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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-24

ISAAC PROCTER, (Successor to OLIVER PROC
IL TERI Merchant Tailor, Has just returned from the
northern cities, and is now receiving A NEW AND
BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OF GOODS in his line,
bracng Black Blue, Brown, Green, Olive Adelaide and
Daa CLOTHS of best French and English Manufacture,
and of various grades of prices. Best SlMONI DOEkINS
warranted. French English Scotch and American FANCY
CASSIMERE of every variety of style and price VEST
INGS of superior SILK Velvet Plush Figured and Plain
Sans and Silks Grenadine, Merino and Cashmere splen
did article. Weing and Party Pestings be beat
past manifestations of friendship and regard he
them effort orpains shall be spared to merit its connu
Satisfaction always guaranteed.
His Stock of FURNISHING GOODS is most complete
Dress Shirts, with without Collars,
Silk and Merno UnderShirts, very superior, all Sizes
Drawers fine assortment, all sizes,
Socks, Silk, Merino, Cotton, Figured and Plain,
Stocks, Plain and Fancy,
Gloves great variety,
Dressing Gowns, very handsome,
Pocket Handkerchiefs, silk, linen colored, plain
and embroidered.
In addition to the above, he has fine supply of
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
which he would be pleased to offer the inspection of the
public Being under his supervision he
confidently recommend them and he asks compari-
with any other goods in this market out of it, either
in quality price. All he asks reasonable profit and
Wilt not be undeysold by anyl
Gentlemen furnishing their goods to be manuactur
ed may rely receiving the attention and
if sold by himself
Cutting done any time at usual rates.
Latest Paris London, and New York Fashions just at
hand.
ISAAC PROCTER.
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DARTsEN & KINGS Steamsaip EXPREss.
- fEE ROANOKE and JAMEST0WN-7ls 7lsdaeda Rates,
1e1e1seo 6pt6Eton &The proprieters having made new
~ for the still better dispatch
Ne 9seemships ROANOKE and AEESTOW Il ffeia
4 sIs1sszN sIts& 2 KINGS POPULAR SOUTHERN EXPRESS
v1 nand for the accommodation Of their fehds
oint e Ssw York s generally delivered almost every
E E. or rgnia IN 4S hours and throughout North Care
s hna m 90 hours and at forty per Below the old ~
PARISEN KINGS facilities for t,,s .v,,.,,.t.,.
RSrtation OF Freight and Packages cannot Be Beat b
non, therefore in the shape Of krbug ip0sS a nc
Express End Barclay Street New York ~ = tlsss
Rest assured, that all they promise thew win itb
PARISEN KING, 2d Harclay St 3. q.
and Bolingbtook 81. Peterzb,,ro.s Va
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Raleigh March 8, 1858. 48-
SPECIAL EXPRESS NOTICE.-PARISEN &
- KINGS NeU York, Pirgind, North Carolina Freight,
Pdckage and Parcel Epress Steamships Roanoke and
anestouon-The Proprietors beg leave inform
chants Bankers and public generally Raleigh
having bought out the interest of Dodges Virginia and
North Carolina Express and made arrangements with the
New York and Virginia Steamship Company for the trans
portaon of their Express Norfolk Petersburg and Rich
mond and concluded arrangements with Messs H. D. Byrd
L. OBJ Branch, Esqs of the Petersburg and CASTOR and
Raleigh and CASTOR Rail Roads, they prepared to
transmit to and from New York. either of their Agencies
every description of Merchandise Valuable Packages Bank
Notes Specie Notes. Drafts Bills &C., with the greatest
pedon and at the most economical rates. We shall
trouble expense making this the popular EXPRESS
of Virginia and North Carolina long experience the
business North and West ample means conduct
the same hope will be sufficient guarantee the Mer
chants direct their correspondents dispatch their goods
through PARsEN KINGS EXPRESS We also wish it dis
tncty understood that direct opposition to the old
monopoly. Gice as trial
w. B. PARISEN, Proprietors
JAS. H. KING, : Aston HOUSE, NY.
J. D. GRONER, Norfolk Va,
w. d. TOWNES Petersburg, Va,
NJ. V. L. MAULE Richmond, Va, }
f. D. TURNER,
Raleigh, N. G..
n. B. We would also ask the attention of Merchants
the following places Chapel Hill, Hisborough, Green's
borough Fayetteville Salem, Cheraw, Pittsborough, Ash
borough and Salisbury facilities offered them for the
transmission of light packages by Expressom Raleigh
and all orders sent to Agent e. D. Turner ESQ., for
will meet with prompt attention. P. K.
~ There is splendid line of Steamers plying regular
ly between New York and Philadelphia, daily O'clock
p NJ and their freight from Philadelphia New York is
very low. The Steamers leaving Philadelphia Tuesday
and Friday connect with Parisen Kings Express for the
South from New York Wednesday and Saturday Merchants
ordering their goods from Philadelphia of Parsen
Kings Express New York, will find this much quicker
way to get their goods, and at onehaf of the cost
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GREAT SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ES-
VI TATE IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, NJ Cs--The
Commissioners of the Town of Beaufort viii offer at public
sale between forty and fifty of the and reserved
said Town. the property of the Corporation ZsSa he
Town. These lots most elgbly located and afford most
beautiful sites for building and residences The town of
Beaufort is situated the Eastern of the State d
recty open the Atlantic Ocean, and beyond doubt
of the healthest towns in America 1t is the
of large numbers of most respectable citizens for
health and with the great advantages to result from the
sirable places of residence country This sale offers
opportunity to purchasers from all parts of the
obtain heathul desirable and valuable RESIDENCE
and the of Beaufort have been induced alone
by the opportunities of citizens in various parts the State
to offer this valuable property for sale:
Terms of sale CASH.
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"OUSE-FURNISHING LIST.-SET NO. /, FOR
FL THIRTY DOLLARS The following list of articles
keeping be had delivered in part of the City, for
thirty dollars or any part at proPortionate rates
Kitchen Shovel, Tongs and Poker Iron Tea-Kette,
Timed Iron Pot, Timed Iron Saucepan, Soap-stone
Griddle Tin Bake-Pans, Tin Dripping Pam Tin Sauce
Pie Plates, Tin Wash Basin Dish Pam Table and Tea
Spoons, Iron, Chop-Knfe and Bowl, Tea and Coffee
2 Smoothing Irons, Large Cedar Wash-Tubs Wash
Mats Britannia Coffee Pot Britannia Tea Pot Knives
and Forks Stag Handles Pair Carvers to match Cork
screw and Tunnel Large Waiter, q Painted Pals Coal
Hod, Grdiron, Fry Pan, Culender Coffee Boiler,
Tea Pot Crater, Tin Dipper, l Egg Whip Basting
Spoon, Skinner, Ladle, Meat Fork, Meat Knife
Knife Board Scrub Brushes Dust Pan, Dust Brush,
BroOms, Coffee Mill, Clothes Horse Flour Seve, Oil
Filler Knife-Box, Door MAJ Kitchen Table, Potato
Masher Flour PAIL Spice Box, Pastry Board Rolling
Pin, Clothes Line II. d. TURNER,
North Carolina Bookstore
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Y. D. GEoSEn, Norfolk, Virginia.
J. W WoMAcK, FarInvfIle Va.
= WM. BAILEr, Fredericksburg, ya
WM. i. MAULE, Richmond, Va
w. BAGBY, Lynchburg, Va
Mr.. MINOR, Charlottesville Va.
JOIN CAMPBELI, Weldon, North Carolina.
JOHN NurF, Wilmington, N c..
H. d. TURNER, Raleigh, N. G.
JAMES L. REID, Henderson, N. c. 3
TURNBULL & STALLrNes, Warrenton, n. c.
s. H. HAMLET, Goldsboro', n.
STARK & PIERCE, Fayetteville, N. C..
J.. II. WHiFFIELD Franklinton, N. G..
JAMES L. DUKE, Ridgeway, n
e. ALLEN I,ittleton N G.
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Novelty Works, West Street, Raleigh, N. C.
SILAS BURNS, PROPRIETOR, BUILDER OF
- STEAI ENGINES AND GENERAL MACHINIST.
The above establishment has been in successful operation
about year. and has turned out of the best STEAM
ENGINES and SAW MILLS that have operated in this
any other State.
Orders solicited for Steam Engines and Saw Mills Mill
Gearing and Machinery of description to be completed
during the Summer and Fall The improved condition of
the Raleigh and CASTOR Rail Road will enable to fill
with dispatch and punctuality all orders after the 1st of
July.
The following certificate will show the character of the
work executed at the above Works:
"AUBRY Cumberland, May Is, 1852
'Mr SILAs BURNs-DeGr SIR Our Engine and Mills made
at Shops have been at work nearly two months and
fully meet expectations The ENGINE to and
STRENGTH PERFORMANCE and DURABILITY inferior to none
in the State of the class made here elsewhere The
MILLS with smoothness and speed truly astonishing
In ordinary saving cut in common sized log foot in
81 seconds or 16 feet minute We have rum however
through Is feet log in 80 seconds the rate of 38 feet
per minute b. running to the top speed fully believe
cut 40 feer per minute. The only objection have
heard urged it takes hands to haul logs and
carry away lumber. Yours &c.
JONES BARBEE."
.Jrne
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80 On the first of August we shall run our
and from Baltimore and Philadelphia.
July 2. 1853
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PATENT PURIFIED

iii; This oil for brancy durability, and purity as
nsht, and for lubrcating purposes whether applied
TO the delicate works of watch or the most ponde.
rous machinery, surpasses any oil now known
1, Is warranted not to gum, being entirely deprived
OF t1at SUBSTANCE which seriously impedes the "a.
pld movement of all kinds of machinery; and for
burning it is cheaper and better than any oleaginous
substance now in use.
While it affords light superior to gas or camphne,
IL is also free from the dangerous explosive quality
OF the latter, being solely sperm oil purified
so pure is this oil that it will freeze at any de-
gree of cold known within the limits of the United
states having thereby in this, in every other
ncuiar an advantage the best sperm oil as now
used.
=, After devoting many years in experimenting with
the various oils, for the purpose of overcoming their
impurities as at present fabricated, the undersigned
assures the public that he has succeeded in
the ne plus ultra" of oils He offers it as superior
TO any known oil in the world for the purposes of
burning and lubricating and nvokes the scientific
OF an countries to test it and their opipion
satisfied that all will agree that it is the finest oil
ever offered for sale "
WILLIAM D. TOWNSEND, PHILADELPHIA
- For sale by A. HATCH, jr., in the rear of Browns
Hotel; and also by wholesale at the corner of 18th
anu streets, py II. d. WALBRIDGE
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THE GREAT BRITISH QUARTERLIES
L AND BLACWOOD'S MAGAZINE

Important redq tion in the rates of post
age! LEONAR1 SCOTT & Co., No. 81.
Gold street, New !ork, continues to publish
the following British Periodicals, viz:
The London Qarterly review, (Conser-
The EdinburghReview, (whig,)
The North Brill Review, Free Church, J
The WestminiPr Review, Liberal and
Blackwoods Ediburgh Ma gazine, Glory. !
Those Reprint have now been in sue,
cessful operation this country for twenty
years, and thei circulation is constantly
on the increase notwithstanding the COM
petition they enunter from American pe
riodicals of nilar class, and from nu-
merous ECLECTIC ahd Magazines made up
of selections fin foreign periodicals
This fact shows early the hi Oh estimation
in which they g held by the intelligent
reading public,and affords guarantee
that they are eablished on firm basis.
and will be conued without interruption,
Although the works are distinguished
by the political hades above indicated. vet
but a small popn of their contents is de-
voted to polital subjects. 1t is their
literary characr which gives them their
chief value, g in that they stand con-
fessedly far pve all other journals of
their class. Lakewood, still under the
mastery gui4ce of Christopher North,
maintains itsScient celebrity, and is at
this time, utually attractive from the
serial works k}ulwer and other literary
notables, VIZ "a for that magazine, and
first appearing its columns both in Great
Britain and Omitted States. Such works
as &" The Cal Isl" and "My New Noyeln
(both by Bull "My Peninsular Medal"
The Green nd" and other serials, of
which nume1 rival editions are issued
by the leadi publishers in this country
have to be tinted by those publishers
from the pa of Blackwood, after it has
been issued Messrs. Scott & Co., so that
subscribers he reprint Of that Magazine
may alwa ely on having the earliest
reading Of e fascinating tales.
"a RI hances and communications
should be lys addressed, post paid, to
the publisf LEONARD SCOTT g. co.
IS Fult@ N. Y, Entrance 81 Gold st.
N. b & Co. have recently pub
lished and e now for sale, the GAR
MER'S q E" by Henry Stephens OIL
EdinburgAd Pref. Norton of Yale Col |
lege, New zen, complete in 2 vols, royal |
octave, cd ming 1900 pages, IA steel and |
6oO wood cravings. Price, in muslin
binding, in paper for the mail, SIS.
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WASHINGTON BRANCH RAILROAD.
llA 90 IT Go HE:s:s::s:::s7
CHANGE OF HOURS.


an and after Monday March IA, the PASSENGER
" Trains will be run as follows:
Leave Washington at and O'Clock A. M
DO do at 3R and o'clock p. NJ
On Sundays at o'clock A. NJ. and P, NJ.
Leave Baltimore at ~ and o'clock A. NJ.
Do do at So and $40 minutes p NJ
On Sundays at "A oci'k A. NJ. and 81 o'cPk P. NJ
The LIST and 4th Trains from Baltimore and the I'd
ana 4th from Washington, will be Express Trains
stopping only at Annapolis and Washington Junction.
Stations.
The Train leaving on Saturday evening goes no
farther than Philadelphia; the one of Sunday morn
ing only to Baltimore.
Through Tickets and Baggage Checks to Philadel-
phia and New York will be given by Trains leaving at
A NJ, and 2. NJ, except on Sunday morning
By order: T. H. PARSONS
Anar 10 Agent.
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CHARTER OAK LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY

OASDs OON GCIlCUTs
Capital 100000.
Securely invested under the official approval of the
Comptroller Of Public Accounts of this State.
Office, corner Of Main and Asylum Streets.
HNHIS Company wlissue Policies on the Joint Stock
4 principle, and upon the Mutual plan, thus COM
bining the benefits Of both systems at the option of
the insured; and make contracts upon any and all
conditions appertaining to, or connected with life risks
OF whatever name or nature
Policies will be issued at theiowest rates of premium
That can be adj ted and afford requisite security to
the insured and perpetuity to the institution.
On the surrender # Life Policy the holder will re-
ceive its equitable value in cash.
This Compai ycontinues to effect insurance on the
lives OF person. going to California, at fair rates of
premium; and q grant permits for travelling, sea
and foreign reside ice at equitable rates.
Policies issued for the benefit of married woman,
On the life of her husband, any other person, will
ensure to her separate independently of her hus-
band and of the claims of his creditors.
The Company is managed and controlled by Board
OF Directors, who personally interested, stock
holders and policy holders, in its success.
Pamphlets, containing rates of premium and infor.
nation in relatio . the plan of operations and all
papers necessary to eff insurance. may be obtained
at the Office Of the Company, or of any one of the
Agents.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
ALFRED GILL, President
JOHN L. BUNCE, Vice President
JAMES c. WALKLEY, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred Gill. William R. Cone.
John l.. Bunce. Nelson Hollister
James G. Bolles. Samuel Colt
John A. Butler. Daniel Pbillips
Noah Wheaton. c. N Humphrey
BOARD FINANCE.
GEORGE BEACH, esq, President Phoenix Bank
D. f. ROBINSON, esq.,, President Hartford Bank
Hon. ISAAC ToUCEY, late Attorney General u s.
j. q. JACKSON, NJ D., Medical Examiner.
ARCHIBALD WEIGH, NJ. d., Consulting Physician
AGENT FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Benjamin c. Worcester, Duvaps Building owe
Whitehurst's Gallery, Pennsylvania Avenue.
Hartford, March, 1852. ian 81
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HUNTS MERCHANTS MAGAZINE
AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
HE number for December, 1850, completed the
has been enlarged since its commencement in July
1889, and each volume now containing more than
seven hundred large octave pages. A few complete
sets of the Magazine may be obtained at the publish
er's office, az Fulton street, New York, neatly and
substantially bound, for two dollars andSa half per
volume.
The following are few ofthe many commendatory
letters received by the editor of the Merchants Ma
gazine from distinguished statesman:
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THE MUSICAL WORLD AND TIMES

| L ALL w OpiNhh NOhLD ANU I'm IL 4
A large Weekly Journal of siztei
pages, edited by RICHARD STORES Wild
and which the best musical composers a1|
writer's in this country make their mediud
OF communication with the public, CONTAIN
curing the year 209 pages Tor % worth |
the very best music of all kinds; also bril-
liant and instructive Essays on Music:
complete course of familiar instruction 4
Harmony, which anybody can understand
vast amount of attractive musical readiDe
anecdotes, and sketches of celebrated mu|
slclans, of musical history, &c.; the mes
fearless and truthful criticismsms of mus 4
cal publications and performances, al
the very pick and cream of Musical New.
Novelty, and Incident, both foreign aI
the whole forming the complete and ralus
ole record OF Musical Art it is possible 4
obtain. The wants of Country Choirs, al |,
OF ladies wishing for new mdsic, but vlt
are not living near music stores, are espect
ally attended to.
TERMs.-One copy, So; two copies, S
hVe copies, $40; and person sending a
a clue OF hive, gets an extra copy for ll5
trouble. Address DYER & WILLIS, publish
ers OF Musicat The World and Tines 2jI
Broadway, New York.
ANOTHER MUSICAL JOURNAL
The subscribers also publish The NoRGE
Musical Gazette, an elegant journal of EIGHT
pages, each number containing FouE pages
OF Music (makirg FoRTY-EIGHT pages a
year, and a great variety Of interesting
Musical reading matter. The Monthly M
s'cdt Gazette is designed for the especial
benefit of the thousands of music-lovers
whose musical knowledge and tastes de-
mand easy and simple music, and whose
purses require that it should be furnished
at the cheapest possible rate.
TERMs.-One copy, so cents; three CO
pies, 81 /; ten copies, SO; twenty copies
So; and a person sending as club Of
twenty, gets an extra copy for his trouble.
Address DYER g. WILLIS.
N. B.-Clergymen will be supplied with
The Musical World and Time, at one dollar
n year; and with The Monthly Nuaca
Gazette at twenty-five cents year.
Agents wanted to obtain subscribers fcr
the above named publications. Liberal
commission allowed.
Now Is the time to subscribe, as the new
volume commenced on the first of January,
1853.
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MAY AND DECEMBER.-We were informed
yesterday, says the Baltimore Sun, of
hymenial operation which is o little beyond
the usual routine. As we are told, vessel
on Sunday arrived in our harbor, ON which
was young man of about twenty three
years of age. He found on Pratt street
wharf an aged female, selling candies, about
twelve o'clock the young man saw the old
lady, and after little confab, proposed
matrimony, which was accepted, and on
Monday night the twain were made one
flesh. The amorous swain is aged about
% years, and his inamorata about 70. The
happy man, We are told, is we'll to do in the
world, lives in Anne Arundel county, and
wanted somebody to take care of him.
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Letter from the Hon. Vim. IT Seward

my Dear SIR: Have the goodness to place nv name
on your LIST of subscribers for the Merchants Maya
as1 regard 1t as an invaluable work for the use
VI an .no wouio understand not merely commercial
operations in this extending country. but the fiscal
and commercial questions involved In the adn;n;s
tration Of the government - 'Ao ""AAAAS
am' Win great respect, your humble servant,
Freeman Hunt, ESQ., L. d" an"
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Or: Roses Dyspepsia Cordial.

'hL Liver being the largest gland in the human
oody. 1t is more frequently deranged than any
ether. Then follows Dyspepsia. Constipation. odd
reet, ana Loss Of Appetite-the skin becomes yellow
the spirits droop and there great aversion to So
eety. Regulate the Liver, and you correct all these
1 enn1 Inc surest preparations to take are DIR.
hosEs celebrated Railroad or Anti- bilious TfUs =
strength NfFo"" anu
HIS dyspepsia Compound should be taken where q
person mas been troubled with Dyspepsia long time
irlce % cents: but for Colds, Bilious habits Jaun
G1ce &C., take DIR. Roses Anti Billions or Railrood
rus as they go ahead of all other Pills in their good
ehects. l21l2 and 25 cents per box.
~. 81 Inc above preparation can be found, with
circulars and full directions, at the stores of
~ u, " "hman, w. FL. Gilman
Tnaries stout Co., Samuel Butt.
z. Callan. Jobn W NJ;
hldwell Lawrence, Washington eityD C.
Drug Stores in Alexandria
( uGARS AND TOBACCO few fne first grade.
" Havana Cigars e"N'
boxes Chewing Tobacco, extra quality
Received, and fer sale by
LED 1S- J. T. RADCLIFFE, eth street
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B6r The servant of a Prussian officer one
day met crony, who inquired of him how
ne got along with his fiery master, '.Oh,
excellsntly," answered the servant; we live
on very friendly terms; every morning we
beat each others coats; the only difference
is, he takes his off to be beaten, and l keep
mine on
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ARD OtL-Just received 500 gallons Lard
IL Oil. For sale by A, HATCH r. -"i'
G street, opposite the Bank of washington
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Letter from the Hon. Thomas II. Benton.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 90 49,

WASHINGTON CITY, April 20, 1S49
MT freeman Hunt.-SIR owe you many thanks
for the have had to read the Merchants
Magazine, and have found it in reality to be Maya
zine, and that well replenshed, of all the useful
mateer ~nlch the title would imply, and presented
with fullness and clearness which delights while il
instructs 1t is, in fact, a merchants magazine in
the large acceptaton of the term-merchants who 90
9et"een nauons, whose large operations bring many
departments of knowledge and view of the state ~
the world into daily requistion. But it is not the
great merchant only, but the of more modest.
put, nevertheless, of most useful operations-tbe
merchant ofthe interior aso-who will and tb; wv
game to abound with the information. the pursuit
OF MS business and the elevation of the mercantile
character requires Nor is its utility at all conped
10 merchants but extends to the legislator and
matist, and to all who are charged with mansgino
the anairs OF the nation. For myself have found
II most useful to me in my senatorial labors. and
consulting it. ''"0 " '"i0i"ii5
very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS II. BENTON.