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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL,
1VI!4?II.VOTO.V, N. C..MOSUAT. OCT. iS7, 1S51.
- AntSorlet Agent for ti'JouTial.'
J.vues M.Kkdmoxd, Tarlioro,Edgc;ombt) county, N. C.
Josiau JoiMSrJX, Cfinten, Sampson county.
J osrpii R. Kemp, Bladen county. " " ;
Dr. SasawooD, Strickland's Depot, Duplin county.
B. Barnks, Black Creek, Wayne county.
Lewis Jones, Pink Hill P. O., Lenoir county.
Frost.
The first visible white frost in
this vicinity, this
season, occurred on Thursday morning, 23d instant.
This (Friday) morning, there was another, heavier
than the first. The weather is cool, bracing, and
dry. ' : " .' : '
The Vnioii of the Slate.
The want of intercourse and the absence of sym
pathy between the different sections of this State
are too well known and too deeply lamented to re
quire more than a passing notice. To create this in
tercourse and awaken this sympathy, has been the
dream of the patriotic legislator and statesman,
and at different time? projects of internal improve
ment lave been set on foot, having for their direct
object the union of the east and west by the bonds
cf trade and the ties of social intercourse. But un
fortunately these efforts have heretofore been futile :
not so much for want of a desire on the part of the
sections interested, as because of the interposition of
a non-conducting medium. A peculiar interest in
the centre a jealousy a rivalry or something
else, we know not what, has held sway at the
seat of government, and the electric current of feel
in and State pride, as well as the more substantial
one of interest and trade which should have set from
the fertilo fields of the west to the markets of the
east have been diverted from their course and made
to swell the commerce and build up the towns of
onr northern neighbor Virginia.
Unfortunately, we have been only too much mixed
up with controversies upon these matters even with
members of our own party, and would not now add
fuel to a flame which we fear is unquenchable. But
we will venture two assertions, and we beg that our
words may be noted. We cannot grasp the ice-stern
trade through Raleigti we can through the vnllies
cf the Cape Fear and Yadkin. We might as well
expect to pass electricity through a glass globe as
trade to this place through Raleigh. We say this
more in sorrow than in anger: it is painful, but it is
the truth. Every project to give us the go-by eve
ry communication signed t; Common Sense,'' or non
sense, which may indicate hostility to us, is eagerly
published in the Metropolitan Journals, which, while
they sincerely disclaim the feeling, are nevertheless
under its influence unconsciously, no doubt but
none the less strongly on that account. That there
are leading gentlemen in Raleigh, who have broad
views of .State interest and State Union, we fully ad
mit; but it is impossible to believe that they com
pose the majority, or wield the influence the scrip
tural test of knowing them by their fruits ignores
the suppoition. The people of Raleigh are, as a peo
ple, as high-minded and honorable as any other pop
ulation in the State, but in this matter their posi
tion seems to be unchangeable, and we have nothing
to expect.
There is hardly a pound of produce in the West
or Southwest which we could hope for by the Cen
tral Road but can be brought quicker and cheaper
bj the Cape Fear and Deep River, and their various
connections, and the Manchester Road and its con
nections with Cheraw and the cotton counties of
this State.
We have expressed these views before recent ob
servation has confirmed our belief in their correct
ness, and we wish to "keep them before the people."
The Havana Congalatc.
We can keep the run of most things, but the consu
late at Havana puzzles us more than a little. First it
was to be Col. Walton of New Orleans ; then it was
certainly Mr. Langdon of Mobile, and we rejoiced,
for Langdon is an editor, and consequently poor and
in need of a lift ; but finally it turns out that Judge
Sharkey, of Mississippi, has not only received, but
has accented the appointment. Such at least is the
By the President of the United States. .
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas there is reason to believe that a military
expedition is about to be fitted out in the United
r t. . ..a j? n i r
stales lor me purpuse vi luvauing iuc iiCAiviii ire
public, with which this country is at peace ; and
whereas there is reason to apprehend that a portion
of the people of this country, regardless of their du
ties as good citizens, are concerned in or may be
seduced to take part in the same ; and whereas such
enterprises tend to degrade the character of the Uni
ted States in the opinion of the civilhed world, and
are expressly prohibited by law :
Now, therefore, I have issued this my Proclama
tion, warning all persons who shall connect them
selves with any such enterprise, in violation of the
laws and national obligations of the United States
that they will thereby subject themselves to the
heavy penalties denounced against such offences;
that, if they should be captured within the jurisdic
tion of the Mexican authorities, they must expect to
be tried and punished according to the laws or Mex
ico, and will nave no right to claim the interposition
of this Government in their behalf.
I therefore exhort all well-disposed citizens who
have at heart the reputation of their country, and
are animated with a just regard for its laws, its
peace, and its welfare, to discounteuance, and by all
lawful means prevent, any such enterprise ; and I
call upon every officer of this Government, civil or
military, to be vigilant in arresting for trial and
punishment every such offender.
Given under my hand the twenty-second day of
October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-one. and the seventy-sixth of the
Independence of the United States.
JM1L.LAKJJ F1LLMUKE.
By the President :
J. J. Crittenden, Acting Secretaryof State.
Pi ogres of the Revolution In Northern Mexico
"Wild Cat Joined the Mexicans Indian Outrages.
New Orleans, Oct. 21st.
By the steamship Yacht, from the Rio Grande, we
have Brownsville, Texas, dates to Oct. 16th.
Letters from the Rio Grande give formidable ac
counts of the success of the Insurgents in Northern
Mexico.
Capt. Ford's company of Texas Rangers had join
ed Carvajal, as also many U. S. deserters from Fort
Ringgold. His forces were being daily augmented.
Advices from Galveston to the 17th inst., report
that Wild Cat, the Seminole Chief, with his follow
ers, has joined the Mexican government against the
insurgents.
The Indians in Western Texas were committing
many depredations.
Arrival of the Steamer Georgia Lntcrfrom Havana.
New York, Oct. 23, 10 P. M. The steamship
Georgia arrived this evening, in a passage of four days
and six hours from Havana, which place she left on
the 19th. The Falcon had not returned up to that
date. The Empire City sailed for New Orleans on
the 19th, in company with the Pizarro. There were
two Spanish frigates and three steam frigates lying at
Havana.
The arrest of Mr. Thrasher was confirmed.
Heavy rains had prevailed, causing great injury to
the sugar cane.
A requisition had been made on Spain for six war
steamers, with 60 heavy Paixhan guns, in anticipa
tion of a war with the United States.
Havana continued quiet.
Arrest of a Fugitive Appointment, &c.
New York. Oct. 23. Tt is reported that the fugi
tive Jerry, who escaped from Syracuse, was arrested
here this afternoon.
J. W. Blunt, of this city, has been appointed Com
missioner to China, vice Hon. John W. Davis resigned.
The Vermot Legislature Montpemer, Vt ,
Oct. 23 Resolutions were introduced into the House
to-day, asserting the correctness of the views hitherto
expressed by the Vermont Legislature on the subject
of slavery, and refusing to assist in any way the ex
tension of the slave holding power. They also urged
on Congress the abolition of slavery in the District of
Columbia, and maintained that the writ of habeas cor
pus and trial by jury could not he denied. They also
instructed their Senators and Representatives to act
according to the spirit of these resolves. After some
little debate the resolutions were laid on the table.
Direct Trade.
We yesterday made a few remarks on a plan that
is now in progress for rendering our Planters inde
pendent of New York and Liverpool, by exporting
themselves their produce to those parts, which are
now supplied with it through the medium of houses
in those cities. To-day we have the gratification of
noticing a circumstance, which may well be regar
ded as an era in the commercial history of Charles
ton that is, the arrival ot the British ship Grasmere,
Capt. Yaile, from Calcutta, with 800 bales of Gunny
Ragging for the house of Messrs. John Fraser & Co.
This is the first direct communication with the East
and this city, that has taken place within the recol
lections of our oldest merchants, and with a tonnage
which is rapidly increasing, and which would do
From the Charleston Courier.
lobby's Pumping Machine for Draining sua Irri
gating Rice Lands.
Messrs. Editors t A 6hort time since, I visited Dr. E.
Witsell's Plantation, in the neignborhood of Ashepoo,
and saw the operation of the machine above named,
which he had lately procured, and works by steam
power. The result of the experiment was enough to
attest its eminent usefulness in the draining: of our in
land swamps. Dr. Witsell's engine is capable of rais
ins 125 pounds of steam. In the experiment, howev
er, before us he only put up twenty pounds, but l.nder
the operation of that small quantity, the way the water
was made to run out " was'nt slow." It has already
been stated in the newspapers, and no doubt correctly,
that when set Fn motion by a steam engine of five
horse power, Lebby's machine or pump is capable of
raising five or six thousand gallons of water per min
ute. Just think of draining two hundred acres of rice,
covered with water a foot deep "clean dry" in 24 hours.
What a valuable piece of machinery it must be to a
vast body of rich inland swamp, which ts now entirely
unproductive and useless, except perhaps for pasturage.
The great and most discouraging difficulty with such
lands has been to get a Rice crop well set in the Spring.
How many, in attempting to cultivate them, after hav
ing planted, by a heavy dash of rain, while the Rice
was in the white spicut. have been overflowed and
their Rice drowned, killed ; more than once perhaps in
the same Spring season. Mr. Lebby's Machine con
tains a remedial answer to this question, for it is a safe
and certain preventive against any such loss. I have
not a doubt, as soon as its usefulness 6hall have be
come generally known and appreciated, that it will
give him an abundance of hard work tr furnish the
number that will immediately call into active and pro
fitable culture (either of Rice, Cotton, or Provisions,
perhaps all) an immense body of our low lands, not
now probably worth a dollar an acre "in market
overt."
It should be added, that Lebby's Machine can be as
well applied to flowing or irrifratingas to draining; ; on
the same spot, it can he made (with a slight' change,
capable of being effected in a short time) to pump in
a well as out. There are a goodly number of Planta
tions along the vicinity of our seaboard, situated like
those upon the head waters of Chessey Creek, a
branch of Ashepoo River, to which the tides regularly
flow ; but not to a height or with a power sufficient
to flow much. Upon such Plantations look again up
on the incalculable value of Lebby's pump, in a
droughty season. As soon as the flood ti le approach
es, the engine and Machinery can be put in motion.
and in a few hours, (probably from the absorption of
the parched earth, it would require more time to cov-r
land with water than to get it off,) if not in twenty,
doubtless in thirty or forty hours, two hundred acres
of Rice could be flowed to the depth desirtd Let it be
bore in mind also, that such localities are now liable
to salts no inconsiderable advantage in view of the
seasons we have had of late.
Dr Witseil's Engine stands upon four wheels, and
can be moved easily enough. Alter a crop made, it
might be hauled up an I attached to a threshing ma
chine, a corn mill, a cotton gin, or a saw mil!, as the
enterprise of its proprietor might prompt It is hoped
that public attention will be directed specially to the
consideration and importance, of Mr Lebby's Pump.
ST. BARTHOLOMEWS.
Bermuda Grass. .
In the Natchez region Bermuda grass is abundant.
There appears to be but little cause to doubt that it
was first introduced, or at all events its value point
ed out, and the plant disseminated by the late Wil
liam Dunbar, of the Forest, the father of the late
Dr. Dunbar a most excellent, useful, public spirit
ed and far-seeing man. It affords abundant pasture
through the heat of summer, when other grasses
dry up. It hinds the levees and the embankments
of railroads where formed even of almost pure sand.
It checks and gradually fills up those enormous gul
lies which are so readily formed in our hilly coun
try, and iriable soil and sub-soil. It can be made to
cover lands too much worn for profitable cultivation;
bringing them in a year or two into a condition by
which they will yield a greater nett return in fine
wool from the sheep's back, than ever they yielded
in that from the cotton plant. It protects our roads
from washing, and in by-ways, comparatively tra
velled, it renders farther working of them almost
unnecessary, if properly worked before the grass is
set. It forms meadows unequalled in yield and value
by any others of which we have either seen, read or
heard ; a single cut yielding five tons of dry hay,
preceded and followed by other cuts, each of fully
half that quantity and that too under but indiffer
ent management. It is our only available but most
excellent means of covering an open lawn or yard
with a pretty green sward, forms a pleasant walk, if
kept closely mown ; supports terraces, however steep
if not actually perpendicular; and gives afresh,
pleasant and rural appearance to our village, which
we rarely see in the South, where this grass does not
exist. lhos. Ajjteck, esq., cj Mississippi.
From the London Punch.
A Challenge to' Mr. Hobbs.
Sir Mr. Punch Old Fellow will you be kind
enough to print my challenge to Mr. Hobbs 1
I challenge him to open a lock for 500 a side
or 50 or a box of cigars or a dinner for a dozen
or anything he pleases. It isn't the money I want,
but merely the principle of the thing. I am so con
fident of winning.
Mr. Hobbs boasts of having opened a Bramah's
lock with twenty tumblers.
This was done in day-time. Can he do as much
at night I
I don't wish to boast, old Punch, but I mean to say
that I have been in the habit, for the last three years,
after going home from the Coal Hole, or cider cellars,
of opening a lock a patent Chubb with at least
twenty-five tumblers! tumblers of gin and water!
hot ! mind you and this I have done, not with a set
of instruments, but with a simple latch-key ! and I
am proud to say my hand has never failed me once !
Now, my dear boy, if Mr. Hobbs will undertake
to do as much for three consecutive years, I will pro
mise to pay him the 503 or the 50 or the box
of cigars or the dinner for a dozen or anything he
f leases in the event of his being the winner, which
doubt very strongly ; for very few men, I flatter
myself, are equal to the task of opening a lock with
five and twenty tumblers of hot gin-and-water !
This is a fair challenge, in proof of which I have
the pleasure of subscribing myself, to the extent of
three-pence every week.
Your constant admirer,
Fei.ix Fastbot, D. D.
I and my money or my dinner or my cigars, as
the case may be, are to be heard of at any time, be
tween the hours of four and twelve, at the Albion,
and afterwards, first at the cider cellars, and then at
the Coal Hole.
An Enemy's Cotrtest. When the Crusaders,
under King Richard of England, defeated the Sara
cens, the Sultan, seeing his troops fly, asked what
was the number of the Christians who were making
all this slaughter 1 He was told that it was only
King Richard and his men, and that they were all
on foot. " Then," said the Sultan, " God forbid that
such a noble fellow as King Richard should march
on foot,"' and sent him a noble charger. The mes
senger took it and said, ' Sire, the Sultan sends you
this charger, that you may not be on foot." The
King was as cunning as his enemy, and ordered one
of his squires to mount the horse in order to try him.
The squire obeyed ; but the animal proved fiery: and
the squire being unable to hold him in. he set off at
full speed to the Sultan's pavillion. The Sultan ex
pected he had got King Richard, and was not a lit
tle mortified to discover his mistake.
The Ex-Queen of Spain. Queen Christina and
her husband, the Duke of Rianzares, are staying at
Tarancon, the birth-plnce of the latter. The weal
thy financier, Carriquiry. who has immense posses
sions in that neighborhood, had organized a bull-fight
in honor of the illustrious lady The local paper is
in ecstacies at the brilliancy of the entertainment, as
no fewer than twenty-two horses were killed, and one
of the toreadors disabled. The Barcelona papers
state that the English ship of the line the Trafalgar
had anchored in the roads, and that the officers had
been invited to a ball.
latest quotation in the consul market. If, unfortu
nately, it should turn out in the long run that we are I credit to any port, we venture to say that the day is
tho man. our readers will be fipprised of that fact, not far distant
The probability is very remote very remote, indeed.
Declines the Appointment.
We understand that Duncan K. McRae, Esq , has
declined the appointment tendered to him as a Director
on the part of the State in the Wilmington and Raleigh
Rail Road
Arrival of the Steamer Hermann.
Fowl rn Sews
The steamship Hermann arrived at New York on
the 231, with Liverpool dates to the 7th inst. The
news is not important.
Business matters in England were improving. The
influx of bullion into the Bank of England was be
ginning to be favovably felt in the money market.
Railway stocks had advanced considerably.
Private letters state that Lord Dudley Stcuarf had
received intelligence that an attempt would be made
to murder Kossuth on his arrival at Southampton
Two Austrian females had left Vienna tor that pur
pose, and the authorities had resolved to take every
precaution to protect him from these fanatics.
Commercial accounts from France are less favora
ble.
The Gazette of Spain publishes several royal or
dinanccs. containing improvements and reforms to
be introduced into the administration of Cuba
The Queen of Spain has conferred a pension of
2.000 reals on the widow of Gen. Enna, on account
of the gallant services of her husband
A piece of Australian gold had reached London,
I
weighing 4 lbs. The official quarterly returns of j
the revenue show an improvement on the correspond-in"-
ouarter last year. The custom duties have in
creased 5,000, and the excise duties show about an
equal advance. The income and post office revenues
have also considerably increased. The stamp tax
revenues had fallen off.
THE MARKET?.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 7 Cotton in Liverpool on the 7th,
was firmer for lover grades of American sales were made of
7,000 bales. In other qualities no change.
The Liverpool corn market vas firm and exhibited symp
toms of revival. Hour and vhcat had been iu demand, bot h
for consumption and speculation, at 2d advance per 70 lb?,
on wheat and 6d per bbl. on flour. Barley is scarce and ad
vancing. Klnur was in crood demand nt 6d advance. Whet has ad
vanced 2d per bushel. Indian Corn rather neglected, and
floating cargoes were easier to buy.
Provisions vere steady, but without activity.
In the Grain market no speial change was noticeable.
Coffee firmer, with an upward tendency.
Tobacco in pood request at previous prices.
Rice 14s to IDs. Naval Stores steady, but not much in
quired for.
The Sugnr market was unchanged. Rice was active.
The money market was easy. Stocks steady, without any
material change in prices. Consuls had fluctuated, and
closed at 96J a 97 for money.
At Manchester on the 7th, trade was dull.
Paris, Oct 7. Fives were selling on Bourse at 92. Threes,
gr. off, ttt 56' f. 25 centimes. s. . -"
Mr. Thrasher Arrested.
..Mr. Thrasher, the late editor of the Faro Indus
trial, has been arrested at Havana, on what charge,
u not known, but it is presumed to be on suspicion of
having held communication with the Lopez espedi
tionwts.' His ropers have been seized and he is not
..linn-n tn nnmm i) nJ ca te with his friends. Mr.
l I LV7 V At ... -
Thrasher's active kindness to the American prison
ers at Havana, has made him the object of interest
and" regard to the American public.
when our commerce with the East
will be in no measure inferior to even that of Boston.
Messrs. J. Fraser & Co. are likewise the importers
of 1980 bags of Coffee, by the Hanoverian schooner
Oste, which arrived vesterdav from Kio de Janeiro
thus setting an example which is worthy of imitation
-and for which they deserve the thanks of our citizens.
Let the suggestion ot our correspondent "Lr. be
adopted relative to the deepening of our harbor, and
the system of direct trade export as well as import
systematically pursued, and Charleston must be
come the Emporium ot the South.
Charleston Courier, ZZd tnst.
Spain mid England.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times com
municates the following :
Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Mv private letters from Madrid of the 25th still
speak in warm terms of the contentment of the Span
ish government at the measures adopted by Lord
Palmerston to secure the Island ot Cuba against a
fresh piratical attempt. The satisfaction is the
more lively, as it was, I have some reason to think,
unexpected. It is not certain that hopes had been
previously held out that such steps would be taken.
I am still of opinion that the instructions communi
cated to the commander of the naval force in the
West Indies, relative to buccaneering expeditions,
cannot or ought not to be considered as indicative (at
least for the present) of a determination on the part
of England to secure Cuba to Spain, in case the ques
tion, which is now merely one of piracy, should as
sume a national character; in other words, I consid
er it would be premature to suppose that protection
against piracy nitons a guarantee against aggression
on the part of the American Government. This is the
conclusion 1 cannot help drawing trom intelligence
which reaches me simultaneously from England,
Spain, and Cuba. From the last mentioned I learn
that a rich and influential Havana merchant is on
his way to England and Spain he may, in fact
have arrived by this with the object of trying to
make an arrangement with the English government.
and inducing it to guarantee Cuba to Spain, not pre
cisely against internal insurrection, but against for
eign intrigue or violence. The conditions that he
will in all probability have offered are, the suppres
sion of the slave trade, complete emancipation at a
future, but not very distant period ; the payment of
one million per annum by Cuba to Spain, exclusive
ly of the obligation to maintain a suitable military
and naval force, and a fair participation to native
Cubans of places of trust and honor under the government."
Science and Agriculture.
Mr. Reverdy Johnson, says the American Farmer,
purchased, in 1848, a small farm near Baltimore, in
the last stage of impoverishment. Such was its re
duced condition that the last crop of corn was not
more than one peck to the acre. He states that all
the vegetable matter growing on the two hundred
acres of cleared land, including briars, sassafras and
other bushes, if carefully collected, would have been
insufficient for the manufacture of one four-horse
wagon load of manure. He applied to Mr. David
Stewart an able chemist, who rode out to the farm
and procured specimens of the soil, which he care
fully analyzed. He found that it contained an abun
dance of lime, potash, magnesia, iron, and organic
matter, duly mixed with alumina and sand. One
element only of a fertile soil was wanting phospho
ric acid, and of this there was no trace. He recom
mended an application to the soil of biphosphate of
lime, a preparation of bones, as the best mode of
supplying the deficient element. The remedy was
given at an expense of ten dollars per acre. It was
the one thing needful. Health was restored to the ex
hausted patient, and the grateful soil yielded last
year twenty-nine bushels of wheat per acre to the
proprietor. lothing else was applied, indeed noth
ing else was wanting. Here was a beautiful triumph
of science. 1 here is no doubt about the facts, the
Death of a Simile. In the backwoods of one of
the southern States, there dwelt one of those clerical
characters common to the piney woods, with small
natural ability, and still smaller acquirements, re-
j markable only for the tenacity with which he would
i cling to one idea. He had taken the notion that his
Satanic majesty bore a striking resemblance to a
black fox. While illustrating this simile on Sab
bath to his congregation, for the thousandth time
save one, a chap, who had been hunting near by. ar
rived at the mreting house door, with his gun and
game; and suiring the action to the word, threw a
defunct black fox upon the floor in the front of the
astonished parson, exclaiming '-There. Parson Mc-
K , blast your black fox I have killed him at
last ; and I reckon you needn't make no more noise
about it no how." It is needless to say that it was
the death-blow to Parson McK 's simile.
Sine Dir. In a neighboring county, the Demo
crats had for over twenty years been in the habit of
holding their county nominating conventions at the
house of a staunch old Democrat. Mr. G
He happened on a recent occasion, for the first
time to be in whpn they had finished their business,
and heard a little delegate from R move that
"this convention do now adjourn sine die."
4t Sine die," said Mr. G to a person standing
near, l- where is that ?"
u W'y that's 'way up in the northern part of the
county,"' said his neighbor.
" Hold oh. if you please, Mr. Cheerman."1 said G ,
with great earnestness and emphasis ; hold on, sir.
I'd like to be heard on that question. I have kept a
public house now for mor n twenty years. I'm a
poor man. I've always been a democrat, and never
split my ticket in my life. This is the most central
location in the county, and its where we've alters
held our caucuses, f've never had, or askf-d an of
fice, and have worked night and day for the party,
and now I think, sir, it's mean, it's contemptible, to
go to adjourning this convention way vp to s;ne die."
Spirit of the Times.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Sonnet to Andrew JacHson.
BY GEORGE H. BOKER.
Old lion of the Hermitage, again
Tho times invoke thee, but thon art not here ;
: Cannot our peril call thee from thy bier ;
France vapours, and the puny ai in ot Spain
Is op to strike us : England gives them cheer,
False to the child that in her hour of fear
Must be her bulwark and her succor, fain
To prop the strength which even now doth -wane.
Not these alone ; intestine broils delight
The gaping monarch, and our liberal shore
Is rife with traitors. Now, while both unite
Europe and Treason I would see once more
Thy dreadful courage lash itself to might.
Behold thee shake thy mane, and hear thy roar !
43The following noble and spirited lines, taken from the
Louisville Journal, will be read with interest on many ac
counts :
A Welcome to Kossuth.
Welcome, thrice welcome, thou noble Hungarian,
Borne from captivity over the sea !
Not as a thrall of the Northern Barbarian
Welcome to dwell in America, free !
Here are the eyes that have often wept for thee
Tears, which the joy of thy presence shall dry ;
Here are the hearts that most fondly have kept for thee
Love, through eternity never to die !
Let the bt'lls proudly be ringing;
Peal forth the trumpet and drum,
Shout, for the hero is come !
Cannon be echoing voices be singing,
' Noble Kossuth, welcome home !"
If thy loved Hungary may not he home to thee
There never more with thy kindred to rest
Here, in this beautiful land, they may come to thee
Boom for them all in the beautiful West !
Yet there are heroc here willing to die wi'.h thee,
striving thy fatherland once more to see
Thousands, whose spirits will evermore sigh with thee,
"O ! that brave Hungary yet may be free !"
Heard shall that prayer be in Heaven;
Thunder of wrath shall reply,
Pealing aloud from the sky
" Tyranny's shackles are soon to be riven;
Tyrant, prepare thee to die !"
Ay ! there is surely a glorious strife to come,
One day to humble that proud Northern Bear;
Though it be not in tby own earthly life to come,
Yet shalt thou hear of it thou shalt be there !
From the bright Kingdom of Glory descending then,
Tyranny's minions before thee shall flee;
Fierce in the contest triumphantly blending then,
Hungary Europe thy spirit shall free !
Let the bells proudly be ringing ;
Peal forth the trumpet and drum ;
hout, for the hero is come !
Cannon be echoing voices be singing,
"Noble Kossuth, welcome home !"
Western Pask Timle.
The Louisville Courier of the 9th inst., says : We
hear of no material movement in the hog market this
week, with much firmness manifested on the part of
holders, aud but little disposition among buyers to
operate. The prevailing rate is $1 50 nett. with
the impression that the number throughout Kentuc
ky will about equal last year's product, and the
quality is expected, from present calculations, to ex
ceed last year's about ten per cent. It is estimated
that the number of hogs that will be packed this
season at this city and environs, will fully reach
200.000 head.
At St. Louis we hear of a contract for 1.500 head,
to be delivered on or before the fcrst December, at a
price equal to $4 30 nett. The hogs to wein-h 200
pounds. It is stated in the Intelligencer, that No.
1 hogs cannot be had at the present stage of the
market, under S4 50; a price at which a majority
of packers and dealers are holding back."
It is generally believed that the number of hogs in
the States of Missouri, Illinois and Iowa, is fully
equal to that of last year. All concede that the ave
rage weight of the hogs will be greater than last
year.
On the Misssotiri where comparatively few were
cut last season, on the upper Mississippi, and high
up on the Illinois, we have m doubt, trom the infor
mation we have received, that there will be a large
increase on t!ie number packed last year. The high
price at which the season will open, and will proba
bly rule afterwards, will doubtless brinsr into the
market all the stock that can be made merchantable.
Earopfaii Indebtedness and Taxation.
The London correspondent of the National Intelli
gencer, in a recent able article on the indebtedness
of the various nations of Europe, and the burden
some taxes imposed on the people to meet it, produ
ces reliable dates to show that the enormous aggre
gate of that indebtedness at this moment, is not less
than 1.735.057.000 sterling, of which Great Britain
owes nearly one-half: there is also in circulation in
Europe noless than .180.214.278 in paper money, ta
ken and held upon the credit of the property in the
countries in which it is issued. Europe i. therefore,
mortgage! to the amount of 1.924.270.278. consti
tuting a debt of very nearly 7 2s. due from every
man, woman, or child which it contains, or. reckon
ing five to a family, of 35 10s. upon each head of a
family.
The writer in the Intelligencer taking another
view of the subject, then proceeds to exhibit the
amount which the labor industry of the people are
taxed, in consequence of the system which has been
carried on. either through the ambition or the tyran
ny of their rulers, or the turbulenc1 and irregulari
ties of the people. The following brief table, com
prehending some of the principal countries in Eu
rope, will, in some degree, present this view :
The Syracuse Rioters Gov. Seward became
one of the securities for the four white and throe
colored slave rioters at Syracuse ; and the Tribune,
in stating the fact, adds : . . .
Gov. Seward invited the parties from Syracuse to
his house, which imitation was cordially accepted.
The whole party repaired to the Governor's mansion,
and there enjoyed a half-hour, which passed in friend
ly chat, and introductions to the Honorable Senator
a man admired and beloved because of hia bold
and unyielding advocacy of Liberty.
Afsass'nation at Havana. A despatch from New
Orleans, October 20, mentions lhat a letter from Ha
vana says that the Spanish officers who captured Lo
pez have been fecretly assassinated.
An address from Kossuth to the people of theUni
ted States is published, vindicating the cause of
Hungary. It has been translated by Maj. Toch
man, who is to present it in congress. The docu
ment is exceedingly interesting.
An Apple Egg Pcpdixg. Beat an egg well, then
add a gill of water or milk, seven table spoonfuls of
flour, and a salt spoonful of salt ; mix well together.
Pare and cut into pieces three middle-sized apples,
stir them into the batter. Boil it in a cloth an hour
and a quarter; if in a basin, ten minutes longer.
Eat with melted butter, flavored with lemon.
The women of Poland have a watchful eye. over
their daughters, and make them wear little bells on
their persons, to denote where they are, and what
they are about.
We always heard that negroes had thick skulls,
but we have deemed it a slanderous reflection. A
correspondent, however, tells us a story that, if we'
credit him, must lead us to the opinion that it w.lsn t
all slander. He says that one of our sable hrethren
was passing through the streets a few days since du
ring a thunder shower, when a flash of lightning
struck him upon his head. He c'apped his hand to'
the spot, and looking around him exclaimed, " I
thought I hears suthin drop on my head!" His skull
was so thick and hard that the lightning, unable to
crack it, passed off into the ground.
There is a grocer up-town, who is said to be so
mean that he was seen to catch a flea off his counter,
hold him up by his hind legs, and look into the
cracks of his feet, to see if
some of his sucar.
Stable (not Table") Talk. " I say, Jim, take
Black Sal's harness and put it on Jenny Lind give
Napoleon some oats take Alboni to water and
then rub down Fanny Elssler" ;' Ay. ay, sir."
When is a fowl's neck like a bell ? When it's
rung for dinner.
A person being asked why he had given his daugh
ter in marriage to a man with whom he was at enmi
ty, answered : " I did it out of pure revenge."
Why are the women of China like the whig party
of Mississippi ?
Guv it up.
Because contrary to their interest, they fancy a
very small foot. (Foote ) I'uoo Democrat.
' What business was your father ?' said an imperious
Colonel, to a modest looking Lieutenant.
A lobacconist, sir,'
' What a great pity he did not make you one.'
Possibly, sir ; and now will you allow me to ask
you a question ?'
Certainly. What is it ?'
' What was your father.'
A gentleman, sir.'
Well then, aU I have to say is,
pity he did'nt make you one.'
It is needless to remark that the
the right and left.
Highest Point ix Iowa. The
says that the most elevated point in Iowa is the Co-
teau des Prairies, near the north-west corner of the
State. It is only 1414 feet above the tide water.
From this point the country declines to the south-west
to the Missouri, and to the south-east to the Missis
sippi. The Missouri river on an average has a wa
ter level, at corresponding parallel of latitude, ot al
most double that of the Mississippi. This is favora
ble for rail road purposes, as vastly the largest bur-
he hadn't been stealing
that it's a deuced
Colonel turned to
Dubuque Herald
Life in Chili The New Orleans Picayune says :
A friend of ours, now a resident of Santiago de Chi
li in South America, in a private letter, gives us a
very nmu-dng account of some of the phases of life
in that distant clime. They have warm times down
there sometimes. The Shaking Quakers must have
originated there just about the hour that an earth
quake made its debut :
"The only amusements we have here are earth
quakes and revolutions. We expect - a few more' in
about three weeks from this time. The revolutions
are no ' great shakes' the fighting being only so so.
But the ' yethquakes' are some vegetables and no mis
take. It is a common thing here, during their oc
currence, to have the plugs shaken out of one's teeth:
and sometimes, as the natives religiously affirm, the
entire tooth is thrown out by the roots.
"The ordinary mode of churning butter in this
! country is to put the milk in a skin usually a dog's
skin tie it on a donkey; mount a boy on him with
rowels to his spurs about the length of the animal s
experiment came under the observation and attract- ears, and then run him four mile heats. But in these
ed tne attention ot hundreds. It was detailed to the earthquake times tney nang up tne aog s sum and
Law of Seamen's Wage.
In the case of Johnson vs. Ryerson, master of the
British barque Rival, tried in the U. S. District Court
at Boston, on Monday, the Judge held that where
one of the crew of a vessel, whether foreign or not,
became disabled from continuing to perform duty in
consequence of an injury received while on duty, al
ter entering upon a voyage, the shipping contract
was necessarily terminated, and the right of the sea
man to wages for the period he performed duty rest
ed upon the implied contract, that where services
are rendered compensation must follow. And fur
ther, if the seaman was unable to perform duty by
reason of his injury, he had a right to leave the ves
sel in a foreign port, and recover reasonable wages
for the timo he had served. And this right could be
enforced in our courts, notwithstanding the foreign
character of the vessel, the original and foreign ship
ping contract having ceased to exist. Under this
principle he held that the court had jurisdiction and
decreed for the plaintiff the wages of an ordinary
seaman from the sailing of the barque from Liver
pool to the time of his leaving her at Boston. . The
amount was 50 and costs. N. Y. Com. Adv.
writer by Mr. Johnson himself, and various others
worthy of perfect reliance. The Plough, Loom and
Anvil.
History of Alcohol.
Alcohol was invented 950 years ago. by the son of
a strange woman, Hager. in Arabia. Ladies used it
with a powder to paint themselves, that they might
appear more beautiful, and this powder was called
alchohol. During: the reign of William and Mary.
an act was passed encouraging the manufacture of
spirits. Soon after, intemperance and profligacy pre
vailed to such an extent that the retailers in intoxi
cating drinks put up signs in public places informing
the people that they might get drunk for a penny,
and have some straw to get sober on.
In the 16th century, distilled spirits spread over
the continent of Europe. About thistime it was in
troduced into the colonies, as the United States were
then called. The first notice we have of its use in
public life, was among the laborers in the Hunga
rian mines, in the 15th century. In 1751, it was
-used by the English soldiers as a cordial. The al
chohol in Europe was made of grapes, and sold in
Italy and Spain as a medicine. The Genoes after
wards made it from grain and sold it as a medicine
in bottles, under the name of the water of life. Un
til the 16th century it had only been kept by apoth
ecaries as medicine. During the reign of Henry
VII. brandy was unknown in Ireland, and soon its
alarming effect induced the government to pass a
law prohibiting its manufacture.
About 120 years ago it was used as a beverage, es
pecially among the soldiers in the English colonies
in North America, under the preposterous notion
that it prevented sickness and made men fearless in
the field of battle. It was looked upon as a nover-
eijrn specific, buch is a brief sketch of the intro
duction of alchohol into society as a beverage. The
history of it is written in the wretchedness, the tears,
the groans, poverty and murder of thousands. It
has marched the land with the tread of a giant leav
ing the impress of his footsteps in the bones, sinews,
and life's blood of the people.
the spurs, and leave it to the
butter come : 7
quakes
to make the
Countries.
Great Britain
Fra-ice
Auitria
I'rii3.ia
Ku.-sia
Ilo'la-id ....
Belgium ....
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Portugal ....
Denmark.. ..
Sweden
Papat states
Naples
Tusenny
Sardinia
Turkey
Switzerland.
San Marino.
Revenue. Proportion Propirt'n paid
X5!,0f)0.000
;7,0)0.000
$I0,1.0Of).000
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110.000.000
40,000.000
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13.000.000
31.000.000
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22.000.000
17,000.000
400.0(H)
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7 2 12 11
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dens of freight will be eastward, which will be in the
direction of the declination of the country.
Nice Distinction. ik I sells peppermints on Sun
days," remarked a good old lady who kept a candy
shop, - because they carries 'em to church and eats
"em, and keeps awake to hear the sermon : but if
you want pickled limes you must come week days.
They're secular commodities."
History of Bologna S. .usages. A foreign corres
pondent of the National Intelligencer,. who had vis
ited Bologna, in Italy, says : Bologna being chief
ly known to me through its sausages, 1 took some
pains to pot myself up on the history of sausages ns
a branch of the fine arts in that city ; but all I could
find on the subject was that there once existed in
Bologna a peculiar race of dogs called Bolognini,
which were fed and cherished with great care some
time in the middle ages, since which period they
have gradually become extinct. The sausages, how
ever, are excellent.'1'
The saying that " there is more pleasure in giving
than receiving." is supposed to apply chiefly to medi
cine, kicks, and advice.
Retired. Sir Henry L. Bulwer has retired from
the Bri Ish mission at Washington, and, it is said, is
to rccoive a European appointment.
Kossuth is the son of a lawyer, and small land
owner in Zemplin. and was born in 1806. He is,
therefore, now in bis 45th year. He was married in
1841. Previous to the Hungarian revolt he was dis
tinguished for his eloquent advocacy of liberal prin
ciples, in the Hungarian Diet, but it was in the cha
racter of an editor that his influence was most exert
ed and deeply felt. Kossuth is said to have com
menced his career as a reporter for the II angaria n
Diet, and afterwards became an editor.
A Witty Truth. The celebrated L" Johnson
said that in epigrams truth was generally sacrificed
to point; but wc insert below a case in which truth
adds point to the sentiment. At a celebration of the
last 4th of July, in Paris, by a number of Americans,
the following, was one of the toasts given at the ban
quet :
' The Cartridge-box, the Ballot-box, and the Band
box: The external, the internal, and the eternal pre
servatives of Republicanism."
This (says a contemporary) is the best toast ever
drank on the Fourth of July, in America or Europe.
It is worthy of being placed at the head of Lord Ba
con's apothegms. The true spirit of philosophy, pa
triotism, and beauty, pervade the whole sentiment,
in every word and idea. The cartridge-box. in the
hands of brave men, may be the defence of republi
canism from " external " enemies ; and the ballot
box, kept pure, may preserve republicanism from all
internal" enemies, the Secessionists and Abolition
ists not excepted. But " the band-box" is the 'eter
nal preservative of republicanism." and. it may he
added, of every thing else worth preserving. j
Never Maury without Love, nor Love without
Reason. Good advice, i'faith ! if it were only prac
ticable. Of course one needn't marry without love,
but not to love without reason is another thing alto
gether. Hasn't the poet said
"Ah ! who can love and then be wise 1"
And isn't Cupid the most unreasonable little d 1 in
the world 1 Love and reason, forsooth ! They could
n't live together a fortnight.
Agitating Scene in Church. Our correspondent
at Hanover, N. H., informs us that last Nibbath.
(Oct. 12th,) at the morning service at the college
church at Dartmouth College, as the clergyman had
proceeded a little way in his sermon, the front door
was suddenly opened, and a person in night clothes
entered and walked rapidly up the broad aisle some
distance, when be was arrested ana carried out
His ghastly countenance and delirious look at once
revealed the truth that Thomas B. Mack, of the
Senior Class, from Gilmantown, sick of typhoid fe
ver, had escaped from hs sick chamber, in the mo
mentary absence of his attendants, and was on his
way to his accustomed seat in the church. The agi
tation of the audience may easily be eonceived.
Order, however, was restored, and the services were
finished in the usual course. The young man died
Marine Intelligence.
PORT OF WILMINGTON, NOKTH-CAKOLINA.
The average amount of taxation in great Britain
is one-eleventh of a person's income. In France the
annual amount arising 'from incomes and employ
ments of all kinds is estimated as being 320,000,000.
The annual amount of taxation, or of revenue, rais
ed for the purposes of Government in the foregoing
table is put down at 67,000.000. but it is estimated
as being 70.000.000. At the lesser amount, how
ever, it is more than one-fifth of the entire income of
the country. The Frenchman therefore, pays one-
ntin oi ins income ana earnings to support the Go
vernment, the Englishman only one-eleventh.
Good Fortune to the Lafayette Family. The
Paris correspondent of the Boston Atlas, says that
Madame du Cayla. whose name is associated with
the Court of Louis XVIII. among some papers that
recently came into her possession, found materials for
a great suit in favor of the Lafayettes. These she
offered to the Marquis George Washington Lafayette,
who, however, declined embarking in the suit.
M'me dn Cayla engaged to prosecute it herself on
his behalf, she to have half the proceeds if the suit
was successful. The Court of Bordeaux has decided
in her favor. The whole amount recovered is said
tn t.a o Ain nnor ..f i .if.,.i rm-.i . t
ceive one half, or about S240.000.
National Characteristics. The N. York Times
translates the following portion of a political cate
chism from l- II Fiichtette," an Italian paper, pub
lished at Turin :
Question Who is the lightest man in the world ?
A nswer Th e Fren ch man.
Who is the heaviest ? The German.
Who h the most serious? The Englishman.
Who is the most vivacious ? The Swiss.
Who is the proudest? The Spaniard.
Who is the most humble1 The Russian.
Who is the most enterprising ? The Pole.
Who is the laziest? The Turk.
Who is the widest awake ? The American.
Who is the sleepiest ? Tfie Hottentot.
ho ha all these virtues and vices mixed toseth-
t TV . T...I-
ARRIVED.
Oct. 2? T. O. Daniel's Boat, from Lyons Landing, to
DeKosset & Brown : with nav:il stores.
21 Schr Exprt ss, P.- rker, Onslow county, to DeRosset &
Brown; with naval stores.
? ehr R. S. ISurney, Mason, from Shallotte, to DeRosset &
Brown, with naval stores.
Fchr. Radiant, V.'hitehurst, Shailotte, to DeRosset &
Brown, with naval stores.
24 Sohr. Pearl, Dexter, from Shallotte, 'to Martin &
Cronly ; with naval stores.
Fchr Memento, Smith, from New York, to J. II. Flanner;
with indze to sundry persons.
Schr Fidelia, Garwood, from Philadelphia, to Geo. Har
ris ; with mdze. to sundry persons.
Sehr. Mary Howard, Marshall, from New York, to J. II.
Flanner ; with mdze. to sundry persons.
Schr. Agnes, Lord, from Boston, to W. M. Harriss ; with
hay.
Schr. Susan Canon, Pashields, from Baltimore, to J. & D.
McRae & Co ; with mdze.
Schr. Jos. James, Mitchell, from Richmond, Va., to De
Rosset & Brown; with flour.
Sehr. Dolphin, Lord, from Boston, to J. H. Flanner; with
lime
Schr. A. J. DeRosset, Brewster, from New York, to DeRos
set & Brown; with mdze. to sundry persons.
25 Shr. Harriet llallock. Mandruicl. from New York,
10 -Miles uostin; witn mdze. to sundry persons.
CLEARED.
Oct 23 chr. W. II. Howard, Johnson, for Little River,
by DeRosset & Brown ; wi h mdze.
21 Schr Mary F Lutterloh. Vomers, for Philadelphia, hy
0 Harriss: with 1390 bbls. rosin, 100 do. spirits turpentine,
100 do. pitch, 100 do. tar, 24 do. dried fruit, 14 bales yarn,
1 bale roots. I box, 3 bags. 1 bbl. mdze.
Schr Harrison Price, Irns, for New York, by Mile3 Co?
tin. with 403 bbls. spirits turpentine, 857 do. rosin, 18.0C0
feet lumber.
Steame.- Brothers. Banks, for White Hall, by J. C. Latta.
. " Alary 1'owell. for ew York, by tico. Harriss :
with 413 bbls. rosin. 1.210 bbls. tnrro-nlinp 57 l.nl tt.,n
15 bales yarn, 13,400 feet s. s. lumber.
ehr. 1 xpress, Parker, for Onslow, by DeRoFset & Biown.
Fehr. R. .S. Burner. Mason, for Shall I it t A Vtv T ft neaol fz
Brown.
Schr. Radiant. Whitehnrst. for Shallntto Tv,wr t-
' ......... v , miLUiVk
er :
Another Triumph. The London Morninz Chron
icle praises some Brussels carpets exhibited at the
r air. ana which were woven upon power looms at
the manufactory of Mr. Bigelow the inventor, in
Massachusetts. The Chronicle says: u Although
various attempts have been made to adopt the row-
er-lonm to carpet weaving in England, there i not
we believe at this moment any machinery perfected
for that object. Our American brethren have, there
fore, gained another step ahead of ns. and won ano
ther laurel on this well contested field of the indus
trial arts.
SC. DKil.;S, i. r HrUr. Mary Powell.
FLOUR 30 bbls. BUD. Can ll. frsh nrm.nrl now ht .
S " Hiram ."uiith',
CHEESE 50 boxes, a superior article.
Cj? ATKERS-5 bbls and 10 boxes fresh Sugar Crackers.
BL TTEil AND LARD a keirs ritn Hiuh.n c
kegs extra refined Lard. Low for cash, at '
GEO. II. KELLEY'S.
superior article.
VJTUUUH'ION'S BITTERS. 50 doen
Just received and lor sal low, by
o2 WILKINSON & ESLER.
!SKV COO OS.
U''Tthe Mi tonic Hall Market Street.
WILLIAM B. JONES, bag just returned from the Balti
more, Philadelphia and New York Markets with a
good assortment of DRY GOODS. GROCERIES IURD
AVARE. HOLLOW-WARE, CROCKER Y, GLASS AND
STONE WARE ! WOOD & WILLOW WARE BOOTS,
SHOES, HATS, CAPS, UMBRELLAS, fcaH of which
he will sell low for case, or on a short credit to pl.vc
TLtal customers.
It is unnecessary for him to go into a lengthy detail of his
"iV-:bu' w.ou,1 simply say that he has an assortment to
A wag says that Barnum has recently enriched
his museum with a lock of hair from the head of
on Monday night, at 11 o'clock, having been siek j steamboat navigation, also, a blush from the face of
fire days.; Boston I raveler.
I the erth, and ten yards of the equinoctial line.
-nicu ne invues me attention of the public in general
SSh' Go019 maybe found a choice article of KER
SE S, LINSEYS. BLANKFTS A vn RRnr.A's citable
for Plantation numoses.
He takes this method of returning his thanks for the very
liberal sharj of patronage already bestowed on him, and
hopes to merit and receive it in fntore.
Any article sold and Warranted, that does not torn ontas
recommended, will be taken back and the money refunded.
Order t from the country promptly attended ro.ft
Wilmington, NC, Oct., 22 1851 39-dl 7-tf