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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-29

Il The subscribers now iii receipt OF their fall
and winter stock of CHINA. GLASS and HOUSE
FURNISHING GOODS, to which they respectfully
in lite the attention of the public Their large and
varied assortment in every branch offers induce
ment to purchasers rarely equalled Their prices
viii De moderate. BuLkLE1 y lor
Sc 26 137 Main 1t.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-29

\ PPLE AND PEACH BRANDY.-A
n few bbls odd and very superior Apple and Peach
Brandy, for saie by e. NJ. BURTON /.
SO
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-29

nAMASK TABLE CLOT HIS. by
II steamer Asia we have just received so dozen
rich damask Table Cloths of our own importation.
DUDLEY l. JOHNSON,
Sc q No. 145 Eagle Square.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-29

AN P OLA superior article of
IL Bleached Winter OIL, received and for sale by
CHAS. MILLSPAUGH,
se4 q East Main ST.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-29

DICH VELVET VEST PATTERNS.
~ BY steamer of to-day we have now ia store
anoriier lot OF those rich Veyet VESTS to which
would call the attention of ths gentlemen.
DUDLEY j. JOHNSON,
se27 No. 145 Eagle Square.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-07
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE SPIRITUAL RAPPINGs. !"

TO turn deaf ear to the appeal made to us in
the subioined Letter is out of the question; ac-
knowledging as we do the good will and the kind
offices which we constantly experienced from the
writer, as well as from the other distinguished gen.
teman referred to by him, whilst they stood, side
BY side deservedy high in the most elevated branch
Of the National Councils. We therefore give re-
spectful place to his communication, without reply
ing word to any thing in it, cheerfully according
to him the right to declare for himself for his re-
spected friend of Rhode Island and for all others
agreeing with them, their views on this particular
subject which as impossible for US to concur in
as would be idle for to attempt to controvert
We will only add, what it is due to caldor that
we should state, that our disbelief in "clairvoy-
ance" is as absolute, and believe incurable, as
in the possibility Of spiritual intercourse between
the Living and the Dead
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mankind" IT. then, such be the general belief is it any
great stretch of that belief after the astounding facts
have and heard 10 suppose that there may have been
discovered mode by which spirits communicate
with us in addition TO attending and mpressing us and
that they are permitted do To my mind the con-
cuson is perfectly rational and philosophical With all
the evidences of progress which surround US here how
can we discard such evidences from the spirit world
which is believed to be one Of everlasting progression
Many persons, unable TO resist the evidence Of the
spiritual source Of these communications are finally
compelled admit them, and resort charge them
as emanang from evil spirits. consider this as giving
up the controversy There may be communications from
evil spirits But that does not conflict with the commu-
nicaons which bear internal evidence of coming from
the spirits of just men made more perfect" There is
abundance OF communications purportng come from
such source and Of the pures most elevated and
religious character If the "evil one" has prompted
these confess have heretofore formed very wrong
estimate of his character.
On the WHOLE the result of my Investigations thus far
IS that the weight of evidence is in favor of the truth
these spiritual manifestations" But shall continue
investigate opportunity offers And if hereafter
the preponderance Of evidence shall incline to the other
side, shall readily announce that result as have
above communicated the other.
In the mean time let us exercise all possible charity
for those who do not believe and especially those who
denounce without investigation, and condemn without
knowledge; for they are those that most need it.
Excuse this desultory communication, and accent the
assurance of the high respect and with which
am very truly yours, n. p. TALLMADGE
Hon. JAMES f. SIMMONS.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-07

THE COLLISION THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN Mo ~,
GAN RAILRoADs.-The of the late collision betty er
the express train the Southern Michigan railway ond
an emgrant and freight train the Michigan G. rtraI
is beyond conjecture 1t evidently the nj of
criminal carelessness. The night brigh !, "a .
nearly full and the clearest atmosphere cou ote
it. The two roads each other at nearly RICH tons
and run for long distance straight line. II ssen,s
it impossible for both engineers
each other trains for the distance of at least al mile
If not mile before reaching the crossing And vet
with ample time to brake up, the trains
into another at the crossing, and the ; "a s
dozens of human beings sacrificed
The event has caused high degree Of e~ctomort i
Chicago The coroners jury, after inves t;atior boye
returned verdict in which they say the ros a.
tributabe to the gross carelessness of Ii -
the trains and they have accordingly b. orras,eJ an
will be held for trial the charge of oensangbter
town meeting had been held by the t;ans of Cb;co
at which the action Of the coroners' ju - 80 81
and resolution adopted deman, a. &c tbe norsn,
having control of the Southern and Ce , ood
that with all reasonable dispatch tn Tho
Of said roads to be avoided, tina na rood no coef
the other, and, until the san - a he dona arar
train be required to stop before rossrg and that nov
be kept at said crossings ie Notice If tho al
ptoaou ~ us. = coh 1 also appointed to aic
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STICKING TO PRIscIPLE,-About thirty-fve years ago
there resided in the town Of Hebron certain Dr. T..
who became very much enamored Of young lady in the
same In due Of time they were engaged TO
be married The Doctor strong and decided Pres.
byterian and his adyoye strong and decided Bap
list They sitting together evening talking of
their approaching nuptuas when the Doctor remarked
/" am thinking, my dear, Of two events which shall
number among the happiest Of my life" and pray
what may they be, Doctor" asked the lady. done
is the hour when shall call you my wife for the first
time" "And the other, If you please p 1t is when
we shall present our first born for baptism" What
sprinkled@ eyes, my dear, sprinkled" Never shall
child Of mine be sprined" Every child of mine shall
be sprinkled" "They shall be, ha - yes, my love-"
Well sir can tell you then that your babies won't be
my babies So good night, SIR" The lady left the room,
and the Doctor left the house. The sequel this
story that the Doctor never married. and the lady
an old maid Exchange paper.
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THINGS AT NIAGARA FALLS.

We clip from the Niagara Falls Iris" the fol-
lowing intelligence of doings at that place
Our HoTELs.--Durng the coming season Niagara Falls
will be supplied with goodly number of comfortable
tells. There few places of fashionable resort for
quality as Niagara Falls. Great improvements have been
and are making in hotels and with the coming season
will be prepared to accommodate the travelling comu-
nifty who visit this place by tens Of thousands during the
midsummer 1t is always satisfaction to the traveller
so lind good quarters, and those visiting Niagara Falls
may rely upon being well cared for by our different
landlords.
Our HYDRAULIC CANAL.-We are happy in being able
to state that company has been organized consisting of
gentlemen of known wealth and enterprise in New York
and Boston. with capital of $500,000 that Board of
able directors has been chosen and that in their hands
this great work is about be commenced and vigorously
prosecuted to completion. We have the plans and
drawings, and confess struck with the magnf-
cence of the enterprise The canal for nearly its whole
length (about threequarters of mile viii be lime
stone rock excavation 1t is to be seventy feet in width
with perpendicular sides, and to be deep enough
sure at all ordinary stages ten feet depth of water This
when the uniform permanence of the supply and the fall
OF two hundred feet taken into consideration will fur
nlsh hydraulic power which, venture to say, will in
value have equal in this any other country espe-
ciay when it is borne in mind that its availability will at
all times be unfang while Lake Erie endures and that
1t Will be wholly exempt from all ordinary disasters by
floods.
CANASDAIGuA AND NIAGARA FALLS RA1LRoAD.-There
is every prospect that this road will be in running order
by the lst Of June next agreeaby to the promise of the
company The contract for laying the track from Bata
VIA to this village has been taken by Mr. Sill, who has al
ready commenced at Batavia working west and Tona-
wanda working both ways.
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T. saiu Una. number Of gentlemen of Trenton, ~
~ u uoen Pouc al parties and of influential positions
society nave under consideration the plan of new
empeTance org nization differing in principle from the
Maine Lay" ~ basis of their plan is follows: No
more laverhs ID necessary for public yenence
WITHIN .he me aning Of the statutes the qualification of
al aPpcans for license to be strictly what the law re-
qures tne rigid and unreenting application Of the
ouhaay Ia ~ increase Of penalties against drunk
enness anu ner rigid enforcement against all delinquents
Inc use % ii that argument, persuasion, and kindness
can accom- ,lsh against intemperance but no "Maine
Law Pror lbition under any circumstances.
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TRAGEDY AT FoRT BELKNAP.-On the 9th of March
Major Sibey had difficulty with the Wasoes Indians
and recently party Of Wchtas having into Fort
Beknap, he detained them prisoners At night the
chief after numbering his wife and child upon
the guard with his warriors nine in number The sent
mel guard was instantly killed and another sodit
wounded. The chief killed in the struggle but
the warriors escaped
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On Saturday last the Excelsior Lodge Of Independe

On Saturday last the Excelsior Lodge Of Independent
fder Of Odd Fellows, at New York increased their in
alton fee from hundred dollars They must be
determined to be exclusive. In opposition to this,
their benefits amount to eight dollars per week. and
they pay widows of deceased members one hundred
and fifty dollars per annum The surplus funds of this
Lodge amount to about thousand dollars and they
are doing vast deal Of good among those dependant
upon them
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-07

RoLIIN n M1r Rup W .Sn Srptors Ioss on J,pr tn
Ptsbur m Desnatcb states that IN Tnesdav ovenn I
tne roo Of the rolling mill in Sharon, Mercer county
Va)t ,ok FIRE, and when number Of the workmen were
it. ndeavorino 70 ex,nouisb the flames tho roof fe
in 4 seven nersons were Killed and otbers hodIv
wour died. The of the killed Vim. Scott Reese
WIN ANS, Vim. Graham, named Jordan, Mr.. AL
brir M Jobn T. Tones and q how named Rnrr
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Ing hiltay u ne' York all adopting the same
uniyI insreau u ppearing each company in differ
ene uIess Lntie ,giments, withthe uniform, now
er efficiency and d ser,;ne e'N1'
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The steamship At6aross, .ectad an the lOtb pl,ino
Un ns iP from ne" orleh Vera Cruz, built in
n5auePh", ~ cost % 100000 for the Charleston
aue. Se rycenuy oecan the property OF SIMEON ORA
nn ~ Fe ors' ~ Payr tent of advances amounting
@oVooV, ahuat the uhe If her wreck her second
ulP % era cruz, win passengers bound to California
~ 1hy ASaPuico route She insured principally in
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LETTER TO Mr.. SIMMONS, (,Bovr ALLUDED TO. J

WASHINGTON, JANUARY 10, 1853
Mr. DEAR SrR: was pleased to see in the January
number Of Putnams Monthly" statement Of your ex-
nerience in spiritual manifestations" In CONVEX
ton at Washington during the last session Of Congress-
Won had stated the same to
NV experience is, probably, more limited than yours
lint yours has served in measure TO strengthen the
impressons made on my mind by the investigation
have given TO this mysterious subject
had heard for long time Of the Rochester knock
age but had paid heed TO them on the contrary
ia considered them a deuson which would
mass away ! continued under these impressions till
some time last spring, when my attention was called to
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BOOKS Just RECEIVED.

A NEW Dictionary of the English Language, by
~ Charles Richardson, vols, TO
Woman's Record, or Sketches of all distinguished
women from the beginning, till A D., 1850. -drrang-
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every age. by Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Cooley
Ladys Book &C.. illustrated by two hundred and thirty
PORTRAITS engraved on wood by Losing & Barrett
Select British Eioquence, embracing the best speech
es the most eminent orators OF Great Britain
for tbe two centuries, with sketches of their lives,
an estimate Of their genusand notes. critical and exPa-
natory by Chauncey A. Goodrich, D. D., Professor In
Yale College.
The Hundred Boston Orators appointed by the NUM-
cipa authorities and other public bodies from !71o to
1852 comprising historical gleanings, illustrating the
principles and progress our republican institutions
by James Spear LoriDg
uses OF drawing Instruments the constructIonof plane
figures Interpretations and sections OF geometrIcal
solids elements mechanism ard topograph-
lcafdTawing witfremarks on the method of teaching
the subject, for the use of Academies and Common
Schools, by D. H. Siahan. LII D
The Ladys oracle Pastime for social par
ties and the family circle, by Henrietta Dmo1nt;
For sale by w. Il. PoMEROT.
May 2, 1858 4S-
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Modern State Trials, revised and illustrated with
INl essays and notes, by VIM. C. Townsend, Esq,
recorder OF Maccles6eld, vols. vo.
Church Dictionary, by Walter Farquar Hook, D D.
Vicar Of Less sixth edition revised and augmented.
Carmithen, ID.
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Poems BY Matte Griffith, now first collected.
The Australian Captive and the gold regions being
fifteen years in The lie of William Jackman, with
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Agnes SoreI novel by G. p. r. James
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Harry Muir story Of Scottish life by the author Of
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SP RING 2T0GK OF MEDICINES
FOR 1853,

ID F. PESCUD is receiving his Spring supply
of Medicines, Paints, Oils Dye stLffs. Perfumery
and Fancy Articles which is in all respects, reliable,
aud in sufficient quantit les merit large increase of
Wholesale as we'll as Retail Trade.
With seventeen years experience in his business IL
greatly increased facilities for purchasing receiving,
forwarding goods, he hopes retain the patronage and
influence of his customers.
His great aim is to the Purest and most reia
BILE articles, and will not knowingly sell any other kind,
and this he attributes the large increase of his
sales and the which has followed his efforts to
gain the confidence of the public.
Physicians and families who have Prescriptions to fill
may rest assured that they will be promptly and faith
fully executed hY experienced persons at all hours Of
the day night
He hopes all who owe him account, - notes
due prior the first of January last, wical se.sle
without delay, or remit their Indebtedness
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RALEIGH, NoRTIEcARoLINA. SATURDAY.. MAY 2s 1853
IRA BECKWITH.

M OULDtender his sincere thanks to his numerous
w friends and customers in Raleigh and its vIcini
y fol the liberal support he has received, and hopes by
renewed efforts to merit continuance of their favor
has Just returned from the North, where having in
view the of his customers at home he endeavor
ed to select snch articles would give entire satlstac
on both as to price and quality. His stock consists in
Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Hardware, Cutlery.
and Fancy articles, comprising In part the following
Groceries.
Bacon. Lard, Meal Flour, Candles. Sole. and Upper
Leather. Soap, Salt, fine Chewing and Smoking To-
bacco Snuff, Cigars, Sugar, Coffee, Teas, Pepper,
Aspce Ginger Soda, Indigo, Nader, CoPperas, Ink,
Backing Powder and Shot. Lead, Sc, &c.
Hardware and Cutlery.
Axes, Wedding Hoes, Nails, Files, Butts, Screws,
Padlocks plat Locks, Coffee Mills Tacks Percussion
Cans Scissors Iron and Brtiana Spoons Pocket Knives
Knives and Forks Thmbles, Pins, Needles, Hooks and
Eyes, Candle Sticks, Vest Buckles. &c.
Glass and Crockery of all kinds.
Dry Goods and Fancy Articles.
Blankets bleqched and unbleached Shirtings, Va
Osnaburgs Bed Ticking, brown Jeans, Kerseys, CASH
meres, ,Satinetts Kentucky Jeans, Tweeds Fancy Vest
Flanels Merrmack prints Fancy prints, Letter paper,
Envelopes, Steel Pens, Pen Holders Agate Buttons,
Coat Buttons fancy Vest Buttons, Coats Spool Cotton,
Sewing Silk, Flaxthread, Cable Cord, Corset Laces,
Pocket Combs, Ladies riding Side and Tuck Combs,
Paste Board, Gentemens Chamois lined Gloves, Wool
Gloves gross stout cotton Half Hose, also Ladies
ne and cotton Hose, Looking Glasses, Blackng
Brushes Cotton Cards, Shaving Boxes, Fancy Soaps,
Perfumerics, Sc, SC.
Also, a fine assortment of Ladies and Gentlemen's
Summer Shoes, cheap for cash. Just to hand.
Together with great variety of other articles entire
ly tedious to enumerae all of which will be dispos
ed of on the most liberal terms for cash
Fayetteville few doors north of the Yarbrough
House, and opposite Lawrence's Hotel.
Raleigh, March 27, 1858. SLY.
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N NOTICE e.

NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!!
7 ]. BIGGS & Co.. take pleasure in announcing to
their friends and the Public in general, that they
receiving their Spring and Summer goods con-
ssting fine lot of French and English Cloths. Cas-
sinners and vestings of the latest Style beautiful lot
of white Silk and Satin vesngs, and Cravas for Balls
and Parties. White Lnnen Drilling and Navy Duck,
for Summer Pants.
All kinds of Ready Made Clothing both of their own
and of Northern Manufacture very fine and cheap Also
Youths and Boys Clothing, and dressing gowns.
Fine Moleskin and Beaver, black and Drab Hats OF
the very best manufacture.
The latest sYle dress Shirts of the most approved cut
Gauze. Silk and Marno undershiris and Drawers for
Spring and Summer. ..-...
Gloves, Collars, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Cravats and
Stocks, in great varieties.
Their stock will be constantly supplied, with the la
test arrivals The very finest assortment of Tailors
trimmings on baud.
All orders thankfully received and promptly execut
ed All garments. made to order warranted to fit.
Call at No. 10,
Fayetteville Street. Raleigh, N C.
April IIth, 1858. 42--
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NORTH CAROLINA
MUTUAL INSURANCE co.
r A i EIG H, N. C.

I RALEI H, N. c..
lT1HIS Company has been in successful operation TO
more than years, and continues to take risk
upon all classes of property in the State Except Steam
Mills and Turpenne Distilleries) upon favorable
Its Policies property amounting to Sd 500
000 large portion of which is in country risks anc
its present capital is Six Hundred Thousand Dol
lars, in bonds properly secured.
The average cost of Insurance upon the plan of thi:
Company has been than third of one per cen
all grades of property embraced in its ope
rations.
The following persons have been elected Directors
and Officers of this Company for the present year.
DTREcToRs:
Jos. G. B. Roulhac, G.. W. D. Hutchings, Jno. r.
Williams, John Primrose H. D. Turner, S. w. Whit
ing, T. H. Selby, of Raleigh Geo. McNeil, Fayette-
vile, Joshua G. Wright, Wilmington, Jas E. Hoyt,
Edenton, Joshua Boner, Salem, Joseph H. Pool,
Elizabeth City, F. F. Pagan, Plymouth, Alexander,
Mitchell, Newbern, w. N H. Smith, Murfreesborough,
H. B. Williams Charlotte, John B. Barrett, Milton, and
A. T. Sunny, Asheville.
All Directors authorized to receive applications.
OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY:
j. G. B. Roulhac, President,
Henry d. Turner, Vice President,
S. w. Whiting, Treasurer,
J. c. Partridge Secretary,
John H. Bryan, Attorney,
j. Hersman, General Agent.
s. w. Whiting, }
John Primrose,
All in reference to insurance should
he addressed to the Secretary, post paid.
j. G. PARTRIDGE, Sec'y.
Raleigh Jan. IL, 1853. 10