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The North-Carolinian., 1854-10-28
! VOLUME XV-N0. Sl7.


According to the British census just publish
ed, during the year 1852 there Nwere two males
married at the age Of l6 and l59 females;
while there were also 23 females who entered
the bonds Of wedock at Is years of age. There
were five men, all widowerS, who married at the
age of so. One of these married woman of
So, another of go; two, women of 40, and
another Il lady of 35. One old lady, so years
of age, united herself to gentleman of three
score years aud ten. Between the ages of 60
and IS, 773 men married, and 234 women
Thus it appears that the women, If they begin
earlier also as q rule leave off earlier than the
men. The unions contracted between bachelors
and spinsters were l3O,6I2, between bachelors
and widows 6,G9s, Letwesn ui.loners ssd
spinsters Ia O4O, and between widowers and
widows 1870
1t is remarked that the darkness of ignorance
appears to be in no way alarmed by the torch
of Hymen, for the humliating fact appears that
out of 81 ,564 persons married, 1i9, 1872, or
considerably more than One-third, sighed the
register with marks OF these ignorahuses
1921 were men, and 1922 were women.
In 36, $50 cases both signed the register with
marks, and in As, 924 cases one of the contract
ing parties signed with mark. Possibly the
nervous tmdty which is frequently exhibited
by the ''weakcr vcssel' at the altar accounts
for the extraordinary want of ability which they
display to sign their names: or possibly their
anxiety to assume a new name makes them hats
ten to repudate the old. To what cause
attributable, the fact stands stated in the
ineXorabic columns Of the registrar-gencral.
The North-Carolinian., 1854-10-28

MRS WALTON
viii from the North the first of October with
very large stock of
EIILLIEE.isY FANCY GOODS,
And the latest style of DRESS TRIMMINGS and
PATTEI,ES: Cloth and Velvet MantIas, Taimas, and
Clo;ks; Collars. Cndcr-SlCcvcs. and inside Capes.
Also q very handsome assortment of HEAD-DRESSES
and CAPS
She returns thanks for former patronage and hopes
her patrons and friends will call before purchasing
elsewhere.
Fayetteville, Sept. 80. 1854 13tf
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SHEMWELL e MCDONALD,
(Successofs S to T. Slemwcll)
DEALERS IN STAPLE AND Fancy
DRY GOODS
BOOTS AND SHOES. HATS AND CAPS,
Also general assortment of Straw < Silk BONNETS.
In addition to stock now on hand which is very
good. we VIII in few days receive supply of
SE.iSO.N.7BLE GOODS.
Which Will sell low for cash or on reasonable time
to punctual customers.
". B. SHEMWELL
A. y. MCDONALD.
East side Green Street.
Fayetteville, Sept 23,
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FALL STOCK, 1851.
STARR & VILLA ms
Have now in Store a LARGE STOCK OF
ID L, Y G. o O d s
Hats, Ca $ Boots, Shoes, Silk and Straw
Donncts, Umbrellas, and Rcady-made
Clothing,
Which will be sold WHOLESALE BJ' J'1EItS
exclusively
The attention OF Merchants is particularly invited to
this Stock. Orders solicited and satisfaction guar
anted.
J. +. STARR.
J. n WILLIAMS.
Aug. l6 1854 Soft
The North-Carolinian., 1854-10-28

Oct. II. 1S5 I.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-25

A ARE HAN Ell!

Tine subscriber will sell the following d,
Il scribcd property, situated in the village
Of Middlebury, Vt, at n great bargain. a
good fifty per cent business may be realized
with comparatively small outlay ut the
commencement, in the manufacture Of Lime.
In the first place, there is Quarry Of beau
fifu white Marble, not to be cxccllcd by any
other quarry in this region, which on being
burnt makes the best of Lime. On the de-
clivity of the hill on which said quarry is
situated, l have erected n perpetual burning
Lime Kiln, in which wood or coal may be
used for converting the stone into lime. The
Kiln is enclosed in suitable building for
packing and storing Lime. 4 railroad and
car is attached. for conveying stone to the
kiln from the quarry, which is distant only
one hundred feet. Also, have quantity
Of wood on hand which will be sold to the
purchaser At cost, together with sufficient
land. The whole is entirely new, and ready
for operations.
Icandidly consider the above a raro chance
for making money, and had I better health,
would not part with it. Gentlemen from
city and country are respectfully invited to
call and view the premises and purchase at
once. References will he given if required,
to good judges in this place. have guam
tity Of lime on hand for sale, both for me-
chanical and agricultural purposes at pres
ent. Address
SIDNEY MOODY.
Milllcbury, May II.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-25

We talk of Adam and Eve as having
been, before the fall, in a very happy
condition, but one thing they missed
they were never children.-Cor.
.Ab. Register.
True, We never thought of that.
Adam never played marbles. lie
never played "hokey." lie never
drove tandem of boys with string.
He never skatcd on a pond, or played
"ball," or rode down hill on hand
sleigh. And Eve, she never made a
playhouse she never took tea with
another little girl from the little tea
table set out with the toy tea things ;
she never rolled hoop, or jumped q
rope, or pieced a baby.quilt, or dressed
doll. They never played "blind
mans buff" or pussy wants corner,
or "hurly burly," or any of the games
with which childhood disports itself.
How blank their age must have been,
wherein no memories Of carly youth
came yelling up in their hearts, no Vi
sions of childhood floating back from
the long past, no mothers voice chant
ing lullaby to the ear of fancy in the
still hours of the night. no fathers
words of kindness speaking from
the church-yard where he sleeps
Adam and Eve, and they alone Of all
the countless millions of men and
women that have ever lived, hao nc
childhood.-Atbdny Register.
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young calculator had answered, like a
flash, four /; reply the correctness and
instantaneousncss of which astonshed
the audience, and the interrogator him
self. Many problems which neither
Vandeux nor Vito Mangiamele the two
young mathematical prodigics which pre-.
ceded Grandemangc, could master, have
been solved BY him with almost equal
facility. Intelligence so prompt aud
extraordinary in u human being so de-
formed and pitiablc, Is spectacle truly
worthy of admiration and interest"
There is attached to his portrait a
fac smile of his signature. The writ
er, from whom we derive the above
says =" The characters were rapidly
traced in our presence with an ordinary
pen, held between the check and the
stump, which supplies the place of the
right arm" In this manner he will
execute even Aourishes of the pen which
possess some considerable degree of
grace and beauty Such is our little
calculator of Vosges, of whom we would
communicate more, but our means of in
formation are limited -National Mag.
d-tnc
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LIFE AND DEATH.-When We

LIFE AND DEATH.-When We are
born VIC are the same as others; at our
decease we may induce our friends and
oblige our enemies to acknowledge
that others arc not the same as we.
1t is folly to say Death levels the whole
human race for it is Only when he
hath stripped men Of everything ex-
ternal, that their deformities can be
clearly discovered, or their worth cor
rectly ascertained. Gratitude is soon
silent ; little while longer and in
gratitude is tried, is satisfied, is en-
hausted, or sleeps. Lastly fly off the
fumes of party spirit hottest and most
putrid ebnlliticn Of selflovc. We
then see before us and conte mplatc
calmly the creator of our customs, the
ruler of our passions, the arbiter of our
pleasures, and, under the gods, the dis
poser of our destiny. What. then, ]
pray thee, is there dead ? Nothing
more than that which We can handle
cast down, bury and surely not he
who is yet to progenerate more nu-
merous and far better race, than dur
ing the few years it was permitted u:
to converse with him.-Ldndor.
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VERY good, my daughter" said ho
and so sermon was preached.
Mr. Adams pcrsevefed in his suit. in
defiance of all opposition. 1t was many
years after, and on a very different oc
casion. and in resistance of very differ.
ent opposition, that be uttered these me-
morable words Sink or swim, live or
die. survive or perish, 1 give my heart
and hand to this measure" But though
the measures were different. the spirit
was the same. Besides, he had already
carried the main point of attack-the
heart of the young lady-und he knew
the surrender of the citadel must soon
follow. After the unusual hesitation
and delay that attend such an unpleas-
ant affair, Mr. Smith, seeing that resist
ance was fruitless, yielded the contested
point with as much grace as possible, as
many prudent father has done, before
and since that time. Nh Adams was
united to the lovely Miss s. After the
marriage was over, and all things were
settled in quiet. Mrs. Adams remarked
to her father, you preached sister Ma
ry a sermon on the occasion of her mar
riage. Won't you preach me one like
wise :"
"Ycs, my dear girl" said Mr.. Smith,
''choosc your text, and you shall have
your sermon"
We'll" said the daughter, Il have
chosen the thirty third verse of the sew
enth chapter of Lukc-"For John came,
neither eating bread nor drinking wine /;
and yc say he hath a devil !"
The old lady, my informant, looked
me very archly in the face, when she
repeated this passage, and observed
If Mary was the most dutiful daugh.
ter. guess the other had the most wit"
| could not ascertain whether the last
sermon was ever preached.
1t may not be inappropriate to re-
mark, how well these ladies justified the
preference of the distinguished individ.
uals who had sought them in marriage
OF them, it will hardly be oxtravagant
to say, they were respectively an honor
to their husbands. the boast of their sex.
and the pride of New England
Mrs. Adams, in particular-who, from
the elevated position in which her hus-
band was placed before the world, was
brought before the public eyc-was sup
posed to hold the same elevated rank
with the gentle sex that Mr. Adams did
among men and she is reported to
have rendered her husband much asss.
lance in his multiplied labors of the pen.
Chronicle.
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TnE AMERICAN CHARACTER can.
not tell whether | rightly know the A.
mcrican character but Of this l am
certain, that what l do know Of it is
more beautiful and moro worthy to be
loved than any other that am acYuaint-
ed with in the world Their hospitality
and warmheartedncss, when their hearts
are once warmed, are really overhowing,
and know no bounds And as somo
travellers see and make noise about
their failings, it is very well that there
should be somebody who, before anything
Else, becomes acquainted with their vir.
tues. And these failings of theirs, as
tar az can see their national failings,
may all be attributed principally 10 the
youthful life Of the people. In many
cases recognize precisely the faults Of
my own youth the asking of questions,
want of reflection, want of observation
Of themselves and others, boastful spir.
it. and so on. How free from these fail
ings, and how critically alive to them.
arc tho best people in the country. A.
mcricas best judges and censors Of man.
ners, are American themselves - Fret
Jika Brcncr.
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\ MopxL Srerou-- We commend
the following speech to the careful study
of all candidates boforc the people It
was delivered in Illinois, by a candidate
for the legislature, is brief and pithy,
aud the man who made it was elected
as he deserved to be Fellow -citiIons:
| am no speech maker, but what l Say
I'll do. I've lived among you twenty
years, and if I've shown myself clever
fellow, you know it without speech; i I
I'm not clever fellow, you know that,
too, and wouldn't forget it with speech,
I'm a candidate for the Legislature il
you think I'm the clear grit, vote for
me if you think Major R Of a
better stripe than I am, vote for him
Tho fact is, that either Of US will make
dAvilish good representative"
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Aeri1nlture.
For the Middlcbury Register.
The Culture OF oniona

Mn EplroR:
Ny success in raising OF
IONS has led many TO ask how il Is
done They say the maggot and
the large brown worm have been -
destructive that they have done trying
to raise that valuable vegetable LIT
answer TO such inquiries permit mo tS-
reply:
There arc at least six kinds Of ouionc
but they are Of the same species Tbs
leck, the garlick, the hill.oniops, the top
onions, the bed and tho silver onions.--
From tho fact, that, whenever onious
have been found growing wild. they are
always found most plentifully and most
Sourishins in muck soil, I have sakes
the hint to prepare my onion bed With i
plentiful supply Of muck frat put into
the hog yard, and then we'll miiod viii
common soil. II I plough tho ground,
| take caro- not to have the ground 600
light. As the roots Of onions do nos
go down deep, they will not stand drouth
so we'll in light as in more compact soil
Besides, onions bottom better whcro the
ground has been rotted or hard troddeu
cultivate the stop ouion" fof sever.
al reasons. All black seed onions ars
slow to como up. Tho weeds &c. the
start of them aud then you are obliged
to get down on your hands and knees
and weed with your fingers. Then warn,
weather has come on and the msggot hy
commences with the young plant and
destroys it. And the black seed onion
is so late that the black worm 10 just in
season to bite off tho tender stalk aud
so devours the onion.
But plant the top onion seed.
which is already little onion, you may
get them we'll growing in April. They
como up Immediately, so that you may
hoe them twice or moro before weods
appear. And before maggot or worm
time, the onion has got the ground By
possession. When the weeds sppear.
you may march right along with youv
hoo and 90 over with bed large enough
for twenty bushels, before breakfasA
The reason why maggots have ever des-
troyed the top onion is, that they were
planted too late. They should bs plant
ed as soon as the snow and frost disap.
pears. Some put out in the fall and do
we'll. have never tried il. The top
onions ou good ground are large as ssy
They are swee,er aud more juicy than
other varieties aud cau be raised slmoss
rs easy rs potatoes
have given away and sold seed for
several years aud when the experiment
has been been fair, oil have been sstis6.
cd. I intend to girc away and soil be-
fore April, tp,lre 6n'hei, Of seed.
S. MoRoAs-
Bristol, Jan, 10, 1854.
7. S. Perhaps there is no vegetable
moro agreeable to the stomach Of Q dye
peptic, than fried or boiled snicns.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-25

No SABBATH--In Prize Essay on
tho Sabbath" written by journeyman
printer in Scotland, there occurs the fol-
lowing passage
Yokc-fellow think how the abstrac.
tion of the Sabbath would hopelessly en-.
slave the working classes, with whom We
are identified. Think of labor thus go.
ing on in one monotonous and continu.
Gus and eternal cycle-limbs forever on
on the rack, the fingers forever playing,
the cycballS forever straining, the brow
forever sweating, the feet forever plod.
ding, the brain forever throbbing, the
shoulders forever dropping, the loins for.
ever aching, aud the restless mind for
ever scheming
Think of tho beauty it would sfface
of the merry-heartedncss il would ex
tinguish of the giant strength that i,
would tame Of the resources of nature
that it would exhaust Of the aspiration
it would crush of the sickness it would
breed of the projects il would wreck
of the groans it would extort of the
lives 1t would immediate; and of tn,
eheerless graves that il would prema
turely dig See them. toiling and moil
ing sweating and fretting, grinding apd
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NUMBER 40:
elimes, If hungry, thirsty, kt.. cold or
sick, woman has stcf been Tiendly to
me, most uniformly 50. [LSdjsSd

|. KossuTh &PfNats lsiters received
by the Eutops from Gov Kossuth;
state that he was hstueed tS postpone
his departure for ConstahthStie ,which
had been positively fixed fot the 236
of December, by the necessity Of some
further preparations. lie states ex-
plicitly, however, that he has been in-
rited to Turkey by the Govrnment.
and adds that provision viii be made
to transport thither from the United
States all the Hungarians who proved
themselves good soldiers in their war
for independence, and who may desire
to go. Lord Dudley Stuart is in Con.
otantinople, endeavoring to persuadsr
tho Sultan to authorize the formation
Of regiment composed Of Polish exS
iles.-N. Y. Times.
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u
The Deserted House.
ny ALFRED TENN YsoH.

ny ALFRED ENNYsoH.
Life and thought have gone away
Side by side,
Leaving door and windows wide:
Careless tenants they!
All within is dark as night,
In the windows is no light;
And no murmur at the door,
So frequent on its hinge before.
Close the door, that shutter close,
Or through the windows we shall sec
The nakedncss and vacancy
OF the dark deserted house.
Come away no more of mirth
Is here, or mcrry-making sound,
The house was builded of the earth,
And shall fall again to ground.
Come for life and thought
Here no longer dwell;
But in n city glorious
A great and dist ant cty-havc bought
mansion incorruptiblc
Would they could have staid with us
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-25

THE MosQuITo CoLoNr-Conccrnibg
this project, of which we lately had
something to say, Senator Cass, in are
cent speech, said :
see it is reported tina, an American
company has purchased large portion
Of the Mosquito country from the lndian
chief; and some of the journals Of the
day make it subject of congratulation,
under the expectation that it will re-
move much of the existing embarrass.
men.. know nothing Of the alleged
purchase, nor of the purchasers; but
such measure, in my opinion, would in
crease the difficulties instead Of dimin-
ishug them, by adding a new and seri-
Gus element OF trouble What right
have American citizens to purchase land
of an Indian chief living within the ter
ritories of n civilized nation2 Our
Government has demonstrated with that
of England for the exercise Of its power
over these Indians, by which the States
Of Central America have been kept from
the enjoyment of the right assured to
them by the established principles ofthe
law of nations, the control Of the abor'
iginal tribes living within their tcrritori-
al limits
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-25
JUsTUs COBB, Publisher,
BY whom all kinds of Book and Job Print
tEg will be done on favorable terms.
Law of Newspapers,


I. Subscribers vito d. not give express no
tice to the contrary, Arc considered as wishing
TO continue their subscription,
II. II subscribers order the dscon''auanct
Of their papers, the publisher may continue tC
send them till all that is due be paid.
III. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the Office to which they arc
directed, they are held responsible till they
have settled their bills and ordered their pa
pers discontinued.
". If subscribers move to other places
without informing the publisher, and the pa
per is sent to the former direction, they are
held responsible.
" The courts have decided that refusing
to take $ paper from the office, or removing
and leaving it uncallcd for, is prima facie cvi-
dcnce of intentional fraud.
VI. A Postmaster ncglccting TO inform a
publisher when his paper is not taken from
the office, makes himself liable for his sub
cription price
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FOR SAIsE!

n Z of the best farms in the County Of
~ Addison, containing 205 acres Situated
II miie north from the centre Of Whiting, 4
miles from r. r. Depot, and near 4 School.
The farm is well watcrcd and fenced, has \
large quantity of fruit trees, such us apple.
pear and plum. The out buildings are in
good rcpair,-the house ia two stories high,
with wing and woodshed attached. The
sol is clay and loan. and well adapted to
keeping cattle and sheep, or raising grain.
Said farm will be sold low should buyer
come soon. Enquire of AT ELLSWORTH.
Whiting, Oct. %; 1853 21tt
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hewing, weaving and spinning, sowing
and gathering, moving and reaping. raz.
ing and building. digging and planting
unloading and storing, striving and strug.
gling-in the garden and in the field, in
the granary and in the barn.in the factory
and in the mill, in the warehouse and in
the shop, on the mountain and in the
ditch, on the roadside and in the wood
in the city and in tho country, on the
sea and on the shore, on the earth, in
days of brightness and of gloom. What
sad picture would the world present If
we had no Sabbath
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Farm For Sale.

THE Subscriber offers for sale his Home
Il Lot, also, his Farming Tools, If desired
There is = new Framed House, 26 by Sc, two
Barns, the same size, an abundance Of pure
water Also, an excellent young orchard al
graft fruit Also, 400 acres of located land
Will the timber all on the land. All the a
bovc property will be sold low, and pay
day given if required fer part.
JAMES MILES.
Ripton, Nov %, 1853. 32-tf
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vrRxosI Horsrs Tho Springfield
Republican, says -" One Of the results
Of the Horse SHOW Il nsnspirsd the oth-
or day. 10 q call upou one Of ths Sscse =
tariss by sone geutlewsn from Western
Pennsylvsnis, Who wore seeking to pus-
chase . superior Morgan or Black Hawk
stoek.horsc. They were wiling to pay
Us high ss $4,000 for such ~ suiuA -
they wsatsd The Secretary peipted
them to~srds, vsrpest - tAs ~ ASsd
for their selsotiop.r .-
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woNus y. Mes. Women in all
countries are civil, obligiug, tender aud
humane they are ever inclined to be
gay and cheerful, timorous and prudent
and they do not hesitate like men, to
perform q generous action moro liable
perhaps, to err than mon, but in general
more disintOrested. moro virtuous aud
performing more good actions than wcu
In my extensive wandering in foreign
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-25

Foor.Ror IN SHEEr.-Therc has been
much said lately Of the footrot in sheer:
As I have had il in my dock and effected
q cure BY a simple method, l will state
it for the benefit Of your readers. I pt.
salt between the hoofs aud rubbed thsur
together until they were quite ohafsd
and ibsn put plenty Of salt between tho
hoofs. and the cure was certain. ! have
told some Of my friends, aud they have
tried th< plan With the same suecess-
" MoncAS ,n Wool Gyotoey.
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r- The death of thu oueen of p,

EE The death of the queen of Por-
tugal singularly vcri6os a dream which
her Majesty Queen Victoria was said to
have had last January, and which had
rendered her extremely uneasy. 1t was
to the effect that there would be oold
spring. wet summer. fine autumn and
a dead Queen.
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An IMPRovEM.Nr-The Russian ar
my boasts of 'Prince Siirby." We
think it would be IN improvement, aud
only just compliment to the aggrossive
spirit OF the Russians, to call him
prince Disturbyn-Puack
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FLlEs-" My dear fellow" said Beau
Hickman to waiter in hotel, Il have
respect for fies indeed, may say, I
am fond Of fies---but ] like to have
them and my milk iu separate glasses
they mix so much better when you have
control Of both ingredients