The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-25

Salvador, Costa RIGA, Guatemala and Hon
duras. 1t is said that the alliance is COM
plctcd, and that those States are now pre-
pared to defend their own territory as well
as go to assist their brethren in Nicaragua
against Walkers government. 1t Is sup
posed that hostilities were already COM
menced. 1t is also true that instructions
have been issued by several European gov
ernments to their squadrons i'll the Atlantic
and Pacific, with reference to events in
Central America.
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WALKER 'DIsHONORED.'-The Journal
of Commerce states that draft for S4,OoO,
being twenty dollars toll levied by Walker
upon each passenger who came over the
Nicaragua Transit route, on the last trip,
has been presented at the office of the COM
pany in New York city, where acceptance
was refused.
FOREIGN SILVER COIN.-The Finance
Committee of the United States Senate have
matured project designed to lead to the
gradual abandonment and ultimate rejection
of the small Spanish silver coins as part of
the circulating medium. The result of the
experiments to ascertain the value of the
Spanish sixteenth, eighth, and quarter of a
dollar. is reported to the committee as in
dicating the first to be worth fraction over
five cents, the second about eleven, and the
quarter between twenty-three and twenty
four cents. The bill allows them to be
circulated for two years at the rate of 5, 10
and 20 cents respectively, and thereafter
they are to be excluded altogether from
circulation. But at the mint they will be
at all times received as bullion, and paid for
by weight.
VESSELS AT PORTSMOUTH, NA.-There
is at present quite formidable fleet of L.
S. Vessels at Portsmouth. The number is
nineteen, with an aggregate of seven hum
bred and eighty-nine guns. Four of them
are ships of the line, three steamers, four
frigates, four sloops of war, and one brig.
There are now employed in the Navy Yard
at Portsmouth about LOO men.
BROOMsTRAw PAPER.-We learn, says
the Raleigh Standard that Mr.. Benedict is
experimenting in making paper from broom
Stra1C, at his mill on Crabtree in this County ;
and that he has succeeded in making quite
a respectable article of paper. With further
efforts he may be enabled to produce good
paper. We hope he WILL for there is an
! abundance of the ''raw material"
- The number of fugitive slaves in
| Canada has, it is stated, increased since
1850 from $4,000 to 10000. Most of them
are in state of great restitution, and large
sums have been raised in England for their
relief. The abOlitionists of this country,
through whose fundamentally the greater
| portion of those negroes were enticed from
their masters, are contributing little, if any
| thing, TO save the poor creatures from star
walton. Abolitionism cares nothing really
for the slave; its main object is to iniure
the STAKEHOLDER.
- A curious advertisement appeared in
the London Times the other day, headed
"a Superior GOvernoss - who was willing
to accept for her services a farthing for the
first month, one penny the second, and so
on for the year. Now, this would appear
to be modest demand but what think you
is the stipend the lady aspired to? Only
f5,025 IS. SD. for the first year.
- A letter to the Savannah Republican,
dated Rome, February II, says that Mr..
Fillmore is now IN Naples, and will either
go to Greece, or via Malta and Egypt to
Jerusalem and Constantinople, returning
by Greece to Trieste. 1t will probably be
two or three months before he returns to
this country.
y A rich old spinster who died at New
ton, N. H., lately left $36,419. She was
all her life getting ready to be married, and
had stored up 182 sheets, 60 coverlets, 50
blankets, 81 beds, with l, 100 lbs. of feathers,
"a towels, "A table covers, and 43 handker-
chiefs, while the whole amount of her
wearing apparel did not exceed ten dollars
in value.
HEALTH OF RALEIGH.-The number of
deaths IN Raleigh for the year 1855 was
7o,-46 whites and 81 blacks. There is no
city of the same size in the Union that can
present so lean bill of mortality as this.
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LARGE WAGES.-An advertiser in the
New FORK Sun, advertises for several females
to work on vests p! and says good stitcher
will be paid 81 per week.
The END OF CRIME.-We have good
reasons for knowing (says the New York
Express) that the body of Robert Rchuyler.
whose name alive was once so potent in
Wall street, came here in the steamer Ara
CO. from Havre, wrapped up like a pack
age of goods. The body was here unealled
for, in a warehouse, from Saturday to Mon
day. and on that day was taken by his rel
atiyes for interment.