The North-Carolinian., 1855-03-10
NORTH CAROLINIAN.
Too BAD !-..T0o Dad!!
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| Too Bad :---Too Bad!!
In one of Mr. Rayner's letters, published i,
the American Organ, and copied in the Raleigh
Star, he says:
"Bad as the Mormons are-and no one
thinks worse Of them than / do-they are not
as bad as the Roman Catholics Horrid as are
their superstitons. they are not shocking as
those of the Romansts-not so revolving to
reason, to mortality, or to decency."
! Can it be possible that snch language as this
! emanatcd from MIR Rayner? Does that gentle
man believe it to be true? Will he, after ma
| ture reflection, re-assert it? The Church OF
CASTOR as depraved nay worse than the Nor
mon OrganiZa ation?-worse than a den ofthieves
| polygamists, and murderers?--worse than the
vile establishment of Joe Smith and Brigham
Young, which is, of all frauds and impostures,
| the most consumate and blasphemous known
among men since the days of the prophet NJ O.
hammed! Can it be credited that such men as
Lafayette, and Charles Carroll, and William
Castor, born and raised they were in that
Church, could have lived and died in ignorance
of the existence of this depravity and corruption
charged by Mr. Rayner! Or if informed of
| it, will any one believe that Mey would
have concealed it and continued Catholics?
These are plain questions; who will answer
the:n!-Stamdard.
Ice AN ASEsrHEs1A.-Thomas Wakely,
editor we believe, of the London Lancet,
| writes to the London Illustrated News:
The experience of the past few weeks has
proved to my complete conviction that local
| anaesthesa he obtained by the benumbing
influence of ice, without resorting TO the admin
istraton of chloroform, which, by its subtle
power, renders insensible the system generally,
and occasionally produces those fatal effects to
| which almost every surgeon can bear testimony.
have tried the. ice in several cases. in both
hospital and private practice, and in almost
every instance the evident, the
patient, when blndfoldcd, being ignorant of
the use of the knife.
WORTHY OF NorICE.-It is fact worthy Of
| notice (says the New York Journal of Com
mercc) that, although fifteen senators have been
elected since the Nebraska bill was under
dcussion in Congress, and nearly or quite all
of them since its passage-viz: one in Arkansas
one in Connecticut, in Florida, one in
Illinois, one (clGimed to he elected) in Iowa,
one in Louisiana, one in Massachusetts, one in
Maryland, one in y. York, two in \. Carolina
in South Carolina, one in Ohio, one in
Vermont, and one in Wisconsin-yet out of
the whole number only one anti Nebraska man
(Trumbull, of lllinois) succeeds Nebraska
man, two if we consider Mr.. Harlan, of Iowa
elected, "a majority of the Iowa senate having
signed protest declaring him not elected }
while on the other hand. one Nebraska nator
Pugh, of Ohio, succeeds Chase freesoil anti
Nebraska man. There are seven vacancies still
existing in the new Senate, whose constitutional
existence commences on the 4th of March
viz: from Pennsylvania, one from Indiana
one from California, from Missouri, two
from New Hampshire, and one from Alabama.
HoS. THOMAS II. BENroN.-The Washing
ton Globe, after noticing the destruction of
Col. Bcntou's house by fire, says:
Eve think it worthy of note to write down
that Col. Benton for few minutes at
IL quarter past ten o'clock last night when he
was about sitting down to rewrite for this morn
ing's Globe the speech which he made the day v
before yesterday on the presentation of Gen.
Jackson's sword to Congress, which he had re-
| vscd, but had returned to our Office a part
only: the balance he had left in his Office and
it was burnt He said he had it all in his head
and it should come out before he slept
1--WE asked him if his house was insured, and
he replied, nearly as can recollect, as fol-
lows: No, it not insured but care nothing
about that; insurance could not have saved all
that l considered valuablc-tbe bed on which
my wife died, which l sleep; her Clothes
which were in a trunk setting at the head of it );
the articles which she priced most, around it
the last things at night, and the first in
the morning-and the papers in the adioin-
ing room, many of which cannot be supplied
But what / shall most feel-more than | now
do-wil be the loss of the memorials of my
wife, whose body, still above ground, it will be
my first care to remove to ST. Louis when re-
leased from Congress, to i.e buried in the place
in which had collected the remains of my dead
my mother, children, grandchildren, sister
! to take the place by their side which she aud l
had marked out for ourselves
1--WE then asked him the condition of his
pecuniary affairs, and what he thought would
be the Judgment of the Supreme Court in the
case of Fremont and the United States relative
to the Mariposa tract of land in California !?
He answered.: / have enough to live on. /
have paid no attention to the suit about the
Mariposa land. Cool and sensible men, who
heard the arguments in the case, tell me they
think Justice and law are on the side of Ere
mont.
ANNUAL RISING OF RIyERs.-The Nile begins
to rise in June, and attains "a to % feet Of
elevation in the middle Of August, and then
| foods the valley of Egypt, IL miles wide. The
Ganges rises from April to August 80 feet, and
then creates food 100 miles wide. The
Euphrates rises between March and June IL
feet, and covers the Babylonian plains.
MARRYING ACROSS a RIVERA correspondent
of the Staunton Spectator states that the Rev
NJ. Brown, of Bath county, Virginia, married a
| couple few days since across river-that is,
the parson was one side and the bride groom
and his dnlcipea nm the other This v,nda ~ g