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Iune %. 1859.
MTHE SPECTATOR"

AwEEKLY Journal PUBLISHED AT wAsHIEGToN CITY.
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o! June ext in the City OF Washington, the publ
cation Of weekly newspaper to be called the Spectator
DESIGNED general circulation among the people of the
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tbs news of the Y, foreign and domestic; weekly
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legislatures and of party conventions interesting mis-
cellancous and scientific matter articles agriculture;
together with original articles upon the leading topics OF
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erators of the Executive Departments OF the Govern.
cnt together with the weekly list Of new patents will
be found IN its columns. large portion of It's space
will be devoted light literature, original and selected.
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,r portuuties always to procure tho latest inlorha
ton on public ff.irs. ~. ~
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Spectator acceptable visitor TO every house IN the
Union and il will therefore any occasion
the position of partizan paper, nor wan II owe any
allegiance men but entertaining fixed and decided
views on questions of political economy and upon
system Of government, it VIII disseminate and promnl
gate them as occasion may rcqu1re-always keeping
carefully III view interests OF the country. gr0vjHg
out Of kreign as well as domestic Affairs.
The Spectator will be printed in qnaro form on good
papcr and new type; each number ming eight pa
pes Of matter making volume annually OF 4l6 pages
Each volume will be accompanied by full and COM
pete index OF Its contents thus making u most Vaua
bic paper for preservation and reference II will be
pubshed every Saturday morning, at ~ per annum,
bic always in advance Nopaper viii be continued
beyond the time for. which II "a paid -
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should be addressed the undersigned ut Washington,
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Washington City, May %, 1855. 43-
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NEW BOOKS FOR SALE
At
IOWRIE AND ENNISS'S BOOk SIORE.

Lille S,ve of the lamp Poshumous Novel, by WI.
| lam North Incrnue or the first days of the Blood
IA hirxandcr Dumas. TransI lted from the original
manuscript.
Fashion and Fancies, by Mrs. Stephens.
TIC Maroon. a legend of the Carrbbccs. and other
tales by w. Gilmore Simms. >,
The Castle Builders by the author Of IeaTisca Sc
.Tbe Ola Inn or The Trav,l rrS Entertainment, by
Josiah Barnes, sen.
The above arc all the very latest and most popular
novels of the Gay. u,,,
stock of stationary every kind and are constantly re,
ewing all the new books that being published and
books that We have not got, VIC can get Oh Inc sho'eS
notice. a. -
June %, 1855. &c"
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State of North Gan OIina,
MEcKLENB,-EG COUNTY.

MECKLENBURG COUNTY.
Superior Court OF Law-Spring Term, 1855.
RcbecCa A. Alexander,
vs.. Petition for Divorce.
W. +. Alexander.
IT appearing the satisfaction of the Court, that W.
L +. Alexander, the defendant in this resides
beyoRd the limits of this State 1t is therefore ordered
by the Court that advertisement be made IN the ives
tern Democ for three months, notifying the SAID
defendant of the filing of this petition, and that unless
ne appears the Term of this Court, to be he
for the county of Mecklenburg, at the Courthouse IN
September next, and answer said petition, the SAID
will be taken pro confesso and heard ex PaTte as 10
hm.
Witness Jennings s. Kerr, Clerk of our said Court
at oslce, the 18th Monday, after the 4th Monday IN
March, A. D., 1855.
J. 3. KERR, &. NJ. $. c.
july 90, 1855. (Pr's fee SIO.) 52-3m
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a GREAT DISCOVERY.

rI,HE PEOPLE generally have conceded the fact that
| W w Waddell & Co.'S Lightning Rods is the only
oro nrotector from that dangerous element that now
exIst The premium awarded to them both IN
ondon and New York. at the Worlds Fair. the points
are constructed SO as attract from distance, and
coInnosed of compound of Copper and Silver, with
nIatnua points, which is warranted not to eorrode'
the prepared TO furnish Gall persons who
nav ish the protection of their lives and property
with the above Rods and put tbs up all complete, at
the shortest possible notice. ,,s.
" ~ j. F.. l.. PHELAN & co.
1.o 90 ,e5, 49-tf
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
STANLY COUNTY.

Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions-Mny Term, 1855
': Y%e w I his s As%s Petition for Settlement
Sophiah Little, Olmstcad Little, Lorenzo NJ. Lit
tie Mary f. Long, james E. Love and wife Narcissa,
lanes Nj Iunny and wife CIarinda, Isreal Little,
james Little John Alexander Little, VIM. a. Little and
Martha Little.
Ii appears to the satisfaction OF the Court that Lorenzo M
Little one of the defendants in this inhabtat
of this State. ordered that publication be made IN the
Charlotte Democrat for six weeks notifying the said Lorenzo
TO be held for the county of Stanly, the Court House in
AbemarIe on the second Monday in August next then and
there TO plead answer denur the SAID Petition or the
same taken poconlesso him ard hSad "f 1Tte
Witness Richard HaTs Ce OF oar sad Seut At once
merrcan Independence the 19t year.
Issued the 18th day of June, 1855. 49,
June 22-48.Gw PRS lee Sb) X. HAKE<l>, ClefK.
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State Of North Carolina.

Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions-April Term 1855
Sarah Ann !:: s''''' Petition. ,,, Dover,
The Real Estate of john
Sharpe, dccea scd.
4 appearing the satisfaction of the Court that An
| drew Sharpe, Azariah Sharpe. James Scott and
children M Of this State, but reside be-
vond the limits of the same: 1t is therefore ordered
and adudged that publication be made for six weeks III
the "W Democrat" newspaper published IN the
town of Charlotte notifying said defendants to be and
appear the Court of Pens and Quarter Sessions,
be held for the Co nty OF Meckenlurg at the Court
House in Charlotte, the 4th Monday in July next,
then and there Ike themselves defendants and To
plead dcmur to this petition, or the same
will be taken pro conesso them, and set tor
Witness, w. X. Reid Clerk of our said Court at Of
flee in Charlotte, the 18th Monday i'll April, 1853, and
in the 10Th year OK a american lndc pcndcncc.
w. X. REID C. C. c.
Nav 49, 1855. (Printcr's Fec So CIV.
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MSTTR ASSES.

.tisiE undersigned is manufacturing MAI tKA0-
Il SIS in a very superior manner. He has large lot
of various sizes on hand and will make any to
Ear on xEort notice w. ". QUIN.
Charlotte, july 90, 1855. 32-5"
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FLORIDA LAND AGENCY.
Charlotte, July II, 1855.

THE undersigned has established an agency IN The
| town of Alligator, Columbia County, Fla, Tor the
sale or location OF Land Warrants, the Pur
chase and SAFE lands generally Improved and unin,
nroved The fact now being established that Kan
Road is to be constructed immediately connecting the
Atlantis and Gulf of Mexico running through the entire
length of the county, East and West, anc IN we" OF
the great fertility SOIL the unusually fine grown
of nine timber on land, the heathu ness OF The
climate and the reasonable terms on which anus can
now be obtained, there is perhaps no section OF Inc
Union which affords equai inducements TO tn emlgrant
tron the older States Having had some experience IN
farming on the different kinds OF land, and acquired
general knowed OF them throughout the county ana
Having acquired unusual facilities for pointing OUT sue
as are for sale either of public private lands ne
fools verv confident of making it the interest OF all
nersons wishing inform alton, who may have deter
mined TO settle in Florida TO call on him.
w. o. JEFFRE1S.
References.
Hon E. G. CABEL.
Hon. A. E. MAXWELL Tallahassee, Fla.
Hon. d. S. WALKER,
State Register.
H. Il. 6 : H &c. Rx,ssI ESQ Carthage, NC.
Rev Re- S g. meNr'rr' Fayetteville, NC.
MEssRs. w. NJ. LAwroN & Co., Charleston 5. e.
Alligator, Fla, June 20, 1885. 49.ly
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- - E1I S9AA.
THESE BITTERS are purely Vegetable Compound,
and are offered the public under the fullest con-
viction that they will be found safe and sovereign
RENE V for Dyspepsia.
They have trump hantly tested not only by nu-
merous families and physicians IN the South, who
have furnished pie testimony to their decided ex
celence but by the Proprietor, who for ten years.
suffered all the gloom incident to that stubborn and
distressing disease. -...:
81 do hereby certify that | have known and used
vour celebrated compound C0LLETON BlTTERS in
nv family for than fifteen years, and do verify
believe it to be of the most valuable Family and
Plantation Medicines in use, having witnessed their
beneficial effects IN many instances that with truth
il NAV be affirmed they we'll deserve the high eHco-
niums which they have received from the afflicted who
have partaken their inv goratng and health resto-
ring properties ,r,c
Signed, CHARLES u. CAfEhS,
Planter, St. Helena, S. G.
The igned, sole agents for the above MedI-
cines take pleasure in stating that they Intimate
" acquainted with the manufacture OF the Colieton
Bittprs hence they do hesitate to commend the
article as possessing virtues, and well calculated
to afford relief in - .
DYSPEPSIA AND ITS KINDRED DISEASES.
Retail price, so cents a Bottle!
For which sum incaculable amount of suffering
NAV be arrested. The trade VIII be supplied lIbe-
raj terms. HAVlLAND, HARRAL CO,
Druggists, Charleston, S. C.
L-TL,s Medicine can be obtained of Scarr 4 Co.,
Charlotte Reid GreiI, Fullwood and other respecta'
bile Druggists and Merchants throughout the State
Feb 16, 1855. oo-ly
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SPARTANBURG FEMALE COLLEGE.

FUCULTY.
T WOFFORD TUCKER, Esq, President ana ProieS'
j sor of English Literature, etc.
REV. SAMUEL B. JONES, Professor OF Mathematics
NV --~ Professor of Ancient Languages
MISS PHOEBE PAINE, Modern Languages, and AS
sistant in English Department.
MR.. WILLIAM SCHERZER, Professor OF MUSIC
COURSE OF STUDY.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
READING Writing Ar thmetic, English Grammar and
Geography.
COLLEGIATE COURSE.
First Class-EngIish Grammar Gsyewea nTath1
metc continued Geography, (wltn MAPS, cohlhue""
Gu lines Of History, English Composition
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Rhetoric Logic, Composition, (contnuedO Botany
ALGEBRA History, (continued) Latln' (commehceu.)
JUNIOR CLASS.
u;storv Continued, Latin, (continued) Geometry
Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Moral FhilosoPny.
SENIOR CLASS.
Tr;eonometry. with its appcations,) Latin, econ
tinuedl French Astronomy, Mental Philosophy, EVIL
in English Composition and Analysis,
continued through the whole course.
TUITION FEES occidental ExrENbEs
Tn tion for College course proper embracing all The
studies enumerated, per Term OF one Sch0ias Sto nN
pa able half yearly in advaDce, @f' W
MUSIC EXTRA, PER OF ONE YEAR
Guitar, m
Use of Piano, IN
| Primary Department per Term OF one year, - ~
payable as above, i;o.io, NJ III.
Officers of the INSTITUTION per month Including an ex
nenses of Lights Fuel Washing, Attention, &c Si%Vo'
| navable at the end of each hal: year.
Text Books be furnished, If desired, al cost pr
| 49, e.,
0y- The above includes all charges. No other tees'
ordinary or extraordinary, will be charged for any OF
| all the branches emu nerated. =,
This Institution will into operation on the ouFh
Wednesday in AUGUST anh close its first eTnl
the fourth Wednesday in DECEMBER. Noh-rsslu'h ~
pmns Wi he required to boar G on the Campus, except
in specal class of cases provided for by resolution
| III m q, - S. BOBO,
| President of the Board Of Trustees.
| J. WILSON, Secretary. az
! July l3. "'~"
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Selling Off at Cost =!

HAVE bought the entire Stock of GOODS of ALI
son & Daniel and will sell tie first cost for
The stock is large and well selected, embracing a
fine assortment of
Ladies' and GentIemen's fress Goods,
Window Curtains,
arPetlng S, CO., Coo
G.. L. SPRATT.
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lA GS GASOS
VIII attend at the Court House in Charlotte on
| Saturday of each week during the month OF July,
for the purpose of taking The of all taxable
pery in said Town and Beat all lndvI duss or persons
J. P. ROSS, J. P.
June 90, 1855. 49-4w
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p-obabIe RevOlt i'm Russia.

WASHINGTON, July IS.
Letter, from ST. Petersburg state that great
Es,fccrion exists in Russia against the Imperial
Government that it is probable revolt will soon
ur, and an attempt made TO place the Grand
hike Constantine upon The throne,
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IN Withdrawing f-om the Mercantile profession,
| would express thanks my patrons for the almost
anyarYing Kindness which they have exhibited and
the earnest desire that prosperity and happiness may
-2itrnd them.
(rhouh not engaged in business, shall be pl .ased
"a see my friends at my old stand.
DAVID PA KS.
iIl- 20, 1855. 62-SW
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3lruu q0urrtiGrnlrlltG.
TO TEsE PUBLIC.

ETHE Partnership heretofore existing under the name
OF Parks Il Hutchinson has expired.
Che notes and accounts due Parks Hutchinson are
placed in the hands OF T. Nye Hutchinson for settlement
PARKS x UTIHISON.
July 30, 1855. 52-3W
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HUGH L. FINLEY & CO.,

(sUCCEssoRs TO TINLEY HERRoN,)
RECEIVING AND FORWARDING AGENTS. AND GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
No. Exchange Street, South Atlantic lThaTrCs,
Charleston, So. Ca.
n I'VE their personal attention 10 the sale 81 Cotton
customary, by special contract, all other kinds
of Produce and make prompt Ieturns
of the same for 25per cent. commission.
We will CONTINUE, as heretofore, to give our spe
cial attention the Receiving and Forwarding of all
goods consigned to us, for 10 CENTS per package.
Machinery, large packages OF Furniture, &c, charged
in proportion trouble and responsibility for advancing
freights and charges, 81 per cent.
0y Persons shipping Goods or Produce through this
house. may rely upon their interest being fOSlIINELf
PROTECTED, both against oNerchorge and loss OF
goods. ~.
We have in no instance will we detain any goods
for freig hit and charges.
We would respectfully beg leave to refer TO the fol-
lowing gentlemen, with whom have had business
transactions:
John Caldwell, President Of the S. C. r. r., Column
ba. ..--. -. !. -.
U. Passaaigue, Superintendent of Public Works Col
umbia.
F. w McMaster, Librarian of S. c. College, Column
ba.
P.W. Fuller, Columbia.
John King, Jr, S. G. r. r. Agent, Charleston.
Henry Missroon Agent Of New York Steamers,
Holmes & Stoney agents Of New York Sailing Pack
cts
HF Baker & Co, Agents Of Baltimore and Phiia-
delphia Sailing Packets. ..r.
j. w. Caldwell, Agent of Baltimore Steamers ana
Boston Sailing Packets.
july 10, 1855 Oily
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Charleston Market.

CHARLESTON, July 16.
Sales today OF 204 bales of cotton, at Il a liz
cents. Prices were nominal. but The demand was
limited
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New Orleans Market.

NEW ORLEANS, July IS.
Cotton declined cent under the Influence OF
the ARGOS news, in qualities under middIing.
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New York Market.

New YORK, July II.
Cotton is unsettled. Flour is a tri1e lower
Good Ohio So Sc S956. Corn is unchanged,
with limited demand at 81 cents.
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HENRY VERNON,
THE DFEAN MI
RI.a. GEORGI.f.E..

TEIE DREAM
BY. Il. GEORGE.a.E.
THIS is the title of Romance in process Of COM
| pletlon, which will be issued in two numbers on the
in the United States England and Spain. The work
will be printed pure white paper with new type and
will equal in quantity of matter ordinary sized Duo
decline volume of 300 pages. 1t will be promptly
issued and forwarded to all who will send their orders
accompanied with the cash.
Terms
Single Copy, 1.-TWO Numbers,l 50 IS
To lubs of more, [per copy] 3o
Remlttances mast be made bills Or change, an dho
in Post-Offce Stamps.
Address JAMES NJ. SMYTHE,
June 29-49,ft Augusta, Ga.
Office
TNHE Co heretofore existing between the
| subscribers, under the firm o. El'MS " JOHN
SON is this dav dissolved by mutual consent. CLAIR
ENCE JOHNSON alone will sign the name of the firm
!" ny rSirncd, w w. FINS,
c. JOHNSON.
Charleston, S. c., june IL, 1855.
,I,IIE subscriber will continue the COMMISSION
| AND FORWARDING BUSINESS. as heretofore,
on his own account persons indebted to the above
will please make payment at once. -
(Sgned) g. JOHNSON.
Charleston. June II 1855.
r TAKE great pleasure, retiring from the firm OF
| ELMS & JOHNSON, in recommending my late
partner Mr.. c JOHNSON, to the favorable notice and
patronage of my friends and the community.
(Sgncd5 W. W. ELMs.
Charleston, June II 1858. 4o-4w
The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-12-27
THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE RE.
PUBLICAN PARTY.

The Republican party is now organized in
all the Free States, and there is reason to be-
lieve that 1t has numerous most respectable ad-
herents In several slave States, and that three
or four States south of Mason and Dixon's line
will be represented in its National Convention.
An effort must soon be made to secure an eff
Gent and perfect National Organization. To
attain this object, an informal National Mass
Convention has been suggested, to be held at
Pittsburgh, on the 22d day of February next
This proposal has met with much favor since it
has been preached, but to make the matter GER.
tain, and to secure harmonious action, it is i'm
portant for the Republican press to give expires
sion, as soon as possible, to the opinion of their
several localities. AS soon as this is done, ac-
ton will be taken to issue cali in some official
form. The suggestion of the time and place
mas made by leading Republicans of Ohio, and
the Republican Committee in this county has
agreed to attend to all preliminaries, as to a
hall for the meeting, &c. For ourselves, we are
ready to agree to any place, or any time, SO that
the meeting is not too long delayed. The Dem
ocrats and the Americans have already taken
the initial steps for calling their National Con-
ventions, and it is high time that the Republi-
cans were preparing for the contest next year.
The object of the informal Convention referred
to would be for the interchange of opinion, and
the appointment of a committee to call a Ma
tlonal Convention at such time and place as
shall be agreed Upon for the nomination of Pres
ident and Vice President VIII the Republican
press attend to this suggestion without delay?
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From the Salem Ohio Republican
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.

The Pittsburgh Gazette, of the Sth instant.
urges the call of a Republican ConUentioa. to
be held at Pittsburgh or some other point, if
desired, on the 22d of February next, for the
purpose OF interchapging opinions, and the ap-
polntment OF committee to call National
Convention at such time and place as shall be
agreed upon, for the nomination of President
and Vice President, and also to more perma.
nently form the Republican party into a Aa-
ttOIIdt organization. This should be done. and
probably more accessible point than Pitts
burgh cannot be named, and certainly a more
appropriate time than the birthday of George
Washington could not be selected.
1t is glaringy evident, land we are sorry to
believe it, from the present state of affairs,
that in 1856 there must be three Presidential
candidates in the field. The Old Line, Pro-
Slavery, Nebraska Democracy, have already
taken the preparatory steps for calling their
National Convention, which will be held, some
time ear y in the spring, at Cincinnati AS to
what their action on the Slavery question will
be, everybody knows beforehand.
The American party are also making ar.
engagements for National Convention, 10 be
held ct Philadelphia on the 18th of February.
1856. And, if coming events cast their shad
ows before" it will not be hard, at all, to di.
vine what their course will be, in reference to
the peculiar institution" That they are will
ing, aye, anxious, to go into Convention with
the Order in the South, and abiding 6y the
action Of the Convention, is very evident from
the Philadelphia and Cincinnati Conventions.
held in June and November last. No one. Ger.
tainly, is so presumptuous as to think, for a
moment, that the South will accept platform
that is not Pro Slavery all over. A mere hint
at the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. or a
disapprobation of the Kansas Nebraska bill.
will be sufficient to prevent harmonious action.
The North or the South must yield, and which
will be the servile, the adoption of the 18th res
olution at the Philadelphia Convention, and
the rejection Of the Hminority report " at the
Cincinnati Convention, have already determin.
ed.
The duty of the Republican party is there
fore plainly marked out. Let them not evade
it. Let them boldly and fearlessly meet the is
sue, and without delay organize for the con-
test. In every free State in the Union, and in
several of the slave States, the Republicans, if
they have not majority, have at least a very
large and influential vote. That vote should
not be compromised. The interests of Free
dom now demand that its friends should show
their strength. To do this, regular organiza
ton must be had, and platform adopted on
which every true lover Of American Liberty,
and hater of American despotism, can stand,
shoulder to shoulder, in defence of his constitu.
tional rights. Thus organized, the Republican
party would be invincible, and Pro-Slavery,
Shannon, and Pierce Democracy, north of Ma.
son and Dixon's line, annihilated,