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NEW
L1sH MERIT,

THE undersigned has the pleasure of an
i nouncing TO the citizens of RALEIGH and
the surrounding country, that he intends car
rying on the above business in all its various
branches.
Having had years of practical experience in
this line, he flatters himself he will be able to
please the most fasiidious and would most
respectfully solicit a portion Of public patronage.
He does not expect 10 keep on hand Cloths ;
but will make up Cloth brought to him by
customers, from Stores or elsewhere. Having
taken into consideration the hardness Of the
times, he will work very low Cor cash or cOun-
try produce.
Cutting done in the latest style, and at shorl
notice. His Shop may be found a few doors
North Of the YARBoRoUGH HOUSE, al Beck
with's Store, opposite City Hotel.
j. w. HOWARD.
Raleigh, March 18th, 1851. 2S-if.
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REGILII. REGALIA. sc.

M E would respectfully inform our friends, and
w the Brethren generally that we keep con-
stantiy on hand a large and general assortment oil
kegalia, and every thing necessary for fitting out
Divisions, &c.
Sons Of Temperance Jewels, pure Silver At
$l8, 20 and $22.
Officers Stats, fine. from 2 to 81, 90.
Marshalfs Sashes, from 80 to 81, so
Batton's, from l to So.
White Linen Collars, superior style and finish,
SIS per dozen.
Ballot Boxes, Marbles and Gavels, 81.
Seals neatly engraved from $50 to IS.
B ANNER
Got up to order, from 20 to 500, and designs for
warded first for the inspection of the Division,
when requested.
Any article ordered Of this establishment. and
mol giving satisfaction, may be returned
Address your orders to
WILSON & CO.,
Temple Gay ST., Baltimore Md.
March i, 1856.
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GOING LIP

0OAANN L
We have never heard of so easy and vet so
laughabIe a method as that contained in a
sketch from the Spirit of the Times, which
gives an account of Joe Merriweathers ascent,
as told in the following extract, by his brother.
Now lace tight, if you want to save your sides.
You r~eeollect Mrs, Morrison says he,
q brother Joe alters was a dressy sort of a chap;
fond of brass buttons on his coat, and the far
h'est kind of red neckereher and this time he
had on a pair of buckskin breeehes with straps
under his boot. Well, when | was talkin' to
him Of the prospect fur next day, all of a sud
men | thought the little feller was a CROWN
uncommon tall ; till | discovered that the buck
skin breeches, that wur as wetas a young roos-
ter in a spring rain wur beginning to smoke
and draw up kinder, and wur a liftin' brother
Joe off the ground!
/" Brother Joe" SEE |, 9 you're a goin up
:" Brother Tom, SEE he, / amt doing anything
else
And he scrunched down nifty hard, but it
waFnt oy no use, fur afore long he wur a mat
ter ov some fifteen feet in the air.
"Merciful powersF' interrupted the widow.
Brother joe" sell.
%Tm heref SEE he,
"Cateh hold ov the top of that black jack
SEE /,
Talk y SEE brother Joe, and he sorter
leaned over and grabbed the saplin', like as
may be you've seen a squirrel an elm switch
ov a June mornnin'. But it warn't ov no use
fur old oman, eff you'll believe me, it gradual.
ly begun to give way at the roots, and afore
he'd got five foot higher, it just slipt out'n the
ground, as easy as you'd pull up a spring red
dish.
Brother Joe! !" SEE I again.
"Pm a ~listnin," SEE he.
@Cut your straps! y seq ], fur | seed it was
his last chance.
Talk p SEE brother Joe, though he looked
sort a reproachful at me, fur broachin' such
subject, but arter apparently c~onsiderin' awhile
he outs with his jack-knife, and leaning owe
sideways, made a rip at the sole ov his left boot
!, There was a considerable deal ov cracklin' 70
a second or two, then a crash sorter like a WAC
I on load of cordwood had bruk down, and tn
| fnst thing Iknowed the tother leg shot up like
j and started him, and the last thing | seed o
brother Joe, he was a achirlin' round like a ffou
spoked scheel wah the rim of, array close toaodr
, saHdonn 20
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a. The following lines, which we take from
he Msthodist Protestant, are beautiful exceed
ngly. II sRese Ringgold" has many more
uch verses "a these, she should gather them into
volume and then our female authors, who
ave already g~arnered their verses in that way,
would have to look to their ~laurels, for this is
urely . diamond Of the purest water:
WINTER TWILIGHT.
sls BY ROSE RrNGeoLD.
How beautiful a few faint stars
Aretwinkling in the purple West;
And Eve, like a fond mother, bears
The young moon on her breast.
Gently the twilight glides away
Into the deeper shades Of night
While laughing ~moonbeams dance and play
In their own silver light
lis beautiful But cold as death
Tho very earth seems marbled DER,
AZ though the flowers that sleep beneath
Might wake and bloom no more.
Ahnsh a on the erisped air.
A silence DER the unleaved trees,
Save when tall branches bleak and bare,
Sway to the Northern breeze.
Elg IS M
turu from "the cold light Of stars"
And seek the hsarthstone warm and bright
Within the crystal window bars,
There m nos frost nor blight.
But q chilling frost is on my heart
That cold white frost hearts ever wear,
When death has blown the flowers apart
That blossomed sweetly therel
Nv brother, with these thoughts of mine
Come visions of thy distant hearth;
see the glowing embers shine
Hear thy young ehildrens' mirth.
But thor art sad, and she, the loved.
sits weeping lonely at thy side;
He Is not there ! the best beloved
Thy frst-born and thy pridel
In the cool autumn, when the breeze
Swept the pale roses from thy door,
Death stood beneath those shadeless trees,
And asked one blossom more.
He claimed the brightest bloom that shed
It's fragrance Ger the home partarre-
But. on he left thee in its stead
Ahaliowed memory therel
Twas hard to mark his icy tread
Crush down thy fond hearts early joy
And yet he bore not with the dead,
The spirit Of thy boy.
II passed to Heaven, Just as the glow
Of sunset faded in the Vest
No shadow resting on its brow,
No earth-stain on its breast.
Sweet be his sleepl Deaths icy bars
Enclose him from our mortal sight;
But up, amid the golden stars.
Shines one more star tonight.
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RkGIALN SCHOOL,
NHE Subscriber will open a Female Boarding
Il School in Henderson, on Monday the Both
June next, at the following unusually low pri-
ces.
English literature from Sc to $40 per Session.
French,
Music, including use of Piano, Is
Drawing, S
Painting in water c%olors, 5
Do oil " 10
Needle work gratis.
Board per month Sc, beyond this there are
no extras.
This location being exceedingly healthy, and
so easy o~faccess from the lower and surrounding
country. and the terms SO low the subscriber
would fiatter himselfto realize a liberal share Of
the public patronage.
The Young Lady who will take charge Of
this School is a graduate Of the Female Col
lege at Greensboro, and is eminently qualified
TO give instruction in the above branches.
A. A. TURNER.
Henderson, May 1851. 37-5t.
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v. B. PALMER, the American News
paper Agent, is Agent for this paper,
and authorised to take advertisements,
and SUBSCRIBERS at the same rates
as required by US. His Offices are at
PHILADELPHIA, N. W. corner Third and
Chestnut Streets.
NEW York, Tribune Building.
And VIM. THOMPSON, of Baltimore,
is our Agent in that City, for the same
purposes.
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L
SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE.

A specimen of a soil of good appearance
was given to Sir Humphrey Davy, from Lin
colnshire, in England, as remarkable for ster-
ility. On Analysing it he found suIphate of
iron. He recommended a top dressing of
lime and the sulphate of lime ; a nox-
ious substance was at once changed into an
element Of fertility. 1t was the boast of
Franklin that he had stripped lightning of its
perils and had changed the thunderbolt.-
Chemistry does more. Poisons are changed
by its alchemy into the means of subsistence.
The Hon. Reverdy johnson, purchased, in
1849, a small farm, near Baltimore, in the
last stage of impoverishment. Such was its
reduced 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, ia
GLIDING briars, sassafras, and other bushes,
if carefully collected, would have been insult
feient for the manufacture of one four horse
~wagonload of manure. He applied to DR..
David Stewart of Baltimore, an able chemist,
who rode out to the farm and procured speci-
mems ofthe soil, which he carefully analysed.
He found that it contained an abundance Of
lime potash, magnesia, iren and organic mat
ter duly mixed with alumnia and sand. One
element ola fertile soil was wanting /: phos
phoric acid and of this, there was no trace.
He recommended an application to the sol
of the biphoshpate Of lime, a preparation o.
bones, as the best mode of supplying the de
!, Ifcient element. The remedy was given al
the expense of ten dollars per acre. 1t wa
the one thing needful. Health was restored
to the exhausted patient, and the grateful
soil yielded last year twenty-nine bushels o
wheat per acre to the proprietor. Nothing
Q else was applied, indeed nothing else wa
4 wanting. Here was a beautiful triumph 0
; science. There is no doubt about the facts
] the experiment came under our observation
t and attracted the attention of hundreds. l
D WA detailed to the writer by Mr.. johnson
4 himself, and various others worthy ofperfec
: reliance. It has been made known 10 tn
country in the American Farmer.
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EVANS.& COOKE,
One Door o6ove r. Smiths Old Corner.
RALEIGHeN. C.

MI would respectfully inform our friends and
~ the public generally that we intend keep
ing constantly on hand a full supply of
Dry Goods, Hardware, Cutlery,
GROCERIES, &c.
and indeed every thing found in similar estab-
lishments. They present the following as
specimens oftheir Stock:
Chem. Jasper, and Black Silks,
Silk Tissue and Alborinss,
Embroidered Grenadines and Berage.
Dotted and Embroidered Swiss Muslins,
Poplins and Berage DeLaneso
En-. White Grape Shawls,
Jenny Lind Collars and Cuffs,
Ladies Kid Gloves and Mifs,
Do. Embroidered l. C Hdk1s,
Teffita and Bonnet Ribbons,
Lace Capes, and thread Laces,
Chine and Embroidered Parasols,
Ginghams and Calicoes,
Shoes and Boots of every quality and price,
Bonnets and Hats Of every description,
Black French Cloths and Casimeres,
Black Satin and Marseilles,
Bed Tick, Cottonades, Domestics, Crockerv
, Wedding Hoes, Sugar, Coffee,
Adamantine Candles, ard a number of arti
: cles not enumerated, all of which the Subscri
: bers intend selling Cheap for Cash, OF TO pune
tual dealers on a short credit. Don't forget Il
give us a call and examine our Stock 6efor
purchasing elsewhere.
One door above Richard Smiths. NJ. %
Fayetteville Street.
H. L. EVANS.
GEO. T.COOKE.
Raleigh, March 10, 1851. 30
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Women are called the g softer SEX" because
they are so easily humbugged. Out of one
hundred girls ninety-fve would prefer ostenta-
ton to happiness dandy husband to a me-
chanic.
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Warrtntun GrmalF 9natitutf,
wARREN COUNTY, N. c.

0SO@N
THIS SEMLN.ARYha has heeni in successful OBJ
Grafton about ten years. The Academic year
Is divided into two sessions OIL weeks each:- the
Summer session commences on the first Monday
in July, and closes on the last Friday in November.
Pupils will be received at any period of the session,
and charged only from time Of entrance 10 toith-
dTGDdL Ample provision has been made for the
accommodation of mole than 100 pupils. The
Natural Sciences are Illustrated and enforced by
weekly lectures and appropriate experiments. Pu-
pills can remain with the Principals during vacation
The Faculty of this Institution consists Of Eight
experienced Teachers
TERMS PEI SESSION OF FIVE MONTHS
Board and English tuition, including
Stationary and Fuel for School room, 500 so
Piano music and use OF Instrument, % 90
Music on Guitar and use Of do. 20 90
Was Flowers and Fruit, each, 5 %
Ancient and Modern Languages, each, 10 O(
Landscape Drawing and Painting, 10 OF
Painting in oil and water colors, each, 10 OF
Vocal music, and various kinds of
Neediework, each, gratis.
GRAVES 81 WILCOX.
Narrenton, April 81, 1851. 81 Sn
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liveries made will be paid by the navy agent within
thirty days after triplicate bills, duly authenti-
Gated, shall have been presented to him.
Bidders whose proposals are accepted (and none
others) will be forthwith notified, and early as
practicable contract will be transmitted to them
for execution, which contract must be returned to
the Bureau within five days, exclusive of the time
required for the regular transmission Of the mail.
Every offer made must be accompanied (as di
rected in the act Of Congress making nppropria-
tions for the naval service for lS46'47, approved
10th August, lS46) by written guaranty, signed
by one or more responsible persons, to the effect
that he or they undertake that the bidder or bid
bers WILL If his their bid be accepted, enter into
obligation within five days, with good and suffi
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Bureau will not be obligated to consider any pro-
posal unless accompanied by the guaranty required
by law: the competency Of the guaranty to be
tilted by the Navy Agent, District Attorney, or
some officer Of the General Government known to
the Bureau.
A record, or duplicate of the letter informing
bidder of the acceptance of his proposal, will be
deemed notification thereof, within the meaning
Of the act of 1876, and his bid will be made and ac
cepted in conformity with this understanding.
Extract from the act Of Congress approved August 10,
.SEc. 6. And be iJ,uther enacted. That, from and
after the passage of this act, every proposal for
naval supplies invited by the Secretary of the Navy
under the proviso to the general appropriation
bill for the navy, approved March third, eighteen
written guaranty, signed by more RESPONSE
BILE persons, to the effect that he they undertake
that the bidder bidders will if his their bid be
accepted enter into an obligation in such time as
may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy,
with good and sufficient surees, to furnish the sup
plies proposed. oproposal shall be considered un
less accompanied by such guaranty. II, after the
acceptance Of proposal and notification thereof
to the bidder bidders, he they shall fail to
ter into an obligation within the time prescribed
by the Secretary of the Navy, with good and sufii
Secretary of the Navy shall proceed to contract
with some other person or persons for furnishing
the said supplies; and shall forthwith cause the
difference between the amount contained in the
proposal 80 guaranteed and the amount for which
he may have contracted for furnishing the said
supplies for the whole period OF the proposal to be
charged up against said bidder or bidders and his
or their guarantor guarantors; and the same
may be Immediately recovered by the United States,
for the use of the Navy Department, in an action
of debt against either or all of said persons.'
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OF paper they propose to furnish.
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GENERAL vAPOR BATH.

A DOPTED unanimously by Congress, through
"A the strong recommendations OF numerous
sicians, as per testimonials. The apparatus, fixed,
or portable; the position rscu'nbsnf, therefore fa
vorablc to the debiiifaed, and to the SAFE equal dis
tribution Of heat. The applications are nature
aiding; from the potent epidemic antidote, sui
phur fumc, Gas shown in the United States Pcni4
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called msrcurial; in rheumatic, cutancous. &C.;
to the most salutary Of the operations Of the far
famed Oriental Sfsam Bath, slill used In Turkey
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spiration. Instructions and rights for making and
use furnished. Also, powerful, but safely grad
uated Electro -galvanic and Magnetic machine,
for nervous and other complaints Applied at
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ianss,) No. IS, and at rssidence ofsick Probatum
est. BOYD REILLY.
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HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, by aw
II thornc.
Gocthc's Wilhelm Meister; 2 vols, new edition.
De Quincy's Caesars; vol.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes. by Mr. Stuart, late
Professor in the Theological Seminary, Andover,
Massachusetts,.
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vo.
Romance Dust from the Historic Placer; by
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Second volume Of pickens's Household Words.
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