The Greensborough patriot [January 18, 1856]

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GREENSBOKOUGH, N. C, JANUARY 18, 1856.
iw. ■.' ■. ^^* ^^~ff" NO. 865.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY M. S. SHERWOOD.
Terms: *2 a year, in ttfirancef
■,50 i//rr thrrr month*, and $3.00 «jii r Itrelv
monl'ia.from date of lubttription.
RalM ol A«l»ii Jisij'.R.
Oi- ! ill ir , ■'- - | fare (fill lines) forllie (n
•...,:. -ii ..• ( .• ;-:..: eve ry week '.hen
.- inn le in favot ■■: standing ad ver
mis aa follows :
From the American Advocate. our State bonds at 51-4 per cent premium to a Asylum for Inebriates.
Male Tax**, &C. j New Yorker when North Carolinians bid for the , A Mwement is on f(jut in „lc d rf N
[No 16.] , rain«.^,d*.1i> or}{ K"-'t prem.um, simply york „ ,uUn(, an My,u|ii ^ illrfwkte£ , n >-
Italeigh in 1> >, that they found ved of our State bonds in this way, and
the language ..I one ol the most deserving ol dcgraaiDg terara. There is no democracy in say- *
11- ■> II 1 I I I .. . f> III n t.l.l-ln.i* ll< ill fit I'l.llrt , ..... ■ ■ a *• — — ■* "* '
OL utpri- co,llpanie(i with an Kpggii to the public Tor aid in
upon such raisi„K 150,000 to commence the Institution. Dr.
SUSSL*1£^land to buUd on' •nd I TradM <**»•«b* *-•««•-
We note it as not a little curious, that Sweden-' T'.'e,f";X u a dcal,'r '" l*,u!tr.V. and a whole-borg,
in one ol his strange publications, written -, l0^* lho l«""er »_ aud hsaVl
W..OU. .- i.i... .:. i,, auV.IIICC III ;' , , l.i- , W " .-.""• ■«•
».—.-peaks, especially, of their ••""•J"" » »" si-rehouse in the wood*,
•ceive the truth when cuiniuuuica-1 'A wily tra,|<,r ,„ m, WHy
oilier heathens.—He speaks.
I'INTIIS. r, MONTHS. I 1 1 A
S3.50 55.50 {•X.00
T.i.o in.nil M.00
111. 10 15.00 20.00
I -.'■■! 25.00 35.00
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H il: c i nn i.
!H) Soulht-rn Home.
Tli .ii bright ■ ' ■•■ "'- South—what land
I.. ,■ own
Tli i i'--l birth a •■. I in hand,
'. I all who n II ma,
y. . . inil lii-niis and true
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Miuht wi .. be sou-htotit here.
: art ilill'-i il II n >'<•>.
A ml i-fii ■ him a h"
Where ri.li I r in
And none in I liiiiIn
Friend ;
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Th.it l.i 'is on the Sprin-r,
And II : IIJI iiinl lill
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increase our present State debt for any purpose, M0>0M wi]| .,c „.,.„;„, ;„ . esperiment which,
'"' when we remeiiiher that the interest on eve- —
Uul. I ..fall, 1 lovi
H lii.li li.ls Crolh
svmp'il
A j ' I liille i,li-ll,,,.,
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Virginia ;ind South ('uroliiiii to build the I'am ill
and Charlotte Kailroad. but the pilriotic men in
the Leui.-daturo soon discovered inul it was the .
uiuc.rti,raurtoioiinoofi d..e. sm,.i.iirthti-i.iiti iJed. tihn.e firriieenndoss «onf tthini»s : ec„, oi■■■„ ,. |UBje ,,.,...1,,1,,. I■ n , i,,c (:•liy"„'/fvNew- -H»rentemtehmedMm,enwiallndbethehiariled by thousands of
road ... press it with so much sea cpou the eon- v„,.1;. Wc wiM „„', iusl|„ „,fi intoHigC'n, ri,ldeI.
Mderulionol the L.j:is,ature J Ins caused Uicm by coin* into ■ minute ciilcnlation how
with the enemies ol Internal Improvement to dc-leal
In.tli this mid liov. (Imham's scheme, iml to
succeed in oharterinsi the North Carolina Railroad.
Let all those who think tin
Who speaks thai w ir.l -performs that act
Of ki i.l I ive,
!',■:' whose great :1 need
Is -;, nijiiil hy i:ii,i love.
Tli'iii noble south - Heaven bluss thy sons,
A n I liiallh ;>ml bouiity send ;
And may'st thou e'er reuiniii as now.
I!: .V fiinji rt Friend.
( uit&tlltlliolUtlt'sl.
liny also resolved to increase the revenue of the
State in such a way us no! to oppress lie industry
to show
disastrously this course of policy is destined in the
end toopperate on all the Southern and Western
States, ii will he sufficient for our present pur-pose
to call the attention ofStates' right men who
American party
eir still more wretched Wron<r, or who even think that there is no oeca-faiuuics,
with gratitude and JjoJy.—I'rediJuterian. ,< si■ o n cfor suchu a party, l1ooki upon t.1he froullow•ing 0X-j
tract from an editorial in a late number of the
London Tinie«. It needs no comment:—
America is a great Alsatia, in which political
GroiTtii 11I" Chicago,
The Star of the Wast, a paper published at
have done so much to fasten upon osthc present Cincinnatti, thus speaks of Chicago and its won- refag<*S and criminals guilty of less honorable of-
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T!ie Barefoated i'lindi-Hoy.
'flu I 'd irning Ariel, uudcr tin- cap-lion,
givfi r. slinU story . ! :, distinguished citizen
of I'l mi.—J Ivi tiia, lis Ii Hows :
Some thirty year.- ago a liarcfiotcd boy floated
down the Su j,i, !. it.,,.,!, river on an huinhlo rult
■in,I arrived at llani -burg, I'a. lie camo from
Vnrtli LMI ;,I 1 Lirge liuuily. with all
gniiils li. I 111, in a little pix-Ltt hand- j
protect and uphold; they u . . ,.
entourage our own towns and trade with our i.wn noW wro„„ pTosnously wron-> us State's ri«ht sod, and the success ol the farmers through all and Jacobins, Italian red rcpuoticans, IJnngan-ports;
and that this could only be clone by works ,ucll, in i^niiftting the interest of all our Stote <l'e Western country—all hav,
r, nternal Improvoment, properly located andju- bonds to he made payable in New Vork or anv ,!1> Chicago. W hy, a man
uieiously const ruc'.Oi
And to expi dite llii- great n suit, every pi -.-i-blo
inci.ns should be lak« 11 to bring the slock in
our lioirds up to six per cent jsiying slock, and
keep it there. 'J his object being attained i: was
deeli.red by f..ore th.-.u.-.lie, cluil we would no loll.
RUIH ami oblained imjiloymciit i Kcr &ce a di-iiisiti..n in this Stale to locate loads
. .„ Bll .,....., ,:l;,.,,. |-,.".,,. a!l ; so as to bisect the Mate and benefit South (ins
. nu-i man. from a j. Mn,,.. !i:;iM f !n;a a::.! \ !UMI:I, ini,-:,>i. e^-lu-ivriy, rlmost—
I, .111 11 to an editor: the" baref.K'led l^1«"r the U llmliigl..ii and l.alci~h and l.aleigli
,..ii.: :.. , . 1 , , 1.. ami il::-iiiii Itiiilroacls, with trtoil heavy 'I Kails,
. \ 1. i\ othi ', , ulu
.:•;-.,. and like Na-sig:
ilist obstacl
; i.r 01 ly klmw.
1 I'til. wer in i':: iiliiii'- fit J -
. iii:.- of hi- itiilienl lull and
. 1111; a.-piranl became I'rinter
, IVu :al inauugcmeiit wa 11
the object dearest to his
i.l his 1 :i ther in :i hiinir
ff.ini in! ; cs.i.ni 1
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: arm
; 1 -, •, : nee that 1 ,»l hiug
I'ullv 1 irin-t. In a Ii w _. us
illh his -i ii-rs, w.-re indej ndciil , i
1 .1 I : intcl I j was
: :'.'•. iii ■. si ,•; mi ih i bj a
lily. He did not sti»]i
,. I of 1!: ■ I'ri ndless, the
: . . r of industry.
I .-iii . : itil the ir bare-p.
iniim. niiice in llar-w,
ry, i iid >' H a his little
■ f,|;::'| ram] asl ■ i to hi ome
i-lo.l ;: tor ill C"ii-
1 u' "'I T i!:iil-
,M rsix pei cent paying
:n
and these roads would
roads, 'i his would induce the stock of the North
Carolina l!:iil Itoad to betaken, and the lload
built. 1'hesc wire the motives, views and prin-ciples,
thai actuated the leading men in the ]..gis-lature
of \> Is-'!'. And that they arc corrcc! 1
have not a doubt, nor even the shadow of one li it -
g. ring in my mind, l.rt our Legislature resolve
to levy and collect all of our re\iinue iii such a
v..,\ as will encourage and protect our industry
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..—The Fairmont \ ir :in-
, ie of itev. II. C.
Iowa. •';. ileeted Chaplain of the
ite, 1 I . in .:■. si iti med in -• rth-
\ irgiu'u :
"li c day at a church situated
i's I mt, he was annoy. .1 by
f his 1 iigregation as manifested
ir liea Is to sec every body who
11," f ii I he, "it is
„bit-hto :;'l and credit, and al the same lime stimulate ou.
citizens to subscribe :>> the stock of our great
Wi rks of I liter ii.'! improvement, instead of enter-in.:
into corrupt and di:grace!ul combinations to
! _ roll :iii of the mighty burden of constructing
ail su.-h improvements upon the State Treasury,
to be mel bv direct tax:. 1 ion 1 :i land and pulls.—
We repeal that this was not the design of the
true friends of Internal Improvement in IS-l!*—"ll.
II ■. never dreamcj of involving the State to
build any other than a (Viitn.1 North Carolina
Itailroail, and llii- great State work was designed
to unite and relieve the p-oplcand not I" oppress
and distress iheia. II there I"- any that doubt
this, we ask them to turn to the ifgislatuaj of
he made payable in New .Vork or any
other foreign State. And wc hazard nothing in
saying that that one circumstance operates more
to our prejudice than any tariff that has ever yet
I.ten levied and collected by the General Govern-ment.
'J his foreign policy has already destroyed
the ere.lit 01 more than one of our nourishing
Southern Stales And we- repeat again under
tin- present construction of our constitutions our
tri'lit as States is now literally and emphatically
our all. Great Britain has exhibited more wis-dom
than any .ther civilized nation upon earth
in lixiug hi 1 enormous funded debt on a stable
foundation, and at the same time managing by it
to protect the industry and.•0:11111.'ice of the eoun- .' .
try, by simply keeping it all at home and collect- '
ini: ii revenue to pay its interest by indirect taxa-tion.
'J his arrangement has upheld her credit so
well, that it has become, as we have heretofore
shown, an inexhaustible fountain of supply in all
limes of emergency, and the throne, as it were,
upon which ih. ir sovereign now sits and sways a
MI] trc o'er many millions settled round this globe
And here, without dcsiguii
il
lit
lave conspired to build aus, and Poles, driven into frantic hatred of nil
tikes a farm; makes government by Austrian or Jlussian tyranny—re-it,
fences it, and pays for it in two years. Na- fugees from every country in Europe, and adven-ture
has provided for'bim. Some {armors have turors, pintes. and ulllbusters from every coun-i:
ii.-cd, the present yejir, from 5,000 to 10,000
bushels of wheat, audjlhe same amount of torn.
Nature has also provided for railroading. The
land for miles is as letel as 11 house floor. The
chief expenses of a railroad is the iron. Here is
the secret of the grovJth of Chicago. Illinois is
the second State in Inc Union in railroading. She
try in the world, and last, though not least, our
own United Irishmen—all liud themselves re-
Ihe bee is a professor of geometry; fur lie con-stnets
his cells so Scientifically, that the least DOS'
siblc amount of material is formed into thfl lar-gest
spaces with the least waste of room. Not all
the mathematicians ofCambridge could improve
the construction of his cells.
The catcrpillcr is a lilk-spinner, and far be-fore
all other silk-spinners in the creation.—For
the 1 idlest dresses that we have, wc are indebted
to the silkworm. With wonderful properties
has it pleased our heavenly Father to endow the
lower creatures !
The mole is an engineer, and firms n tunnel
quite as well if he had been instructed by nn
engineer. The nautilus is a navigator, hoisting
and taking in his sails as he floats along the water
and casting anchor at his pleasure.
Lei me liuish by observing that the j.ibkal is n
ranter, the hawk an expert bird-catcher,
leach an excellent surgeon, and the monkey
tho
the
W'hat Dr. Hail has to Say.
HOW TO Its: HAPPY.
Header, I have seen a great deal and fell more;
have talked, and tiavclcd, and enjoyed, and ouf.
I'ered with all sorts of people; liave wandered
much and stayed at home more ; have been 011
ecived into the governing class, and treated as if the sea, and i.i it, and under ii ; have been Uugh-they
possessed sympathy for the interests, ami cd at, shot at, ((Oareled at, praised, blamed, ahu-an
honest wish for the dignity and prosperity of I sod; have been blown at, blown up; Lave had
' nun h, and had little—so much a, to enjoy
nothing; so little that I Would have enjoyed a
crust of bread, because the ship went to the bot-tom
with everything in it, leaving me to float to a
sandbank ; and then, again, I have wandered over
the earth, and under it, and through it, its caves
ami its dungeons and darkness, after stalagmites
the great republic, liut in the votes that they
give, the speeches they deliver, and the parties
has2,007 miles. Ohio alone leads her, having they form, these men are really thinking, not of
2,J>27. Nearly every railroad in Illinois centres the country they have adopted, but of the land
ill Chicago. For the reason given above, Chica- they have left—not how to benefit their friends
go is destined Jo become a greal city. In ten in America, but how to avenge themselves on
years she will have out-grown both St. Louis and their enemies in Kurope. Such 1111:1 hate the al-
(•inciiinatii. I luring the month of September fiance between England and Frame, because itcs- stalactites, and specimens ofblack rocks and white
there was received in St. Louis 000,000 bushels tablish.s a power strong cnoueh to put down the j OILS, blue stones and gray; lived for months on
„l whCat—in Chicago there were received during puny seditions and treasons which they arc per- ( desert islands, just Ibr the purpose of picking up
tho same month 3,190,000 bushels—an excess petually hatching ; th.y hate the great war than new shells ou the bench, which the tide of night
over St. Louis of 2,585,000 bushels. The him- , Is being waged, because it seems likely to work 1 never billed to leave behind it; in those by-gone
her pork, beef, and corn trade in this city, is im- out the regeneration of Europe by other means | days, when I had the three greal requisites of an
Every department of-business is'driven than the'only ones which they are acquainted enjoying traveler, to wit: plenty of limo, plenty
and goes on hi-h pressure principle. Everybody with—insurrection, a couimittt e of public safety, | ol patience, and plenty ol money, so if the coach
istast—men women, and children, steamboats, the guillotine,-tho repartition of land, aii nnlimi- turned over and smashed up, i could afford to
her own citizens, and that which is still better,
everv dollar of it is in effect widely disseminated
among the people of the Stale, by it being made |
the basis of their bank circulation, as is also the '
case with no little of the British debt. Again, ]
New Vork has, from design or accident, followed j
Great Britain in securing the interest arising on |
]s|s-:i ami see if they cui find oneaet or word „U the State debts of this Confederacy, to be
Iluil will contradict these statements. Hut how ma(]e payable in their great commercial emporium, has ever seen. He describes the inhabitants as a
isi. at the .'res,,,. ,i,„o? So s-oou as the Wil- j^Z^the" .nicre'st "on" all the Kuropean J **■»•. I** f'l'^-V-^Vi^'u^1
minetun and Raleigh and Kalvigh and Gaston 'debts is made payable in London. This circVm- -m08t y^U 1 ft '• „
UI„;,OI:,:S were reared they U, as had been JSVltoS to extend banking facilities ' «-«■» Jlmt d - MgJJ -nd -^irT^Ould
predicted, become pavingstoek-the newrevenue :uill v„utro] the cxchan„e „, tll0 c„ull(ry ,0 B de- good £"£" SdshmTu, \merica TJnho
bill so « suppli. d all .:, hciencics in the Treasury. „,;|t ,-.w :irc awl t0 ,.,tiieVe or admit even be ^f^Se^Z"^ o7raeeof
The stock 1 : the North Carolina Bail Head was ;viUu,ut limcll t£nt> thmht ,Ild investigation. , '!*^s d then, as hat sup ;.r
taken, and the work put under contract. Then a Aud when the^encral Government abandons all j me" ' ''"'■"
spirit of confidence and improvement is seen.— idea d" eontrolinft, or rather regulating our com-
'1 he policy of the legislature of IS4i<-'!l has work- mclV(. credit or currency as a nation, but train-ed,
and is still working a mightyxhaiige lor the fersa|| these vast interests to the respective States,
better. The Public Treasurer now advertised the then indeed docs our State debt, Internal lm-
.4 Great City in Central Africa
Mr. liowen. a Baptist Missionary, sent out : .suarpening Edge* Tool*..
from Florida, in his journal mentions a visit made
last Vpril to llorrin, the capital of tho kingdom The Washington National /„'■//,,,. wer trans-ofYoruba.
lie speaks of it as "about the lar- lates the fdlowing from a Germanscientific jour-gCSt
town with exception of London," that be
1 :! us interrupt) il
. an i 1 will tell you the name
, . man as he enters the church." ()!'
traded universal attention.
- me one entered ; "Brother William
vcy diili- first half million dour coupon bonds for sale.—
Now d-with
European
eatores and large beard. They are sometimes
called «kite black men."
Mr. Bowen adds:
I never saw an honorable man or a modest wo-ilal
;—" it has lung been known that the simplest
method of sharpening a razor H to put it for half
an hour in water to which has been added one-twentieth
of its Weight of muriatic or sulphuric
acid, then litely wipe it off. and alter a few hours
set it on a hone. The acid here supplies the
place »f a whetstone by corroding the whole sur-face
uniformly, so that nothing further but a
smooth polish is necessary. The process never
all the million inquiries which geology, astronomy,
coQobology, and a dozen other dry names suggc
led, which not only had the effect to keep ine
from fretting, but kept me in an interested hu-mor;
well, in all tbosc different situations, and as
many more, 1 have found out, aieon,; others, three
things : •
1st. That a man out ol money caul be happy.
2d. That a man out of health can't be happy.
Ild. That a man without a wife can't be happy.
Therefore I have come to the conclusion that
the best way to be happy is to take care of your
health, keep out of debt, and (iel a wife.
//..ir lh>- IttndtU .!/,.,. Wdnhn.—Tho
provenieiits, bunking institutions, currency, ex- wan ;„ Africa, till I reached llorrin. The num-
... i out the ] n iiclu r, while thai wo believe to be the true policy of tho State, and
nisli ,'. beyond measure, the only one that can save us and render us a
blade llC 111'"
Vor.d in vain to • ui ss wl it was the
'er. '■: ther per m eamc in; "Brother
bawled tin | readier, with a like
and so perhaps in other cases. Al'ter a
!,:' coi . n were amazed at hearing
rcall 1,ut in a loud voice, "A little
a Llui 11 it and a white
.V Wily V- • ay
.
great, prosperous and happy people.
It i true the Legislature, owing to the tight-ness
'•: the money market and the embarrassment
of the Treasury at the time, authorized the Public
Treasurer to sell our builds in New Vork, or any-where
else, provided he could not sell them ut
hum-; ut ;■■'■'■ liut by giving this discretionary
look for your- ! power to the Treasurer, we assert that they
j not nor never intendvd to authorize him to
able, and command a premium of 20 per cent,
when Virginia bonds would command but 08 dol-lars
to the hundred under existing circumstances.
INVESTIGATOR.
. speedily wears out the
The existoncoofsuchapeoploinaiwgion hither J vh:irjioii:ng lure indicated would be found espe-to
unknown, but supposed to be the abode of ut- gjjij advantageous for sickles and scythes."
nin" oHus nbon-speD, or when he leaves off in A pretty lady sat next to him. Looking at the
the evening, moistens the blades of his t.-.'.s with floor during the lecture, be espied what he thought
water acidified as above, the cost ol whi.h is HI- was the lady a handkerchief, the Ucctrimmed eoVe
most nothing. This sav.s the consumption of jo*t visible from under her dress. Turing to nil
lime and labour in whetting, whi.h, moreover, pownmle bo gallantly whimpered—
!e of
hat on !-
The Empire State of the South.—Georgia is
nearly eheciucrcd by Railroads; and yet her debt
lid
sell thousand tw
ter barbarism, is a ftct of no htth mterwt It
would seem,from Mr. BowenV statements—-(un-fortunately,
his journal is too brief to be satistac-y—
that Ihoy are willing listeners to the
True, he was, on arriv-to
a nominal confinement
few days; but very soon was received with
toryl—tnat inoy ■« <
preaching of the gospel.
in" at llorrin, subjected
is only two million six hundred and forty-four I for a few ......
hundred and twentyonc dollars. C| high honor by the King. «*» B»« *« * "Mk U»u»
"You've dropped your ban ■.kerchief, madam!"
ami before she cuiiM reply, he pr.K-ecded to pick
it up. Horror! lie had seized the edge of her
pet »/.-.'/•', and did riotdiscover the mi-take un-
" til the top of a patter bom slated him in the face,
Flotilia.—A resolutinn hasnawed bothhranen an.l the dint sound ol a laugh just nipped in tho
c« of the General Assembly of this Stale;; author- bud by the application of a rml handkerchief,
iziii'.-t-'ie inhabitant- of West Florida to vote up- warned him of his mistake. " I'haney his fee-on
the proposition of seceding from this St al-and
uuitiie tbemsclvca with the State of Ala-lin'.,
«."
Moral.—l>iMi'l attempt to pick np any thing
wiih Lee to it belore you know wliat it u.