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A Heroic woman.

A passenger on board the Northern Indiana
gives an account of the narrow escape Of Cicero
Fowler and wife, Of Tully There was but one
life-preserver for Mrs. +. and her husband; he
insisted imperatively that she should put it on.
She peremptorily refused, saying she was "poor
in health, and his life was worth far more than
hersf' The preserver having no strap, Mrs.
Z. tore the hem from her dress and fastened it
to her husband, whom she continued to en-
courage, saying she could hold on to him, and
if the preserver could not sustain both she
would be the first to LET go and leave him to
save himself.
The FIRE was getting hotter and hotter. The
water was thick with human bodies struggling
for life; she tore her bonnet, already on fire,
from her head and hand in hand with the one
she loved better than herself took the dangerous
leap. As they arose from the water, Mr..
Fowler assisted bis wife in procuring good
hold of him, on or about the shoulders She
wiped the water from his eyes and mouth, and
encouraged him to retain his hope Of being
saved He continued to struggle with the
waves. Half an hour elapsed, and there we're
no signs of assistance. His strength was
rapidly failing; bis wife observing it, tried anew
to cheer him. He said he could not stand IL
any longer; it seemed as though be must give
AZ moibcnt sue uehTu " STEAMER COIL
ing rapidly through the water. She says: 4My
dear husband, few moments more and we are
safe. Don't you hear boat coming?' He
said he did, and Immediately revived, made all
the efforts in his power, and struggled for him
self and his heroic wife until the Mississippi
took them, with scores Of others on her com,
modious decks-Syracmsc Journal
t t -
New DEMOCRATIC PAPERs.-One of the best
evidences Of the watchfulness Of the Democracy
is to be found in the numerous sterling Demo.
cratic papers the present canvass has brought
into the field in different parts Of the country
We notice among others, which give evidence
Of great efficiency. The Jeffersonian, Fort
Wayne, Ind; The Democratic Standard, Con.
cord N. H., &C., &C., and we have to add to
our list, The Bureau County Democrat, Prince.
ton, H.; The Democrat, Carrolton, ILL.,; The
States Rights Democrat, Helena, Kansas; The
Gazette, Montezuma, Iowa The True Union
Tuskegce, Ala; The Ship Of State, Abel Iowa ;
The Northwest, Dubuque, Iowa; The Courier,
st. Peter, M. t.; The Union, Bloomfield, Iowa
These papers are heartily and zealously en-
gagged in the cause, and doing their work nobly
and effectively. We wish them great success.
We have also received q copy Of The Ma
tional Spectator, weekly literary and miscel.
aneous paper published in Washington City,
which, though not strictly speaking political
paper, espouses the cause Of Buchanan with
great eficiency.-Be!fast ( Maire) Republican.
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OUCH ANA ,.--Life and Public Service OF
ID lanes Buchanan, including the most impor.
,rnt Of his Stare Papers. BY r. G. Horton, W ii,
an accurate portrait on steel, 81.
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MRS. FRANKLIN respectfully informs the
lNl Ladies OF Washington that she continues
10 give instruction in Vocal Music. From her
long experience and professional intercourse with
the best AyttSeS OF Europe and America she feels
confident that her method Of cultvating the voice
and imparling correctness of style and expression
will render satisfaction.
For terms and hours apply TO Mrs. +. at her resi.
deuec 400 + street, between 9th and 10th street.
Reference is made TO Mr.. X. Davis and Mr.. @
tIilbus, at their Music Stores on Pennsylvania
Avenue. Dec 10
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4 ArER YEARS. by one Author OF ). ths

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EIr Ru,herford's Oh ldren, second volume.
Pebbles from the Lake Shore, or Miscellaneous
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General Notions of Chemistry, translated from
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the Land OF the Saracens, by Bayard Taylor
Brushwood picked up on the Continent; or
Last Summers lripto the Old World, hy orvlile
HoTwug.
The above are selected from a large arrival oil
new boo.sd TAYLOR " MAURY'S
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None Of our readers will have any occasion
to ask mho is the author of the following letter,
from which we made some extracts few weeks
ago. II is 100 good TO be passed over Mr..
PAuLDRo, the Secretary Of the Navy under
President VAN BURES, holds high rank
among the eminet literary gentlemen Of this
country. We ask for his letter an attentive
perusal. 1t is in reply 10 an invitation from
the city Of New York:
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Office and Depot southwest cor and 18th streets
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19
Tuesday Morning, Feb. 10, 1856
COMING SOUTH.

The National or Southern feature of the
Know Nothing platform of the Philadelphia
Convention, first repudiated by all the Nor
rhern Know Nothings, begins to share n
similar fate in the South. Conscious if that
section be insisted on, the Southern and
Northern wings of Know Nothingism can
not unite at the approaching Presidential
contest, we find this party in the South also
repudiating it. The Bots party of Virginia
first set their seal of condemnation on the
18th section, and now we find North Carroll
mans doing the same thing. A Know No
thing meeting at LOuisburg, in this State, a
few days ago, resolved that they desired
no slavery plank in their PLATFORM" and
their journal, the Eagle" of that place.
endorses and defends the resolution. We
do not anticipate however, that this move
will find much favor with the people of the
South. 1t will be confined chiefly to poll
ticians, who would sacrifice the best inter-
ests of the country to promote selfish ends.
1t will be recollected that the 18th section'
declares that the National Council has
deemed it the best guarantee of common
justice and of future peace, to abide By and
maintain the eristing LalCs upon the subject
ofsLauery, as a final and conctHsire settlement
Of that subject, an spirit and IN substance"
that Congress possesses no power, under
the Constitution, to legislate upon the sub
jcct of Slavery in the States where it does
or NAV exist, or to exclude any State from
admission into the Union, because its Con-
sttutiOn does or does not recognise the in
stitution of Slavery as part of its social
SYSTEM" and that Congress ought not to
legislate upon the subject of Slavery within
the Territories of the United States, and
any interference by Congress with Slavery
rs it exists i'll the District of Columbia,
would be violation of the spirit and inten-
ton of the compact by which the State of
Maryland coded the District to the United
States, and a breach of the National faith
The above forms the portion of the plat
form which we find Southern Know Moth
inSs beginning to repudiate.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19
THE sTEAMER pAcrFrc

Fears are entertained that this vessel,
with her passengers, crew, mails, and car
go, has been lost at sea. She left Liver
pool on the 23d of January, and has not
yet arrived; there are so many fears for her
safety that the steamer alabama has been
sent In search for her. The Persia, which
left the same port three days later, has ar
rived at New York.
The Secretary of the Navy has also given
orders that the steamship Artic, Lieut. Hart
steine, shall be sent in search of the missing
steamer Pacific.
Since 1853, twelve steamships, lost at
sea, have cost 1850 lives, and $7,25O,O0
of property. The independence sunk with
100 lives in the Pacific, and the Tennessee
and the St. Louis followed. total wrecks.
The Humboldt and the San Francisco were
wrecked in the Atlantic the same year. The
Franklin, City of Philadelphia, and Yankee
Blade, fell in the catalogue of 1854. City
of Glasgow with 40 lives. The Arctic with
three hundred more precious lives, were the
browning catastrophes of that year. In
1855, we have the sinking of the North
Carolina, and the stranding of the Golden
Age, which last, however, was saved and
repaired.
The insurance companies decline taking
further risks on the steamship Pacific, now
so long over due, being heavily involved
already. A steamer will be substituted in
her place on Saturday for Liverpool but it
is undecided what boat it shall be.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19

The IssUE.-The issue at the next Pre-
sidential election will be directly between
the white men and the negroes. Franklin
Pierce will probably be the white mans
andidate, and VIM. H. Seward the negroes.
If the people of the United States feel more
interest in the government of negroes than
in the government of white men. they will
elect Mr.. Seward, if not they will re-elect
President Pierce, and continue this gov
eminent for white men until the three mil
lions of negroes in the South become of
more consequence and Importance than the
twenty millions of white men.-[N Y. Day
Book.
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of him. "a neighbor," in Hebrew law, is
one under the same institution of Govern
meRt; for moral law does make differ
ence between ''neighbors" and strangers"
in relation to slaves. Slaves were distinct
ly recognised as property, under very strict
rules, for humane treatment.
Some of the best modern Hebrew author
tiles expressly deny that slaves were to be
assisted to escape from their own people; as
such property was acquired by the payment
of money, or by birth, and was not allowed
to be stolen with impunity from either neigh
bors or strangers. Our Eastern and some
of our Southern friends, are deluded by
writing, as they once were by the transla-
ton, which sanctioned the drowning of
witches, now corrected by better sense, and
pure Interpretation of truth and humani-
ity. Some references to the influences of
peculiar diet were made in pleasantly,
rather to allay unkind feeling, and with
recollection of the diverting description of
a clerical humourist-"Old friendships are
destroyed by toasted cheese" and so forth.
There was very slight reference to poll
tics in the convention-and properly So
Some did allude to a next meeting about the
same time as conventions of other charac-
ter; but the proposition did not prevail
1t was also suggested to have a meeting
convenient for Members of Congress, but
frank spoken Virginian said ''he would OPP
pose it, as he desired no convenience of the
kind, and thought they did much better
without such attendance" This caused
some mirth, in which an intelligent men,
Der of Congress from Petersburg, who was
present, heartily joined.
The Convention was made a disappoint-
ment and failure, in the opinion of many,
although as a popular body, there was
strong representation of Southern heartand
intelligence.
If another takes place, as proposed next
December, in Savannah, the experience Of
a0aSte Of time and resolutions may then be
made serviceable. The social influences of
and might be much increased by varied
reports and strict attention to the practical
interests of the South, unalloyed by party
politics, and controlled in their application
to speculations, of all kinds.
AS these Conventions annually meet in
distant sections of the Southern country,
and are differently represented according
to conveniences of location, season, and
weather. If does seem advisable thew shon1d
assume more democratic form-as primary
assemblages of the people, and not simply
representations of States; for their action
is only suggestive or for information; and an
easy interchange or communication of
opinion is better, in the opinion of many,
than the more dilatory forms of strictly
representative assemblages.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19
OFFICE-SEEKERS

at is calculated that there were at least
five hundred applicants for office under the
House organization i'll and about the Capt.
toll to-day, while distant aspirants are Opcr-
Htlng through Congressional friends. The
rush is despcrate."- Bait. Sun.
The above Is a good commentary on the
following paragraphs which occur among a
mass of other clap-traP, in the notorious
Philadelphia platform-that platform which
was at the same time passed and not passed,
adopted and repudiatcd
Disgust for the wild hunt after office
which characterizes the age
Limitation of the practice of the purer
days of the Republic, and admiration for
the maxim, that office should seek the man
and not the man the ofiicc.''
We are not aware that there arc more
than five offices within the gift of the House
of Representatives, and so, at the lowest
calculation, they average one huadred APP
PticationS apiece. We are obliged to admit
that the Know Nothings have the queerest
way of showing their ''djsguSt'' for thing
that had ever suggested itself to a rational
being. And the offices which have come
within the gift of this party seem to have had
their faculty of seeking men, most mira
Culously increased. The whole country
must feel relieved under the appearance,
that, from the success which the five offices
OF clerk, sergeant, printer, postmaster, and
Librarian have had in seeking men," the
offices are not going to be vacant after all,
but will each succeed in finding ''man''
with reserve of at least hundred more.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19
The SignerS of the MeckIenburS
DeCIaI aIiOn.

Awriter in the Raleigh Standard proposes
that the money which has been collected in
North Carolina to aid in purchasing Mount
vernon Gen. WaShington's old residence,
oe appropriated, now that the primary OBJ
Ject has failed, to the erection of suitable
Monument upon Capitol Square, in the City
OF Raleigh, in honor Of the early and brave
patriots who signed the Mecklenburg De-
claration of Independence.
The writer says: Historic research has
estaohshed the truth and genuine authen-
hcity OF this chivalrous act beyond the
cavlls OF envy or incredulitv. Something
more than the historic page, and paper
resolves in the Legislative halls, should nar-
Petuate so glorious deed. Let cbiscIad
marble raise; a column around whose pIisten-
ing summit the light of early dawn and the
evening ray shall love to inger. Let If
declare through coming time, the worth and
the glory of those men who were Washing
on's seniors in aspirations for liberty, and
as brave and true in heart as he. l am con-
sclous that the amount collected will not
worthlly honor the memory of those departed
heroes; but cannot larger sum be raised
Tor cause so enrolling and honorable to
State pride! What say the ladies of Neck
lenburg' 1.-The daughters of those revolution
airy matrons who resolved" that they would
not receive the addresses of any but the
cniValrous and the brave! Will not a sub
Ject OF such peculiar interest engage the
A''entlon OF gentleman also! especially,
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19
Look out for the syvindier.

D1r A man calling himsel A. @. JONES, who
represented himself to as having been engaged
selling periodicals. for several respectable Nor
Ihern publishers, and stated Iha: he was native
OF Nansemond county, Va. called on ns, some TWO
months since, and obtained 300 Llthogtaphlc
drawings OF the Richmond Fair Grounds, also 200
copies colored Lithographlc drawings of Gen.
Taylor and Staffat Walnut Springs, Mexico. We
understand, by letter from Mr.. l.. J. Oates, OF
Wilmington, N. c., that he is representing himself
as the Agent of the Richmond Enquirer. This is
to inform the public that he is not our agent IN any
form, mr. have we ever Lad anything to do with
him, farther than to let him swndle out of the
above named goods. Should he hereafter offer those
prints for sale, we hope they will be stopped and
forwarded to us. Jones is about 30 years oi age,
OF medium size, and very plainly marked with the
smallpox, having lately had it in this city.
Messrs. w. F. TEBBs aud w. +. Cook our
Agents for the State of Virginia.
RITCHIE, PRYOR & DUNNAVANT.
% Editors with whom exchange will oblige
us land at the same ume perhaps, protect their own
interests by copying The above.
February 6, 1896.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19
DIED,

On the I'd instant, at his residence near Prov-
dence, in Mecklenburg county, Mr. ORRIN
PIERCE, aged about 20 years, leaving a family
and large number of friends and acquaintance
II regret bis death. Mr.. z. was highly respect
ed and esteemed citizen, and for several years be-
fore he was summoned from Time to Eternity,
had been a consistent member of the Presbyte-
rian Church.
On Saturday night last, after a short illness Of
pneumonia, Mr.. RICHARD c. CARSON, of this
town. Mr.. c. was one of our most respected and
highly esteemed citizens, in the meridian of life,
and has suddenly and unexpectedly closed his
earthly career amidst the sincere regrets of all
who knew him. He was a member OF the Pres
byterian Church, to the cemetery of which his re-
mains were yesterday afternoon conveyed, fol-
lowed bv large concourse OF sympathising
friends. He leaves wife and two children 70
realize the loss of a kind husband and devoted
ather
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19

when year ago, to commemorate virtue,
they employed the chisel of Canova to give
to marble the form and image of the Father
of his Country? Having done SO well in
honoring national worth, can it be that
North Carolina will fail TO do honor TO her
own sons, and permit the mantle of oblivion
to fall upon the names of those who We're
the first upon the American Continent to
strike for liberty and independence
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19

NEW HAMPSHIRE.-An election for Gov
ernor and other State officers will take
place in New Hampshire on the 18th of
March. A warm canvass is progressing
the Democrats waging fierce war against
abolition Know-NOthingism, with confident
anticipations of reversing the result of the
last election in that State.
The Democrats of Merimac county, N. H,
held an immense mass meeting at Concord
on the 9TH instant. Speeches were made
by Messrs. Weller, of California, Orr, of
South Carolina, Lane, of Oregon, Cobb, of
Ga, John S. Weller and others.
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~ Hon. William Smith of Va, address
ed Democratic meeting at Alexandria, on
Thursday, the 9TH inst, and promised that
at some future day he would make certain
explanations to his constituents, in relation
to the contest for the Speakership. He
probably intends to explain how it was that
he, gentleman strongly suspected of having
KnowNothing attachments, failed to secure
the entire Democratic vote.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-19
THE COMMITTEES.

We give to-day list of the Committees
appointed by Speaker Banks. They are
fashioned to suit the designs of the Black
Republicans. Horace Greeley says they
are satisfactory to the North, and are ar
ranged with view to the triumph of Free
dom" From Greeley's endorsation, their
character may at once be estimated.
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Z" 1t will be observed by our notice of
the proceedings of Congress that C. P
Wendell, from Albany, New York, Demo
crat' and the nominee Of a Congressional
Democratic caucus, has been elected Pub
lie Printer beating the black Republican
or abolition Know-Nothing nominee, O.
Follett, of Ohio, ten votes.