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which three millions of people have gratefully be-
slowed upon you in your election to the Presidency
mot to admire your patriotism, do your fr1enos
and neighbors now address you. Themes less
splendid but more endearing impress our mlnds
The first and best of citizens must leave us our
ared must lose their ornament; our youth their
model: our agriculture its inprover; our commerce
its friend: our infant academy its protector; our
Door their benefactor. Farewell go and make
happy grateful people, who will be doubly CRATE
full when they contemplate this last great sacrnce
for their good"
There is much in and around Alexandra to re-
mind one of Washington. There is the church he
regularly attended. The Washington pew, IN
which he was to be seen warden, vestryman'
&c. In private museum in that city IS to be seen
the cambria shirt, enclosed in glass, in which, when
an infant, he was baptized and rude pack saddle
used by him in Braddock's army; and the ldentl-
cal FLAG, made of the thickest double crimson and
scarlet silk, under which the Hessians surrendered.
This flag is probably 20 by As inches, and SPLEEN
did in all its finish Enclosed in a glass case is
the original letter from Washington, after his re-
tirement from the army, to a committee OF the
managers of the dancing assemblies held in Alex
andria during the winter, in reply to their invita-
ton for Mrs. Washington and himself to attend
He declines, as their dancing days are over, but
refers to an early period of his life, when those
amusements gave him pleasure There are many
other small matters cherished with great care civ
inc evidence that everything relating to him Is sa
credly preserved by his neighbors.
Cor. Neeo York Post.
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WAKE COUNTY.

At the late term of Wake County Court the fol-
lowing gentlemen appointed Superintendents of
Common Schools, to-wit: w. R. Poole. Stephen
Stephenson, William D. Haywood, Simon Smith,
Thos R. Debnam, Michael Thompson, James Rog-
ers, Rufus H. Jones, John M. Fleming, and Green
Beckwih Rufus H. Jones elected Chairman,
Mr.. Poole having declined e-election.
The following Justices reelected for the Spe-
cal Court: w. H. Haywood, Jr., Chairman, John
sion Busbee, Joseph Fowler, Jr., William R. Poole,
and Thomas G.. Whitaker
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SUPREME COURT.

The following decisions have been delivered 81"
our last notice:
By RuFFIN, G. ]. In Moore Us. SPnaIl, I m
Martin, affirming the judgment. AIso,l hI..,
Us. Hester, in Equity, from Bladen, dIsnlSsniS b.
bill with costs. Also, in Bank OF the S'a'e ID IL
of Cape Fear, from Wake; judgment IeVe verse;
judgment for the plaintiff Also, IN iaIAIIssn<
Guyther, from Washington, affirming Inc Juus9e
Also, in Williams Us. Beasley, from CurrlIGsAar
ing the judgment. Also, in Chesson u.s. OnS''7
Equity, from Washington. , ri;
By PEARSON, ]. In Taylor Us. SteonauiS ,..
Chatham, affirming the judgment Also: .% a.
Us. Houze, from Wayne, awarding 0sn aISE ,Hr
Also, in Shepard Us. Parker, from PasquO'lan an Ca
ing the decree. Also, in State Us. Dean' "'-
ford, directing Uenire de moro. cL,.L fE
By RUFF1N, Oh. J.. In State rs. Cns e. i,
Chatham, declaring that there is no error e ~ Gr
ment. Also. in Richardson Us. Strong, I unnss
vile, affirming the judgment. Also, IN l m :
Hewes, in Equity from New Hanover Ia um Il. Gd5j
order to be reversed. Also, in Statement cors
in Equity, from CASTOR. Also. in Page vs. Iii Iii 81
in Equity, from Chowan, dismlsslng ' To" r I'd
costs. Also, in Hardy Us. .Leafy' IN nH'''
BERTHE, directing reference. Iacist
BY NASH, ]. In doe er dem, jackson 10 %. in NJ
from Surry, affirming the judgment H indgns
tin Us. Amos, from Stokes, affirming 'ni erra
Also in Burnet Us. Thompson, from Dsi sn;rs drr
admitting evidence, judgment reversed ' Srsctng
Also, in State Us. Nat, from Beaufort GnS Mo-
judgment to be reversed. Also, in Mo ;s.1g the
| in Equity from Northampton, dIsnlssbEs in 81
with costs. Also, in Walling Us. BurlOus sbs rs.
ty from Martin; account to be taken oil 'I gOd.op
the timber while growing. Als0' In in Va
Pierce, in Equity from Halifax. Als so,siup b
Us. Watts, in Equity from Martin, 1etel'; in Eqa
cree. Also, in Saunders Us. Haugn'V ,hs twoI5
from Chowan report set aside as 10 'uO y
excepted to, IN all other respects con counting
in HoIlowell Is. Green, from Pitt, dirf e. TcD9
certified that there is no error. Also ai in
Us. Thomas. in Equity, from JONES' o''N
By PEARSON, ]. In Grady rs. T Tire e Fl
Arson, affirming the judgment. a: AiS y. moro.
Foy, from Carteret, directing gsn t.om y" ZONES,
in Brinson Us. Wharton, in Equity trOn J.. Hare.
Equity from Bsr.is, dismissnfE the R o~
Also, in Reed Us. Kinnamon, in EquIg Canal
Beaufort, declaring there is error; A the der
cock us. Winborn, from Nash, reVeiS'Ds
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We learn from our exchanges that party of Anne.

We learn from our exchanges that party Of Anne.
ricans have put up line of magnetic telegraph from
the city of Mexico to Napoucan, distance of one
hundred and fifty miles, or half way down to Vera
Cruz, which it is to be extended in less than three
months time. The line already up is doing fair bu-
siness, the receipts averaging $35 per day. the ex-
penses about $15. These receipts will be largely in
creased when the line is finished to Vera Cruz. An
ether line is in contemplation from the city of Mexi-
CO to Acapulco, on the Pacific, 800 miles further,
which will connect the Atlantic and Pacific
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We learn that Alpheus Jones, Esq, has consented
to deliver Address before the Agricultural Society of
Wake County, at the meeting to be held in this place.
on Monday of next Superior Court. Mr.. Jones is a
gentleman of education and intelligence, and most
successful farmer and interesting and instructive
Address may therefore be expected. We hope to see
large number of farmers in attendance.
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MEssRs. DICKINSON AND MARCY. statement has
been going the rounds of the Wing papers to the eff
feet that these distinguished gentlemen had become
estanged from each other. This statement out,
as we expected it would, TO be unfounded. Mr. Dick
inson summarly dsposes of it in recent letter pub
lished in the Washington Union.
Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-02-28

New METHOD OF AMPUTAT1NG LIMBS. Some
operations have been performed lately at Vienna,
by means of platina wire heated red hot which
has been found to sever the flesh with as much
ease and celebrity as knife. One great advantage
offered by this method, is the very slight effusion
of blood caused by the wire as dividing instru-
ment. " 7-
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KEEPING CATTLE WARM. Cattle will eat all
that nature requires in good warm barn, if it is
iudiciously fed to them and they can have season
able supplies of water. But nature will require
more in an open barn. and more still in cold yard.
The fuel to feed the fires within will always bear
proportion to the cold atmosphere surrounding the
surface of the body without which is to be warmed
in order to keep the creature comfortable. 1t is
like placing your stove outside of the house to warm
the circumambent air, instead of placing it within
your snug little parlour The extra outdoor appe-
tite is caused mainly, if not entirely, by the extra
exposure commanding extra fuel Granite Farmer
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ORIGIN OF THE MAINE LIQuoR LAW. 1t is stat
ed that this bill passed the Lower House of the
Maine Legislature with the confident expectation
that it would be defeated in the Senate AS the
members of the Senate did not like the idea of as
Stunning the responsibility of defeating the bill, they
passed it for the Governor to veto. When it was
brought to Governor Hubbard, he expressed his in
6ignation at their folly in passing such bill, and
saying, eff they want the bill, let them have it,
he put his official signature to it, and it became the
famed Maine Law. Baltimore Sum-
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The Halifax Republican of Wednesday last says
Last week being Court, We had an opportunity of
seeing and conversing with many of our Democratic
friends from different parts of the County They
all for Reid, and Free Suffrage, and are determined
to send Republicans to the next Legislature from this
County,
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ODD COMPARISON. Elder Knapp, the eccentric
rer4valist, in a sermon at Springfield Illinois, last
winter, used the following singular comparisons
Gas hard as it is to blow up hell with pine
single hitched to bob-tail rat-as hard to do it
as it would be for fish to climb up the side of
house with a loaf of bread under one arm and a
barrel of carckers under the other"
Lord send down the Holy Spirit on the people
like fifty-sixes."
The mansions of the blest will be much SUI
perior so the best dwellings in this world that the
Presidents House at Washington would not do fol
a smoke-house."
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We find the following curious paragraph in the
Lowell American. 1t looks rather strangely, COM
inc from the boosted land of free men, free soil,
and free speech"
Coercion IN THE LOWELL MILLS. Yesterday,
in the House, A. r. Brown Of Lowell, offered the
following order:
That a special committee of five on the part of
the House, with such as the Senate may join, be
appointed, with full powers to send for persons and
papers, to inquire what attempts, if any, have been
made by any of the incorporated companies in
Lowell, their agents and other officers, unduly to
influence any of the citizens of said city, in the ex
ercise of their elective franchise during the pend
ency of the late elections in that city, or what, if
any influence has been exerted by said companies,
their agents or other officers to prevent true rep
resentation of the wishes of the voters of Lowell in
the Legislature, and report the facts and what ac-
ton necessary; and also to report what further
legislation is necessary to secure the freedom of the
ballot.
Before the adjournment, Mr.. Kellogg, of Pitts
field, moved reconsideration of the vote by which
the order was adopted, and this motion will come
up to-day, the first thing in the orders of the day
We are rather curious to see what preteXts the
Wings will give for sitting an investigation into
the subject.
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A Mr.. Anderson has returned to Derry, Ireland,
from California, with fortune of g6O,OOO about
100000. He had been absent about four years. r.
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All who have obtained for themselves great and
permanent reputation, have won and secured it by
patient and persevering labor by treating time not
as waste land fit only for stubble, but as true
estate of which no corner is to be left uneultyated.
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Chow dye do mister 2" asked fellow of US, as
he entered our sanctum-" have you got copy of
"Creosote's last speech in Cincinnati q We fur
nished him with the speech and he left stating that
he hoped we would preserve for him the maiden
speech of " Lowley Mounters." .E
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The Spanish journals announce that Gen. Concha
has again resigned the post of Captain-General of
Cuba, and that the government will accept his res
ignation.
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Sales of Fayetteville Bank stock were made in
Fayetteville, few days since, at $115 per share,
dividend off; and sales of Cape Fear at Sis to
Sis SO.
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Gen. Narvaez, former Prime MIn'S'T, i, Ii. III
hard up for money. He has had 10 ''''
Arapjuez, with all its furniture.
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IS NOT THIS TOO TRUE?
"The gay will laugh

.
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on and each as before will chase
His favorite phantom."-Bryant.
A few friends will go and bury us-affection will
rear stone, and plant few flowers our grave
in brief period the little hillock will be smooth
ed down. and the stone will fall and neither friend
nor stranger will be concerned to ask which of the
forgotten millions of the earth was buried there
Every vestige that we ever lived upon the earth
will have vanished away. All the little memorials
of our remembrance-the lock of hair encased in
gold, or the portrait that hung in dwelling will
cease to have the slightest value to any living being
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GOOD.

The following good hit is from the Halifax Repub-
lican, whose Editor has recently taken his stand in
the Democratic Republican party:
"The Wings blame US for ceasng to advocate
Wing principles. Have not the Wing party ceased
to advocate Wing principles? But say they. you
have joined the Democratic party. What if we have?
What sin is there in assocating yourself with those
who agree with you in feeling and sentiment! Dem
ocratic principles right, and the Wings acknowl-
edge it, in ceasng urge the adoption of their own.
The foregoing is brief, but it contains good deal
mere, indeed, than the Editor of the Raleigh Reg
lister could dispose Of in twelve-month. What say
you to it, Mr.. Gales? What will you do with this
proposition Democratic principles right, and
The Wings acknowledge 1t in ceasing to urge the adop
tion of their o,cn. -
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WHAT ARE CoNsoLs? They are three per cent.
English stock, which had its origin in act of the
British Parliament, consolidating (hence their name)
several separate government stocks into general
stock, called in the act consolidated Annuities -
and commonly quoted, for brevity, as ''consols."
When the consolidation took place, the principal
of the several funds thus merged amounted to
60, 1921 but the funding of additional and sub
sequent loans and parts of loans into this stock, it
amounted, on the 9Th of January, 1886, to 1885,
6s,62l Since that period only one loan has been
raised-that for compensation to the West India
planters on the emancipation of the slaves-42O,-
OOO,OOO-and few millions have been paid. The
total at the present time, is between $40 and 375
millions sterling
This Stock from its amount and the immense
number of holders, sensitive to financial in
uence than any other and is, therefore, the avorite
stock for the operations of spectators and obber.
Its dividends are payable semi-annually.
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MORTALITY IN FLORIDA. 1t is an interesting fact,
and which will probably surprise the rest of man.
kind that by the last census returns Florida exhb-
its smaller proportlonate mortality than any other
State in the Union. Thus, we find in the Georgian,
of the 29th ult, Florida contasted with Ohio, which
is accounted one of the heahest States Florida ex-
hibits mortality of 933 out of e7,O6I, or one death
in about every ninety-four inhabitants. Ohio shows
2s,949 deaths out of 1880. 4O6 Inhabitants, one
death during the year in every 60 persons.
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THE CAPTURE OF THE GUERRERO.

The following account Of the capture Of the Brit
ish frigate Gnerriere, blythe American frigate Con
stitution, is communicated to the Eveping Post by
correspondent who was a prisoner on board the
Guerrero during the combat. 1t is paper which
deserves place among the historical archives of
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SLEEPING IN CHURcH.-It is mat
ter of record that, about one hundred
years ago, an Indian was conducted by
a pious Deacon to witness the service of
the sanctuary ON the Lords day. When
the services were ended, the citizen, on
their way homeward, in order to impress
upon his tawny friend the superiority of
Christianity over heathenism, entered
into detail of the money appropriated
by the congregation of which he was a
member for the support of public wor-
ship, the erection of the house, the sala-
ry Of the ministers sc. To all this the
son of the forest who had observed the
drowsy disposition which prevailed the
assembly, f" Umph. Indians sleep just
as sound under the tree, and not pay
any thing"
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WHOLE NUMBER 60.
a0- Old Doctor s--.was among the

RD- Old Doctor S--,was among the
most eccentric geniuses of the CLOTH
He held forth, many long years since,
somewhere in the regions of the White
Mountain, in the Granite State. The
pulpit window was SO situated that, from
it there was full veiw Of the Old Mon
adnock Mountain. One Sunday expa-
tiating to his audience on the power of
faith, he recited the passage from the
New Testament, in which it is said, IF
yc have faith as a grain of mustard seed
ye shall say to this mountain, be ye re-
moved, sc. Then he exclaimed, Yes,
my hearers, if you had faith as grain
of mustard seed, and should say to Old
Monadnock, be sc removed, it would
be'-when pausing, and casting his eyes
out Of the pulpit window, he shook his
head gravely, and continued doubt
full, my hearers. Old Monadnock is
tolerablc big hill-but you can try it,
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11oetrn.
For the Literary Eeh
Address to k0ssatll.

Thou hast come from off cline, Kossuth
BY tyrants' oppression driven,
And hast sought in this "land Of the free, y
Kossuth,
A freedom protecting haven.
Thou hast come where Americas proud flag
waves
Ger her noble old patriots vcrdant graves,
Where her young eagle scars exultingly
And her sons shout " huzza for liberty
But say, hads't thou never heard, Kossuth,
In thy country far over the sea,
That this boasted home Of the brave, Kossuth,
Is accursed with slavery!
Did'st not know that Columbia's banner is
stained
With the stripes of her millions Of slaves en-
chained
That her ,ulture:like eagle picks human
bones
And her sons shout to stifHe the bondman's S
m groans'
When in the touching eloquent tones, Kos
suth,
Thou hast told fthe Magyar's strife
With their mighty tyrannical foes, Kossuth,
For that freedom that's dearer than life,
When thou told'st the tale to American ears
OF Hungary's struggles, her hopes, her fears,
OF her fair women whipped, Of her warriors
slain,
OF her loud cries for justice, she uttered in
.I vain
Did'st not know that American ears, kossuth,
Are deaf to the shrieks Of the slave;
That American frecmen crush, Kossuth,
The weak into tyranny's grave!
That American statesmen who welcome thee
Curse thy foes, and DER Hungary's woes drop
That they ,caip feeble ,Oomen, they barter
in men
And debasc Gods own image for mean sordid
gain.
Yes thou difst kno,o our sin and om
shame, Kossuth,
For where'er Americas known,
And her sons shout "oui great land is free >
Kossuth,
There ecnoes the bondman's groan
Oh, phy hast thou called us the noble and
free,
And echoed our praises from mountain tC
When the foulest oppression, unchecked
r here can roam,
And tyranny makes our republic her home
Canst thou tell us thy country's wrongs
Kossuth,
Nor speak of our millions in chains,
And yet be bold friend of the right, Kos
suth'
Oh had thine own heart thrilling strains
Rebuked the vile monster that scourges oul
land,
Its proud front would have quailed 'ncatl
.-rr. thy just reprimand, gvT
And thou then wouldst have proved thysel
fearlessly, brave,
." The champion of freedom" the friend o
slf the slsve' ili" GENEVA.
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g@r Soon after DR.. johnson issued
his celebrated Rassalas, a literary society
of ladies appointed some Of their num-
Der committee to wait on him and ex-
press their appreciation of his work. They
accordingly waited on him, and one of
their number addressed him in long
speech offulsomc praise. He calmly sat
waiting the conclusion of the speech and
then, tnrning his face to the committee,
expressed his acknowledgment by say
ing, Fiddle-de-dee, my dears."
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sD- A correspondent of the Bali-
more Clipper, writing about the public
printing at Washington says, Gas three
fourths of the documents get into the
hands of the merchants for wrapping
paper, it would be but fair for the COM
mitteo to consult the trading portion Of
the community, as to the best descrip-
ton of paper for that purpose"
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ssyr An itemizcr, at an evening sew
ing party, reports that one young lady
made the exclamation thought I
should have died !" one hundred and
twenty-eight times; and she put the in
quiry-" Did you ever I" one hundred
aud thirty times. .tt-
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sg- The last question discussed be-
fore the Shakedag Debating Society
was: Where does candle go to when
it goes out 2" The question, after much
was unanimously decided in
the dfirr,atire.
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BaS" Miss Dobbs says the first time
coat sleeve epcircled her waist, she felt
as if she was in pavilion built of rain
bows, the window sills of which were
composed of Kolian harps.
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pey" We understand that double
breasted bonnets are to. be worn now.
They are to be made SO as to let down,
that two heads can be Accommodated in
case anything private becomes necessary.
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sG- Can one imagine any thing more
cheerless than bachelors bed-cham-
beri Possibly, the Dismal Swamp may
make some prctensions to similarity.
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pG- Jane, put that baby to sleep
with laudanum, and then bring pe my
parasol and revolver. / am going to
attend meeting for the amehoration Of
the condition of the human race.
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ray Did you ever know man too
poor to take a paper, that did not spend
a dollar week for rum or tobaccof
We never did. t ir ~.
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Our lie is all a toll p!
In sorrow and unrest,

We labor still for peace, "-II|f
And still are never blest.
Hope points TO clouds like sunset skies
And yet the cloud forever flies.
Death is a welcome goal;
A portal into life,
Where peace eternal dwells,
And rest succeeds TO strife.
If life Is death, il soon is Ger,
And death Is life forever more.