The North-Carolinian., 1856-03-08
Anecdotes OF Ayariea.

My Lord Hardwich the late Lord Chance1-
lor, who is said to be worth ( $500, 900, sets the
same value on half a crown as he did when
he was worth only 4IOO That great captain,
tho Duke of Marlborough, when he was in the
last stage of life and very inirm would walk
from the public room in Bath to his lodgings,
on cold dark night to save sixpence in chair
hire. If the duke, who left at his death more
than million and half sterling, could have
forescen that all his wealth aud honors were to
be Inherited by a grandson Of my Lord Trevors,
who had been one of his enemies, would he have
been so careful to save a.sixpence for the sake
:, "A sssssi ! sixpence.
sslr james Lowther, after changing piece oi
pence for his dish of coffee, was helped into his
chariot (for the lame and infrm) and went
home; sometime after, he returned to the same
coffee house on purpose to acquaint the woman
who kept it that she had given him a bad half
penny and demanded another in exchange for
it. Sir James had about $40, 900 per annum.
and at Il loss who to appoint his heir T
know one Sir Thomas Colby, who lived in
Kcnsington, and was, l think, commissioner
in the Victualing Office; he killed himself by
rising in the middle of the night, when he was
in very profuse sweat the effect of medicine
which he had taken for that purpose, and walk
ing down stairs to look for the key of his cellar
which he had inadvertently left on Il table in
his parIor; he was apprehensve that his servants
might seize the key and rob him of bottle of
port wine This man died intestate and left
more than 9l 200, 900 in the funds, which were
shared among five six day laborers, who
his nearest relations.
Sir William Smythe, of Bedfordshrc, who
my kinsman, when he was seventy,
was wholly deprived of his sight; he was per
sua,led to be couched 10y Taylor, the ocuIist
who by agreement, was to have sixty guineas
if he restored his patient to any degree of sight.
Taylor succeeded in his operation and Sir
William able to read and write without
the of spectaces during the rest Of his
life; but the operation performed,
and Sir William the good effect of it, in
stead of being overjoyed, as any other person
would have been, he began to lament the loss
Gas he called it) Of his sixty guineas. His
contrvance, therefore, was how to cheat the
ocuist; he pretended that he had only "a glim-
mcring and could not anything perfectly;
for that reason the bandage on his eve was
continued month longer than the usual time
BY this he obliged Taylor to compound
the bargain, and accept of twenty guineas; for
covetous man thinks no method dishonest
which he may legally practice to his
money.-DS hlng's dnecdoles Of his Oaon Times.
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NEGRO "ABsoRPTIoN" 1T is frequently
charged against the South that mnIattoism is
carried on there to fearful extent. Indeed
the Tribune has had both the ignorance and
audacity to declare that the time will probably
come when all will be white The following,
from the Concord Patriot will, however, make
them scratch their heads:-
The of 1850 shows that while more
than one-fourth of the colorcd people of the
North are mulattoes, only one-thrteenth of the
slave population mulattoes! Among the
3,2O4,3l slaves, 246, ,G56 were mulattocs, or
had more or less white blood; while of the 1885,
900 coored people Of the free states over
$500 are muIattoes! In Ohio more than half
of the colored population are mulattoes, or over
$4,000 out of $4,000 In Indiana, about 90
per cent are muattoes; in Wisconsin and Iowa,
over 81 per cent; in Illinois, over s5 per cent;
in Michigan, rs per cent; in New Hampshire,
81 per cent; in Maine, 81 per cent. in
Pennsylvania and Vermont, 40 per cent in
Massachusetts, "a per cent; in Connecticut,
80 per cent. in Rhode Island, "a per cent; in
New York, 10 per cent; and in New jersey,
IS per cent; while in only one slave State do
the mnlattoes form 16 per cent. of the whole
number Of slaves, and in only three do they
amount to 10 per cent.
Now it seems to that if it is a disgrace to
the South that they have carried out Mr. Banks
absorption theory to such an extent that
one-thirteenth of their slaves have white blood
in their veins, it is still greater disgrace to the
Northern people that they have applied the
same theory SO far that more than quarter
of the negroes among them are part white. And
we say further that those among whom this
Infamous anal gamaton theory is SO extensively
applied, and who justify it as do the black
republicans in their defence and support OF Mr.
Banks, only add to their shame by constantly
talking about the sin of the Southern people in
this particular
THE Masonic GRIP-At the recent festival
of the Provincial Grand Lodge at Glasgow
Sir Archibald Allison, the historian mentioned
| that during the assault the Redan small
party of soldiers, led up to one of the guns
placed III recess, were received by body of
Russians, and the English officer was about to
he bayoneted when, CHANGING to catch the hand
| OF the Russian officer, he had presence Of mind
enough to give him masonic grip. The Rus
| sian III a moment struck mp the bayonet of his
soldier, led his newl y-found brother to the rear.
aud treated him with all the kindness Of q
| mason
| A Mls'ABLE NIGGER.-My friend asked A n
| thony Rox, superb engine driver on the Ohio
River, how he came to get free?
! "Why, Massa Vincent, my health was very
bad when / was in Kentucky; / could not DO
no kind of work; was jcs as nInch as could 40
to hoe my own garden and eat the sass; ana
| the mssus that owned me see that was a
mis'able nigger-one of the mis'ablest kind. 90
7 said to her-'Missus I'm a misabie hiSSc,
4 and amt worth nothing, and thhh you,
better sell me, Pm such a mis- aoie h'e9ei
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