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Great Mail Route from HillsbOrOugh to the
North, by the Raleigh & CASTOR RaiIrOad
FINDER THE SCHEDULE RECENTLY ADOPTED
u on the North Carolina Rail Road, passengers can 90
North without detention at Raleigh or elsewhere
On the arrival Raleigh of the train from the west the
conductor of the Road will be in attendance take charge
of the baggage and check it to Baltimore Washington
City, whilst the passengers will be allowed an houH
half to get breakfast and refresh themselves
They will be conveyed and from the Hotels in omn-
buses free of charge. = ~ ts.. = e. ~
Leaving Raleigh Is minutes before T. they will reach
Weldon in abundant time all the day trains going North
and South -, ~@sssss :. !. -si.f>< y : .7..5
By this route the win be at no trouble or
pense about his baggage u b4 Conductor Of this Road will
take charge Of and give II at tho N. G. Raroad
Depot. 4 - 8S9sf ssss = si5 l9Ss NJ - q
burg or Portsmouth, $l2. 81 :
L. OBJ. BRANCH, Ptest
Raleigh, April 2s 1856 45-tf .
Register, Hillsborough Recorder and Greensborough
ratrfot copy month. yF-, - slsaf4 ~ ,ifae Sfss
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JOSEPH II. BLOSSOM,
Commission and Forwarding Merchant,
WILMINGTON, N. c.
WILL give his personal attention to business ntrused
his and shippers rely having prompt returns.
Liberal advances made consgnmens for sale in this
market, or for shipment to Northern Ports.
March g. 1855. 31-1y
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LIVERY STABLE.
V0HE SUBSCRIBERS ARE PLEASED TO IN.
II FORM THEIR FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC
generally that they have recently bought the Lgery s
formerly owned by j. Nixon ESQ., the Market House.
where they will keep hand well broke and tracabe
horses carriages and bugges with good trusty drivers
for the accommodation of those who may wish to travel
Horses aso boarded by the day month. Their prices
will be taken give general satisfaction those who may
patrOnize their establishment. ....'
L. T. CLAYTON,
...... l. BECKWITH. e..
Raleigh, Sept. 26, 1855. SS-E
ARKANSAS, DALLAS COUNTY.
II OFFER FOR SALE 17SO ACRES OF LAND
IL east of and adjoining the Ouacha river consisting of
upland and bOtom-he former fair the latter first rate
producing, under good cultivation from sixty to eighty
bushels of per and from twelve hundred to two
thousand pounds of cotton-upwards of four hundred
cleared with gnhouse orchard and houses for sixty
negroes is healthy well watered and convenient to
navigation 1t adapted to stock being adjacent to forty
thousand of wild land affording
lasting range for horses cattle and hogs In 1874 bought
this tract the desirable east Of the Ouachta
is there other the side of the river which
would ive vet inferior land my upland, there are
planters from North Carolina making from six to nine
bales to the hand-names be given if necessary. My
price $4,000 cash. tme with ten per cent interest
Corn and provender and stock be purchased with the
place. -L-- :. ....- .t g.
HAYES H. COLEMAN,
Cachemasso P. o.
Nov. IL, 1855. +tf,
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TAR RIVER MALE ACADEMY.
GRANVILLE CO., n. c.
TIME EXERCISES OF THIS SCHOOL WILL BE
resumed on Monday the 18th day of January, 1856,
der the management of Mr. James Campbell graduate of
the University of North Carolina
Board St per month. Tuition as heretofore
For particulars address the Principal either of the Trus
tees or the Secretary.
DIR. J. A. RUSSELL, LEWIS P. ALLEN,
WIN. CLEMENT, JAS COZART,
ALLEN WALLER.
c. w. ALLEN, Secretary.
Tar River p. o., n. c.. Dec. 90, 80. ll-6tpd
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HATS AND CAPS.-FALL STYLE AND BEST
LII quality Moeskin Hats r
Cloth Caps of every variety and price,
Servants Wool Hats Black Brown and Dr just received
JAMES McKIMSlON.
RALEIGH Oct 1S5s
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EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.-THE SUBSCRIBERS
IL having the last of the County Court of New
Hanover County, qualified executors of the last will of
E. b. Dudley, deceased notice is hereby given to all per-
indebted to his estate make immediate payment
and to all those having claims against the to present
them within the time prescribed by law they will be
barred of d recovery.
C. H. DUDLEY, r,
W. H. DUDLEY, ! Ia TO-
Dec a. 1855. ltd.
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! ss.. ,HARDING,S NEW, SI0CX. Il: -fI.psy tcn
OUR FRIENDss AND FlATHRMe vii
~. .plees remember that Herdink q nSM M New fqsk z1
md HSs5 asady 9assVsoassH which we sfss
6ailt receiving }s AZ Ssifa q su.SfzsSiz
Cur stgies of goods ass spperies and The workmssship
exceaed BY thoae sho Do Taii9F'ngs
Ws are estsosissy sptaeed 81 tie sds business -
Snd cin assure "a sat lie bst wi ~ xssds Gs
md axnaaine sass.s i7lsaafftn s,s '
~ ~ ~i,stt ffjsc>gII st.1 % VI 'I5t u
.!adaF stf - issisa sHI SKI 10 o3ssAaaa sisI
,ss,,sse. sds nce anffy- -rtf-ys.. y-7rJaT5
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NOTICE.-Was taken up and committed to Jail in
II the County of Nash, ON June 25th 1854, negro
who says his TOM and belongs to the heirs
to be about twenty-five years age black complex
on and has more than an between two Of
his under teeth The requested to forward
pay prison charges and take him away, he will be dis
posed of according to law. A. r. BAINES, -
Aug 1-wtf. Sheriff. A"
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VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR sALE.-,I
THE PLANTATION known Is the HOPKINS
PLACE, belonging to the Heisscf fhe No Wm: = Hop
lands Of Theophilus H. Snow and Others contang shout
800 acres AfsolFOUR CITY LOTS under improyementa
in the City of Raleigh The above property, not Pev.
ousy disposed Of at Private Sale win be sold At Pubic
Auction early in January OF the dsy of ssSe notice WV
be hereafter given. For any infoTnDn concsuiDg ahsb
p'ops'ss' ~ .pp's " 9 .'a@ ,Ese" VII WHITE Agent :
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

bands, DEATH or a spear through some por-
ton of the body is their certain fate. In
deed, the bare suspicion of infdelity upon
their part is sufficient to insure to them the
most cruel and brutal treatment. For these
causes during youth they are compelled,
whether pregnant or not, to accompany their
husbands in all their excursions, and are
thus subject to violent and continued exer-
else and fatigue at periods when repose is
Indispensable
"But even supposing woman to give no
encouragements to her admirers, many plots
are always laid to carry her off, and in the
encounters which result from these she is
almost certain to receive some violent iniu-
ry, for each of the combatants orders her to
follow him and in the event of her refusing,
throws spear at her. The early life of a
beauty is generally one continued series of
captivity to different masters, of ghastly
wounds, of wanderings in strange families,
of rapid flights, of bad treatment from 9TH
er females, among whom she is brought a
stranger by her captor and rarely do you
see form of unusual grace but it is mark
ed and Scared by the burrows of old wounds;
and many female thus wanders several hum
dred miles from the home of her infancy,
being carried off successfully to distant and
more distant points"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

It is an astonishing thing how little a
matter will sometimes disconcert a man who
is accustomed to speak in public, and to
have his thoughts about him. and ready to
command on almost all occasions.
II was once opening speech from the
stump" said distinguished Western polit-
ical orator to us recently, and was just be-
ginning to warm with my subject, when
remarkably clear and deliberate voice spoke
out behind me saying:
"'Guess he wouldn't talk quite so hifalu-
tin if he knew that his trowsers was bust
clean out behind.'
'From that moment couldn't get on.
The people in front began to laugh, and
there was a loud roar in my rear, and |
dared not reverse my position for fear OF
having new audience of my condition
made, or rather invented an excuse for de-
lay, and sat down. ''The malicious scoun-
drel." continued the orator: ''it was only a
mean trick after all. There was nothing
under heaven the matter with my unmen-
tionables
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03
Mlisrellanenus.
sEranch.
MRS. REKD'S ECONOMY.

.sWhat is that, my dear" asked Mr..
Reed, mildly, looking up from his paper.
81 was exclaiming at the extravaganza
of my sex" replied the pretty looking wo-
man, whose blue eyes had not yet recovered
their natural dimensions.
ssAh ! and do you consider yourselfin the
category of extravagant females % contln-
ued her husband, looking fondly towards
her.
Hardly, my dear, for hear this. There
are in New York and Brooklyn not less than
five thousand ladies whose dress bills could
average annually two thousand dollars each,
or ten millions for all. >"
ssProdigious J" muttered the merchant,
A'but doubtless true"
s'There are five thousand more,' contin-
ued his wife, resuming her reading, whose
dress expenses will average one thousand
dollars each, or five millions of dollars for
the whole number: and five millions Of dol
lars more would not cover the dress expen-
ses of those whose bills average every yeal
from two hundred to five hundred dollars
Thus, at low estimate, the annual cost O
dressing our fashionable ladies is twenty
millions of dollars. Perhaps we should
not exceed the truth, if we estimated tht
annual cost of dressing and jewelling tht
ladies of New York and its vicinity, at from
thirty to forty millions of dollars"
ssWhat wonderr' exclaimed the good in
dignant little woman, ''that poverty an(
are so rife in that great city; onl,,
think, George! that twenty million of dol
lars, to say the least, wasted in fnery ant
extravagance-wor than wasted"
eyes" resumed her husband, ''for th
bulk of the money is exchanged for foreign
fabrics, and goes out of the country to pam
per, the miserable toadies Of the old world
that's what makes me angry to think Of
If the - mrsent among our owl
PRODUCERS a,aal a6US t:ers and mechanics
the shame woup ,s.:Jt be burning; but no
it must bear the stamp of imported goods, o.
our ladies' will not look at the article saw
to-day some silk which I'll be bound som'
French aristocrat had manufactured for hi
windows, but failing to give satisfaction,
was sent over to the green Yankees The,
wouldn't know-oh, of course not-no
care, so long as the obsequious shopman de
clared that it was of Paris manufacture
AHu SO we nave WaiKlIlS curtains, WITH al
the fixtures, likely as not, and Exchanging
No-oh to meet in our promenades dresse
with figures larger than the whole patterns
% hat 1t takes two women to show off on
gown to advantage-it is laughablc bu
wAen-
how your eyes twinkle"
y Never occurred to me to ask no
Maea you Hend il dress, say for year. y
hs hut pm not fashionable, and yo
sre not rich
Ss matter IN that; better dresse
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03
0umnrnus.

New ENGLAND HUMoR.-As a specimen
of many examples brought forward in re-
cent lecture upon the characteristics of New
England humor, the Boston Post quotes the
following:
1.-The lecturer was enforcing the idea that
the sense of contrast and opposition of idea
was often reached through the effect of total
and embarrassing disappointment in the ex-
pected point Of story. Of this kind, he
said, was question which was once elected
from grave matter-of-fact old man in the
town Of Andover, by an animated account
of fire in the neighborhood. AS the usual
occupants of the bar-room were sitting about
the fire in the evening, each with his cigar
and glass of suspicious-looking liquor in his
hand, there entered farmer from the North
Parish, with the air of man who had much
inorlhiaa mind to communicate 'Ye'd ought
fire, l guess, that they've he'd Tor t"enty
year in Essex county. Pettingelfs new
barns burnt down fatter'n Jerewsalem.-I
Pettingell, he was off down to Newburyport
with a lode O hay, and they come white
owl and lit there on the end O the barn
Well, that air wild Irish Paddy, he's he'd
over there-I don't see no use O havln no
sech good -for-nothin' shoat reound-he went
end got out Pettingelrs ole king S arm to
shoot him, jest to please the children, jest
foolishness. Well, they expect some o the
waddin' went up into the barn winder, ont
the hay; emmy how'n, bout half'n hour the
barn burst out all in lite blaze, burt up
more'n twenty ton O English hay, and much
as sixteen or seventeen COWS, and three O
PettingelTs horses-they didn't git out but
Jest one old critter, and he aint good for no
thin'-burnt the rest on 'em all up clean.
Pettingell, he got home rite in the middle
ont; they aint no insurance, and he's most
crazy bout it; he's ben takin' on wuss
than ever I see; I've ben up there tryin,
to cheer him up, but he feels dreffie bad, l
tell ueou.' When this circumstantial mar
rative was concluded, there was general
silence-the result, probably, of sympathy
for Mr.. Pettingell, and of speculation, per-
haps, upon the singularity of the accident
which had led to his loss. After the lapse
of several minutes, however, the pause was
broken by dull, frosty-faced old fellow,
who had been staring intently at the Goals
ever since the speaker had finished. Look
ing up with an, as yet, unsatlsted express
sion Of face, he inquired, Well, did they
kill the oW1?'"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03
39netry.
MY WIFE.


Written while recovering from severe sicknes:
heard her, o. how cautiously,
Open my bedroom door;
heard her step as noiseessly,
(To my couch) across the floor.
felt her hands my temples press,
Her lips just touching mine;
And in my anguish and distress,
'Twere sinful to repine.
Our pilgrimage is nearly through
We've passed life's mountains brow;
THOUGHT Iov'd her, years ago
KNOW | love her now.
Her face was lowering over mine
Her warm tears on my cheek;
Her whisper'd prayer, of thought divine
Rose fervently, but meek;
Her bosom rested on my arm;
felt its troublous throb;
knew the cause of its alarm;
knew its source of woe;
And then the blood, my system through,
Came pressing on my brow
THOUGHT | Low ID her, years ago
KNOW love her now.
Thus watch'd that tir'd and patient one,
By night as well as day,
In sadness and almost, alone,
Till weeks had passed away;
Bereft of sleep-depriv' of rest
Cypress 'd-borne down with care,
Till D! her labors have been bess'd,
For God has heard her prayer.
Her cheek resumes its wonted glow,
And placid is her brow
THOUGHT | lov'd her, years ago
| KNOW love her now.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

AS a good-looking friend of ours, whose
moustache is jet black and curls magnif-
Gently over his lips, was passing the resi-
dence of couple of damsels, the following
conversation is said to have been overheard:
L. Il do wonder how it goes to kiss one of
those creatures with horrid moustache %
is. "Why, of course I don't know" L.
"Well, I'm going to get the boot brush and
TRY it." And she did-but we won't tell
on you girls.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

Tomorrow is like a juggler that deceives
us quack that pretends to cure us, and
thin ice that will not bear our weight. 1t
is a fruit beyond our grasp; glittering
bubble that bursts and vanishes away a
will-o'- -the-wisp that lead many into the
mire and rock on which many mariners
have struck, and suffered shipwreck. 1t is
an illusion to all who neglect the present
hour, and reality to those only who i'm
prove to-day.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

the children of different sexes that may be
born to them; and the solemnity of the en-
gagement is marked by their tearing reci-
procally piece out of their tunics and CIV
ing it to each other" In curious contrast
TO this custom we find still greater stretch
of parental assumption among the Mongols,
who not unfrequently betroth or marry their
children after they are dead! The contract
having been regularly drawn up, and rude
Representations of the various gifts, usually
received by the parents of the bride when
living couple is betrothed, having been made,
they commit the whole to the flames, and
thus, as they believe, convey them through
the medium of the smoke to their children
in the other world that they may become
husband and wife in due form. The par
enss of each after this ceremony, consider
themselves as mutually related, just as if a
real connection had taken place between
their living children. Among the Mos
lens ''the marriage contract is often per-
formed several years before the consumma-
ton, when the two parties are yet children,
Or during the infancy of the girl" If,
when a daughter is betrothed during infan-
cy, the contract should not assume the form
Of actual sale, it is nevertheless usual fol
the bridegroom, at the time he acquires
possession of his bride, to pay into the hands
of her father a sum considered equivalent t.
tie current value Of wife.
But the cumbersome and tedious custom
of early betrothal is often dispensed with al
together in favor of much speedier method
of acquiring a wife. The cheapest AM
most expeditions plan is the one acted on b
the founders of Rome-viz that of stealing
It is constantly practiced by the New Ho]
landers, and gives rise to endless dispute
! and inter tribal wars. If woman thus vic
lently seized upon should attempt to escap
from her captor he at once thrusts ,spea
through the feshy part of her leg or thigh
s Or if wretched victim of infant betroth;
should elope, and be afterward recovered b
her legitimate (?) husband, he subjects he
n to the same punishment. But despite tn
Y suffering she must undergo if captured, tn
q knowledge that stealing wife is general
; punished with death, and that, if the sedr
v Ger cannot not be secured, one of his rels
= tives is sure, eventually, to be slain, sue
r cases of elopement or rather of wife stealth
q frequently occur. The life of an Australia
e beauty is graphically portrayed in the 70
v lowing passage from Greys Journal:
o 'sShould female be possessed of consie
), able attractions, the first years Of her Iii
d must necessarily be very unhappy. In hi
e early infancy she is betrothed to some maj
t. even at this period advanced in years, an
}; by whom as she approaches the age of p'
1t berty, she is watched with degree of Wig
70 lance and care which increases in proportio
A to the disparity of years between them.
d is probably from this circumstance that
d manv of them are addicted to intrigues,
is which, if they are detected by their hu
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03
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liberal deduction will be made to those who ad-
vertise by the year.
Communications addressed to this Office must
be POST PAID.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

WANrED-by an ancient maiden lady
"a local habitation and name" The real
estate she is not particular about, so that the
title is good. The name, she wishes to hand
down to posterity.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

An AFFECTING AppEAL-An unfortunate
editor in Kentucky thus addresses his delin-
quent subscribers; ''Friends, we are almost
penniless-Job's turkey was millionaire
compared with our present depressed trea-
sury To-day, if the price Of salt was two
cents barrelful, we couldn't buy enough
to pickle jay-bird.'
An editor, little farther west, had be-
come SO hollow from depending upon the
printing business alone for bread, that he
proposes to sell himself for stove pipe.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

Thin shoes-an article worn in the win
ter by high spirited young ladies, who
would rather die than conceal the beauty Of
thoir feet
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

Mrs. Partington's Ike has bought horse
that is so spirituous, that he always goes OF
in a decanter.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

During the past year not single mar
riage has taken place in Danville, Vlrglnl',
which has population of 1900. The la
dies there, it is said, are ''uncommonly
hard to marry
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

ArHE1sTs-Atheists put on false cour-
age and alacrity in the midst of their dark
ness and apprehensions, like children, who
when they go in the dark, will sing for fear.
SHIFT
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

Miss Fantadling says if she amt dead she
has lost her vital ''spark," the man who
used to sit up with her.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

I've just looked in, to see if you are
doing WE'LL" as the cook said to the lobster
when she lifted up the saucepan lid.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

Whatever is popular is important, as
showing the spontaneous sense of the hour,
for the aspiration Of this century will be the
code of the next century.-Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

In an obituary notice of lad twelve years
old, the writer says: "Munroe was very
bright, proud, active boy he was very anx-
ious to be man-always wanted to wear a
standing collar"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

"Mother, this book tells about angry
waves of the ocean; now what makes the
ocean get angry?' because 1t has been
crossed so often, my son.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

A plain and unschooled man, who had
received his education principally beneath
the forest, and who welded the axe more
than the pen, while speaking of children,
remarked with true and beautiful simplici-
ty: "The little chips are nearest the heart. "
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-01-03

The printers devils first attempt at poe
try reads thus:
The CLEAN of her eye was bright.
The CLEAN of her gold was brighter;
The first was beautiful sight,
The second was beautiful sighter.