The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1839-10-17
[ NUMBER 4.
Deferred Articles.

Among all the absurGltlcs, oddities, and
crudities that characterize the day, no pro-
lcct has more Of either quality in It's COM
position, than one started by the iocoiocos
| Of New York CITY, VIZ: tie getting tPa
petition to Congress that II would pass
4 law to extend the right Of suffrage IN Rhode
4 Island 1t is such an cut Of tic way
thing, that il would hardly gain credencc,
vet such Is the actual fact. Petitions Oh
i that import are now at the Offices of the
/ Administration newspapers III the City Of
! New York awaiting signatures, and said
newspapers urge the people to come for
ward and SET their names down.
Rhode Island. it is known, has never
yet adopted State Constitution, but de-
riyes It's beng from, and still exercises all
the functions of government under char
ter granted BY Charles ID, in the year
! 1914, constituting certain persons therein
named and their successors, The GorerR-
or and Company Of the Engi'Sh Colony Of
Rhode Island and ProrideHee Plantations,
in Nep England in America. 10 be
freeman or voter Of this company, 1t was
necessary to possess freehold to the val
ne of one hundred and thirty three and
third dollars, or to be the eldest son Of a
freeman. This law is now in force, conse-
quently the right Of suiiiageis limited one.
But what is that TO people OF other States.
Just nothing at all. No State Of the Tn.
ion, but has the principle engratted upon
tits stituton--modltied, To be sure
All require some qualifcatlon--varylng
in degree--as bestowing the privilege OF
suffrage. In this State, the freedom Of
vote for State Senator'S, IS based on the
possession of fifty acres of land. Rhode
Island only applies the principle IN differ
ent way. As reasonably could the agita-
tors of New York 90 up TO Congress, and
ask it to alter the Constitution OF North
Carolina in the particular feature adverted
to, as to ask for its interference with the
laws Of Rhode Island.-Hil. Chronicle.
We saw, day or two ago, box Of
reeed silk made by Col. Hugh Craig, at
Chesterfield c. IL. The silk weighed 10
lb. and is splendid article. We wish
some of those who denominate what they
are pleased to call the silk fever and Null
ticaulis mania, $ humbug could have
seen it. 1t would have scattered their
doubts to the winds. Col. Craig has been
engaged in the silk culture, on small
scale, for experiment, the last several years.
He has made 13 or Ia pounds annually
for four or five years past, and this year
he calculated to make 100 Ii. for which
he had provided abundant foliage; but
through an oversight in putting up his eggs
he lost the greater part of them. He sold
his silk last year for So 80 per pound, and
could have got So but for a slight defect
in the reeling and he thinks the cost Of
making, less than 81. But as he has prom.
Used, at our request, to furnish for our col
umns a statement of his experience IN the
business, we forbear to enter into further
observation-disclosures Gazette.
An Innocent Trick rith Delicious Con.
scguences.-The Cincinnati Sun tells US
capital story of a young gentleman in that
CITY, who resorted to an innocent trick to
get kiss all round from couple of young
ladies he was waiting upon home from
fashionable party. At Cincinnati, as well
as here, and eIsewere,' the girls have a
pretty and innocent custom OF kissing each
other on bidding good night, and in fact
upon many other occasions. The gentle
man in question had waited upon the young
ladies, two of the fairest flowers that ever
bloomed among the buckeyes, to their
fathers residence. Knowing the little
parting ceremony was to be performed, he
watched his opportunity, and Just as their
pretty lips We're on them way to meet each
other. he poked his face In between, re-
ceiving a delicious kiss on either cheek
for his audacity, or ingenuity. Only think
of it; excaims the Picayune, double
barrelled shot from Cupid, and both fired
at once We have mind TO make reg
ular business of seeing the girls home, tive
at time. Wouldn't it be delightful!
Singular Circumstance.-On Thursday,
the goth, a Mrs. Stone in Louisville, left
her child lying upon the floor while she
went few steps for bucket of water
Hearing a scream she turned and saw q
i hoe running across the street dragging
! the child by its foot By the assistance
, of some men who were passing by, the
child was rescued without very material
injury, but not without some difficulty as
! the animal seemed little disposed to give
up its prize. The child was about eight
! months old and entirely within the door
when seized by the hog.
A Hot Temper.-sir Walter Scott says,
f in his Diary, that he vas exceedingly d.
i. verted with the following anecdote : = Col
d onol Ba.g told us that at the commence
ment me battle of Waterloo there was
: some trouble to prevent the men from
. breaking their ranks. He exPostulated
5 with one man. Why my good fellow, you
$ cannot propose to beat the French alone
y You had better keep your ranks The