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SAD PICTURE
OF A ONCE BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY FEMALE

OF ONCE BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY FEMALE.
A Mrs. Howard, was found, few days
ago, lying in stable, in Buffalo, New York,
intoxicated. The police arrested her, and
took her to the watch-house, and the Mayor
ordered her to be sent to the work-house,
gives the following melancholy history of
this poor woman.
Some may censure, but we are disposed
to pity this unfortunate woman. Less than
a year ago she was living in New York
with her husband, who held position of
honor and trust in one of the large mercan-
tile houses in that city. She was admired
for her beauty and intelligence, moved in
an exalted sphere, and was surrounded by
friends and relatives, who respected and
loved her. Last fall her husband was sent
upon collecting tour, and she accompanied
him. On their way hither the husband fell
in with a company of confidence" or
'patent safe" men, and was induced to join
in their nefarious business. In this city
his guilt became known-he was arrested,
COHVlCLeu, anu seuLeuCeu 10 Ino OLdIb
prison, at Auburn, for term of years,
where he now remains. This fact becoming
known to her family and friends, they at
once disowned her, leaving her alone in the
world, and surrounded by the disgrace
which her husband had brought upon her.
In her desperation she resorted to the wine
cup; and is now poor, dissolute, drunken
wretch-ft only for pity and compassion.
Her trunks, which were filled with fine
clothing and other articles, are detained at
hotel as security for the payment of bills
contracted by her husband. Her jewelry
was long since left at a pawn-broker's, and
she is without friends, without home, with
out money, without everything that was
once hers. Lost, lost, lost
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29
A PEEP AT HERSELF,

Fanny Fern, in her "Peeps from under a
Parasol," which she contributes to the New
York Ledger, has taken peep at herself.
Hear her rattle:
"And here, by the road, comes Fanny
Fern! Fanny is woman. For that she is
not to blame; though, since she first found
it out, she has never ceased to deplore it.
She might be prettier, she might be younger.
She might be older, she might be uglier.
She might be better, she might be worse.
She has been both over-praised and over
abused, and those who have abused her
worst have initiated and copied her most.
''One thing may be said in favor of Fanny:
she was not, thank Providence, born in the
beautiful. backbiting, sanotimonious, Sian
dering, clean. contumelious. pharasaical.
phiddlede- e-dee, peck-neasure city of Boston.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29
TEE HOLY LANCE.

The lance which opened the side of our
Divine Saviour is now kept at Rome, but
has no point. Andrew of Crete, who lived
in the seventh century, says it was buried
together with the cross, and st. Gregory of
Tours and Venerable Bede testify that in
their time it was kept at Jerusalem. For
fear of the Saracens, it was buried privately
at Antioch, in which city it was afterwards
found, and wrought many miracles, as
Robert the Monk and many eye witnesses
testify. 1t was first carried to Jerusalem,
and then to Constantinople, and at the time
the city was taken by the Latins, Baldwin
II. sent the point of it to Venice as a pledge
for a loan of money. st. Louis, King of
France, redeemed it by paying the sum for
which it was pledged, and had it conveyed
to Paris, where it is still kept in the Holy
Chapel. The rest of the lance remained at
Constantinople, after the Turks had taken
that city, to the year 1892, when the Sultan
Bajazet sent it by an ambassador, in rich
and beautiful case, to Pope Innocent VIII.
adding that the point was in the possession
of the King of France.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29
SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING.

A young lawyer residing at NJ, in
this State, seeking to be extra polite to
very pretty, young and interesting woman
on the cars, a few evenings since, took her
infant to hold, while she stepped forward to
see to her baggage; the train started, and
the lady was left. The youthful Blackstone
was in fix. He left the cars at M,
with the infantry at full shoulder, and pro-
ceeded to the gate of his law partner, where
he set up vociferous bowling. He dare
not go further, for the gentleman of the
house had cross bull dog, so he stood
there in the winter midnight wind, and
howled for his partner to chain up the dog,
and come out and help him nurse the child.
f Detroit 4dUertiser.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29
THE FIRST MARRIAGE.

adams Weddimg.-An English Journal,
the Britannia, has an amusing article under
the head of adams Wedding" The
editor says that he likes short courtships,
and in this Adam acted like sensible man
he fell asleep bachelor, and awoke to
find himself married man. He appears
to have popped the question:" Immediately
after meeting Ma'mselle Eve; and she
without Irritation or shyness gave him kiss
and herself. Of that first kiss in this world
we have had, however, our own thoughts,
and sometimes in poetical mood have wished
we were the man that did it. But the deed
is or was done; the chance was Adams
and he improved it. We like the notion of
getting married in Garden; it is in good
taste. We like a private wedding, and
Adams was strictly private. No envious
beaux were there, no croaking old maids,
no chattering aunts and no grumbling grand
mothers. The birds of heaven were min
strels, and the glad sky shed its light upon
the scene. Our thinking about the first
wedding brings queer ideas into our heads,
spite of scriptural truth. Adam and his
wife were rather young to be married; some
two or three years old according to the
speculations of theologists-mereb babies
larger but not older-without house, with
out pot or kettle-nothing but love and
Fdent
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29
THE UNwR1rTEN HISTORY.

| The Baltimore Sun thinks there must be
an 'unwritten history" concerning the con-
cessions made by Russia to the Allies. The
readiness of both France and Russia to con-
clude a peace, and the sagacity of one party
in making just such propositions as the
other was perfectly willing to accept, are
truly wonderful The statement which has
appeared, processing to declare the basis of
the treaty, implies nothing but Russian
concessions. In the Black sea Russia is
reduced to a mere cipher. and at this day
destruction is at work with all formidable
demonstrations she has elaborated upon its
coasts. In other points she surrenders all
that she has been fighting Tor, and the allies
seem to have it all their own way, except
in exacting from Russia the cost of the war.
This little item, doubtless, annoys John
Bull and affects his spirit, so that he cannot
rejoice to Justify as his ally over the declar
alton of peace. The result, however, seems
to be generally acceptable; but there is an
unwritten history illu ustrative of this hasty
peace and these Russian concessions which
the future will alone produce.
THE EFFECT OF PEACE.-A letter from
Hamburg, of the Goth, in the Brussels In
dependence, says: Since peace has been
considered certain, merchants and negotia-
tors have arrived almost daily from all parts
of England, with the object of establishing
factories in some part of the Russian En-
pire. 1t is a remarkable fact that of all
the people of Europe the English show most
eagerness to renew business relations with
Russia. 1t is now in contemplation to form
great Anglo-Russian Company, which
with considerable capital in its hands, will
solicit the imperial government authority to
turn to profit on vast scale the territorial
and mineral riches of the Russian territory.
ROYAL NoNsENsE.-The Empress Eu-
genie, of France, having expressed wish
to preserve the pen with which the treaty
of peace was signed, the gallant diplomatists
made use of one plucked from the wing of a
living eagle, and the relic is now in her pos
session, ornamented with gold and diamonds.
In addition to signing the principal docu-
ments, each of the plenipotentiaries had to
put his name to eighty-six separate para
graphs. The treaty might have been signed
on the 29th ult., but Louis Napoleon, who
affects the Napoleonic fondness for ami
verSaries, desired that the ceremony should
be deferred until the 3Oth of March, the
day on which the Allies entered Paris in 1914.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29
INDIAN HUNTING IN FLORIDA

FOUR INDIANS KILLED.
The Tampa Peninsular published an
extra on Monday evening, containing the
following intelligence:
On the afternoon of the 9th instan the
Indians who had attacked DR.. Braden's
residence and plantation, on the Manatee,
(seven in number,) on the 31st March, were
overtaken, by party of Florida volunteers.
They were encamped on the south bank of
the Big Charley Apopka Creek, and ap
peared to be confident of safety. The
party approached so near the enemy as to
overhear their conversation; they then fired
and killed two Indians on the spot. The
remainder retreated to the Creek; two were
shot while in the act of jumping into it, and
fell corpses; their bodies sinking imme
diately. The remaining three escaped,
wounded badly, They were pursued some
distance by the blood which plainly marked
their retreat, but were finally lost in ham,
mock. The surprise was complete, as the
enemy did not take time to fire gun. The
negroes (eight) which the Indians had car
ried off, and the three mules were recap
tured. One Indian pony and several rifles
were taken. The two Indians who were
shot down at the first fire, were scalped.
One scalp was sent to Manatee with the
party who conveyed the stolen property to
its owners, and the other was sent to Cap
tain Hooker, at this place. The latter has
been exhibited to all persons having the
curiosity to examine it. One of the Indians
who was scalped was not instantly killed,
but mortally wounded. He could talk very
good English-desired to be taken to
doctor-said that Okchau, the sub-chief
who led the attack on the 18th January,
near Fort Denaud, met them there; that
the Indian pony captured belonged to
Okchau, and that be jumped into the creek.
He also said that Bill Bowlegs had as many
warriors as he wanted-that he (Billy) had
sent him to Manatee to capture the negroes.
After sounding the Greek, the bottom of
which could not be reached with "a ten foot
pole" and burying the Indian baggage,
which would have loaded a wagon, the party
started to Manatee with the negroes, mules
and wounded Indian. They had not pro-
ceeded many PAGES, however, when the
Indian fell, and was unable to proceed
further. He was then ordered to be shot,
which order was obeyed.
From the above, it would appear that the
whites, claiming to be civilized and chris
tianized in Florida, are no better than the
uncivilized and barbarous savages of the
forest. The reading of the above in relation
to scalping and shooting wounded prisoner,
induces us to believe that there are white
as well as red-skinned savages in Florida.
The Indians we fear, are rs much sinned
against as SHINING in Florida. Be this as
it NAV, the conduct of the whites is dis
graceful.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

THE GIRLS.

When young man enters the arena of
the world in search of wife, he should ask
three questions before entering into court
ship; first, is she intelligent! second, is
she kind and benevolent and thirdly, did
she ever get up before breakfast in the
morning? If all these interrogatories be
answered in the Affirmative, no other qualii-
cation is indispensably necessary; for with
such wife fortune and fame can easily be
acquired. Such is the wife for the laboring
man, such should be the companion of one
fortunately possessed of wealth, and such
should be the. wife of him who aspires to the
highest stations that society can bestow.
All this information can be easily obtained
from the girl you have in view; for many
boast of their Incidence, and think no higher
compliment could be paid than by calling
them delicate in health and feeble in mind.
If she is weighed in the balance and found
wanting, pass her with contempt, and look
to other resources for future happiness
But marry, let the risk be what it may-it
gives dignity to your profession, it inspires
confidence, and commands respect. With
wife the lawyers are more trusty, the
doctors more esteemed, the merchant gets
bigger credit, and the mechanic throws
the hammer with Increased power, and
shoves the plane with more dexterous
hand; in short-a man who has no wife, is
no man at all. She nurses him while sick,
she watches for him when absent, and loves
and cherishes him when in health. Gentle
men, get wife, pretty one if you like
them best-a good one if she is to be found
and rich one if you can get her. Then
youth will pass in visionary pleasures, as if
on bed of flowers, middle age will be en-
joyed in the bosom of happy family; when
your head is silvered DER with the frosts of
many winters, you can reflect back with
the happy consolation that you have spent
your life in usefulness to yourself, and to
the benefit of your fellow-men,
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29
CLAY AND RANDOLPH.

The story of the duel between Henry
Clay and John Randolph is familiar to most
persons; not so their subsequent reconcilia-
ton, and the manner of its accomplishment.
1t took place many years after the hostile
meeting. In regard to it Mr.. Clay wrote to
a friend, in the year preceding Mr.. Ran
dol ph's death, as follows: you ask how
amity was restored between Mr.. Randolph
and me. There was no explanation, no in
tervention. Observing him in the Senate
one night, and looking as if he were not long
for this world, and being myself engaged in
work of peace, with corresponding feelings
1 shook hands with him. The salutation
was cordial on both sides. I afterwards
left card at his lodgings, where l under
stood he had been confined by sickness"
In the last public speech that Randolph
made, after dwelling on the then threatening
danger of disunion, he is reported to have
said: "There is one man, and one man
only, who can save this Union-that is
believe he will be found to have the patriot
ism and frmness equal to the occasion"
The couse of the duel between these dis
tinguished men was the following insulting
language used by Randolph towards hr.
Clay in secret session of the Senate in 1925:
This man-(mankind crave your par
don)-this worm Qittle animals, forgive this
insult)-was spit out of the womb of weak
ness-was raised to higher life than he
was born to, for he was raised to the society
of blackguards. Some fortune-kind to
him-cruel to us-has tossed him to the
Secretary-ship of State. Contempt has the
property of descending, but she stoops far
short of him. She would die before she
would reach him; he dwells below her fall.
l would hate him if did not despise him.
It is not what he is, but aohere he is, that
puts my thoughts in action. This alphabet
which writes the name of Thersites, of black
guard, of squalidity, refused her letters for
him. That mind which thinks on what it
cannot express can scarcely think on him.
An hyberbole for meanness would be an
eilipsis for Clay"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29
READING.

Of all the amusements that can possibly
be imagined for working man, after daily
toll, or in the intervals, there is nothing like
reading newspaper or a book. It calls
for no bodily exertion, of which the mind
has had enough-perhaps too much. 1t
relieves his home of dullness and sameness.
Nay. it accompanies him to his next days
work, and gives him something to think of
besides the mere mechanical drudgery of
his every day occupation; something he
can enjoy while absent, and look forward to
with pleasure. IfIwere to pray for taste
which would stand by me under every
variety Of circumstances, and be source
of happiness and cheerfulness to me through
life. and shield against its ills, however
things might 60 amiss, and the world frown
upon me, it would be taste for reading
HerscheL.
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A CASE FOR GENERAL SYMPA-
THY.

In the House of Representatives on We'd
nesday last, the following affecting subject
was brought forward. We copy from the
condensed report of the Washington Union.
| Mr.. Oliver, of New York, from the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions, reported bill
for the relief of Mary E. Tillman; which
was read twice.
Mr.. Brooks, of South Carolina, asked the
attention of the House to few remarks
which he wished to make in behalf of the
bill. The bill was the unanimous report OF
the committee to which was refer red the
petition of Mrs. Tillman, widow lady OF
his district. When a requisition was made
upon South Carolina for services in the
Mexican war, she gave to her country every
member of her family capable of bearing
went, but not one returned to dry mothers
tears, and gladden. a mothers heart with
the gallantry of her soldier boys. The
bones of one now lie at Saltillo, another fell
at Jalapa, another lay buried by the castle
walls of Perote, and the last found the close
of his earthly career and the goal of his
youthful ambition at the capital of Mexico.
By strange fatality, the only remaining
son, boy too young to provide for the sup
port of the family in the absence of his
father and elder brothers, by an accidental
fall from his horse injured his spine, and
was now a paralytic for life. This lady
was thus left in the decline of her age with
a helpless child and little daughter, en-
tirely dependent upon her exertions for
their and her own support, and the bill pro-
posed to give her pension of So month.
This was narrative of her petition, and
on it she based the hope that her country
would remember her sacrifices and reward
her services. By the laws of society par
ent was entitled to the services of a child
while a minor, and they who were the rep
resentatives of the country, and had been
benefited by the services of the husband
and sons of this lady, ought not to forget
what was due to her.
It was his misfortune to be witness to
the facts he had stated. One of her sons
enlisted in the Alabama regiment, and the
remaining sons were mustered into the SER
vice of the United States in a company un-
der his own command, and it was but the
pure reflection of that friendship which that
father and those boys bore to him that con-
strained him to do for their mother what she
would not do for herself. She appealed not
to their charity, but to their magnanimity;
and he appealed to both. He asked them
to put bread in the mouth of the widow and
the fatherless. She appeared before them
with the confidence and the dignity of the
mother of this modern Gracchi, and de-
manded that her name should be recorded
on the statutes of her country; and he ap-
pealed to the generosity and the noble in
stincts of the members to come forward in
her aid.
Mr.. Mace, of Indiana, moved to amend
the bill by striking out So, and inserting
$50.
The question was taken, and the amend
ment was agreed to.
The bill as amended was then read a third
time and passed.
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Oh, GIVE NOT UP TO SORROW.
BY EDGAR w. DAVIES

BY EDGAR w. DAVIES.
Oh, give not up to sorrow,
And never know despair
Let Hope light up the morrow,
With all its holy cheer.
Why should we mar the moments
That past US swiftly fly,
By cruel, dark forebodings,
When Joy itself is night
Though dark misfortunes meet US,
And friends and fortune fail,
And many objects greet US,
To tell the sadden'd tale
Let's view it as our share of toll,
That's nobly to be borne
And light will be the burthen,
Howe'er the aeart was torn.
Oh, give not up to sorrow,
And never know despair
Let Hope light up the morrow,
With all its holy cheer.
He who can light the darkness
Will every care disarm-
The storm of life will rage to-day,
Tomorrow bring its calm.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

A WHOLE SoULED COMMONwEALTH.-
We have heretofore noticed the statement
that a tax of fifty cents per capita upon
each slave is assessed by the citizens of
South Carolina for the purpose of raising
funds to detray the expenses of Southern
emigration to Kansas. This tax is a volun-
tary contribution from the people, and it is
of rare occurrence that any citizen does not
freely and promptly pay it. By means of
the sum thus raised three hundred young
from Charleston.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

WHAT'S IN A NAME.-The Darlington
Is. C.) Flag says that child in that Dis
trict, not long since, received the following
name: Frances Cornelia Amarinthia Olivia
Sarah Rebecca Sophronia Julia Josephine
Victoria, Queen of South Carolina.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

q It is always in your power to make
friend by smiles-what folly 10 make
enemies by frowns
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WANTED.--ANew York journal publishes
the following remarkable want:
Wanted-'by an ancient maiden lady. a
local habitation and a NAME"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

THE WEATHER.-The Asheville News of
the 9th instant, says: The weather from
being mild and spring like, on Sunday last
changed to very respectable winter, and
gave us a blast that would do no discredit
to November. On Monday morning last
the mountains Southwest of this place were
covered with snow, and in town we were
blessed with fair share of frost and ice
1t is feared the fruit is gone beyond re-
demption, while garden ''truck'' that had
ventured above ground, looks like the X.
Ms will after the election-kinder fiat
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

g 1t is stated in the papers that Spea-
ker Banks positively declines the Presi-
dency!" Wonder who. made him the offer
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

NEGRO LECTURING.-''Mis Ellen Wat
extraction, is edifying the good people of
Maine on political economy, party politics,
and the abolition of slavery. Ellen argues
that the surest and quickest way of placing
the colored race in position to live with
out labor, is, for the white folks to abandon
the use of sugar and cotton, and other pro-
ducts of slave labor
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

THEIR LOVE FOR Poor SAMBo.-The
Free State Convention, which recently as
sembled at Topeka, Kansas, inserted
clause in their Constitution not only pro-
hibiting slavery in Kansas, but forever pre-
venting free blacks from taking up their a
bode in the future State. This is, to say
the least, inconsistent with the boastings
of the par excellence friends of freedom
considering that their greater Lights ad-
vocate the equality of the races The free
soil members of Congress are striving to
admit Kansas, as a State, into the Union
with this same Topeka Constitution.
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Netus of tbe Ban.

SENATOR DOUGLAS KANSAS BILL.-The
Washington Star says that Senator Douglas
bill for the admission of Kansas, while it
will pass the Senate by a large majority,
will have clear majority in the House of
Representatives. 1t provides, that when
Kansas has the requisite population, she
may enter the Union with such a constitu-
ton as she may adopt, without reference to
the slavery question.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-29

BLEDsOE ON SLAvERY.-The book of
Professor Bledsoe of the University of Vir-
ginia, on Liberty and Slavery,is attracting
great admiration. 1t might justly be en-
titled 1.-The End of Controversy on the
slavery subject. All who have read it agree
that it is master piece of argument; ire
sistible and unanswerable. Professor Bled-
soc is one of the first intellects of the age.
This book is for sale at the Book Store of
Messrs. Lowrie & Enniss, Charlotte.