thai imlivnlual. shonl.l
Bopresenutives of the Umtedg«^^ ^g^^^^bJTtoSr .-'show to he be n inated and elected. And the elec-rica,
in (ongress •«-£*»?*• JgJ , SmJi'Sirable pass tl,ebungling and fraud-: tors chosen by the , pie to elect a Pres,-
1 „1C1|I Kansas policy of the Administration ; dent, do they really exercise the privihj e ol
has brought the Democracy of the South: | an elector, according to the spirit ot the eon-
••Have we any cause to "keep up old par- stitution t By no means, [hey are mere
aaveCalhoun'sadhesivopow. automata, to east their votes for those indi-
1 sec nothing can bind viduals whom tlteparty to which they belong
, Southern man to national parties. To | or rather the congregration of politicians
him who wishes to adhere to principle—tj
IVIIS lmiiossioie inai Liiv e.\iiu..n"t .-,..,...s* . t«a..r.y, o--f St-ate,■ i n - the . tT,,;i,„l
maintained in the face of positive and re- the direction of the President of the United
e.i1 • 1... I «S,t.a,.t,e.^s, mmnavy .c..omnttrr-aicctt Wwiitthh aainlVy CcOomIIlIpieettCeInltt
person, persons or association, for the aid of
the United States, by furnishing not exceed-ing
two ships, in laying down a submarine
cable, to connect existing telegraphs bewtcen
the coast of Newfoundland and the coast of
use of such submarine
In the lrio:.i
house the keel of the new sloop is beii tr Li .
The wu-k upon her will be pushed forward
.is rapidly as possible, inasmuch a- ordi 1 ■•
have been received for bercompletior>before
the next meeting of Congress. Tie iteann-r
" Walker" of the Coast Survey, wl h *•«
have before noticed as umlergoiiig icjiaii-,
will be finished in about three weeks' Th*
-chooncr •• Spray," which is unib-rthetiiartrv
ofthe Lighthouse Hoard, is being reiyaUt.
ty relations .'
er of public plunder.'
I
A "PAST Vm na MAN."—The Pr nee »«f
Wales has now fairly slipped from t a it>>-
before mentioned, have declared shall be vo-|al apron strings. Ho gives dinner MHth
y Of at hi" Lodge Richmond, and
me to make these disclosures. Were 1 to , your city papers
continue to grow this last best girt of pro- j ing a sort of general average of the profits
videncc, in secret, 1 would regard myself; made on the various bars of Fraser river ex-abundr
~-i«-i. *i— ♦!.« L»«nm ew.lin.nn ot
men
dantly more selfish than the leprous! ceedingin extent the earnings of even the
iu the days of Elisha, in the camp of few miners who are really doiug well. Such
ter into a like contract tot
with the same person, persons, or aSBOC
tion,and upon terms of exact equality wit
those stipulated by the United States:
those purposes expect, even l>\
gia-j of the Cincinnati platform and Mr. Bucnan-an'sletter
of acceptance that Kansas would
ittd I be disposed of as she has. Vet Democratic
••the Government." 'T ein the State," sail ward Bulwer Lytton has at last set
Louis XIV. "The Democratic party is the long quarrel with Lady Bulwer, thw
Government," says the /'/.,./.. and "he who intervention of their son. In a dill
fiulsto observe its/air« is guilty ofthe highest twenty year's standing, il is qufie
crime'" What are those "laws?" Who that both parties concerned shoul'l I
made them? When and where wore they en- wrong. As ii seems, however, thai ti
feud is at last finally terminated, '
then, is a party which calls itself thing the public can do is to forget
e.l I.:
lldl tl
ulty ..I
natural
ill the
• id
• I* .'\
i