The North-Carolinian., 1856-02-09

but dead. The little girl will survive, with the
loss OF two OF her toes on each of her feet"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
A SLAVE TRADER IN CH1NA-Thc Friend of
China, received by the last steamer, says:
Very few coasting vessels ever leave Shan
s,hai or Ningpo without an assorted lot of boys
thrown in to make up the cargo The traffic
in girls is still more general, i'll consequence OF
the prevalence OF infantcide, which counten-
ances the murder of female infants as soon as
they born. We hear of one hundred girls
ready for shipment at one place, for the scgar
factory at Manila, and an order for two thou
sand girls for Cuba has lately been received.
Boys be sold at profit of $3 TO 50 IS,
cents cent a !, head. -
HE MARYLAND LorTERIEs.-That species of
gambling legalZed in Maryland under the per
mission to vend Lottery policies, is severe
lnfliction upon the country, beyond the limits
Of that State; but in such places Baltimore,
nearer the source Of the evil, its pernicious
effects most apparent. The Baltimore Pa
triot represents them deplorabe. Speaking
of the manner in whic, the vcmders of policies
operate in that city, the Patriot says:
They take up bets to any amount, from three
cents upwards, that certain number in q
specified lottery will not be drawn from the
wheel. If the number is drawn, they agree to
pay four times the amount their victim has
betted. If the better not only lays his wager
that particular number will be drawn, but
also Indicates its peculiar position in the draw
ing, they promise to pay him sixty times the
amount of his bet-ali of which, if he happens,
for wonder, to be successful, he may get-if
lie can. For several consecutive weeks during
the past year, the mania ran on the number 19.
Fyiy-one drarings took place before 1t made its
appcaramce In one day, five thousand dollars
i'll small sums, were received for bets on this
particular number; and the whole amount real
lied during the run is said to have amounted
to upwards of twenty-five thousand dollars
During the Christmas week, single policy
shop took bets on No. Is alone to the amount
Of nine thousand dollars.
''It is high time that these infamous practices
encouraged by white men and carried out
chiefly by negroes, should be subjected to sum-
mary punishment The evils which enure from
them to society are manifold, and are daily in
creasing. The distress produced among the
lower classes of society by this abomi inabie
traffic is beyond conception, while its ultimate
The State of Maryland derives an annual iu-
come of $2l 900 from Lottery licenses, but the
Leyisatur has wisely provided for the extinc-
ton of the whole system in that State, after
the expiration of the term for which the present
Lottery grants we're issued.
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D,scoxcERrISG AN ORAroR.-It is an aston
ishing thing how little matter will sometimes
dScOnccrt man VINO is accustomed 10 speak
in public and to have his thoughts about him,
and ready at command on almost all occasions
II once opening speech from the stump
said distinguished western political orator to
mS recently, "and was just beginning to warm
with nay subject, when a remarkably clear and
deliberate voice spoke ont behind me, saying:
'Guess he wouldn't talk quite so hifaluting
if he knew that his trowsers was burst clean out.
bebnd!'
''From that moment couldn't get on.' The
people IN front began to laugh, and there was q
loud roar in my rear, and l dared not reverse
| my position, for fear Of having audience
of my condition. l made, rather invented,
| an excuse for delay, and sat down. The mali
cious scoundrell" continued the orator; sit was
| only mean trick after all. There was nothing
under heaven the matter with my unmehtion-
| ablesw
|
| WHAT IS STRONGER THAN LovE.-Put two
persons in the same bedroom, one Of whom has
the tooth-ache. and the other is in love- and
you will find that the person who has the tooth
ache will 20 to sleep first