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WESTERN DEMOCEAT, OHAELOTTE, 3ST. C.
SPEECH OF GEN. JOE LANE,
the U. S. Senate on the I9lh of Dec, 1859,
In
on the Territorial question.
MR. LANE. I was unfortunate, Mr President
in not hearing the point which was submitted by
the Senator from Ohio in the course of his speech
to the Northern Democratic Senators. I noticed
that the Senator from Minnesota rose and respond
ed, but I did not hear what was the question sub
mitted. MR. PUG II. The question which I proposed,
refering to the statement contained in the speech
of the Senator from California at Grass Valley,
was, whether the other Democratic Senators from
the non-slaveholding States held the position that
any man who entertains Judge Douglas' opinions
or mine for they essentially differ in some things
as to the power of a Territorial Legislature, was
tinfit to sit at the head of the Committee on .ter
ritories, or to be received into the ranks of the
Democratic party whether it was a cause of ex
clusion? MR. LANE. Mr President, I desire to say to
the Senator that it is not my purpose to prescribe
rules or a platform of principles for the Democratic
party. I nad nothing to do with displacing Judge
Douglas from his position as Chairman of the Com
mittee on Territories; but I will say to my friend
from Ohio that I have very great respect for him,
and that I have no doubt there are man' good
Democrats in the Northern States who do not agree
with inc upon the Territorial question. I would
not say that any one of them who disagrees with
me, and holds different principles on that point, is
not a good Democrat; nor da I pretend to say that
the fact that Judge Douglas holds the views or
opinions he does on this point would have been a
good reason with me for opposing his election to
the chairmanship of the Committee on Territories.
He had been displaced before I become a member
of this body. It was done by Democratic Senators
whose devotion to the Constitution, the Union,
and the rights of the States no man will undertake
to gainsay.
"VYhile I am npMr. President, I will say that I
have my views in relation to the Territorial ques
tion and I am sorry to find that they differ very mate
rially from those of my friend from Ohio; but lam
. sure he is a good Democrat. There is no doubt
about that; and I know I am a good Democrat.
Then, sir, how can I undertake to say that gentle
men, differing in opinion on the Territorial ques
tion, shall not act together as Democrats when the
salvation of our country depends upon the suc
cess of the Democratic party? I think that the
principles of the Democratic party are the true
principles of this Government, and they must be
maintained, they cannot be compromised. Seeing
and feeling as I do the importance of union, on the
pait of Democrats, on all great questions, I would
not rule out any member of that party because ho
did not f eel as I do in relation to Territorial mat
ter??. I have great respect for Judge Douglas; I be
lieve him to be i Democrat; but I have a right to
differ even from him, ami I do differ in opinion
from Judge Douglas, and al.-o from my friend from
Ohio, in regard to the power of the people in the
Territoricsr I hold that the territory of the coun
try is the common property- of the whole country,
that the people of every State of this Union have
equal rights in the Territories, and that while they
remain in a Territorial condition the inhabitants
cannot, by unfriendly legislation or by a system of
unequal taxation, debar the people of any State
from admission there; or, in other words, that they
cannot by legislation infringe on the rights of the
people of any State. Rut let me give an illustra
tion; I hope the Senate will allow me to make a
case.
Application has been made to Congress during
the last two or three years for the organization of
a Territorial government in Arizona. Arizona is
in the southern portion of our country. The
climate is warm; the soil is adapted to cotton; it is
rich in mineral resources. 1 have no doubt that
Elave labor could be used to ndvantage in Arizona.
I believe it could be profitably used there for the
production ot cotton. I saw the cotton-fields on
the Gila in the winter of 148; I picked the cotton
out of the bolls, examined its quality and texture,
and found it to be fine. Cotton can be grown and
produced there in abundance. Resides the cotton,
slave labor could be used profitably in the mines of
that region, and in agricultural pursuits. That
being the case, representing, as I do, a Northern
State, elected by the Democracy of a Northern
State, I could not for one moment consent that the
people of the South should rush out there as soon
as a Territorial government was organized, get
possession of the Legislature, and, by a system of
unfriendly legislation or unequal taxation, under
take to keep the people of the North out ot that
Territory.
"We would not submit to4it at all; we would say
at once they have no right to pass such laws; and
I believe any honest court, such a one as would be
gent to that Territory, would decide such enact
ments invalid, as violating that principle of equali
ty of States upon which this government niu.t
rest. The principle of equality ofthe States must
be maintained. Their equal rights in the Terri
tories is so clear to my mind that I cannot imagine
how any gentleman can gainsay it. The Territory
is the common property of all the States, and I am
sure the Northern people would not submit to any
such system of taxation, or any such legislation in
in a territory as would exclude them. Hie North
cm Democracy are just: and while they would not
6ubmit to that course of policy on the part of the
South, they would not attempt to exclude the
South by a system to which they would not sub
mit themselves.
I understood the Senator from Ohio, in response
to the Senator from Mississippi, to say that the
right was with the people of a Territory to estab
lish or prohibit slavery.
W ell, Mr President, I desire to say that I do
not believe that the people of a Territory .have the
right to exclude, or establish, or abolish slavery.
No such right is conferred on them by the Consti
tution. I recognize the principle of the eaualitv
ofthe States their equal rights in the Territories.
Any man has a right to go from any State ofthe
union into tne common territories ot this govern
mcnt, and take with him whatever is recognized as
property in the State from whence he goes, and to
hold it in the territory while the Territorial con
dition remains; aud when tie people of the terri
tory come to form a State government, they have
& right to say whether the State shall be slave
holding or non-slaveholdiug; and as they decide, it
is the duty of Congress to admit them. But I hold
that the people of a Territory have not a right to
prohibit slavery, aud I would not agree that they
.have the right to establish it; because the territory
U the common property of all the States of this
Union, and every man, as I said before, has a right
to go there and take with him his property, and
enjoy that property while the territorial condition
exists; and if the Legislature of a Territory shall
undertake, by legislation, to bar the interests or
the rights of any portion ofthe Union, I believe
any honest court will decide such legislation to be
null and void, because it is in conflict with the
Constitution of the United States. I know mv
friend will say that from that court there is an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court of the United States.
With the decision of the Supreme court the Dem
ocracy ofthe North will be willing to rest.
MR PUG II. Did I understand the Senator to
say that a Territorial Legislature had no right to
establish slavery any more than to prohibit it? I
heard him imperfectly at this distance and I want
to know if that is his proposition.
MR. LANE. My proposition is that Congress
has no power over the question of slavery; that
they cannot, under the Constitution, establish it in
a Territory, or prohibit it; and that a Legislative
Assembly iu a Territory deriving its powers from
Congress cannot do what Congress itself cannot do.
MR. PUG II. Then you hold that a Territorial
Legislature has no power to establish slavery ?
MR. LANE. No power to establish it, and no
power to prohibit it ; but that property goes there
like all other property, on an equal footing with
other property, and while the Territory is in a ter
ritorial condition it has that protection which the
Constitution extends to it, and which an honest
court would give it, and the common law of the
country secures to it.
Mr. President, it is not my purpose to discuss this
Territorial question. I am tired of it; and I hope
that the discussion of it will soon cease; but it is
so essential in ny judgment, that justice and
right prevail that I feel it my duty to give my
views in relation t the rights of all the fctates ot
this country in a Territory, while it remains in a
Territorial condition. I have heard gentlemen,
Senators and others, talk about the value of the
Union and their devotion to it. No man loves it
more than I do, and no one would make greater
sacrifices to maintain and preserve this Union. I
would do it ..t the moment when the country re
quires it, at the expense of every drop of blood;
but to maintain that Union the Constitution must
be maintained in its spirit, in its letter, and in its
meaning. The principles of justice and equality
must prevail in this country or there can be no
Union. Sir, as much as I" love this Union, as
much as I am dcoted to it and no one is more
so than myself I would not ask to have this Union
maintained by the violation of the Constitution it
self. If the Northern States of this Confederacy could
not have equal rights with the Southern States in
the Territories, and equal justice under all circum
stances, would they remain in the Union ? If we
want to preserve it let us be just, do right, deal
fairly by every portion of this country, and not
hold" that the Territory belongs to the North, to
free labor, or to the South, to slave labor; for it is
not so. It belongs equally to all; all of them have
an equal right in it; and I would submit to no
wrongs from the South. Reing a Northern man,
I would submit to nothing that infringes! the rights
of the Northern States in the Territories of this
Union. No man would be more prompt to resent
a wrong, an insult, or an indignity, or injustice
attempted to be perpetrated on the Northern States
by the South, than myself; and while I submit to
no wrong from that quarter, I would ask them to
submit to none from us.
1 intend to be just by all; to deal rightly with
the whole country; to know no section but the
Constitution and the Union; to carry out its pro
visions and its guarantees, and the rights which
arc secured by it to the States of this confederacy.
I do not see how any man who loves the Union and
the constitution can discriminate between the sec
tions of this country, a.id pretend to say that the
ciinmon territory of all shall be given exclu
sively to free labor or to slave labor. The citizens
of the States have equal rights in the Territory
while it remains in the Territorial condition; and
when the people who inhabit it come to form a
State Constitution, then it is their right to prohib
it slavery or establish it, as they see lit, and they
have a right to be admitted into the Union as they
shall decide.
I did not intend, sir, to say anything on this
Territorial question, and I should not have said a
word on this occasion, but that I heard very
indistinctly some question which was propounded
by the honorable Senator from Ohio, to which the
honorable Senator from Minnesota rose to respond,
and I desired to know what the question was, so
that I. too, might respond. I say again to that
Senator that the Democracy of the North differ
in opiuion upon this question. I regret it. I can
agree with him and with our old friend Douglas
for they are both good Democrats upon all
essential questions, this only excepted. They will
both labor to prevent the election of a sectional
man to the Presidency, and will, I have no doubt,
do all in their power to secure the election of the
nominees of the Charleston Convention. Doth
love this Union; they stand upon the principle of
right, as they understand it; but I must differ
from them as to the power of the people in a
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I said before, they will, I have no doubt, labor
faithfully with the Democracy to secure the
election of the nominees of the Charleston
Convention.
Now, sir, I hope the Senator from Ohio is satis
fied with my position as to the Territories, asd also
with the fact that I recognize him as a good Demo
crat, because I know him to be so, and 1 know he
will not dispute my Democracy because I happen
to differ in opinion with him upon a matter that
I regard as essential to the peace and harmony of
this country.
I will say, before I take my seat, that this ques
tion was made in our late election in Oregon, and
I took an active interest in it; and it required the
labor of sound Democrats there to secure the elec
tion of a reliable national man to represent that
State in this Congress. The question was plainly
and fairly submitted to the people of Oregon, and
in every speech that the member who represents
that State, in the other branch of Congress, made
before the people, he took the ground that the citi
zens of all the States had equal rights in the Terri
tories, and that the North had no right to infringe
the rights of the South, or the South to infringe
the rights of the North.
I canvassed nearly every county in the State in
that campaign, and I made mj-self understood
everywhere. I made the point clearly that, in my
judgment, all the States of this Union have an
equal right, and ail their citizens had an equal in
terest in the Territories rights that could not nor
must not be violated. The Democracy of that
State triumphed; and by their votes at the ballot
box, endorsed that great principle one that must
be maintained, one that cannot be violated; for on
that great principle, the equality of the States in
everything that belongs to the General Govern
ment, the happiness of this country depends.
M R DROWN. Mr President, I rise to express
the deep gratification I feel at having listened to
the speech of the Senator from Oregon. There is
in it more of conservatism, more of genuine nation-
ality, more of that broad sentiment which covers
covers
this whole country than in any speech I have heard
pronounced m the Senate during the present ses- ; nessee, were presented as candidates by their re
gion; and I perhaps should not be extravagaut if j Fpective States, and obtained a large support. They
I said it contains more than I have heard durinz are now nil .trad ! firm a.;im,m .t th0
half a dozen sessions.
The friends of Senator Douglas affirm
that his prospects for the nomination at Charles
ton and for election as next President, are hrifhfc-
J cning every day.
MODE OP TAKING THE CENSUS OP
THE UNITED STATES.
As this is the year for taking the census, the
followins remarks in relation thereto, which ws
find in the Washington Constitution, will be of in
terest to many persons:
The duties of this undertaking devolve upon the
United States marshals, who appoint their own
assistants. The general government has in each
State or Territory one or more judicial districts
with each of which is connected a marshal, who
acts as high sheriff in the District Court of the
United States. These marshals are required by
law to subdivide their districts, and for each sub
division to appoint an assistant, taking care not to
include a greater population (by estimate) than
20,000 in any one sub-division.
The assistants having been qualified, by oath,
for the proper performance of their duties, are
furnished, through the marshals, with blanks and
instructions. In the prosecution of their work
they are required to make two copies of their re- j
port. The original returns are niea witn tne cieiK
ofthe court of each countv, and the copies are for-
! warded to the marshal, who transmits one copy to
! the secretary of State for his district, and the
other to the census office in Washington. Ihe
compensation to the marshal is in proportion to
the population enumerated by his assistants; should
that exceed one million, be is pnid one dollar for
each thousand persons enumerated; should the po
pulation returned by his assistants be less than one
million, he receives the sum of one dollar and
twenty-five cents for each one thousand persons re
turned a system of compensation sufficiently mod
erate, but which may admit of the payment of a
greater amount for a lesser service, as in the case
of a marshal whose returns include 950,000 per
sons at one dollar and twenty-five cents per thous
and persons, no more than he whose returns do
not much exceed a million an inequality not un
usual in rating fees for mileage and other services.
The assistants who perform the work of enumera
tion are paid on a different principle, combining in
a novel manner compensation for labor and travel,
one which was found to operate very fairly and
satisfactorily to the employees and government.
His allowance is two cente for each person enu
merated; for each farm, ten cents; for each estab
lishment of productive industry, fifteen cents; for
social statistics, two per centum on the amount al
lowed for enumeration the population; and two
cents for each mortality return, with ten cents for
traveling expenses, to be ascertained by multiply
ing the square foot of the number of dwelling
houses in his district, by the square root ofthe
number of square miles in his division; from the
product whereof is to be derived the number of
miles traveled, and eight cents per page for the
two copies.
The marshals and asr-istants in California, Ore
gon, and Utah and New Mexico, under the opera
tion of an amendment to the law, received com
pensation at. the discretion ofthe Secretary of the
Interior, which was determined by the addition
of 10') per cent.
LATER PROM EUROPE.
Halifax, Feb. 2. The steamer America arri
ved at this port to-day, bringing advices frmi Liv
erpool to the 14th ult. The sales of cotton for
the week amounted to 75.000 bales. The market
closed steady. All qualities have slightly declined,
ami holders are pressing their stock on the market.
It was rumored that the Peace Congress would
meet on loth. A commercial treaty had been con
cluded between England and France.
The High Prices for Negroes. There is a
perfect fever raging in Georgia now on the subject
of buying negroes. Several sales which have come
under our ey within a month past afford an
unmistakeable symptom ot the prevalence of a
disease in the public mind on this subject. In
view ofthe fabulous prices offered for this species
of property, reflecting men are led to the enquiry,
what is to be done to supply the deficiency which
is produced with us by the great demand for
negroes in the South-west? We are unable to
give any satisfactory answer. But, so far as the
effect which these high prices are to have in our
own State, is concerned, we think we can truthfully
say, the fever will soon abate in a very natural way.
Men are borrowing money to-day at exorbitant
rates of interest to buy negroes at exorbitant prices.
The speculation will not sustain the speculators,
and in a short time we shall see many negroes and
much land offered under the Sheriff's hammer,
with few buyers for cash, and then this kind of
property will descend to its real value. The old
rule of pricing a negro by the price of cotton by
the pound that is to say, if cotton is worth twelve
cents a negro man is worth twelve hundred dollars,
if at fifteen cents, then fifteen hundred dollars
does not seem to be regarded. Negroes are
twenty-five per cent, higher now, with cotton at
ten and a half cents, than they were two or three
years ago, when it was worth fifteen and sixteen
cents per pound. Men are demented upon the
subject. A reverse will surely come. Millcchje
vilte ((7a.) Union, Jan. 17tt.
Sleeping with a Dead Person. We were
put in possession of the facts of a case, a few days
ago, and assured of their authenticity, which cause
our blood to run cold upon every recurrence of
them to our memory. A young man returning at
a late hour, slightly inebriated, to his boarding
place, a house in a row of buildings exactly alike
in street, entered by mistake the house
adjoining the one in which he lived. Groping his
way in the dark up to the second floor, he unlocked
what he supposed to be his room door and entered.
j He could find no matches, undressed himself,
i tumbled into bed and was almost immediately in a
j hasty stupor. Some time in the night he was
! awakened by the contact of a cold body, and beinsr
! sobered, was enabled to sec by the rays of the moon
in tne bed with him a dead man. Ihe truth
flashed upon him immediately; he bounded from
the bed, donned his clothes and rushed from the
house, never waiting to lock the doors. The day
previous a person had died in the house next, to
his landlady's. The body had been habited in
grave clothes and locked up in the room in which
the intruder found it. He had not noticed the
hardness of the bed nor its scanty covering, but
laid down and slept several hours with the dead
body. The young man says that the experience
of that night has taught him a lesson which
temperance lectures never could. J'Jtila. News.
Remarkable Mortality. It is a remarkable
. met mat nearly an mu tuiiuiuuies lor me ice
; Presidency in the Democratic National Convention
! at Cincinnati,. June, 185G, have since paid the debt
of nature. Lynn Boyd, of Kentucky ; J. C. Dob-
Kin. nf Xortli t'.-irnlln.i f!f!i. Onirm;in nf M;;a.;
; Gen. i?ust. nf Texas : Aaron V. ttmwn. nf T
v. T " - - mivinii "- mv I 1 II
number of votes of any candidate on the first ballot
more even than Mr Rreckinridge, who finally
received the nomination. He was nominated bv
the eloquent arTd gifted Harris, of Illinois, who is
also deceased. What changes time makes in four
years !
THE HARPER'S PERRY COMMITTEE.
Washington, Feb. 1. Senator Wilson was
before the Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee
to-day. He stated that early in May, 1858, Col.
Forbes came to his seat in the Senate chamber
and introduced himself. He informed him (Wilson)
that he (Forbes) had been employed by Brown to
go to Kansas and drill some troops, in 1857 that
Brown had not paid him that his family were
starving in Europe, and that the men in the East
j who had contributed money for Kansas ought to
pay him. Forbes was much excited at the time
and denounced Brown and others. He said that
some of the arms sent to Kansas had passed into
Brown's hands and were stored in Iowa; that
Brown was not a safe man, and that these arms
ought to be taken from him. Supposing that
Forbes referred to the Kansas border difficulties,
and that Brown might retaliate any attacks upon
I Kansas by the Missourians, he (Wilson) wrote to
Dr. Howe, suggesting that he should see some of
the contributors and get the arms out of Brown's
hallds Ue sai(1 tiiatif these arms should be used
for illegal purposes it would involve the contributors
in trouble. Howe immediately answered that an
order had been sent to Brown to deliver up the
arms. The matter had passed entirely out of his
(Wilson's) mind, and be had never heard a word
about the organization for an invasion of Virginia,
lie did not know that Howe had sent his letter
to Brown.
"PEOPLE'S PARTY."
We have seen a
good deal in the
Northern
the South-
Opposition papers, and occasionally in
ern anti-Democratic organs, about a "-People's Par
ty," which was held up as being something quite
different from the Black Republicans. To this
"People's party" 31 r E. Joy Morris belongs, and
Mr K. Joy Morris and others of this "People's
Party" have been praised up by the Southern Op
position and adolated by old Prentice of the Louis-
ville Journal. Now, we really think that our Op
position friends have had a lesson on the subject of
misplaced confidence. Their pet, E. Joy Morris,
with his satellites did, on Friday last, defeat the
organization of the House, even when the gentle
man proposed was a Whig, as Morris used to say
he was. These "national" Opposition men from
the North are all very well until they are tried.
Mr Morris could make a show of nationality by
voting for a Southern man, when there appeared
to be no chance of his election, but when his vote
so given would have elected a Southern man, he
shows his true character by withdrawing it.
Wilmington Journal.
The Scene in the House on Friday. The
Washington correspondent ofthe New York Times
says of the scene in the House on Friday, when
Mr Smith came so uear being elected:
Before the vote had been announced, it was ar
ranged that Messrs Bocock and Sherman should
conduct the Speaker to the chair. The fact of an
election seemed too good to be true. The hope
was indeed delusive, for discovering that Mr Smith
was actually elected, as the vote stood, Mr Mc
Pherson of Pennsylvania who had led off in sup
port of Smith, got up and changed his vote from
Mr Smith to Mr Corwin, Mr Morris and Mr Scran-
ton followed suit, thus reducing Mr Smith's vote
to a hundred and twelve Mr Sherman then
voted for the first time, wRich rendered a hundred
and fifteen necessary to a choice. The Democrats
then endeavored to obtain three votes more, and to
again elect Mr Smith. Now Mr Cox, of Ohio,
came to the rescue, and Mr Holmar, of TnCima,
agreed to do likewise, provided the third man
could be obtained.
Every possible influence was brought to bear
upon Allen of Ohio, and Davis of ludiana, but
without effect, and the result was announced Mr
Smith 112, Mr Sherman 106. If Mr Smith him
self had not voted, he would still have been elect
ed, as the votes of Cox and Holman would have
been sufficient. The Democrats now urged anoth
er ballot, but the Republicans resisted, and moved
an adjournment. Mr Stanlon of Ohio stated that
his friends would resist any effort to have another
ballot, and thereupon the Democrats yielded to a
motion to adjourn. Intense excitement prevailed
throughout the whole proceedings.
m
Ma McClernand and the Speakership. -The
'vote given to 31r McClernand, of Illinois,
was a very deserved compliment to him. He and
the other North western Democrats have beet:
fighting vigorously for the defeat of the Black
Republican nominee. Not only aid they vote for
a Southern Democrat, but they went even lurther;
they went beyond their organization, and threw
their vote for a Southern Opposition, in order that
.Northern Black Republicanism might meet with
defeat. We see that, in a despatch in the Charles
ton Mrrcury, Mr McClernand is spoken of as a
rree-soilcr. lhis charge we regard as untrue, it
is doing gross injustice to a man who has fought
throughout this hard contest with unwavering
zeal and devotion, and tried as hard as any Southern
man to defeat the free-soilism of the Republican
party; and now, just as the contest closes, to brand
him as a rree-soiler, shows a want of appreciation
' it
of commendable conduct which we cannot sympa
thize with. Columbia Carolinian.
Heavy Robbery in Charleston. We learn
from the Mercury, that Gen. Delza, an Ambassa
dor from South America to the American Govern
ment, who arrived at Charleston on the Isabel,
from Havana, on Friday, 27th enronte to Washing
ten, was robbed at the Charleston Hotel, on Satur
day of a large amount of money and valuables.
The Mercury says:
He was robbed, by some person plundering his
trunk while he was absent from the room but seven
minutes. The plunder consisted of 2,000 in
Spanish 100 reals pieces, coinage of 1850; 1,500
in 10 and 20 notes on the Rank of England;
nine honorary decorary decorations, consisting of
crosses, jewels, etc., of an intrinsic value of 10,
000; two heavy gold watches, jewelled, worth 500
each; two diamond rings, in gold settings, worth
800 each; and a collection of old rare and curious
coins, valuable to collectors. Total value robbed,
about 17,000.
From attending circumstances, it is judged that
Gen. Dclza was followed from Havana by some
Cuban thief, who knew of the disposition of those
valuables and seized the first opportunity to abstract
them.
Horrible Death We learn that last week
Mr Li. T. Khatt, an aged and well known citizen of
Murderkiln Hundred, in Sussex County, came to
his death under the following painful circum
stances: He had for some time past been engajred
in the grain business. Having occasion, on Satur
day week, to enter a granary which was empty, a
laborer who was passing carelessly by closed the
door, which, fastening on the outside, left Mr R.
imprisoned. His family became alarmed at his
prolonged absence, and search was instituted, but
it proved unavailing, until the granary was casual
ly opened on Saturday last, one week from his in
carceration, when it was discovered that he had
starved to death. His business acquaintance was
very extensive, and his untimely death has cast a
gloom over the neighborhood. Delaware Gazette
NEWS ITEMS, &C.
Wholesale Poisoning Case.
Rochester, N. Y., January 30. The family
of Hon. James O. Pettingill was poisoned at
Adams' Basin, by strychnine. The family consist
ed of Mr Pettingill, his daughter, Mrs. Marshall,
and Mrs Lewis, a nurse. It is hoped Mr Pet
tingill and his daughter will recover, but there are
no hopes of Mrs Lewis getting well. A domestic
in the house is strongly suspected of committing
the deed, and she has been arrested.
Cotton Burnt on the South Carolina
Railroad. We clip the following from the
Charleston Courier, of the 1st:
"From a passenger, to whom we are indebted for
information, we regret to learn that a fire occurred
on the freight train from Augusta, by which six
car loads of cotton, 210 bales each, were cousumed.
Both the cars and cotton are a total loss, and it is
estimated that about 159 yards of railroad track is
also burnt.
Fire in Goldsboro.' We learn that a fire
occurred in Goldsboro', on Wednesday last, con
suming three or four wooden buildings attached to
the Griswold Hotel. The fire caught a bed in a
negro house and spread from thence. It was with
great difficulty that the Hotel was saved.
A bill has been introduced into the Texas
Legislature for the imprisonment of Northern
drummers, teachers and preachers.
Who is the Heir ? Benjamin McCraven
and Joseph McCraven, who removed from York
District, S. C, to the West, prior to 1810; and
Archibald McCraven, who enlisted in Mecklenburg
county, N. C,in 1814, or their legal representatives,
will learn soulething to their advantage by
addressing R. M. WALLACE, Yorkville, S. C.
Hog Packing. The total number of hojjs pack
ed in Cincinnati this season amounts to 432,051
head. That is in excess of any previous vear. At
Terra Haute, Ind., the packing this season is es
timated at 45,000 hogs. This is also an increase.
From Texas. Later advices from Texas re
ceived at New Orleans, 'state that a regiment of
1,000 mounted riflemen have been raised in that
State for the protection of the frontier. A special
messenger has gone to Washington to offer the
services of this body of troops to the Government,
and for equipments.
Advices iroiu I'oint Isabel says: Cortinas, with
a force of 2G0 men, is above Matamoras plunder
ing Texans. The federal troops have returned to
Brownsville, and the rangers are at Rio Grande
City. The opinion prevailing on the frontier is
that war with Mexico is inevitable.
' Charleston, Jan. 28. Francis Mitchel, a porter
of the steamship Marion, was to-day sentenced to
be hung on the 2d of March for assisting a slave in
his attempt to leave the State on said steamer.
It is likely he will be pardoned by the Gov
ernor. Melancholy Accident. We learn that
George 31. Wright, a very interesting little boy,
son of Wm. x. Wright, Esq., of this town, fell into
a dry well, in the yard attached to his father's
residence. When taken out, he was found to have
sustained such injuries on the head as rendered
recovery impossible. He died this morning, hav
ing been insensible since receiving the injuries of
which he died. Wilmington Journal.
Emigration to Texas. The emigration to
Texas this season has exceeded that of any other
heretofore known, and the frontier counties ofthe
State are rapidly filling up. In- one week 1,030
negroes arrived at Galveston from the States of
Mif-sissippi and Alabama, for the western portion
of the State, and lands are accordingly increasing
in value.
TnE End. Rev. Pr. Cumming, of London,
has issued another volume of sermons, in which he
predicts that the world will come to an end in
18G7. Ah ! well; it may, or it may not; but it is
very certain that the world will end with some of
our readers before that time. "Re ye also ready;
for such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man
cometh." North Carolina Lhriitian Advocate.
We find it stated in the newspapers that the
Legislature of Mississippi has passed a law
divorcing all married persons within the limits of
that State who live apart for the period of 3 years.
Domestic Tragedy. A man named Thos
Faulkner, of Halifax county, Ya., who, while
intoxicated, had a habit of amusing himself by
frightening his wife, carried his joke a little too
far a few days since. The Halifax Echo says :
On this, as on previous occasions, he declared
his intention of hanging himself. This he had
done before, and had tied the rope to the joist and
then around his neck, always taking care, however,
to have it long enough, so that in stepping from
the chair, box or whatever he used on the occasion
to elevate himself he would easily reach the floor.
On this occasion he tied the rope too short, and
when he stepped from his elevation, instead of
reaching the floor, broke his neck. '
GOLD MINES, WATER POWER.
According to the terms of a mortgage to us made by
A. h. Hovey, hsq, we will sell for cash at the Higli
Shoals, Gaston county, N. C, on the 8th day of Xlurtli,
1SGO, that extensive and valuable property known as
the "-HIGH SHOALS," consistinjr of 13,000 acres of
Land, and embracing Gold Mines, Irou Ore Banks aud
the best Water Power in the State.
This property lies in thecdunties of Lincoln and Gas
ton, on bolli sides of the South Fork of the Catawba
River, commands the entire stream and a fall of 18 feet
l tie uaia .Mines on the premises are now being op-
crated and are known to be of great value and extent
V. l BVXUM.l
THOS. GRIEK,
98-6t
January 31, I8G0
WIS TAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY.
Proofs ol the great superiority of Dr. Wistar'a Balsam,
pour ia from all parts of the country.
Oxford, New Haven Co., Conn., Jan. 4.
Dear Sir: Having wiinessed the efll-cis of Wistar's
Balsam i-f Wild l herry, in the case of oneot my neighbors,
who has open lor several years peri'iusiy nm:c! a wiin ine
Phthisic, General Pulmonary Weakness, Bleeding ofthe
Lunifs. etc.. 1 have hi-n induced to ask you to send ine
some of the medicine. Mv neighbor, referred to above,
Iftlelv harl n violent nitnr-k til filf-'f dlHH at the Lull t!, and
distress in breathim;- He tried a bottle ofthe Wild Cherry,
which has produced a most salutary ond favorable ehVct.
Yours, HKNRY DUNHAM.
None genuine i nless signed I. BUTTS on the wrapper.
For sale in Chatlotteby E. N YE HUTCHISON &CO,
February 7, 1S60
trr li ;a a fnmmnn ni.iiervaiKin that there are more
,K.rr.rmm Im.,Imv min Americans, than can be found
1 ......... nnu ,.ihor ..;,. The reason is obvious.
We tike too Utile exercise, and forget lb wan-sol the body
! in the absorbing pursuits of business. In all such cases,
! ordinary medi lues can do link good. What is requited is
I ..h . t. i..vi,mr.inr as Dr. J. IIietier has
iTven to .he world, in hi.'CELEBKATED "BI ITERS.'
Th- wpjiU and nirvous denizen ol the coi nui g-nouec, inc
exhausted toiler rpmi the ship-board, and the prostrated
student of the m.dni-hf lamp, have found a wonderful
regenerator in the "Bitters," ai.d preler it to more pretf n
tio'm, but less efficacious medicines. But it .hould not be
forgotten that the agent which is so magical in ns influence
upon a frame which is merely deb.htated, is equally powr.
ful in assisting natnre to expef the most terrible forms ol
disease. W ho will not give it a trial?
Sold by druggists and dealers everywhere-
Tor sale by E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO,, Charlotte
January 10
COME IN AND SHUT THE DOOR.
Oh! do not stand so long outside,
Why need you be so shy?
The people's eyes are open John,
As they are passing by!
You cannot tell what they may think,
They've said strange things before,
And if you wish to talk awhile,
Come iu and shut the door.
Nay, do not say "No, thank you, Jane,"
With such a bashful smile;
You said when ladies whispered "No,"
They meant "Yes," all the while!
My father too, will welcome you;
I told you that before;
It doesn't look well standing here
Come in and shut the door.
You say I did not answer you
To what was said last night;
I heard your question in the dark
Thought on it in the light;
And now my lips shall utter what
My heart has said before.
Yes, dearest, I but stay awhile
Come in and shut the door!
Cochrane & Sample
Are opening at their HARDWARE STORE, opposite
the State Hank, a complete assortment of American
aud English Hardware, Cutlery, Guns, &c.
Our Stock will consist in part of
Pocket and Table Cutlery,
Guns and Pistols,
Iilack
smith's
and Carpenter's
Tools, Building Materials,
Glass, Putty, Nails, &c, &c.
Jan. 24, 18G0.
To Stock Raisers of IV. .
The subscriber having purchased the celebrated
Morgan Horse, Black Hawk, informs those desiring
superior blooded-stock, that this Horse will be before
the public during the ensuing Spring. For particulars,
see large bills.
A. B. DAVIDSON.
Jan. 31, 18C0. tf
Orem, Slopkins & Co.,
Importers & wholesole Dealers in
CLOTHS, UASSIMEUkS, VESTISGS,
PIECE TRIMMINGS,
And Goods exclusively adapted to Men's wear.
No. 238 Baltimore Street, BALTIMORE.
Our Goods are expressly for the home and southern
trade.
January 31, 18G0
S2pd-5t
SAMUEL P. SMITH,
AtforiM')' tiiid Counselor at Lair,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Will attend pr&mptbj and thlijentb to collecting and
remitting H claims intrusted to-hi.- care.
Special attention given to the writing of Deeds, Con
veyances, &c.
OFFICE, with Wm. Johxsto.v, Esq.
JgSf" During hour? of business, tint y be found in tb
Court House, Olrice No. 1, adjoining the clerk's oflk-e.
January 10, 1800
Garden Seeds! Garden Seeds!!
From Landreth's celebrated Nursery.
A lare supply of Vegetable Seeds of all the important
varieties. Also, Clover, Grass, and other Seeds, with
a variety of choice Flow er Seeds, just received at
Jan. 17, 18t0. SCAUR'S Drug Si ore.
New and Fashionable
27" urnituro
AYAEE EOOMS,
Charlotte, X. C.
J. M. SANDERS & Co., arc constantly re
ceiving from New York, Boston, &c, a general assort
ment of fine and fashionable FUKMTtllh, which they
will sell at extremely low prices for Cash, and every
article warranted to give satisfaction. Those iu want
of good Furniture, at very low prices, will please give
them a call.
: Also, on hand, Fisks Jtlftallie ISurial
Cases. J. M. SANDKliS & CO.,
Jan 31, 18C0 ' Charlotte, N. C.
Mr Sanders, when not at his fchop, can be found
at his dwelling house next to the Tost Othce.
Notice to the Creditors of Charles
Madison iTIcKinley.
All persons having claims against the estate of Cha.
M.. Mckinley, deceased, are hereby notified to present
them duly authenticated within the time prescribed by
law, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re
covery. And all persons holding Bonds, Covenants, or other
obligations, wherein the said McKiiiley is bound, or in
any way interested, are requested to present them
forthwith to the undersigned, as the estntc is about to
be settled. MARY E. MlKINLEY,
Administratrix with the Will annexed.
Jany 24, 18G0. 07-Gt
NEGROES WANTEDT
I want to buy Negro Boys and Girls from 12 to 18
years old, for which the highest ju ices in cash will he
paid.
May IT, 1859 SAML. A. HARRIS.
VAI.l AI5J,i: L.4iD FOll SAf,E
In compliance with the last Will and Testament of
Recce Price, dee'd, I will sell on Thursday, tiie Kith
d:iy of February next, at the Store House of Col Thus.
I. Grier, a miles southwest of Charlotte,
Two Valsial3c Plantations,
one of which was the late residence of Mrs E Y Hutch
ison, and contains about 1G0 acres well improved, and
adjoins the land of Maj L A Grier and others. Th
other contains 217 acres, about 40 or 50 of whit h is
newly cleared, the balance well timbered, and udjoins
the land of Alex Cooper, Esq., and others.
A. G. Neel will exhibit the lands, or give any neces
sary information to any one who may wish to purcha.'O
either of said Plantations.
A suitable credit will be given, the purchaser givir.j
bond with two approved sureties.
JONATHAN REID, Ex'r.
Jan. 10, 18C0. 95-Ct.
Straw ood, IB at, Cap,
Bonnets, Flowers, Ruches, kc. &c, for Semxc, 18G9.
GEO. W. & JEIILMj KEAl),
50 Warren and 120 Chambers Street, NEW YORK,
Importers, manufacturers and wholesale Dealers, are
now receiving from their Agent in Europe, and their
own Factorv, a magnificent assortment of the above
Goods, to which they call the particular attention of
first class buyers. ,
Catalogues containing full description of Goods with
prices attached, sent oy man on nppiicnu.
Xew 1 OtK. January, iouv -x-y
J. A. FOX,
Attorney ctt Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
GENERA L COLLECTING AGENT.
Office at the Court House, 1 door to the left, down stairs.
Wm. J. Kerr,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Will practice in the County and Superior Courts of
Mecklenburg. Union and Cabarrus counties.
Office in the Brawley building opposite Kerr's Hotel.
January 24, I860 y